Orange salads are popular in Southern Europe: Italy, Greece, Spain. And since this southern fruit is perfectly combined with ingredients of both animal (chicken or veal liver, fatty smoked fish, baked pork) and vegetable origin, there are simply a great many salad recipes.
How to peel an orange
Before you start preparing salads, the overseas fruit must be peeled off. Professional chefs do it this way: the orange's bottom is cut off on both sides, the fruit is placed on a cutting board and the skin is peeled off with a very sharp knife. In this case, you need to make sure that as little pulp is cut as possible. Then the white layer is cut off to the end, it is called albedo. Cuts are made along each membrane, the cut segments are carefully removed.
Orange salad
To prepare this simple salad, you will need 3 oranges, 15 pieces of capers, 1 head of red onion, 20 olives, 20 olives, 1 tablespoon of olive oil, red pepper, and of course, the same salt.
- We peel the oranges, but do not cut them into slices, just cut them into slices, the thickness of which is about half of the slices. (Why waste time).
- Salt the chopped oranges, cut the onions in half rings and add to the salad, send the olives and olives, capers, chopped in half, there. We fill everything with pepper. At the end, season with olive oil.
If this is your first time making this salad, you may be experiencing excitement or uncertainty. Defeat them and you will enjoy a dish that is served in Spain as a side dish for meat.
Crab sticks and oranges salad
In addition to two oranges, this salad will need 200 g of crab sticks, a can of canned corn, 3 eggs, 1 clove of garlic, mayonnaise for dressing.
- Here, too, everything is very simple: boil the eggs, cool, peel and cut.
- Finely chop the crab sticks, add the corn.
- Cut the oranges into slices, trying, if possible, not to turn them into porridge. Mix everything, add garlic squeezed through a press, season with mayonnaise.
Red orange salad
This salad uses 2 large handfuls of olives. They will be more juicy and fleshy with a bone. The berries are freed from it very easily - we just crush the olives with a jar, and the seeds leave them themselves.
We will also need 2 yellow and 3 red oranges, watercress or arugula, honey - 1 tsp, salt, pepper, olive oil.
- After the olives are pitted, they need to be chopped very finely (you can do this with a blender)
- The oranges are peeled and cut into slices, we do not pour out the juice that flowed out of them, but collect it in a bowl.
- We tear the salad with our hands and cover the bottom of the plate with it, put orange circles on top, on them - finely chopped olives.
- Mix orange juice with honey and olive oil, salt, pepper, pour over salad.
This salad can precede dinner, or it can be a side dish that goes with meat or baked chicken.
