Several salad ideas in a glass

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

In such a serving of even the usual and familiar salads, one feels a certain elegance of the chef, like a highlight in the usual action, giving the event a slight veil of aesthetic pleasure and magic. A few of these ideas will decorate the holiday table and bring a touch of romantic mood to your company.

What is the advantage of this submission?

Recipes of portioned salads in glasses are increasingly taking place on the festive tables, gradually replacing Soviet huge salad bowls, in which products are mixed in a shapeless heap covered with mayonnaise, one has only to guess what this dish consists of.

More stylish serving, when the ingredients are clearly visible through the transparent wall of the glass, laid out in layers and only lightly poured with sauce on top, wins more and more hearts. Not surprising, because even in the photo the salad in a glass looks very attractive and causes not only appetite, but also artistic interest.

Chicken Cocktail Salad

Fans of hearty salads with meat can be offered a puff salad in a glass, for the preparation of which we take the following ingredients:

- 2 boiled eggs, sliced;

- 200 gramsboiled chicken fillet, cut into small cubes;

- 80 grams of hard cheese;

- 230 grams of fried champignons;

- 4-5 tbsp. spoons of mayonnaise;

- 1 tsp prepared mustard;

- 2 cloves minced garlic.

First, you should prepare the dressing sauce by mixing mayonnaise with mustard and garlic, if desired, you can add a little s alt. We arrange the salad in a glass in layers in succession: chicken, a little sauce, then eggs, mushrooms, more sauce, on top of which we put grated cheese. If desired, you can decorate the salad with greens or slices of fresh tomatoes or cucumbers.

Tenerife Cocktail

This Spanish salad in a glass will appeal to lovers of gourmet and light snacks, when the food at the festive table serves to keep the company and conversation, not to satiate the stomach.

For cooking you will need:

• One banana, sliced into circles, no thicker than 0.7 mm in diameter.
• 1 small orange;
• Bunch of green lettuce, tear it into medium-sized pieces, do not cut with a knife - it will wither quickly.
• 20 boiled and peeled shrimp;
• 1 tbsp tablespoon chopped walnuts;
• 2 tbsp. spoons of mayonnaise;
• Grated nutmeg on the tip of a knife.

Cut the orange in half, cut off two circles from each part and set aside, squeeze the juice from the remaining pieces into a cup with mayonnaise, add nutmeg and mix. In beautiful wide glasses or glasses at the bottom we put pieceslettuce, then chopped banana, shrimp and pour mayonnaise sauce, and sprinkle with nuts on top. We cut a circle of orange on one side and hang it on a glass from above - simply and effectively. The recipe for salad in a glass is for two servings.

Vegan option

More people are switching to a he althy diet that does not use animal products. If there are such friends in your circle, please them with special attention and prepare a salad in a glass especially for them. We will need:

- Chinese cabbage;

- canned corn;

- sweet bell pepper;

- fresh radish;

- vegan mayonnaise;

- fresh cucumber;

- iceberg lettuce leaf (one for each serving);

- some parsley for garnish.

We take the proportions of the salad "by eye", without any strict bindings to grams and pieces, trust your intuition. In a wide glass, lay out the salad in layers, starting with shredded cabbage, then vertically place Iceberg along the wall of the glass, put sliced cucumber rings on the cabbage, on top of a mug of radish, which we pour with one or two tablespoons of vegan mayonnaise, you can buy it in he alth food stores. Top with corn and chopped parsley.

Peel the sweet pepper and cut into thin strips along the vegetable, set three or four such pieces vertically in the salad, like a cocktail tube. Such a salad in a glass is quite pleasant and very reminiscent of the taste of light springsalads that will appeal not only to lovers of he althy food, but also to meat-eaters. It looks very spectacular in transparent glasses with a high stem.

For dessert: salad in a glass of fruit

This version of fruit cutting will be very useful for children, because it has long been noticed that they are much wiser than adults in terms of nutrition and prefer to eat what is good for the body - naturally, these are fruits. We take any that are available in your region: apples, bananas, tangerine slices, kiwi - all this is cut into large pieces and placed in layers in a beautiful glass, stirring the layers with chopped walnuts or hazelnuts.

Put two scoops of vanilla ice cream on top and sprinkle with grated chocolate: fast, affordable and very tasty. Fruit salad in a glass can also be poured with yogurt instead of ice cream or honey, depending on taste preferences and diet, because the New Year holidays are not a reason to stray from the usual and correct lifestyle.