Men's Tears Salad: Recipe With Korean Carrots And Other Ingredients

2025 Author: Bailey Albertson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2025-01-23 12:41

Cooking a delicious layered salad "Men's Tears": to the delight of my husband and myself

Layered salad "Men's Tears" is an excellent appetizer dish for both a festive feast and for everyday meals. There are several recipes with the same name, but pickled onions always appear in the product list. It is this ingredient that gives the salad an unusual flavor note and a special texture.

Content

• 1 Traditional Korean Carrot Recipe

  1.1 Video: a classic recipe for "Men's Tears" salad

• 2 Salad with beef and pickled cucumbers

  2.1 Video: salad with beef, but no cucumbers

• 3 "Men's Tears" salad with pomegranate seeds

• 4 Recipe with the addition of pickled champignons and red onions

  4.1 Video: recipe for pork and mushroom salad

Traditional Korean Carrot Recipe

This recipe contains a classic ingredient - Korean carrots. It gives the dish a spicy taste and juiciness.

Korean-style carrots can be bought ready-made, as long as they are not too salty

Products:

• 300 g smoked chicken breast;
• 250 g fresh champignons;
• 2 onions;
• 1 tbsp. l. vegetable oil;
• 250 g of Korean carrots;
• 3 eggs;
• 100 g of hard cheese;
• 250 g mayonnaise;
• 50 ml of table vinegar;
• 1 tsp Sahara;
• 1 tsp salt.

Recipe:

1. Separate the chicken breast from the bones and cut into cubes.

   

   Chicken breast cubes can be large enough to give the salad a special texture

2. Rinse the mushrooms.

   

   Make sure to thoroughly wash away dirt and dirt from the mushrooms

3. Dry and chop into small cubes.

   

   Use a sharp knife to cut mushrooms

4. Chop the onions.

   

   Chop the onion finely, its pieces should not be too noticeable in the finished dish

5. Fry half the onion and mushrooms.

   

   Stir the mushrooms and onions constantly during frying.

6. Pour vinegar into a bowl.

   

   For pickling onions, you should take only table vinegar (9%)

7. Add sugar and dip the second onion into the marinade.

   

   If you do not like sweet pickled onions, then you do not need to add sugar to the marinade.

8. Boil the eggs.

9. After boiling, soak them in cold water for 5-10 minutes.

   

   Cold water will create a temperature difference and it will be faster and easier to remove shells from eggs.

10. Peel the eggs and grate them.

    

    Grind eggs for salad on a coarse grater

11. Grate the cheese.

    

    Grate the cheese just before preparing the salad, otherwise it will dry out

12. Put all the products on a dish in layers: chicken fillet, mushrooms with onions, eggs, pickled onions, Korean carrots and cheese. Grease the layers with mayonnaise and sprinkle with a pinch of salt.

    

    After cooking, let the salad stand in the refrigerator for 2-3 hours

I started preparing the "Men's Tears" salad quite recently. Prior to that, I only added pickled onions to herring under a fur coat and occasionally to Mimosa. This salad pleasantly surprised the whole family, especially the husband. The marinated spicy onion crunches appetizingly and creates new flavors. Best of all, our family has got accustomed to the recipe in which there are Korean-style carrots and fried mushrooms. The combination itself is a good one, but together with onions and smoked chicken breast it turns into a delicacy.

Video: classic recipe for "Men's Tears" salad

Salad with beef and pickled cucumbers

Those who are not very fond of Korean-style spicy carrots can replace them with spicy pickled gherkins. In this recipe, beef would be appropriate, not chicken.

Beef brisket has significant nutritional value, and cooking does not take long

Products:

• 800 g brisket;
• 8 pickled gherkins;
• 3 onions;
• 3 eggs;
• 150 g of cheese;
• 250 g mayonnaise;
• 100 ml of apple cider vinegar;
• 2 bay leaves;
• 1 tbsp. l. chopped greens;
• 1/2 tsp Sahara;
• 1/2 tsp black pepper;
• 1 tsp salt.

Recipe:

1. Boil the brisket in 2-3 liters of water with the addition of salt and bay leaf. Cooking time - 1.5 hours from the moment of boiling.

   

   For juicier meat, immerse the brisket in boiling water

2. Leave the meat to cool in the broth, then remove and cut into thin strips.

   

   By cooling in the broth, the meat will retain its juiciness and it will be easy to cut it for salad

3. Cut the onion into half rings.

   

   You will need a sharp knife to thinly chop onions.

4. Combine water, vinegar, black pepper and sugar.

   

   Let the sugar dissolve in the marinade

5. Chop the herbs finely.

   

   Always take fresh herbs, dried will not give the desired aroma

6. Combine the onions, herbs and marinade. Cover and let stand for 30 minutes.

   

   To speed up the process, pickled onions can be refrigerated, then they will be ready in 20 minutes

7. Drain the marinade and let the onion dry slightly.

   

   Greens and apple cider vinegar give the onion a sweet-spicy flavor

8. Boil hard boiled eggs.

   

   When boiling eggs, try not to boil too vigorously so that the shell does not crack.

9. After cooling in cold water, clean them.

   

   Eggs will clear much faster after soaking in cold water

10. Chop the eggs into cubes.

    

    Don't cut the eggs too finely

11. Chop the gherkins into small pieces.

    

    Gherkins are suitable for salad, large cucumbers have a more watery taste

12. Grind the cheese.

    

    Rub the cheese into thin strips

13. Collect the salad: beef, pickled onions, eggs, gherkins, and cheese. Each layer, except for the final cheese layer, coat with mayonnaise and add.

    

    Hold the prepared "Men's Tears" salad before serving in the refrigerator for at least one hour

14. Serve the dish like a cake, slicing and not mixing the layers together.

Video: salad with beef, but no cucumbers

"Men's tears" salad with pomegranate seeds

An unusual serving of salad is possible if you use fresh pomegranate seeds as decoration. In this case, it will be very effective to give the dish a heart shape.

Pomegranate seeds increase the vitamin value of the salad

Products:

• 300 g ham;
• 2 potatoes;
• 2 eggs;
• 3 onions;
• 3 tbsp. l. lemon juice;
• 1 tsp Sahara;
• 1 tbsp. water;
• 1 tsp salt;
• 250 g mayonnaise;
• 1 pomegranate.

Instructions:

1. Boil eggs and potatoes.

   

   Both eggs and potatoes can be boiled in the same bowl

2. Cool potatoes and peel.

   

   Potatoes are easiest to peel when half cooled.

3. Remove the shells from the eggs.

   

   To quickly peel the eggs, add 1 tsp into the water during cooking. salt

4. Rub them with a grater.

   

   It is best to use a trowel with a large hole diameter

5. Grate the peeled potatoes.

   

   Chop potatoes on a coarse grater

6. Cut the ham into strips.

   

   If you come across pieces of bacon when cutting ham, cut them off, they are not needed in the salad

7. Chop the onion.

   

   Onions can be cut into half rings

8. Sprinkle it with sugar and a pinch of salt, then pour over it with lemon juice.

   

   When pickled, the onion will absorb the flavor of lemon juice and get a slight sourness.

9. Prepare the pomegranate seeds.

   

   Try to clear the pomegranate seeds of white veins

10. Place the heart shape on a flat plate. Now lay out all the ingredients in layers: potatoes, ham, onions and eggs. Salt a layer of potatoes. Coat all layers with mayonnaise.

    

    A split heart-shaped salad pan available at hardware stores

11. Garnish the prepared salad with pomegranate seeds and let it soak in the refrigerator (1-1.5 hours).

    

    "Men's tears" salad with pomegranate will win you over with its unusual fresh taste

The variant of the "Men's Tears" salad with pomegranate seeds is especially good for a festive serving. The dish looks very impressive, plus such, at first glance, an unexpected ingredient, like pomegranate, is actually quite appropriate in combination with ham. The main thing is to choose a very ripe fruit so that the seeds are bright and juicy.

Recipe with the addition of pickled mushrooms and red onions

For those who prefer a more tender salad without spicy ingredients, there is a recipe with pickled champignons.

Pickled champignons give the “Men's Tears” salad a rich, but very delicate and harmonious taste

List:

• 200 g chicken fillet;
• 100 g of hard cheese;
• 2 red onions;
• 3 eggs;
• 1 can of pickled champignons;
• 70 ml of table vinegar;
• 1 tsp Sahara;
• 1 tsp salt;
• 250 g mayonnaise.

Recipe:

1. Put salt and boneless chicken breasts in cold water and cook until tender.

   

   Try to cook chicken fillet over low heat, so it will turn out more tender.

2. When the meat has cooled, cut it into cubes.

   

   Chill chicken fillets at room temperature, not in the refrigerator

3. Boil the eggs.

   

   Boil the eggs at a low boil so that their shell does not crack

4. Peel them.

   

   To make it easier to peel the eggs, roll them on a flat table surface

5. Cut into large cubes.

   

   Coarsely chopped eggs will give the salad a crumbly texture

6. Grind the cheese on a grater.

   

   In this salad, light hard cheese with a creamy aroma will be very tasty

7. Chop the mushrooms.

   

   Drain the mushroom marinade well before slicing to prevent the salad from getting too wet

8. Chop the onion.

   

   Red onions in this recipe should not be replaced with regular ones.

9. Pour vinegar over it and add sugar. Let it marinate for 20 minutes.

   

   Pickled red onions add freshness and crispiness to the salad

10. Then assemble the flaky salad in the following order: chicken fillet, onion, mushrooms, eggs and cheese. Salt all layers and coat with mayonnaise, and on top of the cheese make a thin mesh of it.

    

    Do not crush the layers of salad too much, in this case the dish will have a very delicate taste.

Video: recipe for salad with pork and mushrooms

Delicious and original salad "Men's Tears" is prepared very easily and quickly. All the ingredients used in the presented recipes are available and perfectly combined with each other.