Pineapple - one of the most versatile fruits. Despite pronounced sweet taste, the fruit equally appropriate and in salads, and desserts and hot dishes. Salad with pineapple, served at the table, making the original easiest weekday lunch. This pineapple salads are easy and relatively low calorie.

What is the secret of tasty salad

Salads occupy a special place in cooking. It is believed that a talented chef can prepare salads literally "out of nothing", improvised combining remnants of various products. Indeed, sometimes the salad combine perfectly incongruous at first glance, the ingredients, and the result is a delicious dish.

There are simple salad, consisting of a single component with the sauce. The taste of this dish depends primarily on the filling, which often consists of original spices and seasonings. However, most salads make multicomponent - flavors of the various ingredients are mixed together bizarre way, and the result is a unique, nothing on a similar dish.

In preparing the salad special attention should be paid to refueling. This can be a traditional sauce made from olive oil and vinegar with salt and pepper, mustard dressing, sour cream based sauce Smetana: untold riches of Russian cuisine   or mayonnaise, bought in the store. Adding a small amount of the sauce makes the taste of spices filling the original and memorable. For example, a salad of chicken suit modicum of garlic and ginger, the fish will be well combined parsley and dry white wine, and the flavor of vegetables underlined cardamom Cardamom: grains of paradise and the king of spices   and cinnamon.

Buying mayonnaise in the store, it is better to give preference to the most natural varieties of sauce. Of course, found at the counter completely natural preservatives mayonnaise without fail, but it is desirable to select sauces in which as many as possible ingredients of natural origin. Typically, fatty mayonnaise, cooked according to the classical recipe more tasty than dietary variety. The latter, however, useful for the figure.

If a lot of salad ingredients, should strive to ensure that the flavors are harmoniously matched. Products with a pronounced taste should be used sparingly, lest they sacrificed other ingredients. We should try to present in a salad different tastes - salty, neutral, sharp, sweet, sour. For example, to add a sweet pineapple good sharp cheese, salty chicken, a refreshing celery Celery: vegetable with obvious advantages   and eggs. Also, pineapple goes well with fish and seafood, which is good to add a little rice (neutral flavor), peppers (sweet and spicy taste) and celery (refreshing taste).

The original salad of pineapple and ham

For the preparation of this delicious salad will need a good three hundred grams of lean ham, three boiled eggs, Standard Bank of canned corn (four hundred grams), a jar of canned pineapple (three hundred and forty grams), a small tomato, salt, pepper, mayonnaise and parsley. To apply this puff of lettuce is best to use transparent portioned bowls.

At the bottom of vases to put the ham cut into thin strips. Lubricate the mayonnaise. The next layer - boiled eggs chopped. They need to add salt and mayonnaise, too, miss the mark. Next come the canned corn and mayonnaise. The last layer of lettuce - chopped into small pieces of pineapple, sprinkled with black pepper. If desired, the salad can add a layer of chopped celery stalks - it will give the dish a fresh and savory. Decorated with a salad of chopped tomatoes and parsley.

Form feed you can change. For example, lay out the layers of lettuce in reverse order (pineapple, corn, eggs, bacon) into small molds and just before serving gently turn them into round slices of pineapple. Decorated with greenery, this salad will decorate any table.

Maria Bykov

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