Salad "Caprice"

The word "whim" literally means a whim, a spontaneous desire or some kind of eccentricity, caused by a personal fantasy. Salad, which carries such a name, does not have a clear recipe, like, for example, herring under a fur coat or Greek salad. It all depends on the whim and preferences of who cooks this dish. Everyone can create a mix of favorite foods in the most preferable combination, but necessarily with his unique "zest".

Let's try to prepare our own salad "Caprice". But first look at other options, perhaps someone's whim will coincide with your own.

Salad "Caprice" - the first option

The caprice in this recipe will be rolls of thinly sliced ham, put into rings of onions (only the inner smallest bulb rings are used).

Salad "Caprice" is good to serve every guest on a separate plate. At the bottom of the plate, put a few leaves of a green salad and pour them with lemon juice. Then - sliced fresh cucumbers, cherry tomatoes, quarters of boiled eggs, rolls of ham in onion rings, olives and thin slices of Cheddar cheese. Solim, pepper ground pepper and pour olive oil.

Your guests will appreciate your whim!

Salad "Caprice" - a variant of the second

Put salad leaves on a dish . Then cut into a long straw and mix the following ingredients:

• chicken meat (200 g);

• ham (200 g);

• boiled tongue (200 g);

• boiled mushrooms (300 g), cut into quarters.

Make a dressing from a mixture of vegetable oil (50 g), vinegar (20 g), mustard (30 g), salt to taste. Place on a dish and pour salad dressing.

A good alternative to this dish can be a salad "Mix" - an original mixture of delicious ingredients. Grate one raw carrot and one apple on a grater. Cut medium-sized slices of beef (200 g), veal (200 g), two fresh cucumbers, lightly salted herring (about 100 g), three boiled potatoes, pickled mushrooms (a couple of spoons). Mix all the products, add salt, sugar and pepper ground (all to taste). Put into a salad bowl, pour mayonnaise, without stirring, and sprinkle with herbs and decorate with lemon slices.

"Snake" salad

This dish just does not leave anyone indifferent. Registration takes time and effort, but it's worth it.

How to prepare a salad base?

• Mash with a fork with cans (saury, pink salmon).

• Potatoes boiled in a uniform (3 pcs.), And two eggs grate and mix with fish.

• Fused cheese curds (3 pcs.) Grate, add to the previous mixture.

• To squeeze into the salad a chive of garlic, passed through the press, a little salt and season with mayonnaise (mayonnaise should not be too much, so that the salad does not lose shape).

Salad mass from the crushed products, dressed with mayonnaise, is laid out on a large flat dish in the form of a curled snake. The tail is tapering towards the end, and the head of the snake should be slightly thickened.

The snake looks very impressive among the greenery - parsley, green onion, salad leaves, dill and basil. This greens should fill all the free space on the dish - then the snake will look in contrast.

A snake can curl up with a ring, but it looks better form "zigzag".

Now you can do a direct dressing of the salad. To simulate the scales, very thin, almost transparent circles of canned cucumbers are often used. Choose cucumbers with a smaller diameter, so that the scales lie denser. But before you start laying individual cucumber mugs, decorate the back of the snake along the ridge with a strip of yellow corn, or with circles of chopped black olives (well, if they are stuffed with red pepper - it will be even more elegant), or both. Sometimes instead of cucumbers use canned peas, densely stacking it and slightly utaplivaya in a salad.

For the head, leave some corn kernels and a few olives. Halves of olives are suitable for peepholes, and corn make a frame. From a green onion or from a slice of boiled carrots it is possible to make a forked tongue of a snake.

Bon Appetit.