Salad "Men's Dreams" will be a real discovery for housewives, because it is cooked very simply, it requires a minimum set of products, and at the same time it is very nourishing and tasty, suitable for an ordinary dinner, and for a festive table.
Cooking features
Salad "Men's Dreams" is perfect for a holiday, and for a simple dinner. The secret of a special taste lies in the right combination of ingredients for cooking, and there are many different recipes: you can cook with boiled beef, chicken, including smoked - this will give "Male Dreams" a more delicate taste, with the addition of pineapples and nuts.
For a classic recipe, you will need boiled meat, eggs, cheese, and vegetables. Moreover, it is important to remember that this salad should be spread in layers and each layer should be coated with sauce (sour cream, mayonnaise, yogurt).
How to cook? There is nothing difficult.
The truth is very important to competently approach the choice of meat, which will depend on the taste of the salad.
It is best to buy fresh beef or chicken (frozen meat will not work). The color of the selected beef should be dark red, the presence of a blue or purple hue is a bad sign. To taste the boiled meat was exquisite, when cooking, add allspice and a few bay leaves to the water. Then simply lay out the salad layers of selected ingredients.
Pickled onion
Almost all recipes for this salad have pickled onions, which gives the dish a savory taste. In order not to spoil the dish, you need to know exactly how to pickle onions. First of all, it should be washed with boiling water to quickly remove bitterness. Then chop the onion - the smaller, the faster it will be soaked. To cook the marinade, you must:
- Cut the onion into half rings.
- Place in a glass jar.
- Boil 100 ml of water, add 3 tbsp. vinegar, 1 tsp sugar, 0.5 tsp salt.
- Pour the liquid onion.
- Leave for 1.5-2 hours.
"Male dreams" with boiled beef
Cooking time: 60 minutes.
Caloric content per 100 g: 240 kcal.
According to the classic recipe, this salad is cooked with boiled beef. This meat is recommended even by doctors after surgery or long-term treatment, because it contains a large amount of proteins that restore strength. Also, the salad will turn out nourishing and tasty. To prepare it, you should take the following ingredients:
- 400 g boiled beef;
- 70 g pickled onions;
- 3 hard-boiled eggs;
- 150 g of hard cheese;
- 2-3 tablespoons sauce (mayonnaise, sour cream).
Cooking is very simple:
- After the meat has cooled, it must be disassembled into fibers or finely chopped.
- Peel the eggs, rub the whites and yolks separately.
- Chop grated cheese.
It will all lay out in layers: first protein, then slices of beef, onions and yolk. And each layer must be greased with sauce. It will remain to decorate the salad with grated cheese and can be served.
Dietary version with chicken
Cooking time: 45 minutes.
Calories per 100 g: 187 kcal.
Salad "Men's Dreams" will be easy and satisfying, if you use chicken instead of beef, and you can take both boiled fillet and smoked, and the taste in the latter case will be incredible. And due to the use of fresh vegetables, you can vary the dish.
Ingredients need the following:
- 1 head of cabbage;
- 300 g boiled chicken;
- 2 tomatoes;
- 100 g pickled onions;
- 100 grams of cheese;
- 1 small pack of chips;
- 100 ml sour cream;
- half a lemon;
- 2 cloves of garlic;
- 0.5 tsp Sahara;
- 50 ml of olive oil;
- hot pepper to taste.
The cooking process is simple:
- Finely chop the cabbage, put it on the bottom of the plate.
- Boiled chicken finely cut or disassemble into fibers.
- Fry bacon until crunch, sprinkle chicken.
- Finely cut the tomatoes, put the next layer.
- Add pickled onions.
You also need to make a dressing: whip sour cream with lemon, add finely chopped garlic, olive oil, sugar. Stir the salad, garnish with chips and grated cheese on top.
Hearty Salad with Potatoes
Cooking time: 60 minutes.
Caloric value per 100 g: 256 kcal.
To prepare a hearty salad for the whole family, you should use potatoes and pickles. The prepared dish will turn out not only tasty, but also nutritious, savory. You can use both beef and chicken.
Ingredients:
- 500 grams of meat or chicken;
- 150 g pickled onions;
- 3 pickled cucumbers;
- 200 grams of cheese;
- 4 eggs;
- 4 boiled potatoes;
- mayonnaise to taste.
To cook, follow the simple instructions:
- Boiled meat finely cut or disassemble the fibers.
- Grate potatoes and boiled eggs.
- Spread half the boiled beef in a plate, grease with mayonnaise, put onion, potatoes and cucumbers on top.
- We coat each layer with mayonnaise.
- Put the beef on top and sprinkle the salad with grated cheese.
Spicy snack with pineapple
Cooking time: 45 minutes.
Calories per 100 g: 281 kcal.
This salad will be a real decoration of the festive table due to the unusual presentation and excellent spicy taste. Some housewives additionally use mushrooms. Best of all with beef and boiled chicken are combined with pineapples. And you can lay out the salad in layers or mix the ingredients: in the first case, the pineapples should be between the cheese and the egg, in the second - the fruit will be used for decorating, they are spread on the top layer.
Ingredients are as follows:
- 200 g boiled chicken or beef;
- 1 onion;
- 1 sweet pepper;
- 1 bunch of green lettuce;
- mayonnaise or sour cream to taste;
- 100 g canned pineapples.
The cooking is incredibly simple: cut the pepper into halves, remove the seeds, finely cut the meat, pineapples, onions, and greens. To remove the bitterness in the onion, you need to pour boiling water over it before cutting. All that remains is to mix, dress with sauce and arrange the appetizer into halves of pepper.
