The most popular salads among the people are simple to prepare, economical, but at the same time nourishing and tasty. There are many variants of such snacks, but it is difficult to surprise guests. If you need a completely unusual recipe, you should pay attention to the salad with egg pancakes. This dish has a unique taste, and it looks extraordinary, while any hostess can make it at home. Spend a lot of time and effort on it is not necessary. On the family budget, it also does not affect too much. Salad of egg pancakes can be prepared on weekdays and for the holiday table.
Cooking Features
Salad with egg pancakes is not an ordinary snack. The technology of cooking this dish has certain features that it is better to learn about before starting to cook.
- The main ingredient in the salad is egg pancakes. They are made from a mixture resembling an omelet. In order to thicken this mixture, starch is added to it. Milk, kefir, water or mayonnaise are also added to the dough. You can add finely grated or dried carrots, vegetable juice, greens, because of which the pancakes will get a different shade. Salt and spices will not be superfluous either.
- Fry egg pancakes, as usual, in a hot pan, greased with butter. The dough is poured into a ladle in the center of the pan. Slightly tilting the pan, distribute the dough over the entire area of the dish. When the edges of the pancake begin to brown, it is turned over to the other side, using a wide spatula, and fried until ready. It takes about 3 minutes to cook one pancake. Salad is usually fried from 3 to 5 pancakes. It takes 4 eggs. Time for cooking egg pancakes takes no more than boiling eggs.
- Egg pancakes shot from the pan are rolled into a roll and cut into pieces about 1 cm wide. The result is long noodles.
- Stir the salad with the egg pancakes with the help of two forks. Spoon to mix the ingredients well, without damaging the noodles of these pancakes, it will be difficult.
- It makes no sense to add boiled eggs to egg pancake salads. Keep this in mind if you invent your own version of this snack. Sauce, too, can not put or reduce its quantity to a minimum, otherwise the snack will turn out too high in calories.
- Egg pancakes and other heat-treated foods must be cooled to room temperature before being added to the salad. If you combine hot and cold ingredients, the dish will quickly turn sour.
- Egg pancakes can be made as an ordinary salad, and puff. If you lay out a snack in layers, you need to collect the salad a few hours before the feast, so that the products have time to soak in the sauce.
There are several varieties of egg pancake salad. They can vary not only the recipe, but also the technology of preparation. Having carefully studied the instructions accompanying the selected recipe, you will not make mistakes when cooking food and get the expected result.
Salad with egg pancakes, boiled chicken and fresh cucumber
Composition:
- chicken fillet - 0, 2 kg;
- fresh cucumbers - 0, 2 kg;
- green onions - 100 g;
- chicken egg - 4 pcs .;
- wheat flour 20 g;
- potato starch - 20 g;
- mayonnaise - 80 ml;
- salt, pepper - to taste;
- vegetable oil - how much will leave.
Preparation Method:
- Break eggs into a bowl, add a large spoonful of mayonnaise, salt and pepper to them. Whisk until smooth.
- Sift flour, mix with starch. Pour eggs into the mixture, whisk together to make a dough without lumps.
- Heat the pan, brush it with oil using a cooking brush.
- Pour a ladle of dough into the pan. When the edges of the pancake darken, turn it over, remove it in a minute. Also fry the pancakes from the remaining dough. It should make 3-4 pancakes, depending on the size of your pan.
- Roll the egg pancakes rolls, leave to cool.
- Wash chicken breast, boil in lightly salted water, cool.
- Cut the chicken breast into cubes, place in a bowl.
- Rolls of egg pancakes cut into 1 cm pieces, flatten, put to the chicken.
- Wash cucumbers, dry with a towel, cut into large straws, put to other ingredients.
- Chop green onions, pour to other products.
- Mix the ingredients with two forks, place on a dish.
- Cover with mayonnaise mesh and serve.
Egg pancake salad can be made with smoked chicken, pickled cucumbers and onions. The proportions will be the same, only onions should be cut into thin half-rings and pour over boiling water to get rid of excess bitterness.
Layered salad with egg pancakes, smoked sausage and champignons
Composition:
- chicken egg - 4 pcs .;
- smoked sausage - 0, 2 kg;
- green onions - 50 g;
- hard cheese - 75 g;
- canned corn - 150 g;
- fresh champignons - 0, 2 kg;
- starch - 40 g;
- mayonnaise - to taste;
- kefir - 100 ml;
- onions - 100 g;
- vegetable oil - how much will leave;
- salt, pepper, fresh herbs - to taste.
Preparation Method:
- Prepare dough from eggs, kefir, starch, salt and pepper. Fry pancakes, cool, cut into wide strips.
- Wash mushrooms, pat dry with a napkin, cut into plates. Onions free from the husk, cut into half rings.
- Fry the mushrooms together with the onions, season and salt them, let them cool, put them on the plate.
- Place egg noodles on mushrooms.
- Finely chop the green onions, mix with a spoon of mayonnaise, put it on the pancakes.
- Cut the smoked sausage into medium-sized bars, put on the onion.
- Open a jar of corn, drain the liquid from it.
- Mix corn with mayonnaise, put on sausage.
- Coarsely rub the cheese, sprinkle on the salad.
- Decorate the salad with a sprig of green.
Mayonnaise in the recipe of this snack can be replaced with sour cream, the salad will still remain tasty and satisfying.
Salad with egg pancakes and Korean carrots
Composition:
- egg pancakes from 4 eggs;
- ham - 0, 25 kg;
- Korean carrots - 0, 3 kg;
- mayonnaise - to taste.
Preparation Method:
- For any of the recipes, fry egg pancakes, roll them into a roll. When cool, cut into thin noodles (approximately 0, 5 cm).
- Cut the sausage into thin strips, combine with pancakes.
- Add Korean carrot and a couple of spoons of mayonnaise, mix. It is not necessary to put a lot of sauce, as the pancakes were fried in butter, Korean-style carrot dressing also contains this fatty ingredient.
- Put the appetizer in a salad bowl and serve it to the table.
Despite the ease of preparation, the appetizer for this recipe is very tasty. Guests will surely be satisfied with this savory and unusual treat.
Salad with egg pancakes, Chinese cabbage and boiled sausage
Composition:
- egg pancakes made from 2 eggs;
- Chinese cabbage - 0, 3 kg;
- boiled sausage - 0, 2 kg;
- Bulgarian pepper - 0, 25 kg;
- mayonnaise or sour cream - to taste.
Preparation Method:
- Prepare an omelette dough according to any recipe from a pair of chicken eggs. Fry pancakes. Roll into a roll, cut into pieces a little less than a centimeter thick, smooth the resulting noodles.
- Wash the cabbage, remove the top leaves, set aside. The rest chop, put to the noodles.
- Slice the sausage into thin strips and place them with the rest of the ingredients.
- Pepper wash, free from seeds, cut into strips.
- Combine the ingredients and mix by adding a little sour cream or mayonnaise.
- Put the Peking cabbage leaves on a plate, put the snack on them.
You can put slices of large tomatoes or halves of cherry tomatoes around. With them, the salad will be even tastier. It will also have a positive effect on its appearance.
How to decorate egg pancake salad
There are several popular options for decorating salad with egg pancakes.
- Egg pancakes themselves can serve as the main décor of appetizers. If one of the egg rolls is cut into columns of 2-3 cm and spread out on the surface of the salad, decorated with greens, you will get figures resembling the buds of tea roses. One such “flower” can be put on the edge of the plate, putting the salad on it as a slide - it will also look beautiful and elegant.
- The surface of the salad can be covered with spirals of noodles, sliced from egg pancakes, put pieces of bright vegetables (cucumbers, bell peppers) in the centers of spirals. The salad decorated in this way looks futuristic. This decor will emphasize the unusualness of the snack.
- Egg pancake salad will look brighter and more elegant if you lay it on a plate covered with salad leaves, or spread out around cucumber circles.
When serving in batches, a salad with egg pancakes will look good if you spread it over ice cream bowls.
Egg pancake salad is one of the most unusual appetizers. Even an inexperienced cook can cook it, and this dish will cost inexpensive. Salad looks so elegant and attractive that it is not a shame to submit it to the festive table.
