The word salad comes from the ancient Greek word for salty. The point is that all salads used to be salted. Salads were created mainly from greens and onions. Therefore, salt, as a dressing, brought notes of new flavor to the dish.
Salads of greens were expensive dishes because of the salt in the composition. In ancient times, mining salt was a labor-intensive endeavor. For this reason, only nobles could afford a lot of salt.
Later salads began to include different vegetables, fruits, meat and fish. The price of salads varied with the cost of the products. To this day, there are still some very expensive salads. For example, a salad with truffle and caviar
. Let’s prepare a more budgetary delicious salad “Nezhenka”.
Ingredients for salad “Nezhenka”:
- Ham – 350 g;
- Fresh cucumber – 350 g;
- Cheese – 150 g;
- Boiled eggs – 3 pcs;
- Garlic – 2 cloves;
- Salt – ½ tsp;
- Mayonnaise – 4 tbsp.
Preparation of salad “Tender”:
Small bars cut fresh cucumber and ham, lay out in a bowl. Peeled boiled eggs rub on a coarse grater. Cool the eggs beforehand
and add the egg mixture to the ham and cucumber. Grate cheese on a coarse grater, put it in the salad. Press garlic cloves through the press and put them in the salad.
Salt the salad, dress it with mayonnaise and mix thoroughly
.
It is recommended to dress the salad with homemade mayonnaise. So the flavor of the salad will be more intense.
