Salad cake - the general principles of cooking
Salad cake got its name due to external similarity with the cake, and each layer of the ingredient or through a single greased dressing, like cakes cream. Salad cakes are not a dietary treat, but rather substantial and high-calorie.
There is a great variety of salad making in the form of a cake, their constituent ingredients are so diverse that meat, sausages and seafood, canned food and biscuits, fresh and boiled vegetables together with fruits and dried fruits can be combined in one dish.
Salad cakes combines the following:
- first, the form and ingredients laid out in layers;
- secondly, salads are seasoned with high-calorie dressings, mayonnaise, sour cream, and yogurt.
Salad cake - preparing food and dishes
Fresh vegetables, vegetables boiled in the peel, boiled sea food, fried or canned mushrooms, boiled or fried meat are put in the salad cake.
As for the dishes, you will need standard equipment (knives, cutting board, vegetable cutters, etc.) and beautiful, flat dishes for serving.
Salad cake recipes:
Recipe 1: Salad Cake
As a rule, salad cake, rarely seen at lunch on a weekday. This fact is explained by the fact that expensive ingredients (seafood, overseas fruits, caviar and other delicacies) are selected for the salad, besides, cooking is a laborious process. This salad is an exception a minimum of time and availability of ingredients. The taste of the salad is tender, juicy.
Ingredients Required:
- eggs - 5 pieces;
- crab meat - packaging;
- fleshy tomato - 2 pieces (large);
- cheese - 200 grams.
- dressing: mayonnaise.
Cooking method:
- The form of slicing tomatoes - small pieces of any shape.
- The form of cutting crab sticks - cubes small.
- Boiled hard-boiled eggs, divided into two parts: the yolk, white. The cheese and each part of the egg is rubbed on a grater, the size of the nozzle is optional.
Ingredients are laid out in a salad bowl with balls:
- 1 ball - tomatoes;
- 2 ball - crab meat;
- 3 ball - protein;
- 4 ball - yolks;
- 5 ball - cheese.
Each ball is coated with mayonnaise. Enjoy your meal!
Recipe 2: Salad-cake "Dream"
Who does not like to eat? This is a lethargic question, but to combine white meat chicken, seafood, fruits, dried fruits and nuts in one salad, could only pouredanny cook and gourmet in one person. The taste of the salad is bright, rich and unforgettable.
Ingredients Required:
- chicken fillet - 150 grams;
- shrimp (small) - 100 grams;
- one medium sized orange;
- eggs - 1 piece;
- prunes - 7-10 pieces;
- walnut kernels (crushed) - 4 tablespoons.
- dressing: yogurt savory.
Cooking method:
- Fry the walnut kernels without fat and chop them.
- Boiled chicken fillet to pick at the fiber.
- Prunes (pre-soaked) cut into small pieces.
- Orange, peeled, white fibers, coarse films cut into slices. Selected juice when cutting fruit must be preserved.
- Boiled shrimps are cleaned according to standard recipes.
- Boiled eggs are crushed.
Ingredients are laid out in the form of cake balls in this order:
- 1 ball - chicken;
- 2 bowl - prunes;
- 3 ball - orange;
- 4 ball - shrimp;
- a layer of yogurt;
- 5 ball - eggs are sprinkled with orange juice;
- a layer of yogurt and nuts.
Enjoy your meal!
Recipe 3: Salad-cake "Round"
This salad is literally round, that is, the ingredients are not crushed (except cheese and ham), but take the form of thin rings. This is the highlight of bacon.
Ingredients Required:
- ham - 120 grams;
- tomato - 250 grams;
- radish - 5-10 pieces;
- eggs - 3 pieces;
- onion - 0.5 pieces;
- cucumber - 150 grams;
- green onion feather - 100 grams;
- cheese - 150 grams;
- lettuce leaves - for pillows;
Refueling:
- unsweetened yogurt - 150 grams;
- mayonnaise - 100 grams;
- pepper, parsley, salt.
Cooking method:
- Washed and dried vegetables (cucumber, radish, tomato) is cut into a vegetable cutter with thin rings.
- The ham slicing form - large cubes.
- The shape of the cutting eggs - circles.
- Onion slicing form - thin rings, green feather - finely chopped.
- Cheese rubs on a grater.
- Preparation of dressing: combine yogurt, chopped parsley, mayonnaise, pepper, if you need salt.
The ingredients are laid out balls:
- 1 bowl - lettuce leaves;
- 2 bowl - cucumbers;
- refueling;
- 3 ball - bow;
- 4 bowl - tomatoes;
- 5 ball - green feather;
- refueling;
- 6 ball - ham;
- refueling;
- 7 ball - eggs;
- 8 ball - radish;
- refueling;
- 9 ball - cheese.
Enjoy your meal!
Recipe 4: Salad-cake with ham and vegetables
A rich color and flavor range, nutritious, delicate, harmoniously exquisite taste - all these epithets are addressed to the salad cake, prepared according to the recipe suggested below.
Ingredients Required:
- ham - 300 grams;
- eggs - 4 pieces;
- cucumber - 2 pieces;
- cheese - 150 grams;
- potatoes - 3 pieces;
- chicken fillet - 300 grams;
- tomatoes - 3 pieces
- pepper, salt.
- dressing: savory yogurt.
Cooking method:
- The form of slicing ham and boiled chicken - straws.
- Cucumber slicing form - straws.
- Eggs, cheese, boiled potatoes are rubbed on a grater.
- Tomatoes are peeled and diced.
The ingredients are laid out on the dish with balls in the form of a cake:
- 1 bowl - potatoes (lightly salt and pepper);
- 2 bowl - ham;
- 3 bowl - cucumber;
- 4 ball - eggs;
- 5 ball - chicken (lightly salt and pepper);
- 6 bowl - tomatoes;
- 7 ball - cheese.
Each ball is coated with yogurt. Enjoy your meal!
Recipe 5: Salad cake with canned fish and cracker
This salad, decorated in the form of a cake, is not expensive and quickly prepared, so a dish can be a frequent treat in your family without a special reason, provided that you like canned fish.
Ingredients Required:
- canned tuna - can;
- cheese - 100 grams;
- crackers are not sweet - 2 packs;
- 4 eggs;
- feather onions.
- dressing: mayonnaise.
Cooking method:
- Boiled hard-boiled eggs, divided into two parts: the yolk, white. The cheese and each part of the egg is rubbed on a grater, the size of the nozzle is optional.
- Fish without brine chokes with a mortar.
- Onion feather is crushed.
The ingredients are laid out on the dish with balls in the form of a cake:
- 1 ball - crackers;
- 2 ball - protein;
- 3 ball - crackers;
- 4 ball - tuna with onions;
- 5 ball - crackers;
- 6 ball - cheese;
- 7 ball - crackers;
- 8 ball - yolks.
Each ball is coated with mayonnaise. Molded salad is soaked for an hour at room temperature and 2 hours in the refrigerator. Enjoy your meal!
Salad cake - secrets and useful tips from the best chefs
Salads decorated in the form of a cake look spectacular and appetizing on the table. How to achieve a properly round shape for vegetable and meat salads?
Cooks have discovered three secrets of how to make the salad look like a cake:
1 way: to use a removable ring, with a diameter of 24 centimeters, from a form for roasting;
2 way: miniature, portioned salads-cakes look no less impressive. The shape is achieved by using plastic rings (diameter - 10, height - 9 centimeters), cut from a plastic bottle;
3 way: in a deep bowl, covered with cling film, stacked layers. After the salad was soaked and sealed in the fridge. The bowl turns over, and the salad with the film remains on the dish. Using this method, you need to remember that the layers are laid out in reverse order, as the bowl will turn over.
