Summer and autumn flew by like one day, but we still did not have enough time to feast on green, melon berries with red juicy pulp. Today we have the opportunity to learn how to make a very beautiful and tasty salad “Watermelon Slice” according to the classic recipe on the eve of the New Year celebration. The fact that guests will be surprised at such a colorful still life on the table is a fact, and having tasted this delicacy, fans of your kitchen will certainly increase.

It is not strange, but the composition of this bright dish includes the most ordinary products. There are no overseas vegetables and exotic fruits there. However, the selection of ingredients is so harmonious that you can’t pull the tasters by the ears of a ready-to-eat snack bar, well, it’s very tasty and, most importantly, satisfying.

Among the features of cooking can be distinguished except for an unusual method of layering. The salad itself needs to be issued in the form of a semicircle or crescent, but this is only one nuance.

In addition, according to the recipe, we need to lay out the layers so that the height of the inner edge is lower and the upper one is higher, that is, the shape of the salad should have a peculiar rise in the form of a slice of watermelon: the skin is wide and narrow to the top. But to do this is not at all difficult, the main thing is to calculate the thickness of the layers. And now, having studied the theory, we can begin to practice.

Watermelon Salad

Ingredients

•   - 400 g + -
•   - 4 things. + -
•   - 200 g + -
•   - 1 head + -
•   - 5 tsp + -
•   - 2 pcs. + -
•   - 2 pcs. + -
•   - 3-5 pcs. + -
• — for smearing + -

Cooking

In general, the recipe for this dish can have many different options with the addition and replacement of some products. But we want to offer the reference composition of this culinary work, and already starting from the classics, we can create something original, so to speak, copyright.

Creative with new ingredients.

Salad turns out well just incredibly beautiful, like a real juicy melon fruit. And the taste, awesome! Of course, no one forbids making adjustments to the recipe.

For example, you can add a layer of fried or pickled mushrooms, potatoes, boiled, fried or Korean carrots. Also, chicken has its own substitutes, because not all birds meat is respected. The meat layer can be replaced with smoked or boiled sausage, carbonate or ham.

Decorating the watermelon's appearance, the pulp from red tomatoes will be replaced with a bang by pomegranate seeds, boiled beets or red bell peppers. In general, a grinder can also be used to make skins, instead of cucumbers, but in this case you should choose green fruits. Also, for the green part of our still life, grapes and dill with onions are perfect.

Olives are undeniably very tasty, but, alas, not everyone can share this point of view, therefore this component in the salad has its own understudy, which is prune.

And if instead of banal mayonnaise for dressing you take a sauce of sour cream, salt, garlic and finely chopped herbs, then in this case the Watermelon Slice salad claims to become the crown of the gala evening.

Salad with the original name "Watermelon" or "Slice of watermelon" will decorate any holiday table, will surprise all guests with its unusual appearance, delicate taste. Cooking it is quite easy, the most common products are used. Depending on your preferences, you can decorate the top of the dish with whole or chopped olives, grapes, green onions, slices of tomatoes.

The original look of this light, slightly spicy and very tender salad will delight the hostess and household members, make you remember the hot summer even on a gloomy autumn day. The bright red top resembles the juicy flesh of a watermelon, olives replace black bones. A green crust can be made from the peel of cucumbers, feathers of onions or parsley. The surprise of everyone present at the table will be 100% guaranteed.

Watermelon Slice Salad Recipe with Cucumber, Chicken and Cheese

This option of light salad in the form of a slice of watermelon will appeal to slimming ladies, suitable for quick home cooking. Products are finely chopped with a knife or rubbed, very little mayonnaise is used for juiciness.

Ingredients:

• 2 small boiled chicken breasts;
• 220 grams of cheese;
• 1 medium-sized fresh cucumber
• 3 thick-skinned tomatoes;
• a small can of pitted olives;
• light mayonnaise;
• salt to taste.

Step by step cooking with photo

1. Chicken meat must be divided into very fine fibers with a knife. Cheese should be grated with thin straws, water should be drained from olives, cut a smaller part into halves, and chop the rest. Mix the chopped chicken with cheese, slices of olives, a small amount of mayonnaise, salt. A little cheese should be left for the top.
2. The resulting mass should be formed on a dish in the form of a large slice of watermelon. Better to level with a spoon, the plate should be flat.

Tips:

Tips:

• With a cucumber, it is best to cut a thick crust on all sides with a thick layer, it will give less juice and will look more beautiful. White pulp does not need to be used.
• Tomatoes must be taken very dense, without juicy liquid pulp.

Recipe for watermelon slice salad with tomatoes, smoked breast and eggs

This version of the salad is more high-calorie, satisfying, children and even men will like it with its unusual appearance and piquant taste. Eggs and smoked chicken add saturation to the dish, olives add pungency.

Ingredients:

• 1 smoked chicken breast;
• 3 hard boiled eggs;
• small cucumber;
• green onions;
• 150 grams of any hard cheese;
• mayonnaise;
• 2-3 tomatoes;
• pieces of 7 olives for the image of seeds;
• salt.

Cooking:

1. Smoked breast must be peeled off, cut into small slices.
2. Boiled eggs should be peeled, chopped with a knife.
3. Chop green onions into rings, grate the cheese finely enough.
4. From the tomatoes and cucumber we remove the pulp with seeds, finely chop the peel.
5. We take the olives from the can, let the water drain, cut them into small pieces.
6. We spread the salad in even layers, greasing each of them with mayonnaise: smoked chicken, grated cheese, cucumber, eggs.
7. We spread the tomato slices on top, decorate the side with a mixture of green onions and cucumbers. The border between vegetables can be marked with mayonnaise.
8. It remains to decorate the top with olives, put briefly in the refrigerator.

Unusual design:

1. You can replace the slices of olives with small rye crackers, this will give an even more original look to this bright salad.
2. In the absence of fresh cucumber, you can take pickled, this will add spiciness and spices to the dish.

Watermelon Slice Salad Recipe with Tomatoes, Carrots and Herbs

Such a piquant salad will surprise everyone not only with its amazing and unusual appearance, but also with its original taste and unexpected mixture of ingredients. Korean carrots in combination with smoked chicken and eggs give the dish satiety and pungency, greens emphasizes its freshness.

Ingredients:

• boiled in salt water chicken breast;
• 2 eggs;
• fresh dense cucumber;
• 1 tomato;
• a bunch of greens of fresh dill, parsley leaves;
• 100 grams of Korean carrots;
• several olives;
• pepper, salt, spicy or lemon mayonnaise.

Cooking:

1. Boiled chicken fillet should be cut into slices, the eggs should not be finely chopped with a knife, slightly salted.
2. Mix eggs, chicken, Korean carrots, mayonnaise, add a little ground pepper.
3. The resulting mass should be laid out at the bottom of a flat salad bowl in the form of a watermelon slice.
4. Cut the cucumber into small stripes, spread the watermelon rind with them.
5. We chop the tomatoes, drain the juice, and form the red juicy pulp on top of them.
6. Cut olives in longitudinal strips - these will be seeds.
7. Grind greens with scissors, lay out the calibration of cucumbers, tightly pressing with your fingers. The dish is ready.

• Korean carrots should not be very large, not too sharp.
• It’s not worth pouring a lot of mayonnaise so that the dish does not spread on a plate.

Salad recipe “Watermelon slice” with champignons

Making such a salad in the form of a whole watermelon or two of its cut halves, you can make a splash when making a dish. Surprise and delight of the guests will be deservedly provided, and the taste will delight with tenderness, piquancy and pungency.

Ingredients:

• 500 grams of boiled chicken fillet;
• 400 grams of pickled champignons;
• 3 eggs;
• 1 onion;
• 2 tomatoes;
• big cucumber;
• 50 grams of cheese;
• several large pitted olives;
• mayonnaise.

Cooking:

1. Boil the chicken fillet in salt water, cool well, cut into small pieces.
2. From mushrooms from a jar, drain the water, cut large pieces, fry with chopped onions in a pan.
3. First, put chicken cubes in a circle or crescent shape on a dish, grease them with mayonnaise on top.
4. Then spread the mushrooms with onions in an even layer, again they coat.
5. The third layer is boiled eggs, they must be completely covered with mayonnaise.
6. Instead of a watermelon peel, we cover the side of the salad with grated cucumbers, trying to lay them out more tightly.
7. Then along the cucumber edge we pour a narrow layer of grated cheese.
8. The remaining free space should be tightly covered with small pieces of fresh tomato.
9. Finely chop the olives, replace them with watermelon seeds.

Design Tips:

• If desired, champignons, chicken, eggs and mayonnaise can simply be mixed, but in layers the salad will look more original, better soaked.
• It is better to take yellow cheese - so the salad will look more original. Marble cheese, grated on a fine grater, looks especially beautiful.

Salad recipe “Watermelon slice” with pomegranate, pineapple and grape salad

Bright fruity taste and unusual design of the salad in the form of a slice of watermelon will surprise children and adults. An unusual combination of products gives tenderness, such a salad will even be a pity to eat, because the charm of appearance will disappear after mixing on a plate.

Ingredients:

• small boiled chicken breast;
• 1 onion;
• a can of canned sweet pineapple;
• a jar of champignons;
• 150 grams of cheese;
• mayonnaise;
• a small sprig of green grapes, it is better to take seedless raisins;
• garnet;
• several olives.

Cooking:

1. Mushrooms should be chopped, fried with pieces of onion.
2. Boiled chicken and pineapple from a jar should be finely chopped.
3. Grapes must be separated from the branches, cut into halves. Olives should be cut into pieces.
4. Pomegranate needs to be cleaned, divided into grains.
5. Stir in the dish mushrooms with onions, pieces of chicken, pineapple, mayonnaise. Put everything on a plate in the shape of a watermelon slice.
6. We distribute pomegranate grains in the form of pulp on top. We make the crust from the pressed halves of the grapes, laying them with slices inside.
7. On top we put in random order pieces of olives.

All options of this salad, original in taste and design, will please both home and guests. The unusual appearance in the form of a watermelon slice will make you interested in the dish, you want to definitely try it. You can hide any product under a beautiful top, experimenting with unusual combinations of ingredients.

1   First, pickle the onion. Onion needs to be cut. We take half a glass of water, one teaspoon of sugar, two teaspoons of vinegar 9%, mix everything and add chopped onion to this marinade for 15-20 minutes.

2   Boil the chicken breast in salted water until tender. Cook and clean the eggs. And we will need a piece of hard cheese. Chicken fillet must be cut into cubes. Take a dish or a plate in which you will prepare a salad. We spread a layer of boiled and chopped chicken fillet with a crescent moon. Lubricate with mayonnaise. Next, spread a layer of pickled onions, making a small indent from the edge of the inner radius and adjust a little more to the edge of the outer radius. Lubricate with a thin layer of mayonnaise.

3   Three eggs on a grater and spread on a layer of onions, also making a small indent from the edge. Lubricate with mayonnaise.

4   Next, grate hard cheese on a fine grater. Spread a layer of hard cheese. Lubricate with mayonnaise. Sprinkle the edge of the salad with cheese, make a crescent of cheese, so to speak, without lubricating it with mayonnaise. It will be white pulp on the crust of the watermelon. Next, do not grate the cucumber for three and salt and mix it. Tomatoes the regime and remove the middle so that there is no excess liquid in the salad. Hard cheese will separate the pulp from the skin. We cut the tomatoes into small cubes. We spread the tomatoes on the hard cheese. This is the flesh of a watermelon. Cucumbers let the juice, it must be squeezed. And put them on the side of the salad. This is a green peel. Cut olives, these will be watermelon seeds. Decorate with olives a watermelon slice salad.

In the cold and gray winter I want to remember the summer more than ever. The same applies to the festive table. You can surprise guests by offering as salad - "Watermelon slice". All guests will be impressed by the bright design of this delicious and satisfying salad. And you will be happy to cook it again, because this will not require any special skills, or complex ingredients, or a lot of time.

100 kcal per 100 g

Ingredients:

• Chicken breast - 300-400 grams,
• champignons - 300 grams,
• onions - 1-2 heads,
• eggs - 2-3 pcs.,
• tomatoes - 2-3 pcs.,
• fresh cucumbers - 2-3 pcs.,
• green onion - 1 bunch,
• hard cheese - 100-150 grams,
• black olives.

Cooking:

1. Boil chicken breast - finely chop.

2. Mushrooms and onions cut into cubes, fry in vegetable oil, with the addition of butter.

3. Boil eggs, cut into cubes.

4. Lay out in layers: chicken breast - sour cream-mushrooms, fried with onions - sour cream - boiled eggs - sour cream.

5. Top decoration: tomatoes - finely chopped, cucumbers - straws + dill, cheese - on a grater, olives.

Salad ready. Enjoy your meal!

Watermelon Slice or Greek Salad: Option 2

Greek salad is on the site, maybe someone will come in handy as an option for decoration. I did my son for my birthday. Ingredients for “Greek Salad or Watermelon Slice”

• Soft cheese (feta) - 150 g
• Tomato - 1 pc.
• Cucumber (large fresh) - 1 pc.
• Bulgarian pepper (red) - 1-2 pcs.
• Olives - 2-3 pcs.
• Oregano - 1 tsp.
• Olive oil (to taste)

Recipe “Greek Salad or Watermelon Slice”

3 option: salad Watermelon slice with mushrooms

• Time: 3 hours
• Servings: 3

Ingredients for the preparation of salad "Watermelon Slice":

1. Ham - 150 g
2. Mushrooms (champignons) - 200 g
3. Onions - 1 pc.
4. Eggs - 3 pcs.
5. Hard cheese - 100 g
6. Tomato - 1 pc. - for registration
7. Cucumber - 1 pc. - for registration
8. Olives - 5 pcs. - for registration
9. Salt to taste
10. Ground black pepper to taste
11. Vegetable oil - for frying

For refueling

1. Mayonnaise (sour cream) - 250 ml
2. Garlic - 2 cloves
3. Lemon (juice) - 0.5 pcs.
4. Greens (dill) - 1 sprig

Cooking Watermelon Slice Salad.

Step 1: Prepare the ingredients.

  We wash the onions and mushrooms, peel them, and finely chop. Then fry in a small amount of oil in a preheated pan, until cooked. This will take you 10-15 minutes. Do not forget to stir the overcooking so that it does not burn. Before adding to the salad, the overcooking must be cooled.

Cut the ham into cubes or thin plates, grate the cheese on a fine grater, and boil the eggs, and then finely chop.

  We only need cucumbers and tomatoes to decorate the salad, they need to be washed and chopped. Tomatoes need only the hard part, without juice.

Step 2: Preparing salad dressing.

  Unusual dressing will give the salad even more piquancy in taste. Cooking it is very simple - mix sour cream or mayonnaise with crushed garlic, lemon juice and finely chopped dill. Add salt and pepper to taste and mix thoroughly. Done!

Step 3: Build the Watermelon Slice Salad.

  Salad belongs to the category of puffs, which means that we will lay out the ingredients in layers, lubricating each layer with mayonnaise and adding a little salt.
  Put the sliced \u200b\u200bham on a round flat salad bowl - this is our first layer. We give the future salad the shape of a semicircle - this is exactly what a cut piece of watermelon looks like. Behind the ham is a layer of overcooked mushrooms and onions, then eggs and grated cheese.

Step 4: Decorate the Watermelon Slice Salad.

  The outer layer of the semicircle is decorated with cut pieces of cucumber, green skin up. Be patient and lay out each piece carefully and tightly - this way the salad will look even more beautiful. The inner layer is decorated with thin plates of tomatoes. The role of watermelon seeds is given to olives. Cutting them or laying them whole is up to you.
  We send the salad for 2-3 hours in the refrigerator so that it is saturated.

Step 5: Serve the ready-made salad “Watermelon Slice”.

We take out the cooled salad from the refrigerator and set it on the set table. We cut the “Watermelon slice” into slices for each guest, or you can make several separate “slices” and put the salad in portions.

Enjoy your meal!

The salad can be made fruit, then we will decorate with grapes and pomegranate seeds. And we will make seeds from prunes.

You can take any as salad ingredients. The main thing here is the design.

You can decorate the salad more naturally giving it the appearance of a watermelon slice. To do this, between the "pulp" and the "crust" we make a layer of chopped egg white or grated cheese.

The topic of the article is “Watermelon Slice” Salad. We will tell you about the secrets of cooking dishes with chicken, Korean carrots and mushrooms.

General principles for the preparation of salad “Watermelon slice”

In order for the dish to turn out delicious and beautiful, you must adhere to certain rules during its preparation:

• use red products - you can take tomatoes, pomegranate seeds or bell pepper to mimic the pulp of watermelon;
• use green products - they will imitate the peel, for example, it can be grapes, cucumbers or olives;
• black seeds - use black olives.

After preparing all the products, they should be laid out alternately on a crescent-shaped flat plate.

The composition of the salad also includes the following products:

• chicken breast - smoked or boiled;
• champignons - fried or pickled;
• mayonnaise - it is advisable to use home-made, as it gives the dish a special piquancy;
• hard cheese.

1. You can make the salad not only useful, but also low-calorie, which is especially important when observing various methods of losing weight. In the process of preparing the salad, use sour cream instead of mayonnaise, optionally you can also add mustard and spices.
2. If you do not like olives, then to simulate the seeds of watermelon, use black grapes or prunes. In some cases, instead of cucumber, you can use green grapes, but this is an amateur.
3. To make the bottom layer of chicken juicy, mix the breast and seasonings in a bowl in advance, then put the product on a plate.

Salad Watermelon slice with mushrooms

This salad will be the perfect decoration for a children's table. All the constituent dishes are perfectly combined with each other, undergo a small heat treatment. To make a salad, you can use homemade mayonnaise instead of store mayonnaise or sour cream.

Products:

• chicken breast - 0.3 kg;
• champignons - 0.5 kg;
• cheese - 0.2 kg;
• onions - 1 head;
• eggs - 4 pcs;
• vegetable oil - 2.5 tbsp;
• mayonnaise - 250 ml.

To decorate:

• tomatoes - 2 pcs;
• cucumbers - 2 pcs;
• olives - 50 g.

Cooking:

1. Boil chicken breast in boiling salt water.
2. Cut the mushrooms into slices, the onions into cubes.
3. Fry the mushrooms in a pan, then add the onions to them and fry until cooked.
4. Cook the eggs, cool and chop into cubes.
5. Grate the cheese on a medium grater.
6. Wash the tomatoes and cucumbers, peel and cut into small cubes.
7. On a flat plate, lay chicken with the first layer, and then mushrooms, spread with mayonnaise on top.
8. Lay out eggs and cheese with a second layer, spread on top with mayonnaise.
9. Grind the olives.
10. Lay out the edges of the salad with cucumbers, place the tomatoes in the middle and lay the olives on top of them.

Watermelon Slice Salad - photo

Watermelon Slice with Chicken

This salad option will be an excellent decoration for the festive table. Cooking it is quite simple, use smoked or boiled chicken fillet for the dish.

Products:

• chicken fillet - 0.4 kg;
• tomatoes - 3 pcs;
• cucumber - 1 pc;
• seasoning - to taste;
• eggs - 3 pcs;
• olives - 5 pcs;
• cheese - 0.14 kg;
• mayonnaise - 150 ml.

Cooking:

1. Boil the fillet in salt water with spices.
2. Cut the cooled meat into small pieces.
3. Grate the cucumbers on a coarse grater, add salt, mix and leave for a quarter hour.
4. Boil the eggs, cool and peel, chop finely with a knife.
5. Grate the cheese on a fine grater.
6. Cut the tomatoes into slices, remove the seeds and liquid, then cut them into small pieces.
7. Put the meat on a flat plate in the shape of a crescent, spread with mayonnaise.
8. Lay the eggs in a second layer, lightly salt and pepper, spread with mayonnaise.
9. Put the cheese in a third layer and place a small amount of the product on the side of the salad.
10. Put the tomatoes in the last layer, place the olives on top of them.
11. Squeeze the cucumbers, then attach them to the side of the cheese side to simulate a crust.

Watermelon slice salad with Korean carrots

This salad can be cooked with a spicy taste, but not everyone can like it. A distinctive feature of the dish is its delicious aroma.

Products:

• chicken fillet - 0.38 kg;
• tomatoes - 2 pcs;
• korean carrots - 0.22 kg;
• cucumber - 1 pc;
• eggs - 3 pcs;
• seasoning - to taste;
• mayonnaise - 0.18 kg;
• hard cheese - 0.12 kg;
• olives - 5 pcs.

Cooking:

1. Boil the chicken until tender.
2. Cook the eggs, chop them finely.
3. Grate the cucumber, sprinkle with salt and leave it for a quarter of an hour.
4. Squeeze the carrots from the marinade, cut into slices 1 cm long.
5. Dice the tomatoes.
6. Grate the cheese.
7. Cut the fillet into small pieces.
8. Put the crescent-shaped meat on a flat plate, add spices and spread with mayonnaise.
9. Put Korean carrots in a second layer, season with red pepper if desired.
10. Put the chopped eggs in a third layer and squeeze them well to the carrots, then grease the layer with mayonnaise.
11. Put the cheese in the fourth layer, place tomatoes on top of it to simulate watermelon pulp.
12. Place the squeezed cucumber mass on the side of the salad.
13. Garnish with chopped olives.