Salad with the beautiful flower name "Chrysanthemum" turns out tasty, useful and very balanced. The main ingredient is rice thanks to which the dish turns out rich. On the other hand, greens and vegetables enrich this salad with vitamins, and ornament in the form of a flower gives it beautiful festive view. We will make Chrysanthemum salad.
It is required to you
- For salad:
- - rice - 100 g;
- - carrots - 1 piece;
- - onions - 1 piece;
- - tinned corn - 100 g;
- - cherry tomatoes - 5 pieces;
- - olive oil — 50 ml;
- - parsley or other greens - 1 bunch;
- - spices, salt, pepper - to taste.
- For decoration of salad:
- - carrots - 1 piece;
- - salt — to taste;
- - a toothpick - 1 piece;
- - vinegar - 2 tablespoons.
Instruction
1. In this salad it is the best of all to use long-grain rice as it least of all sticks together and doesn't boil soft. Well touch rice, peel it from impurity, then wash out and shift in a pan, fill in with warm water and you cook on small fire to a ready state.
2. Onions need to be washed, cleaned, drenched with boiled water, and then to cut small pieces. The onions are drenched with boiled water to remove excessive bitterness. Wash carrots, clean and grate. The used greens (parsley or cilantro) need to be washed and to chop small.
3. Connect greens, carrots, rice, onions and corn in a salad bowl, salt and add olive oil, and then well mix.
4. Be engaged in tomatoes: it is the best of all to use cherry. Cut small tomatoes on 4 parts, but add to salad in the latest turn.
5. An undoubted highlight of this salad is the "chrysanthemum" used for ornament. For this purpose take carrots, peel it, and then from a rib-steak make a slanting cut. Further it is necessary to separate 8 thin plates, each of which needs to be cut along the center, and on the opposite sides to make semicircular cuts. Take a toothpick, connect with an overlap the put carrots plates so that at you chrysanthemum petals turned out. In the center pin a corn kernel.
6. Make marinade for "chrysanthemum": take 200 ml of water, vinegar and salt. Put your preparation in this marinade for 5 minutes, then decorate Chrysanthemum salad with the flower prepared from carrots, and you can safely serve your beautiful dish to a table. Ornament for salad in the form of a chrysanthemum can also be made not only of carrots, but also onions, salad, beet and many other.