Walnut salad - 69 cooking recipes

To use in salads, walnuts can be minced, chopped in a blender, or cut into small pieces. They can be added as is or fried/dried in a frying pan without oil. And also soak in boiling water and remove the skin, exposing it to white. In this form, the nuts become more healthy, tender, almost creamy. However, it is worth considering that you will have to fuss over them quite a bit. Especially if you need, say, a whole glass of them.

Many popular layered salad recipes include a nut layer. It goes especially well with boiled chicken and cheese. It also emphasizes the taste of juicy salad fruits (apples, pineapples, pears, grapes, prunes) and softens the harsher echoes of black olives, hot peppers. Although, if you are preparing a salad with walnuts for the first time, it makes sense to mix all the products in small quantities and try, otherwise you never know)

In addition to adding it inside, walnuts can also be used to decorate an elegant salad. For example, the well-known Pineapple is made into layers, and halves of nuts are placed on top. It is important to select whole, strong, beautiful parts - this is how the dish looks impressive. Some salads are simply sprinkled with chopped nuts on top or “drawn” patterns on the surface.

Another simple salad beloved by millions, Red Moscow, consists of coarsely grated boiled beets, mayonnaise, garlic and walnuts. Time-tested and approved by Russian housewives, from grandmothers to mothers and daughters))

The salad can be served in an original way by making balls from the sticky vegetable mass and then rolling them in chopped nuts. Nut salads wrapped in lavash rolls are also very tasty and varied. And so that the layer of nuts does not fall out of the filling, it can be mixed with a sauce like mayonnaise.