"Tsarskiy" salad with red caviar and squid: expensive, tasty and beautiful

Like any dish, this salad has many different incarnations. The only thing that unites them is the considerable price of its components. Probably, that's why the salad is called "King's" (as an option - "Royal", which, in principle, the same thing). However, on the day of a significant event, you can afford to prepare a salad "Tsar" - with red caviar and squid at least. Although the truly "imperial" version contains much more expensive components.

"Royal" salad with squid

One of the most budgetary options includes marine animals in canned form. In such a salad "Tsarsky" with red caviar and squid, four potatoes should be cooked on the jar of the latter - you can have in a uniform - and six chicken eggs. Of the latter, only proteins will go into the salad, you will have to come up with another use for the yolks. Potatoes are peeled off the skin, eggs - from the shell. The preparatory work is finished, the construction begins. First, squid from one jar, crocheted and cut - with rings or straws are displayed on the dish. The layer is smeared with mayonnaise, on which the proteins are laid - and again smeared. Two potatoes are rubbed on top - again mayonnaise, further rubs cheese - and again mayonnaise. The layers are repeated one more time, the slide is sprinkled with red caviar and after being infused for an hour is fed to the table.

You can say the imperial version

First, for him, all oceanic ingredients are taken in a non-canned form. Secondly - no chicken eggs, only quail! And thirdly, this luxurious salad "King's" with red caviar, and shrimp, and squid does not provide for "common" components like potatoes.

First, marine animals are prepared. A third of a kilo of shrimp for about three minutes is cooked and after cooling it is cleaned. Half a kilo of squid washed, briefly (for four minutes) drops into boiling water, poured cold water and released from the films. One and a half dozen quail eggs are steeply cooked, cleansed and cut in half. Cancer necks (grams 200) are cooked, and if they were in a shell - cleaned; In case of application of canned - are filtered. Squids and cervical slices are mixed, mixed with eggs and shrimps, flavored with mayonnaise and laid out on salad leaves. A spoonful of red caviar is placed on top of each serving - and indeed the salad "Tsarsky" (photo presented just above) is served to guests.

Free additions

In the previous recipe is described, so to speak, the basis, that is, those components, which can not be dispensed with. However, of course, the salad "King's" with caviar has different variations of cooking. So, sometimes lettuce is replaced with leaves of Peking cabbage; Quail eggs are rubbed by many; Components can not mix, but add up in layers, as in the first recipe. Plus gourmets add to the salad "King's" with red caviar and squid, additional ingredients: fresh cucumber, cut into strips, or cubes of tomatoes.

Sea version

If you are a fan of seafood, you can prepare a salad "Tsar" with red caviar and squid, adding to it not only prawns, but also small slices of red slightly salted fish. The main component will still be squid - they will require a kilogram. They are quickly cooked, cleaned and cut with strips. Also, the proteins of five chicken eggs are crumbled. A 250 gram packet of crab sticks is diced; A third of a kilo of shrimp are cooked (if they are raw) or simply scalded (if frozen) and cleaned. The same number of trout fillets or salmon is cut into cubes. Unlike other recipes, red caviar is not for decoration here - half of a 100-gram jar is added directly to the salad, it is dressed with mayonnaise and mixed. On the table it is put in transparent kremankah, decorated with rings of olives and dill.

Seafood and vegetables

And we will notice: vegetables at all do not reduce cost of a dish as in salad "Tsar" with a red caviar and squids there is at all a potato with a carrot. First, vegetables are processed: 2 Bulgarian peppers of different colors are cut with straw, and the chili pod is cut as small as possible. A small turnip (try to find it, it is very necessary in this dish) is shredded with almost transparent circles. A bowl of lean oil, a spoonful of honey, juice of a half of lemon, its peel, muscat, pepper and salt are joined in the bowl. For 10 pieces of large shrimp, scallops and mussels - all unclean - bake in the oven for about a quarter of an hour; Medium size squid is boiled and cut into rings. In a wide salad bowl, a mixture of sliced iceberg salad, arugula, watercress (a total of half a kilo), turnips and slices of freshly cut cucumber is placed. Vegetables are poured into the dressing, sprinkled with toasted sesame seeds and mixed. After 10 minutes of standing on top, seafood is located - right in shells and shells - squid rings and red caviar. The composition is sprinkled with chopped dill and placed at the most honorable place.

Warm "Royal" salad

To create it, you have to tinker with the test a little. You can buy ready-made and bake baskets from it. Only then the salad "Tsarsky" with red caviar and shrimps, and squid is prepared . The recipe includes also spicy vegetables - onions, ginger, celery. A small piece of butter melts, a grated ginger (centimeter 3), 2 spoonfuls of honey, pepper and salt are put in it. Stirring, wait a couple of minutes and pour the rings of one onion. Become transparent - add rings of four squid and a pound of peeled shrimp. Stew without lid and very short. When the fire is extinguished, pour two grated melted cheese cakes, mix them quickly and immediately spread them over warm baskets. Sprinkle with dry or fresh herbs, and as you put on the table - spread on each half-spoonful of red caviar. Such tartlets are very tasty - and they are convenient!