Salads with nuts - general principles and methods of preparation
Nuts are a very healthy and nutritious food. In addition to being delicious in themselves, they add an oily juiciness to a variety of salads. In fact, we call nuts what in botanical descriptions is considered just a bone. The scientific name of a nut is a dry fruit with a hard-looking shell and an ungrown core, for example, hazel is a real nut. And all other species are seeds and seeds.
You can store them for a long time without loss of taste, while all trace elements and vitamins are stored in them. Although you need to remember - not all people can benefit from nuts, as they are quite heavy food. Therefore, the dosage should be selected individually, and it is best to digest the nuts in salads along with other ingredients - vegetables and fruits.
The most famous types of nuts that are included in salads are walnuts, pistachios, hazelnuts, peanuts. Great varieties of salads can be prepared on a vegetable, fruit and even meat basis. The simplest salad, decorated, for example, with a handful of pine nuts, receives new functions: it is easier to digest and quickly saturates the body. So, without further ado, let's start - we will choose a suitable recipe for ourselves and prepare a tasty and healthy nut salad.
Salads with nuts - preparation of products
Inshell nuts must be heavier, they should not rattle if shaken. Try to buy them whole and not peeled, as they may be rancid and not stored for long. Moldy nuts are dangerous to health, if you break the shell, you see pollen or mold - rather throw it away without regret.
Salads with nuts - the best recipes
Recipe 1: Salad with Walnuts "Grace"
How much is Grace? Yes, because it is really graceful - eggs, cheese and nuts, everything is simple, a nutritious nutty salad with cheese and garlic mayonnaise can literally saturate a couple of spoons. Walnuts are valuable specifically for the functioning of the brain, and it also contains more vitamin C than blackcurrants and citrus fruits. Therefore, prepare the "grace" in the cold season, especially when our immunity is at risk.
Ingredients: Hard cheese or feta cheese (300 g), eggs (3 pcs), walnuts (half a glass), garlic (3 cloves), mayonnaise.
Cooking method
We clean the walnuts, chop and fry in a dry pan. Three cheese and eggs on a medium grater, we pass the garlic through the garlic, we mix everything. Dress with mayonnaise and decorate - a sprig of parsley or fresh dill is quite suitable.
Recipe 2: Salad with Pine Nuts
Seeds of Siberian cedar (pine nuts) are not only tasty, but also extremely healthy, contain a huge amount of vegetable protein, are ideally balanced in composition. The body easily assimilates pine nuts, primarily because their composition is close to the proteins of human tissues. They are an excellent tool in the fight against excess weight. And in the company of prunes and mushrooms ...
Ingredients: pine nuts (100 grams), prunes, pickled mushrooms, chicken, cucumber, onion egg, mayonnaise, clove of garlic.
Cooking method
The composition is important here, not the proportions, so you can determine by eye how much you want to feel prunes or mushrooms here. Soften prunes with hot water, cut into strips. Fry the onion with mushrooms in a pan, cut the cucumbers into cubes. Fry the nuts in a dry pan. Spread the finished ingredients in layers, spreading with mayonnaise and crushed garlic. Sprinkle with nuts at the end. Let the salad soak a little - and on the table. Yummy. Nutritionally.
Recipe 3: Nuts with Mushrooms
Walnuts are best combined with pickled mushrooms. Only the onions will be fried here. The salad is also very hearty, like all mayonnaise salads.
Ingredients: smoked chicken breast (250 gr), pickled mushrooms (200 gr), eggs (3 pcs), onion, walnut kernels (80 gr), salt, pepper, mayonnaise.
Cooking method:
Beautifully fry the onion sliced in a quarter rings. Additional flavor can be obtained by adding some herbs for chicken. We burn the nuts in the oven or microwave, chop the rolling pin. Mix the ingredients, salt, season with mayonnaise. Sprinkle a salad with a small amount of nuts, add the rest to the salad.
Recipe 4: Eggplant Salad with Nuts and Sour Cream
This light salad is spicy, crumbly and fragrant. With nuts, it will become buttery and juicy. Do not be afraid of the smell of garlic, feel free to put it on the holiday table.
Ingredients for 2 servings: eggplant (~ 220g, 1 pc is enough), sour cream (2-3 tablespoons), nuts, garlic, herbs, salt.
Cooking method
We cut the eggplant into cubes and send it to the oven for baking and drying. About 15 minutes, and our eggplant will become soft and ready to eat. Cool, mix with chopped herbs, chopped nuts and sour cream. Done!
Recipe 5: Carrot Salad with Nuts
This is a truly dietary dish, and soothing, thanks to the presence of lemon balm and yoghurt dressing in it. We use almonds as the main ingredient.
Ingredients: Carrot, medium apple, lemon juice, lemon balm, chopped almonds (1 spoon), milk yogurt.
Cooking method
Rub the apple and carrot on a large beautiful grater, finely chop the lemon balm and mix everything with chopped almonds. Season with yogurt and lemon juice. Real jam! Take care of your fingers when you lick, so that it doesn’t work, as in a joke:
Waiter:
- Did I bring you a menu?
Customer:
- If so, then I already ate it!
Salads with nuts - useful tips from experienced chefs
Cons of nuts: with high calorie content, you can get carried away and earn an increase in the liver, in addition, some people are allergic to them, so be careful. With liver disorders, nuts are contraindicated. Toasted nuts are best assimilated, besides they should be chewed very well. Correctly calculate your nut limit. A bag of nuts 20-30 grams is equal to a regular snack, but 60 g (400 kcal) is already a full meal in calories. The body does not absorb more than 100 grams of nuts in one go at all, so if you get carried away, forget about nuts and any other protein foods in the next few days!
