37 salpicão recipes to increase the menu

Salpicão, a type of salad usually made from shredded chicken, potatoes, vegetables and chopped apples mixed with mayonnaise and topped with straw potatoes, is a dish of unknown origin, although many defend its origin as Brazilian. Widely used for Sunday lunches, it is a great choice for hot days or as a snack for informal meetings.

Besides being simple to make, it is a nutritious and visually beautiful food. Dish with ingredient reuse profile, can be prepared with leftover meat from a previous meal.

Except for exceptions, as in vegan versions, salpicão will consist of the following ingredients: a meat, a fruit and a vegetable or vegetable. To make it even creamier, the sauce can be made with sour cream or mayonnaise.


Versatile and democratic dish, pleases the most varied tastes just by changing one or the other ingredient. Frequent presence at suppers in Brazil, enjoy and be inspired by the recipes below and make your parties even more special and tasty.

Salpicão with chicken

1. Chicken Salpicão revisited: lighter than the traditional version, in addition to bringing yogurt instead of mayonnaise, the chicken is baked in the oven to make it even tastier. Great option to enjoy leftover roast chicken from the day before.

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2. Chicken Salpicão: Using chilies, this recipe is rich in antioxidants and anti-inflammatories and has the ability to help prevent cancer.

3. Functional Salpicão: The fruit chosen from this recipe is apricot, rich in fiber, vitamins and beta-carotene, and a great ally in skin and hair health. Regarding the other ingredients, prefer the organic versions, healthier because they do not use the pesticide in their cultivation.

4. Light salpicão: Using ricotta cream instead of mayonnaise, this version is lighter, with a less striking but no less tasty flavor.


5. Chicken Salpicão: Here mustard is added to the sauce, ensuring a stronger, striking flavor. To make the recipe creamy, the cream was the sauce of choice.

6. Chicken mayonnaise with homemade mayonnaise: For those who like to prepare every detail of the dish, this recipe uses homemade mayonnaise in its preparation, making the dish even more special.

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7. Traditional Salpicão: recipe with another version of homemade mayonnaise, uses an unusual fruit in its preparation: the banana. Rich in fiber, potassium and vitamins, it will make the dish taste sweet.

8. Smoked Chicken Salpicão: Quick and practical to make, this salpicão is light and tasty. Uses smoked chicken as main meat and yogurt to ensure creaminess.

9. Different Salpicão: Instead of mayonnaise, this recipe takes salty whipped cream, which gives it a unique lightness and flavor when mixed with the remaining ingredients.

10. Salpicão with yogurt: This versatile recipe allows you to use easily accessible ingredients or replace ingredients you don't have in your home. Once again natural yogurt is the option chosen to make the dish even more creamy.

11. Smoked chicken and pineapple salsa in syrup: Ideal for hurrying moments, this practical dish uses pineapple in syrup as the fruit of choice to ensure a balance between sweet and salty flavor.

12. Light Salpicão: With homemade mayonnaise prepared with skim milk, this dish is light and tasty and still has a quick and easy preparation.

Salpicão with pork

13. Shredded pork fillet with kale: Using fillet pork tenderloin, this recipe also brings coconut milk and yogurt, bringing a different and delicious flavor to the dish.

14. Smoked sirloin salpicão: Using smoked pork loin and pineapple in syrup, this recipe has the exact balance of bittersweet flavor. To ensure creaminess, sour cream and mayonnaise together make the difference.

15. Chicken tenderloin with Canadian tenderloin and Greek yogurt: This recipe uses two types of meat: shredded chicken and Canadian tenderloin, ensuring a rich nutritional value to the dish. To make the dish even more beautiful, it is served in a? of arugula, bringing gourmet air to the meal.

16. Sirloin, chicken and ham salpicão: Here, in addition to using the pulled pork loin and chicken, ham is added to the recipe, which makes the dish even more tasty.

17. Salted ham: An option to serve as a snack, this version is prepared with roasted and shredded pork shank and is served in a filo pastry basket.

Salpicão with fish meat

18. Salami of kani: An option that differs from traditional chicken salpicão, this recipe takes kani, a stick made with fish meat and imitation crab meat flavor, an item widely used in Japanese cuisine.

19. Cod Salpicão: Using desalted and shredded cod, this version gets Portuguese air when accompanied by olives, potatoes and quail eggs.

20. Salmon Salpicão: Differentiated recipe uses salmon meat in its preparation. Fish which is highly nutritious, rich in omega-3, vitamins and fatty acids.

21. Tuna salpicão: With simple and tasty ingredients, this recipe is practical and fast and very tasty.

22. Salted fish: Using shredded tilapia meat, this version of salpicão contains high protein value and is an aid in weight loss.

23. Tuna and pineapple salpicão: With easy-to-find ingredients, this recipe uses pineapple as the fruit of choice. Fruit is rich in fiber, which has digestive enzymes capable of assisting in the degradation of fat.

Salpicão with cold cuts

24. Practical salad recipe: Demonstrating the versatility of this dish, this recipe does not use meat in its preparation, but turkey breast and mozzarella, making the preparation of the dish even more agile.

25. Cold cuts: Another version that does not use meat in its preparation, this dish has cheese, turkey breast and diced ham, resulting in a beautiful look.

26. Cold meat and cucumber in conversation: To further refine the look, this recipe takes cucumbers in conversation in its preparation. In addition to beauty, the dish gets vitamins A and C and mineral salts with this addition.

27. Cold cuts and chillies: By adding peppers and leeks, this recipe gets striking flavors and more nutrients than the traditional version. To make the dish even more creamy, mix mayonnaise and plain yogurt.

28. Light cold cuts: Ideal recipe for those on a low-calorie diet, it includes ricotta cheese, turkey breast and low-fat yogurt, ingredients that guarantee the lightness of the dish.

29. Mango and walnut cold cuts: The fruit chosen to be featured in this recipe was mango, rich in minerals, nutrients, vitamins and fiber. To add crispness to the dish, use walnuts.

Salpicão without meat

30. Tofu Salpicão: Using tofu, a traditional soybean cheese in Japanese cuisine, this recipe also leads to gluttony, a gluten-rich meat consumed by vegans and vegetarians.

31. Fruit Salpicão: To replace the meat, this recipe uses the "jackfruit meat", old known to the followers of veganism. This meat consists of green jackfruit pulp cooked in the pressure cooker. Worth a try!

32. Vegetarian chickpeas and endives: Chickpeas, a food used in this recipe, are one of the most nutritionally complete foods, as well as helping to lower cholesterol, are tasty and versatile. Here it is accompanied by endives, bitter taste vegetables rich in zinc.

33. Vegetarian Salpicão: With few ingredients, this dish is crispy, tasty and with a predominantly sweet taste. To get out of routine.

34. Peppers: Practical and quick recipe, recalls the classic recipe of salpicão, with the exception of the presence of chicken, which leaves nothing to be desired regarding the taste.

35. Vegetarian salpicão with pepper pout: One more meatless salty option, this version features pout pepper, sweet-flavored pepper rich in minerals. Delicious!

36. Vegetarian cabbage salad: With the white cabbage cut into thin slices, this salpicão gets vitamin A and potassium, making the meal more nutritious.

37. Salpicão without chicken: In this version, turkey breast replaces chicken meat, which together with ricotta cheese, ensures lightness to the dish.

With so many detailed and delicious recipes it will be easy to choose which type of salpicão is your favorite. Just follow the walkthrough and walkthroughs so that everything goes as planned. Enjoy the tips and be amazed by this delicious, refreshing and easy to prepare dish.

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