Salad with sausage and tomatoes: several cooking options

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

Georgian salad with sausage and tomatoes has firmly taken its place among the "standard" "Olivier", "Caesar" and "Herring under a fur coat" as a festive appetizer and lifesaver for unexpectedly arriving guests, because cooking it is real a trifle, and the products are always at hand, and the piquant taste and bright appearance well support the festive atmosphere of the table (the main thing is not to overdo it with mayonnaise).

Required Ingredients

The name of the salad - "With sausage, tomatoes and cheese" speaks for itself: it is these products that form its basis.

Experienced housewives rarely adhere to exact proportions, mixing products “by eye”, but for younger ones and just taking their first steps in mastering the culinary art, the following guidelines are given:

• Three hundred grams of smoked sausage and hard cheese, and you don’t have to try to replace them with boiled sausage and processed cheese - this is completely different.
• Two medium-sized tomatoes, preferably fleshy varieties like Cream or Volgograd.
• 3-4 cloves of garlic.
• 100-150 grams of mayonnaise. The amount is approximate, because this ingredient is a matter of taste: someone likes the salad to be “wet”, others prefer to taste the products, not the sauce.
• Fresh parsley, salad to decorate the finished dish.

Step cooking

The classic version of the salad with sausage, tomatoes and cheese is prepared very simply: we cut the sausage into small cubes, trying to make them even, we do the same with cheese. It is important not to grate them, as some young hostesses do - then the salad, under the influence of the sauce, turns into an unattractive porridge. We cut the tomatoes into small pieces, trying not to crush them too much, pass the garlic through the garlic and mix with mayonnaise. Optionally, add a little black pepper or ground thyme for a spicier flavor.

Next, mix all the salad ingredients (sausage, tomatoes and cheese) in a salad bowl, add mayonnaise sauce and mix. The salad is ready and can be served immediately.

Another version of sausage salad

Slightly more includes an extended version of the salad:

• Cucumbers.
• Tomatoes.
• Sausage: You can take salami or regular Krakow.
• Hard cheese, such as "Russian" or "Dutch".
• Lettuce.
• Mayonnaise. It is better to take light, dietary types.

All ingredients, except for mayonnaise and herbs, are taken in equal proportions, cut into smallcubes and mixed in one bowl, smeared with mayonnaise. Lettuce leaves should be washed under running water, dried between two layers of paper towels.

Further on the edge of each leaf from the denser side we put two tbsp. spoons of cooked salad with sausage and tomatoes and roll into tubes. If necessary, you can fasten with a wooden toothpick. The resulting rolls are beautifully distributed on a serving dish, decorated with sliced fresh vegetables.

Salad with croutons and cheese

This version of the salad with sausage and tomatoes is said to have appeared quite by accident at one of the youth parties, which are characterized by randomness and "bag food". Inadvertently, a vase with kirieshki crackers was overturned into an ordinary Georgian salad, and the frivolous owner, instead of removing the dish from the table, mixed the contents and presented the guests with a new dish. It was it that ended first, as young people liked the unusual combination of tender cheese and tomato with crispy crackers and spicy sausage. Moreover, such a salad turned out to be quite satisfying, which significantly saved further dishes. To prepare the salad you will need:

- two hundred grams of cheese and sausage each;

- two fresh tomatoes;

- 50 grams of crackers, they can be bought at any supermarket, while it is better to choose with the flavor of bacon or garlic for more salad flavor.

- four cloves of garlic, crushed in a garlic press or mortar;

- mayonnaise to taste.

Chop everythingthe necessary ingredients for the salad: sausage and tomatoes in cubes, tomatoes in slices or also in cubes, mix everything in a salad bowl and add mayonnaise.

Croutons are placed in the salad just before serving, as they quickly soak under the action of mayonnaise, and then the salad loses its individuality. A prerequisite is that it must remain crispy, then it will be light, despite the mayonnaise.

A few lettuce facts

Georgian salad with sausage and tomatoes, judging by the products included in it, is quite high-calorie and heavy for the body, because its energy value is 412 calories per 100 gram serving, so you should not abuse such dishes, and even more so use them them in food, having problems with weight or he alth. For reference: one hundred grams of such a salad is about four tablespoons. To burn this amount, you need half an hour to jump rope at an active pace or jog for fifty minutes. Is it worth the pleasure of a five-minute meal?