Contents:

• The traditional version of Greek salad with feta cheese
• A simplified version of a Greek salad with feta cheese

Year by year, the Greek salad recipe is becoming more familiar to our national cuisine. It is understandable! Easy by vegetables (the main ingredient) and simultaneously satisfying due to its composition of cheese. And what a beautiful! And if you are confused feta cheese, which is not anywhere else to buy, that is the output: you can prepare a Greek salad with feta cheese. By the way, feta cheese - none other than the Greek version familiar to us cheese. This is also a soft cheese made from sheep's or goat's milk, which is stored in brine. So cheese is fine for cooking this delicious overseas analog of our summer vegetable salad with cucumbers and tomatoes.

The traditional version of Greek salad with feta cheese

For a start we present to you an adapted Greek salad recipe. It retains all the traditional Greek salad ingredients except the feta cheese, cheese that we will replace.

Ingredients:

• 4 fresh cucumber;
• 4 fresh tomatoes;
• Pod fleshy sweet pepper;
• The head of red onion;
• 250 g of cheese;
• A bunch of lettuce;
• Bank of black olives, pitted;
• Olive oil;
• Lemon juice;
• Salt and black pepper;
• Oregano and basil.

Preparation:

All vegetables and my obsushivayut, pepper remove seeds and membrane. Vegetables for Greek salad is always cut big! Therefore cucumbers cut lengthwise into two pieces, and then cut into semicircles. Tomatoes cut into large cubes, cheese square slices, lettuce and tear into pieces. Try to keep the size of the pieces of the different vegetables was about the same. Now you need to cut red onion half rings and you can start to collect salad.

We spread the chopped vegetables in a salad bowl and torn lettuce leaves, gently mix and dressed with sauce. For the sauce, mix the olive oil and lemon juice (three to one), add a pinch of dried oregano and basil, black pepper and salt. On top of salad laid coarsely diced feta cheese and olives.

A simplified version of a Greek salad with feta cheese

Simplified recipe also has a right to exist. In addition, the taste of this salad does not change, but the recipe is more like our traditional vegetable salad.

Ingredients:

• Fresh cucumber;
• Fresh tomatoes;
• Fresh bell peppers;
• Onions;
• 150 g of cheese;
• 150 g of black olives;
• Lemon juice;
• Vegetable oil.

Preparation:

All my vegetables thoroughly. With onion peel, pepper take out the seeds and membrane. Then, cucumbers, tomatoes and peppers cut into large cubes, also cut and cheese. Onion cut in half and cut each half into half rings. Olives (pitted!) Take out of the bank. All prepared foods we put in a salad bowl, a little salt, sprinkled with lemon juice and dressed with vegetable oil. That's all - salad is ready.

Note that each recipe for Greek salad implies a certain set of products, and its invariable components - cucumbers, tomatoes, sweet peppers, onions, cheese and olives. Optional, but can be used to call lettuce, capers and anchovies. By the way, for the Greek salad dressing can be done on purpose, but you can do the usual vegetable oil. But traditional feta cheese as you know, can successfully replace cheese. Try! Cook with pleasure and enjoy your meal!

Contents:

• Salad "Lucky"
• Salad "Dubok"
• Salad "Mon Plaisir"
• Salad "hen"
• Salad "Exotic"

The combination of chicken and mushroom has long been considered successful by almost all housewives. However, it came up with a combination, of course, the French (they are all masters in the culinary inventions). And oddly enough, with chicken and mushrooms to cook does not come up with the French salads and hot dishes - julienne. We julienne strangely transformed into a salad with mushrooms and chicken, and he in turn multiplied at an incredible number of recipes. So today know only one recipe for chicken salad and mushroom even somehow ashamed. Therefore we suggest you do not have a recipe, but a few! Choose ...

Salad "Lucky"

The recipe for this salad has no authorship. It was invented, probably by accident, but it turned out to be extremely successful. Simple enough range of products, their unusual combination - and success is guaranteed. Try to prepare this salad recipe and evaluate highly.

Ingredients:

• Chicken breast;
• Packaging fresh mushrooms (400 g);
• 6 eggs;
• Canned pineapple;
• Mayonnaise.

Preparation:

First you need to boil in salted water, breast and all her cool. Tip: to cool white chicken meat, without removing it from the broth, while the meat is juicy. Boil hard boiled eggs you need and also cool. So, while breast and cool eggs, fry the mushrooms. They first need to thoroughly wash, dry and cut into thin slices. The deep roasting pan with hot oil (fried in butter for salads do not!), You can immediately put all the mushrooms and fry until complete evaporation of moisture. Fried mushrooms need to discard in a sieve or colander in to the glass with their oil.

Chilled breast, cut into small pieces, or dismantle the fibers (not essential) and put the first layer of our lettuce. Lightly salt and grease with mayonnaise. The second layer put mushrooms, rammed, salt and smear mayonnaise, too. The third layer - finely chopped eggs, which we also we salt (a little) and abundantly lubricates mayonnaise. Put the salad on top of pineapple, closing of the entire surface. Salad ready! You can take the sample immediately, or you can give the salad to infuse, then it will be even tastier.

Salad "Dubok"

The recipe is a hearty salad with chicken and mushrooms, which at the holiday table can be prepared, and as a main dish for dinner file.

Ingredients:

• Half a kilo of chicken meat;
• Half a kilo of mushrooms;
• 300 g of crude (solid);
• 6 eggs;
• Salt and black pepper;
• Mayonnaise.

Preparation:

Chicken and mushrooms cut into cubes, put in a roasting pan and add a little vegetable oil. Cover the roasting pan with a lid and simmer the chicken with mushrooms for about twenty minutes. At the end of cooking put salt and ground black pepper (to taste). Hard-boiled eggs and cheese cut into cubes, too. Eggs and cheese mix with ostyvshimi mushrooms and chicken, dressed with mayonnaise and we shift in a salad bowl.

Salad "Mon Plaisir"

This recipe lettuce with chicken and mushrooms, diluted with fresh vegetables and ham. What? Very nice combination.

Ingredients:

• 150 grams of ham;
• Half chicken breast;
• 200 grams of mushrooms;
• 100 g of cheese;
• A pod of pepper;
• 2 fresh cucumber;
• Mayonnaise;
• Greenery.

Preparation:

Chicken meat boiled in salted water, cool and cut into cubes by narrow fillet. Mushrooms mine, cut, fried in vegetable oil, put in a colander and cooled, while sparing them of excess oil. Pod peppers cut in half, remove seeds and cut the flesh into strips. Julienne cut and ham with cucumber and shred the cheese on a coarse grater. Putting salad layers:

• chicken, seasoned with pepper and salt and poured mayonnaise;
• mushrooms;
• Bell pepper;
• mayonnaise;
• ham;
• cucumbers;
• mayonnaise;
• cheese.

Decorate with chopped salad greens and remove the sample!

Salad "hen"

This salad recipe with mushrooms and chicken features original sauce. Note that this recipe for salad dressing - a variant of the traditional vinaigrette.

Ingredients:

• Chicken breast;
• 300 grams of mushrooms;
• Onions (large);
• Bank canned corn (400 g);
• 2 fresh tomatoes fleshy.

For the sauce:

• 2 tablespoons vegetable oil;
• 2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar;
• 2 tablespoons soy sauce;
• A teaspoon of grainy mustard;
• A pinch of salt and black pepper.

Preparation:

Boil in salted water, chicken breast and quenched it. Then fillet cut into small pieces of arbitrary shape. Clean and cut into half rings head of onions, then pour boiling water the bow and held it for ten minutes. Drain and season with onion half a teaspoon of sugar and two pinches of salt. Mushrooms mine, were dried, cut into slices and fry them in a roasting pan with vegetable oil. We take out the mushrooms and put them in a sieve or colander to cool. We cut diced tomatoes, corn merge with the marinade. All prepared foods lay in a bowl and dressed with sauce. To prepare the filling, mix the vinegar with soy sauce and mustard, add salt and pepper and rub. Then gradually dilute the mixture with vegetable oil.

Salad "Exotic"

The recipe of this salad have to adopt the lovers of exotic dishes and unusual combinations of foods. Conservatives from cooking this recipe is unlikely to appreciate. He's really quite unusual.

Ingredients:

• Chicken breast meat;
• 300 grams of canned mushrooms;
• 200 grams of canned corn;
• A pod of pepper;
• 100 g of white seedless raisins;
• 100 g of Chinese cabbage;
• Onions;
• Lemon;
• 2 tablespoons Dijon mustard;
• A third of a tablespoon of sugar;
• Tablespoons soy sauce;
• A tablespoon of liquid honey;
• A tablespoon of olive oil;
• Olive mix (grass);
• Saffron.

Preparation:

Boil chicken breast, cool and coarsely chopped meat, coarsely cut, and canned mushrooms. Wash the raisins and obsushivayut. My purified from the seeds and membranes bell pepper and cut it into large cubes. Also, coarsely chopped Chinese cabbage. Now clean the onion, cut it into half rings, sprinkle with saffron, sugar and olive mixture, season with the juice of half a lemon and leave to marinate for twenty minutes.

After that, all the prepared foods we put in a bowl, add canned corn and dressed with sauce. For the filling, mix the juice of half a lemon and soy sauce, Dijon mustard, honey and olive oil and mix well. That's all! Our exotic salad is ready!

You see how different can be a salad with chicken and mushrooms. And maybe you invent your original recipe for this salad? Try, experiment, cook with pleasure! Enjoy your appetite and success in the culinary field!