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Ham and cucumber salad in different variations. Video
Salads are one of the most common snacks on the Russian table. The most satisfying are the salads, which include cucumbers and ham. You can add eggs, cheese, green peas or tomatoes as additional ingredients, each time coming up with different variations.
Salads with ham and cucumbers
Cheese salad with ham and cucumbers
You will need: – ham – 300 g; – hard cheese – 150 g; – medium-sized cucumbers – 5 pcs; – sour cream – 2 tbsp. spoons; – mayonnaise – 4 tbsp. spoons; – garlic – 2 cloves; – salt – to taste.
Cut the ham into thin strips of short length. Wash cucumbers and cut in the same way. Combine these ingredients in a salad bowl.
In a separate cup, combine mayonnaise with sour cream until smooth and add chopped garlic to them. Season the salad with the mixture. Grate the cheese on a very fine grater. Sprinkle over the salad and stir lightly. Serve to the table.
It is better to store salads with cucumbers in the refrigerator for no more than a day, since after this time the cucumbers will let the juice out, and the type of salad will be spoiled
You will need: – ham – 300 g; – medium-sized cucumbers – 4 pcs.; – canned peas – 250 g; – mayonnaise or sour cream – 5 tbsp. spoons; – salt – to taste.
Cut the ham and cucumbers into small cubes. Add canned peas to these. Mix everything and salt. Season with mayonnaise, chill in the refrigerator for about 20 minutes and serve.
In this recipe, peas can be replaced with canned corn.
Bell pepper and egg salad
You will need: – ham – 300 g; – cucumbers – 3-4 pcs.; – egg – 2 pcs.; – hard cheese – 150 g; – garlic – 2 cloves; – Bulgarian red pepper – 1 pc.; – olive oil – 3 tbsp. spoons; – lemon – ½ pcs.; – pitted olives – 7 pcs.; – herbs and salt – to taste.
Hard boil the eggs. Cut them into cubes. Ham, bell peppers and cucumbers – julienne. Grate the cheese on a fine grater.
Prepare a dressing. To do this, mix olive oil with the juice of half a lemon. Add a little salt and garlic passed through a press. Mix everything thoroughly.
Combine chopped foods with finely chopped herbs and olives. Pour the prepared dressing over the salad, chill a little and serve.
This salad recipe is very tender and nutritious. It will appeal to those who limit the consumption of fatty foods and do not eat mayonnaise.
Salad with ham, apple and Chinese cabbage
You will need: – ham – 200 g; – Peking cabbage – 1/3 head of cabbage; – apple – 1/2 pc.; – fresh cucumbers – 2-3 pcs.; – olive oil – 4–5 tbsp. spoons; – lemon – 1/2 pcs.; – garlic – 2 cloves; – greens of cilantro and parsley – to taste.
Wash Chinese cabbage leaves, dry and cut very coarsely. Cut the ham, apple and cucumbers into thin strips.
Mix all the ingredients in a salad bowl, add a little salt. Add chopped garlic and stir again. Sprinkle with chopped herbs, lemon juice and olive oil.