If you want a fresh, light and at the same time hearty snack food, then a salad with ham, cucumbers and cheese will be an excellent option.
The meat component - ham - will give satiety and provide the body with protein. Cucumber is tenderness and freshness, as well as healthy light carbohydrates and moisture.
Cheese is a pungent taste and piquancy, in addition, as with all sour-milk products, it is rich in microorganisms so necessary for digestion.
It turns out that the combination of ham, cucumber and cheese in one dish is just perfect in taste and health benefits.
However, there are a number of varied options for this dish.
Basic principles for making salad with ham, cucumbers and cheese
The main condition for the preparation of a tasty and healthy salad is the use of quality products. The ham should have a normal shelf life, with a pleasant characteristic odor and color. Fresh cucumbers strong, without spots and mold. Salted or pickled - without extraneous odors, not softened. Cheese, depending on the variety, meets its requirements.
By the way, different types of cheese can be used in the salad. But most often it is solid type Vityaz or Lambert. In some cases, soft feta cheese or other similar ones are taken.
As mentioned above, cucumbers can be salted, pickled, fresh - depending on the conditions of the recipe. You can replace one with another, but carefully: you need to consider the combination with other products.
Most often, the components of the salad are cut into strips or cubes. However, cheese is rubbed in many recipes.
In addition to these ingredients, a variety of products can be used in a ham, cucumber and cheese salad. These are vegetables - boiled potatoes, carrots, fresh carrots, onions, garlic, green peas, sweet corn. Fresh bell peppers and tomato, cabbage, radish, different types of radishes. Boiled eggs, there are even recipes with crab sticks.
Vegetable oil such salad dressing less than mayonnaise or sour cream, yogurt dressing.
Salad can be either mixed or layered. It is suitable for both a daily table and a festive feast.
A simple salad with ham, cucumbers and cheese
This is a basic recipe, which, if desired, can be diversified by the addition of other products. But this salad is also beautiful in its original form. Three products and dressing make up a wonderful combination, and greens decorate the dish and complement the flavors. This recipe allows you to replace fresh cucumber with pickled.
Ingredients
• Ham - about 300 grams
• Two medium fresh cucumbers
• Hard cheese - 200 grams
• Salt to taste - you may not need it
• Two tablespoons of mayonnaise
• Dill, parsley.
Cooking method
Cut the cucumber into layers, and them across into strips. It should be a cucumber straw.
Also cut the ham.
Grate cheese on a coarse grater, set aside a small handful.
Chop greens, also set aside a pinch.
Mix the main part of the cheese with ham, cucumbers, chopped herbs.
Add mayonnaise, mix, try. If necessary, add salt.
Put the salad on a plate with a slide.
Sprinkle with cheese chips, garnish with greens.
Such a salad is good both as an appetizer and as an independent dish.
Hearty option: ham, cucumber and cheese salad with egg
This salad uses pickled or pickled cucumbers. Thanks to the introduction of eggs, it becomes more nutritious. Green peas complement the gamut.
Ingredients
• Ham - 200-300 grams
• Two boiled eggs
• Two pickled or pickled cucumbers
• Small onion
• 200 grams of hard cheese
• 100 grams of green peas
• Vinegar
• Two tablespoons of mayonnaise or mayonnaise in half with sour cream
• Ground black pepper.
Cooking method
Cut the ham, cucumbers, peeled eggs equally. It can be either cubes or straws.
In a similar way, cut the onion into half rings or a small cube.
Sprinkle with vinegar and leave to pickle.
Cheese can be grated, but better cut too. It looks especially beautiful in the form of cubes.
Collect all the ingredients in one container. Onions, if too sour, can be rinsed with vinegar.
Green peas are also put in the salad, leaving a spoon for decoration.
Add dressing, pepper, mix.
Put in a bowl in which the salad will be served on the table.
Garnish with green peas.
Salad with ham, cucumbers and cheese "For unexpected guests"
This salad is really done in a matter of minutes when you need to feed unexpected guests. Of course, provided that the products are available. You don’t need to cook anything for a long time, however, you will have to fry the onion with carrot. But it will not take much time, but it will add taste, aroma and satiety to the dish.
Ingredients
• Ham - 300 grams
• Pickled cucumber - 3 pieces
• A jar of canned champignons - chopped or whole
• Large onion
• Large carrot
• Clove of garlic
• A spoon of vegetable oil
• Hard cheese - 100 grams
• Mayonnaise as desired.
Cooking method
The first step is to fry the vegetables. Dice the onion, grate the carrots coarsely.
Mushrooms, if whole, cut.
Put onion in a pan with a spoonful of oil and keep until golden, stirring occasionally.
Add mushrooms and carrots, fry until golden brown.
Turn off, add the garlic passed through the press, mix.
Gherkins also grate.
Finely chop the ham.
Combine all ingredients, mix. If it is too dry, add mayonnaise, but you can do without it.
Put in a salad bowl.
Finely grate the cheese on top.
Ham, cucumber, cheese and tomato cocktail salad
Serving means a lot - the simplest salad, if served in bowls or glasses, will be perceived differently. A combination of beautiful cucumbers, tomatoes, light cheese and dark ham excites appetite and pleases the eye.
Ingredients
• 200 grams of ham
• 100 grams of Lambert cheese
• One large cucumber
• Two medium tomatoes
• Half a glass of unsweetened natural yogurt
• A small clove of garlic
• A few twigs of parsley
• Salt to taste.
Cooking method
Prepare a bowl or portioned salad bowls.
Thinly chop the cucumber, put it equally in each container. A little salt.
Cut ham into thin strips, put into salad bowls.
Cut tomatoes, remove seeds and juice. Dice. Put on the ham.
Crush the garlic and mix with yogurt. A little salt.
Pour the contents of the cups with dressing.
Rub the cheese and spread on top.
For piquancy, pickled onions can be added to this salad - soak the rings in vinegar with salt and sugar, rinse, put on ham. Then garlic can not be added.
Onion salad with ham, cucumbers and cheese
And in this salad, onion plays one of the most important roles. It is necessary to properly prepare it, remove excess sharpness. And then he will enrich the taste of the familiar salad and he will play in a new way.
Ingredients
• Two large onions - you can take white and red
• 200 grams of ham
• 100 grams of cheese
• 2 pickled cucumbers
• A jar of chopped canned champignons
• A teaspoon of vinegar essence
• Salt, a pinch of sugar
• A spoonful of vegetable oil.
Cooking method
Thin onion rings thinly. Salt, add sugar, vinegar and water to hide the onion.
Hold for half an hour. Then drain the marinade, rinse the onion with water.
While the onion is pickled, fry the mushrooms in vegetable oil.
Cucumbers cut into strips.
Also chop the ham.
Grate the cheese on a coarse grater.
Lay out cucumbers, ham, onions, fried mushrooms and cheese on top.
If desired, layers can be smeared with mayonnaise, but you can do without it: juiciness should be enough from onions, cucumbers and mushrooms, which are fried in oil.
Salad with ham, cucumbers, cheese and crab sticks
The combination, unexpected at first glance, as a result is quite tasty. A recipe for those who are not afraid to take a chance. And also - who loves crab sticks. The use of sweet bell pepper brings added flavor to this salad. It is most beautiful to take yellow pepper.
Ingredients
• Ham - 200 grams
• Crab sticks - 200 grams
• Hard cheese - 200 grams
• Large cucumber
• Sweet pepper
• Onion is small
• Two to three tablespoons of mayonnaise
• Salt.
Cooking method
Dice the onion, add salt, mix and let it rest.
Further, all products must also be cut into identical small cubes.
Spread in layers on a dish: onion, ham, cucumber, crab sticks, pepper.
Smear each layer with a small amount of mayonnaise.
Top layer - cheese cubes.
If desired, the layers can be interchanged. For example, make cucumber or crab sticks top.
Tips and advice in making ham, cucumber and cheese salad
Almost any of the above salads can be decorated with sweet corn - it goes well with salty ham and cheese. You should not use corn where there are green peas.
If the ham is too soft, for the convenience of cutting it can be slightly frozen - but not frozen.
If the fresh cucumber is sluggish, put it for an hour in cold water.
Not everyone likes a lot of garlic. You can not put it in a salad, but just grate the dish in which it will be served. You get a pretty delicate aroma.
