Juicy tomatoes, with their rich taste, characterized by fine sourness and light sweetness, go well with many ingredients. They create a particularly harmonious pair with cheese of any kind. Delicate creamy products of cheese making become a backdrop against which the taste of tomatoes opens up more fully. Red vegetables themselves favorably emphasize the piquancy of hard cheese. Salads with tomatoes and cheese are juicy, nourishing, colorful and capable of admiring even the most fastidious gourmet. The recipes of these snacks are varied, which allows you to choose an option for any occasion.
Cooking Features
There is no single technology for making salads with tomatoes and cheese - the recipes for these snacks do not always resemble each other. However, you can give general recommendations that will help prepare from the above ingredients a truly delicious snack.
- Juicy greenhouse tomatoes are not very suitable for salads, it is better to give preference to soil. The best choice would be tomato varieties with “fleshy” pulp, such as “Bull's heart”, “Pink cheeks”. If you get too juicy vegetables, after cutting them should be placed in a colander and leave for 10 minutes to allow excess juice from them to flow out.
- For chopping tomatoes, use a special knife that resembles a saw with fine teeth. He will allow to cut a dense thin skin of vegetables, without squeezing out at the same time juice from gentle pulp. A special knife can be replaced with a universal one, but it should be sharp.
- For cheese, too, there are special knives, but for making salad, such devices are needed infrequently. Usually soft cheeses are cut into cubes or plates, which are easily ground by the usual “chef”, while the hard varieties for salads are often ground on a grater. How finely rub the cheese is indicated in the recipe. These recommendations should be followed, since the taste and appearance of the dish depend on the size of the cheese chips.
- Products that have been heat-treated are cooled before combining with other ingredients. Otherwise, the salad will quickly turn sour.
- Salting or dressing salads with tomatoes and cheese preferably immediately before serving them to the table. Salt draws juice out of vegetables, which makes the snack watery after a while. Exceptions are puff salads. They are harvested at least 2-3 hours before serving, otherwise the products will not have time to soak in the sauce, which will adversely affect the taste of the salad.
Salads with tomatoes and cheese are prepared quickly and easily. There are few options for such snacks, which include products that require long-term preparation. This allows you to prepare salads from cheese and tomatoes, not only for the holiday, but also on weekdays.
Salad with tomatoes, cheese and garlic
Composition:
- tomatoes - 0.5 kg;
- chicken egg - 2 pcs .;
- semi-hard cheese - 150 g;
- garlic - 2-3 cloves;
- sour cream - 60 ml;
- mayonnaise - 60 ml;
- fresh dill and parsley - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Wash tomatoes and blot with a napkin. Seals located near the stem, remove with a sharp knife. Cut the remaining flesh into cubes about 1 cm in size, put in a bowl.
- Cut the cheese into small cubes, send it to the tomatoes.
- Eggs boil hard boiled. Put it under a stream of cold water to cool it down. Clean the shells from them. Cut the eggs in the same pieces as other products, send them.
- Pass the garlic through the press.
- Finely chop fresh greens with a knife.
- Add three spoons of sour cream and mayonnaise to the garlic and greens, mix.
- Season the salad with the cooked sauce.
Salad cooked according to this simple recipe has a savory, but balanced flavor. The hotness of garlic in it is balanced by the softness of cheese and eggs, the sweetness of tomatoes.
Salad with tomatoes, cheese and crab sticks
Composition:
- crab sticks - 0, 2 kg;
- tomatoes - 0, 3 kg;
- hard cheese - 150 g;
- mayonnaise - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Crab wands free from cellophane shells, cut into cubes of medium size.
- Dice the tomatoes into slightly larger cubes.
- Gently mix the slices of tomatoes and surimi. Transfer to a salad bowl or spread on ice cream bowls.
- Generously pour mayonnaise.
- Coarsely grated cheese, sprinkle them snack.
Salad made according to this recipe looks simple and elegant, has a delicate harmonious taste. Even an inexperienced hostess will be able to whip it up.
Salad with tomatoes, cheese and champignons
Composition:
- fresh champignons - 0, 3 kg;
- tomatoes - 0, 3 kg;
- onions - 100 g;
- potatoes - 0, 3 kg;
- garlic - 2 cloves;
- hard cheese - 100 g;
- mayonnaise - 100 ml;
- butter - 50 g;
- fresh greens - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Wash mushrooms, pat dry with a napkin, cut into plates.
- Free from onions peel, cut into thin quarters of rings.
- Melt butter in a pan, put mushrooms and onions in it. Fry until the liquid released from the champignons evaporates completely. Put the mushrooms on a plate and wait for them to cool.
- Cut the tomatoes into medium-sized bars, put them in a colander. Leave for 10 minutes.
- Wash the potatoes, boil them in a uniform, cool them.
- Peel, coarsely rub the cooled potatoes.
- Crush garlic with a press, mix with mayonnaise.
- Place a hoop or stencil on the platter. Put the potatoes inside, smooth, smear cooked sauce.
- Place mushrooms on potatoes, cover them with a small layer of sauce.
- Put the tomatoes on the mushrooms, pour them with mayonnaise, seasoned with garlic.
- Remove the stencil or hoop.
- Grate grated cheese with small cells, sprinkle them on the salad. Decorate with greens.
This salad can be not spread in layers, but mixed in a bowl. In this case, the cheese is rubbed coarsely, the potato is cut into bars. Fried champignons can be replaced with canned, mayonnaise - sour cream. The dish will be less calorie, but it will have a slightly different taste.
Salad with tomatoes, cheese and chicken breast
Composition:
- chicken breast fillet - 0, 2 kg;
- tomatoes - 0, 2 kg;
- pitted olives - 100 g;
- cheese - 0, 2 kg;
- leaf lettuce - 100 g;
- salt, pepper, olive oil - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Boil chicken breast fillets in salted water, cool, cut into cubes of medium size.
- Cut the same tomatoes into pieces and cheese.
- Wash lettuce, let it dry. Tear off and place on the dish.
- In a bowl, combine olives, cubes of tomatoes and cheese, pieces of chicken. Salt and pepper to taste.
- Transfer the mixture to the lettuce leaves. Pour over olive oil.
This fresh and appetizing salad with tomatoes and cheese is enjoyed by supporters of healthy food. It turns out nourishing, but easy and useful. This snack does not harm those who diets and wants to lose weight, if you only eat it in moderation.
Salad with tomatoes, cheese, sausage and crackers
Composition:
- tomatoes - 0, 3 kg;
- hard cheese - 150 g;
- string beans - 0, 2 kg;
- smoked sausage - 150 g;
- rye crackers - 50 g;
- mayonnaise - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Cut the tomatoes into sticks and place them in a bowl.
- Cut the sausage into large strips, send to the tomatoes.
- Boil the beans in salted water, drain in a colander. When it dries and cool, transfer to other ingredients.
- Coarsely rub the cheese, add to the products in the bowl.
- Pour crackers into the bowl.
- Season the salad with mayonnaise, put it in a salad bowl or on a beautiful dish.
Serve the salad to the table approximately 15 minutes after its preparation, by this time the crackers will soften slightly, but do not have time to soften. Smoked sausage in the composition of the salad can be replaced by other smoked meats or ham. Taste snacks will acquire new shades, but will remain pleasant.
How to decorate a salad with tomatoes and cheese
The bright color of the tomatoes makes any snack, which they include, noticeable and appetizing. However, each housewife seeks to serve the dish in an original way. You can offer several options for decorating salads, which include tomatoes and cheese.
- Cheese can give an appetizer not only a harmonious taste, but also an attractive appearance. Snack can be sprinkled with large cheese chips. Finely grated cheese covering the salad creates a background on which any figures, patterns and inscriptions made from other products will look beautiful. Plain feta or similar cheese plates that are on top of the appetizer look simple but stylish. You can make flowers from thin slices of cheese by folding them into a paper bag and inserting a long thin piece of cucumber, tomato or bell pepper in the center.
- Tomatoes can also be a central element of the decor. Cutting them in a zigzag manner, you can get two flowers. Other types of buds can be harvested from tomatoes, cut into thin round slices. It is easy to turn halves of cherry tomatoes into “ladybirds”.
- The decor of tomato and cheese salad can be flowers from eggs, ham and other products that make up the snack.
The combination of red and green is contrasting and harmonious at the same time. Having laid out a snack, which includes tomatoes, on lettuce leaves, you will give it an even brighter, fresher and festive look.
A salad with tomatoes and cheese is an easy-to-cook, but tasty and delicious treat. These snacks look good on the holiday table, but the ease of cooking allows them to be made on weekdays. Another advantage of these salads is that they are easy to arrange beautifully.
