Salad "Basket": three variations on the theme

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

Try making a Lukoshko salad. This dish will become a truly spectacular decoration of your table, and its taste will not leave anyone indifferent. Below are several options for preparing a salad, including dessert.

Salad "Basket": cooking secrets

Required ingredients:

• 300 grams of pork;
• 2 boiled potatoes;
• 100 grams of Korean-style carrots;
• 1 pickle;
• 3 onions;
• 150 grams of hard cheese;
• 150 grams of pickled champignons;
• mayonnaise and dill to taste.

For marinade:

water (150 grams), apple cider vinegar (50 grams), sugar, s alt

Cooking

Salad "Basket", the recipe of which you will find below, is not prepared so quickly. Therefore, if you want to make this yummy for the arrival of guests, then you need to start the process in advance. First you need to finely chop the onion and marinate it in the prepared marinade from the above ingredients. This process should take place within six hours. At the end of this time, you can begin to form a multi-layered salad.

Making a mushroom basket

The salad will come out very beautiful, its surface will resemble a basket of mushrooms. To do just that, you first need to take a rather spacious and high plate and start creating.

First, grease the container with odorless vegetable oil or line it with cling film, then sprinkle finely chopped dill along the edge of the plate. Now put the mushroom caps on a plate, legs up. Sprinkle them with pickled onions. Next on the onion you need to grate boiled potatoes on a coarse grater. We slightly add this layer and coat with mayonnaise.

Put finely chopped boiled pork on top, and chopped cucumbers on it. A layer of pickled onion is laid on them. Then, which has already become a good tradition, put the potatoes, grease with mayonnaise. And now let's break the tradition a little, and put a Korean carrot on the mayonnaise layer, and grated cheese on it. Top the cheese with mayonnaise.

Finishing cooking

Do you think that now you can definitely set the table and start tasting the Lukoshko salad? But no, you still have to be patient, and again, for 6 hours. This is how long this dish should stand in order to be perfectly soaked and become one. We need this so that it can be easily turned over without violating the integrity of the culinary composition.

Now is the time to get our six hour salad out of the fridge. Take a plate and put it on top of it. It is better to call an assistant for safety net. Together with him, you can deftly turn the plate over, and the salad will already be in another bowl. Now you can serve the dish to the table and try how delicious it turned out.

Variations on the theme: Lukoshko salad with tongue

Tongue lovers can replace pork with this ingredient and make a snack with tongue. You can go the other way, changing the salad radically. Why not replace mushrooms with mushrooms? You can use store-bought or self-assembled. It's nice to walk through the September forest and pick up not only a basket, but a whole bag of honey mushrooms! After all, these mushrooms do not grow one at a time, but in whole colonies. If the mushroom picker is lucky, he will certainly bring home at least a couple of buckets of these forest gifts.

True, after boiling, there will be several times less of them, but in any case, enough for a salad. Honey mushrooms can be pickled for the winter with vinegar, and if the size of the freezer allows, then boil, cool and store them there. Then at any time it will be possible to get mushrooms, boil them again, cool and make a salad with tongue.

What else and how do we put in a salad?

In addition to 150 grams of boiled mushrooms, you will need 250 grams of boiled and peeled tongue, 50 grams of bread sticks, 100 grams of green peas and the same amount of cheese. We also need 2 boiled chicken eggs, a couple of carrots and the same number of large potatoes.

This variant is being prepared faster than the previous one. Let's simplify our task and in a separate bowl we will immediately smear almosteach layer, and then stack it one on top of the other.

Complete freedom of action is allowed in the laying out of layers. The main thing is to alternate multi-colored products so that they shade each other. After the last layer is laid, coat it with mayonnaise and sprinkle grated cheese on top. From green peas and carrots, you can make flowers and put them on the edge of the dish. Boiled mushrooms are placed on top of the salad.

Sweet arrangement in a basket

However, they do not only with meat, vegetables and mushrooms salad "Basket". A photo in which a watermelon basket with fruits looks so seductive awakens the desire to make the same beauty. And how impressive the fruit basket will look on the table! To make such a salad, take a watermelon, wash it, wipe it and draw a carved basket handle and its edges in the chosen place. Now you need to make the dream come true with a sharp knife.

Juicy pulp can be eaten right away. We fill the basket with berries, chopped fruit and pour a small amount of heated juice on top, in which gelatin is dissolved.

To do this, first, in half a glass of cold boiled water, soak a tablespoon of gelatin for 20 minutes. Now, in another bowl, heat almost to a boil (up to 80 °) a glass of orange or pineapple, multifruit juice. Remove it from the heat and pour into the juice, stirring, gelatin dissolved in water. The mixture should cool completely and then it can be carefully poured onto the fruit and berry mix, which is located in the basket.

After it hardens,serving dessert to the table.