Salad with Chinese cabbage, pickled cucumbers and pickled vegetables: the benefits and harms of the dish, recipes for cooking with the addition of suluguni, fresh apples or herbs Russian farmer

Home Vegetable salads

Salad with pickles is good both as an appetizer and as a complete second course. It all depends on the recipe and other ingredients. Pickled cucumber gives the salad a special piquancy and freshness.

For pickling, it is better to take black-thorned cucumbers. Before salting, vegetables need to be kept in water, it will displace the air. To make cucumbers crispy, you need to salt them with oak bark, but you shouldn’t get carried away with garlic.

In salads, pickles go well with sweet ingredients such as beets, carrots, and potatoes. These combinations can be found in everyone’s favorite “Herring under a fur coat” and vinaigrette. The pickled cucumber in the salad complements the boiled meat and sausage very well.

Most often, salads with pickles decorate tables during winter feasts. The absolute leader among them is “Olivier”, which is known throughout the world as “Russian salad”. Does the name really matter if it’s just delicious!

How to prepare a salad with pickles - 15 varieties

Chinese cabbage salad with pickled cucumber
“Autumn” salad with beans and pickles
Fish salad with pickles and apples
Salad with beets and pickles
French salad
Liver salad with pickles
Salad “Tenderness”
Salad Vinaigrette
Salad "Quail's nest"
Salad “Male weakness”
Russian salad
Salad “Delicious” with heart
Salad “Herring under a fur coat”
Red cabbage salad with pickles and apples
Salad "Prague"

With crab sticks

"Calm"

Required components:

small package of crab sticks;
1 Beijing fork;
1 large tomato;
100 ml soy sauce;
50 ml balsamic vinegar;
a tablespoon of sesame seeds;
olive oil;
pepper;
1 small cucumber.

How to cook:

Rinse the cucumber and tomato under running cold water and cut into cubes.
Cut the pekinka leaves or tear them into small pieces with your hands.
Chop the sticks into thin strips.
Mix everything well, add salt, sprinkle with sesame seeds.
Season with vinegar and olive oil.

Instead of crab sticks, you can use crab meat, which is very good for salad.

We talked about how to prepare a salad from Chinese cabbage, corn, crab sticks and other ingredients in this article.

"Breeze"

Required Products:

a small head of pekinka;
250 grams of crab sticks;
half a can of canned corn;
mayonnaise;
sugar;
salt;
greenery;
1 large red bell pepper.

How to cook:

Finely chop the pepper and crab sticks into cubes.
Chop the cabbage leaves into thin layers.
Finely chop a bunch of any greens.
Drain the can of corn and add the corn to the remaining ingredients. Stir.
Salt and add a pinch of sugar.
Season with mayonnaise.

Chinese cabbage salad with pickled cucumber

This salad is very light and refreshing, and most importantly, it has a minimum of calories.

Ingredients:

Pickled cucumbers - 2-3 pcs.
Beijing cabbage - 1 head
Eggs - 2 pcs.
Hard cheese - 150 g
Canned corn – 250 g
Light mayonnaise

Preparation:

Chop the cabbage, squeeze and let rest, cut the pickled cucumbers into cubes and let the brine drain. Cut eggs and cheese into cubes. Mix everything and add corn, draining its juice. Season the salad with light mayonnaise and ground pepper.

Quick recipes

"Just a minute"

Required components:

400-450 grams of Chinese cabbage;
200 grams of half-smoked sausage;
1 tomato;
1 red pepper;
soy sauce;
a tablespoon of vegetable oil.

How to cook:

Separate the pekin leaves from the stalk and finely chop.
Cut the sausage, peppers and tomatoes into strips. Season with a little soy sauce.
Salt and add oil. You can add any greens if you wish.

"Lightning"

Required components:

150 grams of Chinese cabbage;
1 sour apple;
a bunch of parsley;
1 small carrot (you can see simple recipes for carrot and Chinese cabbage salads here);
1-2 tablespoons olive oil;
a tablespoon of lemon juice;
a bunch of green onion feathers.

How to cook:

Remove the damaged leaves from the cabbage head, then rinse, cut into 2 halves and chop into thin slices.
Peel the carrots and grate on a coarse grater.
Wash the apple, remove the seeds and cut into thin bars.
Finely chop the onion.
Mix all ingredients, season with salt, lemon juice and oil.

Video recipe for another quick salad of Chinese cabbage and bell pepper:

“Autumn” salad with beans and pickles

It is no coincidence that this salad got its name, because most of its components are gifts of autumn.

Ingredients:

Beans - 150 g
Pickled cucumbers - 3-4 pcs.
Onion - 3 pcs.
Carrots - 3 pcs.
Sunflower oil

Preparation:

Rinse the beans well, cover with water and let sit for several hours. After this, refresh the water and put the beans on the fire for 40 minutes, then remove them from the heat and rinse. Cut the onion into cubes, grate the carrots. Fry the vegetables in a frying pan in sunflower oil, add the beans. After a few minutes, add pickled cucumbers, cut into small cubes. Simmer the salad for a couple of minutes in a frying pan and place on a plate. You can eat it either warm or chilled.

“Porpolokh” with cabbage, chicken and champignons

There are several variations of this salad, but below is the basic one, which can be supplemented with fresh cucumber or sweet pepper if desired. This will enrich the taste and color of the finished dish.

For the appetizer “Trouble” you will need:

340 g of Chinese cabbage;
230 g boiled chicken meat (you can use breast);
150 g champignons;
120 g carrots;
28 g green onions;
7 g garlic;
a couple of spoons of sour cream and mayonnaise sauce;
vegetable oil for frying;
spices - at the hostess's choice.

We will prepare it like this:

Gild mushroom slices (thin plates) in a frying pan in oil. Cool the finished champignons.
Chop the Beijing into strips, chop the breast into small cubes, grate the carrots, finely chop the onion feathers.
The sauce contains sour cream, mayonnaise and a hot vegetable pressed through a garlic press. They are mixed, flavored with spices and added as desired.

All that remains is to place the ingredients of the dish in a salad bowl or bowl of suitable size, pour over sour cream and mayonnaise sauce and mix.

Fish salad with pickles and apples

This layered salad is very reminiscent of Mimosa, but pickles and apple give it a more sophisticated taste.

Ingredients:

Pickled cucumbers - 1 pc.
Saira in oil – 1 jar
Potatoes - 2 pcs.
Eggs - 1 pc.
Apple - 1 pc.
Mayonnaise

Preparation:

All ingredients are placed one by one in a special serving ring. The bottom layer is boiled potatoes, grated on a fine grater. The second layer is canned fish shredded with a fork. Next, grease the layer well with mayonnaise and cover it with a small apple cube. The next layer is finely chopped pickled cucumber, also covered with mayonnaise. The last layer is finely grated egg.

The serving ring can be replaced with a tin can. To do this, you need to very carefully cut out the bottom and polish the sharp teeth along the edges. The ring can be made from foil by wrapping it in several layers onto a round shape.

With apples

"Spring"

300 grams of ham.
200 grams of any hard cheese.
350 grams of Chinese cabbage.
1 medium cucumber.
1 apple.
1 onion.
1 small lime.
Mayonnaise or vegetable oil.
1 yellow pepper.

Cooking instructions:

Scald the onion with boiling water - this will remove all the bitterness from it.
Then cut it into half rings. For a more piquant taste, you can pre-marinate the onions in vinegar.
Chop the ham into small strips.
Coarsely chop the Beijing and mix with the rest of the products.
Peel the cucumber and apple and cut into medium cubes. Season the apples with lime juice.
Grate the cheese on a coarse grater or chop it into large pieces.
Cut the pepper into 1-2 cm strips.
Mix everything, add oil or mayonnaise.

Read about how to quickly and deliciously prepare salads with Chinese cabbage and apples here.

"Dietary"

Required Products:

a small fork of Peking;
1-2 green apples;
1 red pepper;
1 fresh cucumber;
a bunch of parsley and dill;
sour cream or mayonnaise.

How to cook:

Chop the cabbage into random pieces.
Remove the core from washed apples and chop them into cubes.
Also cut the pepper into cubes.
Cut the cucumber and tomato into arbitrary pieces.
Finely chop the greens and sprinkle the rest of the ingredients on it, mix thoroughly.
Add sour cream or mayonnaise.

Salad with beets and pickles

This salad is good served with buckwheat porridge.

Ingredients:

Beetroot - 1 pc.
Pickled cucumbers - 3 pcs.
Onion - 1 pc.
Olive oil

Preparation:

Boil or bake the beets and cut into cubes. Chop cucumbers and onions. Mix everything and season with olive oil.

With pineapples and chicken

This light, low-calorie salad will fit naturally into the menu of anyone who loves non-standard food combinations. It successfully combines the sweetness of tropical fruits, the neutral taste of cabbage and the spiciness of ginger. To try it you will need:

300 g canned pineapples.
1 chicken breast (boneless, skinless).
1 small head of cabbage.
½ cup unsweetened yogurt.
½ tsp. ground ginger.
Salt and herbs.

The pre-washed meat is cut into strips and marinated in the liquid drained from the pineapples. No earlier than half an hour later, it is salted, sprinkled with ground ginger, placed on a baking sheet covered with parchment, and baked in a preheated oven. The finished meat is cooled and poured into a deep bowl. Shredded cabbage, chopped pineapples and chopped greens are also sent into it. All this is poured with yogurt, mixed carefully and served immediately.

French salad

This version of puff salad features an original dressing - a mixture of mayonnaise and Dijon mustard. And all ingredients should be very finely chopped.

Ingredients:

Beef tongue – 200 g
Pickled cucumbers - 2 pcs.
Potatoes - 2 pcs.
Carrots - 1 pc.
Canned peas - 100 g
Eggs - 2 pcs.
Mayonnaise
Dijon mustard

Preparation:

Boil tongue, potatoes, eggs and carrots. Finely chop all the ingredients and lay them out, coating each layer with sauce: potatoes, tongue, cucumber, eggs, carrots, peas.

You need to cook beef tongue by dipping it in boiling water. After this, let the water boil again and boil the tongue for another 15 minutes.

With olives and feta

Fans of light vegetable snacks should not lose sight of this simple and very interesting interpretation of the famous Greek salad. To prepare it, you will need:

200 g of Chinese cabbage.
130 g feta.
70 g olives.
3 tomatoes.
1 sweet pepper.
1 tsp. apple cider vinegar.
2 tbsp. l. olive oil.
Salt and dried herbs.

Peppers and cabbage are pre-processed, finely chopped and poured into a large bowl. Sliced tomatoes, pieces of feta and olive rings are also added there. All this is topped with a sauce made from salt, herbs, apple cider vinegar and olive oil, and then beautifully plated and served.

Liver salad with pickles

This salad differs not only in taste, but also in its intricate presentation. It is placed in small glass jars.

Ingredients:

Beef liver – 500 g
Carrots - 4-5 pcs.
Pickled cucumbers - 5 pcs.
Onion - 3 pcs.
Garlic - 2 teeth.
Greenery
Sunflower oil

Preparation:

Peel and cut the liver into small pieces, cut the onion into half rings, carrots and cucumbers into strips. Fry onions and carrots in sunflower oil. Remove the vegetables and fry the liver. Combine the ingredients and squeeze the garlic into it. Mix everything well and serve in small jars.

Salad with Chinese cabbage and chicken breast

This appetizer stands out from the usual cabbage-mayonnaise salads, firstly, with a dressing of oil and mustard, and secondly, with a sweet pear, which only emphasizes the taste of meat and Beijing. Thanks to such flavor combinations, the salad will surprise many gourmets.

For 300 grams of smoked chicken breast and the same amount of pekinka you will need:

1 large pear;
55 g walnuts;
60–75 ml vegetable oil;
10 g French mustard;
a mixture of peppers and salt are added to taste and desire.

Cooking step by step:

Using a sharp knife, transform the vegetable, meat and pear pulp into thin strips. Simply chop the nuts, but not into crumbs, but into small pieces
To make the sauce, you need to combine vegetable oil (it is better to use unflavored oil) with French mustard and, if desired, add a little pepper.
Mix the prepared products and pour the sauce on top - the Chinese cabbage appetizer without mayonnaise is ready to go to the table.

Salad “Tenderness”

This salad harmoniously combines pickled and fresh cucumbers.

Ingredients:

Pickled cucumbers - 200 g
Fresh cucumbers – 200 g
Potatoes - 3 pcs.
Beets - 2 pcs.
Carrots - 3 pcs.
Eggs - 5 pcs.
Greens - 200 g
Mayonnaise
Sour cream

Preparation:

Boil beets, carrots, potatoes and eggs. Grind all the ingredients, finely chop the greens. For the sauce, mix mayonnaise and sour cream. Next, arrange everything in layers, covering them with sauce. Place the layers in the following order from bottom to top: potatoes, pickles, greens, beets, greens, eggs, fresh cucumbers, greens, carrots, greens.

With fresh cucumber and corn

A delicious vegetable mix of cabbage, cucumber, herbs and corn can be seasoned with mayonnaise, sour cream, natural yogurt without fillers or, as in this case, olive oil mixed with lemon juice.

To prepare a light and crispy salad you need:

450–550 g cabbage;
95 g fresh cucumber;
140 g canned corn;
14 g green onions;
14 g dill (fresh herbs);
21 ml olive oil;
4 ml lemon juice;
salt, spices.

Preparation:

Chop the clean cucumber and Pekin into thin strips. Strain the marinade from the canned corn. Chop the washed and dried greens finely.
Mix olive oil with citrus juice, salt and spices. Add the chopped ingredients together, mix and pour over the olive oil-based sauce.

Salad Vinaigrette

Ingredients:

Pickled cucumbers - 7 pcs.
Beets - 2 pcs.
Carrots - 2 pcs.
Potatoes - 2 pcs.
Canned peas - 1 can
Onion - 1 pc.
Green onions
Sunflower oil
Vinegar

Preparation:

Cut the onion into small cubes and add vinegar and water. Cucumbers, boiled potatoes, carrots and beets are also cut into cubes. Drain the onion marinade and mix all the salad ingredients. Season with salt and oil.

Salad "Quail's nest"

This salad has a lot of components, but it looks really chic.

Ingredients:

Turkey fillet – 500 g
Chicken eggs - 2 pcs.
Quail eggs - 5 pcs.
Pickled cucumbers - 2 pcs.
Potatoes - 3 pcs.
Iceberg lettuce – 1 bunch
Greens - 1 bunch
Sunflower oil
Sour cream
Mayonnaise

Preparation:

Boil the turkey fillet and separate it into fibers. Cut the cucumbers into strips. Boil the eggs, chop the chicken eggs on a coarse grater, peel the quail eggs and leave for decoration. Chop iceberg and greens with a knife. Mix everything well and season with mayonnaise and sour cream. From this mixture form a nest blank. Cut the potatoes into thin strips and fry in sunflower oil. Decorate the nest with fried potatoes and place quail eggs in the center.

Salad option with Chinese cabbage and ham

Ham goes well with any vegetables, cheese and eggs, and this applies to any type of ham. Those who watch the calorie content of the food they eat can take a product made from chicken meat, connoisseurs of rich taste can take ham from beef and pork, and lovers of healthy food with an original taste can take horse meat.

Salad with cabbage and ham is prepared from the following list of ingredients:

230 g of Chinese cabbage;
1900 g ham;
145 g hard cheese;
3 hard-boiled eggs;
80 g olives;
mayonnaise to taste.

Step by step recipe:

Chop the soft leaves of the washed cabbage into strips. Chop the meat component into cubes or thin strips. Pass the cheese through a coarse grater.
Peel the boiled eggs and chop into small cubes. Drain the marinade from the olives and cut them into slices.
After grinding, mix everything in one bowl and pour mayonnaise to taste.

In any salad with Chinese cabbage where mayonnaise is found, it can be replaced with sour cream and mustard dressing.

For it you need to mix sour cream with ready-made mustard in a 5:1 ratio and add spices to taste. This sauce is in no way inferior to store-bought mayonnaise.

Salad “Male weakness”

This salad has an original presentation. The products are not mixed, but served separately on a platter so that everyone can make their own salad to their taste.

Ingredients:

Minced meat - 300 g
Canned corn - 300 g
Pickled cucumbers - 3 pcs.
Cheese - 200 g
Dill - 1 bunch
Sour cream

Preparation:

Fry the minced meat, stirring constantly, then place it on a napkin to remove excess fat. Grind the cheese on a coarse grater. Cut the cucumber into cubes. For dressing, add chopped dill and onion to sour cream. Place a saucepan with dressing in the center of a large dish and place all the ingredients around it.

With corn

"Croquet"

Required ingredients:

olive oil;
can of corn;
300 grams of ham;
100 grams of crackers;
300 grams of Chinese cabbage;
large bell pepper.

How to cook:

Rinse the bell pepper and dry with a paper towel. Then cut in half and remove the seeds.
Separate the required number of cabbage leaves from the head of cabbage. Chop them with thin plastics.
Chop the ham into small pieces.
Place all chopped ingredients in a salad bowl.
Drain the marinade from the jar of corn, rinse the grains well, and add them to the salad.
If you don’t have breadcrumbs or a pack of ready-made breadcrumbs on hand, make them yourself.
To do this, you will need to cut the rye bread into thin slices and place it on a baking sheet and dry it in the oven at 180 degrees for 20 minutes (read about how to prepare delicious Chinese cabbage salads with croutons here). Before serving the salad, sprinkle it with croutons to keep them crispy.

"Mosaic"

Required Products:

200 grams of cabbage;
2 chicken eggs;
150-170 grams of smoked sausage (what kind of salads can be made from Chinese cabbage and sausage?);
half a pod of bell pepper;
1 small can of corn;
dill;
green onion feathers;
mayonnaise;
salt.

How to cook:

Wash the cabbage thoroughly and cut off the required number of leaves from the head.
Grind the leaves into thin strips.
Cut the pre-boiled eggs into large pieces.
Chop the pepper into strips.
Chop the smoked sausage into cubes or strips.
Drain the can of corn. Add corn to remaining ingredients.
Rinse the onion and dill well under cold water and chop very finely.
Add salt and mayonnaise, mix well.

Russian salad

All Soviet people know this salad as “Olivier”. And abroad they call him “Russian”.

Ingredients:

Ham or boiled sausage - 500 g
Pickled cucumbers - 2 pcs.
Potatoes - 3 pcs.
Eggs - 3 pcs.
Green peas - 1 can
Carrots - 1 pc.
Mayonnaise

Preparation:

Boil potatoes, eggs and carrots. Cut all ingredients, except peas, into equal cubes. Mix everything and season generously with mayonnaise.

Salad “Delicious” with heart

This salad is very filling; it can easily replace a second course.

Ingredients:

Beef heart – 1 kg
Pickled cucumbers - 5 pcs.
Carrots - 4 pcs.
Onion - 2 pcs.
Mayonnaise

Preparation:

Boil the heart and cut into strips. Grate the carrots, cut the onion into cubes and fry the vegetables in a frying pan. Chop the cucumbers into strips and mix all the ingredients. Season with mayonnaise, salt and pepper to taste.

With seafood

It is unlikely that there will be people who will argue that seafood is a tasteless ingredient. If it is cooked correctly and has not turned into rubber, then it is simply impossible to tear yourself away from the dish! And with a pinch of spices, the salad is reminiscent of Asian cuisine.

List of ingredients:

1 medium tomato;
1 cuttlefish or octopus;
90 grams of champignons;
5 mussels;
1 zucchini (or small zucchini);
1 large squid fillet;
90 grams of soy sauce;
1 clove of garlic;
180 grams of Chinese cabbage;
Spices.

How to assemble the salad:

Separate the Chinese cabbage into leaves and wash them. Dry. Cut into pieces and place them on the bottom of the dish.
Wash the zucchini or zucchini. It is important that the skin is soft and does not need to be cut off. Cut into half rings.
Clean the champignons from debris and cut into 4 pieces.
Wash the tomato and dry it. Remove the stem and cut into slices.
The squid must be freed from the entrails and spine, the film removed and the fin cut off. Rinse, cut into triangles.
If the mussels are not peeled, they need to be opened and the meat removed and cleaned.
The cuttlefish should be cut from the base above the tentacles to the very top using scissors. Carefully open and remove the ink bag. Remove bone and entrails. Using scissors, cut out the beak between the tentacles. Next you need to separate the tentacles and remove the eyes. Rinse everything thoroughly and cut into manageable pieces. All seafood should be as dry as possible.
Heat a frying pan and add oil over high heat. Next add zucchini and mushrooms. Fry.
Then add tomatoes, spices and soy sauce. After three minutes, remove from heat.
Next, place all the seafood in a frying pan and fry over high heat. After 1 minute, drain the liquid and fry again for 2 minutes. Then put the vegetables back here and pour in the soy sauce and wait until it boils.
Remove the husks from the garlic and chop finely. Add to the total mass.
Mix everything well and place in a dish with the cabbage.

Soy sauce for Chinese cabbage salad can replace many spices, and it also goes very well with all foods or other dressings. A delicious salad with Chinese cabbage and this Asian sauce is a great dish for a holiday or every day!

Salad “Herring under a fur coat”

This is the most famous and beloved puff salad in the post-Soviet space.

Ingredients:

Salted herring – 400 g
Pickled cucumbers - 2 pcs.
Beetroot - 1 pc.
Onion - 1 pc.
Potatoes - 3 pcs.
Carrots - 2 pcs.
Eggs - 3 pcs.
Mayonnaise

Preparation:

Boil beets, carrots, potatoes and eggs. Grind all salad components equally: on a grater or into small cubes. Then lay everything out in layers: potatoes, cucumbers, eggs, herring, onions, carrots and beets. Each layer is well coated with mayonnaise.

You need to choose elastic and hard herring. The gills should not have any bloody discharge. Herring should have a fishy aroma; any foreign odors are unacceptable.

Red cabbage salad with pickles and apples

The dressing for this salad will not leave anyone indifferent.

Ingredients:

Red cabbage - ½ head
Apples - 2 pcs.
Pickled cucumbers - 2 pcs.
Cream cheese - 2 tbsp. l.
Mustard
Sunflower oil

Preparation:

Finely chop the cabbage and squeeze. Dice the apple and cucumbers and add to the cabbage. For the dressing, combine mustard, cream cheese, a little water and a couple drops of olive oil. Season the salad and mix well.

With ham and green peas

This bright salad will definitely be appreciated by all lovers of sausages. Due to the presence of ham, it turns out nourishing and aromatic. And vegetables add juiciness to it. To make it at home, you will need:

200 g ham.
2 tbsp. l. sour cream.
2 tsp. mustard.
½ head of cabbage and a can of peas.
Salt, herbs and seasonings.

Before preparing the salad, remove the top spoiled leaves from the Chinese cabbage. The remaining head of cabbage is rinsed under the tap, finely chopped and placed in a deep bowl. Sliced ham, chopped herbs and peas are also poured there. All this is seasoned, salted, seasoned with sour cream and mustard, and then mixed and served.