Original fusion salad recipe

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

The word "fusion" comes from the English fusion - "fusion, penetration, unification". In cooking, this word denotes a fashionable style in which dishes are prepared from incongruous (at first glance) products. A sort of mix of old proven European recipes (with long-established traditional products and methods of their processing) and fashion trends of national cuisines of Southeast Asia, Japan, India (with their spices, unusual sauces and a set of vegetables, fruits and other types of food traditional for them).

A bit of history

Historically, the first fusion dishes appeared in Sri Lanka, where modern national food is a mixture of fragrant local spices and food processing methods with dish components, the recipes of which were left here by European colonialists and local treasure hunters (spices). The history of cooking is the gradual promotion of the traditions of local cuisines around the world, the spread of vegetables, fruits, cereals across the continents of the globe.

In the early 20s of the last century, the Japanese moved to Hawaii, then there was a mixture of American food with the traditions of the East.

In the 70s of the last century in America, this trend was called "fusion" whenCalifornia was inhabited by peoples of different cultures, bringing with them the traditions of their cuisine.

First fusion restaurant opens in Los Angeles.

Fusion & Cooking

Fusion style in modern cooking implies not only the fusion of the traditions of different cultures in cooking, but also the replacement of exotic ingredients with local, more familiar and available products in the area. Fusion allows you to adapt dishes to the culinary traditions and tastes of the local population (for example, savory Indian spices are replaced with less scalding ones, lamb is replaced with chicken or pork, etc.). This style allows you to use unusual food combinations (chocolate and lard, dumplings and nuts, meat and coffee, etc.).

But no matter what you cook: soup, borsch, pilaf or salad - fusion (the recipe in this case allows you to use any products) implies excellent quality of products, balance and unforgettable taste.

Fusion style salad

Any salad you want to make can be "fusion" with a few changes in ingredients. Even the familiar "Olivier": add crab sticks or shrimp to the usual sausage and get a fusion salad, the recipe of which will be unique. The main thing is to balance the taste.

We offer to prepare an original fusion salad.

Products for its creation are as follows:

• chicken eggs - four pieces;
• leaf lettuce - 3 or 4 sheets;
• green onion - 4 stalks;
• celerysheet - 2-3 pieces;
• leaf parsley - 1 bunch;
• chopped ginger -1 tablespoon (table);
• lime juice - 2 tbsp. spoons;
• fish sauce (Thai) - 3 tablespoons (tablespoons);
• garlic - 10 cloves;
• minced meat (pork) or a piece of meat - 200 grams;
• chili pepper - 1 piece (optional);
• s alt - 1 tsp;
• granulated sugar - 1 tablespoon (table);
• oil (vegetable) - 3 tablespoons (tablespoons);
• fruit vinegar - 4 tablespoons (tablespoons);
• roasted peanuts - 3 tablespoons (tablespoons).

Hard-boil the eggs, carefully separate the whites from the yolks, soften the yolks, chop the whites coarsely.

Wash lettuce and all greens, chop coarsely, mix in a bowl.

Mix ginger, lime juice, 3 garlic cloves, chilli, fish sauce.

Heat the pan, pour in the oil (vegetable), fry the remaining garlic until golden brown. Throw pork into boiling oil with garlic, fry until color changes, add a little water, s alt and granulated sugar, boil, add previously prepared sauce, boil.

Chop the meat in the pan with a spatula.

Pour hot sauce with grilled meat into lettuce leaves. Mix everything. Put beautifully on a plate, sprinkle with peanuts and chopped yolk on top, decorate with crumbled protein.

Fusion salad, the recipe with photo of which is presented, is ready to serve.

Japanese Fusion

We offer a light salad that not only tastes good, but alsovery helpful. It is easy to prepare, and a beautiful presentation depends on your imagination.

So, we present the fusion salad. Cooking Ingredients:

• tuna (canned in our conditions) - 1 can;
• red onion - 1 piece;
• sweet red pepper - 1 piece;
• yellow pepper - 1 piece;
• cucumber - 1 piece;
• soy sauce - 3 tablespoons (tablespoons);
• Dijon mustard - 1 teaspoon;
• lemon - 1 piece;
• capers - 1 teaspoon;
• olive oil for dressing;
• black pepper (freshly ground) - to taste;
• sea s alt - to taste.

Wash the lemon, remove the zest in long strips, squeeze out the juice.

Onion peel, wash, cut into rings, s alt.

Cucumber and pepper cut into strips.

In a bowl, mix lemon juice, soy sauce, mustard, olive oil, lemon zest, freshly ground black pepper, sea s alt. Mix everything gently.

Mix all the vegetables, season with the prepared sauce, put in a slide, put canned tuna next to it. You can change the serving: collect the dressed vegetables in a ring, and place pieces of tuna on top.

The original serving of salad in a Japanese restaurant is shown in the photo below.

Conclusion

Fusion-style recipes sometimes seem very complicated due to a set of (at first glance) frilly ingredients, but in fact, preparing such dishes is not difficult. The main rule: freshness and taste compatibility of ingredients. Dishes shouldbecome light. A hostess preparing dishes according to fusion recipes should be guided by her own taste, not be afraid to deviate from the usual stereotypes, but at the same time not overdo it in creativity.

We recommend that you first prepare any fusion salad, the recipe of which you will find in this article, and then move on to the first and second courses.

Cook with love, use the suggested recipes, come up with your own! Good luck!