Salad "Pearl". How to cook a salad "Red Pearl", "Black Pearl", "Sea Pearl"

Delicious, original and very beautiful in appearancePearl salad will be the main decoration of your table. After all, its main ingredient is caviar - red or black, and it always looks favorably on the table and is perfect for any celebration. There are several recipes for this salad: "Red Pearl", "Sea Pearl" and salad "Black Pearl." But before you learn these recipes, let's first find out how to choose the right caviar for this dish.

Red caviar

When choosing caviar for a salad, carefully study the label and give preference to the one made from June to September.

Именно в эти месяца лососевую икру готовят из the freshest raw materials, while at other times they use a frozen product, in which nothing useful is preserved. If the bank is made of transparent glass, consider the spawn: yellow or pale orange color indicates that the product is overripe. When the jar is tilted, the caviar should move; this indicates that it has not dried. In a metal can, a product can be assessed only by shaking it. If the sound is too "liquid", then set the jar aside: either there are a lot of bursting eggs, or the food emulsion manufacturers have added more than necessary. Well, the basic rules when choosing canned food: do not take the swollen jars, pay attention to the smell, it should not be fishy. Only kitsch caviar has an intense fishy aroma, any other will smell like that only when it spoils. Naturally, Pearl salad requires the use of only a quality product.

Black caviar

If sturgeon caviar is produced legally, about itwill testify the inscription "CITES" on the package. Product color varies in different shades of black: from light to dark. The size can also be different. Large indicates that the caviar was harvested from sturgeon older, it is more valuable, therefore, is less common and more expensive. Pay attention to the presence of fluid. Her presence at the bottom of the jar suggests that either the caviar was prepared from frozen raw materials, or simply poor quality. The opened product should not have a fish and especially herring smell. High-quality caviar practically does not smell, but, unfortunately, you can learn about it only by opening the package. Up to this point, you can select a product visually by looking through a glass jar. Having remembered all these nuances when choosing the main ingredient for your dish, be sure that the “Sea Pearl” salad will delight you with its taste. And now let's learn some recipes of its preparation.

Recipe # 1

One of the most spectacular in appearance islayered salad "Pearl". The recipe from a photo already causes desire to try it immediately! To make it, we need two grams of salted salmon, half a can of pitted olives, 60 grams of hard cheese, five hard-boiled eggs, one orange, two tablespoons of red caviar, mayonnaise for spreading layers, spices and a little green onion. Eggs are divided into whites and yolks and separately grated on a coarse grater, and the cheese - finely chopped, cut salmon into slices, peel the orange, remove partitions and cut the flesh into cubes, olives into rings. Now we form the salad in layers, starting from the bottom: some of the proteins with mayonnaise, yolks, half of salmon with mayonnaise, olives with leftover salmon, cheese, oranges and on top - the remaining proteins. Some layers of salt and pepper. Crowned pearl salad with half of quail egg and red caviar, decorate with olives and green onions. By the way, you can cook and serve this salad by mixing all the ingredients and putting them in avocado halves.

Recipe No. 2

This salad also looks great on a festivetable, and a large number of vegetables in the composition makes it easy and useful. So, to make a pearl black salad, you need to take a tin of canned fish in oil or tuna in your own juice, fresh cucumbers, tomatoes, onions, greens, green salad, hard cheese, olives, spices, French mustard for dressing and black caviar. Lettuce leaves should be laid out on a plate, on top of them - sliced ​​cucumber. Mash canned fish with a fork, add onions and French mustard, put on top of cucumbers, on top - olives, cut into slices. Next, the tomato bars, on top of them - a mesh of mayonnaise. Another layer of cheese is grated on a large grater. We decorate the salad with greens, tomatoes and black caviar. It looks very light, the same is to taste: cucumber freshness in combination with caviar gives the salad some piquancy.

Recipe # 3

Another cooking option for this dish isthis time with squid. As there is red caviar in the recipe, and the name of this salad is “Red Pearl”. We take the following ingredients: half a kilo of squid, 250 grams of shrimp, one hundred grams of red caviar, four chicken eggs and mayonnaise. Squids clean, immerse in boiling water for one minute, then leave them in boiling water for another couple of minutes, cool and chop into small strips. Protein eggs grate on a large grater, like cheese. Small shrimps can be left whole or cut in half, the larger ones are best cut into slices. Mix all the ingredients, season with mayonnaise and put in a salad bowl. Sprinkle with yolk, grated on a fine grater, decorate the salad "Pearl" with red caviar.

Recipe No. 4

And the last, but no less delicious recipe.

На этот раз рассмотрим салат «Морская жемчужина».We take shrimps, boiled potatoes, fresh cucumber, tomatoes, cheese, eggs, spices, a little mayonnaise, caviar and two strong leaves of cabbage. You can submit it in a very original way: we form a shell of two sheets, in which our “pearl” will be stored. However, you can make more than one large sink, and several small portions, and serve each guest present at the table. Potatoes and three cheese on a large grater, and cut eggs into cubes, like cucumbers with tomatoes. All products combine and mix with mayonnaise, salt and pepper to taste. We spread the salad in the "shell", decorate with shrimp and caviar. Now you can serve any favorite Pearl salad to the table, the recipes for making it are quite simple.