Tasty and delicious with cool salads that are quick and easy to eat for busy people

Salad is a mixed salad or at the party table, served with many main dishes to stimulate the taste better. The salad is easy to make, familiar ingredients are easy to eat, but many people do not know how to make it.

About the salad

Salad is a mixture of vegetables and sauces that can be eaten fresh at room temperature, or chilled before serving. Salad has been around for a long time, in many different forms of processing.

Depending on the purpose of use for appetizers or full stomach, use ingredients to make salads, or use sweet sauces like ice cream (instead of the familiar vinegar sauce) to change the taste.

Cucumber salad. Illustration.

The vegetables used to make salad are usually sprouts, green vegetables (kale, spinach, lettuce…), root vegetables (cucumbers, tomatoes, bell peppers, ..);

Or fruit like kiwi, apple, avocado…

Or foods like meat, fish, eggs, or grains.

Salads can be classified according to 4 uses as follows:

Appetizer: The dish starts the meal to stimulate the taste buds more delicious.

Dish together: Serve with main dishes of the meal (such as fried and grilled dishes…).

Main dishes: Add some protein-rich foods (such as meat, eggs, fish, beans, etc.).

Desserts: Add fruit and sweet sauces (like ice cream).

Salad has 2 forms of presentation as follows:

1. Individual meals: Arrange prepared vegetables on the table for everyone to take to their own plates and drizzle with arbitrary sauce before eating.

2. Mix well: This way, the vegetables are more flavorful because they have time to infuse the spices before eating.

Popular salads include:

Green salad: Use green leafy vegetables (if vegetables do not have green leaves, they are called vegetable salads).

Fruit salad: Use fresh, canned or dried fruit to make.

Rice and Noodle Salad: Mainly rice and pasta (boiled), with some herbs, vegetables and spices (depending on the region, country).

Salad with thick sauce: Use greens, fruits, protein-rich foods, and thick sauces (like mayonnaise) to flavor the ingredients together.

Vegetable salad. Illustration.

Here are the most delicious, quick and easy-to-eat salads for busy people.

1. Vinegar salad

Ingredients (2 people eat):

– Lettuce 300g

– Vinegar 5 tbsp, honey 2 tbsp, salt 1/2 tsp, coconut oil 2 tbsp, sauteed onion 20g.

Making

Lettuce cut the root, separate the leaves, wash under running water until clean, then soak in dilute salt water for 10 minutes, drain the water, then cut the lettuce leaves in half.

Put honey, coconut oil, vinegar, salt in a bowl and stir well.

Put the salad in a zip bag, pour the vinegar mixture into the bag and close the mouth.

Squeeze the mouth of the zip bag to inflate and then shake it to let the salad absorb the spices.

Remove vegetables to a plate, sprinkle fried onions on top and enjoy.

This vinegar-oil salad can be changed for the main meal by adding rimmed shrimp (or roasted, boiled), or meat, pan-fried fish, or potatoes, beans, fruits… to turn into a delicious main meal. , cool, supplement with clean vegetables with many vitamins, minerals, nutritious fiber, good for health, very fast.

Vinegar salad dressing. Illustration.

2. Cucumber salad (3 people)

– 1 cucumber.

– 1/2 bell pepper.

– 6 quail eggs

– 10 cherry tomatoes, 20g sprouts, 3 tablespoons rice vinegar, 1.5 tablespoons Oliver oil, 3 tablespoons soy sauce

Making

Hard-boiled quail eggs, peeled and cut in half.

Cherry tomatoes are washed, dried and cut in half.

Wash bell peppers, cut into thin slices.

Peel the cucumber and cut it into rounds.

Put soy sauce, rice vinegar and olive oil in a bowl, mix well.

Add all sprouts, cherry tomatoes, bell peppers, cucumbers and mix with the above spice mixture for a while to infuse, or eat right away.

When eating, put the salad on a plate, put the quail eggs on top to be beautiful (you can replace the soy sauce with salt, pepper, oil and vinegar, or the sauce is also suitable).

3. Mixed cucumber salad

Mixed cucumber salad is simple but easy to make, anti-fatigue, is a weight loss menu.

Ingredients (2 people eat)

– 2 cucumbers

– Minced garlic 1 teaspoon

– Coriander 100gr

– 1 small branch of ginger

– 2 chili peppers

– Vinegar 40 ml

– Soy sauce 20ml

– Sesame oil 5 ml

– Cooking oil 25 ml

– Chili powder 1/2 teaspoon

Making

Wash cucumber, slice thinly in a spiral (so that the slices do not break).

Minced ginger, chopped chili.

Dissolve 1 teaspoon minced garlic, chili, ginger, 40ml vinegar, 20ml soy sauce, 5ml sesame oil in a bowl, stir well.

Put the cucumber in a deep dish, sprinkle the sauce mixture on top, let it soak for about 10 minutes, then sprinkle paprika on top.

Put a little oil in a hot pan, then spread on a plate of cucumbers, sprinkle coriander on top to make it beautiful and enjoy.

The salad with shrimp, meat… is a delicious and cool main meal. Illustration.

4. Spicy cucumber salad

Ingredients (4 people eat)

– 1 cucumber

– 1 teaspoon salt

– Chili powder 1 tbsp

– Minced green onion 1 tbsp

– Minced garlic 1/2 teaspoon

– Vinegar 1 teaspoon, white sugar 1/2 teaspoon, roasted sesame 1 teaspoon, sesame oil 1 teaspoon.

Making

Cucumbers are washed, sliced ​​thin, put in a bowl, sprinkled with salt, mixed well, left for 15 minutes to infuse, then rinsed with clean water, squeezed dry.

Put cucumber in a bowl. Add 1 tablespoon paprika, 1 tablespoon sesame oil, 1 tablespoon roasted sesame, 1/2 teaspoon sugar, 1/2 teaspoon minced garlic, minced scallions – all mix well to infuse spices.

Place cucumbers on a plate. This spicy mixed cucumber salad from Korea is easy and quick to make.

The taste of sweet, succulent melon is permeated with sour, spicy, sweet, crunchy, aromatic and can be eaten with meals, very stimulating and delicious.