In Russia, the tradition of welcoming guests is one of the oldest and most beloved. As a rule, the owners serve all the best on the festive table, including products that they do not eat on ordinary days.
Everyone loves to welcome guests, especially if there is a pleasant reason for this. However, preparations for the celebration often take a lot of time and on your holiday you have to sit until nightfall so that all guests are full and satisfied. Can you find a compromise between time and taste? Sure you may. To do this, you need to make a choice in favor of light salads that are suitable even for the anniversary table for many of the most dear and important guests.
Greek salad
Ingredients:
- pitted olives - 1 can
- tomato - 2-3 pieces
- cucumber - 1 piece
- sweet red pepper - 2 pieces
- feta cheese - 150 g
- red onion - 1 piece
- olive oil - 6 tablespoons
- oregano - a pinch
- mustard - 1 tsp
- black pepper and salt - to taste
- lettuce leaves - 4-5 pieces
Preparation:
Wash cucumber, tomatoes and peppers. Remove the core from the pepper. Peel the onion. Cut: cucumber - into cubes, tomatoes and peppers - into half rings, onion into thin rings. In a separate cup, beat together the olive oil, oregano, mustard, salt and pepper. Cut the feta into cubes. Mix vegetables with olives, pour over the resulting sauce, put on whole lettuce leaves. Spread the feta on top. Garnish with onion rings before serving.
Salad Lightness
Ingredients:
- Chinese cabbage - 1 pc
- canned pineapple - 1 can
- cucumber - 1 piece
- crab sticks - 200 g
- mayonnaise - to taste
Preparation:
Finely chop the Peking cabbage, cut the pineapples into cubes. Cut the cucumber and crab sticks into small pieces. Stir all the ingredients, season with mayonnaise to taste.
Venice salad
Ingredients:
- smoked sausage - 200 g
- Korean carrots - 200 g
- cucumber - 1 piece
- canned corn - 1 can
- hard cheese - 150 g
- mayonnaise - to taste
Preparation:
Cut the sausage and cucumber into strips, mix with Korean-style carrots, after removing excess liquid from it. Grate cheese on a fine grater, corn (without liquid). Mix all the ingredients together, season with mayonnaise to taste.
Caesar salad
Ingredients:
- Parmesan cheese - 150 g
- chicken breast - 1 pc
- romaine lettuce - 1 bunch
- wheat croutons - to taste
- egg - 3 pieces
- lemon juice - 10 g
- olive oil - 40 g
- Worcester sauce - 10 g
- garlic - to taste
Preparation:
To prepare the sauce, you need to lower the eggs for 1 minute in boiling water, then remove and cool. Then beat them with vegetable oil, lemon juice, Worcestershire sauce and garlic. Cut the chicken breast into flat slices, grill or bake in the oven. Grate the cheese on a fine grater. Before serving, put the chicken breast on the lettuce leaves, sprinkle with grated cheese and pour over the prepared sauce. Sprinkle the finished dish with croutons on top.
These four salads will help freshen up the jubilee table and will immediately fall into the category of favorites due to their delicious taste and incredible ease of preparation.
