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Men's caprice salad with cucumber

Man's Caprice Salad with Cucumber

An appetizer salad with boiled beef and fresh cucumbers. There are lots of versions of "Man's Caprice" salad, but the star ingredient in all of them is meat. The beef needs to cook a good while — at least 2 hours. This salad is great for a gathering since it's so filling. You can simply toss all the ingredients together and dress them with mayonnaise, or, for a holiday table, layer them into a "cake." In winter you can make this salad with dill pickles.

Elena

Recipe author

Composition / ingredients

Servings:

Beef

300

Cucumbers

300

Eggs

Bell pepper

Mayonnaise

200

Fresh herbs

Table salt

Translation table of volumetric measures

Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe

By weight of the composition:

Proteins 33 % 8 g

Fats 58 % 14 g

Carbohydrates 8 % 2 g

162 kcal

GI: 100 / 0 / 0

Cooking method

Step 1:

For "Man's Caprice" salad, you'll need boiled beef, hard-boiled eggs, fresh cucumbers and bell pepper, fresh dill and parsley, salt for cooking the meat, and mayonnaise for dressing. Get everything ready from the list. Boil the beef until tender, about 2 hours, salting it as it cooks. Cool the cooked meat and cut it into small pieces across the grain. Hard-boil the eggs.
Step 2:

Peel the cucumbers.
Step 3:

Cut the peeled cucumbers into small sticks.
Step 4:

Cut the bell pepper open and remove the seeds.
Step 5:

Dice the cleaned pepper small.
Step 6:

Peel the hard-boiled eggs and dice them, using an egg slicer if you have one.
Step 7:

Finely chop the dill and parsley with a knife.
Step 8:

Set an adjustable ring mold on a flat plate to shape the salad, and lay the chopped beef as the first layer.
Step 9:

Drizzle mayonnaise over the meat.
Step 10:

Next, add a layer of bell pepper.
Step 11:

Right on top of the pepper, add the cucumber layer.
Step 12:

Drizzle mayonnaise over the cucumber layer again.
Step 13:

Now add a layer of the chopped eggs.
Step 14:

Spread mayonnaise on the egg layer as well.
Step 15:

The final top layer is the chopped herbs.
Step 16:

Pipe a lattice of mayonnaise over the herb layer.
Step 17:

Remove the ring mold and serve. The Man's Caprice salad is ready.