Women use cottage cheese in cooking with great enthusiasm. Ladies add this fermented milk product to baked goods, desserts, and children's dishes, but not everyone knows how to make a salad with cottage cheese. But such a snack not only has a delicate and pleasant taste, but is also low-calorie, which allows even people on a diet to eat it. Therefore, today let's talk about various recipes for salads with cottage cheese and the secrets of their preparation.
Salad with cottage cheese and vegetables for losing weight
The first snack recipe is suitable for those people who carefully monitor their figure and eat healthy and balanced. There is nothing superfluous in this salad; all ingredients combine perfectly to taste.
To prepare you will need:
- 2 large red bell peppers;
- 2 fresh medium-sized cucumbers;
- 1 large tomato;
- Low-fat granular cottage cheese – 250 g;
- Natural yogurt – 1 tablespoon;
- Greens you like (dill, parsley, basil are great options).
The salad is prepared simply:
- Rinse the pepper under running water, dry it, remove all seeds. Cut the vegetable into thin strips and place in the prepared salad bowl;
- Also wash the tomato and cucumber, remove excess moisture from them, cut off the inedible parts and chop. Cut the cucumber into thin half rings and the tomato into cubes. Transfer vegetables to peppers;
- Add cottage cheese and natural yogurt to the salad bowl, mix everything;
- Salt and pepper the dish to taste, add your favorite herbs. The salad is ready and can be served.
A little advice: prepare this appetizer immediately before eating, otherwise the vegetables will give up their juice and the taste of the dish will deteriorate.
Salad with cottage cheese and tomatoes (suitable for those on a diet)
Such a snack with tomatoes may well be present in the diet of someone losing weight, as well as an ordinary family as dinner. The price of the dish is quite affordable, and the taste is delicious.
To prepare the snack you will need the following ingredients:
- Medium-sized tomatoes – 4 pcs.;
- Cilantro or parsley – 1 bunch;
- Grain cottage cheese with a minimum percentage of fat content – 200 g;
- Ground black pepper, salt and spices to taste;
- For dressing, any vegetable oil - 1 tbsp. l.
The preparation steps will be as follows:
- Wash the tomatoes thoroughly and pat dry with a paper towel. Remove inedible parts from the vegetable and cut into large pieces;
- In a deep plate, mix chopped tomatoes with cottage cheese, add the selected greens. It must first be washed and crushed;
- Mix all ingredients thoroughly and season with oil.
A wonderful light and healthy salad is ready to eat!
Snack option for seafood lovers
Another recipe worth paying attention to is a salad with cottage cheese and shrimp. Of course, the combination sounds very exotic, but the taste is simply incomparable, and the cooking time is minimal.
To create a dish you need to stock up on the following products:
- Shrimp, boiled and peeled – 300 g;
- Granular cottage cheese – 200 g;
- Lettuce – 200 g;
- Cucumber and tomato 1 pc.;
- Pitted olives – 100 g;
- Vegetable oil for dressing.
When all the ingredients are available, you can start preparing the salad:
- Wash the cucumber and tomato and cut into strips;
- Chop the olives into thin rings;
- Wash the lettuce leaves thoroughly to remove sand and dirt and tear them by hand;
- In a deep bowl, combine all the prepared ingredients, add cottage cheese and shrimp. Mix the contents of the salad bowl thoroughly, season with oil and season with your favorite seasonings.
The appetizer is ready. It will be a great addition to a family dinner and holiday table.
Gourmet recipe: salad with cottage cheese and crab sticks
A dish with the addition of crab sticks is unlikely to surprise anyone now, but in tandem with a fermented milk product you can get a very interesting taste. By the way, people who are actively involved in fitness are sometimes allowed to eat this snack.
So, to prepare the dish you need:
- Boiled chicken eggs – 2 pcs.;
- Crab sticks – 100 g;
- Fresh cucumber – 100 g;
- Granular cottage cheese – 100 g;
- Natural yogurt – 100 g;
- Dill or parsley, dry or fresh – 2 tbsp. l.
Cooking method:
- Place the fermented milk product in a salad bowl and mash it lightly with a fork;
- Peel and chop chicken eggs;
- Remove the crab sticks from the packaging and cut into rings;
- Mix all the ingredients in the salad bowl where the cottage cheese is, salt and pepper the dish to taste, season with yogurt, add herbs and mix everything.
The appetizer is ready to eat. It is worth noting that the recipe shows the amount of ingredients for 2 servings; if necessary, their proportion can be increased or decreased.
Coming up with something new and at the same time interesting in a vegetable salad recipe is very difficult. Everything has long been invented, implemented and tried, some more successfully, some less. We will not come up with intricate steps and incompatible combinations of products. It is best to complement and improve classic recipes.
For example, a vegetable salad will open up in a completely new way with grain cottage cheese. And with chicken fillet, from a simple appetizer it will practically turn into a full portion of dinner. Of course, the taste of the original vegetable salad with the addition of these products will change radically, but only for the better! You have the opportunity to test this axiom by preparing a tender and tasty salad.
Ingredients (2 servings):
- Chinese cabbage - 250-280 g;
- large tomato - 1 pc.;
- sweet red pepper - 1 pc.;
- boiled chicken fillet - 100 g;
- grain cottage cheese - 50 g;
- olive oil - 2 tbsp. spoons;
- balsamic - optional;
- salt - a quarter of a coffee spoon (or no salt at all).
Recipe for vegetable salad with chicken and cottage cheese
Shred Chinese cabbage. First remove the top sheets and wash it.
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Cut the sweet pepper and tomato into slices.
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We take the boiled chicken fillet into pieces and cut it into medium or large pieces. How to boil fillet for salad? It's simple. Rinse the meat, put the whole piece (or cut into 2-4 parts) into water, lightly salt it, cook for about 25 minutes, be sure to remove the foam.
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In a salad bowl, mix cabbage, tomato and chicken. We don’t add salt, as a lot of juice will appear immediately, and not all the ingredients have been collected yet.
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Fry the pepper in oil in a hot frying pan. About 2-3 minutes and it's ready. Don't forget to stir. Let it cool.
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Then we add it to the salad with other ingredients. Now let's add salt. Mix. The dressing for such a dish is high-quality olive oil. You can add herbal oil and balsamic to taste.
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Before adding the cottage cheese, place the salad on plates. Scatter the grains randomly on top. Do not mix, otherwise the curd balls will be damaged and “stain” the other ingredients, which will make the vegetable salad not look very appetizing. And so, beautifully laid out, grained cottage cheese only decorates the dish!
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Serve immediately after cooking. Vegetable salad with chicken does not need to be infused and kept in the refrigerator; you can immediately enjoy it and satisfy your hunger.
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Bon appetit!
If you haven’t tried this combination, I highly recommend making it. Cottage cheese fits perfectly into this salad. And, in general, the combination of valuable milk protein, vegetables and fish turned out to be quite successful.
Since nutritionists recommend consuming it in the afternoon, I prepare this salad for dinner, and as a separate dish. This is enough for me to leave the table full and satisfied.
But sometimes I just prepare a vegetable salad with cottage cheese (without fish), if for dinner we have, for example, a main course with chicken or meat.
Ingredients
- red fish (salmon or lightly salted trout) - 100 gr.,
- cucumber - 1 pc. big,
- lettuce leaves - to taste,
- cherry tomatoes - 8-10 pcs.,
- onion - 1 pc. (red is better)
- arugula - 2 handfuls
- granular cottage cheese - 100-120 gr.,
- garlic - 1 clove,
- dill and salt - to taste
for the sauce:
- olive oil - 2 tbsp.,
- lemon juice - 0.5 tbsp,
- Russian mustard - 0.5 tsp,
- honey - 0.5 tsp,
- garlic - 2 cloves,
- salt - to taste
Preparation
- let's start cutting vegetables: cut cherry tomatoes into halves, cucumber and onion into half rings
- put the vegetables in a salad bowl, tear the lettuce leaves and arugula with your hands
— place the grainy cottage cheese in a separate bowl, add chopped herbs and 1 clove of garlic passed through a press
Mix very carefully so that the cottage cheese does not turn into “porridge”, but remains grainy
While the cottage cheese absorbs the aroma of garlic and herbs, let’s prepare.
- in a bowl, thoroughly mix mustard, lemon juice, salt, honey, passed through a press 1 clove of garlic and olive oil
- add the prepared sauce to the vegetables placed in the salad bowl and mix everything carefully
And finally, the last piece:
- cut red fish into thin slices or pieces
Let's start serving the dish:
- take a large salad plate and lay out a few spoons of vegetable salad in a heap, decorate the edge with pieces twisted into a spiral or tube (it’s enough to take 3-4 slices)
- build a mound of white granular cottage cheese on top of the salad
That's all - vegetable salad with grainy cottage cheese and red fish is ready to serve.
Looks beautiful, doesn't it?! Reminds me of the painting “Spring in the Mountains”.)))
The appearance of the dish plays an important role, so I advise you to use granular cottage cheese for vegetable salads. It not only goes well with other ingredients, but also makes the dish mouth-wateringly beautiful.
Cook with pleasure, lose weight with appetite! Enjoy your meal!
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