Chinese salads: description, recipes

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

Chinese salads are bright and tasty dishes that have been part of the diet of the inhabitants of the Middle Kingdom relatively recently.

There are thousands of recipes in total. And a wide range of ingredients, including vegetables, fruits, glass noodles, cheese, meat, seafood, nuts, dressings and spices, allows you to diversify every salad, as well as eat he althy food.

Features of Chinese gastronomy

The cuisine of the inhabitants of the Celestial Empire is unusually tasty, simple and satisfying. This people has a special, centuries-old, traditional approach to the process of cooking and serving food since ancient times.

They respect and value food very much, because they always remember that there are a lot of people in the country, and there should be enough food for everyone. This was especially evident in the old days, when low-income families with many children had to live in conditions of especially austerity.

It may sound paradoxical, but thanks to this, Chinese cuisine has such a feature as smallcrushing food, as well as the speed of cooking. Storage is carried out in special bamboo baskets, which allows you to extend the shelf life of food.

Traditional Chinese food: rice, seafood, meat, vegetables, fruits, spices.

They eat with chopsticks they masterfully use. And it's also convenient, because the food is crushed and well thermally processed.

A separate topic of gastronomy in this country are Chinese salads, the recipes of which are huge. And the components from which they are prepared are simple and affordable.

Preparatory stage in the preparation of salads

Traditional Chinese salads are served in small bowls, square flat plates, bowls.

Products are usually boiled, fried or steamed, so a pot or pan is needed to cook the dish. Also knives and a cutting board (for meat, vegetables), a garlic maker, additional containers for sauces.

Special graters are used to give the ingredients a beautiful elongated shape.

Chinese salads consist mainly of the following components: cabbage (Beijing, cauliflower and other types), carrots, onions, cheese, mushrooms, tomatoes, squid, beef, pork, chicken, oysters, potatoes, vermicelli and so on.

But the main "chip" is dressing - it can be self-made sauces with spices or olive (sesame) oil. In the Russian version, it is possible to prepare this component from mayonnaise and spices.

Light beef salads

There are quite a lot of varieties of this dish. This article will discuss 5 types of Chinese salad with beef.

1. Ingredients: cucumber (200g), carrot (100g), sweet pepper (100g), beef (100g), peanuts (50g). Cucumber, pepper, boiled carrots and beef cut into thin bars; add peanuts. Top with sweet and sour sauce.
2. Ingredients: beef tongue (100 g), beef (100 g), cucumber (200 g), carrot (100 g). Cucumbers, boiled tongue, beef and carrots cut into strips and pour mayonnaise with spices.
3. Ingredients: beef (100 g), beef tongue (100 g), cucumber (200 g), tomatoes (100 g), bread toast (100 g). Boil beef and tongue. Cut all the ingredients into cubes, add croutons, dress the salad with mayonnaise.
4. Ingredients: funchose (100 g), beef (100 g), carrots (100 g), cucumber (200 g). Boil the noodles and beef, cut all the ingredients into strips, season with soy sauce and spices.
5. Ingredients: sweet pepper (200 g), beef tongue (100 g), beef (100 g). Boil meat ingredients. Cut everything into long bars and pour mayonnaise.

Home salad

Delicious Chinese vegetable salad is quick and easy to prepare.

Required:

• funchose - 200 grams;
• cucumbers - 200 grams;
• white or Beijing cabbage - 100 grams;
• mushrooms - 150 grams.

Cooking

Boilglass noodle. Lightly fry the mushrooms. Cut cucumbers, cabbage into thin strips, mix everything.

The dressing is prepared from the ingredients:

• olive oil (15 milliliters),
• rice vinegar (5 milliliters),
• soy sauce (20 ml),
• s alt (12 grams),
• garlic (10 grams).

Mix everything, chop the garlic through the spadefoot, add to the dressing.

Pour dressing over salad.

Potato

For this Chinese salad you will need the following ingredients:

• potatoes (200 g);
• ham (200 g);
• onion (100 g);
• peanuts (100 g).

Cooking

Cut potatoes into long sticks, fry in oil. Add thinly sliced ham and onion half rings, chopped peanuts to the finished dish.

Pour the dish with mayonnaise or sauce.

Shrimp salad

Chinese seafood salads are especially popular among residents of not only China, but also other countries. One such will be discussed in this article.

It is based on: shrimp (200 g), sweet pepper (100 g), cucumber (200 g), cashew nuts (100 g).

The shrimps are boiled, the peppers and cucumbers are cut into strips, the nuts are crushed. Mix all. Drizzle with sauce.

Seasoning option: soy sauce, sesame oil, ginger, s alt, Chinese seasonings, black pepper.

Meat salad with oranges

Of course, a chipThis Chinese salad recipe is a sweet and sour dressing. But the basis belongs to meat and oranges, which complement each other so organically that the result is a delicious dish.

Components:

• pork pulp - 200g;
• oranges - 300 g;
• Beijing cabbage (white cabbage);
• olive oil - 40 milliliters;
• green onion - 100 g;
• ground black pepper.

For refueling:

• honey - 50 g;
• soy sauce - 50 milliliters;
• rice vinegar - 30g;
• orange skins.

Cooking

For the sauce, squeeze orange peel (20 g), add vegetable oil (20 milliliters), honey, vinegar and sauce. Connect components.

Roll the meat in pepper and pour ¼ of the dressing - bake in the oven with butter. Cut the finished component into strips.

Free the oranges from the membranes, cut. Chop cabbage and onion. Add meat and remaining dressing.

CV

Chinese salads are not just popular among the peoples of many countries, including Russia. They are extraordinary and tasty, but also beautiful in appearance and useful.