Is the skin peeling and dull? Hair is falling out, and the mood is at zero? Help your body with a real vitamin attack. Vegetable salad with gooseberries plus olive oil will definitely save you. Step-by-step recipe with a photo. Video recipe.
Gooseberries, like many berries, are used not only for making desserts and preparations. Delicious salads, appetizers and main courses are made with it. For example, thin-skinned berries are added to green salads with chicken, meat and smoked fish. Juice is squeezed out of gooseberries, salt, pepper, sugar, vegetable oil are added and a spicy salad dressing is obtained. It will be nice and tasty to add gooseberries to meat or fish aspic. In many salads and sauces, gooseberries successfully replace apples, cranberries, rhubarb, and grapes. Stewed with wine in a frying pan where the meat was previously fried, gooseberries will become a side dish for the same meat. And the most traditional way is gooseberry sauce to a fatty bird - duck or goose. But today we will consider the simplest recipe for a vegetable salad with gooseberries.
An unusual combination of sweet and sour gooseberries with soft tomatoes, fresh cucumbers and spicy herbs is an exquisite dish that can be cooked every day. Olive oil is used for salad dressing, but sauces with the addition of sour cream, yogurt, fruit juices, spices, and lemon juice are just as successful. The recipe itself is very simple and does not require any culinary skills. The salad will perfectly complement a meat steak or chop. It is perfect for a full-fledged late dinner, when you do not want to eat too much for the night, but you want to have something to eat.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 36 kcal.
- Servings - 2
- Cooking time - 15 minutes
Ingredients:
- White cabbage - 200 g
- Ground black pepper - whisper
- Tomatoes - 1 pc.
- Olive oil - for dressing
- Basil - a few twigs
- Cucumbers - 1 pc.
- Gooseberry - 100 g
- Cilantro - a few twigs
- Salt - a pinch
Step by step cooking vegetable salad with gooseberries, recipe with photo:
1. Wash white cabbage under running water and dry with a paper towel. Chop it finely with a sharp knife. Sprinkle with salt and press down with your hands to let the juice flow and the salad is juicier.
2. Wash the tomatoes and cucumbers, dry with a paper towel and cut: cucumbers into thin half-rings of 2-3 mm, tomatoes - into larger slices.
3. Wash cilantro and basil, dry with a paper towel and finely chop.
4. Wash and dry the gooseberries. Cut the sepals and cut the berries in half. If the berries are small, then leave them intact.
5. Place all food in a large salad bowl, season with salt and olive oil. Stir the ingredients, chill the dish a little in the refrigerator and serve the vegetable salad with gooseberries to the table.
See also a video recipe on how to make a salad of vegetables and fruits.