One of the oldest dishes that mankind has cooked is salad. Its history goes back tens of millennia. Over time, the table of ingredients for salads has expanded, as have the ways of preparing them.
There are regularities in the preparation of salads
.
Sometimes people neglect these rules, because of which they do not get a tasty salad.
First, in the salad you need to use the same cut of vegetables and other products. Otherwise, one component will take away the entire flavor.
Secondly, boil vegetables should be boiled in the skin, in order to preserve the full range of flavors.
Let’s tell you how to prepare at home an easy salad “Asia”.
Ingredients for salad “Asia”:
- chicken fillet – 3 pcs;
- garlic – 3 cloves;
- grapefruit/orange juice;
- soy sauce – 50 ml;
- vegetable oil – 1 tbsp;
- salt – a pinch;
- tomatoes – 300 g;
- grapefruit – 2 pcs;
- peking cabbage/aisberg;
- spinach/ruccola.
Ingredients for the dressing:
- soy sauce – 3 tbsp;
- honey – 1 tbsp;
- vegetable oil – 2 tbsp;
- mustard – 1 tbsp;
- salt – ½ tsp.
Preparation of salad “Asia”:
Cut chicken fillet into small pieces, rub garlic cloves to it finely.
Pour
soy sauce and vegetable oil to the chicken, salt and pepper to taste.
Pour grapefruit or orange juice to the chicken marinade, leave it for 20-30 minutes. At this time cut tomatoes into slices, peel grapefruit or orange, divide into slices and cut smaller. Chop
Peking cabbage, tear spinach and mix
.
Add tomato and grapefruit to the salad.
In a skillet in a small amount of oil fry marinated chicken on both sides.
For dressing mix in a separate bowl soy sauce with honey, vegetable oil and mustard, salt.
Dress the salad with the sauce, add the cooled chicken and mix.
For additional flavor you can add feta cheese to the salad.
You get a tasty Asian-style salad to serve at a party.
Author of the photo and original recipe youtube.com channel: Cooking with Tanya 2.0
