Warm salads: 5 simple recipes
Text: Olga Antonova
Salad may well be a separate dish. - and warm in particular. We chose five ideal recipes for a full breakfast, lunch or dinner, as well as in case you want an unusual addition to the main dish. We have no doubt that these salads will be no less tasty in the cold, but they are unlikely to cool down before they disappear from the table. All recipes are designed for two servings.
With green lentils and potatoes
Ingredients:
Cooking:
Rinse lentils well and cook for 25-30 minutes over medium heat in salted water with thyme and bay leaf. Then drain the water, remove the bay leaf and place the lentils in a warm place.
While the lentils are cooking, boil the potatoes, pour out the water and put them in a warm place.
For the sauce, mix wine vinegar, chopped garlic, onion powder (or a small chopped onion), mustard, olive oil, salt and pepper to taste. Mix well and add finely chopped capers (they can be replaced with olives) and cucumber.
In a large bowl, mix the potatoes, lentils and sauce, chopped into large pieces. Serve the salad, sprinkled with chopped fresh parsley.
With beans and bacon
Ingredients:
Cooking:
Remove the seeds and pulp from the tomatoes and cut them into pieces about 2 cm in size. In a small bowl, mix the honey and wine vinegar.
Fry the bacon in a deep frying pan over medium heat until crisp and spread on paper towels. If you want, leave some fat in the pan, but it will be better to replace it with olive oil. Then pour honey and wine vinegar. Strengthen the fire and stir vigorously until it boils and becomes homogeneous.
Boil the beans in boiling salted water for five minutes, then drain and place in a large bowl to the tomatoes.
Pour hot beans and tomatoes over the hot sauce, add chopped fried bacon, grated cheese and mix well.
With salmon and zucchini
Ingredients:
Cooking:
Without removing the fillet from the skin, make a few shallow notches on it.
Mix coarsely chopped dill and basil with dried peel and juice of half a lemon, season with olive oil, salt and pepper to taste. Grease with salmon fillet mixture and leave for about 20 minutes.
Zucchini, without peeling, cut into oblong slices. Bake until soft on the foil for ten minutes, watered with olive oil and sprinkled with salt and pepper.
Dry the fish fillets with paper towels, bake on a greased grill, skin skin down for about six minutes, then turn over and leave for another five to seven minutes or until the desired degree of readiness of the fish.
Put the fillet on a cutting board, carefully remove the skin and cut the fish into oblong pieces.
Cut cherry tomatoes in half, add chopped green onions and lettuce leaves. Arrange the salad in plates, place the baked slices of zucchini and salmon on top. Salt, pepper, sprinkle with olive oil and balsamic vinegar and serve immediately.
With chicken breast and vegetables
Ingredients:
Cooking:
Cut the chicken fillet into thin strips and fry until tender and light brown crust.
Onion cut into half rings and fry until golden brown.
Cut the eggplant, bell pepper, carrot into strips and fry all the vegetables in turn until cooked.
Stir all ingredients, add salt and pepper to taste.
With wild rice and mushrooms
Cooking:
Boil wild rice in broth until ready - it will take about 50 minutes.
20 minutes before the rice is ready, heat the olive oil and, stirring constantly, fry the finely chopped onions. Then add chopped garlic and after the appearance of the aroma, put the mushrooms into the pan. Fry for 10-15 minutes until the mushrooms are caramelized, then salt and pepper to taste.
While the mushrooms are roasting, chop the asparagus, put it in a single layer on a baking sheet, pour with olive oil, salt, pepper and bake until soft in the oven preheated to 200 ° C for 10-15 minutes.
For the sauce, mix balsamic vinegar, olive oil, mustard, honey, garlic, salt and pepper.
Stir in rice, asparagus, gravy and chopped dill. Put the rice and mushrooms on the lettuce leaves, crumble up the goat cheese and serve immediately.
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