So I want to prepare for the holiday something new and unusual. But sometimes, we are just afraid to experiment! And what if it does not work out? We bring to your attention a very unusual, festive and beautiful salad, which is called "Cleopatra". It will not only cause admiration for everyone, but will also become your specialty. Let's look at several recipes for its preparation, and you choose the one you like!
"Cleopatra" salad with chicken
Ingredients:
- chicken fillet - 500 g;
- pickled cucumbers - 200 g;
- black bread - 300 g;
- olive oil - 2 tbsp. spoons;
- mayonnaise - 5 tbsp. spoons;
- red canned beans - 200 g;
- salt - to taste.
Preparation
Chicken fillet boil in salted boiling water until ready. Then cool and cut into thin slices. Pickled cucumbers in cubes. Beans are thrown on a sieve to get rid of excess liquid. Black bread is cut into strips and fried lightly in olive oil until a rustic crust. Mix all the ingredients in the salad bowl: chicken, beans, pickles, season mayonnaise and mix well. We spread the bread crumbs from the top and serve them on the table.
If you want to make the salad a little more tender, then just replace the mayonnaise with sour cream, and then it will turn out to be more light and juicy.
"Cleopatra" salad with crab sticks
Ingredients:
- crab sticks - 200 g;
- black olives without pits - 200 g;
- canned pineapple - 200 g;
- canned champignons - 150 g;
- onion - 1 pc .;
- vinegar - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
- mayonnaise - 4 tbsp. spoons.
Preparation
Onion is cleaned, cut into thin rings and poured with vinegar. Leave for 20 minutes to marinate. Crab sticks are thawed, and cut into thin strips. From olives drain the liquid, cut into rings. Pineapple and champignons shall be ground in small cubes. Mix all the ingredients in a salad bowl, add onions. Salad "Cleopatra" with pineapple salt to taste, pepper and fill with mayonnaise.
"Cleopatra" salad with salmon - recipe
Ingredients:
- Peking cabbage - 100 g;
- salmon - 100 g;
- pickled prawns - 20 pieces;
- frozen or fresh peas - 30 g;
- fresh tomato - 1 pc .;
- fresh cucumber - 1 piece;
- sesame seeds - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
- liquid honey - 1 teaspoon;
- soy sauce - 2 tbsp. spoons;
- lemon juice - to taste.
Preparation
We take the cabbage from Beijing, clean it thoroughly, we clean it and shred it in large slices. We remove the salmon from the bones and cuticles and cut into small cubes. Marinated shrimp in a salad we put whole. Peas slightly boil, cool and then add to the salad. Tomato and cucumbers are cut at will.
Let's not stir the salad strongly. Now we are preparing the gas station. To do this, mix the liquid honey with soy sauce, add lightly fried sesame seeds and let it brew for 10 minutes. Pour our salad marinade and do not mix.
"Cleopatra" salad with tongue
Ingredients:
- Beef tongue - 1 piece;
- fresh cucumber - 2 pcs .;
- royal prawns - 100 g;
- eggs - 2 pieces;
- salt - to taste;
- mayonnaise - for refueling.
Preparation
The tongue is boiled in slightly salted water. We let it cool and then we remove the rough rough cuticle, after which we cut it with thin straws. Cucumber washing, clean and crush cubes. Shrimp boil, cool and clean. Eggs, too, boil hard, cool, clean from the shell and three on a large grater. Lay out the salad layers in the following sequence: first the tongue, then the cucumber, the shrimp and the top of the egg. Each layer is blotted with mayonnaise and slightly salted.
Let's leave the salad for a while in the fridge so that it is properly soaked.