Instant salad: Chinese cabbage plus

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

Even at the end of the last century, the so-called "Chinese" salad was a rather outlandish product for both Russia and Europe. Beijing cabbage came, as a rule, straight from the Middle Kingdom (it has been cultivated there since the 6th century). Today it can be purchased at any supermarket, and an instant salad in its various manifestations is well prepared from such an inexpensive and he althy product. The article presents only a few of the most popular variations of this quick dish.

Instant Chinese cabbage salad with apple

This is an interesting, he althy dish that can be prepared all year round. For him, take: one head of Beijing, one cucumber, a jar of canned corn, several apples of sweet and sour varieties, 150-200 grams of hard cheese (any). To dress this instant salad, we use: a spoon with a slide of French mustard, the same amountolive oil and apple cider vinegar, half a cup of 30% fat mayonnaise.

Cooking fast

1. Cut washed cabbage leaves into strips, place in a large container, adding chopped cucumber and apples.
2. Discard the corn in a colander to drain excess liquid. Add to the bowl with the previous ingredients.
3. Grate the cheese finely. Add to the total mass and mix everything thoroughly.
4. Make dressing: combine mustard and vinegar with oil and mayonnaise sauce. Mix everything and pour into the salad. Add s alt to taste.
5. Now the instant salad should be set aside for half an hour in the refrigerator. Boiled rice, light chicken chop, vegetable juices are excellent with the dish.

Instant kale salad with crab

Well, of course, we will not use real crab meat, but familiar and inexpensive sticks (200 grams). And also take a head of Beijing cabbage, a couple of hard-boiled eggs, a medium-sized cucumber (fresh), s alt with mayonnaise and herbs for dressing the dish.

1. Chinese cabbage cut into thin strips.
2. Cucumber - cubes or semicircles. Chop the eggs.
3. Chilled sticks cut into thin strips or cubes - as you like.
4. Mix all the above ingredients in a large container and season with mayonnaise, adding s alt to your liking. As a decoration, you can put sprigs of fresh herbs and green onion feathers on top.
5. Tip: if you want to diversify the dish, addcanned sweet corn - one can.

With pineapple

Instant Chinese cabbage salad with pineapple is prepared no less quickly. To prepare it, take a head of cabbage, a jar of pineapples in their own juice.

1. Pekingka shredded and transferred to a dish.
2. Add pineapple to the same place, after decanting the liquid (do not pour it out!). If necessary, cut the fruit into smaller pieces.
3. Spice the dish with juice from a jar, mixing thoroughly. Serve chilled. This instant salad is the perfect accompaniment to grilled meats.

With ham

The recipe is impossibly simple, but the taste, rest assured, is on top. So, we take Beijing in the amount of one fork, 200 grams of good ham, 200 grams of canned green peas, a couple of cloves of garlic, not too fatty mayonnaise, s alt. We use fresh greens to decorate this dish.

1. Cut the cabbage (you can also tear it with your hands) quite large into pieces.
2. Ham cut into thin strips.
3. Chop greens. Take any that is at hand: dill with parsley, cilantro, green onion.
4. We combine all the ingredients in a suitable bowl, add green peas, strained into a colander, crush a few cloves of garlic with garlic.
5. In the finale, season the appetizer with mayonnaise, mix thoroughly, if necessary, add a little s alt to taste. Done - you can serve it on the table.

Beijing plus bell pepper

We take for himthe following ingredients: three sweet peppers, a head of cabbage, a couple of apples, a spoonful of olive oil, a little apple cider vinegar, spices and s alt.

1. Beijing chop.



2. Sweet peppers are cleaned from seeds and stalk and cut into strips. Juicy apples cut randomly.
3. We prepare salad dressing from olive oil and vinegar, mixing them in a blender.
4. Mix all ingredients by adding dressing. We add spices with s alt according to personal preferences. Then let the salad brew in the refrigerator - literally 10-15 minutes. And you can put it on the table. By the way, you can sprinkle it on top with small crackers or chips - it will be tasty and original. Bon appetit everyone!