Many people like dishes with mushrooms, but they are even tastier when combined with forest products and meat products. Festive table sometimes has to be laid in haste, and the meat is cooked for a long time. Then smoked meat and sausages come to the rescue. Salads with ham and mushrooms are almost as satisfying and no less tasty than meat snacks, but they require much less time and effort to prepare them.
Cooking Features
Salads with ham and mushrooms are not difficult to prepare, as these products do not require complex preparation, unless you are going to make a snack from forest products that are conditionally edible and require a long soak and boil. Knowing some things will make the cooking process even easier, and the result is predictable.
- Depending on the recipe for salad use fresh or pickled mushrooms. Fresh is most often used year-round champignons. In most cases, they can be replaced with more budget oyster mushrooms, or more noble boletuses, chanterelles. The taste of this dish will change, but it will not deteriorate.
- The quality of the ham will definitely affect the taste of the finished dish. At a price well below average, you are unlikely to be able to purchase a natural product worthy of being in your salad. Study the composition indicated on the packaging and the shelf life of the product. Refuse to buy a long-made ham, and from the one in which the meat (pork, beef, poultry) is not listed in the first place. A product with a lot of liquid in its packaging is also best left in the store.
- After removing the ham from the package, it often turns out that it is wet. Before chopping it is desirable to blot with a napkin.
- Salad with ham and mushrooms may contain products that require heat treatment. They must be cooled to room temperature before adding to the salad. Otherwise, the snack will quickly begin to turn sour.
- Salad with ham and mushrooms can be flaky. Such snacks should be prepared at least 2-3 hours before lunch, otherwise the products will not have time to soak in the sauce. To reduce the waiting time, you can first fill the sauce with the sauce, only then put it on a dish or in a salad bowl.
- When using tomatoes for cooking lettuce, choose fleshy, not juicy varieties. This is especially important to consider when cooking puff snacks. You need to cut the tomatoes with a sharp knife, preferably with small teeth, so as not to squeeze the juice out of them.
- Sometimes salads with mushrooms and ham contain crackers. They are put in a snack shortly before it is served at the table so that they do not have time to soak it.
Chicken and ham salad recipes are varied, their cooking technology may also vary. Making a snack, it makes sense to carefully read the instructions accompanying the selected recipe.
Salad with ham, mushrooms and tomatoes
Composition:
- ham - 0, 2 kg;
- fresh champignons - 0, 2 kg;
- chicken egg - 2 pcs .;
- tomato - 150 g;
- onions - 100 g;
- vegetable oil - 40 ml;
- sour cream or mayonnaise - to taste;
- fresh greens, salt, black pepper - to taste.
Preparation Method:
- Wash mushrooms, pat dry with a napkin, cut into small cubes. It is not necessary to shallow much, as the mushrooms will burn.
- Free the onion from the husk and cut it in small pieces.
- Heat the oil in a deep frying pan, put the mushrooms and onions in it. Fry them over medium heat, stirring until the liquid released from the mushrooms is evaporated.
- Pickle, pepper, put in a bowl and wait for the mushrooms to cool.
- Eggs boil hard boiled. Place a container with them under a stream of cold water. Peel the cooled eggs and cut into small cubes. Put to the mushrooms.
- Release the ham from the shell, and if necessary, dry it with a napkin. Cut into cubes, send to the rest of the ingredients.
- Wash, dry tomato with paper towel. Cut the seal near the stem. Cut the rest of the flesh with a sharp knife into pieces of the same shape and size as ham and eggs. Put in a bowl to other products.
- Before serving, add salt to taste to the table, season with mayonnaise or sour cream, put in a salad bowl and sprinkle with chopped greens.
Salad according to this recipe is juicy, bright, tasty. It is especially good if it is filled with a mixture of mayonnaise and sour cream, taken in the same quantity.
Salad with ham, mushrooms, corn and crackers
Composition:
- ham - 0, 25 kg;
- semi-hard cheese - 0, 25 kg;
- corn - 130 g;
- crackers - 100 g;
- pickled mushrooms - 150 g;
- mayonnaise - to taste.
Preparation Method:
- Open the cans of mushrooms and corn, drain the liquid, put the products themselves in a container in which you will mix the salad.
- Cut ham and cheese into small-sized cubes, slightly larger than crackers, put to mushrooms and corn.
- Add croutons, add mayonnaise, mix.
An appetizer made according to this recipe will be very satisfying. Even a small portion of it will be enough to satisfy your hunger. It takes very little time and effort to prepare a dish, since not a single ingredient in its composition requires heat treatment.
Layered salad with ham and mushrooms
Composition:
- potatoes - 0, 3 kg;
- carrots - 0, 2 kg;
- green onions - 50 g;
- chicken egg - 3 pcs .;
- canned champignons (preferably sliced) - 150 g;
- ham - 150 g;
- processed cheese - 150 g;
- mayonnaise - how much will go.
Preparation Method:
- Wash the potatoes and carrots. Without cleansing, cover with water and boil until tender. Drain, let the vegetables dry and cool. Peel, chop on a coarse grater. Spread out on different plates.
- Eggs boil hard boiled. Cool it under running cold water, free from the shell, coarsely rub.
- Open the jar of mushrooms, drain the liquid from it.
- Put the melted cheese for 20-30 minutes in the freezer to make it easier to grind. Rub on a grate with large cells.
- Cut ham into thin strips or small cubes.
- Chop green onions finely.
- Place the mayonnaise in a culinary bag or bag with a thin hole made in it to water the layers not too thick.
- Put the potatoes in a dish, smooth, salt and pepper, pour the sauce.
- Sprinkle with onions, place the ham on it, pour it with mayonnaise.
- Next layer lay eggs, brush with sauce, cover with mushrooms. If the mushrooms are whole, they must first be cut into plates. Several copies can be put aside so that after using them to decorate the finished dish.
- Pour the mushrooms in sauce, put carrots on them.
- Smear carrots with mayonnaise, distribute cheese on it, cover with sauce and it.
You can decorate the snack with mushrooms and fresh herbs, as well as with flowers from ham. The dish turns out nourishing, tasty, elegant looks, but at the same time it is relatively inexpensive.
Salad with ham, mushrooms and Chinese cabbage
Composition:
- canned champignons - 150 g;
- ham - 0, 2 kg;
- Chinese cabbage - 0, 3 kg;
- fresh cucumber - 0, 2 kg;
- hard cheese - 100 g;
- chicken egg - 2 pcs .;
- mayonnaise - to taste.
Preparation Method:
- Disperse cabbage into leaves. Wash them, dry. Chop into medium sized pieces and fold into a large bowl.
- Cut the cucumber into semicircles or straws, send it to the cabbage.
- Cut ham into cubes, send to bowl.
- Eggs, having boiled hard boiled, cool under running cold water. Cut into thin slices, add to the products in a bowl.
- Cut the champignons into straws, send to the rest of the ingredients.
- Season the salad with mayonnaise, put it in a salad bowl.
- Chop up the cheese on a coarse grater, sprinkle on the salad.
If you are on a diet, mayonnaise in this recipe can be replaced with sour cream or white yogurt, adding a small spoonful of mustard to them for piquancy. A sufficient number of snacks will come out from the amount of ingredients indicated in the recipe - enough to dine with the whole family. Do not be ashamed to offer the dish and guests.
How to decorate a salad with ham and mushrooms
Salad with ham and mushrooms can be both ordinary and flaky. Its appearance may depend on the type of snack.
- Layered salad is most often spread on a dish in the form of a cake. To do this, it is collected inside a detachable baking dish.
- Puff salad can be given any shape, if you use a stencil. They can serve as a cut out of paper contour.
- On the surface of the puff salad you can lay out a figure symbolizing a holiday, or make an inscription. To do this, use pieces of vegetables or grains of corn. It is important that they are contrasted with the background, which is most often created with eggs or cheese.
- An ordinary salad can be laid out on bowls or plates, on the bottom of which lettuce leaves are laid. This will give it a brighter and more refined look.
- When serving in batches, salad is often laid out in the form of a mini-cake. Give this form a snack with a special hoop with a press. You can do without a special device - it can be successfully replaced by a tin can, which has a bottom cut out. On top of the appetizer, you can decorate with a flower or ham, eggs or carrots.
Flowers from the products that make up the salad can decorate any snack. The easiest way to make them is from thin slices, one of which is rolled up by a straw, the others are laid around it, like petals.
Salads with ham and mushrooms are made quickly and are relatively inexpensive. Among the many recipes of this snack you can find options that are suitable for both family dinner and a festive feast.
