Salads with cherry and cabbage are prepared very quickly and easily. Moreover, it is the most useful and vitamin versions of dishes, both for an ordinary family evening, and for various holidays and events.
Having spent a minimum of time for preparation, you receive a tasty, rather nourishing dish, rich not only with vitamins and minerals, but also with a large amount of fiber.
How you can cook them yourself at home and what is needed for this we will tell you later in the article.
The benefits and harm of dishes
Beijing cabbage contains an impressive amount of trace elements. It is rich in vitamins (B, PP, A, E, K, P), minerals and amino acids (about 16). Moreover, this product contains a miraculous amino acid called "lysine", which has a beneficial effect on the human body:
- cleans the blood;
- strengthens the immune system;
- gives strength and vitality for the whole day.
Cellulose contained in the leaves of such cabbage improves and stabilizes the functioning of the digestive organs, and the complex of minerals removes excess fluid from the body and thus removes various edemas.
Important! Cherry tomatoes are also very rich in vitamins (A, E, C, K and group B), macro- and microelements. They improve the work of the heart and cleanse the body of toxins, moreover, quickly satisfy hunger.
But it is worth considering that a salad of these ingredients may not be useful for everyone. It is necessary to refrain from cabbage to people with various diseases of the digestive system (gastritis, pancreatitis, ulcers, increased acidity and stomach bleeding), cholelithiasis and metabolic disorders, so as not to aggravate the situation.
Per 100 g of salad:
- calories 29 kcal;
- proteins 1.9 g .;
- fat 0.4 g .;
- carbohydrates 4 g
Differences in the composition of the usual tomato and small tomatoes
Despite their size, cherry tomatoes have a larger set of nutrients than ordinary tomato varieties and lower calorie content. But at the same time, these little tomatoes are very satisfying. Most often, salads with cherry tomatoes use olive oil, balsamic vinegar, soy sauce and, less often, mayonnaise or sour cream as a dressing. All this is especially true for people practicing different diets.
Step by Step Cooking Instructions
With yellow pepper
With the addition of boiled chicken
Ingredients:
- Cherry - 7-8 pieces.
- Beijing cabbage - 350-400 grams.
- Chicken fillet - 400 grams.
- Yellow Bulgarian pepper - 1 pieces.
- Parsley to taste.
- Olive oil - 2 tablespoons.
- Salt and pepper to taste.
Step-by-step instruction:
- Thoroughly wash the fillets, put in a pan and boil it until fully cooked.
- Cut it into cubes and put in a bowl.
- Wash and clean the vegetables.
- Cut vegetables - peking into small pieces, tomatoes into 4 parts, pepper with half a straw.
- Cut parsley.
- Put the ingredients in a bowl.
- Salt and pepper to taste, pour in olive oil.
Watch a video about making salad from Peking cabbage, cherry tomatoes and other vegetables:
Variation on the theme "Greek" with tofu
An interesting and tasty salad will also turn out if you modify Recipe 1 - take tofu cheese (350 g) instead of chicken. Optionally, you can pour balsamic vinegar or lemon juice.
With Chiken
With smoked chicken leg
Ingredients:
- Beijing cabbage - ½ head.
- Cherry - 2 sprigs.
- Smoked chicken leg - 300 grams.
- Tomato - 2 pieces.
- Cucumber - 2 pieces.
- Red Bulgarian pepper - 1 piece.
- Apple - 1 piece.
- Ketchup - 1 tsp.
- Mayonnaise - 2 tablespoons.
- Salt - to taste.
- Pepper - to taste.
Step-by-step instruction:
- Prepare ingredients for cooking: wash vegetables and fruits, peppers from seeds, cucumbers - from the peel.
- Vegetables and fruits cut into cubes.
- Pekingku chop straws.
- Remove the skin from the ham, select the meat and chop finely.
- Prepare dressing - mix ketchup with mayonnaise, salt and pepper.
- Mix the ingredients with the dressing in a bowl and serve immediately.
With boiled breast or fillet
Remove cucumber from the first recipe, add instead sweet corn (1/2 can), pitted olives (1 can) and season with mayonnaise or olive oil.
With cheese
With feta
Ingredients:
- Cherry - a pair of twigs.
- Pekinge - heading out.
- Feta cheese - 50-100 grams.
- Cucumber - 1 piece.
- Carrot - 1 piece.
- Onion - 1 piece.
- Olive oil - to taste.
- Spices.
- Greenery.
- Seasoning.
Instruction:
- All vegetables and herbs should be washed (except onions).
- Separate the leaves from the cabbage and cut into small strips. Do greens and onions as well. Put the ingredients on a flat plate.
- Cut the cucumber into circles or semicircles and place on the plate on top of other ingredients.
- Peel fresh carrots, cut into strips and add to salad.
- Season with spices.
- Remove the cherry tomatoes from the twigs and cut into halves.
- Feta cheese cut into small cubes and add to the dish along with the cherry.
- Pour over all the olive oil.
With the usual
Replace feta cheese with ordinary cheese (approximately 100 g), remove carrot and cucumber from ingredients (use onions if desired). Add mayonnaise as a dressing.
We offer you to watch a video about the preparation of salad from Peking cabbage and cherry tomatoes with the addition of cheese:
With celery
Simplest
Ingredients:
- Beijing - 2-3 sheets.
- Cherry - 1-2 sprigs.
- Celery - 1 stalk.
- Dill - 1 bunch.
- Olive oil - to taste.
- Salt - to taste.
- Pepper - to taste.
Cooking:
- Rinse all vegetables thoroughly.
- Chop the cabbage.
- Finely chop the cherry tomatoes, celery and greens.
- Put in a bowl, add salt, pepper, pour in oil and mix thoroughly.
Vitaminized
In the first option, chop the parsley (1 bunch), add linseed oil and lemon juice as a dressing.
With crackers
Homemade
Ingredients:
- Bread (white) - for example, the brand "Harry's".
- Beijing - ½ head.
- Cherry - 1-2 sprigs.
- Sweet pepper - 1 piece.
- Cheese - 120 grams.
- Chicken fillet - 400 grams.
- Chicken eggs - 2-3 pieces.
- Salt - to taste.
- Pepper - to taste.
- Seasoning - to taste.
- Sour cream - 2 tablespoons.
Cooking:
- Prepare crackers: cut bread into cubes, put on a baking sheet in one layer over baking paper. Heat the oven to 90 degrees, put the pan in the oven on the lower level, wait for the dryers to dry. Put ready-made crackers in a plate and sprinkle with paprika or other spices.
- Boil the chicken fillet and eggs, then chop everything as small as possible.
- Break or cut the bikuku.
- Cherry tomatoes cut in half.
- Pepper and cheese cut into cubes.
- Put all ingredients in a bowl, mix, salt and pepper, add sour cream.
- Top with croutons.
Purchased
It is possible to simplify the recipe - buy croutons in the store, it saves a significant amount of time, and, for example, add 2 tbsp of sour cream instead of sour cream. mayonnaise. It turns out a completely different salad.
With greens
With parsley and basil
Ingredients:
- Beijing - 1 "forks" (approximately 400 g).
- Cherry - 6 pieces.
- Cucumber - 3 pieces.
- Parsley - 1 bunch.
- Basil - 1 bunch.
- Sesame - 2 tsp.
- Salt - to taste.
- Pepper - to taste.
- Olive oil - 2 tablespoons.
Cooking:
- Wash vegetables and herbs, dry.
- Peking cabbage finely chop, cucumbers cut into halves of circles.
- Cherry tomatoes divided into halves.
- Pick parsley and basil leaves.
- Put all ingredients in a container, salt, pepper, pour with olive oil.
- To mix everything.
- Add sesame as desired.
See the video recipe of vegetable salad with the addition of Chinese cabbage and cherry tomatoes:
With the addition of eggs
In this salad, you can add 2-3 chicken eggs, pre-boiled, lemon juice or balsamic vinegar. This is a completely different recipe and a new taste.
A few quick recipes
With mozzarella
Ingredients:
- Cherry - 10 pieces.
- Beijing - 5-6 sheets.
- Mozzarella cheese - 10 pieces.
- Greens (parsley, dill) - 2 bunches.
- Sesame (optional).
- Salt - to taste.
- Pepper - to taste.
- Seasoning - to taste.
- Olive oil - 2 tablespoons.
- Lemon juice - 1 tsp.
Step-by-step instruction:
- Wash the cabbage, separate sheets from it, about 5 pieces. Cut into small strips. Put on a plate.
- Take mozzarella, if it is mini, then cut it in half. Put the salad in a container over the cabbage.
- Cut the cherry tomatoes in half and add to the other ingredients.
- Salt, pepper, pour with oil and lemon juice.
- Add seasoning.
- Mix thoroughly and sprinkle with sesame.
With Korean Carrots
Instead of cheese, add Korean-style carrots (250 grams), and add soy sauce to the dressing.
How to serve dishes?
Dishes are mainly served cold in salad bowls, bowls or deep plates.
If croutons are added to salads, then they should be served immediately after cooking so that the croutons do not have time to soak. It is also worth doing with salads with sour cream or mayonnaise dressing, as they can give water (from tomatoes). If oil is used as a dressing, then it will be even better if the dish is a little bored and soaked.
Beijing cabbage and cherry tomatoes have great opportunities in combination with other products., they can coexist with almost everything - vegetables, fruits, seafood, chicken, greens, etc. So, if you add every day to the main ingredients - peking and cherry, various others, you will get completely new dishes.
Tasty, nourishing, vitamin, healthy and easy!
