How to cook Shop salad.

Shop salad is a dish that has Balkan roots. As a rule, it is prepared in Eastern Europe, Bulgaria, Moldova, Montenegro, Ukraine. The salad is especially popular in Bulgaria, where it is a kind of analogue of the Greek salad.

Its composition usually includes colored bell peppers, rennet cheeses (brynza), ripe tomatoes, onions and fresh cucumbers. Another salad is unthinkable without greens and spicy spices. Vegetable oil (olive and sunflower), wine vinegar and salt are usually used as a dressing.

Such a salad is indispensable for dinner when it is eaten with a glass of semi-sweet wine. This dish also goes well as an appetizer with the national Bulgarian drink – rakia.

By the way, shop salad, unlike Greek salad, is cut into small pieces and mixed at the end. Be sure to sprinkle with grated cheese.

As a result, we get a very beautiful and tasty dish. And most importantly, it is incredibly useful. After all, vegetables are a valuable source of fiber and vitamins. And cottage cheese provides our body with calcium and other trace elements.

So prepare Shopsky salad for health. We will prepare a version of the correct Shop salad, in compliance with all the necessary conditions.

Calculation of products for 2 portions

Ingredients:
tomatoes – 3-4 pcs.;
cucumbers – 2-3 pcs.;
pepper (red, sweet) – 1 pc.;
onion – 1/4 pc.;
cheese (preferably Bulgarian production) – 60-70 gr.;
olives (for decoration) – to taste;
salt, pepper – to taste;
olive oil – to taste;
vinegar (wine or balsamic) – to taste.

What to cook here, you ask. Cut everything, mix – that’s the whole salad. Well, except to lay out layers in the colors of the Bulgarian flag: tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers and cottage cheese.

But to prepare a proper Shop salad, you need to follow several conditions.

First, the proportion of ingredients used: 35% – tomatoes, 30% – cucumbers, 20% – peppers, 10% – cheese and 5% – onions.

Second, vegetable processing (pepper only baked, cucumber without skin). Thirdly, there is a certain way of slicing.

And finally, this salad should be prepared immediately before serving. Believe me, if you follow these conditions, the dish will turn out to be very tasty. So, let’s start.

How to properly prepare Shop salad.

Wash all vegetables well. Bake the pepper in the oven for about 25-30 minutes at a temperature of 190-200 degrees. Then we wrap the finished pepper in a bag and leave it for 10 minutes so that the skin can be easily removed later.

Take it out, peel it and cut it into thin long strips. Grate the cheese on a coarse grater.

Cut the onion into thin feathers. Leave the olives whole.

Cut the tomatoes in half, then each half into 3 more parts.

Peel the cucumbers, cut them in half lengthwise, then cut each half into thick pieces.

In a large bowl, mix tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers and onions. Add vinegar and olive oil to taste, pepper and salt (the main thing here is not to overdo it, if the cheese is very salty, you can not add salt at all).

We put it in portioned bowls (in the original, it is customary to serve such a salad in a large bowl at once for everyone), sprinkle with cheese and add a couple of olives on top.

And that’s all, bon appetit!