Salad for the holidays: Easter is getting closer
What will be the best? It’s fast approaching and more and more people, preparing and preparing it, are asking themselves what salads to choose. In most Polish homes, of course, it reigns supreme Vegetable Salad, without which many of us cannot imagine holidays, especially Easter. However, it must be admitted that in each home it is prepared in a unique way, everyone has their own proven recipe that makes the vegetable salad taste like nowhere else and disappears from the Easter table in the blink of an eye.
Vegetable Salad Photo Agata Jakubowska / Agencja Wyborcza.pl
However, apart from the vegetable salad, other appetizers are also prepared, especially those using eggs. they are an inseparable element of spring holidays and appear on the Easter table in all possible configurations. In addition to eggs, other popular ingredients in Easter salads include: cress, nuts, and horseradish. We also like to eat herring, tuna, mackerel, chicken and ham. But the Christmas menu may also include potato, pasta or vegan salads. In this respect, tradition eagerly combines with modernity.
10 best salads for Easter
If we tried to list the 10 best salads for , each of us would probably serve a different set of appetizers. So what Easter salads could be among the best? Here are 10 suggestions:
- Vegetable Salad – the queen of Easter salads, simple and filling, prepared from boiled potatoes, carrots, celery and parsley, most often with peas, often also with pickled or pickled cucumber, wine apple or corn, necessarily with mayonnaise combining the ingredients,
- Easter salad with white sausage – which combines white sausage, hard-boiled eggs, salad mix, peppers and chives with a velvety mayonnaise and horseradish sauce,
- Easter potato salad – prepared from potatoes, radishes and red onion, often with the addition of hard-boiled eggs, pickled cucumbers or feta cheese, it tastes best with a light horseradish sauce, which will give it a unique character,
- Waldorf salad – the combination of celery, apple, grapes, walnuts and lettuce leaves thanks to the yogurt-mayonnaise sauce may be an ideal proposition for the Easter table,
- tuna salad – a combination of tuna, hard-boiled eggs, pickled or pickled cucumbers, corn and rice, the advantage of this salad is not only the short preparation time, but above all its unique taste,
- gyros salad – with chicken breast, corn, pickled cucumber, Chinese cabbage, mayonnaise and ketchup, it is becoming more and more popular on Polish tables,
- salad with cress – light salad with hard-boiled eggs, chopped cress, pickled cucumbers, corn, radishes and grated cheese,
- Salad With Chicken and pineapple – a combination of chicken breast, pineapple, iceberg lettuce and sunflower seeds may be a great idea for an Easter appetizer,
- Egg salad – the Easter table will be wonderfully decorated with a colorful and unusually spring salad with hard-boiled eggs as the main character,
- Mushroom salad – just combine mushrooms, eggs and onion, but the salad can also be enriched with chives, pickled cucumber, white part of leek or corn.
Salads for the holidays: Easter is the time of fresh salads
What salads are worth preparing for the holidays? This is the time when novelties also appear on the table, and eggs, horseradish and cress are an integral part of Christmas dishes. That’s why it’s worth preparing a simple Easter salad.
Ingredients:
- 5 hard-boiled eggs
- 3 radishes
- 2 pickled cucumbers
- 250 grams of canned peas
- 300 grams of canned corn
- 40 grams of leek
- a handful of any lettuce
- a handful of cress
- 2 tablespoons of horseradish
- 8 tablespoons of natural yogurt
- 5 tablespoons of mayonnaise
- 2 tablespoons of lemon juice
- salt pepper.
How to do it:
Place hand-shredded lettuce (or Chinese cabbage) at the bottom of a large glass bowl. Place the drained peas on the lettuce and corn on the peas. Peel the eggs and cut them into eighths or smaller, place them on the corn. Place thinly sliced leeks on them, then finely chopped cucumbers and radish slices. In a small bowl, mix grated horseradish, mayonnaise, yogurt, lemon juice and a pinch of salt and pepper. Spread the prepared sauce evenly over the entire surface of the salad. Decorate with watercress.
Egg salad for Easter
Egg salad for Easter seems to be a mandatory appetizer on the holiday table. If only because eggs are an integral part of Easter. It can be prepared as follows.
Ingredients:
- 4 hard-boiled eggs
- 150 grams of feta cheese
- 6 radishes
- 1 medium greenhouse cucumber
- 3 tablespoons of canned corn
- two handfuls of corn salad
- a few leaves of any lettuce
- 3 tablespoons of natural yogurt
- 3 tablespoons of mayonnaise
- 2 tablespoons of lemon juice
- chopped chives (2 tablespoons)
- a pinch of pepper.
How to do it:
After boiling and cooling, peel the eggs and cut them in half. In a bowl, mix yogurt, mayonnaise, lemon juice, chives and freshly ground pepper. Place large lettuce leaves and corn salad on a platter. Peel the cucumber and cut it into slices, cut the radishes into slices and place them on a platter. Cut the cheese into cubes and drain the corn. Place egg halves on a plate, add cheese and corn. Pour the mayonnaise-yogurt sauce over everything. You can decorate with parsley or cress.
Recommended salads for Easter
Recommended Easter salads usually contain eggs and mayonnaise or horseradish sauce. However, there are also plenty of meat salads on the Easter table. In addition to the previously mentioned gyros salad or salad with white sausage, a salad with smoked chicken may appear as a Christmas appetizer. Just cut the smoked chicken into small cubes, add peas, corn, pickled cucumbers, chopped leek, chopped pickled peppers and grated cheese, and mix everything with a bit of yogurt and mayonnaise. Those who don’t like experiments can always try a classic vegetable salad.
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Source: Gazeta
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