Chinese salads: description, recipes

Chinese salad is bright and delicious dishes that are part of the diet of people in China relatively recently.

There are thousands of recipes. And a wide range of ingredients, including vegetables, fruits, glass noodles, cheese, meat, seafood, nuts, dressings and spices, allows you to make a variety of every salad, and eat healthy.

Features of Chinese gastronomy

The Cuisine of China is extremely tasty, simple and hearty. This people from ancient times to the present day there is a special, centuries-old, traditional approach to the process of cooking and serving food.

They are very respected and appreciated the food, as always remember that people in the country quite a lot, and the food should be enough for everyone. This is especially clearly reflected in the olden days, when large families with low incomes had to live in a very tough economy.

Paradoxically, but thanks to that in Chinese cuisine there is such a feature as the fine crushing of food and speed of preparation. Storage is carried out in special baskets made of bamboo, allowing you to extend the shelf life of food.

Traditional Chinese food: rice, seafood, meat, vegetables, fruits, spices.

Eat with chopsticks, which are masters. And this is convenient because food is crushed and well heat treated.

A Separate topic of gastronomy in this country are Chinese salads, recipes are a huge number. And the components from which they are prepared, simple and affordable.

The Preparatory stage in the preparation of salads

Traditional Chinese salads are served in small bowls, square flat plates, and bowls.

Products are usually boiled, fried or steamed, so for cooking you need pots, pans. Also knives and cutting Board (for meat, vegetables), frog, additional capacity for sauces.

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Chinese salads mostly consist of these components: cabbage (NAPA, cauliflower and other types), carrots, onions, cheese, mushrooms, tomatoes, squid, beef, pork, chicken, oysters, potatoes, pasta and so on.

But the main “chip” is the gas station – this can be your homemade sauces with spices or olive oil (sesame) oil. In the Russian version it is possible to prepare this component of mayonnaise and spices.

Light salads with beef

Varieties of this dish quite a large number. In this article we will consider 5 types of Chinese salad with beef.

1. Ingredients: cucumber (200 g), carrot (100 g), sweet pepper (100 g), beef (100 g), peanuts (50 g). Cucumber, peppers, boiled carrots and beef cut into thin sticks; add peanuts. Fill sweet and sour sauce.
2. Ingredients: beef tongue (100 g), beef (100 g), cucumber (200 g), carrot (100 g). Cucumbers, boiled tongue, beef and carrots cut into sticks and fill with mayonnaise with spices.
3. Ingredients: beef (100 g), beef tongue (100 g), cucumber (200 g), tomatoes (100 g), bread croutons (100g). Cook beef and tongue. All components are cut into cubes, add croutons, top the salad with the mayonnaise.
4. Ingredients: cellophane (100 g), beef (100 g), carrots (100 g), cucumber (200 g). The noodles and beef to boil, slice all components into strips, season with soy sauce with spices.
5. Ingredients: sweet pepper (200 g), beef tongue (100 g), beef (100 g). Boil meat components. Cut all the long bars and add mayonnaise.
   

Salad home

A Delicious Chinese vegetable salad prepares easily and quickly.

Required:

• Cellophane – 200 grams;
• Cucumbers-200 grams;
• Cabbage or Chinese cabbage-100 grams;
• Mushrooms-150 grams.

Preparation

Boil the glass noodles. Mushrooms lightly fried. Cut into thin strips cucumber, cabbage, mix it All together.

The Dressing is prepared from components:

• Olive oil (15 milliliters),
• Rice vinegar (5 ml),
• Soy sauce (20 ml),
• Salt (12 grams)
• Garlic (10 grams).

All mix, chop through the frog garlic, add to the dressing.

Pour salad prepared sauce.

Potato

For this Chinese salad will need the following components:

• Potatoes (200 g);
• Ham (200 g);
• Onions (100 g);
• Peanuts (100 g).

Preparation

Cut the Potatoes into long wedges, fry in oil. In the finished dish add finely chopped ham and onion half rings, chopped peanuts.

Fill a dish with mayonnaise or sauce.

Shrimp Salad

Especially popular among residents of not only China, but other countries use Chinese seafood salads. One such will be discussed in this article.

It is based on: shrimp (200 g), sweet pepper (100 g), cucumber (200g), cashew nuts (100g).

The Shrimp are boiled, peppers and cucumbers are cut into strips, walnuts crushed. Mix it all together. Cover with the sauce.

Preparation of the filling: soy sauce, sesame oil, ginger, salt, Chinese spices, black pepper.

Meat salad with oranges

Of Course, the trick of this recipe is Chinese salad dressing with a sweet and sour flavor. But the Foundation belongs to the meat and oranges, which so Supplement each other that the result is a delicious dish.

Features:

• Pork meat-200 g;
• Oranges – 300 g;
• Cabbage (white);
• Olive oil – 40 ml;
• Green onions-100 g;
• Black pepper.

For filling:

• Honey – 50 g;
• Soy sauce – 50 ml;
• Rice vinegar-30 g;
• Orange skins.

Preparation

For the sauce squeeze the orange peel zest (20 g), add vegetable oil (20 ounces), honey, vinegar and sauce. Components to connect.

The Meat roll in the pepper and pour ¼ of the filling - bake in the oven with butter. The finished component is cut into strips.

Oranges, free from membrane, cut. Cabbage and onions to chop. Add meat and remaining filling.

Summary

Chinese salad is not just popular nowadays among the people of many countries, including in Russia. They are unusual and tasty, but also beautiful in appearance and useful.