Honestly, “Village Salad” is rathernot the name of a particular dish, but practicality and life position. Since the main thing in his preparation is to use everything that is at hand. At the same time, each village is rich in something of its own, which may be in short supply in another village. Therefore, every village has its own salad, the composition of which may vary also depending on the season. And for the townspeople, every village salad is a kind of culinary discovery. Let us gain experience from those who are less divorced from nature!
Country Style Layered Salad
And in the villages they love not only delicious, but also beautifulto eat The proposed salad rustic with chicken is simple in composition and tasty, but requires proper design. The ratio of products included in it depends on personal predilections - which products you like more, take those in an increased quantity. For the first time, you can stick to the following proportions:
- The first layer: six potatoes cooked in a uniform. You can cut into cubes, you can rub.
- Second layer: onion head (finely chopped). To avoid sharpness, you can pickle onions in vinegar for a few minutes.
- The third layer: pickles (2-3 things). Again, cut into bricks or lose - according to your choice.
- Fourth layer: mushrooms. According to the rules - forest, but citizens can take mushrooms (about a pound). Mushrooms put chop and fry.
- The final layer: chicken. Fillet or legs - you decide. They can be fried, boiled or baked.
Each layer is smeared with mayonnaise, on top of a rustic salad sprinkled with grated eggs.
Salad with wild garlic
Ramson is not at all such a rare product asit could seem. Buy it on the market is quite possible, just need to ask around. But in the pickled form, it is not at all uncommon. If you add it even to the simplest village salad, it will get a completely new wonderful taste. Try this composition: boiled carrots with potatoes, pickled cucumbers (everything is cut proportionally), greens, pickled ramson and fragrant sunflower oil. Such a side dish is especially good for any fish.
Tuscan Salad
Do not forget that Western European countries -This is not a solid megacities. And Italian peasants, for example, also love a tasty and satisfying meal. Taking into account the specifics of agricultural plants growing there, under Tuscany they prepare such a rustic salad: a glass of cannellini (thin-skinned white beans) and a pair of chicken eggs are boiled. Eggs are cut into thin slices, two hundred grams of ham - in cubes, two tomatoes - in cubes, a stalk of green onions - in small rings, a quarter of green pepper - in stripes, and four fresh champignons - in thin slices. Several lettuce leaves (better than the variety "Romano") breaks into pieces. All this is mixed and dressed with sauce. In our conditions mayonnaise or ordinary olive oil is fine.
Rustic Greek Salad
Greece has it all, including its own villagesalad. Naturally, he can not do without the favorite cheese of the Greeks - feta. The ratio of components also depends on individual tastes. Green lettuce is cut (mono variety, choose any, but the same “romano” is recommended), white cabbage, tomatoes with cucumbers (very large), olives or pitted olives (small ones can be left whole) and cheese (diced). There is no feta - take the cheese. And no mayonnaise! Mix olive oil, fresh lemon juice, salt, favorite seasonings and pepper. Rustic salad in Greek is ready and waiting for its connoisseurs.
Austrian rustic salad
Ingredients in it a little, but the taste is obtained onwonder harmonious. A bunch of arugula is torn by hand, salted and sprinkled with fresh lemon juice, and then placed in a pile in the middle of the plate. Cherry halves are artistically laid out around it (if there are none, then ordinary tomatoes will come off, cut into slices or circles). From 100 grams of goat's soft cheese (look for it) small balls are formed with a spoon, which are put into tomatoes. All this is slightly watered with pumpkin oil (as a last resort, olive oil, slightly diluted with vinegar will fit) and sprinkled with roasted pumpkin seeds - this is the main ingredient, due to which the Austrian village salad takes on a special taste. Take into account, it is necessary to fry the seeds yourself, and not to buy ready-made ones.
Beef salad
For him, first of all, you need a largeboiled potatoes and a couple of pickled cucumbers: they are cut into small pieces, pickled and flavored with sour cream with a mustard spoon. One third of a kilo of meat is boiled and cut into strips. All components are mixed. Then the “Country” salad with beef is complemented with small whole tomatoes (large tomatoes will be out of place).
Rustic Wedding Salad
For the average citizen, this, at first glance, is not a salad at all, but solid meat, to which a side dish is needed. However, in order and the wedding to eat "from the belly" luxurious dishes.
For the preparation of a pound of quality porkwithout bones brewed according to the rules - with onion, laurel, peppercorns. In cold form, the meat is cut into strips. In parallel, chop rings of a pair of white lettuce bulbs and make marinade. It includes: a quarter cup of water, 9 tablespoons of vinegar, ground pepper, three tablespoons of sugar and five - vegetable oil. Pork is laid out in a salad bowl mixed with onions and sprinkled with marinade. Rustic wedding salad should stand in the fridge for the night. It acquires a particularly savory taste if you sprinkle a dish with pomegranate seeds.
