How to make a delicious summer salad. summer salads

Light summer salad- it the perfect dish for the hot season. They can be prepared from vegetables, fish, herbs, fruits. The following summer salad recipes are sure to please.


Light summer salad with sheep cheese and pears.

Ingredients:
- iceberg lettuce - ½ head
- pear - 2 pcs.
- raspberries - ¾ cup
- soft sheep cheese - 100 g
- liquid honey - 1 tbsp. a spoon
- a handful of arugula
- salt
- juice of one lemon
- walnuts, olive oil- 2 tbsp. spoons
- mustard - 1 teaspoon

Cooking:
1. Sort the arugula and lettuce, rinse, tear into small pieces, mix, put in a large cup.
2. Rinse the pears well. If the fruits have a thick skin, remove it. Pears cut in half, remove the seeds, cut the flesh into thin slices.
3. Pour slices of pears lemon juice, put on salad, sprinkle walnuts and raspberries.
4. Form small balls from the cheese, put on the salad.
5. Rub honey with mustard, season, add olive oil, mix well, pour over the salad.

You can cook from the remaining fruits.


Light summer salad from string beans.

Ingredients:
- green beans- ½ kg
- radish - 1 bunch
- cottage cheese - 120 g
- any sprouts - ½ pack
- salt
- pepper
- olive oil - 3 tbsp. spoons
- sprigs of oregano

Cooking:
1. Thoroughly clean the beans, boil in salted boiling water, dip in cold water to preserve the color.
2. Rinse the radish well, remove the leaves, dry, grate with large holes or cut into narrow sticks.
3. Put the boiled and chilled beans in one large plate, put the radish on top, sprinkle with cottage cheese.
4. Add in pepper and salt, pour over with olive oil, garnish with herbs.

Salmon and spinach salad.

Ingredients:
- spinach leaves - 80 g
- a handful of arugula
- radicchino salad - 2-3 leaves
- salmon - 120 g
- paprika
- salt
- pepper
- soy sauce- 1 teaspoon
- vegetable oil - 2 tbsp. spoons
- french mustard and honey - 1 tbsp. spoon

Cooking:
1. Cut salmon into small pieces, fry in a pan with vegetable oil, cool.
2. Heat the paprika on the grill for 20 minutes, remove, cool, peel, cut the flesh into cubes or stripes.
3. Sort lettuce and spinach, rinse, mix with paprika.
4. Transfer the salad to a bowl, cover with cooled salmon.
5. Prepare the sauce: rub the soy sauce with vegetable oil, honey and mustard, season with pepper and salt, dress the salad.

Prepare from the remaining fish.

Summer light salads.

Salad with peas and fish.

Ingredients:
- green pea- 1 b.
- long cucumber - 1 pc.
- a bunch of arugula
- green salad
- smoked fish fillet
- vegetable oil, mustard - 1 tbsp. spoon
- sour cream, lemon juice - 2 tbsp. spoons
- pepper, salt

Cooking:
1. Drain the liquid from the canned peas.
2. Rinse the cucumber, cut into slices.
3. Rinse the lettuce thoroughly, drain, tear into pieces.
4. Piece fish fillet cut into cubes.
5. Rinse the arugula thoroughly, dry it.
6. Prepare the sauce: mix sour cream with mustard, season with pepper, salt and lemon juice.
7. In a large salad bowl, combine lettuce and cucumbers, peas and arugula.
8. Pour all the products with the prepared sauce, stir.
9. Lay the pieces of smoked fish on top of the salad.
10. Serve salad with toast.


Salad with potatoes and eggs.

Ingredients:
- potatoes boiled in uniform - ½ kg
- tomatoes - 3 pcs.
- cucumbers - 2 pcs.
- boiled eggs - 3 pcs.
- green paprika
- Dill
- salt
- pepper
- sour cream, mayonnaise - 3 tbsp. spoons

Cooking:
1. Peel the boiled potatoes, cut into small cubes.
2. Rinse cucumbers thoroughly, dry, cut into semicircles.
3. Rinse the tomatoes, dry, remove the seeds, cut the pulp into cubes.
4. Transfer all salad ingredients to a salad bowl, mix.
5. Prepare the sauce: combine sour cream with mayonnaise, season with salt and pepper, mix thoroughly.
6. Pour the salad with sauce, add chopped dill. ready!

Summer light salads.

Salad with watermelon and chicken.

Ingredients:
- green salad - 1/3 head
- boiled chicken breast
- nectarine, red lettuce leaves
- watermelon - 120 g
- apricot jam, mayonnaise - 1 tbsp. spoon
- yogurt - 2 tbsp. spoons
- pepper, salt
- crushed chili pepper

Cooking:
1. Rinse lettuce, tear, transfer to a bowl.
2. Cut the nectarine into slices, the chicken into thin slices.
3. From watermelon pulp cut out the balls.
4. Put meat and fruits on the salad.
5. Mash yogurt with mayonnaise and jam, season with pepper and salt, pour over the salad
6. Sprinkle chili, serve. ready with watermelon!


Salad with dried tomatoes.

Ingredients:
- arugula - ½ sachet
- goat cheese - 120 g
- lettuce "batavia" - ½ head
- olive oil, shelled sunflower seeds
- dried tomatoes - ½ can
- vinegar

Cooking:
1. Fry sunflower seeds in a dry frying pan.
2. Goat cheese grate on a coarse grater.
3. Drain the dried tomatoes, cut into small pieces.
4. Rinse the arugula, drain, tear into pieces, mix in a small salad bowl.
5. Sprinkle the salad with dried tomatoes, grated goat cheese, mix well, salt and pepper.
6. At the end, pour the salad with olive oil, wine vinegar.

Panzanella.

Ingredients:
- cucumbers, tomatoes - 3 pcs.
- pieces white bread- 6 pcs.
- shallots - 2 pcs.
-greenery
- sprigs of greens - 4 pcs.
- olives - 120 g
- a cup of olive oil
- wine vinegar - 3 tbsp. spoons
- salt pepper
- balsamic vinegar- 1 tbsp. a spoon

Cooking:
1. Cut the bread into cubes, spread on a baking sheet, pour over with olive oil, put in the oven, bake for about 20 minutes.
2. Rinse the tomatoes, dry them. Remove the thick skin.
3. Cut the tomatoes into quarters, remove the seeds, cut the flesh into cubes.
4. Rinse the cucumber, cut into cubes.
5. Finely chop the onions and greens.
6. Drain the olives.
7. Mix the prepared salad ingredients with croutons.
8. Prepare the sauce: rub olive oil and 2 types of vinegar, season with pepper and salt. Pour the prepared dressing over the salad.


Salad "Homemade".

Ingredients:
- tomatoes - 3 pcs.
- champignons - 320 g
- bulb - 1 pc.
- Bell pepper- 3 pcs.

Cooking:
1. Cut the mushrooms into cubes, fry in vegetable oil.
2. Onion, pepper, tomatoes cut into cubes, mix with fried mushrooms, season with spices and mayonnaise.

Greek salad.

Ingredients:
- ham - 320 g
- green salad - 520 g
- tomato - 1 pc.
- olives - 20 pcs.
- onion- 1 head
- capsicum- 10 pieces.
- feta cheese - 120 g
- dried oregano - 1 teaspoon
- olive oil - ½ cup
- red wine vinegar - 5 tbsp. spoons
- salt - 1 teaspoon
- ground black pepper - 1/3 teaspoon
- sugar - ½ teaspoon

Cooking:
1. Tear lettuce leaves with your hands.
2. Finely chop the onion, ham and tomatoes.
3. In a small bowl, mix all the ingredients, mix well.
4. In another salad bowl, layer the tomatoes, onions, crumbled feta cheese, and sprinkle with oregano.
5. season, stir, divide into 4 servings, put pepper and olives in each of them.


Summer cod liver salad.

Ingredients:
- cucumber - 1 pc.
- cod liver - 160 g
- olives
- green onion feathers
- dill, parsley
- pepper, salt

Cooking:
1. Grate the cucumber.
2. Divide the liver with a fork, after draining the oil.
3. Cut the olives.
4. Cut greens and onions.
5. Put all the ingredients in a salad bowl, mix, sprinkle with lemon juice, salt.

Summer light salads.

Salad "Beijing with peas".

Ingredients:
- Chinese cabbage - 1 head
- green onions - 1 bunch
- peas - 1 bank
- Bulgarian pepper - 1 pc.
- boiled sausage - 320 g
- cheese - 220 g
- dill or parsley
- mayonnaise
- salt pepper

Cooking:
1. boiled sausage cut into strips, cabbage - chop.
2. green cucumber and cut the bell pepper into medium squares.
3. Mix all ingredients, add peas.
4. Cut the cheese into large squares.
5. Finely chop dill, parsley, green onions, season with mayonnaise, pepper, salt, mix gently, refrigerate.


Mimosa for summer.

Ingredients:
- pink salmon in own juice- 1 bank
- pear - 1 pc.
- hard cheese- 120 g
- eggs - 4 pcs.
- mayonnaise

Cooking:
1. Remove the fish from the jar, remove large bones, mash the fish along with the juice.
2. Grate the cheese on a coarse grater.
3. Rub the pear into a separate bowl.
4. Separate the whites of boiled eggs from the yolks.
5. Grate the whites, mash the yolks.
6. put on a flat dish in the following sequence:
- half of the grated proteins, mayonnaise
- half mashed fish, mayonnaise mesh
- half cheese, mayonnaise
- pear
- half of the yolks
- the remaining cheese, mayonnaise
- the remaining pink salmon, mayonnaise


Salad "Tenderness"

Ingredients:
- lettuce - 2 bunches
- purple onion - 1 pc.
- celery
- juice of one lemon
- sugar
- olive oil

Cooking:
1. Leaf salad rinse thoroughly. To do this, leave it for half an hour in cold water, rinse in running water.
2. Tear each leaf of lettuce into small pieces.
3. Chop the purple onion, pour hot water over it.
4. Mix all vegetables, salt, pour sauce made from lemon juice, sugar and olive oil.


Salad "Air Kiss"

Ingredients:
- low-fat cottage cheese- 220 g
- fresh cucumbers- 2 pcs.
- parsley, dill - 1 bunch each
- salt

Cooking:
1. Beat cottage cheese in a blender, add grated cucumbers, a bunch of parsley and dill, salt.
2. Put the finished salad on lettuce leaves.


Summer salad "Blush".

Ingredients:
- small beets - 2 pcs.
- large apples - 2 pcs.
- grated horseradish, sugar - 1 teaspoon each
- low-fat sour cream - for dressing

Cooking:
1. Boil the beets, rinse them under running water.
2. Cut apples and beets into strips.
3. Add sugar and grated horseradish to vegetables.
4. Season the finished salad with low-fat sour cream. You can serve the salad in a salad bowl or serve in portioned bowls.

After a long snowy winter, it is simply necessary to plunge into the long-awaited summer with all the dedication. This means not only to relax mentally and gain strength, but also to please yourself and your loved ones with incredibly delicious summer dishes. After all, only in summer, nature so generously shares with us its wealth, collected from the garden or plucked from the branch. It's time to accumulate vitamins for the whole year and cheer up your tired body. Faithful helpers in this are fruits and vegetables, which also have a cooling effect in the summer heat. They are rich in water, vitamins and minerals that our body loses in hot weather.

In summer, you do not want any fatty and heavy foods, for example, fried meat or fish. I want something light, tasty and nutritious. Well, rightly so, because summer is a wonderful time for light and tasty salads. They are no worse palatability than our favorite fried potatoes or pork. Not to mention the fact that vegetable dishes are much easier to digest. Salads from fresh vegetables- it's always tasty and healthy. What incredible vegetable combinations! What a mix of colors and flavors!

summer salads you can eat in unlimited quantities for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, without fear of adding a couple extra pounds. This, first of all, concerns those who care about their figure and dream of losing some weight over the summer. Well, you and the cards are in your hands, as they say, light salads are what you need: health, lightness and comfort!

Light summer salads are good both as a separate dish and in addition to the main one. This is where you can roam, show your imagination and experiment, experiment. If you have already tried all our recipes and you want something new, we are always happy to help and offer you a range of delicious, varied light summer salads. Here are just a few of the great many existing recipes, which will help you diversify your menu, please loved ones and get incredible pleasure from summer.

Let's start, perhaps, with the most summer salad, well known to us since childhood.

Ingredients:
300 g radish,
4 boiled eggs
100 g green onions,
30 g dill,
30 g parsley,
sour cream or mayonnaise for dressing.

Cooking:
Cut the boiled eggs into small cubes, cut the radish into circles (large circles can be cut in half). Finely chop the greens (dill, green onion, parsley). Mix all ingredients. Add salt and sour cream or mayonnaise to taste. Bon Appetit!

Add to radish cauliflower, slightly change the recipe and get another culinary masterpiece.

Ingredients:
400 g cauliflower,
350 g radish,
1 lemon
50 g vegetable oil,
40 g greens and green onions,
sugar, salt, pepper.

Cooking:
Cut the radish into slices. Divide the cabbage into inflorescences, boil in boiling salted water and cool. Then mix with radishes and put in a salad bowl. From oil, lemon juice, finely chopped onion, sugar, pepper and salt, prepare a dressing and pour it over the salad. Decorate your creation with fresh herbs.

Simple and everyone's favorite egg salad and fresh cucumbers. It is very tasty and, if you try, you can turn it into an elegant festive salad if guests suddenly came to you.



Ingredients:

300 g fresh cucumber,
3 boiled eggs
1 st. a spoonful of lemon juice
3 art. spoons of sour cream or mayonnaise,
green onion, greens (dill, parsley),
salt.

Cooking:
Cucumbers cut into strips. cut into strips egg white and finely crumble the yolk. Finely chop the green onions and greens too. Mix all the ingredients, salt and season with sour cream and lemon juice. If you use mayonnaise, lemon juice and salt can be omitted. Salad ready. If you want to decorate the salad, leave some chopped greens and 1 yolk. Put the seasoned salad in a slide, make a rim of greens, and rub the yolk on a fine grater in the middle. From a thin slice of cucumber and a sprig of onion, you will get a flower. Decorate your salad with them.

Salad "Freshness"
This is a very refreshing, sweet and sour salad that tastes good. It will go with boiled hot potatoes, as a side dish for meat, fish, and even so good with bread!

Ingredients:
1 green radish
1 sour apple
1 carrot
1 fresh cucumber
1 onion,
1-2 tbsp. tablespoons chopped parsley
1 st. a spoonful of chopped green onions
1 garlic clove
1-2 tbsp. tablespoons of aromatic vinegar,
1-2 tbsp. tablespoons of vegetable oil
salt, sugar to taste.

Cooking:
Peel, wash and grate the vegetables coarse grater, cut the onion into strips and pour fragrant vinegar, knead with your hands and let it brew. Cut greens finely. Finely chop the garlic. Put all the vegetables, herbs, onions in a salad bowl, add salt, vegetable oil to taste and, if necessary, add a little sugar for taste.

Most healthy salad from celery
This plant is rich in vitamins, minerals, acids, proteins. Celery is able to slow down the aging process, have a beneficial effect on digestion, cleanse the body of toxins, soothe nervous system And it's also great for the skin. That's how many benefits from a delicious spicy plant, and salads with it are unusually tasty.

And celery goes well with cucumbers and various herbs. You can experiment with it as much as you like, add it to your dishes, believe me, it will not spoil the taste of salads at all, it will only make them even healthier and tastier. Try it!

Ingredients:
150 g celery root,
2 small carrots
1 apple (preferably green, with sourness),
3 art. spoons of sour cream
1.5 st. spoons of lemon juice
salt to taste.

Cooking:
Peel the celery root. Grate the apple, carrot and celery root on a coarse grater. Mix everything well, add sour cream and lemon juice, salt to taste. Healthy and tasty salad is ready!

Ingredients:
1 bunch of radishes
fresh dill,
ground black pepper,
vegetable oil,
quite a bit of vinegar
salt to taste.

Cooking:
Wash the radish thoroughly and cut in half, and then into the thinnest possible plates. Salt, pepper, remember a little with your hands so that she starts up the juice.
Put the radish in a large plate, crumble the dill on top. The salad should stand for 15-20 minutes to soak, and then - welcome to the table.

Cabbage is the dream of any person who watches their weight. It contains tartonic acid, which prevents the formation of fats from carbohydrates. Salads from early cabbage, so tasty and tender, they simply must be on the table.

Ingredients:
1 small head of early cabbage
1 carrot
celery (to taste)
1 cucumber (or bell pepper)
2 cloves of garlic
olive or vegetable oil,
salt.

Cooking:
Rub the carrots on a coarse grater, finely chop the greens. Celery is perfect for cabbage, it is very appropriate in coleslaw. Finely grated garlic will also be appropriate here. You can add cucumber or sweet pepper (to your taste). Season the salad with vegetable oil - preferably several types, for example, olive and fragrant sunflower. Very tasty to add a little good sesame or linseed oil and lemon juice.

Another version of the same salad: add chopped cucumbers, tomatoes and sweet peppers to chopped cabbage, and, of course, greens: parsley, dill, cilantro. Garlic can be added here too, but lemon in this combination is completely superfluous. Season also with a mixture of vegetable oils.

Continuing the theme, another early cabbage salad, the name of which speaks for itself.



Ingredients:

¼ small early cabbage
1 bunch of lettuce leaves
1 fresh cucumber
1 apple
1 red bell pepper,
1 fresh tomato,
2 tbsp. crushed spoons walnuts.
For refueling:
mustard,
vegetable oil,
ground pepper,
salt.

Cooking:
Wash vegetables and dry them kitchen towel. Cut the pepper in half, remove the stalk and seeds and cut the flesh into medium-sized strips. Cucumber and apple grate on a coarse grater. Chop the cabbage and lightly remember with your hands along with salt. Coarsely chop lettuce leaves. Cut the tomato into large slices. Put the prepared vegetables in a salad bowl and mix gently. For dressing, squeeze the juice from a slice of lemon, add mustard, vegetable oil, salt and ground pepper to taste and mix well. Pour dressing over salad, sprinkle with crushed walnuts.

The piquancy of the taste of this salad will be added to the dressing with garlic, mashed with basil greens.

Ingredients:
300 g cabbage
1 st. prunes,
1 carrot
sugar,
caraway,
lemon juice,
2 tbsp. spoons of sunflower oil.

Cooking:
Finely chop the cabbage and scald it with boiling water, then put it in a colander and let it drain. Put in a salad bowl, sprinkle with sugar and salt. Grate the carrots on a coarse grater and add to the cabbage. Cut prunes into small pieces. Mix all the ingredients, add cumin, sprinkle with lemon juice, add sunflower oil. Divide the salad among plates and garnish with prunes. The taste is extraordinary.

Incredibly tasty and healthy green bean salads, which our housewives have been happy to eat lately. large quantities grown in their gardens. Basically, it is preserved, but how delicious it is in salads, beyond words. Need to try!

Green bean salad

Ingredients:
200 g green beans,
25 g cheese hard varieties,
1 teaspoon vegetable oil, lemon juice,
some greens (dill, parsley).

Cooking:
Peel the green beans, chop and boil until tender in boiling salted water. Cut 25 grams of hard cheese into thin slices, combine with boiled beans and season with a teaspoon of vegetable oil and lemon juice. Sprinkle greens on top.

Zucchini season is just around the corner. And after all, many of us, having enjoyed the first harvest, then, well, they simply don’t know what to do with this wonderful vegetable. The answer is simple - cook summer salads from it. Rest assured, even the pickiest gourmets will like them.



Ingredients:

1 medium zucchini,
2-3 garlic cloves,
sunflower oil for frying
parsley,
mayonnaise,
salt to taste.

Cooking:
Peel and cut the zucchini small cubes. Fry in sunflower oil. Cool and add garlic, salt, season with mayonnaise and add parsley.

Replace zucchini with young eggplants in this recipe - and now you have a completely new dish in front of you, in no way inferior in taste to the previous one.

Delicious, easy and fast - that's the motto of our summer menu!

Young beets have appeared on your garden, which means that a tasty and healthy salad is already ready to appear on your table. Beets are one of the few vegetables that retain their beneficial features and after heat treatment. It goes very well with different products, so improvising, we can diversify our menu without much hassle.

Ingredients:
200 g boiled and 100 g raw beets,
100 g green onions,
50 ml vegetable oil,
salt, sugar.

Cooking:
Grate the peeled boiled beets, and on a shallow one - raw, mix with chopped rings green onions, add salt and sugar to taste, season with vegetable oil.

Beet salad with new potatoes

Ingredients:
300 g beets,
200 g potatoes
50 g green onions,
50 ml vegetable oil,
salt.

Cooking:
Boil the beets, peel and cut into strips, add boiled young potatoes cut into strips and green onions chopped into rings. Mix everything, salt and pour vegetable oil.

Salad of young beets and tomatoes with apples and sweet peppers

Ingredients:
200 g young beets,
30 ml lemon juice
50 ml vegetable oil,
200 g tomatoes,
100 g apples
50 g carrots
50 g sweet pepper,
salt.

Cooking:
Grate the beets on a coarse grater, pour over the lemon juice and part of the vegetable oil. Cut carrots and peppers into strips, apples and tomatoes into slices. Combine all ingredients and salt. Dress the salad with the remaining vegetable oil.

And at the end of the salad theme - a salad with young potatoes and radish. Its taste is as wonderful as the name.

Ingredients:
4 boiled new potatoes,
2 small radishes
3 boiled carrots
2 boiled eggs
greens (dill, parsley),
250 g mayonnaise,
salt.

Cooking:
Grate potatoes, carrots and eggs separately on a coarse grater. Grate the radish on a fine grater and squeeze the juice. Spread the salad on a large plate in layers, soaking with mayonnaise and adding a little salt to each layer, in the following sequence: potatoes, radish, carrots, egg. Decorate your "Polyanka" with greenery.

Got an appetite? Then it's time to prepare a salad from the above recipes. Fresh vegetables and herbs plucked from the garden, fragrant with the aromas of summer, are already waiting for you? It's just great! Fill your body with vitamins, strengthen the immune system. Bon appetit and good health with useful products!

Larisa Shuftaykina

Birthday is a special day for every person. On this holiday, I want to please myself and loved ones with a good mood, smiles, and friendly meetings. I bring to your attention delicious birthday salads with photos and recipes from my personal collection.

Salad Mushroom meadow or Death number

I recognized this salad as Mushroom Meadow, and my friend, when she gave me the recipe for her favorite salad, called it Death Number. I think both names have a place to be, especially since the whole point is not at all in the name. I have never tasted more delicious food in my life!

This is a very tasty and not difficult salad to prepare. He prepares as changeling, first lay out all the layers, and then turn the salad over. Voila - and mushroom clearing ready!

Salad Ingredients:

  • whole champignons (canned);
  • chicken meat;
  • onion;
  • eggs;
  • boiled carrots;
  • pickled cucumbers (preferably gherkins);
  • boiled potatoes.

The salad bowl is lubricated with vegetable oil, the layers are laid out starting from the topmost, i.e. mushrooms. We put the mushrooms with their hats down, so that when our salad turns over, everything will be beautiful. The sequence of lettuce layers is shown in the photo:

Pineapple salad with chicken and nuts

A very impressive salad for the holiday table. I cooked it for my husband's birthday, all the invited guests were delighted, including work colleagues. The combination of smoked chicken with pickled cucumbers is very successful.

List of ingredients:

  • 100 grams of walnut halves;
  • 2 medium potatoes;
  • 3 hard boiled eggs;
  • pickled cucumbers (preferably gherkins);
  • hard cheese 150 g;
  • 200 g smoked chicken;
  • salt to taste;
  • a bunch of green onions for decoration;
  • dressing - mayonnaise.

Salad Emerald scattering with chicken and kiwi

Very delicious combination boiled chicken and juicy ripe kiwi with a slight sourness! An original and easy-to-prepare salad that will decorate the festive table not only on your birthday, but also on any other holiday.

  • 3-4 hard-boiled eggs;
  • onion 1 pc. (can be replaced with a young green onion);
  • 150 grams of cheese;
  • mayonnaise;
  • kiwi 2-3 pieces (ripe, not hard);
  • 2-3 tomatoes;
  • chicken meat 250 grams (boil).

Salad Red Sea

Very simple and delicious salad with crab sticks and vegetables. It can be prepared as festive table for guests, and take it with you to work to treat colleagues on your birthday. I recommend preparing this salad in the summer, when there are fresh tomatoes new harvest! A very non-standard reading of a salad from crab sticks, You'll like it!

Products:

  • 3 ripe tomatoes;
  • packaging of crab sticks;
  • hard cheese 150 g;
  • 1 red bell pepper (optional)
  • salt, pepper to taste;
  • mayonnaise;
  • a couple of cloves of garlic.

Caesar salad with smoked chicken

I also propose to cook a very tasty and easy-to-cook Caesar salad with smoked chicken. To view the recipe, click on the photo below:

Summer Salads for Birthday

The choice of this or that salad may depend on the time of year when the birthday is celebrated. In summer, field trips and picnics with more greenery are relevant.

These salads are very easy to prepare in 5 minutes (), you just need to take everything the right vegetables with you on a trip. Vegetable salad with herbs goes well with fragrant kebab or grilled fish.

Below I have selected interesting recipes salads with photos that you can cook in the summer for your birthday. The main ingredients are juicy vegetables and greens. Delicious, mouth-watering, bright, will give you the pleasure of taste on this festive day!

Recipe number 1 - Greek Salad

This salad is perfect for a festive occasion. summer table! Lack of mayonnaise and meat do lettuce light for assimilation and dietary. At the same time, Greek is quite hearty salad You won't go hungry after eating it!

Products for Greek salad (for 4 servings):

  • feta cheese (brine) 200 grams;
  • 1 jar of pitted olives;
  • 1 lemon (for dressing);
  • 1-2 ripe tomatoes;
  • lettuce leaves;
  • shallots 1 piece;
  • 1 sweet pepper;
  • salt and black ground pepper to taste.

Advice. Sometimes I add a fresh cucumber to the Greek salad, so the salad turns out to be more juicy and vegetable! Instead of ordinary tomatoes, you can take small cherry tomatoes, just cut each in half. Try it, you will like it!

Cooking

In a large bowl, combine chopped large slices tomatoes (better to take homemade) with rings bell pepper and shallots. Squeeze the juice from the lemon, combine with olive oil and season the salad with this dressing.

Add halved olives, cheese cubes and torn into small pieces lettuce leaves. Add salt and pepper to taste, mix and you're done! It is better to eat a salad right away 🙂

Recipe number 2 - Nicoise salad with vegetables, tuna and eggs

This delicious summer salad came to us from distant France, to be more precise, from sunny Provence. The recipe is simple and insanely delicious. After Greek, Nicoise is my favorite vegetable salad! Of course, in addition to vegetables, there is also canned tuna and eggs, because the dish turns out to be satisfying, although it does not contain extra calories.

Advice. Instead of chicken, put in a salad quail eggs. This will make the taste more refined!

Ingredients (for 4 servings):

  • 1 large bell pepper;
  • 3-4 ripe tomatoes;
  • a can of tuna in its own juice;
  • olive oil 3-4 tbsp. spoons;
  • dry or fresh spices(rosemary, thyme, basil);
  • 2 cloves of garlic;
  • lemon juice;
  • 1 st. a spoonful of sugar;
  • quail eggs 6-8 pieces;
  • lettuce leaves;
  • salt and pepper to taste.

First, hard boil the quail eggs in salted water. Cool the eggs. In a large salad bowl, cut tomatoes into slices (no need to grind), sweet peppers into circles and lettuce leaves. Open the tuna, drain the liquid and add the fish, lightly crushed with a fork, to the salad.

Combine spicy herbs with lemon juice, crushed garlic and sugar, add olive oil and leave for at least half an hour. Pour ready salad spicy dressing. Bon Appetit!

Recipe number 3 - Exquisite salad with pear and Dor Blue cheese

The combination of sweet fresh pear with spicy noble Dor Blue cheese (with blue mold) is the choice of true gourmets! Treat yourself to this unusual salad, which is also good as an appetizer for noble white wines, champagne, martinis.

What you need to prepare (for 2 servings):

  • lettuce leaves 3-4 pieces or a handful of arugula;
  • 2 pears;
  • a handful of walnuts(or pecan);
  • blue cheese 150 grams;
  • a few mint leaves;
  • honey 2 tbsp. spoons;
  • olive oil and lemon juice for dressing.
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    "Recipes of Hope": Salads © 2013-2019

Summer always pleases with an abundance of fruits, vegetables and greens, so summer snacks and salads include fresh, seasonal produce. During this period of time, I want to unload the body from the results of winter gluttony, remove toxins and toxins, and get a generous portion of vitamins and minerals from nature itself. Therefore, housewives usually do not think about what kind of salad to cook in the summer - of course, from fresh vegetables, fruits and herbs!

In this section you will find summer salad recipes with photos and detailed descriptions ways to prepare them. It is better to cook dishes from fresh vegetables and herbs immediately before serving, because they do not need to be soaked in sauces, besides, vitamins in fruits and vegetables are destroyed very quickly under the influence of light and air. delicious salads in summer - the best meal at any time of the day, and they are prepared from vegetables, fruits, berries, herbs, mushrooms, with the addition low-fat cheese, meat and fish. Delicious summer salads are usually dressed not with sour cream and mayonnaise, but a small amount vegetable oil, fruit and berry juices and light yoghurts. Ready meals you can decorate with berries, pieces of fruit, nuts and grated cheese.

How to make a summer salad for breakfast? Mix any fruits, berries, nuts, season the dish with yogurt, honey, condensed milk or whipped cream and garnish with grated chocolate. Such a dish can become a real energy charge for the body. Recipes with photos of summer salads for lunch and dinner amaze the imagination with variety and sophistication. Delicate fragrance melons will perfectly complement appetizing bacon with herbs, pistachios and feta, and young zucchini, cabbage and arugula will harmoniously fit into a duet of shrimp and avocado. Preparing summer salads does not take much time, so you can take a break from kitchen chores without denying yourself a good diet.

Prepare salads both in winter and summer, and you will find recipes on the EdimDoma website!

Summer recipes - best recipes seasonal dishes and drinks that will add variety to your menu. This is, first of all, healthy meals from vegetables, fruits, herbs, berries.

In the heat, the body requires consumption a large number vitamins, preferably not synthetic, but real, in in kind. That is why in the warm season it is advisable not to miss this opportunity and switch to vitamin, juicy and light dishes. And the numerous recipes for summer dishes that can be found in in large numbers on "Povarenka", for every taste and every wish. So what dishes do many modern hostesses usually prepare for the summer?

Summer soups

Of course, these are, first of all, such as okroshka, beetroot, cold, gazpacho and many others. In the summer heat, such first courses are an excellent alternative to hot soups, pickles, borscht and saltwort.

The advantage of summer cold first courses is that the products in them are mostly fresh, which means that they have retained all their vitamins. Such dishes cool the heated body well, but the calories summer soups contain very little, which means that with their help it will not be recruited excess weight– just a find for the summer!

Salads and appetizers for the summer table

What kind summer recipes do without salads and snacks from vegetables and herbs? Such recipes must be taken into account and try not to spend a single summer day without them.

From vegetables and herbs in the summer, it would be right to season not with mayonnaise, but with more vitamin and healthy salad dressings, for example, vegetable oil with lemon juice, or natural yogurt, or mustard dressing.

What is summer without barbecue?

Summer is associated with us not only with vegetables and berries grown in our summer cottage, but also with picnics, field trips, as well as barbecue, barbecue, which are the main signature dishes on the menu for such out-of-town trips.

Kebabs can be cooked not only by craftsmen, but also by those who will take into account our advice on how to properly marinate them, fry them on charcoal, serve them beautifully, what sauce to prepare for them. Do not forget to serve barbecue and barbecue dishes with summer snacks for beer and meat cooked on fire.

For sweet...

As you can see, the recipes for the summer are striking in their diversity. Even dessert dishes for the summer menu are special - vitamin, refreshing. TO summer desserts include sweet dishes such as homemade ice cream, jellies, mousses, puddings, dessert salads from fruits and berries, thick smoothies with ice.

Drinks on the summer menu

In the summer we take out a juicer from pantries and distant corners and press on it intensively juices from fresh vegetables, berries, herbs and fruits of the summer season. We also prepare cool compotes, homemade lemonades, non-alcoholic drinks as drinks so that your thirst recedes and the drink refreshes you in the summer heat.

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Make up summer menu and cook summer meals with "Povarenka" recipes, and your summer will be the most delicious, most vitamin, most iridescent period of the year!