Many of us love to make something out of nothing. And it is also desirable not to spend a lot of time and effort, and even so that this dish would benefit our beloved body. One day I decided to follow all of the above. Here, for example, is a salad with arugula and tomatoes.
It, I note, is indeed often offered by many menus, both restaurants and cafes. I didn’t have cherry tomatoes in the fridge (it is with them that arugula harmonizes most successfully and effectively) and our usual, but no less tasty tomato went to the salad. As for cheese, any variety can be used in such a salad. In the classic version, the salad is rubbed on top with parmesan, in other cases, mozzarella is used. By adding a new kind of cheese to the salad and tomatoes each time, you can get a new taste of a seemingly ordinary dish.
My acquaintance with arugula, I remember, began at my sister's house. She is a fan of all kinds of newfangled culinary experiments. And somehow, having come to visit her, I was surprised to discover a hitherto unknown grass. Its appearance reminded me of a dandelion, and its spicy taste, with a slight bitterness, immediately attracted my attention. Before this incident, I managed in salads with dill-parsley, which is familiar in our latitudes, but now arugula has taken its place of honor among favorites.
Rucola with tomatoes personally never bothers me, maybe, of course, this is due to my love for salads, but nevertheless, I can assure you that this seemingly ordinary herb or lettuce will bring a lot of benefits to your body. Experts in nutrition, weight loss and just a healthy lifestyle assure that the value of arugula is undeniable. It is she who is one of the main assistants in losing weight, because arugula stabilizes the body's metabolism, it also removes excess cholesterol, is rich in various vitamins and minerals (such as iodine, calcium, iron, magnesium), helps to be in good shape all day, strengthens the walls our blood vessels, lowers blood sugar levels. In general, not a plant, but a real find.
But I want to warn you, having prepared a salad with arugula and cheese, as well as tomatoes, you should immediately serve it on the table. Because the leaves of arugula, if they stand, lose their taste and healing properties. Salad for lovely women is also useful in that arugula makes the skin more elastic and youthful, and hair and nails become even more beautiful.
Ingredients for the dish:
- - tomato - 1 pc.;
- - cucumber - 2 pcs.;
- - cheese - 100 g;
- - arugula - 0.5 bunch;
- - soy sauce - 1 tbsp. l.;
- - lemon - 0.5 pcs.;
- - ground black pepper - 1 pinch;
- - olive oil - 2-3 tbsp. l.;
- - salt - to taste.
How to cook arugula salad with tomato and cucumber:
Wash the arugula thoroughly, remove the tough stems and tear the arugula leaves with your hands.
Wash cucumbers and cut as you like.
Wash the tomato and cut into cubes.
Cheese cut into cubes.
Prepare dressing for our arugula salad. To do this, mix olive oil, soy sauce, squeeze the juice of half a lemon and season with black pepper. Salt can be omitted, because soy sauce will give a salty taste, but if you are a fan of more salty dishes, then you can limit yourself to one pinch.
Dress the salad with arugula and tomatoes with the prepared sauce. Gently toss salad with arugula.
Salad with arugula and tomatoes, serve immediately on the table. Bon appetit!
Recipe "Arugula Salad with Tomato and Cucumber" prepared by Nadezhda
What is arugula? These are smooth, dark green leaves, reminiscent of the prickly leaves of a dandelion. Most often, arugula is traditionally used in Italian cuisine. This herb is growing in popularity as an ingredient to add raw to fresh salads, but is also good to use with cheeses, sandwiches, egg and chicken dishes, pastas, tomato dishes and vegetables. In addition, arugula is often added to pizza.
Composition of ingredients:
Arugula - a few stalks
Fresh cucumber - 1 pc.
Green onion - 1 pc.
Lettuce leaves - 1 bunch
Egg - 1 pc.
Olive oil - 1 tbsp
Salt - to taste
Preparation for 2 servings:
- My lettuce leaves (you can also use young cabbage leaves), finely chop and put in a salad bowl.
- We cook an egg. Then we clean the egg and cut it the way you like. Add to salad.
- We wash green onions and arugula under water, put them on a board and cut them in the same way as we used to cut any other greens.
- My cucumber and cut into cubes. Put in a bowl with the rest of the ingredients.
- Salt to taste and drizzle with olive oil. We mix all the ingredients and get an excellent diet salad with arugula! Salad goes well with any side dish and meat dishes.
Calories: Not specified
Cooking time: not specified
Summer is in full swing. As a rule, in summer a person eats more plant foods: vegetables, fruits, berries. At the beginning of the season, we eat fresh vitamins with great pleasure, and after a couple of weeks this food becomes a habit and we want something new. One morning I felt like it, I cut tomatoes and cucumbers out of habit, added fresh arugula, but I wanted something like that ... and just caught my eye seeds and sesame seeds, I decided to combine these ingredients, and the result exceeded all expectations. Arugula salad with tomatoes and cucumbers turned out delicious and all the ingredients are incredibly harmoniously combined. Tomato will replenish the body with important vitamin K and lycopene, which is a powerful antioxidant, cucumbers - alkaline acids that neutralize acidic compounds in the body, arugula - fiber, which gives a person a feeling of satiety, seeds - phospholipids and fat-soluble acids that help maintain youth and improve health man, sesame seeds - sesamin, which lowers blood cholesterol levels and many other useful substances. Which can be listed for a very long time.
Cooking time: 20 minutes
Yield: 4 servings
To prepare a summer salad with tomatoes, cucumbers, arugula and seeds, we need the following ingredients:
- tomatoes - 300 grams,
- cucumbers - 200 grams,
- arugula - 0.5 bunch,
- seeds - 50 grams,
- sesame seeds - 20 grams,
- olive oil - 50 milliliters.
Step by step recipe with photo:
Wash the tomatoes under running water, dry on a paper towel and cut into slices. 
We wash the fresh greens of arugula under running water, cut off the dried tails and cut into large pieces. 
Cucumbers are also washed under running water, dried and cut into thin half rings. Add chopped cucumbers and arugula to the tomatoes. 
Add toasted peeled seeds and sesame seeds to the salad. Sesame seeds can be lightly toasted or left unroasted.
Add olive oil, if it is not available, then you can replace it with sunflower oil. Mix all salad ingredients thoroughly. It is advisable to let the salad stand for 10 minutes so that the salad ingredients absorb the other ingredients.
This salad with arugula, tomatoes and cucumbers can be a great breakfast, goes well with meat dishes. Summer salad with tomatoes, cucumbers, arugula and seeds is a dietary, vegetarian dish. This salad can be used for celebrations, as it is very unusual and sophisticated. Your friends and relatives will definitely appreciate this original combination of quite familiar products.
And it turns out more satisfying
step by step recipe with photo
Small discreet leaves of arugula conceal a rich spicy taste, which is why they are used in salads, sauces, as a seasoning for meat. Italians are especially indifferent to arugula, sometimes they even add it to the popular and well-known pesto sauce.
In our region, where the culture of seasonings and spices is not so rich, arugula is just beginning to enter the culinary everyday life and this is a great opportunity to experiment.
Try adding some of its leaves to the simplest vegetable salad - it will change radically.
By the way, arugula will be good paired with basil, a variety of cheeses and seafood.
Ingredients
- fresh cucumbers - 3 pcs.
- tomatoes - 4 pcs.
- pepper - 1 pc.
- arugula - 50 g
- salt - 2 g
- pepper - 1 g
How to make a salad with arugula and tomatoes
1. We prepare our vegetables for slicing. Rinse cucumbers, tomatoes, peppers and arugula well under running water. If the cucumbers are large, then it is better to remove the peel from them, as it can give additional bitterness. If the cucumbers are small, you can leave the peel on them. Cucumbers cut into small halves.
2. We shift the chopped cucumbers into a deep bowl. Preparing the pepper for cutting. We take out the stalk and core. Cut the pepper into small pieces and add to the cucumbers.
3. Cut the tomatoes in half and cut out the stem. Next, cut into half rings and transfer to a bowl with vegetables.
4. Cut off the leaves from the prepared arugula and add to the salad. Salt and pepper the vegetables a little, mix well.
5. Put the finished salad on plates. The total amount of prepared salad is enough for 2-3 servings. Total cooking time 20 minutes.
Note to the owner
1. Leave the list of ingredients unchanged, keep the dosages completely, but get a different taste of the salad - is this possible? Quite. It is necessary to use the Croatian version of the recipe for this dish: remove the skin from both tomatoes and cucumbers, cut all products, except for arugula, very, very finely - almost to turn into mashed potatoes. When the tomato juice is plentifully allocated - mix. Serve in deep bowls.
2. Each component of the salad is combined with soft white cheeses. Feta cubes, miniature cheese slices, small mozzarella balls, pieces of Safed, Adyghe, Ossetian cheese - the taste of an appetizer with arugula, when these ingredients are added, will approach the reference one, according to gourmets.
3. If you decide to chop the vegetables coarsely, then it does not hurt to season them with something: olive oil infused with fragrant herbs, pomegranate or grapefruit juice, grape balsamic. If you choose the first option, the appetizer will become more tender. Juice will enrich it with vitamins and give it sourness, and balsamic vinegar - piquancy and attractive aroma.
4. In Montenegro, a salad with arugula, as a rule, is side by side on the table with krstač. It is difficult to buy this Mediterranean drink here, but it will be fully replaced by dry wines with a pronounced tart taste.
Supporters of tasty and healthy food have already got acquainted with the Italian spicy herb arugula. A variety of dishes are prepared from it, it is even added to pesto sauce instead of basil, but the most popular dish is a salad topped with fragrant leaves. Often a salad with arugula is complemented with cheese and tomatoes, olive oil dressing, balsamic vinegar and spices.
How to make arugula salad
The nut-mustard flavor of spicy leaves won the hearts of gourmets. Italian grass has become a leading ingredient in many salads. Juicy young shoots are harmoniously combined with a variety of products: meat, vegetables, fish, fruits. There are many ways to prepare appetizers from arugula. Even the usual beets or radishes will sparkle in a new way if you combine them with this greenery.
Sauce for arugula
The sauce will connect the components of the salad into a single whole. Italians season spicy greens not only with olive oil and mayonnaise familiar to us, but with a combination of aromatic products. The sauces contain the secret of how to cook an Italian dish deliciously. For example, add olive oil, a little sugar and salt to hot orange juice. In addition to olive oil, dressings can contain:
- yogurt, apple cider vinegar, mustard, garlic, honey;
- soy sauce, garlic, lemon juice.
Arugula Salad Recipes
Exquisite young shoots are an ingredient that will spice up familiar products. Delicate leaves are the perfect complement to both sweet fruits and salted fish. To prepare a delicious and beautiful arugula salad, as if it was created for a photo in a glossy magazine, you do not have to make a lot of effort. Bright greenery is a worthy decoration for any treat.
Arugula salad with cheese
- Time: 10 min.
- Servings: 2 persons.
- Purpose: snack.
- Cuisine: Italian.
- Difficulty: easy.
A piquant plant came to us from Italy, so many dishes are prepared from products traditional for this area. No Italian dish is complete without cheese. Spicy Parmesan, sweet mascarpone, or salty Grana Padano are good choices for green leafy recipes. The following arugula salad with cheese is made with sour mozzarella.
Ingredients:
- mozzarella - 300 g;
- cherry - 100 g;
- arugula - 100 g;
- olive oil, balsamic vinegar - for dressing.
Cooking method:
- Cut the tomatoes in half, mozzarella into pieces.
- Put young leaves in a salad bowl, add all the ingredients.
- Pour in the oil-vinegar mixture, stir.
With arugula and tomatoes
- Time: 5 min.
- Servings: 2 persons.
- Calorie content of the dish: 118 kcal per 100 g.
- Purpose: snack.
- Cuisine: Italian.
- Difficulty: easy.
If you chose a salad recipe with arugula and cherry tomatoes for a homemade dinner, you can replace small tomatoes with tomatoes from the garden. This will have little effect on the taste, but may slightly impair the visual perception. If you are cooking for yourself and your family, and not for a photo in a fashion magazine, then a replacement is perfectly acceptable. To complete the taste, add a couple of details to the red and green picture.
Ingredients:
- cherry - 0.3 kg;
- arugula - 60 g;
- parmesan (grated) - 2 tbsp. l.;
- garlic - 1 tooth;
- olive oil - 2 tbsp. l.;
- balsamic - 1 tbsp. l.
Cooking method:
- Cut the tomatoes in half, pour them with the oil-vinegar mixture.
- Chop the garlic, add it to the tomatoes.
- Add fragrant leaves to the salad bowl, mix with salt and pepper, sprinkle with parmesan.
With arugula and shrimp
- Time: 20 min.
- Servings: 5 persons.
- Calorie content of the dish: 151 kcal per 100 g.
- Purpose: snack.
- Cuisine: Italian.
- Difficulty: easy.
Spicy spicy herbs can shade the tenderness of seafood. You do not need detailed instructions with photos for cooking, only a drop of inspiration and quality products. A light salad is a great option for a festive dinner. Delight the family with a treat with an unusual dressing. The sauce contains lemon and honey for a subtle sweet-sour taste.
Ingredients:
- cherry tomatoes - 300 g;
- shrimp - 800 g;
- arugula - a bunch;
- parmesan - 80 g;
- garlic - 2-3 teeth;
- pine nuts - 60 g;
- olive oil - 6 tbsp. l.;
- soy sauce - 6 tbsp. l.;
- lemon - ¼ part;
- honey - 2 tsp
Cooking method:
- Lay the spicy leaves in a bowl on a plate.
- Cut the tomatoes in half, spread on the grass.
- Shrimp fry in a pan with garlic, put the seafood on a plate.
- Cut into thin pieces of parmesan. Arrange a few slices of cheese on top.
- Mix soy sauce, olive oil, honey, lemon juice.
- Drizzle with dressing, garnish with cheese and nuts.
With arugula and pine nuts
- Time: 10 min.
- Servings: 2 persons.
- Calorie content of the dish: 134 kcal per 100 g.
- Purpose: snack.
- Cuisine: Italian.
- Difficulty: easy.
If you want to surprise the family with an unreal combination of flavors, you need to make a mixture of spicy greens, pine nuts and pears. The sweetish composition is a delight for gourmets. The final note in the flavor melody will be given by the selected cheese variety. You can add cheese or feta. This recipe uses parmesan, which is common in Italy.
Ingredients:
- arugula - a bunch;
- pear - 2 pcs.;
- pine nuts - 20 g;
- grated parmesan - 2 tbsp. l.
- olive oil - 2 tbsp. l.;
- lemon juice - 2 tbsp. l.;
- balsamic - 1 tsp;
- honey - 2 tsp
Cooking method:
- Spread the leaves on a plate, sprinkle with cheese, salt.
- Cut the pears into cubes, put the pieces in the next layer.
- Sprinkle pine nuts on top.
- Mix lemon juice, honey, vinegar and oil. Pour the sauce over the dish.
With Chiken
- Time: 40 min.
- Servings: 5 persons.
- Calorie content of the dish: 90 kcal per 100 g.
- Purpose: snack.
- Cuisine: Italian.
- Difficulty: medium.
To prepare a hearty salad of chicken and spicy greens, you will have to try. The process will take a little longer than other recipes, but the result is worth the effort. In the restaurant version of the recipe, long pieces of meat are not mixed with other ingredients, but laid out on the edge of the plate. The remaining components are sprinkled with sesame seeds fried in a pan.
Ingredients:
- chicken meat (fillet) - 0.4 kg;
- arugula - 1 bunch;
- flour - 0.5 tbsp.;
- tomatoes - 0.2 kg;
- cucumbers - 2 pcs.;
- garlic - 2 teeth;
- vegetable oil - 3-4 tbsp. l. for frying;
- soy sauce, pepper, salt, olive oil, curry - to taste.
Cooking method:
- Cut the fillet into long pieces, roll them in flour. Fry them in a hot pan with oil, then cut into strips.
- Put the leaves in a salad bowl.
- Cut cucumbers and tomatoes into small pieces, distribute vegetables and meat in a salad bowl.
- Add chopped garlic, the rest of the ingredients to taste.
With liver
- Time: 40 min.
- Servings: 2 persons.
- Calorie content of the dish: 100 kcal per 100 g.
- Purpose: for dinner.
- Cuisine: Italian
- Difficulty: easy.
A dish with arugula and liver is a hearty and light full dinner. You can serve it either warm or cold. The recipe uses roasted bell peppers. If you bake it in the traditional way in the oven, it will take 30 minutes to prepare the product. The time for baking sweet peppers in the microwave is less - only 6-7 minutes.
Ingredients:
- boiled chicken liver - 160 g;
- green onions - 20 g;
- sweet bell pepper - 3 pcs.;
- leaf lettuce - 70 g;
- arugula - 20 g;
- apple cider vinegar or balsamic - 1 tbsp. l.;
- olive oil - 1 tbsp. l.;
- iodized salt - to taste.
Cooking method:
- Cut the liver into pieces.
- Bake bell pepper, peel, cut into strips.
- Tear the greens into pieces, cut the onion into rings.
- Stir olive oil with squeezed lemon juice, salt and pepper.
- Spread on a plate like this: lettuce, arugula, liver, sweet pepper, green onion, dressing.
Warm salad with arugula
- Time: 20 min.
- Servings: 1 person.
- Calorie content of the dish: 115 kcal per 100 g.
- Purpose: snack.
- Cuisine: Italian.
- Difficulty: easy.
Mushroom aroma and light bitterness in a warm salad will surprise you with its special taste. Such a treat is not only worthy of the home table, the dish is a frequent guest in gourmet restaurants. Treat yourself to an amazingly delicious dish, because it is so easy to prepare, and the products used are the simplest. You can replace the melted cheese from the recipe with any other variety.
Ingredients:
- champignons - 100 g.
- arugula - 20 g;
- processed cheese - 20 g;
- bell pepper - ½ pc.;
- vegetable (usually olive) oil, salt, balsamic - to taste.
Cooking method:
- Put the arugula on a plate.
- Cut mushrooms into slices and fry in a pan, salt.
- Pepper cut into cubes.
- Arrange the mushrooms and peppers on top of the green leaves.
- Grate the cheese, sprinkle on top of the salad with arugula, season with vinegar.
With oranges and arugula
- Time: 10 min.
- Servings: 2 persons.
- Calorie content of the dish: 98 kcal.
- Purpose: snack.
- Cuisine: Italian.
- Difficulty: easy.
Healthy food is delicious if you choose the right ingredients. The arugula and orange salad recipe will not only give a lot of vitamins and minerals to your body, but also leave an unforgettable impression of its amazing taste. Goat cheese, greens and citrus fruits - an unusual combination, but a guaranteed pleasure even for sophisticated gourmets.
Ingredients:
- arugula - 1 bunch;
- oranges - 2 pcs.;
- feta - 6 tbsp. l.;
- garlic - 2 teeth;
- honey - 1 tsp;
- lemon juice - 3 tbsp. l.;
- olive oil - 1 tbsp. l.;
- basil leaves - to taste.
Cooking method:
- Mix the sauce: oil, finely chopped garlic, honey, lemon juice.
- Peel the oranges, cut the pulp into slices.
- Add arugula, feta pieces, pour dressing.
with avocado
- Time: 10 min.;
- Servings: 2 persons.
- Calorie content of the dish: 330 kcal per 100 g.
- Purpose: snack.
- Cuisine: Italian.
- Difficulty: easy.
Ingredients:
- avocado - 1 pc.;
- slightly salted salmon - 100 g;
- cucumber - 1 pc.;
- arugula - 1 bunch;
- dressing of lemon juice and olive oil - 2-3 tbsp. l.
Cooking method:
- Cut the avocado pulp into pieces, cucumber into strips, fish into small slices.
- Mix pieces of salmon, avocado, cucumber, arugula, sprinkle everything with oil and lemon juice.
With quail eggs
- Time: 5 min.
- Servings: 1 person.
- Calorie content of the dish: 98 kcal per 100 g.
- Purpose: snack.
- Cuisine: Italian.
- Difficulty: easy.
Neat quail eggs are a real salad decoration. If other varieties of tomatoes can be used for other recipes, then in this dish there are only cherry tomatoes. Surrounded by exquisite grass with unusual leaves, miniature products look amazing. Add a small pinch of Provencal herbs to the dressing to emphasize the identity of the taste.
Ingredients:
- arugula - 1 bunch;
- cherry tomatoes - 10 pcs.;
- quail eggs - 10 pcs.;
- olive oil, balsamic vinegar, garlic, Provence herbs - to taste.
Cooking method:
- Cut the eggs and tomatoes in half, tear the arugula with your hands, mix the ingredients.
- Combine the dressing elements, pour the dressing over the salad.
From strawberries and arugula
- Time: 10 min.
- Servings: 1 person.
- Calorie content of the dish: 124 kcal per 100 g.
- Purpose: snack.
- Cuisine: Italian.
- Difficulty: easy.
A red-green bright salad with a rich taste is a joy for aesthetes and gourmets, combining unusual products into a single whole. Only from one glance at such an accumulation of colors in one plate, a festive mood arises. Catch the unique aroma, try this impeccable treat to understand what a pleasure it tastes and smells.
Ingredients:
- arugula - 50 g;
- pine nuts - 20 g;
- strawberries - 200 g;
- balsamic, olive oil - for dressing;
- ground black pepper, salt - to taste.
Cooking method:
- Heat up a dry frying pan and toast the nuts in it.
- Put the arugula on a dish, top with nuts and strawberries, cut into thin slices.
- Add balsamic, oil, salt, pepper.
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