Salads with cheese - general principles and methods of cooking
Well cooked cheese is itself a complete snack. And how many wonderful salads you can cook with cheese is simply impossible to count. Brynza is a cheese made from sheep or goat milk, and maybe from a mixture.
This cheese is not subjected to heat treatment, it is obvious that most of the vitamins and useful elements are stored in their natural form. In its favor plays and the fact that it contains less fat than other cheeses. Therefore, it is so popular with slimming girls who are keeping an eye on themselves or trying to lose weight.
The protein which is a part of brynza is a great alternative to animal proteins, therefore it is useful for those who for some reason refused to eat meat. In many countries it is just a popular snack, for example, in Bulgaria it is baked with hot pepper or sandwiches are made. According to some scholars, the longevity of the peoples of the Caucasus is to some extent obliged to this goat or sheep cheese, so cheese is the real source of youth.
Salads with cheese - food preparation
Choosing cheese, pay attention to the elasticity and snow-white or milky color, a lot of holes from which when you cut the liquid drips - this is a quality product. Of course, try it on the taste, too salty cheese can be harmful for hypertensive patients.
Salted cheese can be scalded with boiling water and soaked in fresh water. How to store cheese? The remaining cheese from cooking is placed in a jar or plastic container and fill with “native” brine. It can be stored in the refrigerator for several weeks. Wrapped in foil or parchment, it can stay fresh no more than a few days.
Recipe 1: Choriatic Cheese Salad
It was the Greeks who invented such a beautiful name for the classic salad - Horyatiki. In this recipe, a surprise awaits you: 4 servings of salad for dinner and pita sandwiches for breakfast. Prepare a salad for this recipe, not reducing anything and not replacing. Ingredients: Cheese (200 g), cucumber, tomatoes (2 pieces), red onion, Bulgarian pepper, black olives, olive oil, pepper and a lot of fresh greens (parsley, dill, cilantro, basil).
Method of preparation
Cucumbers, tomatoes, onions and pepper cut into semicircles, cheese cubes. Maslinka also cut, put everything in a bowl and mix. Marinade: sauce from olives (50 g), olive oil and ground pepper mixed with shredded greens, pour the salad. Fill all our semicircles and marinade squares and mix again, serve to the table. Leave the remaining salad in the fridge. For breakfast, put it in a cut pita - we get a sandwich with pita. In the Middle East, they love to have breakfast so much - this is such a wonderful morning PITA with cheese.
Recipe 2: Salad with cheese and gray bread
You were not mistaken, indeed we will prepare a salad of stale bread. All over the Mediterranean, they simply adore this vegetable salad with spicy herbs, cheese, olive oil, and incomparable sour black bread.
Ingredients: one loaf of dried black bread, tomatoes (3 pieces). sheep cheese (200 grams), onions (2-3 pieces), parsley, olives, cucumber, wine vinegar, lemon juice, olive oil.
Bread choose well stale, lain at least a day, cut off all the heads and cut into cubes, dried in a microwave or oven. Fold in a bowl and sprinkle with vinegar.
Cucumber, tomato and cheese cut into cubes, cut half of the greens and mix what we got. Sauce - greens pounded with salt, squeeze juice half a lemon, garlic skip through garlic pudding, add a little dry mint. Put the croutons in a large bowl, add the remaining ingredients and mix. Colorful salad will look great on a white monophonic dish, you can decorate it in a different way, for example, spread out thin tomato rings in a circle.
Recipe 3: Seafood salad with cheese and shrimp.
It has long been known to everyone that everything perfect is simple, this salad is illustrated with particular clarity. The whole problem - boil shrimp. For seafood specialists - no problem, if you are a beginner in this business - remember one rule: we put shrimps in boiling water. Atlantic (not large) shrimp need 1.5 - 2 minutes, royal will need 2.5 - 3 minutes. Do not digest, "rubber" we do not need! Ingredients: shrimps (300 gr), sweet pepper (1 pc), sheep cheese (200 gr), vegetable oil (2 tbsp), half a lemon, salad, salt, pepper.
Method of preparation
Boil the shrimps and peel, cut the cheese into cubes, cut the pepper into large squares. Put lettuce leaves on the dish, on top of the ingredients, pour with vegetable oil and lemon juice.
Recipe 4: Green Cheese Salad with Arugula
Here, too, everything is simple, as, indeed, in any salad with brynza. Tomatoes are desirable cherry, but our relatives from the garden are also perfect. As for arugula, a fashionable plant is now sold on the market, but if you could not buy it, take a little more other greens, for example, add cilantro.
Ingredients: lettuce, arugula, feta cheese, tomatoes, soy sauce, aromatic soft vinegar, olive oil.
Method of preparation
We cut lettuce leaves and greens, rukkula tear hands. Cut the tomatoes and put slices of cheese, thinly cut into triangles, put them on the greens and pour the dressing: soy sauce, vegetable oil, lemon juice and a drop of vinegar.
Cheese Salads - useful tips from experienced chefs
Cheese combines with many ingredients: vegetables, olives, bread crumbs and seafood. In order to make the salad festive and brighter, we suggest adding a “zest” to it: stuff olives with red caviar. If you put several bright orange eggs inside the black olives, you get an original addition to salads. Next to the white-brynza, a bright stuffed olives will “light up” the mood. Trifle, but how nice.
