Salads with nuts: recipes with photos

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

Without salads, life loses much of its charm. The diet becomes less he althy - in any case, so gastroenterologists and nutritionists assure us. But most housewives get hung up on some standard set of snacks and forget about the great variety that world cuisine offers us. Let's try to take a step away from stereotypes and prepare a salad with nuts that can give even a primitive set of ingredients piquancy and sophistication. And which one to choose is up to you.

The most important thing for us is that the recipes for salads with nuts are very diverse. You can pick up a lenten version, and a version for a solemn feast, and an everyday snack, which, despite the ingenuousness of the composition, will be appreciated by everyone who tries it.

Simple and delicious

Beet salad withnuts - one of the easiest to prepare. At the same time, its taste qualities remain on top and make consumers reach for the supplement over and over again.

To prepare the dish, beets should be thermally processed. Many housewives boil the root crop, but, in our opinion, it becomes watery. It is better to bake beets in the oven. Time, by the way, is spent less.

When the beets have cooled, they are peeled and rubbed coarsely. Prunes are washed; if it is dry, you can soak the fruit for a while. They should not be cut too small. Walnut kernels are allowed dry in a frying pan and chopped, also quite large. The ratio of components is up to you. After combining them, the salad with nuts is dressed with mayonnaise and mixed. Before serving, keep it cool for at least a quarter of an hour.

Elegant additions

A simple salad can be truly a masterpiece if you add a small grated or crushed garlic clove to its mass, and sprinkle grated hard cheese on top. For aesthetics, the dish is decorated with sprigs of fresh herbs and prunes, in which a quarter of a walnut is embedded (without shells and partitions, of course).

Georgian walnut salad

Fans of spicy and juicy will definitely like it. The base is prepared simply: three cucumbers and the same number of tomatoes are cut into small slices, the middle onion is chopped into half rings, mint with basil and cilantro are finely chopped. The main s alt of the dish is in the sauce. For him, a third is processed with a blendercups of walnuts, two cloves of garlic and half a hot chilli without seeds. The mass is kneaded with s alt and diluted with two tablespoons of wine vinegar. Pour the mixture over the vegetables and serve.

One more greetings from Georgia

For this dish you will need a medium head of cauliflower, disassembled into inflorescences and boiled for a couple of minutes in boiling s alted water. After throwing it into a colander, the cabbage is finely chopped, a large bunch of dill, cilantro and parsley crumbles, and an almost full glass of nuts is lightly fried and pounded - but not into dust, but into pieces that will feel good in the salad. All this is mixed, seasoned with mayonnaise, s alted and used for its intended purpose.

Salad "Tempting!"

Those who try to keep their figure will especially like the salad with nuts, apples and cheese. For him, lettuce leaves are finely torn into a deep bowl, half an apple is cut into cubes, pieces of a 50-gram bar of cheese are added and two tablespoons of chopped nuts are poured. For dressing, a mixture of lemon juice and vegetable oil is used. If desired, you can add a little liquid honey. A serving of diet salad is ready!

Warm salad

Prepared from young zucchini, which will require two or three pieces. Vegetables need to be washed, peeled, coarsely chopped, s alted and left for a while to drain excess juice. The cubes are fried in vegetable oil over high heat; to achieve the desired result, the slices should be placed in a single layer in the pan. For dressing, half a glass of nuts is crushed, for example, rolled with a rolling pin through paper. The middle bunch of parsley is finely chopped, three cloves of garlic are crushed with a press. Both components are mixed with a spoonful of olive oil. The dressing is poured into the salad, the dish is mixed and infused a little. Such a salad with warm nuts is tastier. But it looks very cool even when cold - in the event that you put it in the refrigerator and serve it to the table the next day.

Puff salad with prunes and nuts

The dish goes:

• a third kilo of finely chopped prunes;
• half a cup of chopped walnut kernels;
• 200 grams of processed cheese, randomly grated;
• five hard-boiled eggs, coarsely grated;
• two garlic cloves, chopped with a knife (in extreme cases, the same grater, but not a press).

First, cheese is placed on the dish and sprinkled with garlic, the second layer is eggs, the third is prunes, the fourth is nuts. All layers except the last one are smeared with mayonnaise.

Ham Fantasy

A beautiful and appetizing snack can be obtained from products that are likely to be found in the refrigerator for the holidays. A little work with a knife - and you get a wonderful salad with prunes and walnuts, vegetables and herbs.

The dish is laid out in layers, preferably in portioned bowls, to preserve beauty. Ham sticks are laid out along the bottom of the dishes; it must be smeared with mayonnaise. The second layer is a mixture of grated cheese, strips of prunes and nuts (nuts withcheese in approximately equal proportions, dried fruit is taken almost half as much) - and also mayonnaise. The last to lay out cucumbers with tomatoes, cut into strips; after smearing, they are sprinkled with chopped herbs. The dish is especially tasty when slightly chilled.

Pineapple

Walnut salad, whose recipe includes chicken, is quite popular. And the proposed option is always in the top.

Chicken fillet larger in size needs to be boiled with the addition of s alt, laurel and peppercorns to the broth. After cooling, the chicken is cut into cubes. Can be disassembled into fibers, but the appearance will become less attractive. Pineapple is strained from the liquid if canned is taken, or peeled if bought fresh, and cut into proportionate pieces. Fruit will need about a third of a kilogram. Hard cheese crumbles in the same way, two hundred grams. Peeled nuts are taken half a glass; they should be chopped with a knife not too finely. All products are mixed, seasoned with s alt, pepper and mayonnaise. A quarter of an hour of waiting - and you can try.

For aesthetics, the appetizer can be shaped like a pineapple, the top can be laid out with “scales” from walnut halves, and the “sultan” can be depicted from parsley.

"Tenderness": chicken salad with prunes and walnuts

This dish has a very well-chosen food combination that makes it just melt in your mouth. So it truly deserves its name. You need to collect in layers, spreading each with mayonnaise, in this order:

• Chicken, boiled and cut into cubes or strips - 300 grams.
• Steamed, strained and striped prunes - 150 grams.
• Walnuts, crushed into large crumbs - 50 grams (this layer is not smeared).
• Five hard-boiled egg whites, coarsely grated.
• Fresh cucumber cut into strips.

The top of the slide is sprinkled with finely grated yolks. You can eat chicken salad with nuts no earlier than after two hours of standing at the bottom of the refrigerator. Without this step, all flavors will not be revealed.

Unusual composition

The next salad with chicken and walnuts will appeal to lovers of exotic and non-standard combinations. For him, a chicken fillet of a third of a kilogram in weight is boiled with spices, after which it is disassembled into fibers or cut into small pieces. A large peeled onion is chopped in half rings - they need to be fried in vegetable oil until golden, pepper and s alt in the process of frying.

Next, the orange is peeled; after removing the skin, the slices need to be rid of the films, cut the pulp and decant the excess juice released from it. A glass of prunes is cut, a third of a glass of nuts is crushed (not crumbled), all the ingredients are put in a common bowl, seasoned with mayonnaise and carefully but gently mixed. A ready-made salad with chicken and walnuts is laid out in portioned bowls and generously sprinkled with grated cheese on top.

Salad minute

Not everyone likes boiled fillets. If you are also from this category of people, we suggest you prepare a salad with chicken and nuts, which uses smoked meat. In the original recipe - brisket, but it can be replaced with legs or thighs. A quarter of a kilogram of chicken and a hundred-gram block of cheese are chopped into strips, four tomatoes are cut into cubes, a bunch of parsley and two garlic cloves are chopped smaller. All components are mixed, the salad is s alted and dressed with mayonnaise. It takes minutes to prepare.

And mushrooms

Oyster mushrooms in the amount of 250 grams are washed, dried and cut into strips. In the same way, two medium onions are cut. In corn (preferably) oil, onion is first simmered, after about three minutes mushrooms are poured into it. Joint frying is carried out until the juice is almost completely evaporated. Pepper, s alt, cover, hold for 3-4 minutes and put in a dish to cool.

Ham (150 g) is cut into strips, the same amount of cheese is rubbed. Three eggs are hard-boiled, peeled and cut - not into cubes, as usual, but into strips. Walnuts are ground; in crushed form, they should be about half a glass.

The salad should be collected in layers: ham sprinkled with nuts and smeared with mayonnaise, then eggs, also with nuts and grease, then mushrooms - sprinkled with nuts, no mayonnaise is needed - and a cheese coating sprinkled with nut crumbs and with a beautiful grid of that or mayonnaise. You can decorate with strips of ham and sprigs of greens. The dish should be completely soaked, so it is better to make it in the evening.

Ondessert

Children don't have to prepare complex, heavy and not very useful cakes and pastries for the holiday. No less, and maybe more, your offspring will be pleased with a fruit salad with nuts. Products for it can be bought at any supermarket, and if there are none, it is quite possible to use your imagination and find a replacement for them.

Dried apricots and raisins are soaked until soft, kiwi, orange and banana are peeled, pips are removed from plums, cores are removed from pears and apples, walnuts are crushed - it can be large to be felt in the salad, it can be small - if children do not too fond of such pieces. Products are finely cut and seasoned with natural yogurt. If you want more beauty, use transparent bowls and lay the salad in layers. In our opinion, this is superfluous: the kids will immediately mix the mass anyway. Top each serving with whipped cream.