If you love Japanese cuisine, then you probably know how well fresh cucumber and lightly salted red fish go together. Such a "union" will be advantageous in the salad. However, salmon “sounds” well not only with fresh cucumber, you can use it for salad and pickles.
Add other vegetables to such a dish - tomatoes, peppers, onions, corn, avocado, Chinese cabbage, lettuce. Also pay attention to the creation of a gas station. In no case do not take the usual mayonnaise, the fatty sauce will only spoil the taste of an exquisite dish. Your best bet is to try the recipes below.
What is the best fish for a salad? Of course, fresh cut salmon would be ideal. All you need to do is just pickle the salmon and then cut it into slices. However, be careful when purchasing a fish, there is a possibility of buying a stale product, which is fraught with food poisoning. Pay attention to the color, smell and appearance of the fish to avoid being trapped. Thus, a fresh product is distinguished by a bright warm color, a neutral, almost imperceptible smell and a strong texture. When the fish starts to spoil, it gives off a rotten smell. Traders can mask it with a saline-vinegar solution, but then this will affect the color - the fish will become light, with cold shades. In addition, stale salmon begins to flake, becomes loose and loose.
You can also buy whole fish. Butchering it takes 10 minutes, besides, you will get a head and tail for a delicious soup "in addition". Just cut off the head, open the belly with one stroke of the knife, clean out the insides. Pry the spine with your hand and pull it out, then select the remaining bones.
How to salt fish? Sprinkle the fillet with salt and leave in the refrigerator for an hour to get slightly salted fish and for three hours if you want the salmon to be well salted.
For the salad, the salmon should be cut into cubes - best of all in large pieces, so the fish will be tastier in the salad.
Salmon and cucumber salad will taste better if left in the refrigerator before serving, especially if you are using a creamy or sour cream sauce. If you are dressing your dish with soy sauce, you can serve the salad immediately after cooking.
Serve this fresh dish at any time of the year, but especially it will go "with a bang" in winter. This salad does not require an abundance of ingredients, as the taste will be rich and completely complete.
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This dish is very satisfying, and therefore you can prepare such a salad not as an appetizer, but as the main dish. For this salad, you will need Japanese funchose starch noodles. However, the dish will turn out to be no less appetizing if you take soba (buckwheat noodles) or traditional wheat noodles.
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Another dish from Japanese cuisine that will surprise you with a hearty and bright taste. Use not only white, but also brown rice, as it is more useful - we will take it for the salad. For dressing, take soy sauce - it will give the salad an oriental flavor and a bright aftertaste.
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A very light salad that will be liked more by the fair sex. There are absolutely no extra calories in this dish.
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A hearty salad with egg, fish and cucumber is perfect for both an ordinary delicious dinner and a festive feast. The highlight of the dish will be pomegranate seeds. Sweet and sour taste will reveal unusual facets in combination with salted fish and fresh cucumber.
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If you are preparing a salad with red fish and cucumber, you can add some types of fruits: fresh pineapple, grapefruit, sour apple. Perhaps such a combination will seem non-standard to someone, but it is the bright fruity taste that will give the fish the best opportunity to "open up".
Before adding it to the salad, you need to remove the skin from the cucumber. In addition, many chefs use only that part of the vegetable that does not contain seeds for the dish, so the consistency of the dish will turn out to be denser.
Before talking about salmon salads, let's remember how healthy salmon is. So, did you know that only 115 grams of salmon provides our body with a daily dose of vitamin D? This fish slice contains half the daily value of B12, niacin and selenium, and salmon is an excellent source of vitamin B6 and magnesium. That is why salmon salads are recommended even by nutritionists. In addition, on salmon salads, you can always show your culinary abilities - there are a great many recipes for salmon salads, choose any. Well, for our part, we will bring to your attention several recipes for salmon salad, with which you can easily surprise both your home and guests.
This salmon salad is quick and easy to make! To prepare it, we need: 500 grams of salmon, either boiled or lightly fried, but cooled to room temperature; 2 celery stalks, finely chopped half a red onion head, which should also be chopped; juice from one lemon; 1 tablespoon olive oil 2 tablespoons finely chopped fresh dill salt and freshly ground pepper.
Salad preparation: Set aside the salmon in a separate bowl. In another bowl, combine celery, red onion, lemon juice, olive oil and fresh dill. Gently pour the contents into a bowl of salmon. You can add salt and pepper to taste. Place the prepared salmon salad in the refrigerator for 30 minutes to cool. Serve the dish in 4 portions, add a slice of lemon to each.
This salad looks like a birthday cake and looks like a big and delicious roll. It will appeal to all lovers of Chinese cuisine. To prepare it, you will need a glass of rice, 200 grams of slightly salted salmon, one avocado, a quarter of a glass of sesame seeds, soft curd cheese, a leaf of dried seaweed for a roll.
Salmon salad with cucumber and red caviar is an indispensable part of good seafood restaurants. Ingredients: boiled salmon; 2 hard boiled eggs tablespoon red caviar, 1 fresh peeled cucumber, diced; 2 tbsp / l green peas; chopped onions; 4-5 tablespoons of mayonnaise; salt; half a lemon, from which you need to squeeze the juice.
To prepare salmon salad: In a large bowl, mix chopped salmon and egg. Pour cucumber, onion and mayonnaise into another bowl. Add seasoning to taste and mix thoroughly. Next, fill in the resulting mass of salmon with eggs and add lemon juice, after which we form the desired appearance with our hands or using a mold, decorate with herbs.
Salmon and potato salad recipe will bring a lot of pleasant sensations even to true gourmets. Ingredients: 200 grams of potatoes; half a green apple; 2 tablespoons low fat mayonnaise; 1 tablespoon white vinegar 1 teaspoon lemon juice and mustard, 1/2 teaspoon dried dill a pinch of black pepper; 6 green lettuce leaves; a piece of lightly salted salmon.
Boil the potatoes, peel the apple, remove the salmon from the packaging, wash the onion, cut all the products into small pieces. Combine mayonnaise, vinegar, lemon juice, mustard, dill and pepper in another bowl. Add the salmon and the rest of the products here, stir and let the salad stand for 10-15 minutes so that it is saturated with the dressing. That's it, a healthy and nutritious salmon salad is ready.
A very tasty salad, which is especially good in summer when fresh vegetables are on our tables. You will need boiled salmon (200-300 gr), 2-3 radishes, fresh cucumber, any greens, a bag of Provencal herbs and unsweetened yogurt for dressing. What the salad looks like, you can see for yourself in the photo, everything is elementary cut, season with yogurt, sprinkle with herbs (for men, you can pepper) and serve.
If your stores sell sprouted seeds, you can pair them perfectly in a salted salmon salad. Plus slices of grapefruit, which will give the salad an amazing look and unusual taste. So, salted salmon - 200 gr, one grapefruit, a jar of sprouted grains, for example, wheat, greens of your choice. Cut the salmon into thin strips, peel the grapefruit until pulp, rinse the seeds and herbs well and mix as shown in the photo. For dressing, mix two tablespoons of vegetable oil with the juice of a couple of grapefruit slices.
This salad with salmon is interesting for the variety of salad ingredients that set off and emphasize the taste of salmon. A large amount of salad should be done in a salad bowl, and if there are two or four of you, you can cook it right in a vegetable boat. To prepare a salad (for two) you will need 200 grams of salmon (boiled, baked or canned), a large avocado, a small cucumber, half a green apple, lettuce leaves. Take out the pulp from the avocado with a spoon, cut the cucumber and apple into cubes, mash the salmon with a fork, finely tear a handful of salad, combine everything, salt, lightly grease with mayonnaise or vegetable oil and put it in a salad bowl or boats, as in the photo.
The combination of salmon with tomatoes and prunes in a salad allows you to get a whole range of different taste sensations in one dish. For this salmon salad you need: slightly salted salmon, 200 g, cherry tomatoes - 6 pieces, prunes - 6 pieces, lettuce leaves (you can mix salads) - 100 g, unsweetened natural yogurt, sour cream or olive oil as a dressing (100 g ).
Let's start cooking: cut the salmon into thin slices and cut the cherry in half. Remove seeds from prunes, if the berries are small, leave them intact, if large, cut them into 2-3 parts. We combine all the components of the salad together, salt, mix. Choose the dressing that you like best, the main thing is that it does not interrupt the tastes, therefore, for this salmon salad, it is better to prefer natural unsweetened yogurt, low-fat sour cream, olive oil.
The combination of such delicacies as salmon, shrimp and pineapple in the salad can be confidently called royal. Ingredients: 200 grams of lightly salted salmon, 100 grams of shrimp, 100 grams. champignons, one fresh cucumber, one tomato, pineapple, one onion, lemon, 2 cloves of garlic, 2 tablespoons of dry white wine, 2 tbsp. l. red caviar, low-fat sour cream.
Directly the recipe. Lightly fry the mushrooms with onions in sunflower oil until golden brown. Boil shrimps, peel. We make the sauce - peel the tomato and mash, add white wine, crushed garlic, two tablespoons of lemon juice there. Next, cut the products for the salad into cubes - salmon, shrimps and cucumber. Combine the products with the dressing, add mushrooms and onions, mix, put in a salad bowl. Cut pineapple thinly, literally with petals, put them on top of our salmon salad and pour sour cream over everything. The final touch is the red caviar on top of our salad.
This salmon salad is not only very tasty, but also very attractive in appearance. So, the ingredients: 200 g salmon, the same amount of hard cheese, 4 boiled potatoes, 3 small boiled carrots, 3 boiled eggs, 1 fresh cucumber, mayonnaise, salt. As decorations, you can take corn, olives, crab sticks, herbs, caviar.
Cooking salmon salad: grate cheese, potatoes, eggs on a medium grater, grate carrots and mix with mayonnaise. Then you can do it in two ways. The first way for salad with salmon is to shift everything and put it on a wide dish in the form of a starfish, put thin slices of salmon on top. The second is to lay out the components of the salad in layers (in order of priority - potatoes, cheese, small pieces of salmon, eggs, cucumber), again decorate with salmon on top. Next, decorate the salad as you wish.
Another notable salad in which lightly salted salmon are separated by eggs, capers and French mustard. 150 gr. salmon you need two eggs, boiled "in a bag", leaves of any salad, one fresh cucumber, one tomato, a tablespoon of French mustard, a tablespoon of capers and vegetable oil. Cut salmon into thin strips, cucumbers and tomatoes into slices, eggs into 4 parts, mix with salad, add capers, mustard, a spoonful of oil and mix again. Gourmets will be delighted.
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Regina Raitova
Salmon is a fish of the salmon family, dishes made from this fish are an excellent appetizer for strong alcohol, it is very nutritious and healthy. Salads from this delicacy are especially good. It sometimes happens that all the dishes that you usually cook become boring and you want some original flavor combinations. I bring to your attention a recipe for a simple, but amazingly delicious salad! It can be prepared both for a festive table and for an everyday one, or you can even use it not just as a snack for homemade alcohol, but also as an independent dish.
If you plan to prepare a salad for some event, then it is better to salt the fish yourself, it is very simple to do this very simply and besides, you will save a lot by buying fresh salmon. In three days, you will get a delicious lightly salted fish. The recipe is pretty simple. For salting, it is better to buy a whole carcass, it is juicier and more tender. Cut fresh fish along the ridge and remove the bones. For 1 kg of salmon you need: coarse salt 50 g, sugar 25 g, 1-2 pcs. ground coriander, a sprig of chopped dill, mix everything. Treat the entire surface of the fish fillet with this mixture. Lay it on a clean waffle towel, wrap it up and put it on a plate in the refrigerator. Turn the fish over once a day.
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There is no specific data on how much of what is needed in grams. I recommend taking all the ingredients roughly equally. Another note - this salad is not made in one large plate, but in portions for each. You can, of course, make it in a large plate, but in separate plates the salad looks more festive and elegant. Yes, and one more clarification - you can take not only a red tomato and yellow pepper, but also a yellow tomato and red pepper) That is, the trick is that the vegetables are multi-colored, then the finished dish will turn out bright and beautiful.
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And one more note - you do not need to mix the salad, let everyone who eats do it himself. Here we have such an unusual and original dish! It also looks very beautiful and bright. And preparation takes minutes. I suggest you surprise your loved ones by preparing this light salad with lightly salted salmon, because it is not only tasty, but also healthy!
A beautiful and delicious salmon salad will capture the imagination of your guests. Any housewife can cook it at home, the recipe is simple, the ingredients are available in any supermarket.
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Salmon, perhaps, can be called the most useful fish. It contains a lot of vitamins, fats, minerals and trace elements necessary for the human body. In addition, salmon is the only fish that contains melatonin, an element that strengthens the nervous system.
Salmon also helps to improve the functioning of the brain and cardiovascular system. And despite the fact that it contains fats, it is considered a dietary product. You will save the greatest amount of useful elements of salmon by cold salting. And from such a fish, you can make many wonderful dishes, for example, a salad with salmon and cucumber, but first things first.
Do not be lazy and buy fresh frozen fish, salt salmon at home yourself. This is quite simple to do. For two and a half kilograms of fish, take six tablespoons of salt and three tablespoons of sugar (with a different amount of salt and sugar, keep the ratio 2 to 1). Combine salt and sugar in a separate bowl. Then rub the slices of pre-cut salmon with this mixture.
Wrap each piece in food foil, put them all in a container and refrigerate for salting for twelve hours. You can store salted salmon in the freezer without opening or taking it out of the container. Thus, you get a product without preservatives and other harmful additives.
What else is needed to make a salad of lightly salted salmon and cucumber? This requires the following products:
What do we do with all these products? Making a salad with salmon and fresh cucumber is quite simple.
Combine all cooked ingredients in a salad bowl. Before serving the dish, be sure to try it, you may want to add salt to your creation of salmon and fresh cucumbers.
Salads with salmon and cucumber are diversified by adding fresh tomatoes or avocado at your discretion. And you can replace fresh cucumbers with lightly salted ones. You can bring such a salad closer to the classic Olivier by adding onions and boiled potatoes with carrots.
In general, there are a lot of salad recipes with this fish. Here is another recipe for salmon and rice salad. For him you will need:
Before preparing the salad, boil the rice and eggs, of course, in different saucepans. Then let both cool down. The cucumbers need to be peeled. For this salad, it is better to rub all the products (except for fish and mayonnaise) on a coarse grater, and cut the salmon into small cubes.
Grease the bottom of the salad bowl with half the prepared portion of mayonnaise. Lay out all other ingredients in layers in the sequence from the recipe given. Grease the salad with mayonnaise again on top. If there is a desire and the volume of the dishes allows, all layers can be repeated.
Before serving the finished salad, it is better to let it stand in the refrigerator for a while, then all the ingredients will have time to give juice and soak into each other. This will make the finished dish much tastier.
Decorate the salad with sprigs of herbs, and your masterpiece can perfectly diversify your everyday or festive table!