Colourful salad will decorate a holiday table and a country picnic.
Tortellini is small Italian dumplings from an unfermented dough. As a stuffing forcemeat, cheese or vegetables is used. Bolontsa are proud of this dish and say that tortellin in a form remind pink buds. In cooking they are simple and can serve as an independent dish. And also with them it is possible to make tasty salad.
For four portions of salad it will be required:
- 250 g dry tortellin with a cheese stuffing.
- 2 tablespoons of lemon juice.
- 1/4 glasses of olive oil.
- 1 tablespoon of mustard.
- 1/2 spoon of fennel.
- 5 tomato.
- 1 zucchinis.
- Red and green paprika.
- Salt, pepper, sugar.
For preparation of this salad it is necessary to weld the bought tortellin in water. They cook, as well as usual dumplings. It is necessary to fill up tortellin in the boiling, added some salt water. Time of cooking is about 10 minutes. It is more precisely written on packing, or it is possible to remove test. It is necessary to cook occasionally stirring slowly.
While water begins to boil, it is possible to make sauce. A basis it will have a lemon juice. Having poured out two tablespoons of lemon juice in a deep bowl, add to it a lemon zest teaspoon. Salt, pepper, mustard and vegetable oil it is shaken up together with lemon juice. Sauce has to become homogeneous. Small cut fennel can be mixed with sauce.
While tortellin cook, it is possible to make vegetables. It is better to take tomatoes small, then they can be cut in half or on quarters. The paprika is cut by cubes. If to take pepper of different color, then salad will look very festively. You shouldn't crush. Each vegetable in salad has to be recognized. Zucchini is sliced. The onions are cut by thin half rings. The green onions crumble small in ringlets. After cutting, it isn't obligatory to mix vegetables.
When tortellin cook, it is necessary to drain water and to cast away them on a colander. When water flows down, tortellin are shifted in a bowl and filled in with ready sauce. That everyone pelmeshka became impregnated with sauce, it is necessary to mix everything well. Now it is possible to add vegetables and again to mix. Salad is almost ready to giving on a table.
It is possible to serve this dish as we heat, and cooled. It on the fan. If to cook salad in advance, then you shouldn't mix all ingredients in advance. The welded tortellin, it is possible to fill in with a half of ready sauce. The second half of sauce and vegetables should be added already before giving on a table. Greens can be strewed over salad that will give it beautiful appearance.
The general preparation time of such salad of 20-25 minutes. It is in passing possible to cook also other dishes. Caloric content of one portion is 314 calories, cholesterol of 31 mg.