Vinaigrette is cooked in almost every family, and each hostess has a different one. Some of them add to the snack a secret ingredient, which is an ordinary apple. It emphasizes the sweet and sour taste of the dish and gives it extra flavor. If you use fresh cucumbers for a salad, the fruit will add the missing sourness to it. Vinaigrette with an apple turns out to be more delicate and refined than cooked according to recipes that are considered classic.
Cooking Features
The technology of making vinaigrette with an apple is similar to the traditional, but has its own specifics.
- Apples for vinaigrette may require sour or sweet-sour varieties - it depends on the recipe. For the "winter" salad, which includes pickles, usually sweeter fruits are used, for the "summer" snack with fresh cucumbers, sour apples are more suitable.
- Before adding apples to the salad, it is necessary to peel and cut the core. Put them in a vinaigrette, cut into the same slices as vegetables, or chop up on a coarse grater. In the latter case, they become like part of the gas station.
- In order for the apples not to darken, immediately after chopping, you need to sprinkle them with lemon juice.
- Beets will not paint other products strongly red when mixed with oil separately.
- Vegetables for a vinaigrette can not only be boiled, but also baked. This method of heat treatment allows you to save a maximum of useful substances contained in the products.
- Usually, vegetables for a vinaigrette are cut into small cubes. Gourmets say that this improves not only the appearance of the dish, but also its taste.
Vinaigrette with apples is as versatile as the traditional one. It can serve as an independent snack or side dish for fish and meat dishes.
“Winter” Vinaigrette with an apple
Composition:
- carrots - 150 g;
- beets - 150 g;
- potatoes - 0, 3 kg;
- apple (sour-sweet) - 0, 2 kg;
- pickles - 0, 2 kg;
- sauerkraut - 100 g;
- lemon juice - 5 ml;
- vegetable oil - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Wash carrots, beets and potatoes, then boil or bake until tender.
- After cooling the vegetables, peel them and cut them into small cubes. Spread out in separate containers.
- Cut pickled cucumbers in the same slices as vegetables, put them in potatoes.
- Then send the sauerkraut.
- Peel the apple. Cut the core out of it. Cut the apple into small cubes, sprinkle with lemon juice.
- Add 2-3 teaspoons of oil to each product, mix, put in a common bowl.
- Add salt, pepper, oil to taste. Stir once more and transfer to the salad bowl.
A fresh apple in this salad can be replaced with a marijuana. Then it should be cut into thin slices. Peeling peeled apples before adding to the snack is not accepted.
“Summer” Vinaigrette with Apple and Fresh Cucumber
Composition:
- beets - 0, 3 kg;
- carrots - 0, 2 kg;
- potatoes - 0, 3 kg;
- canned or boiled green peas - 0, 2 kg;
- fresh cucumber - 0, 2 kg;
- sour apple - 0, 2 kg;
- green onions - 50 g;
- lemon juice - 20 ml;
- vegetable oil - 60 ml.
Method of preparation:
- Boil and cool the beets, carrots and potatoes.
- Peel carrots and potatoes, cut into small cubes, fold into a deep bowl.
- Wash, blot cucumber with a napkin, cut into small cubes, put to boiled vegetables.
- Apple peel, remove the core. Pulp cut into the same pieces as the vegetables, sprinkle with lemon juice, put to the vegetables.
- Add green peas.
- Finely chop the green onions, add to the bowl with the rest of the ingredients.
- Mix the remaining lemon juice with 50 ml of oil, season the snack.
- Peel and finely chop the beets, mix with the remaining butter.
- Add the beets to the remaining ingredients, mix.
Vinaigrette made according to this recipe has a fresh taste and aroma. The taste is not as savory as the traditional one.
Vinaigrette with apple and herring
Composition:
- fillet of salted herring - 0, 2 kg;
- salted or pickled cucumber - 150 g;
- apple - 0, 2 kg;
- beets - 150 g;
- potatoes - 150 g;
- carrots - 150 g;
- onions - 100 g;
- mayonnaise - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Peel the boiled potatoes, carrots and beets, cut into cubes, put in a bowl.
- Apple peel and rub, put to the vegetables.
- Free the onions from the husk, finely chop and put to other products.
- Cut the salted herring fillet into slices, add to the vegetables.
- Finely chop the pickled cucumber, combine with the rest of the ingredients.
- Season with mayonnaise.
Vinaigrette made according to this recipe reminds a little of the “Herring under a fur coat” salad, but it has a characteristic sour taste of vinaigrette.
How to decorate a vinaigrette with an apple
When serving vinaigrette with apples to the table, you can decorate it to emphasize its unusual and sophisticated.
- A beautifully decorated vinaigrette with an apple allows the use of special forms with a press. If you put a snack on a plate using this form, it looks festive. Replace the purchase of the mold in the state of the usual can, which has cut the bottom. They put it on a plate, fill it with salad, compact it with a spoon, then remove the jar.
- If the apple slices are spread out around the perimeter of the vinaigrette, it will look bright and fresh. Especially good will look green apple, contrasting in color with the basic tonality of the salad. It is important not to forget to treat apple slices with lemon juice, otherwise they will not decorate the snack, but will disfigure it.
- Carrot and beet flowers are a traditional decoration of the vinaigrette. For a salad with apples, this decor is also suitable.
If you want to make a vinaigrette quite unusual, cut the food into rather large cubes and place them, alternating, in the shape of a cube. Appetizer will look spectacular and will certainly attract the interest of guests, especially children. However, to taste the salad of large-cut vegetables gives way to a snack, in which the vegetables are chopped finely.
Apple vinaigrette has a unique, but not specific taste. He likes almost everyone and is as versatile as the traditional.
