Cabbage is considered one of the most useful products, our ancestors even used it for medicinal purposes. At the same time, it is among the most demanded and available vegetables in cooking. From it cooked soups, main dishes, make salads. Such snacks may not be from vegetables alone. In combination with smoked products, vegetables of the vegetable garden acquire a more savory taste. Many people like salads with cabbage and smoked sausage: juicy, aromatic, with a unique taste, nourishing and at the same time not too high in calories.
Cooking Features
For the preparation of salads, you can use different types of cabbage and dressings, supplement the main ingredients with various products. All this affects the appearance and taste of the dish, as well as the technology of its preparation. However, there are a few moments, knowing that, even an inexperienced cook will be able to cook a tasty snack of smoked sausage and cabbage.
- For a salad it is better to take young cabbage, which has more tender and juicy leaves. Preparing a snack of late varieties of vegetables, cut it to be as small as possible, then add salt and handshake. The essence of the manipulation is to make the cabbage sap, which will positively affect the taste of the finished dish.
- If you use Chinese cabbage or greens for making salad, you will need to know how to return them juiciness if they are slightly wilted. To do this, they need for 30-60 minutes to lower in cold water. If you splash some vinegar into it, the effect will be even more noticeable.
- If you include ingredients in a salad that require heat treatment, cool them before combining with other ingredients, otherwise the appetizer will quickly turn sour.
- Smoked sausage is present on the shelves of shops in a large assortment, but not all goods can be called quality. It is not necessary to use a product with expired shelf life, unpleasantly or too sharply smelling, having an unnatural or too saturated color. Pay attention to the composition. Prefer sausage, released in enterprises with a good reputation. The quality of this ingredient directly affects the taste of the finished salad.
There are many variants of salad with cabbage and smoked sausage. You can choose a recipe suitable for the holiday. It is not difficult to choose the diet option snacks.
Salad “Alenka” with white cabbage, smoked sausage and cucumber
Composition:
- white cabbage - 0, 3 kg;
- smoked sausage - 0, 25 kg;
- fresh cucumbers - 0, 2 kg;
- green onions - 50 g;
- mayonnaise - 100-150 ml;
- salt, black pepper powder - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Wash cabbage, remove the upper leaves. Cut a piece of the desired size from the head, chop it into small pieces and fold it into a large bowl.
- Salt and pepper cabbage, remember well with your hands. Set aside a bowl of cabbage to the side, go in for other ingredients.
- Wash cucumbers, cut off their tips. Drain fruits with a napkin. Cut into strips and place in a bowl of cabbage.
- Wash, shake onions with water. When it dries, finely chop with a knife and pour into a bowl with other ingredients.
- Free the sausage from the film, cut into strips, combine with the rest of the components.
- Add pepper and salt if necessary.
- Pour in mayonnaise and mix well.
Salad according to this recipe is juicy, tender and light. He was so fond of our compatriots, that he was given a tender and refined name - “Alyonushka”. Some people fill it not with mayonnaise, but with vegetable oil - it also comes out tasty.
Cabbage salad with smoked sausage, eggs and corn
Composition:
- white cabbage - 0, 3 kg;
- smoked sausage - 0, 3 kg;
- onions - 100 g;
- chicken egg - 3 pcs .;
- canned corn - 0, 25 kg;
- salt, pepper, mayonnaise - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Eggs boiled hard boiled. Put it under a stream of cold water to cool it down.
- Free the eggs from the shell, cut into small cubes, pour into a bowl.
- Clean the sausage, cut it into small cubes, send it to the eggs.
- Chop cabbage finely, fold it into separate dishes, salt and remember with your hands, set aside for a while.
- Peel onions, cut into small pieces. Fill with hot water, wait 5 minutes. Drain, squeeze onions, put in a bowl with sausage and eggs.
- Open a jar of corn, fold it to a colander. When the liquid is drained and the corn grains dry, pour them into a bowl with the rest of the products.
- Transfer the cabbage to other products along with the juice that has been extracted from it.
- Fill the salad with mayonnaise, put it in a beautiful vase and serve it to the table.
It is possible to fill this snack with sour cream, its taste will change, but it will not spoil. A good idea is to sprinkle the salad with chopped greens.
Peking cabbage salad with smoked sausage and tomato
Composition:
- Chinese cabbage - 0, 4 kg;
- smoked sausage - 0, 2 kg;
- tomatoes - 0, 2 kg;
- soy sauce - 20 ml;
- vegetable oil - 50 ml;
- pepper - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Disassemble the cabbage into leaves, rinse them under running water, and dry with paper napkins.
- Cut the cabbage into small pieces, fold into a deep bowl.
- Cut the smoked sausage into medium-sized bars, put it to the cabbage.
- Wash the tomatoes, blot with a napkin. Cut seals near the stem. Cut tomatoes into medium sized cubes. Use a sharp knife to not squeeze the juice from the vegetables. Choose tomatoes with fleshy pulp to prevent the salad from watery.
- In a small container, combine soy sauce, pepper and butter, whisk together. Pour over dressing products, mix.
If you fill a salad with sour cream or mayonnaise, its taste will not spoil. Complement the composition can be canned corn or green peas.
Autumn salad with cabbage, smoked sausage and carrots
Composition:
- white cabbage - 0, 3 kg;
- smoked sausage - 150 g;
- carrots - 150 g;
- fresh parsley - 20-30 g;
- fresh dill - 20-30 g;
- unsweetened yogurt, salt, pepper - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Chop cabbage into small, thin pieces.
- Cut the sausage into medium-sized straws.
- Scrape carrots, wash, dry with a napkin. Grind grated for cooking Korean salads.
- Salt the cabbage, remember with your hands, after 5 minutes, drain the released juice.
- Add carrots and sausage to cabbage.
- Wash the herbs, let them dry, finely chop them with a knife and send to the rest of the ingredients.
- Mix yoghurt with pepper and salt, season them with salad.
If you want to spice up the snack, pick carrots in Korean before adding to it, use mayonnaise as a dressing. If the white cabbage in the recipe is replaced with Peking, the salad will be more tender.
Salad with Brussels sprouts and smoked sausage
Composition:
- Brussels sprouts - 0, 2 kg;
- cherry tomatoes - 100 g;
- smoked sausage - 150 g;
- radishes - 100 g;
- onions - 100 g;
- soy sauce - 10 ml;
- lemon juice - 5 ml;
- vegetable oil - 20 ml;
- pepper, sesame seeds - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Boil water. Dip the Brussels sprouts into it, boil it for 15 minutes, add salt to the water 5 minutes prior to the readiness.
- Shumovka shift the cabbage into a container filled with cold water. After 5 minutes, drain in a colander, let the cabbage dry.
- Radishes and tomatoes, wash, dry with a napkin. Cut tomatoes into halves, cut radish into circles. Put the food in a bowl.
- Cut cabbage in half, add to radish and tomatoes.
- Cut the sausage into thin slices, combine with other ingredients.
- In a small container, mix soy sauce, lemon juice and vegetable oil. Pepper salad and season with cooked sauce. Transfer to a salad bowl or dish.
- Dry sesame seeds in a frying pan, sprinkle them with snacks.
Many housewives know how useful the Brussels sprouts are, but rarely include it in the diet, since they have no idea what to prepare from it. This recipe will help solve the problem.
How to decorate a salad with cabbage and smoked sausage
Salad from cabbage and smoked sausage consists of affordable and inexpensive products, so it looks often modest and unpretentious. Showing imagination, you can decorate this snack in an original and bright way, making it a table decoration.
- The products that make up the snack can be laid out on a platter by sectors, alternating ingredients of different colors, and put the sauce in the center. You need to mix the ingredients after serving the food to the table so that the guests have time to admire its colorful look.
- If the salad contains few foods that have a bright color, sprinkle it with cranberries or other bright berries when serving. Thanks to the contrast of green and red appetizer will be much brighter and more appetizing.
- You can make a “ladybird” from a half of a cherry tomato and decorate a salad with this figurine. Points on the back are made with the help of small pieces of olives, which are inserted into the holes made by the toothpick. From a larger piece of olive make the "head".
To decorate a salad, you can make flowers from the products that make up the snack. They are especially beautiful from tomatoes, carrots, eggs, fresh cucumbers, and radish.
Salad with cabbage and smoked sausage will be inexpensive, but will allow you to feed the guests and the household. Even an inexperienced cook will cope with the preparation of snacks. Having decorated the dish beautifully, it can be served to the festive table.
