Macaroni Salad: Salad Designer by the ingredients

Make your perfect picnic salad. This constructor offers thousands of different combinations of ingredients! Share with friends: Time: 4 hours.

Contents

1 Recipe:
2 1. Choose pasta
3 2. Select a protein base
4 3. Choose vegetables
5 4. Select a dietary supplement
6 5. Season the salad
7 6. Filing
8 Recipes for popular pasta salads

Recipe:

1. Choose pasta

Choose pasta for salad that you haven’t eaten for a long time. missed. Boil a pot of salted water. Boil it 230 gr. any pasta following the directions on the packaging. Flip on colander and rinse under cold water. Transfer to large bowl. Ingredients:

fusilli pasta spiral

pasta campanella

farfalle pasta

ditalini paste

2. Select a protein base

Add 1 tbsp. any of the proposed ingredients. The salad can be vegetarian. Ingredients:

Chicken, cook and chop

Steak, cook and chop.

Ham or salami, diced

Grilled beef, chopped

Canned tuna, drain and divide into pieces

Crab meat

Shrimp, cook and chop

Hard boiled eggs and chop

Baked tofu, chopped

3. Choose vegetables

Add 2 types of vegetables and beans, 1 tbsp. each (so blanch vegetables, boil until soft, then fold in a colander and chill in ice water). Ingredients:

Broccoli, blanch inflorescences

Corn Grains, Blanch

Carrot, grate

Cherry tomatoes cut in half

String beans, blanch and chop

Frozen peas or sugar peas, blanch

Celery cut into slices

Diced Cucumber

Red onion, diced

Bell pepper cut into cubes

Asparagus, blanch and chop

Canned chickpeas or white beans, drain and Rinse

4. Select a dietary supplement

Add 1/3 tbsp. the tastiest edible to put everything together flavors together. Ingredients:

Sun-dried tomatoes, chopped

Baked red pepper, chopped

Olives, remove the stone and chop

Cheese to choose, grate or crumble

Choice of nuts, toast and chop

Fry and crumble bacon

5. Season the salad

Here are some salad dressings that are easy to remember. Prepare one of these dressings to add to the salad. piquancy, and sourness. To add olive oil – an integral part of the dressing, just mix the mayonnaise.

Vinaigrette sauce

Mix 1/3 tbsp. olive oil, 2 tbsp. l white wine vinegar 1 minced shallots, 1/2 tsp salt and pepper to taste.

Sour cream with herbs

Mix 1/3 tbsp. mayonnaise, 3 tbsp. l sour cream, 1.5 tbsp. l lemon juice, 1/2 tbsp. chopped herbs and salt with pepper to taste.

Garlic Butter

Fry over medium heat in 1/3 tbsp. olive oil 3 cloves thinly sliced garlic, along with a pinch of cereal red pepper for 3 minutes; cool. Season with salt and pepper.