It often happens that you need to prepare a hearty and tasty salad that would please the whole family and friends. So why don't you add variety to your menu and please your household with Alexander salad?
We have several recipes for you to choose from. delicious salad. Moreover, this salad is suitable for both meat lovers and lovers of fish and seafood.
Recipe #1
To prepare this salad you will need:
- boiled chicken fillet - 200 g
- purified hazelnuts– 75 g
- grapefruit with pink pulp - 2 pcs.
- light grapes - 200 g
- cherry - 200 g
For sauce:
- 2 tbsp. tablespoons of wine vinegar
- 4 tbsp. tablespoons of vegetable oil
- 1 pinch of salt
- 1 pinch cayenne pepper
- 1 large head of lettuce.
For this dish, use only the inner pale leaves, not from the core. Rinse the leaves, shake off the water well and place on a deep dish in the shape of a vase.
Chop the nuts and fry in a non-stick pan until the flakes begin to separate. Transfer to a clean kitchen towel and rub until all the scales have come off. After that, rub the nuts on a coarse grater.
Peel the grapefruits, remove the white layer. Divide the pulp into slices and carefully remove the transparent films, cut each slice into 4 parts.
Wash the grapes, dry with a paper towel, separate the berries from the brush, cut in half and remove the seeds. Wash cherries, remove pits.
Mix vinegar, vegetable oil, salt and cayenne pepper into sauce.
Separate the head lettuce into individual leaves. Mix grapefruits, grapes, cherries, transfer to lettuce leaves and pour over the sauce. Sprinkle with nuts and serve.
Recipe number 2
The following recipe for this salad will appeal to seafood lovers. To prepare it you will need:
- fresh pineapple - 1/2 pc. (120 g pulp and half for serving)
- cocktail shrimp - 50 g
- avocado - 50 g
- fresh salmon fillet - 80 g
- mayonnaise - 35 g
- ketchup - 5 g
- cognac - 1/2 tsp
- lemon - 1 pc.
- pitted olives - 10 pcs.
- soy sauce- 1 tbsp.
- salt and ground black pepper to taste
- dill greens - for decoration
- green onions - for decoration.
Start by cooking the salmon. Take fresh or frozen salmon, cut into small cubes, 3-5 centimeters each, and boil in water with salt. Add soy sauce and lemon to the pot as well. Boil for 5 minutes.
Rinse the pineapple, cut it in half and carefully cut out the pulp from it. Cut the pineapple pulp into cubes, and the scraped half can be used as a salad serving. Rinse the avocado, peel, remove the stone and cut into small cubes.
Now it's time to start cooking the shrimp. Put them in a heated frying pan with vegetable oil and pour over lemon juice. Then cover and fry for three minutes, then turn over and fry on the other side.
Prepare salad dressing by mixing mayonnaise, ketchup, lemon juice, cognac. Let the sauce stand for 10 minutes.
Place the salmon in a salad bowl, then pour over some of the sauce. The next layer is pineapple and avocado, which we also fill with part of the sauce. And finally, put the shrimp on top and pour the sauce. Garnish the salad with olives, chopped rings, and finely chopped dill and onion. The salad should be infused for 15-20 minutes in a cold place and can be served. Bon appetit!
Recipe number 3
The secret of any of the Alexander salads is juiciness and rich taste. Another variation of this salad is a recipe with vegetables and cheese. To prepare it you will need:
- Tomato - 1 pc.
- Fresh cucumber - 1 pc.
- Bulgarian pepper - 1 pc.
- Celery (root) - 100 g
- Seasonal greens - 50 g
- Pine nuts - 100 g
- Natural yogurt - 100 g
- Mustard - 1 tsp
- Apple cider vinegar - 1 tsp
- Cane sugar - 1 tsp
- Cheese hard varieties– 50 g
- Lemon juice - 1 tbsp. l.
- Salt and ground black pepper to taste.
First, prepare the base of the vegetable salad. Wash the tomato and cut into thin slices. Rinse the cucumber and cut lengthwise, and then across, into thin slices. Wash the celery, peel and grate on a coarse grater.
Rinse the pepper, remove seeds and stalk, then cut into 4 parts, and then into thin slices. Wash the greens and finely chop. Mix all ingredients and season with a little salt.
Now is the time to prepare the sauce while the vegetables are juicing. To prepare the sauce, mix yogurt, mustard, Apple vinegar, sugar and lemon juice. Whisk and let the sauce brew for 5-7 minutes. Put the salad in a salad bowl, season with sauce, sprinkle with pine nuts and grated cheese on top.
Recipe number 4
One of simple recipes salad "Alexander". To prepare the recipe you will need:
- tomatoes - 300 g
- canned white beans own juice– 250 g
- crab sticks– 300 g
- smoked sausage - 400 g
- mayonnaise - 200 g
- onion - 100 g
- thyme - 10 g
- parsley - 50 g
- salt and ground black pepper to taste.
Wash the tomatoes and cut into strips - just straws. The taste of the whole dish will depend on this, as the tomatoes will give juice and make the salad taste tender.
Clean the sausage and crab sticks from the film and cut into strips. Then put the sausage, tomatoes, crab sticks in a salad bowl and add the canned white beans. Mix all the ingredients, season with mayonnaise and add dried thyme. Garnish the salad with finely chopped greens and serve.
Recipe number 5
Highly easy recipe salad "Alexander", which you will definitely like. For this recipe you will need:
- champignons - 200 g
- mussels - 200 g
- tomato - 200 g
- mayonnaise - 100 g
- onion - 1 pc.
- lemon juice - 30 g
- seasonal greens - 50 g
- salt and ground black pepper to taste.
Defrost mussels and dip in salted, boiling water. As soon as the water boils again, boil the mussels for another 3 minutes and remove. For the sauce, mix mayonnaise, lemon juice, salt and ground black pepper to taste.
Rinse the mushrooms, cut into strips and salt. Peel the onion and cut into half rings, then mix with mushrooms and sauté for vegetable oil. Wash the tomatoes and cut into strips. Wash the greens and finely chop. Put all the ingredients in a salad bowl in balls, first the mushrooms, then the mussels, and then the tomatoes. Top each ball with sauce. Let the salad brew and garnish with herbs.
Bon appetit!
Recipe number 6
For cooking this recipe you will need:
- meat (veal or lean pork) - 400 g
- fried potatoes– 200 g
- white cabbage, fresh - 200 g
- Bulgarian pepper - 2 pcs.
- fresh cucumber - 2 pcs.
- carrots in Korean - 150 g
- onion - 2 pcs.
- mayonnaise - 200 g
- vegetable oil - 100 g
- garlic - 4 small cloves
- salt and ground black pepper to taste.
Start with meat. Rinse the meat (veal or lean pork) and cut into strips 4-5 centimeters thick. Put the meat in a preheated pan with vegetable oil, add a little water and simmer for 20 minutes.
To prepare the sauce, mix mayonnaise, finely chopped garlic, salt and black pepper.
While the meat is stewing, it's time to work on potatoes. Peel the potatoes, cut into strips and cover with water for 10-15 minutes. Peel the onion and cut into half rings. Drain the water and fry the potatoes in vegetable oil with the addition of onions. Cool down.
Wash the cabbage, finely chop and salt. Wash the pepper, remove the seeds and stalk, then cut into thin strips. Wash the cucumber and cut into small, thin slices. Mix all the vegetables, add the stew, fried potatoes, Korean carrots and season with sauce.
Let the salad brew and enjoy the taste!
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Introducing simple recipes for holiday salads. A friend treated me to one such salad, he impressed me very much, and with some changes I repeated this miracle of cooking in my kitchen. A very unusual taste and an amazing combination of ingredients will leave an indelible impression on you, the readers of Very Tasty. Prepare a salad "Festive" even on a weekday, and it will become a real holiday!
Ingredients:
- chicken fillet - 1 piece;
- kiwi - 1 piece;
- eggs - 4 pieces;
- apple - 1 piece;
- cheese - 180 grams;
- Korean carrot - 80 grams;
- mayonnaise - 1 pack;
Salad "Festive". Recipe step by step:
- Fillet, boil an egg.
- Separate the yolks from the whites and grate into separate plates.
- Mince the meat.
- Finely chop the kiwi.
- Grate apple and cheese.
- If you have a long carrot, then you need to cut it as well so that it does not stretch when you take the salad.
- Lay the lettuce in layers on a platter. Lubricate each layer with mayonnaise.
- Chicken, then kiwi, then egg whites, grated apple, then cheese, after it Korean-style carrots and the last layer of shabby yolks and mayonnaise on top.
Spicy but at the same time tender salad amaze with its taste and give pleasure to you and your guests!
We bring you another recipe. festive salad called Sasha. An easy recipe that kids and adults will love.
Festive salad "Sasha". Ingredients:
- Ham - 400 gr.
- Tomatoes - 350 gr.
- Green onions - 50 gr.
- Canned corn - 425 ml. (1 bank)
- Canned pineapples - 580 ml. (1 bank)
- Mayonnaise - 350 gr.
- Dill for decoration
Festive salad "Sasha". Recipe step by step:
- We cut the ham into strips, it can be replaced with smoked chicken breast
- Cut the pineapples into small pieces, first drain the juice from the jar.
- Finely chopped green onion
- Tomatoes (cherry) cut into strips.
- We collect the salad in layers: the first layer is ham, level the layer, grease with mayonnaise.
- Further green onions, then canned pineapple and grease with mayonnaise
- Further: canned corn and cover with mayonnaise
- The last layer is tomatoes.
- Decorate the salad with dill strings. Let it brew for half an hour and the salad is ready!
