What ingredients may be needed
Since this article will cover several recipes, it does not make sense to run to the store for a certain list of products. The main ingredients of these dishes are vegetables, fruits, olive oil or cream. You will not need any special adaptations and skills. All you need is to open the fridge and inspect what's in it. It will be great if you find some items from the list below:
- apples - 2 pieces
- cucumber - 2 pieces
- radish - 5-8 pieces
- carrots - 1 pc
- cabbage - half the average head (can be sour - 200 g)
- peaches (fresh or canned) - 2-3 pcs
- beets - 1 pc
- cherries, black currants, gooseberries (fresh or frozen) - a handful
- mayonnaise - several table spoons
- cream or homemade sour cream - half a cup
- olive oil for refueling
- walnuts or almonds - a handful
For certain, let not all, but something should already be with you. Based on the available products, you can easily prepare a delicious salad of vegetables or fruit in quick turn. As a rule, the cooking time does not take more than fifteen minutes.
Recipes for instant salads
Let's start with the most famous, but slightly modified salad called "Spring". We all remember that when the first fresh vegetables appear, a creation of cut cabbage, radish and cucumbers, dressed with sour cream or mayonnaise, appears on our tables. In our case, you need to add green apples and nuts to the recipe. Salad is designed for 6-8 servings.
So, first you should chop fresh cabbage. Half of the average head is enough. After that, with small straws, crumb apples, you can use a special grater. It will take about two green apples.
To chopped cabbage and apples, add a couple of sliced medium cucumbers and pieces of eight radishes. After that, we pour our vegetables and fruits with fresh cream or mayonnaise (whoever loves it). If you use cream, let the salad be salted.
Now our task is to properly mix these ingredients. All is ready! The only recommendation: give the composition a little infusion in the refrigerator so that the vegetables can soak in cream or mayonnaise. If you want to pamper yourself with vitamins - prepare a light fruit salad.
It is done quite simply: we cut apples, peaches, boiled beets and carrots into cubes. Add the chopped walnuts or almonds. If desired, you can throw a handful of berries. You can fill this salad with cream or lemon juice. Salt and pepper is not necessary - it will spoil the taste.
For those who want to lose weight, the recipe for cucumber salad is perfect. To do this, finely chop 2-3 cucumbers of medium size, add to them 200 g of fresh or sauerkraut, and grate the carrot on a small grater. Fill this light and low-calorie salad better with cream or sour cream, but in no case mayonnaise.
There is also another recipe, which can rightfully be called universal. Since this is both a salad, and an appetizer. Surely, he is familiar with many, but we will tell a more perfect technology of creating a unique taste.
You will need to boil one or a couple of large beetroots, and then grate them on a fine grater. In the received weight we add the squeezed garlic (2 denticles), then we fill it all with several spoons of mayonnaise. But our secret is that with this composition, chopped nuts or currant berries will perfectly combine, as these ingredients will taste a certain piquancy.
We have given you only a few recipes for cooking light and delicious salads. The elapsed time for cooking will not be more than twenty minutes. If you trust your imagination, you can safely make some amendments. We are confident that these salads will be to your liking.