Summer is definitely a great time for housewives. After all, it is during the hot season that you can diversify your usual and holiday menu delicious dishes made from fresh vegetables. I am no exception and often cook various vegetables simple salads from raw vegetables. Here is one of these vegetable variations with Chinese cabbage. In today's step-by-step recipe with photos, I offer a simple and very delicious salad with Chinese cabbage, cucumber and tomatoes with sour cream.
Ingredients:
As usual, before cutting vegetables for salads, I thoroughly rinse the ingredients under running water and dry them with a towel. The order in which the ingredients are chopped does not matter at all for my salad. Let's start with tomatoes, for example. I remove the place where the tail of the tomato was located. I cut the tomato into small slices. I immediately place the tomato slices in a bowl.
Now I start chopping the cucumber. Whether to cut off the peel or not is up to you. If the cucumber is young and its skin is not bitter, then you can leave it. The form of cucumber slicing is cubes or thick straws.
It's time for the bow. I use purple because it is more suitable for salads. The shape is half rings.
I chop the pepper, peeled from the seed pod, into strips.
I just chop the Chinese cabbage thinly.
I only use salt as a spice, but you can also add ground pepper.
I add dressing to the chopped ingredients. I have sour cream.
All that remains is to mix everything.
Well, a delicious and healthy vegetable salad with Chinese cabbage is ready. Bon appetit!
If you replace sour cream in a dish with vegetable oil, then a very tasty salad with Chinese cabbage is suitable for vegetarians and during Lent.
In our time of product diversity, it has become fashionable to adhere to the principles proper nutrition. For me, in this regard, the hardest thing was not to eat enough at night. The myth that you can’t eat after 18:00 is really just a myth. However, doctors still advise eating no later than 2-3 hours before bedtime, while trying to avoid fatty, fried, sweet and starchy foods. The good news is that the range of vegetables, fruits and dietary meat in stores today is large. The only difficulty is to combine them so that it is delicious. I offer one of the options for a “light” salad that will not add extra calories to you, but is still quite juicy and tasty.
First, let's prepare the ingredients:
I took the fillet from half chicken breast and medium-sized vegetables. Peking cabbage is sold in whole heads of 1 kg. We will only need 1/3 of a head of cabbage - approximately 300 grams.
1. First of all, you need to rinse chicken fillet and put it to boil in salted water.
2. While the chicken is boiling, let's take on the vegetables. First of all, I chop the cucumber. To avoid peeling cucumbers, I take smooth ones, rinse them with hot water and cut off the “butts”. You can cut the cucumber in different ways, I do it into small “straws”.
Cooking time: PT01H00M 1 h.
The pleasant, sweet and sour taste of juicy tomatoes can transform any salad, without exception. At the same time, it is with Chinese cabbage that the combination of products is the most refined, bright and rich. Despite the lightness and tomato, it is quite possible to satisfy your voracious appetite.
The benefits of Chinese cabbage include not only strengthening the immune system, but also for chronic diseases of the cardiovascular system and problems of the gastrointestinal tract, its benefits are simply enormous. Accordingly, dishes even with the most minimal composition, but including this product, are simply necessary for the body. Moreover, on top of everything else, they are delicious. This is exactly what this simple and seemingly ordinary one is.
Important! There is a misconception that the lower part of a head of Chinese cabbage is unsuitable for making salads. It is thanks to her that the dish becomes juicy, pleasantly crispy, with a piquant and unexpectedly bright taste.
The peculiarity is so simple dish It’s not even that Chinese cabbage is involved here. A much more important point of this recipe is the sauce, thanks to which the salad acquires not only an excellent aroma, but also a simply amazing taste.
Tip: to prevent the cabbage from losing its shape during the washing process, it is recommended to carry out this process not under running water, but in bowls. In the first one, rinse it well and then put it in another, rinse it again. Thanks to this procedure, all the dirt remains in the first bowl, and in the second the product will be perfectly washed.
Perfect, gourmet dish, which is perfect for a casual romantic evening. It goes perfectly with any meat dishes and white, light wine. At the same time, it is very simple to prepare; even the most inexperienced cook can easily cope with this task.
Tip: for this dish it is better to choose dense, not very juicy varieties of tomatoes. But even in this case, the salad will not be stored for long. It must be served immediately, because when left to steep, the tomatoes will release juice and the finished product will become unpleasant. appearance, and accordingly, the impression of it will be spoiled.
If ordinary vegetable salads are too light, then when added to their composition chicken meat they become much more satisfying. And in this case, cheese is also involved, which helps to increase the nutritional value of the finished product significantly.
This is no longer just, but a real vitamin vegetable paradise. There is so much in it, and everything is so bright, tasty, and healthy. Already during the cooking process, the appetite flares up. The dish will perfectly complement absolutely any side dish and add a certain freshness. In addition, the bright colors immediately lift the mood and create an amazing feeling of the upcoming holiday, even when it is not expected for a very long time.
No matter how original the composition is, tomatoes, its main components in this case are tomatoes and Chinese cabbage. It is thanks to them that the dish turns out juicy, nutritious, tender and very healthy, even if mayonnaise was used in it. With olive oil or the simplest sunflower oil, the dish has absolutely no drawbacks. In this case, a person will receive not only pleasure from it, but also great benefit.
You can sing the praises of Chinese cabbage because it provides unlimited possibilities when it comes to preparing salads. Its tenderness and juiciness, soft fresh taste, compatibility with a variety of ingredients - these are not all the advantages of Chinese cabbage. If we add here what in the East makes cabbage the main vegetable on the table, namely: the presence of vitamins, a special amino acid that prevents the appearance of cancer cells, the ability to remove heavy metals and improve immunity - then we must admit that this vegetable is very good for health.
Chinese cabbage is good with meat and seafood, cheese and, of course, other vegetables. Tomatoes in a salad with Chinese cabbage create a very balanced taste.
5) Post Chinese cabbage salad into a salad bowl and serve. This salad is light, juicy, and at the same time nutritious thanks to the cheese and mayonnaise dressing. Can be served for breakfast, used for a snack or a full lunch in combination with other dishes.
Calories: Not specified
Cooking time: Not specified
In the summer, as a rule, not only our lifestyle changes - we become more mobile and try to use every moment to have the best and most interesting time possible. But at the same time, our diet is changing. This is quite natural - after all, at the height of the vegetable and fruit season, it would be very strange to eat canned foods. That is why most of our menu is replaced by light vegetable dishes - salads and appetizers, soups, stews, etc.
At this time, I also try to lighten my menu as much as possible and prepare a variety of vegetable dishes. Once upon a time, my grandmother gave me a cookbook that contained recipes for vegetable dishes, and since then, I have been happily preparing my dishes using it.
I want to recommend you such a wonderful and very simple summer salad with Chinese cabbage, tomatoes and cucumbers, which can be both homemade and quite festive. I like that it comes out very bright, textured, and, of course, juicy, rich in taste - after all, it contains fresh vegetables, which we mix with oil and lemon juice.
For the dish we will need ripe tomato fruits (preferably fleshy varieties), cucumbers (salad can be used, but garden-grown ones are much tastier). And also lettuce pepper (in order for the salad to be in contrast, it is better to take orange-colored fruits) and Peking pepper (in principle, I sometimes replace it leaf lettuce), well, the “highlight” of the dish will be sweet corn(you can boil it frozen or take it in natural canned form).
You can present the salad in different ways, it all depends on the situation and your imagination.
Salad with Chinese cabbage, tomatoes and cucumbers - recipe with photo
The recipe is for 2 servings.
Ingredients:
- pepper (salad) – 1 pc.,
- cucumber fruit – 1 pc.,
- ripe tomato fruit – 1 pc.,
- cabbage (Beijing) – ½ head,
- sweet corn – 3-4 tbsp.,
- parsley,
- fine crystalline salt - to taste,
- olive oil – 2 tbsp.,
- lemon juice – 1 tsp,
- spices - to taste.
How to cook with photos step by step
First of all, remove the top leaves of the cabbage, and then wash and dry it. Next, chop it quite coarsely and put it in a salad bowl.
Wash the tomatoes, wipe them dry and cut out the places where the stalks are attached. And then cut them into neat cubes.
We wash the salad pepper and cut it in half, cut out the stalk and clean out the seeds. Next, we cut it in the same way as other products.
We wash the cucumber fruits; if they are bitter, then peel them. Next, cut off the ends on both sides and cut them into medium pieces.
Add chopped vegetables and finely chopped parsley to the salad bowl.
And sweet corn.
Pour in the oil and freshly squeezed lemon juice, add spices as desired.
A light salad with Chinese cabbage and vegetables is ready. Serve immediately to the table.
Bon appetit!
Starinskaya Lesya
I also recommend you prepare it for any holiday.