Another replenishment in the arsenal of recipes for appetizers for the festive table is a salad with prunes and cheese. Variations of this dish there are many and some of them we will pay attention in this article.
Prune salad with cheese
This recipe can hardly be called habitual, but believe me - by collecting all the necessary ingredients together, you will see a dish on your table, worthy of filing in the best restaurants.
Ingredients:
- prunes - 80 g;
- cider (dry) - 70 ml;
- grated ginger - 1 teaspoon;
- garlic - 1 clove;
- hard cheese - 80 g;
- mango - 80 g;
- lentils - 50 g;
- red onions - 1 pc .;
- capers - 1 teaspoon;
- spinach (young) - 80 g;
- basil - 5 branches;
- peel and juice 1/2 lemon.
Preparation
Mix the cider with the garlic, butter and lemon juice passed through the press. In the resulting solution we lower the prunes and leave it to marinate during the night.
The next day we extract the prunes from the marinade, we lightly dry it with paper towels and cut it into large pieces. Lentils are filled with a glass of water, we add grated ginger, lemon zest, and cook beans until full. We are ready to cool the lentil.
Red onion cut into thin rings, basil and spinach rinse with iced water and dry. Hard cheese cut into cubes. Mix all the ingredients in a salad bowl, sprinkle the dish with capers and serve it to the table. If desired, the salad can be filled with a simple sauce of a mixture of olive oil and balsamic vinegar in equal proportions.
Prune salad with chicken, cheese and cucumber
This simple salad with mayonnaise, although not very original, but has enough satiety to become an independent dish on your table. Fast cooking is also a plus of this recipe.
Ingredients:
- chicken fillet - 200 g;
- Prunes - 1 handful;
- cucumber - 1 piece;
- hard cheese - 80 g;
- eggs - 3-4 pieces;
- mayonnaise - 2 tbsp. spoons;
- salt, pepper - to taste;
- greenery.
Preparation
Chicken fillet boil to the full readiness in salted water. The finished fillet is cooled and disassembled into large fibers, or we cut the chicken with straws.
From prunes remove the stone and cut it into pieces of medium thickness. Eggs boil hard boiled and crushed. Hard cheese rubbed on a large grater. Mix all the ingredients of the salad together, add mayonnaise and greens. Ready salad with chicken, cheese, egg and prunes is cooled before serving.