The salads are simple. Salads are simple and tasty. What salads can you make?

Light salad. Light salad - a nutritious salad made from easy-to-digest foods, seasoned with vegetable oil, yogurt, sauce or low-fat dressing.

Food has a direct impact on our well-being. If you want to feel lightness, energy, and cheerfulness, eat healthy, light food that saturates the body with useful substances, but does not exhaust you, leaving only one desire - to lie on the couch. Do you want to eat and feel comfortable and easy? Forget about heavy, multi-ingredient salads dressed with fatty mayonnaise. In fact, mayonnaise only spoils the salad, its benefits and positive effects on health. You will have to make do with healthier dressings - lemon juice, olive oil, high-quality soy sauce, yogurt, low-fat sour cream, etc.

Choose only healthy foods for your salad. Avoid sausages and smoked meats, which are often added to salads today. Only fresh seafood, vegetables, delicate low-fat cheeses, fruits. Don't overdo it with cheese and eggs. Remember that leftover food from the refrigerator is not considered healthy food. All products must be fresh. For the same reason, you don’t need to cook a lot - it’s always better to make and eat a fresh salad than to think that the day before yesterday will also help improve your health. This salad has no vitamins or freshness.

The way the food is processed is also important. If you are preparing a salad from fish, then you do not need to fry it - it is better to stew or boil it. The same goes for chicken if you decide to make a salad with fillet. Vegetables for light salads are taken fresh. Just wash and cut them. Therefore, light salads are quick salads. Healthy food can save time! It's a pity that fast food lovers don't know about this!

We should also talk about salt, which is a provocateur of heart disease, inhibits the removal of fluid from the body and increases appetite. Add salt in a minimal amount - only this salad is light and dietary.

You can enhance the taste of a light salad, which may seem a little bland, with the help of properly selected spices. Good options are cilantro, cinnamon, ginger and, of course, ground black pepper. Spices not only enrich the taste, but also burn fat. The feeling of lightness will increase every day! Many people blame spices for stimulating their appetite. If you feel hungry, just eat a couple of extra spoons of salad, because it has very few calories. Compared to any salad dressed with mayonnaise, a diet salad is a feather!

Salads are simple and tasty - easy. Just look in the refrigerator or rummage through the kitchen shelves, and there will definitely be ingredients from which you can prepare simple and tasty salads that will decorate your table at any time.

However, to prepare simple and tasty salads there are several rules. Vegetables for salads are cut into approximately identical pieces: large (slices, circles) or small (cubes, strips). If you mix large slices of tomatoes with cucumbers cut into small cubes, then the taste of tomatoes will predominate in the salad, and the cucumbers will simply be “lost.” In addition, salads in the same cuts look more neat, natural and appetizing.

Greens are added to the salad last and need to be chopped finely. Or, conversely, tear the leaves with your hands; this primarily applies to leaf salads. As for dressing, in general the rules dictate that you just mix the vegetables, do not add salt or pour oil on them. And when serving, put vinegar, vegetable oil, salt, pepper or specially prepared dressings or sauces on the table so that everyone can season their portion of the salad the way they like.

Salad “Summer Mood”

Ingredients:
1 large bunch of green lettuce leaves,
1 bunch of fresh dill,
½ head of white onion,
2 boiled eggs,
2 tbsp. 15% sour cream,
1 tsp Sahara,
1 tbsp. vinegar,
a mixture of ground peppers (pink and black) - to taste.

Preparation:
Thinly slice the onion into half rings and marinate it. To do this, put it in a separate container and add sugar and a mixture of peppers, pour vinegar and leave for 15 minutes so that the bitterness disappears. Tear the lettuce leaves into a deep dish with your hands. Chop the dill with a knife. Cut the eggs into large slices so that they can be felt in the salad. Add dill, eggs and pickled onions to the lettuce leaves. Season the salad with sour cream and mix lightly so as not to destroy the structure and shape of the products.

Salad with radish, egg and sausage

Ingredients:
100 g radishes,
100 g sausage,
1 fresh cucumber
1 egg,
3 tbsp. vegetable oil,
dill, salt and ground black pepper - to taste.

Preparation:
Before use, soak the radishes in cold water for 15-20 minutes, then wash, cut off the ends and cut into 4 pieces. If the peel has dark spots or damage, cut it off. Cut the sausage and cucumber into cubes. Finely chop the boiled egg. Combine the crushed ingredients, add finely chopped dill, salt, pepper, add oil and stir.

Salad with spicy dressing

Ingredients:
2 tomatoes
1 cucumber
2 onions,
1 bunch of parsley,
green salad leaves.
For refueling:
120 ml vegetable oil,
60 ml lemon juice.
2 tbsp. apple cider vinegar,
2 tsp ground cumin,
salt, black peppercorns - to taste.

Preparation:
Tear the salad with your hands, chop the tomatoes coarsely, cucumber into slices, and onion coarsely chop. Mix vegetable oil, lemon juice, vinegar, cumin. Add salt and ground black pepper in a mortar. Place the vegetables in a salad bowl and pour over the dressing.

Salad "Red Sea"

Ingredients:
2 tomatoes
½ onion,
7-8 pcs. crab sticks,
2-3 hard-boiled eggs,
1-2 cloves of garlic,
mayonnaise, salt, ground black pepper - to taste.

Preparation:
Cut the tomatoes into thin slices, crab sticks into thick slices. Finely chop the onion and chop the garlic cloves. Cut the eggs into small slices. Place tomatoes, garlic, crab sticks and chopped eggs in a deep bowl or salad bowl. Season the salad with mayonnaise, salt and pepper to taste.

Salad "May"

Ingredients:
50 g ham,
50 g fresh champignon mushrooms,
1 can of green peas,
a bunch of green onions,
mayonnaise - to taste.

Preparation:
Cut the champignons into large pieces and fry in vegetable oil for 5 minutes, adding salt first. Cut the ham into small pieces. Finely chop the green onions. After all the ingredients are ready, place the ham mixed with green onions in the first layer on the dish. Spread with mayonnaise. Place canned green peas on the ham and fried champignons on top.

Salad “Spring mood”

Ingredients:
120 g hard salted cheese,
2 apples,
2 carrots,
3 boiled eggs,
½ onion,
greens and mayonnaise - to taste.

Preparation:
Cut the onion into half rings and scald with boiling water, then drain it into a fine sieve or colander until the water has completely drained. Peel the apples and grate them on a fine grater. Place scalded onions in the salad bowl as the first layer and distribute evenly over the bottom. Also grate the eggs on a fine grater and mix them with mayonnaise in a separate container and place them in a second layer. Grate fresh carrots on a fine grater and spread in a third layer. Add a small amount of mayonnaise on top of the carrots. Now grate the hard salty cheese on a fine grater and add a little more mayonnaise. When all layers of salad are laid out in a salad bowl, garnish with finely chopped herbs, based on your taste preferences.

Cauliflower salad

Ingredients:
1 head of cauliflower,
2 fresh cucumbers,
200 g cheese,
½ cup natural yogurt,
chopped green onions, dill, salt - to taste.

Preparation:
Separate the cabbage into inflorescences and boil in salted boiling water or steam. Cut the cucumbers and cheese into cubes. To make the dressing, stir together yogurt, chopped dill and salt. Pour the prepared dressing over the salad and refrigerate for 1 hour, stirring occasionally. Sprinkle with green onions before serving.

Sorrel salad

Ingredients:
1 bunch of sorrel,
½ head of cabbage,
300 g of any smoked meat,
salt - to taste,
mayonnaise.

Preparation:
Wash the sorrel, dry and chop. Finely chop the cabbage. Cut the smoked meat into cubes. Combine the ingredients, add salt, season with mayonnaise, mix well and serve immediately after cooking.

Salad “Fudge”

Ingredients:
1 stack boiled beans,
200 g seaweed in vinegar-oil sauce,
2 medium apples,
1 stack boiled rice,
2 boiled eggs,
100 g hard cheese,
1 clove of garlic,
mayonnaise.

Preparation:
Peel the eggs and grate on a coarse grater or finely chop. Drain excess liquid from seaweed. Peel the apples and grate them on a coarse grater. Grate the hard cheese on a medium grater. Pass the garlic through a press and mix with mayonnaise. Place in a deep salad bowl in layers, brushing with mayonnaise and garlic to taste: beans - eggs - seaweed - rice - apples - cheese. Let the salad sit for a while to soak the layers.

Gustavsky salad

Ingredients:
100 g ham (can be replaced with boiled meat),
100 g hard cheese,
1 yellow bell pepper,
1 cucumber
1 clove of garlic,
greens, mayonnaise or sour cream - to taste.

Preparation:
Cut the ham or meat into strips, not very finely. Cut hard cheese in the same way; you can also grate it on a coarse grater. Peel the cucumber if it is thick or bitter, and cut it into slices. Peel the sweet peppers and cut them into strips the same size as the ham and cheese. Cut the garlic into strips too. Mix all ingredients in a salad bowl, season with mayonnaise or sour cream and garnish with parsley or any other herbs.

Salad with sausage cheese, carrots and garlic

Ingredients:
300 g sausage cheese,
1 carrot,
4 cloves of garlic,
mayonnaise - to taste.

Preparation:
Before cooking, lightly freeze the cheese, it will then be easier to grate. Grate the cheese on a coarse grater and place in a salad bowl. Wash the raw carrots, peel them, grate them on the same grater and also put them in a salad bowl. Pass the garlic through a press or grate it on a fine grater and add to the rest of the products. Season the salad with mayonnaise, taking into account the fact that the softer the cheese, the less mayonnaise will be needed for dressing. Stir the salad and add salt if necessary.

Salad "Emerald" from processed cheese and eggs

Ingredients:
1 processed cheese,
2 cloves of garlic,
2 boiled eggs,
lettuce leaves,
1 fresh cucumber
mayonnaise (fat content can be any, you can also use homemade mayonnaise).

Preparation:
Cut the fresh cucumber into rings. Freeze the processed cheese and grate it on a fine grater. Squeeze the garlic through the garlic press into the grated cheese. Grate the eggs on a fine grater, then add them to the cheese mixture. Season the finished salad with mayonnaise and mix. Wash lettuce leaves (it is better to use small leaves) under running water. Place 1 tsp on each lettuce leaf. lettuce, while slightly picking up the lettuce leaf. Place the sliced ​​cucumber in a circle on a plate. Place salad leaves with filling in the center of the plate. You can show your imagination and put, for example, an olive, red currant on each cucumber slice, or just put some ketchup drops.

Salad "Lady"

Ingredients:
1 pickled or fresh cucumber,
1 boiled chicken breast,
1 can of green peas,
mayonnaise - to taste,
dill - for decoration.

Preparation:
Grate the pickled cucumber on a coarse grater. You can also use fresh cucumber, then the smell of the salad will be simply magnificent. Drain the brine from the jar of peas, place the peas in a salad bowl or on a plate. Place chopped chicken breast on top of the peas and coat generously with mayonnaise. Place grated cucumber on top. Garnish the finished salad with dill sprigs.

Chicken salad with mustard dressing

Ingredients:
400 g chicken fillet,
5 medium cucumbers,
5-6 leaves of fresh lettuce,
100 g mustard with grains,
5 tbsp. lemon juice,
3 tbsp. vegetable oil,
salt, pepper - to taste.

Preparation:
Boil the chicken fillet, cool and cut into small pieces. Peel the cucumbers and cut into cubes. Chop or tear the lettuce leaves with your hands. For dressing, mix mustard with lemon juice and oil, beat with a small whisk or just a fork. Combine all the ingredients in a bowl, add salt and pepper, pour over the dressing and mix well.

Vegetable salad with new potatoes, cucumber and herbs

Ingredients:
3 potatoes,
1 cucumber
1 stack natural yogurt,
50 g mayonnaise,
1 tbsp. apple cider vinegar,
greens, salt, ground black pepper - to taste.

Preparation:
Wash the new potatoes, cover with cold water, add salt and cook until tender. Grate the cucumber on a fine grater. Finely chop the parsley and dill, cut the green onions into small rings. Mix mayonnaise and yogurt, add cucumber along with juice, salt and pepper, then add vinegar and mix everything well. Peel the potatoes, cut into slices, place in a salad bowl, pour over the dressing and sprinkle with green onions.

Salad “Italian Paradise”

Ingredients:
300 g cabbage,
1 sweet pepper,
2 apples,
200 g hard cheese,
2 cloves of garlic,
2 tbsp. ketchup,
mayonnaise,
pitted olives.

Preparation:
Finely chop the fresh cabbage, remember with your hands, and drain off the excess juice. Grate the cheese on a coarse grater. Peel the pepper from seeds and cut into cubes. Core the apples and cut them into cubes. Cut the olives into small circles. For the sauce, mix mayonnaise with ketchup, add garlic passed through a press. Place the prepared ingredients in a salad bowl, mix and pour over the prepared sauce.

Salad with smoked sausage

Ingredients:
500 g white cabbage,
1 carrot,
1 apple,
200 g smoked sausage,
250 g mayonnaise,
parsley,
salt - to taste.

Preparation:
Finely chop the cabbage and lightly rub with salt. Grate the carrots and apple on a coarse grater, cut the smoked sausage into small cubes. Combine all ingredients, mix and season with mayonnaise, place in a salad bowl and garnish with parsley.

“Dachny” salad with green onions

Ingredients:
5-7 potatoes,
200-300 g boiled sausage,
2 cucumbers,
1 bunch of green onions,
parsley, dill, basil, mayonnaise or sour cream, salt - to taste.

Preparation:
Peel the boiled potatoes in their jackets and cut them into small cubes. Also cut the sausage and peeled cucumbers into cubes. Finely chop the green onions and herbs. Using a portion pan, layer the sliced ​​ingredients: first the sausage, then the cucumbers and potatoes. Repeat the layers, not forgetting to salt them. Coat each layer with mayonnaise or sour cream, as you like. Next, remove the portion form and sprinkle green onions and herbs on top of the salad.

Salads are simple and tasty, good for both the everyday menu and the holiday table. Add our salads to your collection of recipes and share yours!

Larisa Shuftaykina

1. NEPTUNE SALAD

Ingredients:
-shrimp-300 gr
-squid-300 gr
- crab sticks-200 gr
-5 eggs
-130 gr. red caviar
-mayonnaise

Preparation:
1. Boil the eggs, cool, separate the white from the yolk, chop the white. The yolk can be left for decoration.
2. Cook the shrimp in lightly salted water.
3. Then throw the squid into boiling water, having previously cut it into rings. The most important thing is not to overcook them, otherwise they will turn out rubbery!
4. Cut crab sticks.
5. Now add a couple of tablespoons of mayonnaise, mix, and only then add red caviar (so as not to burst).
6. Salt and pepper to taste, but I recommend adding salt after mixing everything, because... caviar and mayonnaise can provide enough salt.

2. CAESAR SALAD WITH CHICKEN.

Ingredients:
½ small baguette - maybe yesterday's
3 tbsp. olive oil
2 chicken breasts
1 large head of lettuce
a little parmesan, finely shaved with a vegetable peeler or finely grated.

For refueling:
2 cloves garlic
2 large chicken yolks
1 tbsp. Dijon mustard
2 tbsp. lemon juice
3 tbsp. olive oil
salt and ground pepper to taste

Preparation:
1. Cut the baguette into cubes with a side of 1.5 cm. Pour 2 tbsp onto a baking sheet. olive oil, add the baguette pieces and mix until the oil covers all the cubes. Place the baking sheet in an oven preheated to 200 degrees and bake for about 8-10 minutes.
2. Fry the chicken fillet.
3. Prepare the dressing. Three garlic on a very fine grater. Place in a bowl, add yolks, mustard, lemon juice. Salt and pepper, mix well. Continuously whisking, pour in 3 tbsp in a thin stream. olive oil.
4. Mix all the ingredients and pour over the dressing.

3. HOME-STYLE OLIVIER SALAD

Ingredients:
Potatoes - 4 pcs.
Carrots - 2 pcs.
Pickled cucumber - 3 pcs.
Egg - 4-5 pcs.
Doctor's sausage or milk sausage - 400 g

Canned green peas - 1 jar (350 ml)
Onions - 2 pcs.
Mayonnaise - 150-200 g

Preparation:
1. Cut boiled and peeled carrots, potatoes, raw onions, cucumbers, and sausage into small cubes.
2. Boil the eggs hard for 8-9 minutes. Cut finely.
3. Add peas.
4. Season the salad with mayonnaise and add a little salt if necessary.

4. "ALENKA" SALAD

Ingredients:
750 g champignons
400 g crab sticks
5 hard-boiled eggs
4 fresh cucumbers
mayonnaise
parsley
1-2 pcs. onions

Preparation:
1. Fry mushrooms with onions. Cut the cucumbers into cubes. Crab sticks - into strips and eggs - into cubes
2. Mix everything, add salt and parsley
3. Season with mayonnaise

5. HEARTY SALAD WITH CHICKEN AND CHEESE

Ingredients:
. Tomato 2-3 pcs.
. Chicken breast 500g.
. Hard cheese 150 gr.
. Red beans - one can.
. Green salad.
. Crackers.
. For dressing, you can use light mayonnaise or sour cream.

Preparation:
1. Finely chop the tomato and lettuce. Three cheese on a grater.

2. Cut the chicken breast into small pieces and simmer over low heat for about 20 minutes until all the liquid has boiled away, you can lightly fry it.

3. Mix all the chopped and prepared ingredients, season with mayonnaise (sour cream). Serve the salad sprinkled with croutons on top.

6. CAKE SALAD

Ingredients:
a little more than half a glass of rice (boil)
200 g crab sticks (finely chopped)
1 b. canned corn
5 eggs (finely chopped)
1 onion (finely chopped)
mayonnaise

Preparation:
1. Set aside some corn for decoration. And the roses are made from tomato skins
2. First layer - 1/3 of rice (or less), mayonnaise. We crush each layer well and compact it with a spoon!
3. Then half the eggs, mayonnaise
4. Half crab sticks, mayonnaise
5. Whole corn, mayonnaise
6. Then another 1/3 of rice, mayonnaise
7. Remaining crab sticks, mayonnaise. Whole onions, mayonnaise
8. Remaining eggs, mayonnaise
9. Remaining rice. We place a dish on top on which our salad will lie. And we turn it over. Carefully remove the cup. The more tightly we pressed the layers, the more stable the salad cake will be.
10. Decorate with corn, “roses” and greens

7. MIMOSA SALAD

Ingredients:
canned fish (saury) - 1 pc.
bulbs - 2 pcs.
hard cheese - 150 g
boiled potatoes, small size - 2 pcs.
mayonnaise
hard-boiled eggs - 5 pcs.

Preparation:
1. After you have boiled, cooled and peeled the eggs, take a fine grater and grate the whites, then take a deep and beautiful plate with a flat bottom and lay out these whites as the first layer.
2. 2nd layer - grated cheese, also on a fine grater.
3. Lay out the next layer of half a can of canned food, which we carefully knead with a fork before doing this.
4. It's time for mayonnaise - let's grease our layers well with it. Now we come to the bow. We cut it and then scald it so that it doesn’t taste bitter.
5. And place the 4th layer evenly on the mayonnaise.
6. 5th layer. We arm ourselves with already cooled potatoes and three on a fine grater. Now we put it on top of the onion
7. The 6th layer consists of the remaining fish, which we also first knead well with a fork.

Mayonnaise.
1. Now it's time for the slightly forgotten yolks. We will decorate our salad with them, grated on a fine grater and herbs.
2. Let the salad brew for 2 hours in a cool place.

8. ITALIAN SALAD WITH CHEESE AND PASTA

Ingredients:
Edam cheese 200 g
Ham 200 g
Sweet yellow pepper 1 pc.
Red tomatoes 100 g
Tagliatelle 200 g
Parsley 5 g
Dill 5 g
Fresh green basil 5 g
Pitted olives 30 g
Mayonnaise 80 g

Preparation
1. Cut the raw ham into strips. Add sliced ​​tomatoes and bell peppers
2. Boil the pasta and mix with the already prepared slices.
3. Season with mayonnaise, place in a salad bowl, garnish with herbs and olives.

9. SALAD "MUSHROOM GLADE"

Ingredients:
mushrooms - 1 jar
green onions and dill
cooked meat
Korean carrots - 200 g
hard cheese - 200 g
boiled potatoes - 3 pcs.
pickled cucumbers - 3 pcs.
mayonnaise

Preparation:
1. The main thing is to use suitable utensils... probably a regular medium saucepan will work best. Place mushrooms caps down
2. Finely chopped greens on top of mushrooms
3. Then boiled potatoes (finely chopped).
4. Compact and grease with mayonnaise
5. Then cucumbers, mayonnaise
6. Meat, mayonnaise
7. Carrots, mayonnaise, cheese
8. Then turn the pan onto a dish, and here is our handsome man!

Bon appetit!!!

Their tastes are unique and varied. There are salad recipes that need to be eaten immediately or can be preserved for the winter. Their composition can include many ingredients: all kinds of meat (pork, lamb, beef), poultry (chicken, turkey, goose or duck), seafood (squid, mussels, shrimp), any fish, all types of vegetables, mushrooms, eggs, fruits , nuts, berries and much more. Dressing is an essential component of salads.

The five most commonly used ingredients in recipes are:

It can be mayonnaise, sour cream, vegetable oil, soy sauce, natural yogurt, lemon juice, etc. There are a lot of options. Depending on the preferences of the cook and those whom you plan to feed, you can prepare salty and sweet, spicy and sour, meat and vegetarian, high-calorie and dietary, traditional or puff pastries. Not a single holiday feast is complete without this dish, but for everyday meals, a light and delicate salad is an excellent choice. Today there are thousands of variations for preparing salads. You can pamper your household every day and surprise your loved ones with unusual, hearty and savory dishes.