Shop's salad is a very popular dish in many countries of Eastern Europe: in Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Serbia, Albania, Montenegro, Romania, Moldova and Ukraine, in places where Bulgarians live. As a snack, the salad of lettuce is indispensable, it is often served to rakia or to wine. The dish itself and its name comes from Bulgaria (the shops are one of the ethnic groups of the Bulgarians). In Bulgaria the salad is a traditional national dish. The dish is simple to prepare, but very tasty and, undoubtedly, useful. The ingredients of the shop salad include the following: Bulgarian pepper, sweet and bitter (raw, marinated or roasted), cucumbers, tomatoes, onions and, of course, rennet cheese, siren or feta. Of course, the salad with cheese is the most common, it can be considered the most authentic. In the salad dressing salad also add parsley and vegetable oil, olive or sunflower, natural light vinegar, salt.
Secrets of cooking
How to prepare salad dressing? Washed and dried vegetables and parsley greens are finely chopped, spread in portions in salad leaves, sprinkled with grated cheese and seasoned with oil or oil-and-vinegar mixture. Vinegar, however, can be replaced with lemon juice. Cheese can not be rubbed on a grater, but finely cut with a knife. Bulgarian salad in the shops has the following order of presentation: below, tomatoes and peppers, then - cucumbers and greens and on top - grated cheese. In the section, the colors of the Bulgarian national flag are obtained. You can, of course, mix it - it will also be delicious.
Products for Shopt salad
The recipe is offered with baked pepper, although, of course, you can cook with raw.
Ingredients:
- 2 sweet red peppers + 1 hot bitter pepper;
- 2-3 ripe red tomatoes;
- 2 cucumbers;
- 100 g of brynza;
- 1 red onion;
- parsley greens.
For refueling you will need:
- 4 tablespoons olive oil or sunflower oil (cold pressed);
- 2 tablespoons of natural apple or natural light grape vinegar.
Preparation:
Preparation of salad requires a creative approach. We will heat the oven to 180-200 ° C. We will wash the sweet peppers, we will dry them, we will lay them out on a greased baking sheet and bake them for 20 minutes, turning them over so that they are baked evenly. We take out the baking tray from the oven and leave the minutes for 10-20, better - with an overturned metal bowl. After that, we remove the skin from the peppers, remove the core. Wash cucumbers and tomatoes. We'll clean the onions. Pepper and cucumbers we will cut with straw, onion - rings, tomatoes - slices. Hot chili pepper as small as possible. Brynza cut into small cubes or we rub it on a large grater - it's a matter of taste. We can put the shop salad layer by layer and fill with dressing, that is a mixture of oil and vinegar. We can do it differently: mix all the cut vegetables, pour the dressing, and then sprinkle with the cheese - as you like.
Option for those who are in a hurry
If you do not have time to fantasize and lay out the salad with layers, you can prepare a version of the salad shopau "for the lazy." Wash tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, let's drain
Well, you can and submit to the table. Wine is better to choose a red dining room ("Bull's Blood", "Gumma" or similar, Moldovan wines are also good) or serve fruit rakiya, so you can feel the charm of simple but at the same time quite varied and exquisite in its own way Balkan cuisine.