Salad Russian Beauty - 3 cooking recipes

Under the general name Beauty hides quite a lot of different salads with clarifying adjectives such as: Russian, Bashkir, night, oriental, forest, snowy, and so on. They are all very different. Many are designed for specific holidays like New Year. Others can be prepared for any occasion, not only outstanding, but also the most banal (dinner, for example)).

So, once you poke your nose into the recipes for the Beauty salad, you can easily drown among them and suffer for a long time in choosing which one to prefer. Maybe we should try them all?

More popular in Russia, at least, is the Russian Beauty salad. Its classic look is products laid out in layers in the shape of a kokoshnik. The brighter the decoration, the better. The ingredients can be anything, even in the classic version there are different sets of them. That is, they cook it with chicken, and with meat, and without meat, with mushrooms, cheese, crab sticks, beef or pork tongue, ham and some fruits. It can be vegetarian, vegan, fasting, dietary, light or, as they used to say, frugal.

It can be made portioned or shared

There is a light salad for those who want to lose weight with this name. And it consists of fresh, finely shredded vegetables: young cabbage, bell peppers, cucumbers, carrots and beets. They eat it raw. It received the name Beauty because a woman who eats it inevitably loses weight, becomes healthier, and therefore more beautiful. And what? Quite a justified name, don’t you think?