Fresh greens are always welcome on the table, especially appetizing, it looks in the spring when the human body experiences an increased need for vitamins. In many regions of Russia one of the first commercials is wild garlic, which is popularly called bear bow. In terms of its organoleptic qualities, it resembles both onion and garlic, and it is very similar to the latter by its smell. The content of vitamins and other beneficial elements of this plant is superior to many others. Salad with wild garlic, eggs and cucumbers is obtained in spring fresh and at the same time satisfying. Such a dish will surely please both you and your household.
Cooking Features
The process of making a salad of bear onions with eggs and cucumbers is not complicated, but it has certain specificities. To obtain the expected result, you need to know and take into account a few points.
- The most useful young ramson, collected before its flowering. If you see that the leaves of the selling plant have opened and look dense, it is advisable to refuse to buy. These leaves are in plants that have faded, there are not too many nutrients in them. The most delicate on taste and healthy young shoots with still unopened leaves.
- Externally, wild garlic resembles lilies of the valley, which cannot be eaten. In order not to get poisoned, it is advisable to purchase wild garlic from trusted vendors. It also does not hurt to tear off a piece of a leaf or stem of a plant, rub it between your fingers and smell it. If you do not feel the garlic flavor, then you are not dealing with wild garlic.
- Shoots of wild garlic are useful, but they may seem tough to picky gourmets. Many housewives before adding to the salad bear onions are subjected to heat treatment. To do this, for 2-3 minutes immersed in boiling water. It is not worth to blanch the plant longer, since every minute of heat treatment reduces the content of valuable substances in it.
- If you want the salad to have a delicate taste, it is also possible that cucumbers do not interfere with peeling. This is best done using a peeler. It also does not hurt to cut a small piece of vegetable near its tip and taste it to make sure that cucumbers do not taste bitter and do not spoil the salad. Trying cucumbers before adding to the appetizer is especially important if they are put into it not peeled.
- Fresh greens (dill, parsley, scallions) will never be superfluous in wild garlic salad. They can be added to the snack, grinding, even if they are not listed in the recipe.
- Salads of wild garlic, eggs and cucumbers are usually seasoned with sour cream. Some of the snack options suitable vinegar-oil dressing. If you want to add piquancy to the salad, you can substitute sour cream with some or all of mayonnaise, add mustard to the dressing.
There are many recipes for wild garlic, cucumber and egg snacks. Having mastered the preparation of the simplest and most popular of them, you can prepare salads from the above-mentioned products according to the recipes of your own invention, and the result will not disappoint you.
Ramson salad with egg and cucumber
Composition:
- wild garlic - 100 g;
- chicken egg - 2 pcs .;
- cucumbers - 0, 3 kg;
- fresh greens of dill or parsley - 50 g;
- salt, black pepper - to taste;
- mayonnaise or sour cream - 80 ml.
Method of preparation:
- Wash the wild garlic, put it in a colander, put it in a pan of boiling water for 2 minutes. Remove from boiling water, let the leek cool and dry. Cut into small pieces and place in a bowl.
- Wash, dry the dill or parsley with a napkin. Finely chop the greens with a knife, send to the garlic.
- Wash cucumber, blotted with a napkin. Peel the fruit, at the same time cutting off its tips. Cut the cucumber into pea-sized cubes, put them to the greens.
- Eggs boil hard boiled. Put them under a stream of cold water to cool them down. Peel the cooled eggs, chop with a knife, combine with the rest of the products.
- Salt and pepper the crushed products, add sour cream or mayonnaise to them, mix.
This recipe of wild garlic salad can be considered classic and basic at the same time. To obtain a new taste for the main ingredients, it is enough to add cabbage, radish, green peas or other products.
Hearty ramson salad with potatoes, egg and cucumber
Composition:
- wild garlic - 100 g;
- potatoes - 0.5 kg;
- cucumber - 0, 2 kg;
- chicken egg - 2 pcs .;
- hard cheese - 100 g;
- salt, black pepper - to taste;
- mayonnaise - 60 ml;
- sour cream - 60 ml.
Method of preparation:
- Boil the potatoes in a uniform, cool, peel. Cut the potatoes into cubes the size of a little more than a pea, put in a bowl.
- Wash the ramson, dip it in boiling water. After a couple of minutes, fold to a colander. When the onion has cooled, cut it into small pieces, send it to the potatoes.
- Cool hard-boiled eggs under cold running water, free from shell, cut into small cubes.
- Coarsely grate the cheese.
- Wash, dry cucumber with a kitchen towel, cut it into cubes slightly smaller than potatoes. Combine cheese, eggs and cucumber with other ingredients.
- Prepare the sauce by mixing mayonnaise with sour cream, adding a little salt and pepper. Season the salad dressing.
The salad prepared according to this recipe is nourishing, with a fresh taste and aroma.
Cabbage, wild garlic, eggs and cucumber salad
Composition:
- young cabbage - 0, 2 kg;
- wild garlic - 100 g;
- cucumbers - 0, 3 kg;
- chicken egg - 2 pcs .;
- lemon juice - 20 ml;
- olive oil - 40 ml;
- salt, sugar - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Chop cabbage finely.
- Chop the ramson as small as possible.
- Chop hard-boiled eggs with a knife.
- Cucumbers cut into thin semicircular slices or straws.
- Prepare the dressing by mixing salt, sugar, butter and lemon juice. Mix the crushed products with the resulting sauce.
Salad according to this recipe is easy. It will appeal to supporters of healthy eating and people on a diet.
Salad photorecept
Ingredients:
- 1 fresh cucumber;
- 2 chicken eggs;
- 1 small bunch of wild garlic;
- 5-6 sprigs of parsley, dill;
- 3 pinches of salt;
- 1, 5 tbsp. l sour cream.
Cooking:
1. Prepare the necessary ingredients. Boil chicken eggs, cool. Fresh cucumber and fresh greens wash, dry. Sour cream is better to take low or medium fat. For the most dietary option, you can use Greek yogurt.
2. To make a salad, you need to take the dishes, in which it will be convenient to mix. Check the fresh cucumber for bitterness and cut it arbitrarily - into cubes or straws. Put the cucumber in a salad bowl.
3. Clean the boiled eggs from the shell and chop finely, send them to a salad bowl. As an alternative - you can use quail eggs.
4. Chop fresh ramson finely and put it in a salad bowl. To taste of garlic resembles green feathers of garlic, however, the taste is somewhat milder.
5. Chop fresh parsley and dill finely, cutting the stems. Transfer to a salad bowl. For spice, you can also add chopped garlic clove, black or red pepper.
6. Season the salad with sour cream, having tried it beforehand so that it is not sour. Salt the salad slightly and add the spices, mix everything.
7. Salad is ready and can be served immediately - as an addition to a side dish, meat, fish, or simply as a snack.
How to decorate a salad with wild garlic, cucumbers and eggs
Ramson salad will look appetizing thanks to its bright color and seductive aroma, even if just put it in a beautiful vase. However, if you serve a snack to the festive table, it does not hurt to think about how to arrange it.
- Ramson salad can be served on a dish covered with salad leaves. They emphasize its freshness.
- Flowers made from eggs, cucumbers, radish and other vegetables will make the snack even more festive.
- You can decorate a salad of bear onions and egg slices, spreading them around a lined snack.
- Leaving a few leaves of wild garlic intact, you can use them to decorate the salad, putting them on top and making it look like lilies of the valley.
If there is no time to decorate a salad, just serve it in ice-cream bowls. This design is considered modern.
The salad, which is based on wild garlic, eggs and cucumbers, looks fresh in spring, has a pleasant taste and a seductive aroma. This appetizer is not only tasty, but also useful.
