Salad "Watermelon". How to prepare a salad in the form of a watermelon

Salad "Watermelon" is a surprisingly beautiful dish, which can be cooked not only in the summer, but also in winter. Today there are several recipes for how to make this culinary masterpiece. We will consider the two most simple, but, in spite of this, very tasty, satisfying and original salad, from which absolutely all invited guests will be delighted.

Unusual salad "Watermelon": recipe with canned pink salmon

To prepare this dish you will need the following ingredients:

• Cucumber fresh long-bodied - 2 pcs .;
• Hard cheese of any kind - 205 g;
• Canned olives without pits - standard pot;
• Sweet pepper red large - 1 pc .;
• Egg large chicken - 1 piece;
• Garlic - a small tooth;
• Aromatic spices - to taste;
• Canned salmon - 1 jar;
• Medium-fat mayonnaise - 3 large spoons;
• Tomato fresh red - 2 large pcs.

Preparation of products

To make a salad in the form of watermelon, you should make a lot of effort and be sure to show creative imagination. To begin with, you must prepare all the ingredients you have purchased in advance. For this it is required to take long-fruit fresh cucumbers and grate them on the grate rather small. To ensure that the dish does not "swim", the vegetable is recommended to stand in a bowl for a quarter of an hour, and then squeeze it out, almost completely depriving it of moisture. By the way, in the same way, you should do the same with fresh tomatoes, only they need to be finely chopped.

Also, the salad "Watermelon" includes layers of hard cheese. This milk product should be rubbed on a medium grater with garlic and put aside. After this, it is required to finely chop the sweet peppers and canned olives.

At the end of the processing of the main ingredients, it is necessary to boil a chicken egg and grate it on a grater. In addition, you should open the canned pink salmon, put it in a large plate and crush it with the fork right along with the fragrant broth.

The process of forming an original dish

To beautifully decorate the salad "Watermelon", you should take a deep dish of a rounded shape and place on it a food film so that it lies with the minimum number of folds. After that on polyethylene it is required to lay out a thick layer of grated and wrinkled cucumbers. In doing so, they must completely repeat the semicircle of the selected bowl. Then, on top of the fresh vegetable, distribute ½ of the grated cheese mixed together with garlic, spices and mayonnaise. As the third layer of this dish is a red sweet pepper and olives. They also need to lay out a chicken egg, which should be mixed beforehand with a spoon of mayonnaise and canned pink salmon. Finally, the salad should be evenly covered with a second part of grated cheese. Next, it is recommended to cover the dish with food film and put in a refrigerator for 60-80 minutes.

After the layers are well saturated, the dishes with the ingredients should be reached, and then remove the film from above, cover with a flat plate and overturn the salad with a sharp movement. As a result of such actions, you will receive a semi-circular dish, completely covered with green cucumbers.

If desired, the top of the salad can be decorated as follows: lubricate it with a small amount of mayonnaise, and then place finely chopped tomatoes and black olives.

How to prepare a salad with chicken fillet?

It should be noted that there are a lot of options for how to make a salad "Watermelon". Dolka is one of the varieties of this dish. Its name is due to the appearance, which fully corresponds to the sliced berry.

So, to create such an original dish we will need:

• Chicken fillet - 200 g;
• Salt sea - for boiling meat;
• Fresh cucumber - 2 pcs .;
• Hard cheese - 160 g;
• Canned olives without pits - ½ standard can;
• Mayonnaise of medium fat content - add at personal discretion;
• Fresh red tomatoes - 2 pcs.

Preparation of products

Salad "Watermelon" (photo is presented in this article), the recipe of which was considered a little higher, is done much longer than this dish. Thus, for the preparation of "Dolki" should take a chicken fillet, it is good to wash it and boil it in salt water. Next, the finished meat ingredient is required to cool, cleanse of bones and skin, and then very finely chop.

Also presented salad includes in its composition such fresh vegetables as tomatoes and cucumbers. They need to be washed, and then, without destroying the peel, small-scale chop with a sharp knife and rub on the middle grater, respectively. As you know, these products contain too much moisture. And in order to eliminate it, the ingredients are desirably crushed and allowed to stand at room temperature for 12-14 minutes. After this, you need to carefully drain the accumulated juice and, if necessary, squeeze the cucumbers with your hands. If you neglect this procedure, then the salad "Watermelon" literally "floats".

In addition to all other ingredients, it is necessary to grate the cheese on a small grater separately and not very large to chop the olives.

Forming a dish

If you follow all the rules for the design of this dish, then you will definitely get a beautiful and delicious salad "Watermelon". "Dolka" is formed somewhat differently than the above-described dish. To do this, mix the following ingredients in one bowl: boiled chicken fillet, hard cheese, olives and mayonnaise. The resulting thick mass is required to lay out on a flat plate in the form of a segment of a circle (lobes of berries). The side part of the formed form should be decorated with grated cucumbers, which will mimic the crust. Next, you must lay a thin light strip of grated cheese. In conclusion, on the main surface of the salad, it is required to place finely chopped tomatoes, decorating them with olives, resembling the seeds of watermelon.

How to bring to the festive table?

After the salad "Watermelon slice" is formed, it is necessary to place it for half an hour in the fridge, and then immediately present it to the guests. To maintain such a dish in the cold or in the heat for too long is not recommended, otherwise it will not look as appetizing as we would like.