A simple salad for pilaf will help you to fully enjoy the taste of the main dish. Salads are prepared from a wide variety of vegetables, often fruit salads are also served to pilaf. All these “light dishes” not only help to tone up the rich taste of pilaf, but also contribute to digestion, which is important, because pilaf is heavy and satisfying food.
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It is very simple to make any light salad, the main thing is that it is not a "meal" in itself, and that it helps the assimilation of a hot dish, in our case pilaf. Judging by the fact that pilaf is a rather fatty, high-calorie dish, it is better to use a lighter product with it. Ideal for this case are vegetables and fruits. They have a unique ability to soften the fat content of the dish and contribute to the fact that it is better absorbed by the body. To figure out which salad is best suited for pilaf, you must first be guided by your own taste. Presented to your attention are recipes for vegetable and fruit salads.
Vegetable salads for pilaf
There is nothing simpler than making vegetable salad, especially when it comes to fresh vegetable salads. No one will refuse home-made cucumbers, juicy tomatoes, crisp cabbage or radish.
Tomato salad
This salad has two huge advantages - it is incredibly tasty and it cooks very quickly! This is one of the few salads that it is customary to cook not before serving directly, but in advance so that the vegetables let the juice go. To prepare it, the following products are needed (for 5 servings):
- tomatoes (ripe, medium) - 5 pieces;
- onions - 1 piece;
- hot red pepper - 1 pod;
- basil - 0.5 bunch;
- pepper (black ground) - to taste;
- salt to taste.
1. To work, you need a very sharp knife. Otherwise, the cooking technology will not be followed. When cooking, you need to consider that the main components of this salad are tomatoes. These vegetables should be ripe, juicy, firm, but not soft. At the beginning, they need to be cut into fairly large, even and semicircular plates.
2. Onions are best taken oblong, but not round. It must be cleaned, and then cut into thin half rings, “poked” with his hands to give juice. If the aroma of the onion is not annoying, then you can simply sprinkle half rings with salt and leave for five minutes. Then combine these two vegetables.
3. Basil is also recommended to grind. In this case, the knife is not useful. The greens are simply torn by hands.
4. The salad uses hot red pepper. This vegetable needs to be cleaned of seeds, it is necessary to cut very finely and as thinly as possible. Otherwise, it will be impossible to eat the finished dish, the salad will be spicy. In some cases, a third of the vegetable is enough. Add to salad. (who doesn’t like "speckled" salad, you can not add pepper or just dip several times a whole peppercorn into the salad).
5. When the products are prepared, they should be folded into a deep container. Salt, pepper, mix everything, let the salad brew for at least 15 minutes.
It is worth noting that the salad does not require dressing.
Radish Salad
Tasty and uncomplicated salad. A great app to the main course! Radish is the earliest vegetable and it is impossible to get around it. Radish is served to pilaf both in whole and in the form of salads. And in order to cook such an unusually tasty salad you will need the following products (for 4 servings):
- radish - 1 bunch;
- cucumbers - 2-3 pieces;
- green salad - 2 bunches;
- green onion - 1 bunch;
- any greens (parsley or dill) - 1 bunch;
- vegetable oil - to taste;
- salt to taste.
1. Now prepare the salad. Wash and chop the radish in thick slices with red skin.
2. For cucumbers, cut the ends and cut into half rings.
3. Greens (parsley or dill), chop green onion finely.
5. Wash the green salad thoroughly. You can chop finely, or you can tear into pieces.
6. Put all the ingredients in a bowl. Salt to taste. Season the salad with vegetable oil. Mix everything thoroughly.
Spring vegetable salad with radish is ready. The hostess only had to cook pilaf.
Black Radish Salad
A simple combination of salad products makes it affordable for every family and a good addition to pilaf. Black radish is a very valuable vegetable in nutrition. To make the salad more attractive in appearance, you need to put red cabbage in it. Try to cook it yourself, you need the following ingredients (for 4 servings):
- black radish - 1 piece;
- green apple - 1 piece;
- cabbage cabbage - 250 grams;
- Beijing cabbage - 250 grams;
- salt to taste;
- ground black pepper - to taste;
- vegetable oil - 2 tablespoons.
1. How to cook "Black Radish Salad"? Very simple! First you need to prepare the necessary products for the salad. Wash and dry vegetables thoroughly. Peel the black radish. Grate it on a coarse grater.
2. Peking and red cabbage finely chop.
3. Peel the apple, grate it on a coarse grater.
4. Put in a deep container all chopped vegetables and an apple. Add salt, pepper and vegetable oil. Mix thoroughly - and the salad is ready! You can add fresh finely chopped greens.
This salad consists of black radish, two types of cabbage (red cabbage and Peking) and apple. Due to such an interesting tandem of ingredients, the salad tastes rather unusual.
Fruit salads for pilaf
Apples and oranges, kiwi and pomegranates, lemons and peaches will not allow pilaf on the table to remain without the perfect complement. Fruits in salads not only add juiciness to the main dish, but also nourish the body with additional useful and necessary substances.
Apple salad
Light and tasty salad made from available fruits - apples. Let the combination of apples and yogurt not scare you; it is very juicy and fresh! For this apple salad, the following ingredients are required (for 5 servings):
- large apples - 5 pieces;
- walnut kernels - 80 grams;
- low-fat yogurt - 2 glasses;
- fresh herbs to taste.
1. To prepare a salad, several large apples need to be washed, peeled and grated. Put on the bottom of the salad bowl.
2. Pre-fry the walnuts (so they will be tastier), chop finely, sprinkle on top of apples.
3. Beat the yogurt with a whisk or in a mixer, pour it over the salad. Sprinkle with greens on top.
The main feature of apple salad is decoration with herbs, which in any quantity is excellent with meat dishes.