Meat salad is an independent dish for everyday and festive table.

The word salad comes from the French "salato" and means literally "what is salted." Initially, the salads were dishes exclusively with vegetable ingredients. There is an opinion of historians - the first salad was cooked in ancient Rome. Until now, the Roman salad is popular, is prepared from lettuce, greens and onions, dressed with olive oil and served with meat dishes.

Meat salad in the kitchens of the peoples of the world appeared much later, in the XIX
Century. It can be said that the inventor was the French chef Olivier, who first began experimenting with meat and other non-traditional components of salads at that time. Snacks with meat were quickly appreciated by restaurant customers, so a whole stream was discovered in the culinary arts.

Today, meat salad is always present on the festive table, but there are many recipes, simple in cooking, used in the daily diet. Also widely used as ingredients are both by-products and sausages. Meat salad, in the preparation of which poultry or veal is used, is dietary.

The dish can be served along with pasta or porridge. But it should be remembered that delicious meat salads are an independent dish. Therefore, it is not necessary to serve them with cutlets or with shish kebab, otherwise you will not be able to enjoy the taste of the dish. As ingredients meat salads are often used rice, pasta or croutons. They are combined with dried fruits or nuts.

Tasty meat salads are made from chicken fillet, mushrooms in combination with various vegetables. And the fillet, in this case, can be cooked or fried. As a variant of a set of ingredients of such a dish can be cucumbers, tomatoes, green onions and garlic. Mushrooms are fried and cooled before being added to the salad. And as a dressing is used sauce of lemon juice, chili and garlic. All components are cut into pieces of medium size, neatly mixed and dressed with sauce. When served on the table, this dish should be divided into portions of salad leaves.

Meat salad, cooked from three types of meat, can be called a real energy nutritious salad for men. To make it, you need 100 grams of boiled chicken, pork and beef, 100 grams of hard cheese and a couple of tomatoes. For filling, sauce is prepared from a teaspoon of mustard, half a lemon juice and three tablespoons of sunflower oil. Ingredients of the salad should be cut, season with sauce, salt, pepper to taste and mix.

When preparing meat salads, you can experiment by adding various ingredients. After all, the most delicious meat salads are obtained from your favorite vegetables. Very often they are served as a snack at the beginning of the feast. They also combine well with white or red dry wine. Improves the taste and gives juiciness to meat salads fresh apples.

Usually salads are served in wide dishes or salad bowls, and in order to make the salad does not look just a mixed and tucked dish, different decorations are used. The beauty of the dish depends solely on the mastery of the hostess. Often, to give originality uses a different form of cutting ingredients.

Still it is necessary to remember, that the most tasty meat salads are those which are prepared from fresh and qualitative products. To prepare sauces and dressings should be treated with great responsibility, because they depend on the uniqueness and sophistication of the taste of the dish. Dressing salads immediately before serving. It is not recommended to store salads for several days in the fridge, with each hour of storage their taste is lost.