Vegetarian salads are dishes that do not include meat or animal fats. The main ingredients of these dishes are vegetables, mushrooms, nuts, herbs and rice. It will take you very little time to prepare such salads.
Cheese salad
Required Ingredients:
- 1 pear;
- 200 grams of hard cheese;
- mayonnaise;
- sour cream;
- 1 tsp sugar (no slide);
- pinches of salt;
- ground red pepper.
To make this lean light salad, take a pear, wash it, cut it, core it, and cut it into strips. Chop the cheese into thin strips. Place the ingredients in a deep bowl.
Prepare a dressing. To do this, combine mayonnaise and sour cream, salt, sugar and add quite a bit of red pepper. Stir well. Season the salad. Decorate the finished dish with herbs if desired.
Cabbage salad
If your guests are on their way and you haven't set the table yet, make a green salad. To prepare it, prepare the following ingredients:
- 100 grams of white cabbage;
- 100 grams of sour cream;
- 100 grams of canned peas;
- 1 bell pepper (green);
- 1 fresh cucumber;
- salt;
- pepper.
First of all, remove the top leaves of white cabbage, then chop it finely, salt and crush it with your hands to make the juice stand out. Rinse the cucumber, cut into half rings.
Remove seeds from pepper, cut into thin strips. Combine ingredients, add green peas, salt and pepper. Season the salad with sour cream, garnish with herbs.
Mushroom salad
Want to surprise your guests? Make a low-calorie boiled mushroom salad. To prepare it you will need:
- 200 grams of fresh champignons;
- 100 grams of canned corn;
- 2 raw potatoes
- medium-sized carrots;
- half a head of cauliflower;
- broccoli;
- sour cream;
- salt.
Rinse the potatoes and carrots under running cold water, peel the root vegetables, cut into large pieces and boil. Dip the mushrooms in boiling salted water, but in a different container. Boil broccoli and cauliflower or steam for a few minutes.
Let the salad components cool, then chop and combine. Add corn, salt, season with sour cream.
Rice salad
If you're on a vegetarian diet, you can make a nutritious rice salad. Prepare the following foods:
- 200 grams of rice;
- glass of water;
- 2 cucumbers;
- 2 tomatoes;
- green olives;
- 1 sweet pepper;
- 2 tbsp canned peas;
- vegetable oil;
- lemon juice;
- salt;
- pepper.
Boil rice. To do this, pour boiling water over the cereal, stir, cover and leave for a few minutes. After the water has evaporated, rinse the rice with cold water. Rinse the cucumbers, tomatoes and peppers under cold water, remove the seeds from the peppers. Cut the vegetables into cubes and the olives into rings.
Prepare a dressing. To do this, combine vegetable oil with lemon juice, salt and pepper. Mix vegetables with rice, add green peas. Pour the resulting dressing into the salad, garnish with herbs.
