Vegetable salads are great for your health. There are a huge number of options for vegetable salads. Vegetables always look appetizing and beautiful, so a vegetable salad can be a real decoration for both everyday and festive tables. Shopska salad is one of the national dishes of Bulgaria. It is prepared very simply, and a minimum amount of ingredients is required for its preparation.
It is necessary
2 medium red peppers, 2 medium tomatoes, 2 medium cucumbers, 1 small onion, cheese (feta cheese can be used), salt to taste
Instructions
Step 1
Before talking about the recipe for making "Shopsky salad", you should pay a little attention to the history of the appearance of this dish and some of the peculiarities of its preparation. The homeland of this salad is Bulgaria, and the dish got its name thanks to the "shops" - the people living in the Sofia region. At the moment, Shopska salad is the most common dish that can be seen on the menu of almost every restaurant or cafe in Bulgaria.
Step 2
There are several options for making a Shopska salad. Vegetables are used fresh, stewed, or even lightly fried. However, the traditional recipe is a salad made exclusively from fresh vegetables and feta cheese.
Step 3
Separately prepare the ingredients for the salad - rinse the vegetables well, cut into large cubes, and grate the feta cheese on a coarse grater. All products should be laid out in strict sequence - tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, onions, cut into rings, the top layer is feta cheese. This sequence was not chosen by chance - as a result of such a combination of vegetables and cheese, a real national dish is obtained - the colors of the ingredients coincide with the colors of the flag of Bulgaria.
Step 4
As a result of numerous changes and the use of additional ingredients, new recipes for Shopska salad have appeared. Many housewives use olives, olives, herbs as additional products; olive or vegetable oil is added as salad dressing.
