Brynza salads - general principles and methods of preparation
A well-cooked feta cheese itself is a complete snack. And how many wonderful salads you can cook with cheese are simply impossible to count. Brynza is cheese made from sheep or goat milk, or maybe from a mixture.
This cheese is not cooked, it is obvious that most vitamins and beneficial elements are preserved in their natural form. The fact that it contains less fat than other cheeses also plays in her favor. Therefore, it is so popular with losing weight girls who are following a figure or trying to lose weight.
Protein, which is part of feta cheese, is a great alternative to animal proteins, so it is useful for those who for some reason refused to eat meat. In many countries, this is just a popular snack, for example, in Bulgaria it is baked with hot pepper or sandwiches. According to some scholars, the peoples of the Caucasus owe their longevity to some extent to this goat or sheep’s cheese, so feta cheese is a real source of youth.
Brynza salads - product preparation
When choosing a feta cheese, pay attention to the elasticity and the snow-white or milky color, a lot of holes, from which liquid drips during the cut - this is a quality product. Of course, taste it, too salty cheese can be harmful to hypertensive patients.
Salted feta cheese can be scalded with boiling water and soaked in fresh water. How to store feta cheese? Put the cheese left over from the preparation into a jar or plastic container and fill it with "native" brine. It can be stored in the refrigerator for several weeks. Wrapped in foil or parchment, it can remain fresh for no more than a few days.
Recipe 1: Choriatiki Chicken Salad
It is the Greeks who came up with such a beautiful name for the classic salad - Khoratiki. A surprise awaits you in this recipe: 4 servings of salad for dinner and sandwiches with pita for breakfast. Let's make a salad according to this recipe, without cutting or replacing anything.
Ingredients: Brynza (200 g), cucumber, tomatoes (2 pcs), red onion, bell pepper, black olives, olive oil, ground pepper and a lot of fresh herbs (parsley, dill, cilantro, basil).
Cooking method
We cut cucumbers, tomatoes, onions and peppers into semicircles and diced cheese. Slice the olives, put everything in a bowl and mix. Marinade: olives sauce (50 gr), mix olive oil and ground pepper with grated herbs, pour over the salad. Fill all our semicircles and squares with marinade and mix again, serve. Leave the remaining salad in the refrigerator. For breakfast, put it in a sliced pita - we get a sandwich with pita. In the Middle East they like to have breakfast like this - such a wonderful morning NUTRITION with feta cheese.
Recipe 2: Salad with Cheese and Bread
You were not mistaken, indeed we will prepare a salad from stale bread. Across the Mediterranean, they simply love this vegetable salad with herbs, feta cheese, olive oil and matchless sour brown bread.
Ingredients: one loaf of dried black bread, tomatoes (3 pcs). feta cheese (200 grams), onions (2-3 pcs), parsley, olives, cucumber, wine vinegar, lemon juice, olive oil.
We select the bread that has become well hardened, which has lain for at least a day, cut off all the humps and cut it into cubes, dry it in the microwave or oven. Put in a bowl and sprinkle with wine vinegar.
We cut the cucumber, tomato and feta cheese into cubes, cut half the greens and mix what happened. Sauce - greens crushed with salt, squeeze the juice half a lemon, pass the garlic through the garlic, add a little dry mint. Place the crackers in a large bowl, add the remaining ingredients and mix. The variegated salad will look great on a white plain dish, you can decorate it in different ways, for example, arrange thin tomato rings in a circle.
Recipe 3: Sea salad with feta cheese and shrimp.
It has long been known to everyone that everything ideal is simple, this salad is illustrated especially clearly. The whole problem is boil the shrimp. For seafood specialists - no problem if you are new to this business - remember one rule: we lower the shrimp into boiling water. Atlantic (not large) shrimp is enough for 1.5 - 2 minutes, royal for 2.5 - 3 minutes. Do not digest, "rubber" we do not need!
Ingredients: shrimp (300 gr), sweet pepper (1 pc), feta cheese (200 gr), vegetable oil (2 tbsp.), half a lemon, lettuce, salt, pepper.
Cooking method
Boil and clean the shrimp, cut the feta cheese into cubes, cut the pepper into large squares. On a dish we spread lettuce, the components on top, pour with vegetable oil and lemon juice.
Recipe 4: Green Chicken Salad with Arugula
Everything is also simple here, as, indeed, in any salad with feta cheese. Cherry is desirable, but our relatives from the garden are also perfect. As for the arugula, the plant that is now fashionable is sold on the market, but if you couldn’t buy it, take more other herbs, for example, add cilantro.
Ingredients: lettuce, arugula, feta cheese, tomatoes, soy sauce, aromatic soft vinegar, olive oil.
Cooking method
Cut lettuce and greens, tear the arugula with your hands. We cut the tomatoes and insert thinly sliced triangles of feta cheese, spread them on the greens and pour the dressing: soy sauce, vegetable oil, lemon juice and a drop of vinegar.
Brynza salads - useful tips from experienced chefs
Brynza is combined with many ingredients: vegetables, olives, bread crumbs and seafood. In order to make the salad festive and more vibrant, we suggest adding a “twist” to it: stuff olives with red caviar. If you place a few pieces of bright orange eggs inside black olives, you get an original addition to salads. Next to the snow-white feta cheese, a bright stuffed olive tree will “light” the mood. A trifle, but how nice.
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