Salad is a universal dish. It can be both an appetizer, including on a festive table, and an independent dish. Variants of salads with meat, fish, mushrooms, beautifully decorated with greens or olives, will decorate your holiday, and vegetable, seasoned with oil, vinegar, sour cream or mayonnaise, can be an everyday dish or a dietary replacement for lunch or dinner. In the kitchen of any country you will find many salad recipes : Russian is famous for its "Olivier" and "Herring under the fur coat", in Greece they prepare "Greek salad" with the famous "Feta" cheese, and the American one can not imagine without "Caesar" with chicken breasts, toasted Grilled. If you want to serve a new dish for dinner, then try to prepare a salad with sausage and crackers - it will be a nutritional supplement to the table, as well as a completely independent second course. To create it, you will need products that are available in the refrigerator from any hostess - sausage (ham, boiled or smoked), crackers, and several other ingredients that you can add based on your own taste and preferences. How to prepare a salad with sausage and croutons? In our article you will find two options, or a recipe, with which your menu will be replenished with another original salad. This nourishing dish can be compared to a sandwich - bread and meat at the same time. Your family, as well as guests on the holiday, will definitely enjoy this combination.
So, the way № 1: we prepare a salad with crackers and sausage
For him you will need:
- 200 g any boiled sausage or ham;
- 250 g (about 1/4 of a small head) of white cabbage or Peking cabbage;
- 1 can of any canned corn;
- 1 pack of ready crackers with taste of salami, bacon, jerky , etc.;
- On 1 piece. Medium-sized carrots and onions;
- 2 hard-boiled chicken eggs;
- 150 g of grated hard cheese such as "Parmesan";
- Mayonnaise for refueling and spices - salt, black pepper.
First chop cabbage, grate the carrots and cheese on a large grater, chop the onions finely. Sausage and eggs cut into small cubes. Mix all the ingredients, season with mayonnaise (in the dietary version you can use low-fat sour cream), sprinkle salt and pepper. Crackers should be added only before serving. They need to be poured into a salad and mixed. Ham and eggs will make your dish full, and vegetables will add freshness, and, of course, supplement the body with vitamins and beneficial substances. Salad with sausage and crackers has every chance to become a favorite dish for your family members.
Option number 2: Salad with smoked sausage
This recipe contains practically no vegetables (except tomatoes), but it is an excellent source of protein. Since this dish is very caloric, at lunch it can quite replace a full second. For him, take:
- 150 g of smoked sausage;
- 100 g of grated Parmesan cheese;
- 2 boiled chicken eggs (you need both protein and yolk);
- 2 fresh medium tomatoes;
- 2 small cloves of garlic;
- 50 g of crackers (this is a third of the package);
- 2 teaspoons of thick sour cream and vegetable (or olive) oil;
- 1 tsp mustard, salt and a pinch of black pepper.
Beautifully crumble all the ingredients in the salad: croutons, smoked sausage, eggs, tomatoes and cheese should be beautifully sliced - the same, even cubes. Squeeze, or let the garlic through the press. Mix all the ingredients and season with sauce from sour cream, mustard, oil, salt and spices. Done! A little advice - if you do not plan to immediately serve salad with sausage and croutons on the table, the latter is best poured out before serving. Because the dried bread, added to the dish in advance, can get wet and make the salad not too attractive to look at. Following these simple tips, the result is a delicious dish. If you have not tried this salad, now it's time to cook it.