Each hostess, preparing a festive table, tries to surprise and please her guests with new and tasty dishes. As for salads, it is important to remember that this is not the main dish on the festive table and should not be cooked in large volumes. Better make a few different salads for every taste.
The use of Beijing cabbage in the recipe makes it possible to reduce the total caloric content of the salad, increase the saturation of vitamins, and improve the digestibility of all components of the dish. This product has a soft, delicate flavor and does not dissonate with other ingredients. Salads with Chinese cabbage are used both in the daily menu and in the festive one. The difference is observed in the serving of the dish and its design.
Puff versions of salads are prepared for the holiday table or are served to each guest in portions. It is comfortable and beautiful. The composition of salads in the holiday version also allows variations.
For example, add greens, olives or cherry to decorate the dish. Salads with Chinese cabbage will be a real decoration of the holiday table and will delight guests with lightness and delicate taste.
Recipes with photos
Below you can see the photo options for serving delicious and beautiful Chinese cabbage salads before serving at the banquet table.
"Arrows of Cupid"
Ingredients:
- peking leaves;
- shrimp - 300 grams;
- crab sticks - 200 grams;
- canned pineapple - 1 can;
- pomegranate - 1 piece;
- mayonnaise, salt
Cooking method:
- Shred the peking.
- Boil the shrimp in boiling water (enough for 3 minutes), cool and peel.
- Finely chop the crab sticks and pineapples.
- All mixed in a salad bowl and cover the pomegranate seeds.
- Add mayonnaise and salt. Mix everything well.
Before serving, decorate with greens.
Chicken variant
Ingredients:
- chicken fillet - 200 grams;
- peking leaves;
- cheese - 100 grams;
- pistachios - 1 tbsp. spoon;
- Kiwi - 1 piece;
- apple - 1 piece;
- strawberries (fresh) - 8-10 pieces;
- lemon - 0.5 pieces;
- mayonnaise and sour cream (for dressing).
Cooking method:
- Boil chicken fillet, cool and cut into thin sticks.
- Cut strawberries, kiwi and apple into small cubes.
- Grind pistachios and grate cheese.
- Squeeze lemon juice into a separate cup.
- Put Beijing cabbage leaves on a plate, top chicken fillet.Everything is lightly sprinkled with lemon juice and poured with a mixture of sour cream and mayonnaise.
- Apple cubes, strawberries, kiwi, pistachios and cheese are poured on top. The dish looks very bright and spectacular.
We recommend to watch the video on how to prepare the salad "Arrows Cupid":
"Beautiful girl"
Ingredients (5 servings):
- smoked chicken - 300 grams;
- peking leaves;
- pear - 1 piece;
- nuts - 50 grams;
- olive oil 4 tbsp. spoons;
- French mustard - 2 tsp;
- ground black pepper - 1 tsp;
- salt - to taste.
Cooking method:
- Smoked chicken cut into strips or cubes.
- Peking leaves finely chop and add to the chicken.
- Pear, after removing the core, cut into thin strips.
- Mix everything in a salad bowl, chop nuts and add to the total mass.
- For dressing mix mustard, pepper and oil. 6. Pour over the salad dressing and mix well again.
Enjoy your meal!
Light
Ingredients (for 4 servings):
- peking leaves;
- cheese - 150 grams;
- egg - 3 pieces;
- Apple - 1 piece;
- onion turnip - 2 pieces;
- green onions - a few feathers;
- parsley (for decoration);
- mayonnaise for refueling.
Cooking method:
- Cook hard-boiled chicken eggs, peel and grate.
- Onions cut into half rings, lay in a bowl and cover with cold water.
The colder the water the better. The taste of onions will be softer, and the pieces will be crispy.
- Grate cheese and apple. You can cut and manually, but try to make the pieces smaller.
- All mix, add mayonnaise and chopped greens.
- Portions should be spread on the leaves of Peking cabbage and immediately serve guests.
"Caesar"
There are many variants of Caesar salad. Here are two of them that are deservedly popular with hostesses.
Classical
Ingredients:
- chicken breast;
- Chinese cabbage;
- cherry tomatoes - 5 pieces;
- cheese - 200 grams;
- garlic - 2 cloves;
- baton - 150 grams;
- olive oil;
- egg - 1 piece;
- lemon;
- mustard - 1 tsp;
- salt.
Cooking method:
- Boil chicken breasts and cut into small cubes.
- Wash cherry tomatoes and cut into halves.
- Fry the crushed garlic in oil, then remove it from the pan.
- Cut the loaf into small cubes or sticks and add to the prepared garlic oil.
When the pieces are fed with oil - get them, put on a baking sheet and dry in the oven until golden brown at a temperature of 180-200ºะก.
- Peking leaves finely chop and put on the bottom of the plate. Top lay chicken and chopped tomatoes.
- Making a dressing is very simple: put together chopped garlic, mustard, lemon juice and yolk. Everything is thoroughly mixed and a spoon of olive oil is added. Shake the sauce well and pour over the salad.
- Sprinkle the dish with crackers and grated cheese.
Original
Ingredients:
- peking leaves;
- shrimp - 400 grams;
- tomatoes - 2 pieces;
- cheese - 180 grams;
- long loaf - 200 grams;
- garlic - 1 clove;
- ready salad dressing "Caesar";
- olive oil - 1 tbsp. spoon.
Cooking method:
- Cut the loaf into cubes, add crushed or chopped garlic, lightly salt, put the pieces on a baking sheet and dry in the oven until golden brown.
- Thaw shrimp, peel and fry in vegetable oil.
- Grate the cheese on a fine grater.
- Cabbage leaves finely chop and put in a plate. Pour some of the sauce and sprinkle with grated cheese.
- From above, the slices of tomatoes and ready-made shrimps are beautifully laid.
- At the last stage, the salad is sprinkled with sauce, sprinkled with crackers and cheese.
In addition, watch the video with the classic Caesar salad recipe:
"Greek"
Traditional
Ingredients (for 4 servings):
- olive oil - 3 tbsp. spoons;
- lemon juice - 1.5 tbsp. spoons;
- garlic - 1 clove;
- spices - to taste;
- tomatoes - 3 pieces;
- peking leaves;
- onion - 0.5 pieces;
- cucumber - 1 piece;
- Feta cheese - 120 g;
- olives - 10-15 pieces.
Cooking method:
- Hands to break the leaves Peking.
- Tomatoes cut into slices and cucumber halves of circles.
- Onions are cut into half rings, cheese - into a cube, and olives - into slices. Mix everything and put on a plate.
- Prepare dressing: mix butter, lemon juice, garlic, salt and spices. To stir thoroughly.
- Before serving, pour the salad dressing.
Spicy
From the first option, it differs in the recipe for refueling and has a more piquant taste. Here is her recipe. Mix olive oil (3 tablespoons) with balsamic (0.5 tsp.) And lemon juice (0.5 pieces). Add salt, oregano, basil and crushed garlic (1 clove). Mix well and add to salad.
See one of the recipes for cooking Greek salad in the video:
"Crab"
Piquant
Ingredients:
- peking leaves;
- crab sticks - 200 grams;
- corn - 1 bank;
- cheese - 120 grams;
- Korean carrot - 50 grams;
- garlic - 1 clove;
- mayonnaise, greens.
Cooking method:
- Peking cabbage cut into strips.
- Finely chop the crab sticks.
- Cheese grate.
- Korean carrot slightly chop.
- Finely chop the garlic and greens.
- Mix everything, add corn, mayonnaise and mix well again.
Salad ready!
Gentle
Ingredients:
- Beijing leaves - 250 grams;
- crab sticks - 200 grams;
- corn - 1 bank;
- egg - 3 pieces;
- onion - 1 piece;
- mayonnaise, spices - to taste.
Cooking method:
- Peking leaves, crab sticks, onions and eggs chop.
- Corn drain and add to the other components of the salad.
- All mix, season with mayonnaise, add spices to taste.
"New Year"
On New Year's Eve you can cook something unusual from Chinese cabbage to surprise the guests.
Ingredients for salad on NG:
- shrimp - 200 grams;
- oranges - 2 pieces;
- peking;
- carrots - 1 piece;
- eggs - 2 pieces;
- refueling;
- salt pepper.
Cooking method:
- Cabbage finely chopped straw.
- Boil eggs, peel and chop into slices.
- Boiled peeled carrots and cut into thin strips.
- Peel and peel oranges, remove partitions on slices and add them to salad.
- Add shrimp, dressing and spices to taste.
Salad ready!
Conclusion
Salads with Chinese cabbage are served at the table both in the general salad bowl and in portions. In the holiday presentation, for example, on the New Year, decorations and decorative elements are added. Most salads at festive tables are dressed with mayonnaise. In the daily version, the recipe is often easier and mayonnaise is replaced by unsweetened yogurt. On the manufacture of the above dishes will not take much time. Even if the guests suddenly descended, you will always adequately get out of this situation by quickly preparing a simple but tasty salad.
Please yourself and your guests with these tasty and easy-to-cook dishes. On the holiday table, they will occupy a worthy place. And your guests will remain full and satisfied.
