Pigtail cheese salad. Recipe with photos step by step

Updated: Julenka

09/04/2019 Cooking time: 30 min

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Smoked “Kosichka” cheese can be an interesting “highlight” in any salad. There are a lot of combinations of ingredients for this salad, this recipe is one of many. It's quick and easy to prepare and everyone loves it!

General principles of cooking

For the salad, the braid cheese is finely chopped or disassembled into fibers, placed in a salad bowl and complemented with:

tomatoes, cucumbers;
carrots, onions;
corn or peas;
olives;
bell pepper;
mushrooms, meat, herbs;
fruits;
spices;
sour cream, mayonnaise.

To decorate the salad, various berries, herbs, and vegetable figures are used.

The simplest recipe

Salad preparation time: 5 minutes.

A set of components to create 2 servings of snacks:

3 large tomatoes;
100 g pigtail cheese;
1 tbsp. l. mayonnaise;
2 cloves of garlic.

Instructions on how to make a simple snack:

Take the braid cheese, place it on a cutting board and chop it with a knife. Wash large tomatoes and pour boiling water over them to remove the skin.
Next, chop them into large pieces on a board.
Prepare the garlic cloves by removing the skins, finely chopping or grating them. Place the ingredients in a nice bowl and stir well.
Coat the salad with mayonnaise and mix evenly. Garnish the appetizer with chopped fresh herbs. Instead of mayonnaise, you can use sour cream.

With Korean carrots and corn

Making a salad with braid cheese, Korean carrots and corn will take 15 minutes.

To make 3 servings of salad, you need to take:

100 g pigtail cheese;
150 g corn from a can;
100 g Korean carrots;
2 eggs C1;
3 tbsp. l. mayonnaise;
several branches of parsley.

Braid cheese salad (recipe supplemented with Korean carrots and corn) is made as follows:

On a silicone or wooden board, cut the pigtail cheese into strips, the thickness of which is 3-4 cm, then divide into fibers and pour into a salad bowl. Chop Korean carrots, add to cheese and mix well.
Place the eggs in a heat-resistant container with cold water, place on the fire, wait until boiling and boil until tender. This will take 7-10 minutes. Drain the water from the eggs, cool them, fill them with chilled water, peel and chop into small pieces or rub through a large grater.
Pour the corn from an open jar, after pouring out the excess liquid, add to the ingredients and mix. Rinse the parsley under running water, dry, finely chop, add to the salad and stir.

Season the prepared dish with mayonnaise, stir thoroughly and take out the table in a salad bowl or portioned plates.

Salad with rice and braid

This salad will not only be an excellent decoration for the holiday table, but will also amaze all guests with its sophistication.

Ingredients:

Crab sticks – 1 pack (200-250g)
Cucumber – 1 pc. (long term)
Can of canned corn – 1 pc.
Eggs - 3 pcs.
Greenery

Preparation:

This salad is prepared in portions, which means you initially need to know how many guests will attend your feast. For one basket (serving) you need 10 strips of cheese. Let's take our braid apart into strips and arrange them into 10 strips.

Boil the eggs hard and boil the rice until fully cooked. Wash the fresh cucumber and chop it into cubes. After cooling completely, chop the eggs into small cubes. Clean the crab sticks and finely chop them. Finely chop the dill.

Mix all ingredients and season with mayonnaise. For beauty, first place a lettuce leaf on the plate, then place the salad on top. Now we will weave 3 braids out of 9 strips, and place the remaining strip of cheese in the form of a basket handle.

With crab sticks

It will take 15 minutes to prepare the salad with braid cheese and crab sticks.

List of products for creating a salad:

braid cheese – 100 g;
crab sticks – 150 g;
fresh cucumber – 1 pc.;
eggs C1 – 3 pcs.;
garlic cloves – 2 pcs.;
mayonnaise – 100 ml;
salt and pepper – 1 tsp.

Algorithm for preparing salad with pigtail cheese and crab sticks:

Transfer the braid cheese to a cutting board, chop into strips and pour into a salad bowl. Take crab sticks, remove membranes, chop into cubes on a kitchen board and mix with cheese.
Prepare the eggs. To do this, bring water to a boil in a small saucepan, put eggs in it and boil them for 7-10 minutes. Cool the eggs by running them under cold water, place them on a cutting board and cut them into cubes.
Wash the fresh cucumber, peel it using a knife or vegetable peeler, and cut into strips or grate on a large grater. Pour the cucumber and eggs into a salad bowl and mix thoroughly.
Remove the garlic cloves from the husks, pass them through a press, add them to the salad along with salt and pepper, add mayonnaise, mix well and bring to the table, garnishing with green onion rings.

Ready.

Salad “Sofia” with smoked cheese

There are different recipes for salad with sausage cheese, and every housewife should know at least one of them. You can prepare a dish called “Sofia” if you want to please your loved ones with something tasty. It won’t take much effort or time - you can make a salad with sausage cheese in just 15 minutes. The main thing is to purchase all the necessary products in advance.

Ingredients:

bell pepper - 1 piece;
boiled sausage - 180 grams;
cucumber - 2 pieces;
sausage - 140 grams;
mayonnaise, greens.

“Sofia” salad with sausage cheese is very easy to prepare, so even novice cooks can make it. First you need to cut the vegetables. Take sweet bell peppers, which are excellent in salads. It needs to be washed thoroughly, then cut and cleaned of the seeds that are inside. If this is not done, the salad may be spoiled by the insides of the pepper. The vegetable itself must be cut into small pieces that are easy to eat. They can be placed in a deep bowl, which will then contain the salad.

Now you can move on to the cucumber, which also needs to be rinsed under cold water. This will help clean it of dirt and sand, which are quite often present on natural vegetables. After this, you need to carefully cut off the skin, as it is quite often rough and spoils the taste of the salad. The cucumber itself needs to be cut into small pieces and added to the pepper.

Now is the time to deal with the sausage, which you should have purchased in advance at the store. Boiled is suitable, as it has a delicate taste and is great for vegetable salads. You can take ham or boiled chicken instead, although sausage is considered a good option. First peel it and then cut it into strips. Place all the pieces in a common bowl where the rest of the ingredients are already located.

It is cheese that is considered the main product in the salad. It is advisable to make it with sausage, which is smoked. It must either be grated or thinly sliced. The resulting mass should be added to the salad.

The dish must be seasoned with mayonnaise having medium fat content. You also need to crumble the dill on top of the salad. After this, all ingredients should be thoroughly mixed and refrigerated for at least 60 minutes. Such recipes can be safely decorated, for example, with parsley. So a salad with sausage cheese will turn out not only tasty, but also beautiful.

Salad with pigtail cheese is not only rich in phosphorus and calcium, but also has incredible taste. Moreover, the braid became popular very quickly. The salty taste with the smell of cheese is suitable both as an appetizer and as a snack.

Many people have probably noticed that pigtail cheese can be either smoked or salted. The fact is that these are 2 different varieties of cheese: Chechil and Suluguni. Both of these varieties come from the east. And braiding is a brand feature of both types of cheese. However, Suluguni is most often found in the shape of a circle.

Chechil, in turn, traditionally braided his hair. At the same time, real Chechil cheese has a honey color. This is exactly what you should pay attention to when choosing cheese on store shelves - color. The darker the cheese, the more harmful the product. Indeed, today real smoking is replaced by liquid smoke, which leaves a dark color.

With stew

You can make an appetizer with stewed meat and braid cheese in 30 minutes.

A set of products to create 3 servings of a dish:

100 g pigtail cheese;
1/2 can of stew;
100 g potatoes;
1 pickled cucumber;
1 egg C1;
1 red onion;
2 tbsp. l. sour cream;
2 tbsp. l. mayonnaise;
1 tsp. mustard;
1 tsp. horseradish.

Pigtail cheese salad (recipe supplemented with stew) is made according to these instructions:

Fill 2 saucepans with water and place on the stove. Place potatoes in the first saucepan with boiling water and boil for about 20 minutes until they soften, and in another saucepan, immerse the egg and cook for 10 minutes. from the moment of boiling.
Cool the boiled egg under running cool water, peel the potatoes from the top layer and cut into cubes.
Peel the red onion and chop it into small pieces along with pickled cucumber and braid cheese. Place all prepared products in a beautiful container and mix with 1/2 can of stew.
Divide the egg into white and yolk. Rub them through a fine grater and place the whites in a salad bowl. Pour mayonnaise, sour cream, mustard and horseradish into an empty bowl. Mix the ingredients well and season the salad with the resulting mixture. Toss salad with dressing and sprinkle egg yolk on top. Place the salad in the refrigerator for 15 minutes to let it steep.

Salad Lesnaya Polyana

This salad should definitely occupy a central place on the holiday table. The fact is that decorating it takes, perhaps, more time than preparing it.

Ingredients:

Boiled squid – 300 g
Olives – 0.5 cans
Bell pepper – 1 pc.
Cucumber – 2 pcs.
Eggs – 5 pcs.
Boiled beans.
Cheese braid.

Preparation:

The night before preparing the salad, you need to soak the beans. So, it will take much less time to cook it. For a weight of 300 g, an hour is enough until it is completely ready. Then you need to drain the liquid and cool.

Now you can start preparing the squid. It is necessary to defrost them completely, remove the film and boil them.

To prevent the squid meat from becoming rubbery, you need to place them in boiling water for exactly 1 minute.

Now boil the eggs hard and leave to cool. Wash the cucumbers well and cut into small cubes. Wash the pepper, remove the seeds and stem, finely chop into cubes. Divide the olives into rings. After cooling completely, chop the squid into small cubes.

We will separate the cheese into thin fibers

Lay out the salad in layers, coating each layer with mayonnaise in the following sequence:

Beans
Eggs (leave the whites cut evenly in half for decoration)
Squid
Cucumbers (you don’t have to put mayonnaise after them)
Pepper
Olives and cheese

Now you can begin the finishing touch. Let's brew strong tea. For half a glass you will need 2 tea bags. After the tea has brewed, add half the protein there. This way we will get a mushroom cap. Now, on top of the lawn (cheese and olives), we carefully place the stem of the mushroom, that is, the sharp part of the protein, and cover it with the painted part of the protein - the cap.

Bon appetit.

Pineapple appetizer salad

To prepare a salad that can be prepared in 15 minutes. for 10 servings, you will need:

1 can of pineapple rings;
1 can of pickled champignons;
250 g ham;
200 g pigtail cheese;
2 onions;
2 branches of parsley;
200 g mayonnaise.

Description of the snack preparation guide:

Open the jar of mushrooms, place the amount of mushrooms you need on a plate and squeeze out the excess liquid. Cut the mushrooms into small cubes. Remove the skins from the onion and cut into small cubes along with the ham.
Wash the parsley under running water, shake off excess moisture and finely chop. Chop the braid cheese into small pieces.
Place all crushed ingredients in a salad bowl, pour in mayonnaise and mix.
Open a jar of pineapples, arrange the rings on a wide platter and place the appetizer on top. Remove dish to cool for 20 minutes. Before serving, distribute the appetizer among plates and decorate by placing red berries or green leaves on top. You can also garnish the servings with green onions or red pepper.

Recipe 2: Salad with smoked braided cheese

This salad has an original spicy taste, however, not everyone may like it due to the presence of rather hard cheese in it, so it can be classified as experimental. It is, however, just as easy to prepare and looks very appetizing. But ladies are not recommended to consume it in large quantities, as it can harm their figure.

Required ingredients:

200-250 g braided cheese,
300 g ham,
two medium cucumbers,
two boiled eggs,
greens to taste,
a couple of tablespoons of mayonnaise.

Cooking method:

The cheese braid must be “unbraided”, and each individual strip must be divided into the maximum number of thin fibers. If the cheese was originally long, then you need to cut it lengthwise into several pieces. We cut the ham and cucumbers into thin long cubes so that they look harmonious with the cheese fibers. Hard-boil the eggs, cool and grate. Mix all ingredients, season with mayonnaise, add herbs, salt and pepper to taste.

With pig heart

You can prepare 8 servings of pork heart salad in 70 minutes. The ingredients are enough for 8 servings.

List of basic products for snacks:

1 pork heart weighing 400 g;
150 g pigtail cheese;
3 pickled cucumbers;
2 tomatoes;
100 g green onions;
30 g mayonnaise;
1 tsp. table salt;
1/4 tsp. freshly ground pepper.

Salad with pigtail cheese and pork heart can be prepared according to this recipe:

Fill a heat-resistant container with water, dissolve salt in it and place the heart. Boil the offal, remove the resulting foam and boil for 60 minutes. After the time has passed, drain the water, add clean water, and continue cooking the heart for another 15 minutes. and turn off the fire. Cool the heart in the broth.
At this time, cut the cucumbers into thin strips along with the cheese and tomatoes. Also cut the cooled heart into straw, removing the veins.
Place all the chopped ingredients in a salad bowl, stir and add salt if necessary. Add ground pepper, pour in mayonnaise and mix again. Before serving, decorate the salad with green onions, chopping them into rings and sprinkling them on the sides of the salad.

Salad with braid and squid

Traditionally, fresher varieties of cheese are used in this recipe. However, those who love the salty taste of suluguni will definitely appreciate this salad.

Ingredients:

Preparation:

We clean the squid and boil it in salted water. Boil the eggs hard. And after cooling completely, cut the eggs into cubes and the squid into strips. We will separate Suluguni cheese into fibers. Mix all ingredients and season with mayonnaise.

With bell pepper

The cooking time for this salad option is 10 minutes.

Braid cheese salad with bell pepper.

Set of products required for the dish:

50 g pigtail cheese;
1 large bell pepper;
2 medium tomatoes;
1/2 peeled onion;
2 fresh cucumbers;
1 tbsp. l. mayonnaise;
0.5 tsp. salt.

Detailed guide to preparing snacks:

Prepare the tomatoes by scalding them with boiling water, peeling them, removing the stems and cutting them into slices. Also wash the cucumbers, peel them using a vegetable peeler or knife, place them on a kitchen board and chop them into pieces. Pour the tomato and cucumber pieces into the salad bowl and mix well.
Wash the bell pepper, divide into 2 parts, remove seeds and cut into strips on a kitchen board. Finely chop half the onion into half rings, place in a salad bowl along with the pepper and mix well with a spoon.
Divide the braid cheese into fibers, add to the ingredients and stir. Salt the prepared salad, season with mayonnaise, mix again and bring to the table.

Classic recipe

Salad with smoked cheese, recipes for which are published later in the article, is delicious to prepare with the addition of corn, cucumber and croutons. The result is a delicious, crispy snack.

Salad with smoked cheese, croutons, cucumbers and corn.

Its calorie content (including mayonnaise dressing) is approximately 129 kcal per 100 g.

And BZHU:

BJU	Value in g (per 100 g)
Squirrels	8,7
Fats	6,3
Carbohydrates	4,9

Ingredients

For the dish you need to take:

fresh cucumber – 1-2 pcs. (depending on size);
smoked cheese – 140-150 g;
sweet corn kernels (canned) – 1 jar;
light mayonnaise and rye crackers – 55-60 g each;
salt.

Smoked suluguni is suitable for this version of the salad. Be sure to take sugar corn. It harmonizes perfectly with the taste of smoked, salty cheese.

Step-by-step cooking process

The cooking process includes several stages:

To begin with, the cucumbers need to be thoroughly washed, dried and the edges trimmed. To ensure that the vegetable in the appetizer does not taste bitter, it is worth removing the dark skin from it. The remaining pulp is then chopped into large cubes and immediately placed in a spacious bowl.
Smoked suluguni should be chopped into small random pieces. These can be cubes/blocks/straws. The cheese should also be immediately poured into a common bowl for the dish.
You will need to pour the corn into a colander and allow the excess liquid to drain. When the product is slightly dry, you can mix it with the rest of the ingredients.

All that remains is to thoroughly mix all the products and add rye crackers to them. You can either make the latter yourself - dry the bread in a frying pan or oven, or use store-bought ones. Lastly, the appetizer is seasoned with salted (to taste) mayonnaise, placed into bowls, and decorated with herbs. Then you can immediately serve the dish to the table and take a sample.

With red cabbage

Preparing a salad with pigtail cheese and red cabbage will take 7-10 minutes.

Basic products for creating a salad:

red cabbage – 400 g;
apples – 150 g;
braid cheese – 70 g;
sour cream – 4 tbsp. l.;
lemon juice – 15 ml;
garlic cloves – 2 pcs.;
salt – 0.5 tsp.

Pigtail cheese salad (recipe supplemented with red cabbage) is prepared in this way:

Prepare the red cabbage by rinsing it under tap water, chopping it into thin strips, salting it and mashing it with your hands. Wash the apples by placing them under water, peel them using a knife or vegetable peeler, cut in half, remove the core and chop into strips or grate.
Take the braid cheese, divide it into fibers and set it aside. Place shredded cabbage and apples in a salad bowl and mix thoroughly. Place sour cream in a deep bowl, pour lemon juice into it and mix well. Remove the garlic cloves from the husks, chop them using a press or grater, add to the sour cream and mix well.
Place the prepared sauce into the salad, stir, and place pieces of cheese on top in the form of a web. Bring the finished dish to the table.

With raw smoked sausage

Preparing a salad with pigtail cheese and raw smoked sausage will take 15 minutes.

Basic set of products for preparing salad:

braid cheese – 150 g;
raw smoked sausage – 150 g;
can of canned corn – 1 pc.;
eggs C1 – 3 pcs.;
fresh cucumber – 1 pc.;
mayonnaise – 100 ml;
Chinese cabbage – 150 g.

Scheme for preparing salad with pigtail cheese and smoked sausage:

Rinse the cucumber under tap water, peel it in any way and cut into small cubes. Pour chopped cucumber into a salad bowl, add canned corn without liquid to it, pouring it out of an open jar, and mix.
Place the eggs on the stove in a heat-resistant container with cold water, bring to a boil and boil for no more than 10 minutes. Drain the hot water and cool the eggs by filling a container with cold water, remove the shells and chop into cubes.
Prepare raw smoked sausage by cutting it into strips on a kitchen board.
Pour into salad along with chopped eggs and mix well. Wash the Chinese cabbage, cut into small pieces, separate the pigtail cheese into fibers, put it all in a salad bowl and mix evenly.

Cover the salad with mayonnaise, mix so that it is distributed among all the ingredients. Before serving, decorate the dish with radish figures and finely chopped herbs.

How to prepare salad with pigtail cheese - 15 varieties

Traditionally, fresher varieties of cheese are used in this recipe. However, those who love the salty taste of suluguni will definitely appreciate this salad.

Ingredients:

Squid
Cheese braid
Garlic

Preparation:

The original presentation of this salad only fuels interest in it. And its protein-rich composition allows even athletes to add it to their diet.

Ingredients:

Chicken fillet – 400 g
Cucumber - 2 pcs.
Quail eggs - 5 pcs.
Chicken eggs - 2 pcs.
Walnut
Pigtail cheese – 200 g

Preparation:

First of all, boil the eggs and chicken fillet. After complete cooling, it is necessary to cut the fillet into strips or disassemble into fibers. We also cut the cucumber into thin strips. Finely chop the nuts. Grate the whites of chicken eggs on a coarse grater.

Now lay out the salad in layers:

Cucumber
Chicken breast
Mayonnaise
Nuts and squirrels
Mayonnaise

Now we put cheese around the salad in the form of a nest, and put quail eggs in the middle.

This salad was popular on the eve of New Year 2014. After all, his appearance represents a horse. Very interesting and tasty salad.

Ingredients:

Pigtail cheese – 200 g
Ham - 200 g
Chicken fillet – 200 g
Apple - 1 pc.
Potatoes - 4 pcs.
Carrots - 1 pc.
Greenery

Preparation:

Boil chicken fillet, potatoes and carrots. After cooling completely, cut into small cubes. Half the carrots should be left for decoration. We lay out the salad in the shape of a horse. Now we cover the entire area with egg white. We also expose the ears using protein. Cover the nose with yolk. We line the eyes, nostrils and hooves with grapes or olives. Saddle and smile with a carrot. We lay out the mane with the help of cheese in braids.

The combination of thin smoked cheese fibers with chicken meat and fresh vegetables gives an incredible result, and not only in terms of taste. This salad is rich in protein and calcium. In other words, you urgently need to include it in your family’s diet.

Ingredients:

Cheese Pigtail – 100 g
Chicken – 300 g
Eggs - 3 pcs.
Cucumber - 1 pc.
Green onions

Preparation:

We will separate the cheese into fibers. Boil the chicken fillet in salted water for 40 minutes. Boil chicken eggs in salted water. Cut the cucumber into strips. After cooling, finely chop the eggs and chicken. Finely chop the green onions. Mix all ingredients and season with mayonnaise.

Not everyone will dare to prepare such a salad, because at first glance its composition is doubtful. However, in reality the salad is incredibly tasty.

Ingredients:

Carrots - 2 pcs.
Canned pineapples - 1 can
Cheese braid (salty)

Preparation:

Three carrots on a coarse grater.

Cut the cheese into small pieces.

Cut the pineapples into cubes. However, it is better to initially take canned pineapples in pieces. Peel the garlic and pass through a press. Season the salad with mayonnaise.

Bon appetit.

An excellent salad, suitable for those who don’t know how to surprise their family at an evening dinner.

Ingredients:

Eggs - 2 pcs.
Cheese braid - 1 pack
Crab sticks - 1 pack
Cucumber - 1-2 pcs. depending on size

Preparation:

First of all, let's beat the eggs and make egg pancakes. A couple of pieces will be enough. After cooling completely, cut the pancakes into strips. We also cut the crab sticks and cucumber into strips. We will separate the cheese into fibers. Mix everything and season our prepared salad with mayonnaise.

An interesting combination of smoked cheese and chicken will not leave anyone indifferent.

Ingredients:

Tomatoes - 2 pcs.
Cucumbers - 2 pcs.
Pigtail cheese – 200 g
Smoked chicken – 400 g
Olives
Green onions.

Preparation:

Separate the chicken meat from the bones and cut it into strips. Then we move on to the cheese. Let's cut it into small pieces. Cut the olives into half rings. Wash the tomatoes and cut into strips. Wash and chop the cucumbers. Finely chop the green onions. And mix all the ingredients, season with mayonnaise.

Bon appetit.

This salad is perfect for those times when you want something tasty and unusual, but have absolutely no time. All ingredients are easy to find in stores, and maybe even in your refrigerator.

Ingredients:

Tomatoes -3 pcs.
Eggs - 3 pcs.
Pickled cucumbers - 5 pcs.
Chicken fillet – 400 g
Crackers
Cheese braid

Preparation:

First of all, let's send the chicken and eggs to boil. Meanwhile, wash the vegetables and chop them into small cubes. You need to unbraid the cheese braid and chop the fibers into small pieces. Cut the eggs into 4 parts. Let's separate the chicken fillet into fibers. Mix all ingredients and season with mayonnaise.

The salad is most often prepared on New Year's Eve. Its recipe is not too complicated, but it takes a lot of time to prepare.

Ingredients:

Chicken breast or fillet - 700 g
Potatoes - 4 pcs.
Carrots - 2 pcs.
Kiwi - 3 pcs.
Cheese braid - 1 pack
Eggs - 4 pcs.

Preparation:

First of all, put eggs, potatoes, carrots and chicken on the fire

In order for the chicken to have a pleasant taste, add salt, peppercorns and onion to the cooking broth.

Meanwhile, cut the cheese into small pieces. It is best to untwist the cheese first so it will be easier to cut it.

So, let's start laying out the salad. To make it have the shape of a bracelet, place either a thin glass or a jar of olives in the center of the plate.

The first layer is to lay out the chicken that has been disassembled into fibers. On top of three are 2 potatoes and 1 carrot. Then lay out either finely chopped chicken eggs or grated on a fine grater. Then cheese and grease with mayonnaise. Now let's change the layout. After mayonnaise, chicken, then cheese, eggs, carrots and potatoes. Coat well with mayonnaise. Remove a glass or jar from the center of the salad and decorate with kiwi pieces.

Bon appetit.

This salad can actually be prepared in just a minute if you prepare all the ingredients in advance.

Ingredients:

Cucumber - 1 pc.
Tomato - 2 pcs.
Pigtail cheese – 180 g
Canned peas - 100 g

Preparation:

Wash the cucumber and cut into strips. Peel the tomato from the bottom and cut into bars. The cheese can either be cut into small strips or separated into fibers. Now mix all the ingredients with peas and season with mayonnaise.

Bon appetit.

Chechil cheese or the familiar braid came to us from Armenia. It is made from cow's or goat's milk. In this recipe you need to use the smoked version of this cheese.

Ingredients:

Tomatoes - 3 sh.
Cucumbers - 2 pcs.
Cheese braid
Chinese cabbage
Mayonnaise

Preparation:

Tear the Chinese cabbage leaves into small pieces. Wash the cucumbers and remove seeds and peel. Wash the tomatoes and remove the seeds. Cut the vegetables into bars. We will separate the cheese into thin fibers.

Mix all ingredients and season with mayonnaise.

With radish

It will take 10 minutes to prepare the salad with pigtail cheese and radish.

The salad includes:

cheese braid - 1 pc.;
radish – 1 pc.;
fresh cucumber – 1 pc.;
olive oil – 2 tbsp. l.;
spice mixture – 0.5 tsp;
dill - several branches;
clove of garlic – 1 pc.

The process of preparing salad with pigtail cheese and radish:

Make a dressing. Wash the dill, dry it, transfer it to a kitchen board and chop it into small pieces. Remove the peel from a clove of garlic, press down with the flat side of a knife and chop finely. Place chopped dill and garlic in a bowl, sprinkle with a mixture of spices, pour in olive oil and stir.
Wash the fresh cucumber, remove the peel using a knife or vegetable peeler, and chop into strips.
Rinse the radish, remove the top layer and grate on a grater with large holes. Place the ingredients in a salad bowl and mix.
Take the braid cheese, divide it into fibers, add it to the salad, add olive oil-based dressing and mix well. Before serving, divide the salad into portions or wrap it in pita bread.

With ham

Salad with smoked cheese, the recipes of which can be tailored to suit every taste, can be supplemented with ham. Both chicken and pork will do. For juiciness, sweet pepper is added to this dish. You can take this vegetable of any color. Or pieces of several colors at once - red, orange, yellow.

Then the appetizer will turn out especially bright and appetizing.

Ingredients

For treats you should use:

ham and smoked cheese – 170-200 g each;
fresh cucumber (medium size) – 2 pcs.;
sweet pepper – 1 pc.;
mayonnaise, salt, herbs.

Step-by-step cooking process

Cooking steps:

To begin with, you need to place the smoked cheese on a cutting board and cut it into miniature cubes with a sharp knife. Another suitable method is to chop the product into strips.
It is necessary to remove the film from the ham and then cut it randomly. It is best in straws or cubes.
The washed pepper must be removed from the stalk, seeds and partitions inside. The remaining part is cut with a sharp knife. First into 2 halves, and then into strips.
It is advisable to first remove the outer thick skin from a washed cucumber. And cut the rest into small cubes.
All that remains is to rinse, dry the dill and cut it with a sharp knife or special culinary scissors.
All the ingredients prepared above are poured into a common bowl. They are mixed and seasoned with any sauce to your liking. The easiest way to use this recipe is to use regular store-bought mayonnaise mixed with a little salt. You need to be careful with the latter. After all, salt is already in both ham and cheese.

Before serving the treat, you can decorate it with sprigs of dill. It is also worth adding pieces of bread to the dish.

With squid and red currants

You can prepare a salad with pigtail, squid and currants in 45 minutes. The ingredients are for 2 servings.

You should prepare this set of components:

100 g squid;
50 g red currants;
150 g cucumber;
30 g smoked braid cheese;
1 tbsp. l. capers;
1 tbsp. l. mayonnaise;
1 tsp. grainy mustard;
1 tsp. sunflower oil;
10 g each of dill and green onions;
50 g of croutons from white bread, loaf or baguette.

Pigtail cheese salad (recipe supplemented with squid and red currants) is prepared according to these instructions:

Pour water into a saucepan, place on the stove and boil. During this time, remove the films from the clam. Place the squid in boiling water and cook for about 2 minutes. Then dry the carcass with a paper towel, brush with sunflower oil inside and out and fry for 2 minutes. on a hot grill pan, 1 min. on each side. Cut the fried squid into thin strips.
Wash greens and currants in water. Dry the ingredients and cut the cucumber into strips and finely chop the greens.
Tear the cheese into thin threads with your hands.
Place cheese strings, cucumber and squid straws in a salad bowl. Also add dill and green onions. Pour in mayonnaise, grainy mustard, 2/3 red currants and mix the ingredients thoroughly.
Place the salad in the refrigerator to cool for 30–45 minutes. Place half of the crackers in a mortar and grind into fine crumbs using a pestle. To serve, line a wide plate with lettuce leaves, place the chilled salad on them, sprinkle croutons on top and garnish with the remaining berries and whole croutons.

Salad with figs, smoked goat cheese and smoked salmon with Vinaigrette sauce

This is a delicious salad with a very piquant taste, which gives it a sweet and sour Vinaigrette sauce.

Ingredients:

Figs – 4 pieces
Smoked salmon – 60 grams
Smoked goat cheese – 60 grams
Salad mix – 1 pack
Flax seeds – 10 grams
Olive oil - 3 tablespoons
Dijon mustard – 1 tablespoon
Honey – 1 teaspoon
Lemon juice – 1 tablespoon.

Preparation:

For those who do not like the specific taste of goat cheese, you can replace it with specially prepared Adyghe cheese - to add a smoked aroma, bake the cheese in a dry frying pan with a bay leaf and cherry branches.

Ingredients are for two servings. The salad is prepared directly in the plates. Place a mix of salads on them; the presence of arugula is highly desirable.

Cut the figs into quarters, cube the cheese and place on the greens.

Cut the fish into very thin slices, roll them into a circle and place them in the center of the plate.

Prepare Vinaigrette sauce. Combine mustard, olive oil, honey, lemon juice and whisk until smooth.

Pour the sauce over the salad, pepper and sprinkle with flaxseeds.

Potato

The potato salad with pigtail cheese will take approximately 25 minutes to prepare. The ingredients are enough for 3 servings.

You need to take the following grocery set:

250 g potatoes;
60 g pigtail cheese;
100 g radish;
1 onion;
1 tbsp. l. vinegar 9%;
1/4 tsp. table salt;
2 tbsp. l. mayonnaise;
10 g each of parsley and dill;
1/4 tsp. freshly ground pepper.

You can prepare potato salad with pigtail cheese according to this recipe:

Prepare the onion by peeling it and cutting it into feathers. Pour vinegar into a bowl, add freshly ground pepper, stir and add onion. Marinate the onion for at least 10 minutes.
Pour water into a saucepan and put pre-peeled potatoes into it. Boil potatoes for about 20 minutes. After the water boils, check the readiness with a fork. Cut the boiled potatoes into cubes and place in a deep plate.
Cut the cheese into small cubes and add to the potatoes. Rinse the radishes thoroughly and cut into strips, rinse the greens in cool water, shake off excess moisture and chop. A few radishes and herbs should be left for decoration. Send the radishes with herbs and pickled onions to the potatoes, pour in the mayonnaise and mix all the contents thoroughly.

Place the salad in the refrigerator and cool it for 15 to 20 minutes. Before serving, garnish the chilled salad with braid cheese with parsley leaves and small pieces of radish.

About braided cheeses

Surely many have noticed that on store shelves nearby there are “pigtail” cheeses, different in color: some are white, others are brown. These are two different varieties of braided product, the first is salted suluguni, the second is smoked - chechil. It is with the second variety that further recipes will be presented.

By the way, it is worth paying special attention to the color of the chechil. It should be light brown, since dark shades indicate poor quality of the product: often, instead of full smoking, the cheese is simply doused with liquid smoke.

Real smoked “pigtail” cheese is rich in calcium and phosphorus, which makes a dish with it healthy and very tasty.

With olives

To prepare a salad with pigtail cheese and olives, you need to allocate no more than 20 minutes.

The ingredients are for 3 servings.

You will need to take the following set of products from the list:

200 g smoked chicken meat;
1 can of canned olives;
2 cucumbers;
2 tomatoes;
200 g pigtail cheese;
50 g mayonnaise;
1/4 tsp. mixture of ground peppers.

Preparing a salad with pigtail cheese and olives includes the following steps:

Open the can of raspberries and pour out the liquid. Cut the olives into thin rings. Grind the smoked chicken meat into strips. Wash the cucumbers, peel them with a vegetable peeler and also chop or grate them on a Korean carrot grater.
Cut the tomatoes into 4 parts, scrape out the liquid center with a spoon and cut into strips. Transfer the liquid from the tomatoes into a small container, add mayonnaise, a mixture of peppers and mix well.
Also cut the cheese into small strips. Place all the chopped ingredients in a salad bowl, pour in the tomato-mayonnaise dressing, stir and add salt to the salad if necessary. Place the salad in the refrigerator and cool it for 15 - 30 minutes. before serving. Use fresh herbs for decoration.

Culinary secrets

When preparing salads with smoked cheese, you can resort to some tricks to make the dish tastier and more aromatic. To do this, it is worth remembering the following tips:

Pigtail cheese will perfectly complement any salad, adding a smoky aroma and a memorable taste. Each of the options is suitable for both everyday and festive meals. It’s enough to simply decorate a simple appetizer beautifully with sprigs of herbs or “roses” of vegetables.

Feel free to experiment and combine cheese with unexpected foods, adding olives, cabbage, Korean carrots and much more to your dish.

Attention, TODAY only!

There are various recipes that use pigtail cheese, but this one is considered one of the most successful. Any housewife can safely serve it to her guests and not think about whether she will like the dish or not. It will certainly be appreciated by both loved ones and people invited to the holiday.

Ingredients:

ham - 290 grams;
eggs - 4-5 pieces;
canned corn - 1 can;
braid cheese - 80 grams;
carrot - 1 piece;
tomatoes - 1 piece;
crackers - 70 grams;
mayonnaise and spices.

Salad with smoked braid cheese and ham can be prepared in half an hour, and sometimes even faster. First, you should boil the eggs by placing them in water and putting them on the fire. This will take 10-15 minutes, after which they will need to be cooled in ice water. After peeling them, it is advisable to grate the eggs on a coarse grater or at least cut them into cubes. Recipes like this one are meant to be tender and light.

After this, you should take the pre-boiled carrots and peel them. The vegetable must be grated and placed in a common bowl. Now you can move on to the ham. This salad with smoked cheese requires that the ham be finely chopped, after removing the wrapper. It can be chopped either into cubes or into strips. After this, the ingredient should be placed in a container with carrots.

You need to choose a tomato that is fleshy, but at the same time sweet and moderately juicy. It needs to be washed under running water, then cut and thrown into the salad. Such ham recipes usually cannot be made without canned corn. After opening the jar with it, you will need to drain the liquid so that it does not end up in the salad. The corn itself needs to be lightly washed and placed in the salad.

Now is the time to move on to the braid cheese. It is enough to simply cut it and put it on a common plate. After this, you will need to add mayonnaise to the salad with ham and mix all the ingredients thoroughly. If desired, you can add spices and croutons to the salad, purchased at the store or made yourself. The main thing is to let the dish sit in the refrigerator for several hours so that it acquires a rich taste. It is recommended to serve garnished with herbs to give the salad a beautiful appearance. Guests will certainly be delighted with this dish and will want more.

Useful tips and tricks

The following tips will help make the salad more tasty and beautiful:

You can use a cooking ring to form the salad.
It is recommended to add chopped nuts to the dish.
Instead of chicken, you can put turkey in the salad.
The dish can be served in bowls or serving glasses.

Pigtail cheese salad will appeal to smoked cheese lovers. It can be prepared according to any recipe by simply mixing the chopped ingredients or laying them out in layers. Sauces based on sour cream, mayonnaise or olive oil are suitable for dressing.