Chicken is a favorite food of millions of people. It is baked, stewed, boiled, fried … However, dishes that are no less adored with it are a variety of salads. We will share some options of them in this section.
Recipe content:
- Tasty Tips
- Chicken and pineapple salad
- Chicken and mushroom salad
- Chicken and cheese salad
- Video recipes
Poultry is a real source of protein, calcium and many vitamins of various subgroups. Chicken salad is predominantly a festive dish, for the preparation of which mainly white chicken meat is used with other products. This topic contains a selection of recipes that will not be a problem to cook even for novice cooks. Because it is from such salads that you can study the culinary path.
Tasty Tips
- Traditionally for homemade chicken salads, boiled meat is mixed with other ingredients. It goes well with garlic, nuts, mushrooms, cheese, pineapple, grapes, pomegranate, etc.
- The finished resulting dish is usually supplemented with mayonnaise, less often sour cream and other dressings. The cook decides how to fill the food, depending on his preferences.
- The best taste of the dish is chicken, not boiled, but baked in the oven in foil. You can also use a grill.
- It is advisable to use the poultry not frozen, but chilled.
- Chicken meat for salads can be boiled or smoked. But not both at the same time.
- Pineapple has a substance that breaks down animal protein very quickly. And the process of digestion of poultry in the body is reduced several times.
- When adding pineapple slices to salad, do it just before serving. Otherwise, the fruit will let the juice out and the salad will turn out to be watery.
- It is better to season food with sauce before serving, so that it stays fresh longer.
Chicken and pineapple salad
Simple, quick, tasty … This is a salad with canned pineapples and boiled chicken. Well, since the rest of the products can be made by anyone, Chinese cabbage will be a great addition. The sweetness of exotic pineapple goes well with chicken meat, and Chinese cabbage gives the salad airiness.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 64 kcal.
- Servings - 3
- Cooking time - 10 minutes cutting food, plus time for boiling chicken
Ingredients:
- Chicken breast - 2 pcs.
- Canned pineapple, sliced - 1 can
- Chinese cabbage - half a head of cabbage
- Juice of half a lemon - 1 tablespoon
- Salt to taste
- Mayonnaise - 5 tablespoons
Step by step cooking:
- Wash the chicken breast and cook without adding salt and spices. After 40 minutes, remove it from the broth and leave to cool. Then cut into cubes.
- Open the canned pineapples, drain the liquid, and tip the fruit on a sieve and leave to drain all the brine.
- Wash the lemon, cut it in half and squeeze the juice directly onto the chicken meat. Stir the bird.
- Wash and chop the cabbage.
- Place all ingredients in a deep bowl: pineapple, shredded cabbage and chicken in lemon juice.
- Season the salad with salt, mayonnaise and stir.
Chicken and mushroom salad
An equally easy dish to prepare is chicken salad with mushrooms and cheese. Salad rightfully belongs to the category of dishes for the lazy. Since the mushrooms are pickled, the chicken is smoked, it remains only to cut the cheese and season all the ingredients with mayonnaise. And this dish can be cooked mixed or laid out in layers. The taste of the food will still remain amazing.
Ingredients:
- Smoked chicken fillet - 300 g
- Pickled champignons or other kind of mushrooms - 200 g
- Eggs - 3 pcs.
- Cheese - 150 g
- Mayonnaise - for dressing
- Salt to taste
Step by step cooking:
- First of all, set the eggs to boil. Dip them in cold water and send them to the stove. After boiling, cook for 8-10 minutes, then transfer to ice water to cool. Peel and cut the cold product into cubes.
- Meanwhile, while the eggs are boiling, open the jar of mushrooms, transfer them to a sieve and rinse off the marinade. Leave in a sieve to drain all the liquid.
- Cut the smoked chicken into cubes.
- Also cut the cheese into cubes.
- Combine all products in a bowl, season with mayonnaise and season with salt.
- Stir and serve.
Chicken and cheese salad
Sometimes, reading culinary recipes, you get a miracle! And how many overseas exotic fruits are used to prepare different dishes. But in our country there are no less tasty and versatile products that are unjustifiably forgotten, for example, apples. This appetizing fruit will perfectly refresh a salad with chicken and cheese. Well, how many vitamins it contains is not even necessary to say.
Ingredients:
- Chicken fillet - 300 g
- Cheese - 200 g
- Apples - 1 pc.
- Eggs - 4 pcs.
- Walnuts - a small handful
- Salt to taste
- Mayonnaise - for dressing
Step by step cooking:
- Wash the chicken fillet, put in a saucepan, fill with drinking water and send to cook on the stove. Cook for about half an hour until the product is soft. Then remove the meat from the broth and leave to cool. Then use your hands to tear the fillet into fibers.
- Rinse the eggs, put in a saucepan, cover with water and boil until they are cool. Transfer to ice water and leave to cool completely. Then peel and cut into strips.
- Cut the cheese into thin strips.
- Wash the apple, peel it, remove the core with a special knife and cut into cubes. Please note that all products must be cut into strips of the same size.
- Peel the walnuts, prick in a clean and dry frying pan. Detail in pieces no larger than 1 cm.
- Combine all the products, season them with mayonnaise, stir and serve the salad to the table.
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