Have you decided to surprise your friends with delicious dishes? Prepare a salad using an unusual combination of ingredients. In the culinary craft, you shouldn't be afraid to experiment. Prepare dishes not only with new recipes, but also add finishing touches to classic salads. An unusual composition of ingredients, original solutions and discoveries await those people who love variety on the table.
Chicken salads
Recipe number 1
Make a chicken salad that has a twist - not just one, but a whole glass! You will need the following ingredients to make this hearty snack:
- 250 grams of chicken meat;
- 250 grams of light raisins;
- 250 grams of walnuts;
- medium-sized onion;
- 1 carrot;
- 1 orange;
- 1 tbsp Sahara;
- 2 tbsp apple cider vinegar;
- salt;
- mayonnaise.
Peel the onion and cut into half rings. So that it does not taste bitter, marinate it for 20 minutes. To do this, prepare a marinade with vinegar, salt and sugar. Rinse nuts and raisins under cold running water, dry with napkins. Soak the raisins in hot water for 5 minutes.
Grate the carrots. Divide the peeled orange into wedges, remove the foil and cut into cubes. Chop the nuts finely with a knife or chop in a blender, but not until powdered. Cook the chicken, then chop it.
The salad must be laid out in layers, smearing each with mayonnaise (except for the last). In a deep container, first put the chicken meat, then the onions and raisins. Cover the top layer with carrots and nuts. Place the oranges at the end. The dish must be placed in the refrigerator for soaking. You can decorate the salad with raisins, nuts.
Recipe number 2
For a fancy, low-calorie salad, use chicken breast. It will take you very little time to prepare this dish. For 4 servings of salad, you will need the following ingredients:
- 200 grams of boiled chicken breast;
- 2 eggs;
- orange;
- Apple;
- a small bunch of grapes;
- 3 tbsp lemon juice;
- 100 grams of low-fat yogurt;
- salt;
- pepper.
Cut the boiled chicken into large pieces. Boil the eggs, remove the shell and chop finely. Rinse the fruit thoroughly, remove the skin from the apple, cut into cubes and sprinkle with lemon juice to prevent the fruit from darkening. Remove the seeds from the grapes, cut the berries in half. Peel the oranges, remove the films, cut into cubes. Combine the above ingredients, pour over yogurt. Season the salad with salt and pepper.
Squid salads
Recipe number 1
Snacks made from squid are very nutritious and healthy, because this invertebrate animal consists mainly of protein. Also, meat contains taurine, which helps to lower blood cholesterol. This meat can be used to prepare both cold and hot salads. For example, you can make a cold squid and tangerine salad. To do this, you will need:
- 250 grams of squid
- 100 grams of corn
- 3 tangerines
- 1 tbsp apple cider vinegar
- 1 bell pepper
- vegetable oil
- pepper
- salt.
Dip the squid in boiling salted water for 5 minutes. After the time has passed, drain the water, cool and cut into strips. Remove seeds from pepper, cut into strips. Remove the peels, partitions from the tangerine and cut into cubes.
Refuel. To do this, combine vinegar, oil, salt and pepper. Layer the salad. First, place the tangerines at the bottom of a deep container, put squid and corn on top. The final layer should be bell pepper. Pour the dressing over the dish, place in a warm place for 30 minutes to soak.
Recipe number 2
If you want to surprise your guests with a warm squid salad, prepare the following foods:
- 500 grams of squid;
- Cherry tomatoes;
- black olives;
- lemon juice;
- lettuce leaves;
- olive oil.
Rinse the lettuce leaves under cold running water, then cut them. Cut the tomatoes in half. Fry the olives lightly and add the chopped tomatoes to the pan. After 30 seconds, remove the pan with the contents from the heat. Boil the squid in boiling salted water, then cut into rings.
Place squid slices on lettuce leaves, top with a mixture of tomatoes and olives, add a few drops of lemon juice, a little olive oil, pepper. Stir the ingredients before serving.
