Depending on the sauce, you get completely new flavors and combinations. Experiment! Our selection of recipes will help!
Sour cream sauce for salad
Ingredients:
- 100 g sour cream
- 2 tsp mustard
- 1 tsp lime or lemon juice
- half a large sour green apple
- 1/4 celery root
- a bunch of dill
Preparation
Grate the apple on a very fine grater, drain the juice, sprinkle with lemon juice so that the apple does not darken. Grate celery on a very fine grater or chop in a blender. Combine all ingredients and stir.
Cucumber salad dressing
Cucumber sauce will become indispensable in heavy salads with boiled meat.
Ideal for Stolichny salad, any salads with boiled meat, potatoes, lettuce, cucumbers, cheese and seafood.
The whole secret of the sauce is that fresh cucumbers contain a huge amount of tartronic acid, which inhibits the process of processing carbohydrates and helps break down existing fat. But you can use cucumber sauce only with cold salads, since tartronic acid loses its magical properties when heated.
Ingredients:
- 2 fresh cucumbers
- 100 g soft cream cheese
- 2 tbsp thick sour cream
- 1-2 cloves of garlic
- a bunch of any greenery
Preparation
Grate the cucumber together with the peel. Add chopped garlic, chopped herbs, sour cream and soft cheese. Mix thoroughly until smooth.
The cucumber juice in this sauce can be squeezed as desired, depending on whether you want the sauce to be thicker or thinner.
Ginger salad dressing
Use the ginger sauce in the Herring under the Fur Coat.
A great idea for those who adore the legendary "Herring under a fur coat". Also suitable for salads and appetizers with any salted fish, mushrooms, warm vegetable salads and salads with feta cheese.
Ginger contains a special substance - gingerol, which quickly improves blood circulation and, like a powerful turbojet, accelerates metabolism. Plus, gingerol boosts heat production and burns calories - eat and lose weight as you please!
Ingredients:
- 200 g low-fat sour cream
- 2 tsp Dijon mustard (no Dijon, take regular)
- 1 tsp ground ginger (or 2 cm fresh ginger root)
- 1 bunch of dill
Preparation
Chop the dill very finely. If using fresh ginger root, grate it on a fine grater. Mix all the ingredients and leave to steep for 30 minutes.
Cranberry salad dressing
Cranberry sauce is a great alternative to mayonnaise in a traditional crab salad.
This sauce is suitable for salads containing crab sticks, rice, fresh tomatoes, cucumbers, hard cheese, brine cheese, fish, olives, olives and leafy greens.
Due to their high acid content, cranberries help digest fatty foods better. Cranberries are rich in fiber, which reduces the calories in your salads, and pectins, which lower blood cholesterol, improve metabolism, and speed up the elimination of toxins after drinking. The dressing does not need to be salted!
Ingredients:
- 100 ml of kefir
- a handful of frozen cranberries
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
- 2 tsp olive oil
- ground red pepper - to taste
Preparation
Beat the cranberries without defrosting in a blender with kefir until smooth. Add pepper, lemon juice, olive oil and stir. The sauce should stand for 15–20 minutes.
Hazelnut sauce for salad
Mimosa salad will get a new taste thanks to the nut sauce.
The nut sauce will add a rich taste to the Mimosa salad, as well as salads from potatoes, beef, salted and canned fish, leafy greens and seafood.
Walnuts, due to their high content of fiber, protein and Omega-3, lower blood sugar levels, quickly saturate, block the processing of carbohydrates into fat, lower cholesterol and reduce cravings for sweets and chocolate.
Ingredients:
- 200 g fat-free soft cottage cheese
- 1/4 tbsp. walnuts
- 0.5 tsp grated horseradish (you can take ready-made creamy horseradish)
- 1 tsp lemon juice
- ground pepper - to taste
- kefir - as needed
Preparation
Rub the cottage cheese through a sieve, add walnuts, horseradish and lemon juice, chopped into the gruel. Stir well and let sit for 15 minutes. The consistency of the sauce should be like sour cream. If necessary, dilute a little with kefir.
