An unusual range of flavors - Chinese cabbage salads with pine, walnut and other nuts

Every year, more and more people are trying to start a correct lifestyle, stick to a healthy diet, and go in for sports regularly.

The main preference among adherents of such a lifestyle, occupy a variety of salads. One of these dishes is a combination of Peking cabbage and nuts.

In this article we will analyze the benefits and harm of dishes from Chinese cabbage and various nuts, analyze the composition of tasty and healthy salads, as well as how to serve such dishes on the table.

The benefits and harm of dishes

To understand how this salad is useful, you can consider its main ingredients.

Beijing cabbage began to gain popularity relatively recently, it comes from China. To call this vegetable high-calorie is simply impossible. In 100 g of the product there are only 12 kcal.

The combination of nuts and cabbage makes the dish nourishing at the same time, as in nuts more than 600 kcal, but also light. Many nutritionists advise to use nuts as a snack, since in small quantities they have a very positive effect on the entire body.

On average, a person should eat about 100 grams. any nuts, it can be cedar, walnuts, pistachios, peanuts. One has only to decide which type is most liked, but it is best to alternate between different types, since each nut has a huge amount of useful trace elements, vitamins, which will make a person much healthier.

IMPORTANT! This salad is especially useful and we recommend because of the zero cholesterol content in these two products.

100 grams of lettuce contains about 25 grams of protein, 26 grams of carbohydrates and 50 grams of fat. From one portion of cabbage and nuts, a person will receive vitamins such as A, B, C, D, as well as magnesium, iron, calcium.

Harm this dish can inflict with excessive consumption of all ingredients, with the wrong proportion of nuts and vegetables. At 100 grams of salad you need to add a few grams of nutlet.

Step by Step Cooking Instructions

To get the perfect salad, you need to know the technology and the nuances of cooking.

With pine nuts

"Forest Tale"

To surprise guests with a delicious, unusual, as well as healthy dish, you will need:

• Chinese cabbage;
• 100 grams of canned corn;
• 50 grams of pine nuts;
• 1 large tomato;
• 150 grams of sour cream;
• 150 grams of shrimp;
• olive oil;
• salt, spices, herbs.

1. Peking cabbage can be chopped or cut. In cooking, you will need a frying pan, namely for roasting nuts and shrimps.
   ATTENTION! For seafood, you need to pour olive oil into the pan.
2. Tomato sliced.
3. Now you need to connect the cabbage with tomato, corn, shrimp.
4. The resulting salad should be filled with sour cream, herbs, and do not forget to salt.

"Squirrel"

There is still a great recipe for a hearty and tasty salad.

Ingredients:

• 0.5 kg of champignons;
• Chinese cabbage;
• chicken breast;
• 200 grams of parmesan;
• 100 grams of pine nuts;
• 600 grams of rice.

1. Chicken breast and rice should be boiled.
2. Fry nuts and mushrooms in a frying pan.
3. After cooking, grind all the ingredients and mix, grate Parmesan on top and season with sour cream or another sauce.
4. Salt and pepper are added to taste.

With walnuts

"Fitness Salad"

To make this salad, you will need:

• 400 grams of Chinese cabbage;
• 2 bell peppers;
• 3 carrots;
• 100 grams of peeled walnuts;
• 300 grams of sour cream;
• 1 tbsp. spoonful of lemon juice;
• salt, spices to taste.

1. Peking cabbage should be chopped and immediately sprinkled with salt.
2. Peppers need to be cleaned and cut into strips.
3. Carrots are peeled and rubbed on a coarse grater.
4. It is recommended that the walnuts be lightly roasted in a pan.
5. To get excellent salad dressing, you need to take sour cream, add lemon juice and salt.
6. After all the ingredients, except nuts, are mixed, you should pour them with the received dressing.
7. After the salad is laid out in a pot, you should put the roasted nuts on top.

Healthy and tasty salad ready to serve.

"Chinese motifs"

The second recipe will be much easier and faster.

For a light salad, only cabbage and 50-100 grams of walnuts are required.. This vegetable should be chopped, mixed with peeled nuts, salt and season with olive oil. This recipe will not so refined, but quite tasty and easy.

Next, a visual video of the salad recipe with the addition of walnuts and Chinese cabbage:

“Easy Chicken Salad”

Another tasty, light and fairly quick salad with bikinka:

With pistachios

"Chicken Beauty"

Ingredients:

• chicken fillet;
• head of cabbage;
• one handful of pistachios;
• mayonnaise;
• spices to taste.

1. To get this dish, you need to boil the chicken, then cut into strips.
2. Peking cabbage should be chopped.
3. All ingredients need to combine and pour mayonnaise, salt and pepper.

You can also make a salad in the form of snacks, namely, to combine only cabbage and nuts. You can fill it with olive oil.

With hazelnuts

"Original"

For a fresh and tasty salad may be required:

• Chinese cabbage;
• 2 eggs;
• 100 grams of hazelnuts;
• lemon juice;
• greenery;
• salt pepper.

1. Eggs need to be boiled and cut into strips, cabbage should be chopped.
2. Hazelnuts better fry in a pan for a more saturated taste.
3. Greens should also be cut.
4. All ingredients need to be mixed, season with sunflower oil and add a little lemon juice.
5. Salt is recommended to taste.

A more nutritious recipe with the same basic ingredients can be a dish with added chicken fillet. You can fill the resulting salad with sour cream, mayonnaise or sunflower oil.

With peanuts

"Emerald"

Salad with peanuts and cabbage can also turn out no less interesting.

Ingredients:

• head of cabbage;
• roasted peanuts, up to 100 grams;
• fresh cucumber;
• greenery;
• salt, spices to taste;
• lemon juice.

Cucumber and cabbage should be chopped, add peanuts, greens, season with sunflower oil with lemon and spices.

"For dinner"

As a snack option, maybe another simple recipe:

1. You need to take shredded cabbage and add roasted peanuts.
2. You can fill with olive or sunflower oil.

Next, a video with another recipe from peanuts and Chinese cabbage:

A few quick recipes

1. Quite quick recipes can be called the mixing of two main ingredients - Chinese cabbage and any kind of walnut.
2. Salads can be seasoned with sour cream, mayonnaise, or butter.

How to serve?

Salad with Chinese cabbage and nuts can be served as an appetizer and main course. More complex recipes are perfect for a festive table. Light chicken salads are a good choice for dinner.

Thus, we can conclude that a salad with Chinese cabbage and nuts is a huge source of vitamins and microelements. These dishes can be made completely different with the addition of almost any ingredients, and each time getting something new and unusual.

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