What is one of the most popular dishes when ordering at a restaurant or preparing for a holiday table? Salad is considered to be such a dish because of its versatility. The advantage of this dish is the fact that salad can be prepared as an appetizer, as a main course, as a side dish, as an aperitif, and even as a dessert.
Salads can be warm, cold, hearty and light. Serving salads is also amazing, from shot glasses to large salad bowls, this dish is served in many different ways. Moreover, even the ingredients for the salads can be amazing. From ordinary vegetables to minced meat and deli meats are put in salads. Let’s show you how to prepare a minced meat salad.
Ingredients of minced meat salad:
- Stuffing – 400 g;
- Onion – 2 pcs;
- Salt – ½ tsp;
- Sugar – 1 tsp;
- Lemon – ½ pcs;
- Eggs – 6 pcs;
- Potatoes – 3 pcs;
- Carrots – 1 pc;
- Pickled cucumbers – 3 pcs;
- Hard cheese – 100 g;
- Walnuts – 50 g;
- Mayonnaise – 250 g;
- Paprika – 1 tsp;
- Italian herbs – 1 tsp;
- Dried garlic – ½ tsp;
- Dill – a few sprigs.
Preparation of minced meat salad:
In a skillet on vegetable oil fry minced meat. Cut a small diced onion and send to the frying pan with minced
meat. Fry minced meat and onion until ready. At this time boil hard-boiled eggs, carrots and potatoes until ready.
Pour salt and ground black pepper, paprika, Italian herbs and dry garlic into the minced
meat
.
Fill the minced meat with a spoonful of mayonnaise, stir and fry for 1-2 minutes.
Chop dill, pour into the minced meat, mix greens and meat. Cut the second onion into small cubes, salt and sugar, add lemon juice and stir.
Leave the onion to marinate for 10 minutes. While the onions are marinating, cut small cubes of pickled cucumbers, peeled carrots and potatoes rubbed on a coarse grater. Similarly grate eggs and cheese. Chop nuts to the formation of coarse crumbs.
In the cooking ring form a mesh of mayonnaise, lay out the potatoes as the first layer.
Each layer of salad smear a thin layer of mayonnaise.
On the potato layer put the onion layer, beforehand drain the marinade
.
On the onion layer put minced meat, distribute it evenly.
Mix the rest of the pickled onions with pickled cucumbers, put on the layer of minced meat.
Then on the layer of onions and cucumbers put shredded carrots, tamp the surface.
Mix cheese with nuts and put on the layer of carrots
.
Put grated eggs on the cheese layer. Decorate the top of the salad with finely grated cheese around the edges.
You can also decorate the salad with finely grated yolks, nuts and dill. After decorating, put the salad in the refrigerator for 3-4 hours to soak.
