The combination of lettuce leaves or Peking cabbage with sausage is considered to be a classic. These ingredients perfectly complement each other, so that even the simplest dish — the leaves, on which the sausage slices are laid — is already quite tasty and elegant. But the salad with Chinese cabbage and sausage, of course, is better. However, to get involved in a complex composition, perhaps, not worth it.
Salad with Chinese cabbage and sausage: general principles
For a salad with Chinese cabbage and sausage, you need to choose a good kochanchik: without dried or rotted leaves, fresh and pleasant color. It is not good if the leaves are cracked: it is possible that there are many nitrates in the cabbage or storage rules have been violated. If the leaves are too sluggish, then it is also better to refuse such a head of cabbage.
Before cooking lettuce with Chinese cabbage and sausage, it is necessary to disassemble the head of cabbage into leaves and rinse in cool water, rinsing with running water. This is worth doing even if the cabbage was sold wrapped in film and the upper leaves were thrown away. If the white center of the leaves is very solid, it should be cut. But the absence of these juicy parts is not the best effect on the taste of the salad, so a little bit still needs to be left.
Sausage for salad suitable boiled or cooked smoked sausages can be used; it is better to prefer a good quality product.
Filling a salad with Chinese cabbage and sausage is better than mayonnaise, which can be prepared by yourself - you get a more delicious and healthy product, because it will not contain preservatives, dyes and other undesirable additives.
Recipe 1. Salad with Chinese cabbage and smoked sausage “For dinner”
A simple and very fast salad with Chinese cabbage and sausage is suitable for dinner, especially if guests suddenly draw (for example, mother-in-law).
Ingredients
Beijing cabbage - 150 g Cooked smoked sausage - 100 g
Green Peas - A Small Jar
Eggs - 3 pieces
Pomegranate Seeds - Half Munch
Mayonnaise
Pomegranate juice - 2 tablespoons; possible without him
Method of preparation
Peking cabbage leaves tear hands into small pieces. Cut the sausage into small cubes. Boil eggs, clean and cool. Each cut into 4-6 slices.
Mix cabbage, sausage, peas. Mayonnaise mixed with pomegranate juice (or just take the mayonnaise), season the salad. Put egg slices on top and cover everything with pomegranate seeds.
Recipe 2. Salad with Chinese cabbage and sausage “In a Glass”
This festive salad with Chinese cabbage and sausage is served in glasses, so it looks spectacular and unbanal.
Ingredients
Beijing cabbage - 250 g
Sausage sausage - 200 g
Sweet pepper - 3 pieces of different colors
Quail eggs - 5-6 pieces
Mint sprigs - 8-10 pieces
Purple sweet onions - 1 head
Pitted olives - 10 pieces
Mayonnaise, better homemade - half a cup
Orange juice - 5-6 tablespoons
Method of preparation
Beijing cabbage leaves, sausage, sweet pepper and a head of sweet onion cut very finely, but do not mix. Quail eggs boil, cool, peel and very carefully cut into quarters. Maslinki also cut into slices.
Mayonnaise mix well with orange juice; mix half a mint into it, finely chopping it.
In glasses put layers of cabbage, part of the pepper, sausage, onions, eggs, olives, the remaining pepper. Grease each layer with mayonnaise. Decorate with mint sprigs on top.
Recipe 3. Salad with Chinese cabbage and sausage “Pig on the lawn”
This is, of course, a recipe for children. If there is no need to entertain the kid, but you don’t want to mess around, you can simply mix all the ingredients, and you’ll get the usual version of salad with Chinese cabbage and sausage.
Ingredients
Cooked sausage - 300 g
Chinese cabbage - 250 - 300 g
Boiled eggs - 4 pieces
“Dutch” type cheese - 200 g Sweet corn - half a can
Onion, better salad - half heads
Boiled carrots - half or whole, if small
Fresh cucumber - 1 piece
Olive - 1 piece
Mayonnaise
Method of preparation
Boil eggs, cool and peel. From one cut circle - it will be “Piglet”. Grate the rest. Grate also the cheese.
From carrots cut several flowers. Chop the rest. Cut a part of sausage into thinnest slices, cut the rest into small pieces, chop also onions, cucumber (some can be left on the ornament, cutting leaves or flowers) and half of Peking cabbage.
Mix all the crushed ingredients, put the corn (leave a few grains for decoration) and fill with mayonnaise.
Cut remaining cabbage into noodles.
Put the Beijing cabbage on the dish. If the dish is small, then you can cover it completely. This is a lawn. It should be decorated with “flowers” of carrots and cucumbers, they can be made of corn from the middle.
In the center lay out the salad, giving it a round shape. Make two ears of two thin slices of sausage, cut the rest into small squares and cover them like a tile, the salad is a muzzle of a pig. Piglet to make a circle of eggs, and eyes - from the halves of the olive.
Recipe 4. Salad with Peking Cabbage and “Rusk” Sausage
Ingredients
Half-smoked sausage (you can take boiled) - 200 g
Beijing cabbage - 200 g
Green Peas - 1 Small Can
Onion - half head
Marinated Cucumbers - 3 medium or 6 gherkins
Tomato - 1 large
Boiled eggs - 3 pieces
Hard cheese - 150 g
Mayonnaise
White bread - the third loaf
Method of preparation
For this salad with Chinese cabbage and sausage, a good half-smoked sausage is best, but you can replace it with something else. You can also exclude any ingredient, if it is not available, just do not exclude cheese: without cheese you get a completely different salad.
Cut the long loaf into croutons and fry them in a lightly oiled pan in small portions. To rub cheese on the smallest grater and pour about a third of it into croutons. Stir vigorously right away so that the cheese covers all the croutons. Pour into a dish and let dry. Cut the onion and sausage into small cubes and lightly fry in a pan. Leave to cool.
Finely chop or tear the cabbage of Peking cabbage. Cut diced cucumbers, tomatoes, eggs. Mix them with onions, sausage, peas and grated cheese, season with mayonnaise. Before serving, pour the crackers.
Recipe 5. Salad with Chinese cabbage, sausage and pickled champignons
This is a rather refined version of salad with Chinese cabbage and sausage, rather, it is suitable for a holiday. It can be decomposed into portioned salad bowls or ice-cream bowls.
Ingredients
Cooked smoked sausage - 200 g
Beijing cabbage - 150 g
Sweet pepper - 1 pod, better than red or orange
Marinated champignons - 100 g
Marinated Gherkins - 100 g
Olives and (or) pitted olives - about 100 g
Cherry - 100 g
Quail eggs - 8 pieces
Mayonnaise
Decorating herbs (such as parsley or watercress)
Method of preparation
Boil eggs, clean and cool. Cut each egg and each cherry tomato into two parts. Gherkins cut into small pieces, pepper and sausage - into small cubes. Peking cabbage cut medium-sized "noodles".
All ingredients are very carefully mixed and season with mayonnaise. Decorate with greens.
Recipe 6. Salad with Chinese cabbage and sausage “Miracle cabbage”
This, of course, is also a festive version of salad with Chinese cabbage and sausage, it looks very personable, however, it does not prepare very quickly.
Ingredients
Peking Cabbage - Heading
Cooked sausage - 200 g
Sausage type sausage - 200 g
Pitted olives - 150 g
Mozzarella mini - 10 balls
Pepper sweet - 2 pods, better bright colors
Boiled carrots - 1 piece
Canned corn - 5 tablespoons
Cucumber fresh - 2-3 pieces
Cherry - 200 g
Dill - a small bunch
Quail eggs - 10 pieces
Mayonnaise
Method of preparation
Some of the ingredients should be immediately set aside for decoration. These are 5-6 eggs, as many cherry tomatoes, mozzarella balls, half sausage and butter. Cut the florets from the carrot halves, cannel the cucumber halves, or just make cuts on the skin and cut them into circles. Dill very finely chopped and wrap mozzarella balls in parts of it. Half of the one and the other sausage cut into thin slices and make of them roses or kulchki. Make a few fungi from the eggs left, cut the halves of cherry tomatoes as hats, cut some of the eggs and cherry into slices and make flowers from them. Head out Chinese cabbage on leaves and set aside about 20 beautiful leaves of various sizes.
The remaining ingredients are cut as small as possible, mix and season with mayonnaise.
Put big leaves on a dish, put in a couple of tablespoons of lettuce. Put a smaller circle of medium leaves on top of them and place lettuce in them too. The next tier is laid out from small leaves, also with a salad. Insert 2-3 small leaves in the center. On all tiers chaotically spread out the decorations and stick here and there small twigs of dill.
Recipe 7. Salad with Chinese cabbage and sausage “Saturated Dad”
Another funny and seemingly unusual salad with Chinese cabbage and sausage, suitable for a small celebration.
Ingredients
Peking cabbage - small head
Sausage type sausage - 200 g
Boiled sausage - 200 g
Sausages, better smoked - 200 g
“Dutch” type cheese - 300 g
Boiled eggs - 4 pieces
Sweet pepper - 2 pieces
Champignons - 300 g
Olives, Cherry, etc. for decoration
Mayonnaise
Onions, greens - at will and to taste
Method of preparation
Cut the champignons and lightly fry, you can with onions.
Peking cabbage divided into leaves and tear them into small pieces.
Cheese and egg grate in separate bowls. Sausages and sausages chopped, also separately. Grind sweet pepper.
Mix the cheese with the boiled sausage, the egg with the smoked sausage, and the sausages with the pepper, flavor each filling with mayonnaise.
Put a layer of torn leaves on the dish, and the stuffing on them. The order of the layers can be chosen as follows:
1 layer - leaves and cheese filling;
2 layer - leaves and mushrooms;
3 layer - leaves and egg filling;
4 layer - leaves and sausages with pepper;
top layer - leaves.
Garnish with olives, grated cheese or yolk, chopped dill and anything else. The sequence of layers can also be changed, if desired.
Salad with Peking Cabbage and Sausage - Tricks and Tips
- In fact, a salad with Chinese cabbage and sausage is so simple a dish that there are no special tricks in it at all. Peking cabbage is combined with almost any ingredients. As for the sausage, it is, of course, more capricious, but still combine with the products and its easy.
- Cabbage leaves, if they are gentle enough, it is better not to cut it, but to tear it with your hands will save juice and vitamins.
- The sausage should be chosen with a sufficiently dense consistency to keep the shape well, otherwise its slices will look unattractive in the salad.
- You should not take too pink sausage - it is most likely tinted. The color should be slightly grayish.
- Take a slice of sausage in your fingers. If it is very fat, this sausage is not suitable for salad. And if it is too wet, then it is hardly worth eating this sausage at all: it seems to be frozen.
