To prepare a salad, besides the main ingredients, you also need a dressing, that is, salad dressing. In English it is called "dressing", which translates "clothes": the English seem to dress the salad in the dressing, so in such versions of the sauce is always a lot, the salad is practically floating in the gas station. There are many different salad dressings - from well-known and most popular classic to the most exotic ones. To make the salad tasty, you should know which dressings are suitable for one or another combination of products in the best way, both in the best-known salads, and in various others.
In general, it should be noted that dressings for salads are divided into 2 types:
- sauces based on a mixture of some vegetable oil and vinegar, better than natural (most suitable for salads of fresh vegetables and greens);
- thick sauces based on natural unsweetened yogurt, sour cream, cream, mayonnaise (such dressings are more suitable for salads with fish, meat, boiled and canned vegetables, pickles). It should be noted that yogurt, sour cream and cream are well suited as dressings for salads in the style of "fusion", including fruit. Of course, dietary sauces for salads should not contain vinegar, as well as a large number of spices. Yogurt or olive oil with lemon juice - ideal dietary dressings.
Let's talk about some sauces for salads without mayonnaise. At present, ready-made mayonnaise (in itself not a very useful product) is actively loved by the majority of the population in the post-Soviet space. Meanwhile, mayonnaise (even if it's home cooking) does not contribute to the harmony of the figure.
So, let's look at a few recipes for making salads for salads
Sauce for Greek salad
The best options for filling any Greek salads can be considered either Greek (or classic) yogurt, or a sauce based on olive oil.
Ingredients:
- olive oil Extra Virgin - 4 tbsp. spoons;
- lemon juice and / or grape vinegar light natural - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
- mustard ready - 1 teaspoon;
- garlic - 1-2 cloves.
Preparation
Pounded garlic mixed with the rest of the ingredients. Can be slightly seasoned with hot red pepper. If desired, you can strain the sauce, but the Greek cooks would not do so.
If yogurt is chosen as the base, it can also be slightly flavored with garlic, pepper and fragrant Mediterranean herbs. Mustard is not needed.
Recipe for Caesar salad sauce
Preparation
We mix in the bowl of the blender yolk 1 chicken egg (or better 3-4 quail to avoid salmonella) with juice from 1 lemon. Add 1-2 teaspoons Dijon mustard, 1 clove of garlic (best to press) and pulp from 4-5 anchovies. Let's try everything with a blender, add about 80 ml of olive oil and 2 tablespoons of white martini or a little water. Still add 2-4 tbsp. spoonful of grated cheese "Parmesan". We mix it.
Sauce for salad with shrimps in European style can be prepared the same as for Greek salad (see above). If you are preparing a salad with rice and prawns in the Far Eastern style, use products characteristic of the region.
Sauce for salad with shrimps
Preparation
Mix in intuitively selected proportions soy sauce with sesame oil, lime juice or lemon. Season with garlic and various types of pepper. You can include ginger in the sauce (especially in cold weather), coriander and fennel. You can add fish and ready-made sauces.
Sauce for vegetable salad
Preparation
2 tbsp. Spoons of the prepared mustard are mixed with 30-50 ml of cream and 2 tbsp. spoon martini, 4 yolks quail eggs and 1 tbsp. spoon of not too odorous natural honey. You can add a little soy sauce and lemon juice.