Monica Salad With Ham And Cheese: A Step-by-step Recipe With A Photo

2024 Author: Bailey Albertson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 12:53

Delightful salad "Monica": we delight loved ones with a new dish

The variety of delicious and beautiful salads is simply amazing. How strong the culinary imagination is, if every day you can find dozens of previously unfamiliar, stunningly appetizing and delicious dishes with various ingredients for every taste. Today we'll talk about the Monica salad. A light, but at the same time satisfying meal is prepared in a matter of minutes.

Step-by-step recipe for Monica salad with ham and cheese

The recipe for the dish, which I will talk about today, appeared in my culinary notebook about 2 years ago. After getting acquainted with the salad, I met various variations of the dish with this name, but the salad of tender Peking cabbage, aromatic ham, refreshing cucumbers and hearty hard cheese seems to me the most delicious.

Ingredients:

• 200 g ham;
• 2 fresh cucumbers;
• 4-5 Peking cabbage leaves;
• 3 boiled eggs;
• 100 g of hard cheese;
• 1 clove of garlic;
• salt and black pepper - to taste;
• mayonnaise - to taste;
• fresh herbs.

Preparation:

1. Cut the ham into thin strips and transfer to a large bowl. The better the meat product you use for the salad, the tastier the dish will be.

   

   For easy stirring of the salad later, place the chopped ingredients in a large bowl.

2. Wash fresh cucumbers, dry, also cut into strips and transfer to the ham. If the skins of the vegetables are tough or bitter, they must be cut off.

   

   For salad, it is recommended to use medium-sized vegetables with thin skin

3. Grate a piece of hard cheese on a coarse grater. If desired, this product can also be cut into strips.

   

   Cheese can be grated or cut with a knife

4. Peel the eggs, grate 2 of them on a grater with large holes.

   

   Boiled eggs in Monica salad are one of the ingredients and are also used to decorate the finished dish

5. Finely chop fresh herbs with a knife, add to the rest of the ingredients.

6. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Remember, cheese and mayonnaise also contain salt.

   

   Be careful with the salt so as not to spoil the taste of the salad

7. Cut the cabbage into wide strips or simply tear it into small pieces with your hands.

   

   Peking cabbage can be chopped or torn by hand

8. Mix the garlic chopped with a fine grater or press with a few tablespoons of mayonnaise.

   

   To prepare the dressing, chop the garlic with a fine grater or pass through a press

9. Season salad with mayonnaise-garlic dressing and stir gently. The sauce should not be too much, so add it gradually, 1 tablespoon at a time.

   

   Add the dressing one spoon at a time, remembering to stir the salad to determine the amount of sauce needed

10. Serve the salad in portions, garnish with boiled egg quarters and fresh herbs.

    

    Serve salad in portions or in a shared salad bowl

By watching the video below, you can find out an alternative recipe for the Monica salad with ham.

Video: original salad "Monica"

"Monica" salad with ham and cheese is a simple and uniquely tasty dish that will surely please your household and guests. If you are already familiar with such a dish and can add something interesting on the topic, be sure to write a comment below. Enjoy your meal!