Original salad - "Chrysanthemum"

How many different festive salads! But among all this variety, the salad "Chrysanthemum" occupies a special place. It is gentle and very beautiful - after all the name itself indicates its magnificence. How to cook it?

Chrysanthemum salad - recipe and description of preparation

• Finely chop the peeled bulb and leave it for half an hour in a container with cold water so that bitterness is gone. Drain the liquid.

Boil 5 eggs. Separate whites and yolks in different dishes and grate medium-sized.

• Cut 400 g of crab sticks as small as possible.

• One apple without skin, grate on a medium grater. To make the apples not dark, pour them with lemon juice.

• Now make layers, do not forget to abundantly smear them with mayonnaise: cover the bottom of the dish with lettuce leaves and put the apple layer first. Next, half the chips of egg yolks, crab sticks, 200 g of soft cheese, grated, onions, at the end egg whites. Fill with mayonnaise and pour the remaining yolks.

• Decorate the Chrysanthemum salad with a real blue cabbage flower. To do this, cut the head of blue cabbage into long strips. In the center of the prepared salad, put a few green lettuce leaves and decorate the flower itself, carefully placing the cabbage strips in the form of chrysanthemum petals.

Chrysanthemum yellow salad

It takes almost 40 minutes to cook. But it's worth it, because your guests will try to figure out what you made this yummy from.

Boil chicken thighs cut into strips.

• Salted fungi (about 200 g) cut into strips and fry them in vegetable oil.

• Cut one onion with half-rope and sprinkle with boiling water to avoid bitterness.

• Mix chicken, mushrooms and onions and put them on a beautiful flat plate in the form of a slide.

• Prepare egg pancakes. To do this, two eggs to beat with a fork, salt and pour into a large skillet to make the omelet thin. If you have a small diameter frying pan, then grill the pancakes in portions in half an egg. Finished chilled pancakes cut into thin long straws and sprinkle them with a salad slide.

• Decorate with corn.

This dish is called "Chrysanthemum Salad Yellow", because it has a bright yellow color. Against this background, a flower decoration, similar to the one described in the previous recipe, will look very effective.

Flower cooking is a fashionable trend in the art of cooking

Today, dishes from flowers become very popular. Flowers, which are looked at, bring no less pleasure than those that eat. For example, chrysanthemum is edible. Shoots, inflorescences and leaves of this plant have a piquant taste and a specific flavor. The flower itself is used for decorating various dishes, cakes, decorating sandwiches and freezing flowers in ice cubes.

In Asian countries chrysanthemum is a product for very tasty and nutritious desserts.

If you want to make a candied flower based on a live chrysanthemum to decorate a sweet dish or baking, you can proceed as follows: whisk the egg white and hand brush the petals with a brush. Then, through a strainer, gently sprinkle with sugar powder the flower petals or buds, and dry them on a napkin or paper towel. To get a color in the color of chrysanthemum, you can paint sugar powder.

If you want to try to cook a Chinese dessert from a chrysanthemum flower, then use this recipe: chrysanthemum petals to lower for a while in a mass of eggs and flour, then take it out and quickly dip into melted hot oil. Place on paper and let the excess oil soak into the paper. Sprinkle with sugar or powdered sugar. This treat is like a cake and can be served with ice cream. Some gourmets visit Chinese restaurants exclusively for this dessert.

Experts argue that floral cooking is very useful for health and has a number of healing properties. But this is a topic for another conversation.