Salads were invented in Ancient Greece and have been constantly improved throughout the history of mankind. The fact is that the first salads could not be called real salads, as they consisted of greens and salt. Actually, the word salad came from the Greek word “salt”.
In the Middle Ages, salads could completely disappear from culinary history. It was dangerous to cook the dish, since vegetables carried a lot of different germs and bacteria, and therefore led to diseases.
Only in the XVIII-XIX centuries, salads found a new life and began to be prepared constantly on the tables of the nobility.
In the recipe books mention both meat and cheese, mushroom salads and dishes with seafood
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Let’s prepare a budget salad “Bride” for the holiday.
Ingredients for salad “Bride”:
- onion – 1 pc;
- salt – 1/2 tsp;
- sugar – 1 tsp;
- vinegar 9% – 1 tbsp;
- water – 100 ml;
- boiled chicken fillet – 2 pcs;
- mayonnaise;
- boiled potatoes – 4 pcs;
- processed cheeses – 3 pieces;
- egg – 4 pcs;
- pomegranate grains.
Preparation of salad “Bride”:
We cut into small cubes onion, mix in a bowl with salt, sugar, vinegar and hot water, leave to marinate for 10 minutes. At this time cut into small cubes boiled chicken fillet, lay out the first layer.
Each layer of salad smear with mayonnaise
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On the layer of meat put onions, squeezed from the marinade. Grate
boiled
potatoes on a coarse grater, put the next layer on the onions.
Boil hard-boiled eggs, peel and divide into yolks and whites
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Grate yolks on a fine grater, pour them on the potato layer. Grate cheese on a coarse grater, put on a layer of yolks.
Grate proteins on a coarse grater, put on a layer of cheese.
Decorate this salad with pomegranate grains
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It turns out to be an excellent salad for a festive table.