Chinese cabbage appeared in Europe in the XVIII century, and she comes, as you might guess from the name, from China. Now it is abundantly available on our shelves throughout the year and managed to catch the fancy of many. Firstly, for their taste qualities. Secondly, for the amazing property - cabbage goes perfectly with almost all vegetables, and meat, seafood and other additives. Salad of Chinese cabbage, tomatoes, cucumbers, onions and herbs can be done in any season, "pekinka" readily available and inexpensive.
However, this does not end with its advantages. By number of vitamins and minerals "pekinka" not only is not inferior cabbage and lettuce, but in many respects ahead of them. For example, vitamin C, it contains twice as much as the conventional cabbage, moreover, it contains vitamins A, group B, PP, E, P, K, U, essential amino acids and organic acids.
The popularity of Chinese cabbage is also due to the fact that she was in the store almost loses its beneficial qualities and is an excellent source of vitamins and minerals in the autumn and winter, especially when there is a shortage of fresh greens.
Ingredients Chinese cabbage makes it indispensable in the diet, because in addition to the culinary virtues it has healing properties. Dishes using "pekinki" included in the diet of patients suffering from cardiovascular diseases and diseases of stomach, in particular, when ulcers. It strengthens the immune system and prolongs life. Studies have shown that the presence of amino acids such as lysine, cleanses the blood. By the way, a significant number of centenarians in Japan and China, linked to the fact that in the diet of local residents cabbage is used constantly.
And now a few basic recipes that are designed to give a boost to your imagination.
Cabbage salad with tomatoes
Ingredients:
200 grams of Chinese cabbage
2 tomatoes
bunch green onions
2-3 tablespoons vegetable oil
salt, sugar, pepper, lemon juice - to taste
parsley and dill
Cooking method:
Vegetables Wash and dry. Finely chop the cabbage, tomatoes, onions and green chop. Fold the prepared vegetables in a salad bowl.
Vegetable oil mixed with salt, sugar, pepper and lemon juice. Drizzle salad dressing prepared.
Note:
Many are cut off the lower part of Chinese cabbage leaves. It is not necessary to do, they are very crisp, juicy salad and give a special piquancy and flavor.
Chinese cabbage salad with tomatoes and peppers
Ingredients:
300 grams of Chinese cabbage
1 tomato
3 small bell peppers (red, yellow, green)
juicy onion
3 tablespoons vegetable oil
teaspoon sweet mustard
teaspoon of spicy chili sauce
salt, pepper, sugar, lemon juice - to taste
greenery
Cooking method:
Vegetables Wash and dry. Vegetable oil mixed with mustard, chili sauce, add salt, sugar, pepper, lemon juice and lightly beaten - it's salad dressing.
Shred cabbage, pepper, cut into thin slices, onion - half rings. Put in a salad bowl and mix. Drizzle with dressing. Garnish with tomatoes, cut into slices and greens. Cabbage salad with tomato and pepper ready.
Improvise! Chinese cabbage very "grateful" vegetable, it blends in well with a variety of ingredients.
Bon Appetit!
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Salad "Vitaminka"
Warm salad with broccoli and cauliflower with cheese sauce
Cabbage - vegetable in Russia is very popular. But her relatives about such as cauliflower and broccoli, much less is known. Meanwhile, it's just a storehouse of nutrients and vitamins. Each type of their dignity, and when you combine them together, cook, for example, a salad of cauliflower and broccoli, you can double the useful qualities, and even triple.
What gives us a cauliflower? First, proteins and useful organic acids and vitamins - A, B and C. It is indispensable in the diet, particularly in diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, and finally, it just very tasty, and in any form. Cauliflower can cook, soar, fry, bake, and it allows you to make our menu more diverse.
I must say that the cauliflower is much more frequently used in food than broccoli, which appeared on our shelves recently. And he knows about it a little wider audience. We will introduce you to this wonderful vegetable and persuaded to include broccoli in a permanent diet. Believe it deserves.
What is broccoli? You'd be surprised, but there are about 90% water (a little less than a cucumber), everything else - it's fiber, protein, vitamins, minerals. And now attention: 100 grams of cabbage contains 150% RDA of vitamins B and C. Impressive? Sure. As the mineral composition, it also affects the manifold phosphorus, selenium, potassium, calcium, zinc, iron and magnesium. And at the same delicious sweet taste, somewhat reminiscent of asparagus.
Broccoli like cauliflower, is good in all forms. But if our goal is not just to cook a tasty meal, but also to preserve the nutrients that are so richly endowed with these vegetables, the best option is a salad of raw cabbage. However, variations are also possible.
Salad "Vitaminka"
Ingredients:
1 small head cauliflower
1 small head of broccoli
2 garlic cloves
150 grams of yogurt
teaspoon sweet mustard
teaspoon of spicy chili sauce
salt to taste
dill
Cooking method:
Cauliflower and broccoli, wash, dry and disassembled into small florets. All the other ingredients are mixed, add the chopped garlic. Vegetables folded into a salad bowl, pour over the prepared sauce and place in refrigerator for 2-3 hours, until they lightly marinated. Before serving, decorate with dill.
Note.
Salad is better not to add salt as mustard and chili sauce give the desired taste. If you do not like the taste of raw cabbage, it can be steamed (not more than 3-4 minutes), cool and pour over the dressing. In this case, the salad can immediately serve.
Warm salad with broccoli and cauliflower with cheese sauce
Ingredients:
250 grams of cauliflower
250 grams of broccoli
1 carrot
150 grams of cheese (to choose from - a solid, melting mold)
2 tablespoons breadcrumbs
1 tablespoon butter
50 ml of vegetable broth
salt, pepper, nutmeg
a few stalks of green onions
Cooking method:
Vegetables Wash and dry. Cabbage parse it into florets, carrots cut into cubes. Cook for a couple.
In a frying pan to dissolve the butter and fry the breadcrumbs, add the grated cheese. Cook, stirring constantly, until cheese is completely melted. Season with salt and pepper, add the nutmeg, and gradually pour in vegetable broth to the sauce has acquired the desired consistency.
Lower cooked vegetables into the sauce and warm all together for 2 minutes. Before serving, sprinkle with chopped green onions.
The recipes that we offer you can become a base for further experiments. Cauliflower and broccoli "friends" not only among themselves but also with a variety of other vegetables, such as spinach, green beans, with mushrooms. By combining them, you can create new salad - interesting in taste and extremely helpful.
Bon Appetit!
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Salad with tomatoes and ham with cheese
Tomato salad and ham with rice
Ham salad with tomatoes and mushrooms
Salad with tomatoes, ham and cabbage
Salad with tomatoes and ham with pineapple
Salad with tomatoes, ham and green peas
Salad with tomatoes and cheese
Layered vegetable salad with ham
The height of the vegetable season inspires us to culinary experiments. And experimenting, we, of course, with seasonal vegetables. In the summer of fresh cucumbers and tomatoes are the basis of almost all salads. But you always want to somehow diversify any menu, and summer - is no exception. Therefore, we begin to seek out or invent recipes for vegetable salads, add to tomatoes and cucumbers the cheese, the meat, the sausage, the eggs. And let's try to make a salad with ham and tomatoes: fresh and satisfying at the same time. Here are some recipes from the diversity of these salads.
Salad with tomatoes and ham with cheese
Such a ham salad with tomatoes will turn out very hearty. Therefore, it is possible to prepare dinner as the main (and perhaps only) dishes.
Ingredients:
Cooked smoked ham - 500 g;
Cheese - 300 g;
Fresh tomatoes -5 pcs .;
Garlic - 3 cloves;
Baton - 4 pieces;
Vegetable oil;
Mayonnaise and salt (to taste).
Preparation:
The usual loaf of sliced (can be stale) we shall cut small cubes or cubes. Red-hot oil in a frying pan and fry the bread on it. Ready toast Throw in a colander and let drain excess oil. Tomatoes swill and we shall cut into cubes, too. Seldom strips or cubes ham and cheese grate. Crush garlic (you can on a grater, can be chesnokodavke, but you can just knife). We put all the ingredients in a salad bowl, add salt to taste, add mayonnaise and mix. File a chilled salad.
Tomato salad and ham with rice
Salad is also quite hearty obtained by rice and eggs. A combination of cheese with tomato or pepper has long been considered to be a classic.
Ingredients:
Fresh tomatoes - 4 pcs .;
Ham - 400 g .;
Sweet bell peppers - 2 pcs .;
Figure - 6 tablespoons. spoons;
Cheese (hard) - 2000;
Eggs - 6 pcs .;
Garlic - 2 cloves;
Mayonnaise (to taste).
Preparation:
Put the washed rice in salted cold water and boil. Welded hard-boiled eggs, cool them, peel and can cut into cubes. Will wash the tomatoes and peppers and peppers also remove seeds and partitions. Vegetables, cheese and ham we shall cut cubes and add to the salad bowl. Wash out in cold water, boiled rice and let it dry. Add the rice, eggs, crushed garlic and mayonnaise in a salad bowl and mix well.
Note:
If you are preparing the salad in advance, mayonnaise in a place just before serve. Otherwise, drain the juice from the tomatoes.
Ham salad with tomatoes and mushrooms
It's more of a festive version of the salad, because it required a lot of preparation time.
Ingredients:
Tomatoes - 3 pcs .;
Ham - 200 g .;
Fresh mushrooms - packaging;
Eggs - 3 pcs .;
Onions - 1 head;
Mayonnaise and salt - to taste;
Vegetable oil for frying.
Preparation:
Mushrooms mine, were dried and finely chopped, onion shinkuem. Fried mushrooms with onion (about ten minutes) in a vegetable oil. Fried recline in a colander to glass excess oil. Boiled eggs are cooled Grate. Cut the ham into cubes and washed tomatoes. All the ingredients are mixed, salt and dressed with our salad with mayonnaise.
Note:
To lettuce has not turned too liquid, with a very juicy sliced tomatoes drain the excess juice.
Salad with tomatoes, ham and cabbage
A very unusual combination of cabbage and ham. But it turns out the salad really tasty.
Ingredients:
Tomatoes - 3 pcs .;
Ham - 200 g;
Salted or pickled cucumber - 1 pc .;
Chinese cabbage - 500 g;
Eggs - 3 pcs .;
Dill and salt - to taste.
For the filling:
Vegetable oil - 6 tablespoons. spoons;
Lemon juice - 3 tablespoons. spoon.
Preparation:
Boiled eggs are hard boiled shall cut strips. Cole Freed from the upper leaves, wash out and dry. Then, finely grind it nashinkuem and salt until the juice. Cucumbers and we shall cut thin ham cubes, tomatoes - slices. Mix all ingredients and season with a sauce of vegetable oil mixed with lemon juice. Lettuce decorate dill.
Note:
This salad is equally well may be prepared of red or white cabbage.
Salad with tomatoes and ham with pineapple
The taste of this salad with ham and tomatoes turns out very tender. But most importantly - fast cooking salad: all the ingredients are ready and do not need to pre-boil or fry.
Ingredients:
3 tomatoes;
300 grams of ham;
Bank of canned pineapple;
Mayonnaise.
Preparation:
My tomatoes, pineapple syrup take out and give to drain the syrup. Tomatoes cut into cubes with pineapple and ham - straws. Puts layers of lettuce: ham, tomatoes, pineapple. The first two layers of grease with mayonnaise.
Salad with tomatoes, ham and green peas
Another option lettuce "in haste." Even taking into account the time it will take to decoction eggs, its preparation will not take you more than twenty minutes.
Ingredients:
Ham - 200 g;
Fresh tomatoes - 3 pcs .;
Eggs - 3 pcs .;
Green canned peas - 4 tbsp. spoons;
Herbs, salt and mayonnaise - to taste.
Preparation:
My, we were dried and finely chop the greens. Ham cut into thin wedges, washed tomatoes - diced. We put all in a bowl, add green peas and mayonnaise (to taste). Add salt and mix salad. At the bottom of the salad bowl flat spread and sliced boiled egg slices and put the eggs on top of a hill salad.
Salad with tomatoes and cheese
Can salad with tomatoes and ham add cheese and marinated mushrooms. For filling use mayonnaise mixed with sour cream. The result will be not only delicious, but also very original salad.
Ingredients:
Fresh tomatoes - 2 pcs .;
Ham - 200 g;
White cheese - 100 g;
Pickled mushrooms - 200 g;
Sour cream - 1 tbsp. spoon;
Mayonnaise - 2 tbsp. spoon.
Preparation:
Mushrooms take out of the bank, my tomatoes and cut into thin slices. We give to drain the marinade with mushrooms and tomatoes with juice. Ham and cheese cut into cubes (small). We lay out all the ingredients in a salad bowl and add the mayonnaise and sour cream, then stir. Decorate with chopped salad greens.
Layered vegetable salad with ham
Such a ham salad with tomatoes can be prepared for the holiday feast, and in addition to the tomatoes put in a fresh vegetables, such as cucumbers and radishes.
Ingredients:
Ham - 200 g;
Fresh tomatoes - 2 pcs .;
Fresh cucumbers - 2 pcs .;
Close pink radish - 5-6 pcs .;
Green onions - beam;
Onions - 1 pc .;
Lettuce leaf - 4 leaves;
Cheese - 200 g;
Garlic - 2 cloves;
Eggs - 3 pcs .;
Mayonnaise and herbs for refueling.
Preparation:
All vegetables and my obsushivayut, boil, cool and clean the eggs. Cheese and eggs are ground into a coarse grater and cut vegetables: onions and tomatoes - half rings, radishes and cucumbers - rings, green onions - small pieces. Cut the ham into cubes and cook salad dressing. For the filling grind the garlic and mix it with mayonnaise and chopped herbs. We spread layers promazyvaya of prepared sauce:
lettuce;
cucumbers;
bow;
tomatoes;
ham;
eggs;
radishes.
Top decorate the salad with green onions and tomato slices.
As you can see, salad with ham and tomatoes can be cooked in a hurry when unexpected guests descend, and dinner everyday, and at the festive table. Most regrets ingredients for salad tomatoes and ham - cheese or feta cheese, and other fresh vegetables. And as the refueling of salads can be used not only mayonnaise, but the mustard-cream sauce or sour cream mixed with mayonnaise. Try and cook. Enjoy your meal!
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