Salad "Pomegranate Ring": recipe with photo

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

Probably there is no specific recipe for Pomegranate Ring salad. Each hostess will add something of her own to it. In fact, there are a lot of options. It is made with smoked chicken or beef, mushrooms or fried onions are added. One thing remains unchanged: the top of the salad is densely covered with pomegranate seeds and made into a ring, which is how it got its name.

"Pomegranate ring": recipe with smoked chicken. What do you need?

The salad recipe is quite simple, and the products that make it up can be bought at the nearest store. So, we need:

• one pomegranate;
• 2-4 beets (amount depends on size);
• 3-4 potatoes;
• 4 eggs;
• smoked breast (many substitute boiled breast, but then the piquancy is lost);
• two onions;
• pair of carrots;
• a handful of nuts (better than walnuts);
• light mayonnaise and s alt withpepper to taste.

Preparation of ingredients plus helpful tips

So, let's prepare the Pomegranate Ring salad. A recipe with a photo will help us with this. Boil vegetables and eggs in advance. We do not recommend putting eggs in a pot with vegetables, as the shell cracks during the cooking process, and dirty water penetrates the egg. Boil vegetables directly in their skins. To keep them cleaner, you can rinse them well with the hard part of a dishwashing sponge. Why cook in uniform? The peel helps the potatoes not to boil, and beets and carrots - to preserve the taste and brightness of the color. We cook vegetables in advance, as they must be chilled for the process of collecting salad - this way, grated, they will retain airiness, and will not be a dense warm mass.

So, beets, carrots, potatoes and eggs have been boiled, and they are cooling down and waiting for their turn, but for now you can prepare other products. Cut the onion into thin half rings and … there are two options: you can fry it in vegetable oil until golden brown, or you can scald it with boiling water so that it loses its bitterness and becomes soft, and soak for five minutes in a weak solution of vinegar. If there are children, it is better, of course, to stop at the first option. Cut the smoked breast into strips, grate the nuts on a fine grater or crush. All products are ready, and you can start assembling the "Pomegranate Ring". Do not forget that it got its name precisely because of the form, so you need to create it. How? Very simple! Place a glass in the center of the salad bowl or dish on which your salad will be placed. formthe salad will be around it, and then we will remove it before serving.

Creating a salad

Starting layering with potatoes. Grate on a coarse grater and carefully spread around the glass. Do not press down so that the layer retains its splendor. Each layer will be smeared with mayonnaise. There is also a secret here. If you take and level the mayonnaise with a spoon, the layer will become dense, and we try to avoid this. If you squeeze the sauce directly from the bag, there will be an excess of mayonnaise due to the wide neck, which is also not very good. We do this: at the end opposite from the neck, carefully cut off the corner of the package with scissors. We do not remove the cover. Mayonnaise squeezed through the hole will lay down in a thin layer and can even be used to decorate the top of salads. Lay the chicken on a layer of lettuce and cover it with an onion blanket. From above, you can walk a little with mayonnaise.

Further everything is simple: a layer of grated eggs, a layer of carrots, and beets complete everything. We rub all the vegetables on a coarse grater and coat each layer with mayonnaise, s alt and pepper. Lubricate the beets quite a bit, sprinkle with crushed nuts on top, and then draw patterns on top of the mayonnaise. What is the second layer of mayonnaise for? The fact is that we need to lay pomegranate seeds on top, but they will not stick to the layer of nuts. We disassemble the pomegranate into seeds. If you are lucky enough to find a pitted pomegranate, the "Pomegranate Ring" will be very tender, but the pits do not interfere with the taste and structure at all. So, spread the grains on top of the salad in a dense layer, carefully remove the glass from the center. Now the salad has founddesired shape and looks amazingly beautiful and appetizing. Do not rush to immediately serve it to the table. Our "Pomegranate Ring" is a puff-type salad. And such dishes should be kept in the refrigerator for several hours before serving, and the next day it becomes even tastier.

Salad "Pomegranate ring" with beef and mushrooms

There is a version of the classic beef salad - it is amazingly tasty and satisfying.

Purchase products:

• garnet;
• beef tenderloin without bone and fat;
• beets, carrots, potatoes (3-4 each, depending on size);
• fresh champignons (do not take frozen ones, as when defrosted they will release water and not fry, but stew);
• a couple of onions;
• walnuts;
• mayonnaise, s alt, pepper.

Cooking salad

As you can see, the ingredients are almost the same. Yes, the cooking process is the same. We cook vegetables, eggs and meat in different pots. Do not forget to remove the foam during the cooking process, because the broth can be used when cooking the first course. While everything is cooking, cut the onion into half rings and fry in sunflower oil. Add chopped mushrooms there and fry everything until cooked. We cut the finished meat into medium-sized strips. Remember that all vegetables must be cold. It would be ideal if you cook all the products the day before, make a salad in the morning and leave it to infuse until the evening. We collect the salad in the same way as in the previous recipe: potatoes, beef, onions with mushrooms, eggs,carrots, beets, nuts, pomegranate. All layers alternate with mayonnaise and sprinkle with s alt.

Gherkins and cheese salad

Ingredients:

• chicken fillet - 1 piece;
• potatoes, beets, carrots onions;
• eggs;
• gherkins (precisely small ones that will give crunchiness and contain less water);
• cheese (hard or melted - to your taste);
• garnet;
• walnuts.

Cook or bake fillets until done. It will be great if there is a grilled chicken breast left, it will add flavor to the salad. We cut the finished meat into strips, cut the onion and fry everything together in sunflower oil. Boil vegetables ahead of time. Laying out the layers.

1. Grated potatoes, mayonnaise, s alt, pepper.

2. Chicken with onions, finely grated cheese, mayonnaise, s alt, pepper.

3. Gherkins cut into small cubes.

4. Grated carrots, mayonnaise, s alt.

5. Eggs.

6. Beetroot mixed with toasted walnuts for a more intense flavor, mayonnaise.

7. Pomegranate seeds.

Try not just to sprinkle with grains, but to lay them thicker, so the "Pomegranate Ring" will look more effective, and almost any housewife can find a recipe with a photo of these salads. Each brings something new to it. There are even recipes with sprats, red fish, caviar. Only the tradition of decorating it with pomegranate remains unchanged.