Inexpensive salads- this is a “lifesaver” for housewives who want to save a little, but at the same time feed their family nourishing and delicious dish.

Delicious salads inexpensively

Vegetable salad

You will need:

Potatoes – 7 pcs.
- carrot, chicken egg– 5 pcs.
- onion
- spices
- a can of canned peas
- boiled sausage
- pickled cucumber – 5 pcs.
- mayonnaise dressing

Cooking steps:

Boil the vegetables with their peels. After cooling, peel them and chop them into small cubes. Cut the boiled sausage into cubes. Finely chop the peeled onion. Boil the chicken egg, after peeling, cut into small slices. Also cut the pickled cucumbers into slices. Open the container with canned peas, pour out the liquid, mix with other products and season with mayonnaise dressing.

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Delicious inexpensive salads

Chicken recipe

Required Products:

Pickled corn – 95 g
- chicken meat – ½ kg
- mayonnaise dressing – 80 g
- cucumber
- 2 tablespoons of cottage cheese
- Dutch cheese – 95 g
- dill – 50 g
- garlic clove – 2 pcs.

Preparation:

Chop the chicken into small pieces. Heat a frying pan, pour in a little sunflower oil, fry the meat. Grate the Dutch cheese, mix with crushed garlic, chopped dill and cottage cheese. Stir the mixture. Add a little mayonnaise and place it on the refrigerator shelf for soaking. Place the finished meat on a paper towel to soak, getting rid of any remaining fat. Place the dried meat in a salad bowl. Open a jar of corn and pour the contents into a salad bowl. Wash the cucumber, grate it or cut it into strips. Place the salad in a heap on a plate. Roll the cheese mixture into small balls and place on a plate as decoration.

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Salad with balyk and cheese

You will need:

Chicken egg – 2 pcs.
- Dutch cheese – 80 g
- orange
- pickled corn – 190 g
- carrot
- mayonnaise sauce – 190 g
- spices, salt

Preparation:

Boil clean carrots in their skins, remove them and grate them. Hard-boil the eggs, peel and chop into small cubes. In a deep container, combine sweet corn, diced balyk, and chopped eggs. Divide the peeled orange into slices, remove each film. Stir the mixture, lightly salt, season and pour over mayonnaise. Decorate the dish when serving. First, lay it out in a mound, and then cover it with grated carrots and grated Dutch cheese.

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Inexpensive salad - recipe

Ingredients:

Chicken egg – 7 pcs.
- chicken fillet – ½ kg
- cucumber
- onion
- parsley with dill
- sunflower oil – 50 g
- low-calorie mayonnaise
- seasonings

Cooking steps:

Boil the fillet for 25 minutes. Once it has cooled, finely chop it. Chop the onion and pour boiling water over it to remove the bitterness. Strain and wash the onion. Make pancakes from each egg: beat the egg, season, fry on both sides. After cooling, chop into thin strips. Mix the ingredients for the salad and pour over the mayonnaise dressing. Stir and start creating the shape of the dish. Grate the prepared mixture into a Christmas tree shape. To make the tree green, place a thinly sliced ​​cucumber on top. You can also sprinkle with chopped herbs.

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Inexpensive salads: recipes

Ingredients:

Rice – 80 g
- spices with salt
- sea fish – ½ kg
- onion – 2 pcs.
- carrots – 2 pcs.
- chicken egg – 2 pcs.
- dill with parsley
- sunflower oil

Cooking steps:

Remove the skin from the carrots. Soak the rice before cooking. As soon as it swells slightly, drain the water and let it cook. Fry the carrots at this time. Boil a chicken egg, peel and grate. Boil the fish in salted water. Once cooled, mash with a fork. Cut the onion into not very small pieces and fry. Add a little salt to almost cooked rice. While the cereal is cooking, chop the greens. Place the ingredients on a plate, pour over mayonnaise, and stir thoroughly.

Option with cucumber

You will need:

Chicken egg – 3 pcs.
- Dutch cheese – 75 g
- chicken meat – 145 g
- green pickled peas – 5.2 tbsp. l.
- chicken egg – 3 pcs.
- dill
- ground pepper with salt

Cooking steps:

Boil the meat, after cooling, chop it into small cubes. Hard-boil a chicken egg, remove the shell, and grate the white and yolk separately. Open canned peas and drain off any unnecessary liquid. Grate the Dutch cheese. Lay out the salad in layers and spread with mayonnaise. First place the cucumber, cut into strips, chicken meat and protein. Next add cheese, yolk and peas. Garnish with dill sprigs.

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Peasant salad

Required Products:

Sour cucumber – 4 pcs.
- potatoes – 3 pcs.
- table beets
- carrots – 2 pcs.
- onion
- dill greens
- seasonings
- sunflower oil – 50 g
- canned green peas – 245 g

How to cook:

First, boil the vegetables in their “skins”, remove the peels, and chop into small square slices. Chop the sour cucumbers into pieces. Open the can of peas, pour the contents into the rest of the ingredients (except for the liquid - it needs to be drained). Peel the onion and chop finely. Stir the mass, season, add sunflower oil. Place the finished salad in a salad bowl and decorate with dill sprigs.

The salad is tasty and inexpensive

Ingredients:

Dutch cheese – 190 g
- liver – 295 g
- mayonnaise
- chicken egg – 5 pieces
- spices
- green onion feathers

Preparation:

The liver can be taken from chicken, pork or beef. Remove the films from it, boil in salted water. After cooling, cut the offal into small cubes. Chop the Dutch cheese into small cubes or strips. Boil the eggs, remove the shell, chop into pieces of any shape. Chop the green onions. Combine the ingredients for the salad, season with spices, and season with dressing.

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Recipe with canned beans and peas

Open a jar of canned peas, corn and beans, drain the liquid, transfer the products into a deep bowl, pour over the mayonnaise dressing and stir. 5 minutes before serving, sprinkle a pack of garlic croutons and stir the salad.

Potato recipe

Boil 5 potatoes, cool, remove the skin, chop into small cubes. Place the potatoes in a bowl. Cut the cucumbers into not too small pieces, squeeze and add to the potatoes. Chop the onion, pour boiling water over it, and place in a bowl. Cut 270 g of sausage into small pieces and add to other products.

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Recipe with cream cheese

Place 2 processed cheeses in the refrigerator. Boil 2 hard-boiled eggs, pour cool water over them. Once they have cooled, remove the shells. Pass the garlic through a garlic press. Grate the chilled cheeses. Place eggs, cheese, garlic in a bowl, season with mayonnaise, stir. Cut the loaf into equal slices and dry a little in a frying pan. Place the cheese-garlic mixture on toasted bread and decorate with parsley sprigs. Warm bread can also be greased with butter - they will be even tastier.

Delicious salad recipes inexpensively

Japanese salad with rice

Ingredients:

Plain rice – ½ pc.
- a jar of canned pink salmon
- mayonnaise

Cooking steps:

Boil the rice until cooked, transfer to a colander, and rinse under water. Once excess liquid has drained, transfer to a salad bowl. Mash the canned fish and place it in a common bowl. The dish should sit for about an hour so that the rice absorbs the juice. When serving, garnish with chopped yolks and fresh parsley.

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Option with chicken breast and tomatoes

Required Products:

Spices
- tomato – 2 pcs.
- jar canned corn
- eggs – 2 pcs.
- small potatoes – 3 pieces
- small chicken breast
- clove of garlic
- mayonnaise sauce

Boil the chicken breast and let cool. Disassemble the meat into fibers, lightly salt, sprinkle with pepper, and place in a salad bowl. Wash the tomatoes and chop them with a sharp knife. Boil the potatoes, let cool, peel the skins and chop into small pieces. Boil the chicken eggs and chop them after cooling. Drain the sweet corn. Chop the garlic very finely and pass through a garlic press. Place the ingredients in a salad bowl, season with dressing, and stir.

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"Lonely Heart"

Ingredients:

Korean carrots – 0.2 kg
- chicken breast
- testicle – 3 pcs.
- hard cheese – 0.1 kg
- medium garlic clove

Preparation:

Combine crushed garlic and mayonnaise sauce in a bowl. Finely chop the meat into cubes, place on a plate, coat with mayonnaise. Place carrots on top, sprinkle with cheese, and season with mayonnaise again. Add the grated eggs next. Place the salad in the shape of a heart, because it must fully live up to its name.

Cod liver salad

You will need:

Chicken egg – 2 pcs.
- fresh cucumber
- half a medium onion
- regular mayonnaise sauce
- a jar of cod liver
- long grain rice – ½ tbsp.

Cooking steps:

Boil the rice cereal and place it in the first layer on a serving plate. Drain the liquid from the liver, remember it well, and place it on top of the rice. Finely chop the onion, marinate in granulated sugar and vinegar, and place in a third layer. Grate the eggs, put mayonnaise and grated cucumber on them. If there are still products left, repeat the layers.

An inexpensive and tasty salad can be prepared from vegetables, canned fish, eggs, green onions, radishes, sweet corn, hard cheese, processed cheese, etc. The main thing is to choose products that would fit perfectly together. You can dress the salad with mayonnaise, vegetable oil, low-fat sour cream, etc.

We all sometimes find ourselves in a situation where we need to receive guests, and finances, as they say, “sing romances.” The situation is not uncommon. But if a soldier can cook cabbage soup from an ax, then so can a Russian woman, tested With the fall of the ruble, perestroika and empty shelves, he will cope with this task effortlessly.

Housewives are cunning.

We must not forget that our ancestors did not eat meat and sausage, cheese and shrimp. Vegetables grown in the garden or bought in the store are not expensive at all; you can make wonderful cheap salads and snacks.

Potatoes, the queen of our tables, will serve here too. Boil and make a “volcano”, bake, beautifully and unusually cut, make a wonderful potato stuffed pig, make potato baskets from crushed potatoes or simply fry, stew... There are many options. Here's a burning dish for you. Beautiful, unusual, cheap! Potato dishes

Meat is a little expensive. Let's remember about chickens. Housewives with chickens have come up with so many wonderful recipes. If you remember, there are more than a dozen great recipes. You can also make aspic from chicken. One will be enough chicken breast and spoons of gelatin to feed a dozen people.
Mushrooms. They grow in almost all regions of our large country. Salted, pickled, fried... they add great variety to the table. Julienne is perfect for the holiday. You can break away from tradition and use whatever mushrooms you have on hand. Tasty, not hackneyed, fast, cheap!

Pies. Russia has been famous for centuries for its pies, kulebyaki, and pies. You can use cabbage as a filling; in general, this is a favorite filling for many. Add a boiled egg or fried onion. It will be great! If you don’t have time to make pies, bake one for the entire baking sheet. Amaze your guests with your art. Or make small ones, one bite, with potatoes and fried onions or mushrooms, rice with egg, with jam...
You can prepare berry, fruit or milk striped jelly. Not expensive, tasty and unusual. Jelly recipes can be found here Jelly recipes

It will be enough to buy a couple of red apples and two oranges to decorate the table and create a festive mood. There is no need to put them whole in a vase, cut them beautifully. You can see how to decorate the table with fruits in the section Decorate the table with fruits... 100 grams of grapes will be enough to make an original “drunk” bouquet.

Cheap salad recipes

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300 grams of carrots and 100 grams of cheese, grated on a coarse grater, 2 cloves of chopped garlic, salt, pepper. Season with equal parts sour cream and mayonnaise

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Packet of Hawaiian frozen mixture, fry. 200 grams

crab sticks and 3 boiled eggs, cut, some greens and mayonnaise

Thinly slice the cabbage, add salt and mince a little

150 grams crab sticks (cut)

1 can of corn, mix everything and season with mayonnaise

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Fry mushrooms with onions, add a can of beans

1/3 can of peas

2 pickled cucumbers. Season with mayonnaise

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Three carrots and a couple of cloves of garlic on a fine grater

salt and season with mayonnaise

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Three black radishes and carrots on a coarse grater

season with oil or mayonnaise

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Finely chop the cabbage, salt and add a few drops of lemon juice. we remember a little

add grated carrots

1/2 tsp honey and vegetable oil

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Grind some cottage cheese with garlic and mayonnaise, a few walnuts

Cut 50 grams of cheese into small cubes

mix and wrap in lettuce or Chinese cabbage leaves

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3 potatoes, 1 beetroot, 2 carrots, 2 onions, 3 eggs, 100g cheese (less possible), garlic, salt, pepper,
mayonnaise.
Boil the vegetables. Finely chop the potatoes, onions, eggs, and grate the rest.
Layer 1 potato, sprinkle onion with pepper
2-beets with garlic
3-carrots, grated cheese, eggs. Each layer with mayonnaise.

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- Far Eastern salad

Boil 3/4 cup rice, rinse
Mash 1 can of pink salmon with a fork
4 pickles
1 onion finely chopped
mayonnaise
Mix everything, season with mayonnaise

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- Bean salad

Boil beans or use canned ones
1 carrot
1 onion
1 pickled cucumber
Fry grated carrots and finely chopped onions in oil, cool and mix with beans and chopped cucumber, season with oil

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- Korean cabbage

1kg cabbage
5 tablespoons vinegar 9%
1 head of garlic
3 teaspoons Korean seasoning
sugar, salt
Finely chop the cabbage, season with seasoning, salt, pepper, garlic and put in the refrigerator

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Boiled rice

Crab sticks

Corn

Boiled eggs - season with sour cream

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Thinly slice cabbage and onion

Three carrots on a large one

Can of corn

Apple, mayonnaise.

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Green radish, carrots, grated on a coarse grater

onion turnip sautéed and a small piece boiled meat, mayonnaise.

Let stand for several hours in the refrigerator.

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1 can of seaweed, 2 eggs, some onions and mayonnaise

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Finely chop fresh cabbage

cut the apple into strips,

a little sugar, salt and lemon juice

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In layers: Raw carrots, grated,

mayonnaise with garlic, boiled beets, grated

mayonnaise with garlic, grated cheese, mayonnaise with garlic

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Fried mushrooms with onions, boiled potatoes,

a couple of boiled eggs, dill or parsley, mayonnaise

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Crab sticks, boiled eggs,

pickled, salted or fresh cucumbers,

mayonnaise

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A can of beans (boiled), boiled potatoes,

pickled cucumbers and pickled mushrooms,

season with vegetable oil

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Village Salad:

boiled potatoes,

sauerkraut, pickled cucumbers,

pickled mushrooms.

Season with vegetable oil.

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- Steppe Salad

Boil potatoes, carrots, cut into small cubes. Add pickles and canned peas. It is better to pour boiling water over finely chopped onions. Season with mayonnaise.

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Cut the chicken fillet and fry in a frying pan until cooked, add salt and

mix with pickled onions, coarsely grated carrots and raw beets,

as well as finely chopped cabbage,

season with mayonnaise.

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Potato slices, pickled cucumber,

red onion, dill and vegetable oil.

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Cut raw carrots into strips. In heated 60* sunflower oil, infuse chopped garlic, red and black pepper, add a little salt. Pour warm oil over the carrots, add a drop of vinegar or lemon juice and let it brew.

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We cut and fry the liver, fry the onions and carrots separately, mix,

add chopped boiled potatoes,

pickled cucumber and season with mayonnaise.

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season with mayonnaise. Salt and pepper.

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Cut the onion into half rings, scald and cool.

Mix with boiled eggs cut into strips,

grated on a coarse grater green apple and finely grated cheese,

season with mayonnaise.

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4 boiled eggs, fresh cucumbers, red or green onions,

mayonnaise. You can add olive wheels.

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Boiled beans, garlic, mayonnaise.

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- Japanese salad

Mix boiled rice with 2 boiled chopped eggs,

a can of corn and 1 can of canned fish in its own juice,

some greens and mayonnaise. Let it brew for a couple of hours in the refrigerator.

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White cabbage, crab sticks, grated carrots

on a coarse grater, a little corn, dill,

season with mayonnaise.

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Let's not forget about the wonderful salad vinaigrette. To give the vinaigrette a twist, add a little store-bought ready-made mustard to the sunflower oil. Herring will also add a piquant taste to everyone’s favorite vinaigrette.

Inexpensive snacks and hot dishes

Roll with cabbage leaves

Thawing a package of puff pastry
- boil a head of cabbage in boiling water for a few minutes and separate it into leaves (as for cabbage rolls)
- fry minced meat (mushrooms) with onions
- for defrosted puff pastry lay out cabbage leaves, fried minced meat and grated cheese on them
- roll up the roll and bake at 180* in the oven until done

Chicken breasts with mushrooms

Cut chicken breasts into portions, beat, salt and place in a baking dish
- fry any mushrooms with plenty of onions and place on the chicken
- spread mayonnaise on top, mixed with finely grated cheese
- bake at 180* in the oven until done

Whole baked chicken with mushrooms

Wash the chicken and dry it, salt it
- clean the champignons, cut them and mix them with 3 cloves of garlic, cut into halves, with 50 grams butter, salt and pepper a little. Stuff the chicken with prepared mushrooms and secure the cut near the “butt” with toothpicks
- rub the chicken lemon juice and barbecue seasoning and leave for 1 hour
- bake at 180* until done

Stuffed eggs

minced meat options for boiled eggs

Fry finely chopped onions, cool and mix with yolk and dill
- clean the herring, chop finely and mix with mashed yolk and a small amount of mayonnaise

Potato pig

Peel and boil 1.5 kg of potatoes, add salt. Drain the water, add the oil and crush thoroughly when it cools down.add the egg and thoroughlymix

Meat, or minced chicken, or fry mushrooms with a lot of onions
- place a “casserole” in the shape of a pig (minced meat inside the “pig”) on a baking sheet, make ears and snouts, brush with beaten yolk and bake until golden brown crust not for long, because the “pig” went into the oven already prepared.

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Cheap salads - general principles of preparation

Sometimes you want to pamper yourself and your loved ones with some simple but tasty dish that is easy to prepare and does not require the use of expensive products. Or there is an unplanned arrival of guests, but there is no money to prepare a luxurious feast. In such situations, cheap salad recipes will come to the rescue. Don’t be embarrassed by this wording, because cheap doesn’t mean bad. This is especially true for cooking. Of course, there is no need to buy products of the lowest quality, since a cheap salad only means replacing expensive products with more affordable, but no less tasty and high-quality products. Also, for cheap salads, vegetables, meat or fruits that can be bought at the nearest store are mainly taken, and not products from elite supermarkets.

As for replacing expensive products with cheaper ones, there is a lot available here various options. So, instead of turkey meat, you can take regular chicken meat, expensive crab meat can be replaced with crab sticks, capelin caviar can be used instead of red caviar, and liver will also cost much less than any meat. If a salad recipe requires mussels, it is unlikely that you can replace them with anything; you will just have to choose the most inexpensive brand. Although such a product is quite rare in cheap salads. Lime and papaya can be replaced with regular lemon and melon respectively. As for cheeses and sausages, you can take a closer look at less well-known manufacturers offering products at competitive prices.

In general, cheap salads can be anything: vegetable, meat, fruit or fish. For an inexpensive vegetable snack, you may need carrots, beets, cabbage or potatoes. Owners are especially lucky summer cottages: V summer period you can pick tomatoes, cucumbers and all kinds of greens straight from the garden and make a delicious, cheap salad. For low-budget meat salads, chicken or inexpensive sausage is most often used. A simple and tasty fish appetizer can be prepared from canned sprats, mackerel or sardines in oil.

There is no general principle for preparing cheap salads, as such. From inexpensive products you can prepare a variety of salads: regular, puff, or the ingredients of which are laid out in slides. Depending on the products used, different dressings are used: mayonnaise, sour cream, vegetable oil or various sauces.

Cheap salads - preparing food and dishes

Before preparing the dish, all vegetables and meat must be thoroughly washed and dried. If required heat treatment, the product must be boiled, fried, stewed or steamed. Ingredients can be cut as much as possible in various ways: cubes, strips, bars, slices or small slices - it all depends on the recipe for a cheap salad.

Utensils you may need are a saucepan, a frying pan, a common bowl or salad bowl, a grater, cutting board, knives and garlic press.

Cheap x salad recipes:

Recipe 1: Cheap salad

Probably, no snack has yet been invented faster and easier than this cheap salad. The treat is prepared in literally 3 minutes, but this does not in any way affect the taste of the dish.

• Can of canned red beans;
• A can of canned peas;
• A pack of rye crackers with garlic;
• Mayonnaise.

Strain the liquid from beans, corn and peas, place the products in a deep bowl, season with mayonnaise and mix. 5 minutes before serving, pour a pack of garlic croutons into a bowl and mix the salad well.

Recipe 2: Cheap potato salad

A simple and satisfying salad that is perfect as a side dish for the main dish. Prepared from the simplest and most affordable products.

• 5 potatoes;
• Pickled cucumbers - 150 g;
• 1 onion;
• Inexpensive milk sausage - 270-300 g;
• Mayonnaise.

Boil the potatoes in their skins, cool, remove the skin and cut into small cubes. Place potatoes in a bowl. Chop the cucumbers not too finely, but not too large either. Squeeze lightly and add to potatoes. Finely chop the onion, pour boiling water over it, and place in a bowl. Cut the sausage into small cubes and add to the rest of the products. Season the salad with mayonnaise and mix well.

Recipe 3: Cheap salad with melted cheese

A piquant, delicious salad that is very easy to prepare and does not require much investment. This appetizer is especially good served on hot toast.

Place the cheese in the refrigerator for at least an hour so that it is convenient to grate it later. Hard boil the eggs, pour in cold water, after it has cooled, peel and finely chop (or grate). Pass the garlic through a garlic press. Grate the chilled cheeses on a coarse grater. Place eggs, cheese and garlic in a bowl, season with mayonnaise and mix thoroughly. Cut the loaf into slices of equal thickness and lightly dry in a frying pan. Place the garlic-cheese mixture on toasted pieces of bread. Garnish the appetizer with parsley sprigs. It will be even tastier if you grease the warm bread with butter.

Recipe 4: Cheap Japanese salad

An excellent hearty snack for every day or for a festive feast. To prepare the dish, accessible and inexpensive ingredients are used for everyone, but no one will even think about it, since the salad turns out very tasty.

• Half a cup of regular rice;
• 2 chicken eggs;
• Can of canned corn;
• A can of canned fish (pink salmon or tuna in its own juice);
• Mayonnaise.

Boil the rice until tender in slightly salted water, drain in a colander and rinse under cold water. After the excess liquid has drained, place the rice in a salad bowl. Hard-boil the eggs, cool, chop finely and add to the rice. Strain the liquid from the corn and place it in a salad bowl with the costal products. Mash the canned fish with a fork and add to the salad. Season everything with mayonnaise and mix thoroughly. You can pour in a little juice from canned food. The salad should stand in the refrigerator for at least an hour so that the rice has time to absorb the juice. Before serving, the dish can be decorated with finely chopped yolks and sprigs of fresh parsley.

Recipe 5: Cheap Chicken Salad

An inexpensive salad that is perfect for entertaining guests and for every day.

• Small chicken breast;
• 2 tomatoes;
• 2-3 small potatoes;
• 2 eggs;
• Can of canned corn;
• 2 cloves of garlic;
• Mayonnaise;
• Pepper, salt.

Boil the chicken breast until tender, cool, separate the meat into fibers, add a little salt and pepper and place in a salad bowl. Wash the tomatoes and cut them into small cubes with a sharp knife. Boil potatoes in their skins, cool, peel and cut into small cubes. Hard boil the eggs, cool and chop finely. Drain the corn. Chop the garlic very finely or pass it through a special garlic press. Place all ingredients in a salad bowl, season with mayonnaise and mix.

If you have a few of your own recipes for preparing cheap salads, you can use the following tips that will allow you to significantly save on food:

- brown sugar can be replaced with regular granulated sugar;

- instead of lime, take lemon, and instead of lemon - about 10 g citric acid;

- honey works well instead of maple syrup;

- wine vinegar is a good substitute for balsamic vinegar;

- ordinary sorrel can easily replace spinach;

- instead of Parmesan cheese, you can use any other type of hard cheese;

- if white wine is not available, and you need to prepare a sauce for salad dressing based on it, you can resort to this trick: dissolve 2 cubes of refined sugar in a small amount of vinegar;

- regular onions are an excellent alternative to leeks;

- canned sweet pepper can easily replace artichokes.

On the eve of the holidays, housewives are looking for original recipes for the festive table. I want the dishes to be tasty, original, but not troublesome to prepare and not put a strain on the family budget.

There are many recipes where cheap salads are prepared from ordinary ingredients, and the term “cheap” refers to their cost, not their taste. Products for budget salads can be bought at the market or grown locally. own plot. They can be prepared on weekdays or served on a holiday. Cheap salads, the recipes for which are given below, are just like that.

Cabbage salad

The most elementary and well-known cabbage salad. To prepare it, you can use a single ingredient, and spices for dressing. You can diversify the recipe and add other products on hand.

This way you will get new budget salads every time:

• Cabbage;
• Spices;
• Butter or mayonnaise.

Chop the cabbage into strips, add salt and lightly mash with your hands to release the juice. Add pepper, herbs, season with oil.

There are many variations to this cheap, quick salad. The recipe can include peas or corn, fresh or pickled cucumbers, radishes, carrots, and onions. Everything in the refrigerator can become a component quick salad. You can add a little sausage.

Quick radish salad

• Radish - a bunch;
• Spices;
• Green onion;
• Dill;
• Sour cream.

Cut all ingredients into slices or rings at your discretion and mix. The salad is ready! It is simple to make, but very tasty. It smells like spring! If possible, you can add boiled eggs to increase the calorie content.

This option is worth adding to your home collection of budget salads in a hurry.

Tomato heaven

Everyone knows a simple Greek salad made from tomatoes and mozzarella. But if you change the recipe a little, you can serve your guests cheap birthday salads that will be just as delicious as in the best restaurants in Europe:

• Tomato;
• Soft cheese (suluguni, feta cheese or Adyghe cheese);
• Salt;
• Mayonnaise;
• Spices.

Cut the tomatoes into slices, add salt and sprinkle with pepper. Place on a flat dish.

Grate the cheese and sprinkle it over the tomato slices. Decorate with mayonnaise mesh.

As an additional ingredient, you can add slices of boiled eggs.

Sauerkraut and salads made from it

Cheap salads, the recipes of which are simple and inexpensive, can be prepared from sauerkraut. Many housewives prepare it for the winter. This is a source of valuable vitamins and is simply very tasty.

Cheap winter salads made from sauerkraut will add variety to your table:

• Sauerkraut;
• Oil.

Chop the onion and add to the cabbage. Stir and season with oil. The salad is ready to serve.

Unrefined butter is ideal for this recipe. If you supplement the recipe with cucumbers or peas, you will get a great vitamin salad, budget-friendly and tasty.

Carrot salads

Carrots are in every kitchen and with them you can create delicious salads, simple, budget and useful. Here's one delicious recipe salad with carrots, it is so simple that even a child can handle it.

Take equal amounts of carrots and radishes. Grate both root vegetables. Grind the garlic, add mayonnaise. The dish turns out to be very light and unusual. You can add flax seeds or sesame seeds, as well as pumpkin or sunflower seeds.

Beet salad

Boiled beets are included in the recipe of many cheap, simple, tasty salads for birthdays and other holidays. Rarely does a feast take place without vinaigrette and herring under a fur coat. But these options involve many components and require time to prepare.

You can make an even more budget-friendly salad for the holiday, the recipe for which is not complicated:

• Boiled beets – 1-2 pcs;
• Boiled or canned red beans – 0.5 tbsp;
• Garlic – 1 clove;
• Olive oil – 1 tbsp;
• Balsamic vinegar – 1 tbsp. l;
• Mustard – 0.5 tsp.

The dish is prepared in a few minutes:

• The beets are grated. By the way, you can not only boil it in a salad, but also bake it. Then the taste will be completely different.
• Add crushed garlic and spices.
• The beans are boiled in advance or taken ready-made in cans. In any case, the liquid must be drained well.
• Sauce: Combine oil, mustard and vinegar and whisk until smooth. Delicious dressing is ready. This sauce can also be used in other dishes when you need to prepare budget salads for every day without mayonnaise.

Crab salads

Crab sticks are an original and beloved product by many. With them you can prepare simple and cheap salads for the holiday, for example, according to this recipe:

• Crab sticks – 1 package
• Apple – 1 pc.
• Egg – 2 pcs
• Cheese – 100 g
• Onion – 1-2 pcs.
• Vegetable oil – 1 tsp
• Table vinegar – 0.5 tsp
• Mayonnaise

Preparing the salad will take a little time:

• Chop the onion into thin half rings and pour in a mixture of oil and vinegar. Leave to marinate.
• 1st layer – grated whites. Spread all layers with mayonnaise.
• 2nd layer - grated cheese
• 3rd layer – pickled onion
• 4th layer - apple, peeled and grated
• 5th layer - grated crab sticks too
• 6th layer, final - grated yolks on a fine grater.
• Decorate the salad as you wish.

Liver salad

A quick salad made from liver is very filling. Not only ladies, but also men will like it.

Products are taken according to taste:

• Liver;
• Eggs.

Wash the liver. Cut into slices and fry in oil. Cut into slices. Cut the onion into rings and fry too. Boil the eggs and cut into slices. Grate the cheese.

Mix the products. Season with mayonnaise or sour cream. Pickled cucumbers or mushrooms are ideal here. This budget salad is for birthdays and other occasions. festive table There's no shame in submitting.

Summer salads

Summer is vitamin season. The abundance of fruits and vegetables allows your culinary imagination to run wild. Cheap summer salads consist of seasonal vegetables - tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, radishes, and various greens.

Vegetables are mixed in different proportions and in the most unexpected ways, but the end result is always excellent result. Cheap fruit salads with yogurt dressing are delicious. Kids will definitely like them.

Preparations for the winter

During the vegetable season, you really want to stock up on vitamins for the whole year. But many salads for the winter require a lot of effort and time, and the range of products in them is sometimes very impressive. But there are also cheap, quick salads for the winter. One of them, “Eggplant for future use,” is prepared quickly and does not require any special preliminary steps.

Light salad. Light salad - a nutritious salad made from easy-to-digest foods, dressed with vegetable oil, yogurt, sauce or low-fat dressing.

Food has a direct impact on our well-being. If you want to feel lightness, energy, and cheerfulness, eat healthy, light food that saturates the body with useful substances, but does not exhaust you, leaving only one desire - to lie on the couch. Do you want to eat and feel comfortable and easy? Forget about heavy, multi-ingredient salads dressed with fatty mayonnaise. In fact, mayonnaise only spoils the salad, its benefits and positive effects on health. You'll have to make do with healthier dressings - lemon juice, olive oil, high-quality soy sauce, yogurt, low-fat sour cream, etc.

Choose only healthy foods for your salad. Avoid sausages and smoked meats, which are often added to salads today. Only fresh seafood, vegetables, delicate low-fat cheeses, fruits. Don't overdo it with cheese and eggs. Remember that leftover food from the refrigerator is not considered healthy food. All products must be fresh. For the same reason, you don’t need to cook a lot - it’s always better to make and eat a fresh salad than to think that the day before yesterday will also help improve your health. This salad has no vitamins or freshness.

The way the food is processed is also important. If you are preparing a salad from fish, then you do not need to fry it - it is better to stew or boil it. The same goes for chicken if you decide to make a salad with fillet. Vegetables for light salads are taken fresh. Just wash and cut them. Therefore, light salads are quick salads. Healthy food can save time! It's a pity that fast food lovers don't know about this!

Separately, we should talk about salt, which is a provocateur of heart disease, inhibits the removal of fluid from the body and increases appetite. Add salt in a minimal amount - only this salad is light and dietary.

You can enhance the taste of a light salad, which may seem a little bland, with the help of properly selected spices. Successful options are cilantro, cinnamon, ginger and, of course, ground black pepper. Spices not only enrich the taste, but also burn fat. The feeling of lightness will increase every day! Many people blame spices for stimulating their appetite. If you feel hungry, just eat a couple of extra spoons of salad, because it has very few calories. Compared to any salad dressed with mayonnaise, a diet salad is a feather!