If you do not eat meat or just like vegetables and want to cook something unusual and delicious of them, the recipes of vegetable cake, just for you. This dish combines a variety of vegetables to your taste, and it is prepared without any problems. Vegetable cake is perfect not only for a family dinner, but for a festive table, as the prepared dish turns out to be very beautiful and appetizing.
Vegetable cake - recipe
So, we will tell you how to prepare a vegetable cake from a standard set of products, which is used most often. But do not be afraid to experiment and add or replace some ingredients at your discretion.
Ingredients:
- potatoes - 150 g;
- carrots - 150 g;
- fresh cucumbers - 150 g;
- eggs - 3 pieces;
- mayonnaise - 400 g;
- cheese hard - 100 g;
- gelatin - 3 teaspoons;
- water 130 ml;
- salt pepper;
- Fresh greens.
Preparation
Boil the eggs, carrots and potatoes. Then grate them, as well as cheese and cucumbers, on a grater. Gelatin fill with water and stir until it is completely dissolved, and then mix with mayonnaise. Now take the form and start spreading your cake. First layer - potatoes, salt, pepper and grease with mayonnaise with gelatin. The next layer - carrots, too, pour a mixture of gelatin and mayonnaise. The third layer - eggs, they should be salted, peppered and also greased with mayonnaise. The last layer - cucumbers, add salt, pepper, pour mayonnaise with gelatin and sprinkle with cheese. Now put the finished cake in the refrigerator for three hours, and when you get it - decorate with greens and treat your friends.
Salad «Vegetable cake»
One of the options for cooking a vegetable cake is a salad with the same name. Its main difference from the real cake is the lack of gelatin and a more unusual combination of ingredients.
Ingredients:
- Large beet - 1 pc .;
- 1 large carrot;
- potatoes - 2-3 pieces;
- cucumber salted - 3-4 pieces;
- apples - 3-4 pieces;
- eggs - 5-6 pieces;
- prunes and dried apricots - 1-2 glasses;
- greenery.
Preparation
First, boil vegetables and eggs, and dried apricots with prunes soak in water. Now all vegetables and apples grate, with cucumber necessarily wring out the liquid. In eggs, separate the proteins from the yolks and also grate. Dried apricots and prunes. Now proceed to laying out the salad. The first layer - beets, then carrots, potatoes, cucumbers, apples, squirrels and the last layer - prunes and dried apricots. Now you need to pour the lettuce with mayonnaise on top and send it to the refrigerator for 12 hours so that it soaks.
Before you put the salad on the table, grease the top layer again with mayonnaise, sprinkle with grated yolk and decorate with greens.