Cocktail salads may contain the same ingredients as other snacks, but are distinguished by an unusual and effective serving. Each dish is collected in an individual dish, layered in layers, decorated on top and looks like a small masterpiece. Especially interesting are the salads, cocktails of ham. Still would! This product itself has a pleasant taste and blends perfectly with a variety of ingredients.
Ham Cocktail Salad - General Cooking Principles
The first thing you need to cook for a cocktail salad with ham is the dishes. You can use ordinary glasses, preferably wide. But the appetizer in wine glasses on a leg, ice-cream bowls, paunchy glasses looks more interesting.
For salads, it is advisable to use low-fat ham, since the layers are usually smeared with sauces based on mayonnaise, sour cream. Vegetable oil in cocktail appetizers is used very rarely. Ham cut into cubes, straws or long strips.
What else can you put in a ham cocktail salad:
• chicken and quail eggs;
• cheese of all sorts and types;
• fresh and boiled vegetables;
• mushrooms;
• meat, poultry;
• nuts, dried fruits.
Greens are almost always used: parsley, dill. If you want to put lettuce leaves, then they are torn to pieces or cut, lay out a layer. The bottom of the dishes covered with greenery rarely, so as not to hide layers of snacks.
Recipe 1: Cocktail with ham and cucumbers “Freshness”
For the preparation of this salad cocktail with ham will require fresh cucumbers. It is advisable to use young fruit with a delicate skin and small seeds. Dressing on the basis of natural yoghurt, which can be replaced with low-fat sour cream. The amount is calculated for 4 servings.
Ingredients
• 160 grams of ham;
• 160 grams of cucumbers; • 8 onions feathers;
• 80 grams of cheese;
• 140 grams of yogurt;
• 2 spoons of lemon juice;
• 0.3 tsp. salts;
• 0.5 tsp. mustard
Cooking
1. We cut cucumbers and ham with a neat straw, it is better not to use grater. Finely chop the greens.
2. Cut the cheese into cubes or straws, depending on the hardness of the product.
3. For the sauce, add yoghurt, add mustard and citrus juice, mix. Pepper can be added for extra spice.
4. Put ham on the bottom of the glass, lightly press it with a spoon.
5. The next layer is laid cucumbers.
6. Now pour the cheese cubes, pour all the sauce.
7. Decorate with chopped green onion feathers and you're done! Salad salad is not necessary.
Recipe 2: Cocktail Salad with Ham, Eggs and Sweet Peppers
To make the appetizer beautiful, you can use sweet pods of different colors, for example, red and yellow. Also for the cocktail salad will need boiled hard boiled eggs, which can be prepared in advance. For refueling use ordinary mayonnaise. The number of products in 3 medium portions.
Ingredients
• 200 grams of ham;
• 3 eggs;
• 2 sweet peppers;
• 100 grams of cheese;
• greenery;
• mayonnaise;
• 2 spoons of pine nuts.
Cooking
1. In a bag of mayonnaise, you need to make a small hole so that the sauce is squeezed out in a thin stream. If the mayonnaise is not in the package, but in the bank, then you can shift it into a strong bag and cut off the little corner. Do not forget to tie a free edge.
2. Cut the ham into cubes, put it on the bottom of the glasses. Making a mesh of mayonnaise.
3. Put the diced egg, pour over the mayonnaise again, salt a little.
4. Now we put pepper cubes of the same color.
5. We make a layer of grated cheese, pour with mayonnaise, sprinkle with chopped greens.
6. We put on top pepper of a different color.
7. Sprinkle with pine nuts and you're done! The top layer mayonnaise is not watered.
Recipe 3: Cocktail Salad with Ham and Mushrooms
Very nourishing and nutritious ham cocktail salad, which will especially appeal to men. For filling, we will use regular champignons. From these products you get 2 large portions or 3 medium ones.
Ingredients
• 160 grams of ham;
• 4 champignons;
• 120 grams of cheese;
• 2 tablespoons thick mayonnaise;
• 2 tablespoons sour cream;
• 1 cucumber;
• 2-3 sprigs of parsley;
• 2 spoons of butter;
• 0.5 spoons of paprika;
• 1 onion.
Cooking
1. Cut the champignons into plates, fry in oil. After all the liquid has evaporated, add the chopped onion, cook together. Do not forget to pepper and salt. Cooling filling.
2. Cut ham, put in glasses.
3. Put the chopped cucumber on top.
4. Now we put the cooked mushrooms, top lay out all the sour cream.
5. Sprinkle with grated cheese.
6. Mix the mayonnaise with the paprika, put it in a pastry bag and decorate the cheese on top. You can simply draw a spiral, a snail, write a letter or logo.
7. Stick parsley sprig and you're done!
Recipe 4: Cocktail with ham and tomatoes
A variant of a very juicy cocktail salad with ham, which also includes tomatoes. It is better to use tomatoes of sweet and fleshy varieties. Also need quail eggs. The number of products per serving.
Ingredients
• 2 quail eggs;
• 3 slices of ham;
• 1 tomato;
• 0.3 cloves of garlic;
• 0.5 bell peppers;
• 3-4 sprigs of dill;
• 1 spoon of mayonnaise;
• 30 grams of cheese.
Cooking
1. Cook the eggs, clean and cut each in half. While we set aside.
2. Cut the peppers into straws, put them on the bottom of the bowl.
3. The next layer is the ham, from which we also make a straw. Lightly grease with mayonnaise.
4. Put the sliced tomato.
5. Sprinkle with grated cheese, richly grease with mayonnaise.
6. Making a final layer of chopped finely dill. 7. Fold the halves of quail eggs. To decorate, we drop some mayonnaise on them, sprinkle with black pepper or paprika.
Recipe 5: Meat Cocktail Salad with Assorted Ham
For meat cocktail salad, you will need chicken breast and a little salami. Dilute rich taste of fresh radish. Refueling is prepared on the basis of sour cream, it is better to use a product with an average fat content of about 15%. The amount of products calculated for one serving.
Ingredients
• 70 grams of boiled breast;
• 2 slices of ham;
• 2 salami circles;
• 2 tablespoons sour cream;
• 4-5 radishes;
• 1 clove garlic;
• 1/4 red onion;
• 2 sprigs of parsley;
• a little pepper, salt.
Cooking
1. For the sauce, chop the garlic, parsley, mix with sour cream, salt and add a little black pepper.
2. Cut the chicken breast into strips, put it on the bottom of the glass, grease with sauce.
3. Slice the radish, put it on top of the chicken. One thing left to decorate the salad.
4. The next layer is laid ham, grease.
5. Put the thinly sliced red onion on the ham.
6. Finishing layer lay straw from ham. It is quite flexible, you can roll in the form of roses, spirals or just beautifully arranged.
7. Put a handful of remaining sauce.
8. Cut the radish into 5-6 parts, stick into the sauce.
Recipe 6: Cocktail Salad with Ham, Cheese and Prunes
Spicy cocktail salad with ham and an unusual ingredient - prunes. It is better to use dried fruit without stones. The number of ingredients is calculated for 1 portion.
Ingredients
• 80 grams of ham;
• 4 prunes;
• 40 grams of cheese;
• 1 egg (boiled);
• 40 grams of cucumber;
• 2-3 sprigs of greens;
• 30 grams of mayonnaise.
Cooking
1. Prunes need to be washed and filled with warm water for 15 minutes. Then squeeze, cut into strips.
2. Ham cut into cubes, put in a glass, grease, but slightly. 3. Put the chopped prunes.
4. Now add crushed egg, grease with sauce.
5. Cut the cucumber into thin straws, put them on top of the egg. This layer does not need to be salted or lubricated.
6. Sprinkle the salad with grated cheese, pour over the remaining mayonnaise and decorate with fresh greens. You can put a whole prune, but not steamed.
Recipe 7: Cocktail Salad with Ham, Pineapple and Walnuts
This cocktail cocktail with ham just conquers with its extraordinary taste. Canned pineapple is used, but you can also get fresh produce. To make the nuts become more aromatic, you can fry the kernels in the pan.
Ingredients
• 60 grams of ham;
• 1 egg;
• 1 pineapple ring;
• 5 walnut kernels;
• 30 grams of cheese;
• 50 grams of mayonnaise;
• 0.5 cucumber.
Cooking
1. Cut the ham into the same cubes, put the first layer, grease with sauce.
2. Cucumber shred straws, put on top.
3. Boil the egg, cut it into cubes, spread on top of the cucumber, grease it with plenty, salt it a little.
4. Cut the pineapple ring into pieces, put on top of the egg. Lubricate this layer is not necessary.
5. Sprinkle pineapple with grated cheese, grease with mayonnaise, lay out walnuts and ready!
Recipe 8: Cocktail Salad with Ham and Corn
For this salad you will need canned corn, ham and something else. For dressing sauce is based on sour cream. Calculation for 1 portion.
Ingredients
• 2 slices of ham;
• 3 tablespoons of corn;
• 1 tomato;
• 2 crab sticks;
• 2 tablespoons sour cream;
• 0.5 tablespoons soy sauce;
• any greens.
Cooking
1. Mix sour cream with soy sauce.
2. We put chopped greens on the bottom of the glass.
3. Ham shred straw, pour out on top, grease with a thin layer.
4. Put the sliced tomato.
5. Chop sticks into slices or straws, lay out, pour out the remaining sauce. 6. Pour the corn grains, decorate the salad with green leaves, a tomato circle or strips of ham.
Ham Cocktail Salad - Tips and Tricks
• The main secret of a beautiful cocktail salad with ham - this is a neat cutting of products. Do not try to simplify and speed up the cooking process with a grater. Use a sharp knife, do not rush, make neat and identical pieces.
• In order for the salad to retain its appearance well and not to keep the juice out of the products, it is better not to pickle fresh vegetables, but add spices to the sauce or sprinkle ingredients such as eggs, cheese, meat products, and mushrooms.
• Cocktail salads are prepared in small portions, and the amount of each ingredient rarely exceeds 100 grams. Therefore, no need to pour the layers of sauces, just enough to lightly grease the products. The most convenient way to make a light fishnet, as described in the third recipe.
• To make salads look really impressive, you need to use transparent dishes made of light glass, without pictures, texture, curved lines.
• If you need to prepare a salad in advance, it is better to simply cut all the ingredients, arrange them into separate containers and put them in the refrigerator. And collecting snacks is still better before serving. Also, do not forget to prepare the sauce in advance.
• It is very important not to smudge the edges of the dishes when folding the ingredients and smearing the layers. Otherwise, the appetizer will not seem so beautiful, there will be no separation of the layers.
