Sometimes I so want to cook something new and unusual for the holiday to surprise all the guests! But apart from the usual recipe for salad "Herring under the fur coat" and the same familiar "Olivier" nothing comes to mind. We suggest you make a very juicy, tasty and tender salad, which is called "Neptune". It is prepared quickly and easily, but it turns out simply amazing.
In addition, it consists of seafood, and they, as scientists have found, are more useful to humans than meat. Therefore, prepare this stunning salad more often and surprise everyone with its originality and unusual! By the way, we have more than one recipe for a warm salad with seafood , so you can always turn around and prepare yummy.
Salad "Neptune" with crab sticks
Ingredients:
- crab sticks - 200 g;
- squid - 200 g;
- fresh cucumber - 2 pcs .;
- egg - 4 pieces;
- salt - to taste;
- mayonnaise or sour cream - for refueling;
- leaf lettuce - for decoration.
Preparation
How to cook an original, delicious, but at the same time simple salad "Neptune"? So, take the eggs, boil them hard-boiled for 15 minutes. Then drain the hot water and fill it with cold, for faster cooling. Next, in another saucepan, pour a little water, put on medium heat and bring to a boil, after salting to taste.
We remove the squids from the skin and foil beforehand. Gently lower them into boiling water and cook for exactly 3 minutes. This time, we chop the crab sticks and eggs cleaned from the shell. Weld squid squeezed in a colander, washed with cold water and crushed with cubes or straws. Cucumbers are peeled and rubbed on a medium grater.
We shift all the prepared ingredients into a salad bowl, a little salting, dressing with mayonnaise, thoroughly mix and clean in the refrigerator. Before serving, shift the chilled salad to a dish covered with lettuce leaves.
"Neptune" salad with shrimps
Ingredients:
- shrimps - 300 g;
- squid - 300 g;
- crab sticks - 200 g;
- eggs - 5 pcs .;
- red caviar - 130 g;
- mayonnaise - for refueling;
- pepper and salt - to taste.
Preparation
To make this delicious and healthy salad, first boil several eggs, then cool them, clean and separate the proteins from the yolks. Then the protein is cut into cubes, and the yolk is removed to the side, leaving it to decorate the dish. Next, boil in slightly salted water shrimp. Cool them, carefully cleaned and crushed. Then throw in the boiling water washed and processed in advance squid and cook them for about 5 minutes. We merge water, we cool and cut into rings. Then rub on a large grater crab sticks. When all the ingredients are prepared, mix them in a salad bowl: eggs, squid, shrimp, crab sticks. After that, put some mayonnaise to taste, thoroughly mix everything and only then carefully add red caviar so that it does not splinter.
Solim and pepper salad to taste. We serve it on a beautiful dish, decorating the top with red caviar and squid rings!
Salad "Neptune" with salmon
Ingredients:
- salmon slightly salted - 300 g;
- red caviar - 200 g;
- fresh cucumber - 1 piece;
- Bulgarian pepper - 1 pc .;
- parsley - as desired;
- mayonnaise - for refueling;
- lemon - to taste.
Preparation
Take the cucumber and pepper, mine, dry it, clean it and cut it into thin straws. Then carefully treat the fish, remove the stone and finely chop it. Sprinkle salmon with lemon juice and spread the salad layers in the following sequence. First pepper, then cucumber and then salmon. Top with sprinkled with chopped herbs and decorate the dish with red caviar. Season with mayonnaise and add olives if desired. Original and festive salad "Neptune" with red fish is ready!