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Salad with beans, smoked sausage and crackers

Bean, Smoked Sausage, and Crouton Salad

For every day and for a holiday table - quick and easy! This salad with beans, smoked sausage, and croutons belongs to the category of appetizers that take about 10 minutes to make. Yet the dish comes out hearty, nourishing, and incredibly tasty.

Maria

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Salad with beans, smoked sausage and crackers

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Composition / ingredients

Servings:

Semi-smoked sausage

250

Canned beans

200

Pickled cucumbers

Croutons

Lettuce leaves

Mayonnaise

Translation table of volumetric measures

Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe

By weight of the composition:

Proteins 27 % 11 g

Fats 46 % 19 g

Carbohydrates 27 % 11 g

262 kcal

GI: 0 / 0 / 100

Cooking method

Cooking time: 10 min

Step 1:

How do you make a salad with beans and smoked sausage? Gather the ingredients. Choose a sausage that isn't too fatty, like cervelat. You can boil the beans yourself, but ready-made canned beans are much more convenient and faster - just make sure they aren't in tomato sauce. Use rye croutons, and pick the seasonings to your taste.
Step 2:

Cut the pickled cucumbers into small cubes.
Step 3:

Drain the canned beans in a sieve to let the excess liquid run off. Then rinse them under running water and dry them. I used both white and red beans.
Step 4:

Peel the casing off the smoked sausage and cut it into cubes.
Step 5:

You can use store-bought croutons or make your own. To make them, cut rye bread into small cubes and dry them in the oven. Sprinkle them with your favorite spices and salt to taste.
Step 6:

Wash and dry the lettuce. You can use a single type, like iceberg, or a ready-made mix. I have a mix of romaine, radicchio, and frisée - they're great for this salad.
Step 7:

Put the smoked sausage, pickled cucumbers, canned beans, and some of the lettuce in a salad bowl.
Step 8:

Dress the salad with mayonnaise.
Step 9:

And mix well.
Step 10:

Put the remaining lettuce on a platter. Scatter some of the croutons on top.
Step 11:

Mound the salad on the croutons. Sprinkle with the remaining croutons. Serve the salad right away so the croutons don't get soggy. Enjoy!

This balanced trio of ingredients - sausage, cucumbers, beans - pairs beautifully with vegetables and dressings, so you're not limited to one recipe but can vary your everyday table in a new way each time. This salad with croutons, beans, and sausage is easy enough for even a child to make. The whole process is just mixing canned beans with pieces of sausage, croutons, and the other ingredients, dressed with mayonnaise. The salad can change its flavor depending on the croutons: spicy or garlic ones make it zestier, while sour-cream- or herb-flavored ones make it gentler and milder. I usually use plain croutons - salted at most. To make the salad lower in calories, you can use a dressing based on vegetable oil or yogurt.
The salad looks neat and pretty if you cut all the ingredients into pieces of the same size and shape (cubes, for example).
It's better to make the mayonnaise yourself - it'll be tastier and better for you. See some interesting homemade mayonnaise recipes here. You can also use sour cream or plain yogurt as the dressing - on their own or mixed with mayonnaise in any ratio you like, which lowers the calorie count.