Cheap salad: recipes for every day and for festive feasts. Cheap and simple salads

A good cook is able to make a masterpiece of the simplest products - a feast of the soul and stomach. A cheap salad is one of these dishes. Made from natural ingredients, mainly from vegetables and fruits, it is also very useful.

Salad from cabbage - it is tasty and it is useful!

Talk about the beneficial properties of cabbage today is meaningless - all this is well known and so. But to share recipes, how to make a cheap salad from it, is quite another matter.

Cabbage salad with carrots

In order to make this cheap salad, you will need cabbage, carrots, sugar, lemon juice, a pinch of salt and vegetable oil. Cabbage for this dish is shredded with thin straws, and carrots are rubbed on a large grater. Sprinkling a lot of lemon juice, a little prisliv and sprinkled with sugar, her hands are mashed. After this procedure juice should be allocated, and the whole mass acquires a pleasant shade of orange.

After filling with oil, the salad is mixed and served on the table.

Cheap cabbage salad with carrots and garlic

Almost the same as in the previous version, this salad is also prepared. Only before kneading add the pounded garlic. But the sugar in this version should be discarded altogether or sprinkle salad with just one pinch, as well as salt.

You can fill the dish with butter, sour cream or mayonnaise. From above it is recommended to decorate a hill of salad with flowers from carrots or paths from melkoshinkovannoy carrots, which run away from the center, like the rays of the sun.

Cabbage salad with garlic and beetroot

If carrots are replaced with raw beets, then the salad will acquire some piquancy. Its color will also change, becoming amazingly pearly. In addition, at any time of the year this is the cheapest salad.

The recipe can be slightly varied, making the dish compound: half a cabbage to change with carrots, and half - with beets. If you arrange these two different salads in a salad bowl with triangles, it will be very beautiful and festive. So, when choosing cheap salads for a birthday, do not discount this recipe.

Cabbage and apple salad

Simply and cheaply, you can make a vitamin salad, which is perfect for dessert. The formula for its preparation is practically the same as a cabbage salad with carrots, which is replaced with an apple. But the cabbage must be crumpled in this case before the cut apple is added to the salad.

You can vary the dish by replacing an apple with only a portion of the carrot. And you can include in the salad and other fruits: bananas, oranges, tangerines or pears. And as a filling, sweet yogurt or whipped cream will do.

Who said that cheap salads for a birthday is a bad form? Or, maybe, someone doubts that a sweet salad decorated with orange slices and berries, fresh or candied, will be in demand at the festive table? Try it yourself and make sure that it will be the first salad bowl on the table.

Garlic salads

In addition to cabbage, garlic is perfectly combined with carrots, cheese, boiled beets, hard-boiled eggs and other ingredients. Rarely what mistress refuses to put on the table piquant garlic salads - cheap and tasty, but so all adored!

Everyone knows garlic-carrot salads dressed with mayonnaise or sour cream. Not inferior to them in fame and beet-garlic salads. And beets with garlic often "invite" to themselves ground nuts and prunes.

"Mistress" salad - tasty, beautiful and piquant

A festive table can decorate salads cheap and tasty, if they are cooked with desire. This recipe is as simple as all the previous ones. The dish is different in that several different salads are laid out in it in layers:

• Carrot-garlic layer with dressing;
• A layer of cheese-garlic with dressing;
• A layer of beet-garlic with dressing.

If desired, in the cheese mass you can add ground nuts, and in beetroot and garlic - raisins and prunes.

Salad "Kiss of a mistress", or "French mistress"

This salad is as spicy as the previous one, which is called "Lover". In the very title of both salads lies a kind of duality: the sweetness of passion and the bitterness of separation, the inability to be together. This is also the difference in the ingredients and layers of this dish.

Prepare the "Kiss of a mistress" in layers, as well as simply "Lover". Only the layers are slightly different:

• Layer bitter - beet-garlic;
• A layer of sweet - carrot-raisin;
• A spicy layer - cheese-nut.

The top of the dish is sprinkled with grated cheese and sliced cucumber. You can decorate with greens or chalk-mink carrot. Flowers from cooked beets and carrots will also look charmingly in a salad bowl on a festive table.

Daikon salads

The advantages of the daikon are that it is quick and cheap to make salads out of it. In addition, this root has a wonderful cleansing property, a piquant taste and it has a lot of vitamins. Daikon is well combined with a variety of vegetables and even fruits, so the range of its use in this area is very wide. Very often slimming is used for these easy and cheap salads. Recipes of salads from daikon can help the hostess to diversify not only the daily menu, but also prepare a creative dish for the festive table.

Daikon salad with carrots and apple

Prepare a salad under the power of even a teenager. The main thing in it is the ability to use such an uncomplicated device as a grater.

Apples, carrots and daikon are crushed, slightly salted and added to the mass of refueling: sunflower oil, sour cream, mayonnaise or own-made sauce. Everything is mixed - the dish is ready!

For the same recipe, another salad is prepared, in which the apple is replaced with a pickled or pickled cucumber. You can even manage only carrots and daikon, but a salad with three ingredients has a wider palette of taste. Especially delicious is a dish with crab sticks - it immediately becomes Japanese!

Salad "Lose Weight"

Especially for those who want to lose those extra pounds, there is a recipe in the world. Cooking "Pohudeyka" as easily as all the previous salads.

Ingredients for this dish will serve:

• Raw carrots;
• fresh cucumber;
• Root daikon;
• One hundred grams of spinach;
• vegetable oil;
• salt.

Cucumbers finely cut, and daikon and carrots shred on a large grater or cut into small straws. Sparingly cut the spinach. If a young carrot is used that has fresh fresh herbs, then it is recommended to use it in a salad - there are a lot of useful substances in the carrot top: microelements and vitamins.

Salad "Pohudeika" should not be filled with mayonnaise or sour cream, it is enough just to sprinkle it with wine or apple cider vinegar. A lemon juice is also suitable for this purpose.

Fresh cucumber salads

Remembering the recipes for salads simple and cheap in the summer, you can not miss the dishes from cucumbers. Actually, these recipes are perfect for winter, because fresh cucumbers can be replaced with pickled or salted.

"Corn Crocodile" salad

For this cheerful dish you will need to chop fresh cabbage, add it and knead it. Add the finely ground fresh cucumber and canned sweet corn to the resulting mass.

Remarkably, the sour apple is rubbed on a large grater by the taste of any salad. To taste in it put greens: fennel, a parsley, a spinach, leaves of a green salad. Fill it with oil.

To ensure that the name of the salad does not differ from its appearance, it is appropriate to plant a vegetable figurine on it - a crocodile made from cucumber.

You can put the salad in the herringbone - it has an oval oblong form. The mass can be easily shaped like a crocodile, and the top of the salad is covered with cucumber rings. You can make the eyes of a reptile from corn kernels, or you can use olives.

Vitamin salad "Cocktail sunny"

This salad is best prepared in the summer or closer to the autumn, when all the ingredients in it are natural, grown in our gardens and vegetable gardens, and not brought from somewhere. After all, then in each component contains a piece of sun, which is why the dish - "Cocktail sunny" is called.

In addition to cucumbers, this salad includes cabbage, raw carrots, apples, tomatoes and bell peppers. Onion can be used as a bulb and green - which one is more like. Greenery is also added in accordance with taste preferences.

Cabbage is cut with thin striped noodles, cucumbers cut into strips. Apples before cutting it is recommended to peel and cut into cubes. Tomatoes cut into slices, pepper - half rings. Carrots are best to grate large or shredded with a tiny straw.

How to cut an onion - each mistress decides for herself. In a family prefer large half-rings, in some - a finely chopped luchok. And others completely ignore this delicious and wholesome ingredient - but this is their right. You need to fill the salad with apple or wine vinegar and butter.

Jewelery for salads

As an ornament of a dish it is possible to use boiled eggs. Of these, it is easy to make mushrooms and make cute mice, boats or snowmen.

You can also use grated cheese, which sprinkle the top of the dish, and from the green onions make an imitation of the grass.

Of the halves of boiled eggs, swans are beautifully produced, if one more incision is made on them, parallel to the main one. Cutting off the other halves of the stripes, on one side of which to cut out the oval thickenings, from them spread the swan neck, and from the pieces of carrot - beaks.

The cheapest and most useful products in the middle strip are cabbage, beets, carrots, daikon, radish and onions. Perhaps, that is why salads from them are the cheapest and most useful. But in summer, tomatoes and cucumbers, radish and green salad are added to these vegetables. And so it is important to enjoy this gift of summer and autumn at the very top, so that you have enough vitamins for the whole winter.