Salad cooking is a whole art. After all, these dishes are used very widely: both as an appetizer, and as an addition to the main course, and as a filling for tartlets and sandwiches. Salads usually open a festive feast, setting the tone for the whole celebration. And they take an honorable place in everyday nutrition. And so to know how to properly prepare a delicious salad, should every housewife. Here are 10 useful tips that will help in this.
- In salads can be used almost all food in the most bizarre combinations. The main rule - the products simply have to be combined to taste.
- For each salad there is a refueling. An inappropriate dressing can spoil a successfully made "set" of products. Carrying out an experiment with an unknown dressing, it is recommended to first lay aside some of the lettuce, try out the possible options, and then fill with the best sauce.
- All sorts of salads( and for green it's generally the rule) are salted before serving. Salads from spicy greens and soft vegetables can not be salted, they need to be filled with plenty of pepper and lemon juice. If salt, greens instantly lose its own flavor and juice, fade. To give the salad a festive look is better figuredly carved vegetables, which are already present in the salad.
- When making a salad, pay attention to the fact that it is different in composition from the main dishes that you intend to serve, and combined with them to taste. So, a tomato salad with herbs is never served before soup-mashed potatoes. A salad of different types of cabbage should not be served with borscht.
- Salads, which you plan to serve with main dishes, you must cook from raw vegetables, in order to refresh the taste of main dishes and cause hunger, but not saturate.
- Salads from sweet fruits( like apples or cherries) and spicy spices are suitable for all favorite meat dishes( pilaf, toasted chicken, chops, goulash, cutlets).
- Salads from tender boiled vegetables and spicy dressings( for example, from horseradish or pepper, to taste it is possible to add olives) are perfect for fish dishes.
- Salads may include cereals( usually rice only), nuts, cheeses, cottage cheese, boiled meat. Also boiled, canned and smoked fish, various seafood, pasta.
- Instead of vinegar in salads it is better to use lemon juice, and for salads, in the recipe which includes beet - cranberry.
- If your family members have very different tastes, you can serve salad without seasonings, and separately to it - different sauces. Then anyone will have the opportunity to fill the salad to his own taste.
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