Often there is not enough time for culinary delights, and sometimes they did not have time to run into the store. For a simple and appetizing dinner, it is quite enough what you can find in the fridge at such moments. Sausage and eggs, onions and cheese, crab sticks and peas, cabbage and greens will do the trick for making a quick salad. You can mix anything that seems more or less compatible.
Meat salad
You will need:
- boiled sausage, 100 g;
- boiled potatoes, 2 pcs.
- onion, 1 pc.
- pickled cucumber, 1 pc.;
- boiled eggs, 2 pcs.;
- apple, 1 pc.;
- sour cream, salt, pepper, mustard to taste.
Grind egg yolk (in a mug, bowl) with spices. Finely chop the sausage, potatoes, egg white. Chop the onion, and peel and grate the apple. Mix everything, season with sour cream.
Any of the ingredients in this salad can have a worthy substitute, and this is the biggest find. Instead of sausage, a sausage, a small sausage, a piece of meat (almost any) will do. The apple is easily replaced with carrots or red peppers, even with a small amount of well-chopped cabbage.
If there is no sour cream, there is no reason to be upset either: for sure a bag of mayonnaise has been "lying around" somewhere or something is splashing in a bottle of vegetable oil. Finally, apple cider vinegar can be added for spice (just a drop) or lemon can be squeezed into this mixture. Greens always come in handy, even if they are just "tops" from the same carrot. Nutritionists assure that there are even more vitamins in the tops of carrots and beets than in the root crops themselves.
Chicken fillet, crab sticks and other bases
Similar to the above mix, you can prepare options for chicken salad or salad with crab sticks. Chicken fillet (say, they planned to cook soup, but slowed down at the stage of boiling chicken, and a guest came or the children were hungry) will quite friendly side by side with pickled cucumber, boiled egg, grated cheese and onions. The apple will also fit into the "matrix", and if by chance a jar of green peas remains from the last home banquet, you will just get a delicacy.
What can you mix crab sticks with? With thinly chopped and slightly crushed cabbage (ours or Peking cabbage), celery, rice, even noodles or other pasta. They cook quickly, and the taste combination is unusual and original.
It's easy to prepare by quickly mixing the listed ingredients (those on hand), adding bell peppers (if available) or fresh cucumber. Season with mayonnaise or vegetable oil, sauce.
Country improvisations
At the dacha, everything is easier, there the source code is not even at hand, but underfoot. Radish, lettuce, rhubarb, green onion, dill, parsley from the garden; a cucumber, a tomato from a greenhouse; sorrel, dandelion leaf, from the adjacent territory - everything will go into business. Doctors even recommend turning woodlice, an annoying weed, into a healing ingredient in a salad; it really contains many useful substances. Plus the same greens of carrots - for vitamin richness and piquant aftertaste.
You can add a little radish, but chop it finely or just grate it. And if peas are sown, and they are already ripe, add them to the "pot". In general, everything here depends on the imagination of the hostess and on the assortment of plants growing on the site.
