Red fish is not only healthy, but also very tasty. Dishes from it become the decoration of the festive table. With a limited budget it would be a good idea to prepare salads of pink salmon to meet guests. Such recipes will appeal to those who want to eat not too high-calorie food, because pink salmon is not as fat as other members of her family. There are quite a few recipes for snacks based on lightly salted salmon or trout fillet. Pink salmon is suitable for cooking any of them. A suitable version of the dish will find for itself and the one who watches the figure, and the one who loves a hearty meal.
Cooking Features
The technology of making salads from salty pink salmon can be different - it all depends on the chosen recipe. However, there are several secrets that will help make this fish a really tasty snack, without the expense of significant funds.
- More tasty and cheaper is pink salmon, salted with his own hands. Cutting red fish into fillets is not so difficult a task that a novice cook could handle. Buying whole-frozen pink salmon for its subsequent salting, you “risk” also receive a bonus in the form of caviar.
- When purchasing salted salmon fillet in the store, pay attention to the composition and shelf life. Ideally, if the composition does not include anything other than fish and salt, the presence of dyes and similar additives should alert you. You should not take a fish, the shelf life of which is about to expire: experience shows that it may be “stuffed”. Choose a product released recently.
- When slicing salmon for salad, carefully look out for bone or scales to get into it - they can be found in homemade pickled fillets and in the purchased product.
- Puff salads of salty pink salmon are made at least 2 hours before the feast, so that the products included in their composition can soak in the sauce. It is recommended to mix ordinary salads and, most importantly, dress with sauce as late as possible - this way they will not deteriorate longer.
- If you follow the figure, add as little mayonnaise as possible. Dosing it, causing a thin mesh, will help the package with a toothpick done in it. It should be filled with sauce and applied to the salad, squeezing through a thin hole. If you do not count the calories and want to feed the guests, the sauce can not be sorry, because pink salmon is not fatty fish.
- It is not necessary to salt a salad of salted pink salmon, otherwise it will be impossible to eat it. The composition of the snack will not prevent the inclusion of products that will balance the salty taste of fish: eggs, potatoes, carrots, rice.
Pink salmon goes well with onions, citrus fruits, carrots, eggs, cheese, potatoes, caviar, squid and shrimp, rice. Including them in the dish would be a good idea.
Preparing a salad of salty pink salmon, do not put it in a snack all - leave a few slices for decoration.
Salad of salty pink salmon with potatoes and olives
Composition:
- fillet of salted pink salmon - 0, 3 kg;
- potatoes - 0, 3 kg;
- olives - 130 g;
- garlic - 2 cloves;
- wheat crackers - 80 g;
- mayonnaise - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Wash the potatoes, boil in the uniform. Cool, clean. Cut into small cubes.
- Cut the pink salmon in the same pieces, mix it with potatoes.
- From the jar of olives drain the liquid. Slice the olives, send to other ingredients.
- Pour the croutons. They should be flavored with red fish (salmon, trout, pink salmon) or garlic. Home-made crackers with original flavor will do.
- Crush garlic with a hand press, mix with mayonnaise.
- Season the salad with the resulting sauce, put it in a salad bowl.
This is one of the easiest recipes for the salad of pink salmon, but the appetizer prepared according to it turns out to be really tasty.
Salmon of pink salmon with red caviar
Composition:
- light-salted pink salmon - 0, 25 kg;
- potatoes - 0, 4 kg;
- carrots - 0, 2 kg;
- fresh cucumber - 0, 2 kg;
- green onions - 100 g;
- hard cheese - 100 g;
- chicken egg - 6 pcs .;
- red caviar - 100 g;
- garlic, mayonnaise - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Boil carrots and potatoes in uniform. Remove from the water, cool. Take off the skin. Separately, grind on a coarse grater.
- Boil the eggs. Place under a stream of cold water so that they cool down faster and then clean well. Peel off the shell. Take out the yolks. Squirrels and yolks rubbed, laid out on different plates.
- Chop green onions finely.
- Cut salmon into cubes. Some fish can be left to decorate the salad.
- Rinse the cucumber, blot with a napkin, cut off the tips.
- Cut the cucumber into small strips.
- Mayonnaise mixed with garlic passed through the press.
- Chop grated cheese with narrow holes.
- Put the hoop on the plate. Fit the ring from the split baking dish.
- Spread boiled potatoes inside the ring and brush it with the sauce.
- Put the pink salmon on the potatoes. Sprinkle it with green onions. Cover it with mayonnaise mesh.
- Place the cucumber straw on top, cover with mayonnaise.
- Make the next layer of carrots smeared with sauce.
- Spread the egg yolks on top, add the sauce.
- Sprinkle with grated cheese.
- Remove the cooking hoop, coat the edges of the lettuce with mayonnaise, sprinkle them with grated protein.
- Before serving, put red caviar on the cheese, spreading it evenly over the surface of the snack.
You shouldn’t decorate a salad with caviar beforehand - when it is weathered, it will become covered in a crust that will stick to your teeth, this will spoil the taste of the dish. If you make the salad properly, it will be the main decoration of the holiday table.
Salad of salty pink salmon and crab sticks
Composition:
- salty pink salmon - 0, 2 kg;
- frozen crab sticks - 0, 2 kg;
- chicken egg - 6 pcs .;
- potatoes - 0.5 kg;
- hard cheese - 0, 2 kg;
- mayonnaise - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Uncooked potatoes to cool, peel, chop on a coarse grater.
- Eggs boil hard boiled. After cooling under a stream of cold water, clean, coarsely rub.
- Crab sticks, without defrosting, remove from the film and rub into a separate container.
- Finely rub the cheese.
- Cut pink salmon into cubes.
- Put potatoes in a salad bowl, brush with mayonnaise.
- In the next layer, place the eggs, spread them with the sauce.
- Mix the crab sticks with a spoon of mayonnaise, put it on the eggs, even the spoon.
- Pour out the cheese, grease with the sauce.
- Place slices of pink salmon on top.
Salad can be collected not in a salad bowl, but inside the culinary ring, then it will resemble a cake. Good appetizer looks, if you collect it in the bowls - this option is optimal when serving portions of the dish. In this case, pink salmon can be cut into slices, make flowers of them and put one bud in each ice cream bowl.
Salad of salty pink salmon with rice
Composition:
- salty pink salmon - 0, 3 kg;
- chicken egg - 3 pcs .;
- salad onions - 100 g;
- pickled cucumbers - 150 g;
- rice - 150 g;
- mayonnaise - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Cool boiled eggs and clean, cut into small cubes.
- Wash the rice thoroughly so that it does not stick together during the cooking process. Boil in lightly salted water (you can and not salt). Rinse again and wait for it to cool.
- Cucumbers cut into small cubes.
- Chop onions finely.
- Cut the red fish into small cubes.
- Put all the ingredients in a bowl, add mayonnaise, mix.
- Put the appetizer in a salad bowl.
This salad is quite economical, it can be prepared not only for the holiday, but also on weekdays. Pickled cucumbers in its composition can be replaced with salty or fresh, getting a snack with a new taste. The taste of the salad will change even more if the cucumbers are replaced with grapefruit slices.
How to decorate a salad
The best decoration of a salty pink salmon salad will be pink salmon itself.
- Put the salad on a platter, giving it the shape of a starfish, cover with thin slices of red fish.
- Place the pink salmon cut into small pieces around the perimeter like flower petals, fill the middle with grated yolks or caviar, and separate the central circle from the “petals” with finely chopped greens or olives.
- Roll a thin, but long plate of pink salmon roll, squeeze lightly on one side, put parsley on the leaves. The red fish rolled up in this way resembles a rosette. You can do a lot of such “flowers”, so the salad will resemble a pink bouquet.
- From pink salmon you can make flowers that look like calla lilies. To do this, cut it into square plates, fold them so that they resemble bags. Figures laid out on the surface of the salad. Then from carrots, cucumbers or Bulgarian pepper cut into straws, one bar is inserted into the center of each “kulka”. Figures become similar to callas. It remains only to make them the stems and leaves of green onions and fresh greens.
Flowers on the surface of a salad of salty pink salmon can be made from vegetables, cheese, if these products are part of the snack.
Salads of pink salmon do not differ in the complexity of preparation, they are relatively inexpensive, but they are tasty, nourishing and elegant. These snacks are not ashamed to put on the festive table.
