The combination of tomatoes and cucumbers is one of the favorites for many Russians when it comes to making salad. But this combination is the most banal and far from festive. However, when adding sauce with honey and orange juice, even a simple and familiar salad will sparkle with new colors.
Ingredients for making vegetable salad:
- 1 long smooth cucumber;
- 2-3 ripe tomatoes;
- 1 sour green apple;
- a handful of peeled walnuts;
- salt and herbs to taste.
Ingredients for making sweet and sour sauce:
- 1, 5-2 teaspoons of liquid honey;
- 1-2 tablespoons of oil (olive or sunflower);
- 2-3 slices of orange or tangerine.
Cooking vegetable salad with sweet and sour sauce
1. Wash vegetables and fruits, peel the apple and orange.
2. Cut the tomatoes and cucumber into cubes or wedges and pour into a salad bowl.
3. Cut the apple into 4 pieces, core and cut into small cubes.
4. Salt chopped vegetables and apples to taste and add fresh chopped herbs if desired.
5. Then you should prepare a sweet and sour sauce for dressing. You need to mix honey and vegetable oil (if honey is too thick, it needs to be heated to a liquid state). Then squeeze the juice from the orange or tangerine slices into the sauce, mix the sauce well.
6. Pour the sauce into a salad bowl, mix the whole salad well.
7. Cut the walnuts into small pieces and sprinkle them over the prepared salad. Or chopped walnuts can be mixed with the sauce and poured over the salad with this original dressing.
