A good housewife always has some special secrets and unusual recipes that can surprise even the most sophisticated gourmets.

Tasty, easy to prepare, and inexpensive dishes are prepared on the basis of pasta, which can be boiled or instant. As a rule, all recipes are the result of finds of ordinary housewives. Therefore, everyone can continue the experiments. And who knows, perhaps the motivating factor for new ideas will be our new selection of recipes for quick and tasty salads.

Simple instant noodle salad with egg

Any cold appetizer is not just a dish that decorates and complements the table of a hospitable hostess. It is always a culinary miracle and a subject of praise. In order to have more compliments for mastery, you can introduce it as a rule each time to surprise guests with some new dish.

A recipe for instant noodle salad, which includes a very simple set of ingredients, is wonderful for this purpose.

Required Products:

  • quick pasta - 1 pack;
  • fresh cucumber and tomato - 1 pc.;
  • egg - 2-3 pcs. (depending on size);
  • mayonnaise - 5 spoons;
  • salt to taste.

Order of preparation:

  1. Hard-boiled eggs must be cooled, peeled, and ground.
  2. Then wash, chop the tomato and cucumber.
  3. Break the noodles, lower them into warm water until they swell, then strain.
  4. Connect all the components.
  5. Add mayonnaise to the salad, salt, mix all the ingredients.
  6. Put the dish in the refrigerator for an hour.

This salad is convenient in that it can be served as a spring. To do this, just fill it with finely chopped herbs and garnish with a sprig of parsley.Nobody will ever guess on their own what is in the composition of such an appetizer. To open the veil of secrecy is the prerogative of the hostess only.

Cooking with Chicken

What could be more harmonious than any noodle combined with chicken? Such a food union is good for salads. Dishes are easy to digest, hearty, and most importantly, delicious!

 

Required Products:

  • “Quick” noodles - 1 pack;
  • chicken or turkey fillet - 0.3 kg;
  • egg - 4 pcs.;
  • green onions;
  • parsley, dill - at the discretion;
  • salt, spices (ground pepper, dried herbs are suitable) - to taste;
  • mayonnaise - 100 g.

Order of preparation:

  1. Boil the eggs, drain the water, cool and clean.
  2. Pour the noodles with hot water until swelling, then drain the excess liquid.
  3. Ready noodles are placed in a salad bowl.
  4. Boil chicken fillet, pour cold water. Cooking time after boiling is 15 minutes.
  5. Chop the eggs, cut the chicken into small, neat slices and add them to the noodles.
  6. Finely chop the greens and also place in the salad bowl.
  7. Season the dish with mayonnaise, salt, pepper and mix well.

This instant pasta dish, like the previous one, is served cold, so it must be cooled in the refrigerator, covered with a lid.

Tasty recipe with canned goods

The "student" option of a quick salad with sausage and canned goods is recommended for emergency cases when it is necessary to set the table in a matter of minutes and show off the ability to cook a dish "out of nothing."

Required Products:

  • instant noodles - 2 packs;
  • sausages or boiled sausage - 300 g;
  • crackers - 1 package;
  • peas (canned food) - 0.5 cans;
  • corn (canned food) - 1 can;
  • mayonnaise - 150 g.

Order of preparation:

  1. We make noodles, removing excess water from it after swelling.
  2. Dice the sausage.
  3. Drain the liquid from corn and peas.
  4. Combine noodles, peas and corn together in a salad bowl.
  5. Dress salad with mayonnaise.
  6. Mix.
  7. Sprinkle the dish with crackers.

Variations are possible, for example, boiled sausage can be replaced with smoked product, but in this case, instead of peas, grated cheese (processed or any other) and eggs, as well as fresh bell pepper are added. And instead of crackers, salad is seasoned with garlic and herbs. In general, there are great opportunities to reveal your creative potential.

Chinese noodle and cucumber appetizer

A magnificent lean salad, which includes only vegetables as additional ingredients. Can be prepared for vegetarians or during Christian holidays. The most amazing component of the dish is stewed cucumbers. Their taste is unusual, which adds the charms of a ready-made hot snack.

Required Products:

  • Chinese instant noodles - 2 packs;
  • fresh cucumber (large) - 3 pcs.;
  • fresh tomato - 3 pcs.;
  • large bell pepper (preferably colored) - 3 pcs.;
  • turnip onion - 2 heads;
  • soy sauce - 1/2 cup;
  • any vegetable oil (olive, sunflower, soybean) - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
  • spices - red pepper (ground), seasoning “hops-suneli” (to taste).

Order of preparation:

  1. Cucumbers, tomatoes, pepper cut into cubes.
  2. We heat the pan, pour olive oil on it. We cook vegetables for 15 minutes, adding soybean oil and spices to them a couple of minutes after the start of the stew.
  3. We make Chinese noodles.
  4. Add the pasta to the vegetables and simmer for another 4 minutes.
  5. We shift the finished dish into a salad bowl.

The cooked hot appetizer is suitable for serving as an independent dish based on vegetables. It can be diversified lunch or dinner. The dish is quite satisfying and has a piquant taste and aroma.

Crab Salad with Pasta

A feature of Chinese noodles is that it swells when exposed to water. This allows you to use it not only in brewed form, but also in dry, if the dish will subsequently be seasoned with mayonnaise and aged for about an hour in the refrigerator.

Required Products:

  • crab sticks - 1 package with a capacity of 0.25 kg;
  • corn (canned food) - 1 can;
  • a pack of instant noodles;
  • eggs - 5 pcs.;
  • fresh cucumbers (small) - 2 pcs.;
  • mayonnaise - 200 g;
  • greens - onions, parsley, dill, - in an amount of 3-4 branches;
  • salt, black pepper (ground) - to taste.

Order of preparation:

  1. Boil eggs in salt water, cool, then peel.
  2. Defrost the product from crabs (sticks), finely chop.
  3. Free corn from liquid.
  4. Grind the noodles, boil boiling water, drain excess water through a colander.
  5. Put eggs, crab sticks, corn, noodles in a salad bowl.
  6. We cut cucumbers and green onions, add them to the salad bowl to the rest of the ingredients.
  7. Dress with mayonnaise. Mix.
  8. The dish is decorated with parsley, dill and placed in the refrigerator for 40 minutes.

A separate feature of the salad is that you can not make Chinese noodles for it, but add it to the salad dry. While the food is cooling in the refrigerator, the noodles will swell and be ready for consumption. Instead of sticks in a salad, it is permissible to use boiled crab meat.

To decorate the dish, you can use olives, lemon, fresh cucumber or sliced ​​carrots.

Fast-prepared pasta dishes are an excellent solution for housewives who are in search of unusual culinary recipes.

Absolutely all of the options for snacks require no more than 30 minutes of time to create. To surprise surprise guests with craftsmanship, the hostess will need very little: a desire to experiment and a preliminary assessment of the contents of the refrigerator.

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