Peking cabbage (petsai) appeared on the Russian shelves recently, but has already ceased to be exotic and has taken a strong place on the kitchen tables and in the hearts of adherents of healthy eating.
A Chinese vegetable is a little like a classic head of cabbage - it is practically the twin brother of the popular romaine lettuce, but managed to get the best from cabbage and from salads.
Chinese cabbage is one of the most popular vegetables because it is widely used in the preparation of various salads. But it is the salad with Chinese cabbage and beef tongue that deserves special attention.
The benefits and harm of dishes
Besides, the dish has the following positive effects on the body:
- contributes to effective weight loss - a low-calorie dish, for example, per 16 grams of cabbage accounts for only 16 kcal;
- regulates blood pressure;
- enriches the body with potassium;
- prevents the occurrence of anemia, relieves constant fatigue.
Step-by-step recipes
To date, there are several different recipes for salad with Chinese cabbage and tongue.
With egg
The following ingredients are required to make a salad:
- two eggs;
- head of cabbage;
- bunch of dill;
- mayonnaise;
- salt.
Further, you can start cooking:
- Eggs are boiled hard boiled, after which they are placed in cold water to cool.
- Cabbage is cut into strips and combined with finely chopped dill.
- Eggs are cut into large pieces and combined with the rest of the products, the salad is dressed with mayonnaise, and then everything is thoroughly mixed.
There is another topical recipe. making such a salad using the same ingredients:
- Eggs and other ingredients are cut into pieces of the same size.
- All products are mixed. As a dressing, you can use mayonnaise, sour cream, yogurt.
With cucumber
For the preparation of salad will require such ingredients.:
- 2 eggs;
- cucumber;
- head of cabbage;
- bunch of dill;
- mayonnaise;
- salt.
Further, you can start cooking:
- Eggs are boiled hard boiled.
- Next, you need to remove the top leaves from cabbage, putting them aside, they will be useful for further processing.
- Rinse the cucumbers thoroughly, removing the skin from them, cutting them strictly into thin pieces.
- It remains to mix the prepared products in one bowl, adding salt and pepper to taste.
The second recipe for this salad with cucumber is a godsend for a quick, tasty and healthy snack:
- Here, at the very beginning, a dressing is being prepared, which is infused for about fifteen minutes.
- After that, you can finely chop the cabbage, cucumbers cut into long strips.
- Slightly fry in a frying pan without sesame oil, mixing vegetables.
With bell pepper
The ingredients are the same and 2 sweet peppers are added, cooking:
- To prepare a salad with Chinese cabbage and bell pepper, you will need to put chicken fillet in the frying pan at the very beginning, fry.
- After that, all the ingredients are combined, filling up with oil.
- Bulgarian pepper cut into strips, chop finely and parsley.
As for the second recipe of cooking, it is not less simpleOnly a few details should be observed:
- For a start, wash tomatoes, peppers, cabbage, ridding peppers of seeds.
- When all the products are prepared, the cheese pieces are laid out, fried on each side, this is done until a brown crust is formed.
With corn
Corn salad is easy, nourishing, low-calorie, and you can cook it in a short period of time.
- First of all, prepared cabbage, which should be chopped into strips, can be diced.
- As for corn, it should be folded back onto a sieve, allowing it to flow.
- Salad mayonnaise is made, you can always use oil with the addition of lemon juice.
You can cook and crab saladwhere the main ingredients will be - cabbage, corn.
- All that needs to be done is to peel and chop the crab sticks, chop the cabbage, and then mix it all with the corn.
- It remains to salt the salad to taste, dressing with mayonnaise.
With apples
- For this recipe only suitable young cabbage.
- The apple should remain juicy and tough, and preferably with a slight sourness, since it is she who will give the dish the desired taste. Apple should be washed under water and peeled.
- The composition of the dish includes cucumbers, dill. All products are mixed and dressed with yogurt.
You can choose a different recipe that allows you to cook a similar dish.but it differs in some actions.
- For example, now you need to cut an apple in the same way as cheese, then the salad looks beautiful. In addition, the seed box is removed with a special knife.
- All products are mixed, seasoning them with salt, seasoning with olive oil.
With spinach
- For the preparation of this salad, chopped cabbage and spinach.
- After that, add broccoli seeds and salt.
- Pour out the apricot kernels, crushing them into small pieces.
The second recipe is equally simple., cook it will be every hostess.
- Shred cabbage finely.
- Next, you need to rinse the spinach under running water, removing the remnants of contamination, cut off the thin stems.
- Finely chopped cucumber, radish, mixed vegetables in a salad bowl.
How to make a quick fix?
- If guests suddenly come suddenly, you can always make a salad from Beijing cabbage with soy sauce, adding prunes, garlic, sugar and olive oil. All these ingredients are mixed, resulting in a thick sauce, in which you need to add lemon juice, raisins.
- You can always use the ham, slicing thin strips, Korean carrots, dressing with mayonnaise.
How to serve the dish?
Of course, a lot depends on serving. If you decide to cook a salad with chicken breast, pineapple, then feeding such a dish will have to be done in portions, namely, first you need to put a mixture of salads on a white plate, on top of pieces of chicken and pineapple.
But in most cases, such a salad is served exclusively in transparent salad bowls, they are made of smooth glass. This is done for the reason that the dish remains not only fresh, but it also looks appetizing.
It is quite possible to prepare such a dish on your own, without much effort. Anyway, the salad will be able to impress even the most fastidious gourmet, since here everything is perfectstarting from the taste and ending with the look, aroma. It is worth adding that, in reality, Chinese cabbage salads are indispensable for a full and healthy diet, as they include vitamins that are beneficial for the body and vegetable protein.