Unusual salads - decorating gray everyday life: recipe with photos and videos

Home Mixed salads

Unusual salads are a very broad culinary concept. Some believe that these are dishes that contain ingredients that are incompatible at first glance. For others, these are salads, the preparation of which requires rare and not very common products in the vastness of our Motherland. For others, these are foreign dishes that have certain cooking features.

No matter how it is, it is very nice to pamper yourself, your family and your friends with an unusual salad, which is radically different from your usual dishes.

Modern chefs claim that almost any dish can be made unusual. You just need to experiment a little with salad dressing. Even an ordinary crab salad can be significantly transformed if you season it with not just mayonnaise, but also lemon juice.

The presentation of the dish also plays an important role. If, for example, you put a salad in a boat made of melon or avocado, then such a dish will definitely attract attention and become the main decoration of any table.

How to prepare unusual salads - 15 varieties

Salad “Unusual”
Salad "Sea Pear"
Salad “Inimitable”
Salad "Napoleon"
Salad "Quail's nest"
Salad "Refinement"
Salad "Unusual Beans"
Nettle salad
Unusual cucumber salad
Salad with smoked fish
Salad "Africa"
Thai salad with melon
Unusual salad with duck breast and raspberry dressing
Salad "Patatosalata"
Vegetable Jelly Salad

Salad for the holiday table - very tasty, satisfying and unusual!

A hearty and very tasty salad will decorate the festive table for the New Year. The recipe is very simple and does not take much time. Beautiful, it will be a decoration among other dishes and snacks.

Ingredients

Boiled potatoes – 4-5 pcs.
Boiled chicken fillet – 300 g
Champignon mushrooms – 350 g
Onions – 1 pc.
Boiled eggs – 5 pcs.
Hard cheese – 220 g + 30 g for decoration
Boiled carrots - 3 pcs.
Salt and ground black pepper - to taste
Mayonnaise
Pomegranate seeds - for decoration

Preparation

Step 1. As you already understood from the list of ingredients, you need to boil the potatoes, carrots, eggs and chicken fillet in advance.

To prevent the chicken meat from becoming dry, after it is boiled, leave it in the broth until it cools completely.

Step 2. Cut the mushrooms and onions into small cubes and then fry them in a heated frying pan with a small amount of vegetable oil until tender. Don't forget to salt and pepper them to taste.

Step 3. Assemble the salad in layers. Place a springform baking dish on a flat plate. This way the finished dish will look like a cake.

1st layer – boiled potatoes grated on a coarse grater. Level the layer with a silicone spatula. Cover the top with a mesh of mayonnaise.

To avoid too much mayonnaise, squeeze it out of a pastry bag in a thin stream.

2nd layer – grind the boiled chicken meat using a blender. Place the meat in a mold, level it, and cover with mayonnaise.

3rd layer – mushrooms fried with onions. They must first be chilled.

4th layer - egg whites, grated on a coarse grater,

then add the yolks, also grated. Then cover with mayonnaise.

The 5th last layer is boiled carrots, grated on a fine grater. Level the layer of carrots with a spatula.

Step 4. Remove the split ring. Lubricate the sides with mayonnaise or sour cream, sprinkle with grated cheese, which we left for decoration. We draw a thin mesh of mayonnaise on top and decorate with pomegranate seeds. The result was a very beautiful holiday salad cake.

What makes this salad unusual is its beautiful decoration. I hope you agree with me.

Salad “Unusual”

To prepare this dish, you need the most common products that we eat every day. The peculiarity of this salad is that the combination of these well-known products gives a simply inimitable taste.

Ingredients:

Fresh cucumber – 5 pcs.
Bell pepper - 3 pcs.
Ham - 400 gr.
Canned beans - 2 cans
Kirieshki – 2 packs
Greens, mayonnaise - to taste

Preparation:

Wash the cucumber and pepper. We cut off the skin at the edges of the cucumber, and clean the pepper from the stalk and seeds. Then cut the vegetables into strips. We also cut the ham into strips. Drain excess liquid from beans.

For this dish, it is advisable to use red beans in their own juice.

Wash the greens, dry them and finely chop them.

Combine all ingredients, except crackers, in one container, season with mayonnaise and mix thoroughly. Just before serving, sprinkle the salad with kirieshka.

Combined

Recipe with chicken and juicy tangerines

You will need: a hefty breast, onion rings, vinegar (about 9%), sand, mayonnaise and two tangerines.

Boil the chicken and don't forget to add salt. Cut the meat into strips;
Make a marinade of sugar and vinegar, immerse the onions in it overnight;
Peel both tangerines and divide into slices. If there is a hard film on them, remove it and cut each piece in half;
Mix the products with mayonnaise.

Herring salad with apple and cucumber

Use: 200 grams of herring meat, three boiled potatoes, 2 fresh large cucumbers, boiled carrots, a head of onion, an apple, a couple of boiled eggs, vegetable oil for frying onions, 30 grams of green salad, parsley. You can't do without mayonnaise. Take approximately 200 grams to season the finished dish.

First of all, process the fish: clean it of bones, rinse the fillet;
Cut the potatoes into cubes, cut the carrots, apples and fresh cucumbers into strips. Fry the onion;
Mix all ingredients, add some parsley and lettuce. Lastly, put the mayonnaise in the bowl, stir the dish and let it sit for about 10 minutes. It is customary to serve herring salad with apple and cucumber in portioned plates.

Prune mussels

Creating a salad requires: 300 grams of soaked prunes, 50 grams of walnuts, 2 boiled yolks, a bunch of greens, crushed garlic and 100 grams of pre-grated cheese and 2 tablespoons of mayonnaise.

Carefully cut the soaked dried fruits on one side. Remove the seeds if there are any;
Add the prepared filling inside: nuts, yolk, garlic, cheese, pre-mixed in one container;
Place the appetizer salad on a straight platter. Garnish with drops of mayonnaise that will resemble pearls and miniature sprigs of dill.

With chicken breast and mushrooms

Use: one medium chicken breast, a can of canned peas, oil for frying, leek, 250 grams of champignons, two pickles, table salt and mayonnaise.

Boil the chicken and separate it into thin long fibers;
Chop the onion and mushrooms and fry them together in oil;
Make uniform cubes from the cucumbers, add peas to the mixture;
Stir the salad thoroughly, season with salt and mayonnaise. Let it sit for at least an hour before using. Simple recipes for the holiday table, like this one, create a sensation during the celebration. If you believe the reviews of culinary experts, the guests memorized the recipe by heart.

Salad with beef, walnuts and pomegranate

You need: at least 400 grams of boiled beef, a medium pomegranate, 1.5 cups of chopped walnut kernels, 1 miniature carrot. The last ingredient is sometimes missed.

Cut the beef into miniature thin strips;
Peel the pomegranate and add its grains to the meat. Try to get as much fruit juice as possible into the salad. This makes the taste rich and bright;
Pour in 1.5 cups of walnuts, add finely grated carrots to the mixture. Serve the salad in portions.

Cabbage with brine and raisins

Ingredients: medium head of white cabbage, a tablespoon of salt, 3 carrots, two leeks and a head of garlic, 100 grams of washed and steamed raisins. For the brine dressing you need: half a liter of clean water, a glass of granulated sugar and the same amount of vegetable oil, 100 grams of vinegar (about 6%). Bring the water to a boil, add oil to it and boil again. Pour vinegar into the boiling liquid.

Shred the cabbage as thinly as possible;
Sprinkle with salt and rub with clean hands;
Grind three carrots on a coarse grater. Do the same with onions and garlic, only using a smaller one;
Combine the ingredients in a cup, add raisins. Pour the brine into the cabbage in small portions and stir it.

Crab salad with champignons

For the recipe, find: 100 grams of crab sticks, 300 grams of fresh champignons, vegetable oil, 2 boiled eggs, onion, mayonnaise for dressing. Salting this dish is desirable, but not necessary.

Fry chopped mushrooms in oil along with onions;
Cool the mixture, add finely chopped crab sticks and eggs;
Dress the salad. But you can do without mayonnaise. If you cannot consume this dressing, use Greek yogurt.

Mushroom salad with red beans

Prepare in advance: a can of canned beans in its juice weighing about 250 grams, the same amount of canned champignons, sunflower or olive oil, a large red onion, olive mayonnaise.

Fry red onion half rings in a frying pan. When a characteristic smell appears, add champignons. Please note that there is no need to pour in liquid;
After some time, unload the beans into the pan. Pour a little brine from a jar of champignons onto it, simmer the food until the liquid has completely evaporated;
Remove from heat. Cool the mixture and then season with olive mayonnaise. The salad can be prepared in advance, let it brew in the refrigerator and only then season with mayonnaise. A different algorithm of actions may negatively affect the taste of a cold snack.

Recipe with seaweed and cod

Take: one can of seaweed, chopped raw onion, 5 hard-boiled chicken eggs, 400 grams of boiled and salted sea cod, mayonnaise.

There are many recipes with canned food, but people forget about seaweed. But in vain, this algae contains many useful elements. Therefore, start the simple process of preparing cabbage and cod salad by cleaning the fish from small but dangerous bones;
Chop the eggs and add all the ingredients to a bowl;
Stir thoroughly and add mayonnaise to the bowl. If you don't use this type of dressing, use Greek yogurt. It also contains less fat and calories.

To find a recipe that's right for you, don't be afraid to try new things and change up traditional recipes.

Festive menu for 15 people.

Salad "Sea Pear"

This salad combines ingredients such as pear and squid. For many, this combination will seem very strange, however, one should not draw hasty conclusions.

Ingredients:

Fresh squid – 400 gr.
Chicken eggs - 4 pcs.
Green pear - 1 pc.
Onion - 1 pc.
Pickled cucumber - 100 gr.
Carrots - 1 pc.
Salt, parsley, mayonnaise - to taste

Preparation:

Wash the squid, boil for 1 minute in salted water, cool, clean and cut into strips. Boil the eggs until tender, cool, and peel. We separate the whites from the yolks. Grind the yolks and grate the whites on a coarse grater. We clean and wash the carrots. Wash the pear and cut out the core. Wash the cucumbers. Now grate the cucumbers, carrots and pears on a coarse grater and place them in different containers. We clean the onion, wash it and finely chop it.

To make the onion more tender, it should be scalded with boiling water.

Place all the ingredients in layers on a wide shallow dish in the following order:

The first layer is squid;
The second layer is onion;
The third layer is carrots;
The fourth layer is pear;
Fifth layer - squid;
The sixth layer is pickles;
The seventh layer is chicken yolk;
The eighth layer is chicken protein;

Coat each layer with mayonnaise and salt to taste. Decorate the finished salad with sprigs of pure parsley.

Ingredients:

sardine - 1 can;
potatoes - 3 pieces;
carrots - 1 piece;
onions - 2 pieces;
bell pepper - 1 piece;
eggs - 6 pieces;
garlic - 3 cloves;
mayonnaise - 1 pack;
cheese - 250 grams;

Festive salad "Gorki". Step by step recipe

Boil the vegetables.
Mix sardine with chopped onion.
Lay out in layers.
First grated potatoes, then carrots, then sardines, peppers on top. Spread all layers with mayonnaise.
Cut the eggs, remove the yolks.
Grate the yolks and mix with crushed garlic and mayonnaise. Stuff the egg whites with this mixture.
Place the whites on top in the form of slides. Spread them with mayonnaise and sprinkle with cheese.

Prepare the festive “Gorki” salad and see the admiration in the eyes of your guests!

11.Salad “Original”

You haven't tried this before. Do you think salmon and orange don't go together? But that's not true. Today you will learn a completely new recipe and you will definitely want to cook it.

Salad “Inimitable”

This is a wonderful dish that should be prepared and, accordingly, served in a glass container. This way it will look much more beautiful.

Ingredients:

Chicken breast - 1 pc.
Dried prunes - 120 gr.
Fresh cucumber - 2 pcs.
Chicken eggs - 2 pcs.
Garlic - 3 cloves
Mayonnaise - to taste

Preparation:

Soak the prunes for 10 - 15 minutes in hot water, wash and cut into slices. Wash the chicken breast, boil until fully cooked, cool and cut into medium-sized cubes.

Boil the chicken in salted water with the addition of your favorite seasonings. This will make the meat much more flavorful.

Wash the cucumber and cut into strips. Boil the eggs, cool, peel, and separate the whites from the yolks. Three egg whites on a coarse grater. Chop the yolk using a knife or your hands. We peel the garlic, wash it and pass it through a garlic press.

Place the chopped chicken meat in a deep bowl, add garlic, mayonnaise and mix everything. Now let's start forming the salad. We lay out all the products in layers in the following order:

The first layer is chicken meat with garlic and mayonnaise;
The second layer is prunes;
The third layer is egg white;
The fourth layer is cucumber;
Fifth layer - chicken meat;
The sixth layer is prunes;
The seventh layer is protein;
The eighth layer is mayonnaise;
The ninth layer is egg yolk.

Place the salad in the refrigerator for 30 - 40 minutes to soak.

"Mistress"

A salad with the unusual name “Mistress” also appeared in the USSR.

The history of this dish is not fully known, but even today it is popular among modern housewives.

Composition of ingredients

The recipe includes:

hard cheese (0.2 kg);
carrots (0.1 kg);
beets (0.2 kg);
garlic (6 cloves);
raisins (2 tbsp);
prunes (80 g);
walnuts (60 g);
mayonnaise.

Spices are added to the dish to taste. You can also decorate the salad with pomegranate seeds.

Step-by-step cooking process

To create a holiday treat, first prepare the ingredients.

To do this you need:

Boil the beets in their skins.
Soak raisins and prunes in water for 15-20 minutes.
Remove the pits from the dried plums, if any, and cut them into medium pieces.
Peel the prepared vegetables and grate on a coarse grater.
Peel the garlic by removing the skins from the cloves and pass it through a culinary press.
Peel the raw carrots and rinse them in cold water.
Grind the nut kernels.

Next, begin to form the salad.

To do this you need:

Grate the carrots into a deep bowl and leave them for 10 minutes so that they release their juice.
Add raisins to carrots and mix thoroughly.
Grease the layer with mayonnaise.
Grate the cheese on top of this on a coarse grater.
Add garlic to mayonnaise and mix ingredients. Cover the cheese with the resulting sauce.
Place a layer of prunes.
Mix beets with nuts and layer in salad.
Cover the top of the salad with mayonnaise.

If you have fresh pomegranate, you can peel it and garnish the treat before serving. The salad should steep for 30-40 minutes.

Salad "Napoleon"

Such a dish as Napoleon is known to absolutely everyone. Everyone knows that “Napoleon” is a legendary cake, but not many people know that such a salad also exists.

Ingredients:

Puff pastries - 4 pcs.
Smoked chicken breast - 150 gr.
Marinated champignons - 100 gr.
Chicken eggs - 6 pcs.
Pitted olives - 80 gr.
Salt, mayonnaise - to taste

Preparation:

Puff pastries can be purchased in specialized stores, or baked yourself. The cake layers should be the same as for the cake.

Cut the chicken into small cubes. Boil the eggs, cool, peel and cut into cubes. Wash the mushrooms and cut them into cubes. Drain the liquid from the olives and cut into rings. Combine the prepared products, add salt, pepper, season with mayonnaise and mix thoroughly.

We generously grease each cake with salad and place one on top of the other. After preparing the salad, put it in the refrigerator for 4 - 6 hours, and then serve it to the table.

Salad with shrimp and avocado

Shrimp salad is perfect for any celebration, including the New Year. You will need a few ingredients for this snack:

150 g shrimp meat
avocado 1 fruit
2 chicken eggs
150 g cheese
4 tablespoons mayonnaise
pepper and salt.

Boil the shrimp, cool and peel. If they are large enough, they can be cut into small pieces. Cut the avocado pulp into small cubes. Chop the boiled eggs and cheese on a coarse grater. Place the prepared ingredients in a salad bowl, season with salt and spices, mix, season with mayonnaise and mix again.

Salad "Quail's nest"

This salad very naturally imitates an ordinary bird's nest. It will look especially appropriate on a holiday table.

Ingredients:

Smoked goose legs - 2 pcs.
Potatoes - 5 pcs.
Garlic - 2 cloves
Cheese - 100 gr.
Chicken eggs - 4 pcs.
Green onions - 1 bunch
Fresh carrots - 1 pc.
White cabbage - ½ pc.
Mayonnaise - to taste
Sugar - 1 pinch

Preparation:

We peel the carrots, wash them and grate them on a coarse grater. Wash the cabbage, chop it finely and mash it. Combine my cabbage with carrots, add sugar and mix everything. Then add mayonnaise to the vegetables and mix everything again. Cut the goose legs into cubes. Boil the eggs, cool, peel, separate the whites from the yolks. Three egg whites on a coarse grater. Chop the yolks with a fork. Peel the potatoes, wash them on a Korean carrot grater and fry in vegetable oil until fully cooked.

To prevent the salad from being too greasy, immediately after frying, place it on a paper towel to get rid of excess oil.

Wash the onion, dry it and finely chop it. Three cheese on a fine grater. We peel the garlic, wash it and pass it through a garlic press.

Combine the yolks, garlic and cheese, season with mayonnaise, mix and make balls from the resulting mass. They will serve as quail eggs in our salad.

When all the ingredients are prepared, we begin to form the salad. To do this, lay it out in layers in the following order.

The first layer is goose meat;
The second layer is cabbage with carrots and mayonnaise;
The third layer is egg whites;
The fourth layer is mayonnaise;
Fifth layer - green onions;
The sixth layer is fried potatoes;
The seventh layer is quail eggs made from cheese and yolks.

To make the salad look even more impressive, you can sprinkle a little poppy seed on the quail eggs.

Bon appetit!

Korean salad with a marine touch

What happens if you combine Korean carrots and crab sticks? A savory appetizer that will be an ideal complement to potatoes, rice, meat and will not disappoint as a stand-alone dish.

It is prepared from the same ingredients as the classic version: eggs, crab sticks, fresh cucumber, canned corn, mayonnaise for dressing. Plus Korean carrots for spice and variety.

Salad "Refinement"

This dish has a sweet and sour taste and moderate sharpness. It is prepared very simply and quickly.

Ingredients:

Avocado - ½ pc.
Lemon juice - 1 tsp.
Canned pineapple - 4 tbsp. l.
Pitted olives - 10 pcs.
Capers - 1 tsp.
Champignons - 2 pcs.
Onion - 1 pc.
Garlic - 1 clove
Olive oil - 1.5 tbsp. l.
Salt, pepper - to taste
Soy sauce - 1 tbsp. l.
Balsamic - 1 tbsp. l.
Honey - 1 tsp.

Preparation:

Peel the avocado, wash it and cut it into cubes. Then sprinkle it with lemon juice and put it in a salad bowl. We cut the olives into rings and send them along with the pineapples to the avocado. We clean the onion, wash it and finely chop it into half rings. Peel, wash and finely chop the garlic. Cut the mushrooms into slices. In a heated frying pan, fry the garlic for about a minute, then add the onion to it and fry it until golden brown. When the onions are ready, add the mushrooms to the pan and fry them until fully cooked.

For dressing, combine soy sauce and balsamic with olive oil, honey, salt and pepper.

Place the prepared salad in a beautiful dish, add capers to it, season everything with dressing and mix thoroughly.

Original festive salad of boiled pork with vegetables

Do you want to surprise your guests or try an unusual salad yourself? Then this recipe is for you. Juicy fresh vegetables perfectly complement mushrooms fried with onions, which give a simply indescribable aroma. All this goes well with boiled pork - the salad turns out very satisfying.

But the most important thing here is refueling. This is not simple mayonnaise or the usual butter. It's not even sour cream or yogurt. A special sauce is made here, which is based on raw egg yolks and mustard. It is somewhat similar to Hollandaise sauce - the taste is just as subtle and delicate, and the aroma is simply amazing. If desired, you can add grainy mustard.

You will need:

champignons – 400 gr.;
boiled pork – 250 gr.;
white cabbage – 200 gr.;
hard cheese – 150 gr.;
egg yolk – 2 pcs.;
onion – 1 pc.;
large cucumber – 1 pc.;
sweet pepper – 1 pc.;
vegetable oil – 4 tbsp. l.;
sweet mustard – 1 tsp;
garlic – 2 cloves;
dill – 1 bunch;
salt to taste;
pepper to taste.

Cooking stages.

Cut the peeled onion into small cubes.

Rinse and dry the champignons, cut into thin slices.

Fry the onion in vegetable oil until half cooked, then add the mushrooms and fry until done. Cool.

Rinse the cucumber and pepper and wipe dry. Remove the seeds from the pepper. Cut the vegetables into strips.

Also cut the cheese and boiled pork into strips.

Chop the cabbage and chop the dill finely.

Combine all ingredients, including cooled mushrooms and onions, in a salad bowl.

For the dressing, whisk the yolks, mustard and squeezed garlic. Add black pepper, salt and vegetable oil. Beat again until smooth.

Dress the salad before serving.

Salad "Unusual Beans"

The main ingredient of this salad is pickled beans. The remaining components of the dish only give the beans a certain flavor.

Ingredients:

Red pickled beans - 1 can
Red onion - ½ pc.
Pomegranate - ½ pc.
Walnut kernels - 100 gr.
Garlic - 2 cloves
Parsley, cilantro, salt, hops-suneli - to taste
Wine vinegar - 1 tbsp. l.
Olive oil - 1 tbsp. l.

Preparation:

Drain the liquid from the beans. Grind the walnut kernels. Peel the onion, wash it and cut it into thin half rings. Separate the pomegranate seeds. Wash the greens, dry them and finely chop them. We peel the garlic, wash it, and put it through a garlic press. Combine beans, onions, pomegranate seeds, nuts, garlic and herbs in one container and mix.

In a small bowl, mix vinegar, olive oil, suneli hops and salt. The gas station is ready. Season the salad with the dressing, mix thoroughly and serve.

Pear-cheese lightness

The combination of pear and cheese is unusual in itself, but what a light, elegant salad it makes, filled with summer freshness. Moreover, without mayonnaise, but with healthy olive oil.

The cooking process takes no more than 5 minutes, and the pleasure lasts for the rest of the day.

For the pear and cheese deliciousness you will need:

2 juicy pears;
Parmesan cheese – 0.1 kg;
arugula – 0.3 kg;
lettuce – 0.1 kg
pine nuts – 0.05 kg;
¼ lemon;
spices;
vinegar;
olive oil.

Tear the lettuce into a glass container, add chopped pears and lemon juice. Stir to thoroughly coat the lettuce leaves with lemon juice. Now add the cheese cubes, arugula and pine nuts.

For the dressing, prepare a mixture of olive oil, wine vinegar, black pepper, sugar and salt. Mix the dressing with the ingredients, divide the dish into serving bowls and serve.

Arugula and lettuce can be replaced with lettuce; experiments with cheese are also welcome. One option is blue cheese. It goes well with pear.

Nettle salad

Nettle salad is perhaps one of the most unusual dishes you can come up with. The most important thing when preparing it is to properly process the nettles.

Ingredients:

Nettle - 200 gr.
Hazelnuts - 25 gr.
Parsley - 40 gr.
Green onion - 30 gr.
Apple cider vinegar - 1 tsp.
Vegetable oil - 1 tbsp. l.
Chicken eggs - 2 pcs.
Salt - to taste

Preparation:

Wash and dry the greens. Finely chop the onion and parsley. Chop the nuts. Pour boiling water over the nettles, and then boil for several minutes in boiling water. Then the nettles should be drained in a colander, cooled and chopped. Combine all the greens in one container, add salt, season with vegetable oil and vinegar and mix thoroughly.

Boil the eggs, cool, peel and cut into large slices.

Place a bed of herbal salad on a shallow wide dish, which we sprinkle with chopped nuts. Place egg slices next to the salad.

Korean carrots - in a jar

Conservation - what new can you come up with here? It turns out that there are unusual vegetable salads for the winter that you don’t have to bother with for long. One of them is vegetable, carrot and cucumber.

For one liter jar you need:

fresh pickling cucumbers – 0.75 kg;
fresh carrots – 0.2 kg;
sugar, vegetable oil and vinegar - ¼ cup each;
3 cloves of garlic;
ground red peppercorns;
dill with inflorescences;
coriander, cloves, mustard seeds.

First, soak the cucumbers in cold water for 1.5-2 hours, and then cut them into rings 0.5 cm thick.

Next, grate the carrots on a Korean vegetable grater, add them to the chopped cucumbers, add garlic cloves, salt, spices, sugar, vegetable oil and vinegar.

The mixture should marinate for 4-5 hours. Then you can lay out the preparations in jars, placing a dill branch on the bottom of each. Pour the juice formed during the marinating process there.

All that remains is to sterilize the filled jars for 20 minutes, seal them and wait for cold weather to taste the homemade delicacy.

Unusual cucumber salad

This is truly a very unusual dish. You can try this salad either by preparing it yourself at home or in some expensive restaurants.

Ingredients:

Fresh cucumber – 4 pcs.
Green onion - 1 bunch;
Dill - 3 sprigs;
Kalamata olives - 1 jar
Olive oil - 2 tbsp. l.
Balsamic vinegar - 2 tbsp. l.
Salt, pepper - to taste

Preparation:

Remove the pits from the olives and chop them finely. Then lightly pour them with olive oil, balsamic vinegar and mix everything thoroughly. Wash the cucumber, cut off the skin from the edges and cut into large rings. Wash the greens, dry them and chop them.

Place the olives, herbs and cucumbers in a deep bowl. Salt and pepper to taste, mix.

It is recommended to mix this salad exclusively with your hands.

The finished salad can be served immediately.

Caprese (Italy)

The true embodiment of Neapolitan cuisine and the hot summer of southern Italy is the aromatic, bright caprese salad. It perfectly combines sun-ripened tomatoes, fresh basil and creamy mozzarella cheese. According to legend, this simple salad was invented on the island of Capri, hence its name.

At first, this salad was made from two varieties of tomatoes, which were traditionally grown in Sorrento and on the picturesque Amalfi Coast, as well as from a braided variety of mozzarella.

In the classic caprese, contrary to the popular recipe, there is no balsamic or any other vinegar. Instead, the tomatoes and mozzarella were cut into thick pieces, placed on a dish and sprinkled with basil leaves, white pepper and a pinch of salt, then generously seasoned with olive oil.

Salad with smoked fish

This dish is one of those dishes that should be eaten immediately after preparation, since it contains smoked herring. It is worth noting that you can use any other favorite fish in the dish.

Ingredients:

Chicken eggs - 3 pcs.
Smoked herring - 1 pc.
Fresh cucumber - 3 pcs.
Green onions - ½ bunch
Mayonnaise - to taste

Preparation:

Boil the eggs, cool, peel and cut into cubes. We clean the herring from entrails and bones and cut it into small cubes. Wash the cucumber and cut into strips. Wash the onion, dry it and finely chop it.

Combine all ingredients, season with mayonnaise and mix everything thoroughly.

Original salad with jamon and mango

Ingredients:

medium head of romaine lettuce - 1 pc.
thinly sliced jamon - 200 g
ripe mango - 1 pc.
cherry tomatoes - 150 g

Refueling:

yogurt - 300 g
honey - 2 tsp.
mustard beans - 2 tsp.
juice of half a lemon

Unusual salads for the holiday table - recipe

1. Cut the mango in half, remove the skin and cut the fruit into small slices 1 cm wide.

2. Cut the cherry tomatoes into four pieces each.

3. Separate the head of romaine into leaves, cut off the hard middle part and randomly tear into pieces.

4. Such unusual salads for the holiday table should have a specific dressing. To do this, mix yogurt with honey, mustard with lemon juice until smooth.

5. Form the salad as follows. Mix the salad leaves with the dressing and place them on a plate. Place mango and tomato slices on lettuce leaves. Finally, randomly place the jamon on the surface.

It's nice to eat unusual salads for the holiday table!

Salad "Africa"

The uniqueness of this salad lies in the fact that it combines products such as banana and chicken.

Ingredients:

Chicken fillet - 200 gr.
Hard cheese - 100 gr.
Banana - 1 pc.
Mandarin - 1 pc.
Lettuce, mayonnaise - to taste

Preparation:

Boil the chicken fillet in salted water until fully cooked. Cool it and cut it into cubes. Peel the banana and cut into medium-sized slices. Three cheese on a fine grater. Wash the lettuce leaves, dry them and cut into thin ribbons. We disassemble the tangerine into slices and cut it lengthwise into two parts. From the prepared ingredients, we begin to lay out the salad in layers in the following sequence:

The first layer is chicken meat;
The second layer is bananas;
The third layer is cheese;
The fourth layer is salad.

Place a teaspoon of mayonnaise in the central part of the fourth layer, and sliced tangerine slices around it. The salad can be served.

The center of the world

This simple salad with an unusual name is made from chicken gizzards. That’s why it’s the “Navel of the Earth”. The dish is universal, suitable for home celebrations and everyday lunches.

To prepare it you will need:

chicken stomachs – 0.3 kg;
mushrooms (oyster mushrooms or champignons) – 0.15 kg;
1 onion;
3-4 tablespoons of canned green peas;
3-4 eggs;
2 tablespoons olive oil (you can use vegetable oil);
salt;
mayonnaise.

First you need to boil the chicken stomachs and eggs. The stomachs are cooked for about an hour over medium heat. During this time, you will have time to prepare the mushrooms and onions and fry them until golden brown.

When the stomachs are boiled, cut them into strips, add to the onions and mushrooms, as well as green peas and eggs cut into large cubes. Mix all ingredients and add mayonnaise. Everything is ready, you can serve.

The highlight of this simple and unusual recipe is that the “Navel of the Earth” is served warm or cold - it is equally good in any form.

Thai salad with melon

Thai salad with melon is a fairly well-known dish in distant Thailand, however, for our people it is very exotic and very unusual.

Ingredients:

Small melon - 3 pcs.
Shrimp - 3 tbsp.
Garlic - 3 cloves
Palm sugar - 4 tbsp. l.
Fish sauce - ½ cup
Lime juice - ½ tbsp.
Chili pepper - 3 pcs.
Grated lemon zest - 2 tsp.
Roasted unsalted peanuts - 1 cup
Cilantro - for decoration

Preparation:

The most important thing in this dish is the sauce. To prepare it, mix sugar, chopped garlic, fish sauce, lime juice, chopped chili pepper and lime zest. Then chop the peanuts, add them to the sauce and mix.

Wash the melon, cut it lengthwise into two parts and clean out the middle to make boats. Boil, clean and cool the shrimp. Wash the cilantro, dry it and chop it.

Place shrimp in melon boats, pour sauce over them and sprinkle with cilantro. Thai dish is ready to serve!

Ingredients:

Pork fillet - 300 grams;
potatoes - 3 pieces;
onion - 1 piece;
walnuts - 50 grams;
prunes - 70 grams;
eggs - 3 pieces;
cheese - 200 grams;
mayonnaise - 1 pack;

Royal Pork Salad. Step by step recipe

Grind: meat, onions, potatoes and prunes soaked in boiling water in advance.
Grate carrots and eggs.
Marinate the onion with 1/3 tablespoon of sugar and vinegar.
Now let's lay out all the ingredients in layers.
1st layer: potatoes, spread with mayonnaise.
2nd layer: onion, meat, coat with mayonnaise.
3rd layer: prunes, sprinkle with nuts, spread with mayonnaise.
4th layer: grated eggs, spread with mayonnaise.
5th layer: cheese.

Decorate as your imagination allows!

A hearty and nutritious salad is ready to serve! The taste of this salad will remain in your memory for a long time; prepare it tasty and original.

2. Salad “Sea Queen”

I bring to your attention the “Sea Queen” salad for true seafood lovers. It contains squid, which goes perfectly with red fish caviar.

Unusual salad with duck breast and raspberry dressing

This salad is a real restaurant dish. By preparing such a dish in your own kitchen, any housewife can feel like a real chef.

Ingredients:

Smoked duck breast – 30 gr.
Oyster mushrooms - 50 gr.
Lola Rosso - 2 sheets
Arugula - 1 bunch
Lettuce - 3 leaves
Chopped pistachios - 1 tbsp. l.
Olive oil - 140 gr.
Fresh frozen raspberries - 100 gr.
Red wine vinegar - 2 tbsp. l.
Sugar - 3 tbsp. l.
Sesame oil - 1 tsp.

Preparation:

You should start preparing this dish by preparing the dressing. To do this, put the raspberries in a saucepan, add sugar and put on fire. Bring the contents of the saucepan to a boil so that the sugar is completely dissolved. As soon as the sugar has dissolved, remove the pan from the heat, cool the dressing slightly and place it in a blender bowl, where we whisk thoroughly. Then the dressing should be strained through a fine sieve to get rid of the seeds. Add 100 grams to the strained dressing. Olive oil, sesame oil and wine vinegar. Mix everything thoroughly. The gas station is ready.

Wash the greens, dry them and tear them into medium-sized pieces with your hands, season with dressing and mix. We clean the mushrooms, wash them, chop them if necessary, add salt and pepper and fry them in a frying pan.

Carefully place the smoked duck breast on a plate. In the center of the plate we place a mound of lettuce leaves dressed with raspberry dressing. Carefully place the mushrooms along the edges of the salad mound. Before serving, sprinkle the dish with chopped pistachios.

Beetroot with feta

Spicy salads for birthdays and other holidays, worthy of an elite restaurant menu, are so easy to prepare at home from ordinary ingredients. The following recipe is a clear confirmation of this.

For this delicacy you need:

4 medium-sized sweet beets;
Feta cheese – 0.25-0.3 kg;
2 tablespoons lemon juice;
2 tablespoons olive oil;
1 spoon of balsamic vinegar;
fresh parsley;
spices to taste.

Grate the baked beets on a coarse grater, add finely chopped parsley and spices.

Prepare the dressing by mixing olive oil with lemon juice and balsamic vinegar. Season the grated beets with the dressing, taste and add salt and black pepper if necessary to adjust the flavor.

Transfer the prepared base to a dish, break the cheese into pieces with your hands and place them on top of the beets. The combination of burgundy, white and green colors looks very stylish and appetizing.

Salad "Patatosalata"

This dish is a prominent representative of Greek cuisine. The highlight of Patatosalata is a special sauce with a pronounced taste.

Ingredients:

Medium potatoes - 900 gr.
Red onion - 1 pc.
Green onions - 2 stalks
Pitted olives - 24 pcs.
Dill - 1 tbsp. l.
Fresh oregano - 1 tbsp. l.
Olive oil - 60 gr.
Red wine vinegar - 15 gr.
Lemon - 1 pc.
Salt, ground black pepper - to taste

Preparation:

Peel the potatoes, boil, cool and cut into four parts. Cut the olives into slices. Peel, wash and finely chop the red onion. Wash the stems of green onions, dry them, and finely chop them. Wash the dill and oregano, dry and finely chop. Now mix all these ingredients together.

Now let's start preparing the sauce. To do this, mix olive oil, vinegar, juice of one lemon, salt and pepper in a bowl. Whisk everything thoroughly.

Season the salad with the prepared sauce and put it in the refrigerator for several hours.

Unusual salads for the holiday table with radish and meat “Riddle”

Appetizer dishes with radish are very rarely served on the holiday table. And yet, if you are celebrating the New Year or any other holiday in a narrow circle, then make this salad - you won’t regret it.

Products:

beef (or pork) - 300 g
green radish (or daikon) - 1 pc.
onion - 1 pc.
eggs - 2 pcs.
water - 2 tbsp. spoons
mayonnaise - 1 tbsp. l.
vegetable oil, salt, pepper

Preparing salad with radish

1. Grate green radish (or daikon) on a Korean carrot grater. Add salt and let stand until the radish releases its juice. Then squeeze lightly and drain the juice.

2. Cut the onion into strips and lightly fry in a frying pan in vegetable oil. Then cool and add to the radish.

3. Disassemble the boiled meat into long thin fibers or can be cut into thin strips.

4. Mix eggs with water and prepare thin omelet pancakes. Cool them and cut them into strips.

5. You can also add grated raw carrots. If you want to.

6. Mix all the salad ingredients, season with mayonnaise, salt and pepper to taste.

7. Place the dish in the refrigerator for 30 minutes to soak.

Bon appetit !

Delicious and simple salad with chicken and cucumber

The unusual design of this salad will decorate any holiday table. And it is prepared very simply and from available products. This salad also turns out to be layered, but the layers will be covered with strips of cucumbers. And you will see this for yourself now.

Ingredients

Baked chicken fillet – 350 g
Fresh long cucumber – 3 pcs.
Korean carrots – 200 g
Onion – 1 pc.
Boiling water – 1 glass
Onion – 1 onion
Tomato – 1-2 pcs.
Mayonnaise - 100 g
9% table vinegar – 2 tbsp. l.
Dill – 1 bunch
Sugar – 1 tsp.
Salt – 0.5 tsp.

How to do

Step 1. First of all, pickle the onions. Cut the onion into quarter rings.

Instead of white onions, you can use red onions; they will also look no less beautiful in the finished dish.

Place the chopped onion in a small bowl, add 0.5 tsp. salt, 1 tsp. sugar and pour boiling water and 2 tbsp. l. vinegar. Stir until the salt and sugar dissolve in the water. Leave to marinate for 15 minutes.

Step 2. While the onions are pickling, in the meantime, cut fresh cucumbers into thin slices using a vegetable peeler. If some strips break, it’s okay, they will still go into use.

Step 3. Cut the baked chicken meat into small cubes.

Step 4. Cut the peel from the tomato in a circle and use it to make a rose for decoration.

Cut the remaining tomato into 4 parts, remove the pulp from each slice, and cut the remaining fleshy part into small pieces.

For convenience, transfer the mayonnaise into a pastry bag. If you have store-bought mayonnaise in a bag, just cut off a small piece from the corner. This way, when you press, a thin stream of mayonnaise will flow out.

Step 5. Now let's start assembling the salad. We place a pastry ring or a springform baking dish on a flat plate; it is also well suited for this purpose. First, place thin strips of cucumber on a plate, overlapping each other clockwise.

Place an inverted glass in the middle of the plate. Place a layer of diced chicken fillet around it. Cover the top with a mesh of mayonnaise.

The next layer is pickled onions. First drain the liquid from it. And squeeze it out a little.

Then lay out a layer of Korean carrots in a circle. If you couldn’t buy it ready-made, then prepare it yourself using this recipe.

Step 6. Now remove the glass from the middle of the salad and wrap the cucumber slices towards the center. We start wrapping them from the last laid strip.

Step 7. Decorate the salad. In the center where the glass was previously, place the tomatoes cut into pieces, and place the prepared rose on top. In addition, sprinkle finely chopped dill on top.

That's it, the salad is ready, it turned out beautiful and with an original presentation. Did you like this one? Do this too, your guests will definitely appreciate it!

Unusual salad for the New Year with tangerine sauce without mayonnaise

Chicken salad with tangerine sauce will help diversify the holiday menu and will surely please your guests. There is actually nothing unusual about this dish except its presentation. It is prepared simply and without mayonnaise, and will be good for your health. And the presence of tangerines among the ingredients will allow you to call it New Year's.

Ingredients

Chicken fillet – 400 g
Iceberg salad – 1 pc.
Feta cheese - 0.5 pack (250 g)
Sour cream – 2 tbsp. l.
Soy sauce – 100 ml
Garlic – 2 cloves
Red onion – 1 pc.
Red sweet pepper - 1 pc.
Mandarin – 1 pc.
Bunch of dill
Bread – 2 slices
Provençal herbs – 1 tsp.
Black sesame – 1 tsp.
Vegetable oil – 2 tbsp. l
Ground black pepper - a pinch

How to cook

Step 1. Trim the fillet from fat and uneven pieces. Carefully cut it into slices of equal thickness.

Place in a bowl and marinate by adding

1 tbsp. l. soy sauce,
1 tbsp. l. vegetable oil,
1 tsp. sesame seeds,
A pinch of ground black pepper.

Stir and leave aside for 5 minutes.

Step 2. Cut the bread into small cubes. Place in a bowl and sprinkle with herbs de Provence. Add garlic passed through a press and 1 tbsp. l. vegetable oil and 1 tbsp. l. soy sauce. Stir and leave for 5 minutes so that the bread is saturated with the aroma of herbs.

Step 3. Finely chop the dill. Mix it in a separate bowl with half a pack of Feta cheese. Roll small balls from the resulting mass and place them on a cutting board.

Step 4. Fry the chicken fillet and croutons in separate pans. There is no need to add oil since it was already added during marinating.

step 5. Prepare the sauce. Add juice from half a tangerine and 1 tbsp to sour cream. l. soy sauce. Mix thoroughly until smooth.

Step 6. Assembling the salad. Place iceberg lettuce leaves on the bottom of a flat plate, tearing them into small pieces with your hands. By the way, Iceberg leaves can be replaced with Chinese cabbage leaves, which also need to be torn by hand.

Place red bell pepper cut into thin strips on the salad. It is enough to cut half or 1/3 of the fruit. It would be enough. Add red onion cut into thin half rings. Pour them with the prepared sauce with tangerine juice.

The next layer is fried chicken fillet cut into thin strips. Sprinkle fried croutons on top and arrange balls of cheese and dill.

That's it, the salad is ready and you can put it on the festive table. It turned out to be a light and healthy dish. Among the abundance of hearty snacks and dishes, it will come in handy. And it looks unusual and beautiful.