Professional-level party meals can be easily prepared at home

Taiwan's climate has repeatedly hit record highs since the beginning of summer. With the heat wave approaching, I believe many people will experience some degree of loss of appetite. At this time, salad is a creative and light meal that is not only delicious but also simple and easy to prepare. In particular, you can also choose your favorite low-calorie ingredients, such as beef tomatoes, corn kernels, asparagus and other summer seasonal ingredients, which are refreshing to eat and keep your body healthy without clotting oil. (Video/Editor Jiang Minjun)

With the current trend of many young working people holding parties at home with a few friends on weekends and holidays, by using salad dressing that is easy to obtain and simple to prepare, you can also come up with a variety of creative party dishes with a few friends, which not only makes the taste more layered, but also makes the guests amazed when the food is served. Creative and varied salad dressing dishes are a great choice for enjoying by yourself or at a gathering with a few friends in the summer.

Titan teacher Zhang Qiuyong (pictured), who is known as the "urban chef", uses crown salad to create creative dishes. (Photo/Reporter Zhang Shijie)

Titan teacher Zhang Qiuyong, who has the title of "Urban Chef Man", is often invited to teach in top cooking classes. He is also the author of the popular cookbook "Urban Chef Man Titan's Kitchen". In fact, Titan Zhang Qiuyong, who is in his early 30s, has 10 years of cooking experience and 5 years of teaching experience, and is deeply loved by fans.

This time, Mr. Titan designed three creative salad dishes using salad dressing. He emphasized that salad dressing is the "magic card" in cooking, which can change the taste of ingredients. As long as you use seasonal fresh fruits and vegetables, and add creative ideas, you can easily create a variety of delicious summer-cooling dishes.

Creative party snacks: "Sauce" is the key to deliciousness

For office workers who want to hold a party at home with friends on weekends and holidays, they can use some ingredients that are available at home or easily accessible, add some creative designs, such as some party snacks containing fruits and vegetables, and then make some delicious sauces to add seasoning. This can not only allow you to take in enough dietary fiber, but also refresh and relieve the absorption of alcohol, making the dinner more enjoyable.

How to easily make professional-level light party snacks at home? Teacher Titan pointed out that you only need to grasp three simple principles. First, use seasonal, fresh and easily available ingredients. Second, "centralize" and "elevate" the ingredients when arranging them on the plate. Third, use salad dressing to make creative and dreamy sauces and make them into a size that is easy to eat. This will add a gorgeous and fashionable style to light meals and create visually beautiful party foods. It not only directly teases the appetite buds of gourmets, but also makes creative salad dishes ever-changing, healthy and burden-free.

Creative light meals are popular among office workers, who use simple ingredients to eat healthily. (Photo/Reporter Zhang Shijie)

1+1>2 Salad dressing is delicious, versatile and changeable

Titan, a gourmet cooking expert, emphasized that although he has been engaged in the catering industry for many years and has used many different brands of salads, he is accustomed to using laurel salad as the base to prepare various sauces. This is because laurel salad is delicate and dense, has a good and stable emulsification effect, and the salad can still maintain its original shape half an hour after being squeezed out. It is suitable for cooking and can be eaten after being fully blended with fruits and vegetables. It is delicious, healthy and convenient.

Use the laurel salad, which can be eaten cold or in cooking, as the base, and follow the concept of 1+1>2 to mix up a variety of unique flavors and sauces as a pairing. After get off work, you can easily make a variety of delicious and beautiful party foods at home and enjoy them with your family and friends.

《Dish name: Grilled Salad Trio》

The Grilled Artisan Salad Trio (pictured) has a unique flavor and layered textures. (Photo provided by Guiguan Food)

Ingredients: 3 pieces of laurel, 20 grams of cucumber (cut into sections), 1 cherry tomato (cut in half), 3 mushrooms, 1 slice of cheese, 3 bamboo skewers

Sauce: 20g of each laurel salad, mixed with various condiments.

 (豬肉鬆12克、鮪魚罐頭20克、芥末醬5克)

Serving size: 3 servings

Preparation method:

1. Mix the laurel salad with pork floss, canned tuna and mustard sauce to make a trio salad dressing

2. Season the mushrooms and put them into the pan with the scallions, fry until they are browned.

3. Place the trio of salad dressings on top of the yaki, then top with cheese slices, and finally use a spray gun to color them.

4. Combine the Trio salad dressing with vegetables and skewer them. (Cucumber + pork floss salad sauce; tomato + tuna sauce; mushroom + mustard sauce)

《Dish name: Pan-fried salmon salad waltz》

The pan-fried salmon salad waltz (pictured) is refreshing and not greasy, and the addition of salad makes it even more unique and desirable. (Photo provided by Guiguan Food)

Ingredients: 90 grams of salmon fillet, salt and pepper to taste, 3 slices of pressed white toast, 3 blanched thin asparagus, 50cc of milk foam.

Sauce: 30g laurel salad, 30g whipped cream, 5cc brandy

Serving size: 3 servings

Preparation method:

1.Cut the salmon fillet into 1 piece (about 30g), season and fry in a frying pan until browned.

2. After molding the white toast, place it in the oven and bake it at 140 degrees for about 8 minutes, then bake it at 180 degrees for 2 minutes, and take it out for later use.

3. Mix the whipped cream with laurel salad and brandy to make a sauce. Arrange the ingredients on a plate in order and top with milk foam.

《Dish name: Shrimp salad and fruit crispy pie》

The shrimp salad vegetable and fruit crispy pie (as shown in the picture) is Thai style, with roast chicken sauce and shrimp roe mixed into a sauce that leaves a lingering taste in your mouth. (Photo provided by Guiguan Food)

Ingredients: 3 boiled shrimps, 3 slices of Guangdong A vegetable, 20g beef tomatoes (cut into small cubes), 20g corn kernels, 5g coriander leaves, 1 slice of Kaho scallion oil pie

Sauce: 30g laurel salad, 10g Thai roast chicken sauce, 10g shrimp roe

Serving size: 3 servings

Preparation method:

1. Place the scallion pie in a small mold, put it in the oven, and bake at 160 degrees for about 7 minutes until the crust is crispy.

2. Mix the laurel salad with Thai roast chicken sauce and shrimp roe to make a sauce.

3. Peel the grass shrimps and then assemble the ingredients and place them on a plate.