One of the first vegetables grown not in the greenhouse, but in the open field, a radish appears in early spring. Any snack, in the composition of which he solo, charges with vivacity and spring mood, no matter what time you eat it. Fresh aroma, sweetish taste with a slight bitterness, juicy white flesh with a pink border - all this makes radish attractive for gourmets. Radish salads are popular with almost everyone and are always table decorations, even if prepared according to simple recipes.
Cooking Features
Radish blends with many products. There are many recipes for salads with it, and the taste of these snacks can vary greatly. A single technology of their preparation does not exist. However, you can cite the recommendations of experienced chefs, which remain relevant no matter what recipe you are going to make radish salad with.
- Vegetables grown in the open field usually have a richer flavor and contain more vitamins. Preference is better to give them.
- Do not use spoiled radish for making salad. If she wilted, the salad from her would not be juicy enough.
- You can season radish salad with butter, sour cream, mayonnaise, lemon juice. The most useful dressing is prepared on the basis of vegetable oil and lemon juice. Without a fatty component in the dressing is indispensable if it contains vegetables rich in fat-soluble vitamins. If to fill such snacks with only one lemon juice or low-fat yogurt, they will not bring any benefit.
- Do not cook radish salads long before they are served at the table. After standing for several hours, the vegetables will give off juice, which is why a snack based on them will become watery, tasteless and unattractive.
Whatever recipe for radish salads you choose, it will not be difficult to make it: even a little cook who has taken a knife in his hands can make similar snacks. You just need to follow the instructions that accompany the recipe, and the result will meet the expectations.
Radish salad with egg
Composition:
- radishes - 0, 3 kg;
- chicken egg - 4 pcs .;
- dill - 20 g;
- green onions - 30 g;
- sour cream - 80-100 ml;
- salt - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Wash the radish, cut off the tips. Cut into thin circles or semicircles. Put in a bowl.
- Cook hard boiled eggs, cool under running cold water. Peel off the shell.
- Cut the eggs into medium-sized slices, put to the radish.
- Wash, shake off the greens from the water. Let it dry. Finely chop with a knife. Add to the rest of the products.
- Salt the salad to taste, add sour cream, mix.
It remains to put the salad in a salad bowl and serve it to the table. This snack can be prepared in a hurry for a family dinner.
Radish salad with cucumber
Composition:
- radishes - 0, 4 kg;
- fresh cucumber - 0, 4 kg;
- green onions - 100 g;
- table vinegar (9 percent) - 2-3 ml;
- vegetable oil - 60-80 ml;
- salt - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Wash vegetables, pat dry.
- Cut off the tips of vegetables.
- Cut radishes and cucumbers into equal pieces, preferably round.
- Finely chop the green onions, having washed and dried them beforehand.
- Mix oil with vinegar and salt, season them with salad.
The taste and type of salad prepared according to this recipe is associated with the arrival of spring, although the products necessary for its preparation are now available all year-round in stores.
Radish salad with carrots
Composition:
- radishes - 0, 25 kg;
- carrots - 150 g;
- cucumbers - 0, 2 kg;
- fresh greens - 100 g;
- sour cream - 150 ml;
- salt - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Wash radish, rub it with a kitchen towel. Cut the tips, chop the radish into strips.
- Wash the cucumbers. Blot with a napkin. Remove the “tails”. Cut the same slices as radishes.
- Peel and wash the carrots, chop them on a grater. It is better to use a device for the preparation of Korean salads, but you can use the usual grater with large holes.
- Finely chop the greens with a knife.
- Mix the ingredients, salt and season with sour cream.
Salad looks bright, appetizing. Fresh carrots in it can be replaced with Korean carrots, then the dish will get a more piquant taste. Sour cream in this case will need 2 times less.
Radish salad with canned corn
Composition:
- radishes - 0, 25 kg;
- canned corn - 0, 24 kg;
- red onion - 100 g;
- cucumber - 0, 2 kg;
- fresh greens - 50 g;
- vegetable oil, salt, pepper - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Wash, shake off the greens from the water, let it dry.
- Wash cucumber, dry with a towel. Cut the tips, cut the vegetable into cubes the size of a pea or slightly larger.
- Wash, blot radishes. Cut it in the same cubes as a cucumber.
- Put the vegetables in a bowl.
- Chop the greens, put it to the vegetables.
- Remove the husks from the bulb. Onion cut into 4 parts, finely chop. Fill with hot water. After a couple of minutes, drain the water, squeeze the onion, put it in a bowl, where other ground products are located.
- Open the jar of corn, drain the liquid from it. Corn grains pour to the rest of the ingredients.
- Salt, pepper, drizzle with vegetable oil and mix.
Due to the fact that the composition of the snack includes vegetables of different colors, it looks bright in the spring and causes appetite.
Salad of radish, seasonal vegetables and cheese
Composition:
- tomato - 150 g;
- cucumber - 0, 3 kg;
- radishes - 150 g;
- green onions - 50 g;
- feta cheese or similar - 100 g;
- parsley - 50 g;
- balsamic vinegar - 5 ml;
- vegetable oil - 40 ml;
- salt, pepper - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Wash the tomato, dry it with a napkin. Cut the seal around the stem. Cut into large cubes.
- Wash, dry cucumber. Cut it into cubes of approximately the same size as the tomato.
- Green onions, having washed and shaking well from water, finely chop with a knife. Do the same with parsley.
- Cut the cheese into cubes or plates.
- When the radishes are washed and dried, cut them into half or quarter circles.
- Put vegetables and greens in a bowl, mix.
- Put the vegetables in the dish.
- In a small container, mix the oil with balsamic vinegar. Salt and pepper to taste.
- Pour the sauce over the vegetable mixture.
- Spread the pieces of cheese on top.
The dish prepared according to the above recipe will appeal to lovers of Mediterranean cuisine.
Radish salad with ham
Composition:
- radishes - 0, 25 kg;
- chicken egg - 5 pcs .;
- ham - 0, 2 kg;
- green onions - 50 g;
- lettuce leaves - 50 g;
- fresh dill - 50 g;
- mayonnaise - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Radish, washed and dried, cut into large strips.
- Cut ham with short strips.
- Cool the boiled eggs, chop them into slices.
- Leave a few lettuce leaves to decorate the dish, tear the rest with your hands.
- Finely chop the dill and scallions.
- Place onions, radishes, eggs and ham in a mixing bowl. Add mayonnaise, mix.
- Lay the lettuce leaves on a large flat plate, place the salad on them.
Sprinkle dill over the salad so that it looks fresh in the spring and serve. This is one of the most satisfying options of radish salad.
Radish salad with mushrooms
Composition:
- fresh champignons - 0, 2 kg;
- onions - 100 g;
- radishes - 0, 2 kg;
- broccoli - 0, 2 kg;
- vegetable oil - how much will leave;
- salt, pepper, lemon juice - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Broccoli, washed and disassembled into inflorescences, boil in salted water, temporarily immerse in cold water, then drain in a colander, let it dry. Coarsely chop.
- Wash champignons, blot with a towel, cut into plates.
- Free onion from the husk, cut into thin half-rings.
- Fry the onions and mushrooms in the oil so that excess liquid will evaporate. Salt and pepper.
- Cut the radish into semicircles.
- Mix the ingredients by adding a little oil mixed with lemon juice.
The salad for this recipe is unusual, but tasty. Having tried such a snack at least once, you will almost certainly cook it often.
How to decorate a salad
Radishes with radishes initially have a fresh and spring appearance due to their constituent products. However, they can be made even more attractive.
- Before you put the salad in a salad bowl or on a dish, lay the lettuce leaves on them - the appetizer will look even brighter and fresher.
- Having laid the salad in a slide, it can be crowned with a flower from a radish. You can make such a flower in several ways. Cutting the radish into thin circles, fold them into bud shape and fix in another circle of radish, after making a cross-shaped incision in the center. Radish can be shaped into a lotus by making a deep zigzag incision around the circumference. Such buds can be spread out on the edge of the plate or along the walls of the salad bowl, will also look beautiful.
- Flowers for decorating lettuce can be made not only from radishes, but also from other vegetables, as well as from slices of ham, cheese, eggs. It is important that the products used for the decoration of snacks are included in its composition. An exception can be made only for greens.
- Not only flowers can be made from radish. Many cooks cut mushrooms out of it, make ladybirds and butterflies. You too can go this way.
Even simply spreading radishes beautifully, halves of quail eggs and cherry tomatoes, olives and other products around the salad, you will give it a festive and well-groomed appearance.
Radish salads have a fresh, moderately savory taste. There are many recipes for such snacks, as this vegetable is combined with many products. Making a snack of radish for the festive table, you give it an optimistic look. It is especially nice to eat such dishes in early spring, when the body missed the vitamins.
