"Prague" salad has nothing to do with the rich assortment of traditional Czech cold snacks, its name was coined by housewives, just like a huge number of variations in the recipe. The main trump card of the salad "Prague" is a combination of meat with some sweet ingredient: beef with apple, chicken with prunes and so on. In addition to contrasting combination, the appetizer can include assorted other vegetables and meat products, pieces of cheese and croutons.
Classic "Prague" salad - recipe
Despite all the variety of amateur recipes, the variation of "Prague" with the use of a combination of beef and apples is more common. This light salad is served warm and cooked for a very short time.
Ingredients:
- fillet of veal - 290 g;
- pickled cucumbers - 135 g;
- sweet pepper - 85 g;
- onion - 45 g;
- sour apple - 70 g;
- juice of half a lemon;
- sharp mustard - to taste;
- mayonnaise - 115 g.
Preparation
Preparation of snacks begins with the preparation of ingredients for the vegetable pillow. For her thin straws cut the pickled cucumber, remove the box of sweet pepper and also finely chop its walls. Onions divide into the finest semirings. Just like the other ingredients, cut a sour apple into thin strips. Prepare an easy dressing from a mixture of mayonnaise with juice half a lemon and mustard. Season the salad with a dressing and lay it with a pillow on the dish.
Cut the meat into thin layers, season it and quickly fry until browned on a well-heated frying pan. Put the pieces of hot meat over the salad cushion and immediately serve "Prague" to the table.
"Prague" salad with bell pepper and chicken
On the second place on popularity there is a salad prepared with use of a combination of chicken meat, prunes and sweet pepper which is ideally suited for admirers of white meat of a bird.
Ingredients:
- chicken (white meat) - 290 g;
- sweet pepper - 110 g;
- carrots - 95 g;
- eggs - 4 pieces;
- Prunes - 110 g;
- canned peas - 130 g;
- onion - 65 g;
- mayonnaise for refueling.
Preparation
Before you prepare the Prague salad, pay attention to prunes: if the fruits are dry, then pour them with boiling water, otherwise just remove the stones and cut everything with straw. Bow the onion rings with boiling water to remove excess bitterness. Put chicken fillet on. Eggs also boil hard, clean and grind. Spasertuyte pieces of carrots with sweet pepper in a small amount of butter until the vegetables soften. Now you have two options: to combine all the components of the salad together, fill and mix, or lay out layer by layer, promazyvaya each subsequent layer of sauce.
"Prague" salad with ham
The most minimalistic is the recipe for "Prague" salad with ham, croutons and cheese, however, crunches are added to it at your own discretion. The composition of this snack is very variable, but in general, includes ingredients from previous recipes.
Ingredients:
- hard cheese - 115 g;
- ham - 115 g;
- onion - 65 g;
- eggs - 3 pieces;
- salted cucumber - 55 g;
- mayonnaise - 65 g;
- crackers - if desired.
Preparation
Pre-cook chicken eggs, pour them with iced water, peel and chop. Finely chop the onion and mix it with the eggs. Add the cubes of ham and hard cheese to the mixture. By analogy, cut the salted cucumber. Combine all the ingredients of the salad with mayonnaise dressing, and chill the finished dish. Before serving, the snack can be sprinkled with breadcrumbs or decorated with a simple parsley leaf.