Salad can be called the king of the festive table, and the existing variety of recipes allows you to choose a dish to your taste. For the preparation of salads, a wide variety of products are used - vegetables, fruits and mushrooms, meat, fish and seafood, which are seasoned with a variety of sauces. The more unusual the combination of components in the salad, the more exotic its taste.
Pineapple salad
This salad is not only unusual in taste, but also effective in serving. To prepare it, you need to take:
- 1 pineapple;
- 400 g of crab sticks;
- 1 can of canned corn;
- 6 Peking cabbage leaves;
- 5 tbsp. l. mayonnaise;
- 1 tbsp. l. ketchup;
- 1 tbsp. l. cognac;
- 1 bunch of dill;
- pistachios.
Cut the pineapple in half, carefully remove the pulp and cut it into small pieces. Cut crab sticks into cubes, Chinese cabbage leaves into strips. Combine all the ingredients of the salad: pineapple pulp, crab sticks, cabbage leaves and canned corn. Prepare a dressing. To do this, combine mayonnaise, ketchup and cognac. Mix everything thoroughly and season the salad. Then place it in pineapple halves, sprinkle with chopped pistachios and chopped dill.
Swiss salad with cheese and cherries
To make this unusual salad, you need the following ingredients:
- 200 g of hard cheese;
- 200 g lean ham;
- 200 g cherries;
- 2 stalks of celery;
- 250 g of boiled pasta;
- 2 tbsp. l. wine vinegar;
- 3 tbsp. l. vegetable oil;
- 1 yolk;
- 50 g of walnut kernels;
- parsley or dill;
- ground black pepper;
- salt.
First, cut the cheese and ham into small cubes with a sharp knife. Wash the cherries and remove the seeds. Cut the celery into slices about 1 centimeter thick. Put all the ingredients in a salad bowl, add the pre-cooked pasta. For the preparation of this salad, it is better to take large feathers.
Refuel. To do this: mix wine vinegar with vegetable oil and egg yolk, add salt and pepper to taste. Pour the prepared dressing over the salad before serving. This dish will look especially impressive when garnished with leftover cherries, chopped walnut kernels, and finely chopped parsley or dill.
Variegated mushroom salad
To prepare this fruit and vegetable salad with mushrooms, you will need:
- 100 g of fresh mushrooms;
- 200 g of spicy hard cheese;
- 2 sweet peppers;
- 2 apples;
- 2 oranges;
- 3 tsp honey;
- 2 tbsp. l. lemon juice;
- 0.3 liters of kefir;
- 1 tsp mustard;
- orange peel.
Peel the apples, core them and cut them into small cubes with the cheese. Wipe the champignons thoroughly with a damp cloth. If small mushrooms put out whole, and then cut in half, and if large - cut into slices, and then extinguish. Wash the bell pepper pods and, after removing the cores, cut into thin rings. Combine with peeled and sliced orange wedges. Place all prepared ingredients in a salad bowl.
Prepare a sauce from kefir, mustard, honey, lemon juice and orange peel, which must be taken literally on the tip of a knife. Pour over the salad and mix well.
Melon salad
Fruit salads can also be unusual. For example, a melon salad dressed with dry wine. To do it, you will need:
- 1 melon;
- 1 lemon;
- 150 ml of dry white wine;
- 150 g icing sugar;
- 2 peaches.
Cut the melon pulp into pieces and sprinkle with powdered sugar. Squeeze the juice out of the lemon and mix it with dry white wine. Pour melon slices with this sauce and refrigerate for 40 minutes. Peel the peaches and cut the flesh into small cubes. Garnish the melon salad with them before serving.
Pineapple and apple salad
An unusual dressing makes this dessert salad exotic. To prepare a fruit salad from pineapple and apples, you need to take:
- ½ pineapple;
- 2 apples;
- 1 bunch of seedless grapes;
- 1 banana;
- ¼ cans of condensed milk;
- 125 g mayonnaise;
- green lettuce leaves.
Peel and slice the pineapple, apples and banana. Mix everything and add grapes. Mix the condensed milk with mayonnaise and season the fruit with this sauce. Mix everything thoroughly. Decorate the finished dish with green lettuce leaves.
