I highly recommend trying the simple, tasty and satisfying “Obzhorka” salad with chicken. There are several types of this salad, this is the simplest and most democratic :)

Chicken, carrots, onions, pickled cucumbers, garlic, vegetable oil, salt, pepper, mayonnaise

What to cook for your birthday? Using this recipe with photos, prepare a delicious birthday salad from chicken meat. The Birthday salad recipe is simple, easy, inexpensive and original. And this dish is prepared quickly. And it’s quite suitable as a children’s salad for a child’s birthday. And adults will appreciate it for its taste, beauty and originality... Help yourself!

Chicken fillet, eggs, apple, fresh cucumbers, mayonnaise, lemon juice, tomatoes, greens

Are you already getting unexpected guests? Well, let them go, we are always glad to have guests :) Crab salad with croutons “Instant”. Up! And already on the table!

Crab sticks, croutons, canned corn, Chinese cabbage, hard cheese, mayonnaise, garlic, salt, ground black pepper

Instant salad! By the time the unexpected guests take off their coats and sit down at the table, you will already have a delicious, hearty appetizer ready. And if the guests didn’t come, prepare sprat salad for yourself;)

Canned sprats, canned corn, canned beans, hard cheese, garlic, croutons, herbs, mayonnaise

Someone will say that Mimosa salad is not a new recipe. Yes, but this salad is delicious, beautiful and even somehow cheerful. If the mood turns out to be "rainy", let's correct it with the help of Mimosa salad. And how to cook Mimosa not just with potatoes, but with an apple and cheese, I’ll tell you and show you now.

Canned sardines, canned saury, onions, potatoes, butter, mayonnaise, eggs, apple, hard cheese, green onions

Delicious salads are an essential part of the holiday table. The “My Paradise” salad made of vegetables, eggs and sausage will definitely appeal to Olivier lovers.

Smoked sausage, boiled potatoes, boiled carrots, pickled cucumbers, eggs, canned green peas, hard cheese, mayonnaise

The Naples salad recipe is not only a wonderful decoration for the holiday table, but a tasty and easy-to-prepare dish. It’s not hard to guess why the second name of this dish is salad “8 layers.” Prepare this salad for your birthday, and don’t forget about it when choosing New Year’s salads.

Lettuce, canned corn, canned green peas, bell peppers, eggs, bacon, olives, cheese, mayonnaise, mustard, vegetable oil, sugar...

This colorful salad is decorated in an unusual way - its components are laid out in sectors. Each guest can create a salad to their taste)))

Crab sticks, cucumber, canned corn, canned beans, croutons, mayonnaise, greens

A simple, tasty, healthy salad. And multi-colored vegetables delight the eye with bright colors. In just 10 minutes you will create a charge of health and mood for the whole family.

White cabbage, fresh cucumbers, red bell pepper, yellow bell pepper, parsley, vegetable oil, salt, sugar, vinegar, cranberry

Very tasty salad. Simple, tasty and satisfying. And most importantly, my husband is happy :)

Crackers, beans, canned corn, pickled cucumbers, garlic, champignons, onions, vegetable oil, salt, pepper, mayonnaise, cherry tomatoes...

What do you think the salad should be like? Unusual, tasty, easy to prepare? Please, here is a simple, quick, and most importantly delicious salad!

Russian cheese, smoked meat, smoked chicken, pitted black olives, Chinese cabbage, croutons, chips, salt, pepper, olive oil, sunflower oil

Simple vegetable salad new way. Well, a very appetizing layered beet salad. If you take lean mayonnaise and exclude eggs, then this dish can be prepared during Lent.

Beets, potatoes, carrots, eggs, herbs, ground black pepper, mayonnaise, salt

It’s easy to make this salad for dinner or for a holiday. It’s fast, tasty and not embarrassing to serve to guests. This is why I like the salad with crab sticks and Chinese cabbage.

Chinese cabbage, crab sticks, bell pepper, canned corn, greens, green onions, mayonnaise, salt, pepper

This is the most delicious cod liver salad I have ever eaten. I recommend. Unusual. Beautiful. Just. Gently. A wonderful salad option for a birthday or New Year's snack.

Cod liver, carrots, boiled eggs, cheese, onion, mayonnaise

This bean salad crab sticks can become a real lifesaver for receiving unexpected guests. In a matter of minutes you will be serving this hearty and very impressive colorful dish. However, for a working housewife every minute always counts, so we advise you to take note of this quick salad with red beans.

Crab sticks, canned corn, onions, boiled eggs, canned beans, mayonnaise, salt

Well, a very tasty salad with boiled meat, vegetables and mayonnaise. Hearty and somehow special. You can serve it for dinner or at the holiday table.

Pork, carrots, onions, sugar, vinegar, canned green peas, mayonnaise, salt, pepper, vegetable oil

For the holidays, I will offer you a chicken dish with an unusual combination of ingredients - salad with chicken, kiwi and apple. Simple, but beautiful, elegant. The “Malachite Bracelet” salad can be made for the New Year, for a birthday, or for a romantic dinner.

Chicken fillet, eggs, kiwi, apple, carrots, Korean carrots, hard cheese, garlic, mayonnaise, lemon juice

Light salad . Light salad - a nutritious salad made from easy-to-digest foods, seasoned with vegetable oil, yogurt, sauce or low-fat dressing.

Food has a direct impact on our well-being. If you want to feel light, energetic, and cheerful, eat healthy, light foods that nourish your body. useful substances, but does not exhaust you, leaving only one desire - to lie on the sofa. Do you want to eat and feel comfortable and easy? Forget about heavy, multi-ingredient salads dressed with fatty mayonnaise. In fact, mayonnaise only spoils the salad, its benefits and positive effects on health. You'll have to make do with healthier dressings - lemon juice, olive oil, high-quality soy sauce, yogurt, low-fat sour cream, etc.

Choose only healthy foods for your salad. Avoid sausages and smoked meats, which are often added to salads today. Only fresh seafood, vegetables, delicate low-fat cheeses, fruits. Don't overdo it with cheese and eggs. Remember that leftover food from the refrigerator is not considered healthy food. All products must be fresh. For the same reason, you don’t need to cook a lot - it’s always better to make and eat a fresh salad than to think that the day before yesterday will also help improve your health. This salad has no vitamins or freshness.

The way the food is processed is also important. If you are preparing a salad from fish, then you do not need to fry it - it is better to stew or boil it. The same goes for chicken if you decide to make a salad with fillet. Vegetables for light salads are taken fresh. Just wash and cut them. Therefore, light salads are quick salads. Healthy food can save time! It's a pity that fast food lovers don't know about this!

We should also talk about salt, which is a provocateur of heart disease, inhibits the removal of fluid from the body and increases appetite. Add salt in a minimal amount - only this salad is light and dietary.

Enhance the taste light salad, which may seem a little bland, can be improved with the right spices. Good options are cilantro, cinnamon, ginger and, of course, ground black pepper. Spices not only enrich the taste, but also burn fat. The feeling of lightness will increase every day! Many people blame spices for stimulating their appetite. If you feel hungry, just eat a couple of extra spoons of salad, because it has very few calories. Compared to any salad dressed with mayonnaise, a diet salad is a feather!

Light and tasty salads bring variety to our diet. They don't require expensive ingredients or a lot of time. All you need is seasonal ingredients and whatever is in the refrigerator, adding a little imagination and seasoning with your love, you will serve your loved ones a real masterpiece.

How to prepare light and tasty salads - 15 varieties

A very light salad, its name speaks for itself. Low-calorie cucumber and chicken will saturate the body, but the figure will remain fine.

Ingredients:

• Chicken fillet 300 gr.
• Cucumbers 150 gr.
• Canned green pea 150 gr.
• Sour cream 150 gr.
• Dill
• Salt.

Preparation:

Boil the fillet from the moment of boiling for 20 minutes. Cut the cucumbers into medium cubes and finely chop the dill. When the meat has cooled, chop it into pieces and mix with cucumbers and peas. Salt to taste and season with sour cream.

You can also take freshly frozen peas, but first you will need to boil them and then pour them over with ice water.

Ingredients:

• Boiled potatoes 300 gr.
• Boiled eggs 3 pcs.
• Processed cheese 200 gr.
• Fresh cucumbers 3-5 pcs.
• Mayonnaise 3-4 spoons
• Salt, pepper and herbs to taste.

Preparation:

Peel the potatoes and eggs, cut into cubes. Add chopped cucumbers to them and mix everything. We also cut the processed cheese into cubes and add to the salad.

To make it easier to cut the cheese, put it in the freezer for a while. 5-10 minutes will be enough.

Mix everything well, add spices and season with mayonnaise.

This salad is perfect as a snack with beer and is recommended for children from the age of five and in limited quantities.

Ingredients:

• Chicken 300 gr.
• Mayonnaise 250 gr.
• Hard cheese 200 gr.
• Rusks 200 gr.
• Canned corn 380 gr.
• Tomatoes 3 pcs.

Preparation:

Boil the chicken in salted water and, after cooling, cut into pieces. Peel the crust from the loaf and cut the pulp into cubes. Sprinkle with vegetable oil and dry in the oven until golden brown. We also cut the cheese and tomatoes into small cubes. Mix everything, add canned corn and season with mayonnaise.

The salad is more tasty when the croutons are crispy, so you need to add them to the salad just before serving.

Very quick and easy to prepare. And thanks to the original filling it will fit both festive table and pamper your loved ones every day.

Ingredients:

• Beijing cabbage 300 gr.
• Smoked balyk 200 gr.
• Lettuce leaves 50 gr.
• Garlic 2 cloves.
• Seedless grapes 100 gr.
• For refueling:
• Olive oil 4-5 teaspoons
• Dijen mustard 2 teaspoons
• Salt 0.5 teaspoon

Preparation:

We cut the cabbage and lettuce leaves, add chopped garlic and balyk cut into cubes. Then we cut the grapes in half and add them to the rest of the ingredients. For the sauce, whisk all ingredients thoroughly with a fork and season the salad. All is ready! Fast and unusually tasty!

Seafood is very healthy, and with the addition of fresh vegetables, this simple salad becomes a storehouse of vitamins and minerals. Give a dose of health to your family.

Ingredients:

• Seafood: 400 gr.
• Bell pepper 1 pc.
• Tomatoes 2 pcs.
• Onion 0.5 pcs.
• Butter 30 gr.
• Lemon juice, salt, pepper to taste.

Preparation:

First of all, we prepare the seafood: melt the butter in a frying pan, and when it warms up well, serve our seafood cocktail. Keep it on the fire until all the liquid has evaporated.

You should not expose seafood products to heat for too long; they will turn rubbery.

Meanwhile, cut the onion into cubes and pour boiling water over it to get rid of excess bitterness. Peel the pepper and chop into strips. We extract the pulp from the tomato (so as not to give unnecessary moisture), cut it in the same way as pepper. Mix all ingredients, add spices and season with lemon juice.

A very healthy salad, all products are carefully selected and create a spicy taste that almost everyone will like.

Ingredients:

• Boiled beet 2 pcs.
• Raw carrots 1 pc.
• Garlic 1 clove
• Walnuts 3-4 pcs.
• Soy sauce
• Olive oil
• Apple cider vinegar.

Preparation:

Peel the boiled beets and three coarse grater, and grate raw carrots on it. Squeeze the garlic through a press. We chop the walnuts with a knife and also move them to the rest of the salad components. Pepper, add soy sauce, oil and apple cider vinegar. Mix everything well. All is ready! Fast and useful!

For gourmets, this Italian salad is just a godsend. It is very easy to prepare, looks absolutely luxurious and tastes simply divine.

Ingredients:

• Shrimp 150 gr.
• Hard cheese 100 gr.
• Eggs 2 pcs.
• Tomatoes 2 pcs.
• Garlic 1-2 cloves.
• Mayonnaise 100 gr.
• Ketchup 100 gr.
• Lime juice.

Preparation:

First of all, add boiled shrimp to the mayonnaise and ketchup sauce and leave to infuse. Meanwhile, peel the boiled eggs and cut them into slices. Remove the pulp from the tomatoes and cut them into slices. Place eggs and a layer of grated cheese on a layer of tomatoes. Place shrimp on top. Each layer can be sprinkled with lime juice and topped with sauce. But you can simply mix all the ingredients of the salad and then season with lime and sauce, all according to your desire. On great taste This delicate salad won't hurt.

An excellent summer salad will diversify your menu and give you a good boost of energy for the whole day.

Ingredients:

• Tomatoes 3-4 pcs.
• Red onion 0.5 pcs.
• Olives 250 gr.
• Hard cheese 200 gr.
• Fresh parsley and basil.
• Lemon juice
• Olive oil.

Preparation:

Cut the tomatoes into slices, cube the cheese and cut the olives in half. Cut the onion into thin half rings. Mix everything, add greens. Season with lemon juice and oil. All is ready!

Everyone knows this salad, but you will never get tired of it. It is available even in winter, but its taste always takes us to the warm summer shores of Greece.

Ingredients:

• Olives 1 jar
• Cucumbers 3 pcs.
• Tomatoes 3 pcs.
• Red sweet pepper 1 pc.
• Onion 1 pc.
• Lettuce leaves
• Sirtaki cheese
• For refueling:
• Garlic 1 clove
• Olive oil 100 ml.
• Lemon juice
• Spices to your taste (basil, thyme, rosemary).

Preparation:

Cut cucumbers, tomatoes and peppers into large cubes and place in a deep bowl. Cut the onion into half rings, add salt, knead with your hands so that it produces juice, and add to the vegetables. We make the dressing: grind the spices, add squeezed garlic to them for piquancy. And lightly pepper it. Squeeze the juice of half a lemon, add oil and mix everything well. The gas station is ready. Add the olives to the vegetables and now is the time to mix everything. Next, cut the cheese into large cubes and add it to the salad just before serving.

Instead of Sirtaki cheese, you can use feta cheese or feta cheese.

Serve the salad before serving: place lettuce leaves on a plate, then chopped and mixed vegetables, and finally pieces of cheese. Since the cheese is salty, you don't need to add salt. Dress the salad and serve.

This salad will become traditional on your table thanks to its delicate taste. And beautifully decorated, it will be perfect for the holiday table.

Ingredients:

• Squid 300 gr.
• Cucumbers 2 pcs.
• Boiled chicken eggs 3 pcs.
• Sour cream
• Salt.

Preparation:

Defrost and clean the squids. Cut into strips and boil for three minutes in salted water.

You can boil it first and then cut it, so there is a chance not to overcook this capricious product.

Boil the eggs and chop into strips. Cut the cucumber into strips as thinly as possible and mix all the salad ingredients. Add sour cream and salt. Mix everything well and can be served.

This unusual name salad because most of the ingredients are red and crab sticks are present in its components.

Ingredients:

• Crab sticks 200 gr.
• Tomatoes 2 pcs.
• Red bell pepper 2 pcs.
• Garlic 2 cloves
• Cheese 150 gr.
• Homemade mayonnaise to taste.

Preparation:

Cut the crab sticks into thin strips. We cut the tomatoes in the same way, after removing their insides. Remove the core from the pepper and chop it into strips. Three cheeses on a coarse grater. Chop the garlic and add it to the rest of the products, season with mayonnaise and serve.

Because of its sweetish taste, it is adored by the fair sex.

Ingredients:

• Canned pineapples 120 gr.
• Boiled chicken breast 200 gr.
• Hard cheese 150 gr.
• Boiled eggs 2 pcs.
• Garlic 1 clove
• Mayonnaise to taste
• Salt.

Preparation:

The whole cooking process takes only a few minutes; to do this, we chop all the ingredients of the salad, add salt and season with mayonnaise. Mix all the products in a bowl and serve.

This recipe is a great time saver and even a child can make it.

Ingredients:

• Canned tuna 1 can
• Tomatoes 2 pcs.
• Boiled eggs 2 pcs.
• Canned corn 0.5 cans
• Sour cream and mayonnaise 1 tbsp. spoon
• Greenery.

Preparation:

Drain the excess liquid from the canned food, and separate the fish into pieces. Cut eggs and tomatoes, add corn. Mix everything and season with sour cream and mayonnaise. Decorate with greens.

The easiest to prepare, but its taste is not inferior to expensive salads.

Ingredients:

• Young cabbage 1 head
• Carrot 1 pc.
• Onion 1 pc.
• Greenery
• Salt pepper
• Vinegar and vegetable oil.

Preparation:

Using a sharp knife, finely chop the cabbage into strips; you can use a shredder. Three carrots on a coarse grater and add to the cabbage. Cut the onion, add salt, add a little vinegar, and also add to the rest of the vegetables. Chop the parsley and add salt along with the rest of the salad ingredients. Now you need to mix everything well so that the cabbage releases its juice. We fill everything with oil.

This dish is not only tasty but also filling.

Ingredients:

• Canned beans 380 gr.
• Meat fillet (whatever you like) 300 gr.
• Mushrooms 300 gr.
• Onion 100 gr.
• Carrots 150 gr.
• Chicken eggs 2 pcs.
• Salt, mayonnaise, vegetable oil for frying.

Preparation:

Boil the meat in salted water with spices until cooked. Finely chop the onion, carrots and mushrooms and fry them separately in a frying pan. Cut the cooled meat into cubes, add corn, fried vegetables and chopped eggs to it. Salt, mix and decorate to your liking.

This category of dishes accompanies the menu of each country and is present on everyday and festive tables. It's about about salads that can diversify any, even the simplest and most bland side dish. Their composition and degree of complexity depend only on the preferences of the cook, so the recipe can be very budget-friendly, low-calorie and quick.

How to make a simple salad

Dishes of this type are primarily characterized by the ease of their creation. No three-hour cooking of meat, although heat treatment may be present, and no meticulous cutting complex figures from products. In addition, a simple and tasty salad mainly does not involve exotic ingredients, so it is also inexpensive. However, even a salad for a birthday or other holiday can be called “simple”, so you don’t need to think that this is only a dish for an everyday table.

Hastily

Lack of time can manifest itself both on weekdays and on holidays, so every housewife needs to know how to come up with a simple salad for a quick fix. Pro Tips:

• Use canned food. You don’t have to think about how to cook tuna, salmon or squid - they can go straight to the plate. This is also very important for legumes (beans, peas). Professionals assure that this is the easiest way to create a delicious salad in a couple of minutes, even for the New Year's table.
• Add smoked meats, sausages, sausages, ham - no need to cook them.
• Try to select components so that they do not require heat treatment, and the salad itself does not need to be infused.
• Don't forget about accents. Roasted nuts, crackers, unsweetened berries - products that will benefit even the simplest composition.

On every day

It is very difficult to prepare complex dishes on a daily basis, especially modern woman, who has almost no free minute. Help her out simple salads for every day, which are mainly based on fresh vegetables and/or fruits. It’s healthy, tasty, easy, great for helping you lose weight or maintain your weight/volume at the current level. All vegetables, except eggplants and zucchini, can be eaten raw, and if you add a little herbs, cheese and olive oil, you get a simple Mediterranean quick salad.

Instant cooking

If you need recipes holiday snacks With which you don’t have to spend the whole day in the kitchen, professionals advise focusing on the design. Even the fastest salads from simple products you can present it in such a way that no one will guess how many minutes and pennies were spent on their creation. Regarding design, there are several particularly successful options that always work:

• Unusual "dishes". Quotes are used because not all serving methods involve salad bowls, bowls, etc. You can offer such simple salads in portions as an appetizer, placing them on tartlets or halves of vegetables with strong walls - cucumbers, zucchini, peppers, etc.
• Playing with color. Yellow peppers, green cucumbers and red tomatoes - simple ingredients, no heat treatment, but what a bright traffic light in the plate!
• Submission form. In transparent containers you can lay out the components of the snack in layers, on a flat dish - in a clear shape, similar to Garnet bracelet or Sunflower.

Salads are simple and tasty - recipes with photos

The recipes for quick salads offered below by leading chefs and simple housewives are suitable for creating a quick lunch, as well as for a festive table or meeting unexpected guests. The preparation time for each of the presented dishes does not exceed half an hour, and most of the food sets are affordable. Recipes have step-by-step descriptions, which will save you from mistakes.

Classic chicken Caesar

• Time: 30 minutes.
• Number of servings: 2 persons.
• Calorie content of the dish: 2216 kcal.
• Purpose: for a snack.
• Cuisine: European.

The classic Caesar salad with chicken is simple only from the standpoint of the operating algorithm, since its components do not make it budget-friendly, and it cannot be called low-calorie. First, you need to try to find good hard cheese or Parmesan, which Italian cuisine implies. Secondly, you need good extra virgin olive oil and Dijon mustard. According to the technology of creation, this is also not the simplest salad, but it is ready to conquer even a novice housewife.

Ingredients:

• chicken breast – 210 g;
• white bread (preferably a loaf) – 120 g;
• cherry tomatoes – 100 g;
• lettuce leaves – 70 g;
• Parmesan – 50 g;
• garlic cloves – 3 pcs.;
• olive oil – 130 ml;
• chicken eggs – 2 pcs.;
• lemon juice – 40 ml;
• Dijon mustard – 15 g.

Cooking method:

1. Cut the washed fillet into cubes across the grain, place in a greased frying pan (15 ml). Fry until deeply browned.
2. Cut the bread crumb into cubes, brush with a mixture of grated garlic cloves and butter (15 ml). Dry on a baking sheet for 20 minutes.
3. Wash leaf salad, tear with your hands. Pour onto a flat plate.
4. Place chicken pieces, croutons, and cherry tomato quarters on top.
5. Add Parmesan slices (make with a vegetable peeler).
6. Boil soft-boiled eggs, beat liquid yolks with mustard, lemon juice and butter. Add grated garlic. Season the dish.

From chicken breast

• Time: 20 minutes.
• Number of servings: 3 persons.
• Calorie content of the dish: 711 kcal.
• Purpose: for dinner.
• Kitchen: homemade.
• Difficulty of preparation: easy.

This simple chicken salad is ideal for a birthday or other occasion, including men’s, because it is very filling. It is better to take canned mushrooms - this way you will reduce the time you work in the kitchen, and you can use smoked chicken for the same purpose. Experts emphasize that the condition of the greens is important for this salad. If it has withered, you can let it sit in cold water with apple cider vinegar dissolved (1 tbsp per 250 ml) - the leaves are freshened in an hour.

Ingredients:

• chicken breast – 300 g;
• canned mushrooms – 150 g;
• pickled cucumbers – 180 g;
• red onion – 150 g;
• parsley – 50 g;
• dill – 50 g;
• carrots – 150 g;
• ground pepper;
• light mayonnaise – 30 g;
• oil for frying.

Cooking method:

1. Cut the washed breast into small cubes, fry in a hot frying pan, adding oil. Pepper during the process.
2. Chop the onion into half rings and pour over boiling water.
3. Wash the greens and let dry.
4. Cut the cucumbers into slices, mushrooms into pieces.
5. Grate the carrots coarsely and mix with the rest of the ingredients.
6. Season with mayonnaise, sprinkle with herbs.

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From squid

• Time: 10 minutes.
• Number of servings: 2 persons.
• Calorie content of the dish: 471 kcal.
• Purpose: for a snack.
• Kitchen: homemade.
• Difficulty of preparation: easy.

Seafood, especially canned seafood, is an excellent basis for any simple, healthy and tasty salad. Classic additions to them are fresh vegetables: cucumbers, tomatoes, peppers, herbs. If we consider the simplest salad with squid, it will contain a little onion, mayonnaise (it will make the canned seafood softer), and a boiled egg. To get a more original taste, add... grapefruit.

Ingredients:

• canned squid – 250 g;
• red onion;
• light mayonnaise – 1 tbsp. l.;
• eggs 2 cat. - 2 pcs.;
• grapefruit – 100 g.

Cooking method:

1. Chop the onion into half rings and then chop them in half.
2. Place the eggs in boiling water and remove after 8 minutes. Grate coarsely.
3. Remove the film from the grapefruit slices and cut the pulp into cubes.
4. Remove the squid from the jar and allow the liquid to drain. Cut into strips.
5. Mix, season with mayonnaise.

With canned corn

• Time: 10 minutes.
• Number of servings: 2 persons.
• Calorie content of the dish: 1059 kcal.
• Purpose: for a snack.
• Kitchen: homemade.
• Difficulty of preparation: easy.

Before serving, it is advisable to let this simple salad with corn sit for 15 minutes, but you can take it to the table immediately after all the layers have been assembled. To increase satiety, professionals often add smoked chicken here, placing it between pineapples and corn. If the latter is not canned, but frozen, just pour it into a frying pan and heat for 1.5 minutes. Processed cheese can be replaced with mozzarella or suluguni, but the dish will no longer be so inexpensive.

Ingredients:

• canned pineapple – 250 g;
• canned corn– 200 g;
• processed cheese – 200 g;
• quail eggs – 8 pcs.;
• garlic cloves – 2 pcs.;
• light mayonnaise – 3 tbsp. l.

Cooking method:

1. Pour over the eggs cold water. When it boils, count 5 minutes.
2. Cool, peel, cut into cubes. Place on the bottom of the salad bowl.
3. Remove the corn with a slotted spoon and sprinkle on top.
4. Cut the pineapple into cubes if you have rings. Let the juice drain by pouring them into a colander. Then transfer the third layer to a salad bowl.
5. Cover with mayonnaise and grated garlic.
6. Grate the cheeses and sprinkle on top.

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From shrimp

• Time: 25 minutes.
• Number of servings: 2 persons.
• Calorie content of the dish: 1032 kcal.
• Purpose: for a snack.
• Cuisine: European.
• Difficulty of preparation: easy.

This shrimp salad is simple but filling because it includes rice. Don't worry about the time it takes - below is how to cook cereal very quickly. There won’t be any problems with shrimp either, even if you bought fresh frozen ones - they are simply thrown into a pan of boiling water and cooked for exactly 3 minutes. The only thing that will take time is removing the shell, removing the tail and head.

Ingredients:

• salad shrimps w/o – 240 g;
• semi-hard cheese – 150 g;
• fleshy tomatoes – 250 g;
• arborio rice – 3 tbsp. l.;
• dry Italian herbs – 2/3 tsp;
• olive oil – 2 tbsp. l.

Cooking method:

1. Grease the pan with oil (half the volume), pour in the rice without rinsing.
2. Fry for 1.5 minutes, making sure to stir with a spatula.
3. Pour in half a glass of boiling water and cook uncovered over high heat until the liquid disappears.
4. Add boiling water 2-3 more times until the rice becomes softer. This will take 17 minutes.
5. Grate the cheese coarsely, cut the tomatoes into cubes.
6. Pour boiling water over the shrimp for a minute, peel (if they are in the shell).
7. Place all products in a salad bowl, mix, sprinkle with herbs. Add butter and serve.

From fresh cabbage

• Time: 10 minutes.
• Calorie content of the dish: 378 kcal.
• Purpose: for dinner.
• Kitchen: homemade.

The simplest cabbage salads for every dayconsist of this vegetable combined with onion rings, a drop of vinegar and oil. This option is ideal for cabbage, Brussels sprouts or Beijing sprouts, and cauliflower and fresh broccoli are best combined with tomatoes, beans and crackers, or big amount cheese. The recipe below is focused on white cabbage.

Ingredients :

• young cabbage – 300 g;
• carrots – 200 g;
• cucumber – 170 g;
• dill – 40 g;
• olive oil – 3 tbsp. l.;
• green onions – 50 g;
• ground pepper (mixture) – 1/2 tsp;
• coarse salt.

Cooking method:

1. Remove the top leaves from the cabbage head. Chop the rest into strips.
2. Coarsely grate the carrots - you can use a Korean grater.
3. Grind the peeled cucumber into cubes or long “threads” using a vegetable peeler.
4. Sprinkle the simple vegetable mixture with dill and chopped onion. Pepper, add salt, season with olive oil.

With crab sticks

• Time: 5 minutes.
• Number of servings: 3 persons.
• Calorie content of the dish: 1091 kcal.
• Purpose: for a snack.
• Kitchen: homemade.
• Difficulty of preparation: easy.

This one is fast and simple crab stick salad- an ideal solution if the doorbell has already notified the arrival of guests, but the table is still empty. The ten minutes it takes to meet, wash hands and have a short conversation is the time the hostess needs to make this salad. Light, inexpensive, tasty, but so beautiful that it’s perfect even for a birthday or New Year. Chinese cabbage can be replaced with any lettuce leaves - they have a similar taste and appearance.

Ingredients :

• crab sticks – 200 g;
• canned green peas – 200 g;
• hard cheese – 180 g;
• Chinese cabbage – 250 g;
• light mayonnaise – 2 tbsp. l.;
• garlic clove;
• ground pepper.

Cooking method:

1. Cut crab sticks into cubes.
2. Remove the top leaves of the Chinese cabbage, wash the rest and chop them.
3. Grate garlic and cheese.
4. Mix these ingredients, add green peas caught with a slotted spoon (this way there will be no excess liquid).
5. Season with mayonnaise, mix and serve immediately.
6. If you have a bag of croutons (or time allows you to make them at home), you can add them as a finishing touch - they decorate any simple salads.

From beets

• Time: 15 minutes.
• Number of servings: 2 persons.
• Calorie content of the dish: 569 kcal.
• Purpose: for dinner.
• Kitchen: homemade.
• Difficulty of preparation: easy.

Simple beet saladwith a green apple, prunes and a handful of nuts – a good option for a person aimed at losing weight. However, even if we ignore its fat-burning properties, the dish is very useful in terms of vitamin composition, effects on the intestines and the entire digestive tract. The sweet taste perfectly discourages cravings for desserts. If we are talking about simple and quick salads that can be eaten in the evening and even put on the holiday table, then this recipe definitely cannot be ignored.

Ingredients :

• beets – 300 g;
• green apples – 2 pcs.;
• prunes – 50 g;
• walnuts – 40 g;
• low-calorie yogurt without additives - 2 tbsp. l.

Cooking method:

1. Pour boiling water over prunes for 10 minutes.
2. Wash the beets, peel and grate coarsely. Cover the bottom of the salad bowl with half the volume.
3. Peel the apple and remove the seed zone. Grate in the same way and place only half on top.
4. Cut the prunes into strips and distribute on top.
5. Place the remaining beet and apple mixture in layers again.
6. Pour over yogurt and sprinkle with nuts. You can eat immediately or let it brew for half an hour.

With beans

• Time: 30 minutes.
• Number of servings: 2 persons.
• Calorie content of the dish: 1259 kcal.
• Purpose: for a snack.
• Kitchen: homemade.
• Difficulty of preparation: easy.

This simple bean saladnot the fastest of all those discussed here, but simple in terms of creation technology and affordable in terms of product range. Professionals advise buying beans canned with sauce so that you don’t have to further change their taste (pure beans are not for everyone). You can also buy crackers instead of preparing them yourself - this will reduce the creation time, and the recipe can be included in the category of not only simple, but also quick salads.

Ingredients :

• canned red beans – 280 g;
• boiled-smoked sausage – 130 g;
• cream tomatoes – 220 g;
• a bunch of parsley;
• rye bread – 100 g;
• garlic cloves – 2 pcs.;
• mayonnaise – 30 g.

Cooking method:

1. Cut the bread into layers, grate with pieces of garlic.
2. Cut into thin short bars, dry at 190 degrees (it will take 20 minutes).
3. Cut the sausage into slices and into strips.
4. Tomatoes can be cut into cubes.
5. Catch the beans with a slotted spoon and mix with the rest of the salad ingredients.
6. Season with sauce from a jar and mayonnaise. Sprinkle with torn parsley.

From vegetables

• Time: 5 minutes.
• Number of servings: 3 persons.
• Calorie content of the dish: 854 kcal.
• Purpose: for dinner.
• Cuisine: European.
• Difficulty of preparation: easy.

When considering simple vegetable salads for every day, you need to pay attention to the Greek one, which has won the love of chefs and housewives with varying degrees of culinary experience due to the absence of expensive ingredients and ease of creation. Tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, some lettuce, olives and feta. Even last pair products are available in all stores, and some chefs replace feta with feta cheese or Adyghe cheese. By analogy with Greek, you can create your own simple salads based on vegetables, supplemented with soft cheese.

Ingredients:

• fresh cucumbers – 300 g;
• tomatoes – 400 g;
• feta/cheese cheese – 200 g;
• fresh black olives – 100 g;
• large bell pepper;
• olive oil – 1 tsp;
• lemon juice – 1 tsp;
• lettuce leaves – 60 g.

Cooking method:

1. Wash all vegetables.
2. Cut out the seeds from the pepper and chop it into cubes.
3. Peel the cucumbers and cut into semicircles. Tomatoes and cheese - similar to peppers.
4. Divide the olives into halves crosswise.
5. Mix all the ingredients of this simple delicious vegetable salad, season with a mixture of oil and lemon juice.
6. Pour in a heap onto washed and coarsely torn lettuce leaves.

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• Prepare and store salads in enamel, ceramic or glass containers. Storage should be as short as possible.
• Peel and cut vegetables with stainless steel knives. Cut the peel as thin as possible - underneath it are the most valuable biologically active substances. Vegetables should be cut smaller, the denser their tissue.
• If your salad requires cooked vegetables, cook them unpeeled in a little water or steam them. For carrots, the water should be salted, for beets - unsalted. It's better to bake beets.
• Cool all foods before preparing the salad; under no circumstances combine warm foods with cold ones - this will quickly spoil the salad.
• If your salad requires peeled tomatoes, place them in boiling water for a minute and then remove the skins.
• Some vegetable salads can be grouped in salad bowls by color, for example: white and red cabbage, green green beans with cauliflower, red sweet peppers with green pods.
• A good decoration for a salad is a mesh of mayonnaise or sour cream - for this purpose, use a cream syringe or a bag of parchment paper with the tip cut off (the hole diameter should not be more than 1.5 cm).
• To remove excess bitterness, rinse chopped onions 2-3 times under running water, or pour boiling water over them twice, or soak for some time in a mixture of vinegar and water.
• Before combining boiled beets with other vegetables, grease them with vegetable oil - then they will color the other components of the salad or vinaigrette less.
• Peeled apples, pears, and celery quickly darken in air, so keep them, if you do not immediately put them in a salad, in salted or acidified water.
• Add salt to the salad as late as possible, otherwise the vegetables will separate. large quantities juice Season the salad with mayonnaise, sour cream and vegetable oil at the very last moment before serving.
• Mayonnaise can be made colored. When adding a small amount of ready-made mustard it acquires yellow; red table wine or beet juice - red; tomato puree - orange; sorrel and spinach puree - green.