How to cook “Mistress” salad: a classic recipe with beets and carrots
The “mistress” salad is quite rare for a common salad, not because it includes a set of complex and rare ingredients, but because not everyone has learned how to cook it yet. This is a very simple salty salad that usually includes vegetables and hard cheese. The taste sensation can be enhanced by other additives if desired: spicy dressing, dried fruits and nuts.
The simplest set of ingredients for the “Mistress” salad includes:
- carrots boiled until soft . It can be replaced with two small ones.
- Boiled beets , as in the case of carrots: it should be either one large or two small.
- The salad should contain any type of hard aromatic cheese in the amount of approximately 150 grams. You are free to choose the variety you like: Russian, Parmesan or Swiss.
- Depending on the exact recipe, raisins or any other dried fruits to taste can be used: dried apricots, prunes and even figs.
- As a rule, the “Mistress” salad is decorated with crushed nuts . Here, too, you can let your imagination run wild and use chopped cashews, peanuts, almonds or even pine nuts instead of the usual walnuts.
- Salad dressing must have a spicy taste. Therefore, mayonnaise must be mixed with a small amount of crushed garlic . This should also be done to taste.
Preparing the salad, laying the salad in layers:
All ingredients must be grated on a fine grater. The large one is not very suitable in this case, since the vegetable and cheese mass must be very tender - this is the main secret of the salad.
- This salad should be prepared in specially prepared containers, such as a bowl or glass bowl. It is best to serve the salad in portions to each guest, but it can just as successfully be placed in a regular salad bowl.
- Mix half the mass of grated carrots with garlic mayonnaise and soaked raisins (the amount to taste), spread this mass in an even layer on the bottom of the bowl. Try to lay it out carefully from the very beginning so that your dish looks very aesthetically pleasing at the end.
- The next layer is cheese , finely grated and mixed with garlic mayonnaise - exactly half of its amount.
- The third layer is grated beets and mixed with a handful of crushed nuts, seasoned with garlic mayonnaise. The beets in this layer make up half of the total amount.
- The next few layers : again carrots with raisins, cheese and beets. The top layer of beets is beautifully sprinkled with the remaining nuts. The dish is ready!
“Mistress” salad, portioned and served as a whole in a salad bowl
Preparing Ingredients
The salad has several varieties of recipes; the classic version even has a slightly different name: “Mistress’s Kiss” salad. It is prepared with carrots and beets; additional ingredients usually include fruits, nuts, herbs and vegetables. There is another form of the recipe, however, the dish is already called differently: “French mistress”. It is prepared with chicken or other types of meat. To prepare this dish at home yourself, use our step-by-step recipe diagram, which includes visual photos and video instructions.
What products will you need to prepare this snack at home:
- Hard types of cheese – 150 gr.
- Mayonnaise - small package.
- Carrots – 2 pcs.
- Garlic – 3 cloves.
- Boiled beets – 2 pcs.
- Prunes seed base -50 gr.
- Bunch of greens.
- Raisins – 50 gr.
- Walnuts (kernels) – 70 gr.
- Salt (to taste).
This recipe makes 8 standard servings of salad, which will take a total of one hour to prepare.
Recipe for “Mistress” salad with prunes
This salad will appeal to many of your guests just because it is very light and not heavy. It goes well with other dishes without interfering with the taste or leaving any unpleasant sensations. If all the vegetables and other ingredients are finely chopped, the salad will literally “melt in your mouth.”
Some vegetarians also liked this salad, because there is no meat in it. If desired, the salad can be seasoned with either sour cream or mayonnaise of any fat content. The salad is very satisfying and at the same time not greasy, because most of it is vegetables.
Preparation of “Mistress” with prunes:
- Carrots and beets are boiled until soft and grated on a fine or medium grater.
- Dried fruits: raisins and prunes (100 grams each) should be poured with boiling water and left in boiling water until softened for ten minutes.
- During this time, grate any type of hard cheese on a fine grater in the amount of 150-200 grams.
- The softened fruits should be chopped separately with a knife. Raisins are added (by the way, they don’t need to be chopped) to carrots, and prunes to beets.
- 100 grams of any nuts should be crushed into crumbs. Add half the nut to the beets.
- Try dressing the salad not with mayonnaise, but with sour cream. To do this, it is best to choose either thicker sour cream in the store or homemade separating sour cream. You need to squeeze a couple of cloves of garlic into it to make the sauce piquant.
- You need to lay out the layers in the same way as in the previous recipe. If you lay out the salad in portions, put six layers (layers are repeated), if in a salad bowl - three: carrots, cheese, beets.
- Garnish the finished dish with crushed nuts and parsley sprigs to make the dish brighter and more elegant.
“mistress” salad with prunes, recipe
The “Mistress” salad should not be served immediately, but only after several hours of infusion in the refrigerator. This way you can enjoy a truly rich and vibrant taste.
Salad “Mistress” in French
An extravagant recipe with an interesting flavor combination of vegetables and chicken meat with raisins and oranges, adding delicate sweetness and piquant sourness.
Cooking time: 60 minutes Number of servings: 5-6
Ingredients:
- chicken meat, fillet (300 g);
- beets (1 pc.);
- carrots (1 pc.);
- hard cheese (100 g);
- onion (1 pc.);
- orange (1 pc.);
- raisins (100 g);
- walnuts (70 g);
- vinegar, 9% (1 tsp);
- salt (to taste);
- butter (100 g);
- mayonnaise (150 g).
Preparation:
- Wash and boil the chicken fillet (20-30 minutes). You can also steam it or bake it in the oven.
- Peel and lightly toast the walnuts.
- Rinse the raisins and pour boiling water for 10 minutes.
- Peel the onions. Cut into small half rings, add salt and vinegar. Pour boiling water over and leave for 15-20 minutes to marinate.
- Peel the carrots and beets, grate the vegetables on a fine grater.
- Grind the cheese on a medium grater.
- Peel the orange and cut the pulp into cubes.
- Finely chop the walnuts.
- Cut the boiled fillet into small pieces.
- Place the prepared ingredients on a dish in layers.
- The first layer is chicken whiskers. Grease with mayonnaise.
- The second layer is pickled onions.
- The third layer is grated beets. Grease with mayonnaise.
- The fourth layer is steamed raisins.
- The fifth layer is carrots. Grease with mayonnaise.
- Garnish the finished salad with chopped walnuts and orange slices.
Salad “Mistress” with grapes and dried apricots: recipe
There are several recipes for the “Mistress” salad, which, depending on the recipe, offer you to diversify your dishes with different ingredients.
Preparation of “Mistress” salad with grapes and dried apricots:
- Boil one fairly large beet until soft and grate it on a medium grater. A large grater can produce quite coarse pieces, so for tenderness, vegetables should be grated using a fine or medium grater.
- 100 grams of walnuts should be crushed into crumbs. This can be done in a coffee grinder, blender, or even a regular meat grinder. The entire amount of nuts should be added to the beets and the whole mass should be mixed, adding a couple of tablespoons of mayonnaise, a clove of garlic from a garlic press and salt to taste.
- Carrots (two medium-sized fruits) should be peeled and grated raw on a medium-sized grater.
- 100 grams of dried apricots should be soaked for 10 minutes in boiling water so that it becomes soft and sweet.
- The dried apricots are chopped with a knife and added to the grated carrots. The whole mass is salted to taste and mixed with mayonnaise (here you can choose whether to add garlic or not).
- Hard cheese (use aromatic and creamy: grande, milk or sour cream, as well as with the taste of baked milk - such cheese will improve the taste of the salad) grate on a medium grater (200 grams). Mix the cheese mixture with mayonnaise and squeeze a small clove of garlic into it. Pepper as desired.
- Use a plastic bowl or box to form the salad. Place a layer of beets on the bottom, then cheese and then carrots. Turn the vessel over onto a plate and remove the box (you should get the “Easter sand effect”).
- The finished mound of salad can be decorated with green parsley leaves on the sides. Place halves of grapes on top of the layer of beets (cut the berries in half and remove the seeds).
“Mistress” salad with grapes and dried apricots
“Mistress” salad with raisins: recipe
You can prepare the “Mistress” salad with or without raisins. The difference is that the raisins provide a nice sweet note from the carrots. It plays favorably with the piquancy of garlic and the creamy taste of cheese.
How to add raisins to salad:
- Raisins go best with carrots, so they should be added to this layer. Beets already have sweetness; on the contrary, they should be made spicier with the help of garlic.
- Before adding raisins to the salad, they should be softened. Hard raisins will leave an unpleasant sensation while chewing the salad.
- Softening raisins is very easy. The salad requires no more than 100 grams, so this amount should be poured with boiling water and left to rest for 10 minutes.
- If your raisins are large (from large berries) and have an oblong shape, which also increases in size when swelling, you can chop them with a knife. The taste of the salad will become very soft and tender.
“Mistress” salad with raisins
A certain amount of raisins should be left in order to decorate the top of the dish. It can be laid out randomly on the surface of the salad or laid out in the form of a specific pattern. Since the salad is called “Mistress”, the design can be: a heart, lips, eyes, a woman’s figure.
“Mistress” salad with nuts: recipe
Walnut is an essential ingredient in a salad like “Mistress”. It performs two very important roles:
- complements the taste of boiled beets
- performs a decorative function
How to add nuts to salad:
- It should be noted that this salad welcomes the addition of any nut. Most often, crushed walnuts are used for their rich, delicate taste with a delicate bitterness. In addition, this nut is the most affordable.
- You are also free to improve the taste of the salad with other nuts: fried peanuts (the dish will acquire a slightly smoked familiar taste), almonds (the dish will acquire a delicate and noble bitterness), cashews and pine nuts. Each nut requires careful crushing. This is necessary in order not to hurt the gums and not leave any unpleasant sensations.
- You can crush the nut in a blender with a bowl, in a coffee grinder (this way you will get the most favorable consistency) or even in the most ordinary meat grinder.
- Half the mass of crushed nuts (and you need to crush no more than 100 grams) is added to the boiled grated beets and mixed with mayonnaise, and the second is used to sprinkle the salad. This decoration will add splendor and festivity to the dish.
“Mistress” salad with crushed nuts
“Mistress” salad with Korean carrots: recipe
The mistress salad can also be prepared not with regular or boiled carrots, but with Korean ones! This way you don’t have to add garlic to the beets and the taste of the salad will acquire a slightly different piquancy, spiciness and even a little sharpness (which men really like).
Making a salad with Korean carrots:
- You can prepare this salad either in portions or in a common dish. In any case, the salad requires layering and careful decoration at the end.
- Lay out the layers in the usual alternation, only in this case, squeeze the Korean carrots from the “juice” and marinade so that it is relatively dry. Season it with a couple of spoons of rich mayonnaise and only then start layering.
- This recipe allows you to replace regular grated hard cheese with processed cheese. You will need about four pieces of cheese curds - two for each layer (assuming there will be six of them). Processed cheese will soften the taste of spicy Korean carrots and create a quite pleasant, balanced taste.
- In this case, the cheese should be grated on the finest grater to make the mass airy. Lightly flavor the finished mixture with mayonnaise. There is no need to salt it, since Korean carrots have a strong taste and excess salt and pepper can only spoil the taste.
There is no need to add raisins to Korean carrots, as this salad recipe offers a spicy variation. Sweetness in a salad can only be provided by boiled beets or beets with prunes (choose as desired).
“Mistress” salad with Korean carrots
Decorate the salad with curly cutouts of boiled vegetables, nuts or grated cheese to make the dish festive and elegant.
Recipe with raisins and pomegranate
This is another recipe with raisins, beets and carrots, but the salad contains an additional ingredient - pomegranate seeds.
- 1 boiled beets;
- 2 not too large raw carrots;
- 3-4 cloves of garlic;
- 80 gr. walnuts;
- 75 gr. raisins;
- 200 gr. hard cheese;
- 1 pomegranate;
- mayonnaise to taste for dressing.
Boil the beets and cool, grate them on a fine grater. We also grate raw carrots. Pour boiling water over the raisins for 10 minutes, then rinse and dry. Lightly dry the walnuts in a dry frying pan and chop into small pieces.
“Mistress” salad with chicken: recipe with photos
The recipe for “Mistress” salad with chicken allows you to prepare a very satisfying and tasty dish with chicken breast. This dish will perfectly diversify the table and will become a favorite among your guests. The dish is quite filling, but not greasy, since it is based only on vegetables and not fatty chicken.
Preparation of “Mistress” salad with chicken:
- You should boil the vegetables as usual: carrots and beets. Cool the vegetables and grate them using a medium-sized grater. Also, this recipe, due to the fact that it will contain large pieces of chicken, allows you to grate the vegetables on a coarse grater.
- Soak prunes and raisins (100 grams each) in separate bowls, pour boiling water over them for 10 minutes to soften.
- Boil one chicken breast (or leg) in salted water until tender. Cool the meat and only then chop it with a knife as finely as possible.
Lay out the layers one by one:
- Boiled carrots, mixed with a handful of soft sweet raisins and seasoned with mayonnaise, garlic and salt (pepper to taste and optional).
- Chicken, chopped finely, seasoned with mayonnaise, a clove of garlic, salt and pepper. The chicken should be seasoned in advance and mixed thoroughly in a separate bowl and only then placed in a layer.
- Boiled beets, grated and mixed with prunes. You should not add garlic to this layer, so as not to make the salad “too piquant.” Beets will give a wonderful, pleasant sweetness, which will serve as a “neutralizer” of spiciness.
- Grated cheese mixed with mayonnaise and garlic (optional here), seasoned with mayonnaise.
The top of the salad is sprinkled with crushed nuts to make the salad look beautiful, plump and add extra flavor. The salad can also be decorated with fresh parsley.
“Mistress” salad with chicken
Recipe with prunes and pineapple
This version of the salad is prepared with prunes and canned pineapple.
- 150 gr. canned pineapples;
- 1 boiled beets;
- 2 carrots;
- 3 cloves of garlic;
- 100 gr. prunes;
- 200 gr. hard cheese;
- mayonnaise to taste;
- 0.5 cups walnuts.
Boil and cool the beets, grate them on a fine grater. Steam the prunes with boiling water for 10 minutes, then drain the water, rinse the prunes and dry them. Cut the prunes into “noodles”. Mix beets with prunes. Season with mayonnaise and place this mixture on the dish as the first layer.
Grate the cheese, mix it with chopped garlic and mayonnaise. Place on beet layer.
Grate the carrots on a fine grater. Cut the canned pineapples into small slices. Mix carrots with pineapples and also season the mixture with mayonnaise. Lay out the third layer. Sprinkle the salad with chopped nuts.
Salad “Kiss of the Lover”: recipe
The Lover's Kiss salad is a variation of the Lover's salad. Here you should adhere to a special alternation of layers.
Preparation of the “Mistress’s Kiss” salad:
- Boil beets and carrots in the usual way and soak dried fruits in boiling water: prunes and dried apricots.
- Make a special dressing sauce : mix four tablespoons of mayonnaise with the same amount of fat sour cream, add a chopped bunch of dill, a few squeezed cloves of garlic, salt and pepper to taste.
- Grate vegetables and 200 - 300 grams of cheese on a coarse grater. Divide the cheese into three parts: two large and one small (for decoration).
- Mix the first layer : boiled carrots on a coarse grater with half the mass of cheese and chopped dried apricots. Season the entire mass with the prepared sauce and divide into two parts (the salad will be laid out in four layers). Lay out the first part in a neat layer.
- Mix the second layer : boiled beets, cheese and chopped prunes. Season everything with your specially prepared sauce. Lay out in an even layer.
- Each layer is repeated twice . A layer of the remaining grated cheese is laid out on top, and it is sprinkled with crushed nuts. Salad ready!
preparing the “Mistress’s Kiss” salad
3.With carrots and chicken fillet
Products:
- Chicken fillet - 300 gr.
- Carrots, beets, onions and oranges - 2 pcs each.
- Walnuts - 1 cup
- Cheese - 100 gr.
How to prepare the “Mistress” salad:
In this case, you can bake the vegetables for 45 minutes at medium temperature.
The onion must first be marinated by cutting it into rings and pouring boiling water over it in half-diluted apple cider vinegar with salt and sugar (a teaspoon each) for about 20 minutes.
The alternation of layers is as follows:
- boiled fillet cut into cubes
- pickled onion
- grated carrots
- chopped nuts
- grated beets
- chopped nuts
- grated cheese
- oranges cut into slices
- grated cheese
Salad “French Mistress”: step-by-step recipe with photos
This is another variation of the “Mistress” salad, which allows you to surprise everyone with its unusual taste, both on holidays and on weekdays. This salad is different in that some of the ingredients in it are grated, while others can simply be chopped with a knife.
Preparation of the French Lover salad:
- The first layer in this salad should be the breast, boiled until tender, finely chopped and chopped, seasoned with garlic mayonnaise and salted to taste.
- The second layer should be layered with your own pickled onions. To do this, chop a large onion into half rings (the half rings should be thin) and marinate in the following marinade: a little water, two tablespoons of vinegar, one tablespoon of oil, salt and pepper, cloves if desired. The onion is marinated for an hour, after which the liquid marinade is drained, the onion is squeezed out of the water and added “dry” to the salad.
- The third layer is simple raisins, which should be poured with boiling water for fifteen minutes. After this time, drain the water and squeeze it out. Spread in an even layer and lightly spread with mayonnaise.
- One large boiled carrot should be grated, seasoned with mayonnaise and garlic, salt and pepper to taste and placed in an even layer on top of the raisins.
- After this, approximately 100 - 150 grams of hard cheese are rubbed directly into the salad bowl in an even layer. The cheese is covered with garlic mayonnaise only on top.
- The sixth layer will be walnuts crushed in the preferred way (about 100 grams).
- One small orange should be peeled and filmed. The orange pulp is cut into pieces. The oranges are laid out in an even, beautiful layer on top of the nuts. Salad ready!
preparing French Lover salad with oranges
4.With apple and orange
Products:
- Beet
- Carrot
- Apple
- Orange
- Nuts and grated cheese - 100 g each.
- Dried apricots, raisins and prunes - 50 g each.
How to prepare the “Mistress” salad:
- Layers mixed with mayonnaise alternate in the following sequence:
- chopped raw carrots with raisins;
- grated and peeled apple with chopped dried apricots;
- grated boiled beets with nuts and prunes;
- peeled orange, cut into slices;
- The composition is completed with grated cheese and nuts.
Salad Mistress: calorie content of the finished salad
The “Mistress” salad is different in that it does not consist of fatty and rather light ingredients. Moreover, for those who regularly monitor their figure, you can replace mayonnaise with low-fat sour cream. This salad will not make you gain weight and will give you a lot of gastronomic pleasures!
Salad “Mistress”, nutritional value:
Name of the dish | Squirrels | Fats | Carbohydrates | Calorie content per 100 grams |
Salad "Mistress" | 9,4 | 4,4 | 13, 4 | 131 kcal |