Smoked chicken is delicious in its own form, well, and all kinds of salads with it are even tastier. I suggest you try a delicious salad with smoked chicken, which will decorate any festive table.
Recipe content:
- Ingredients
- Step by step cooking
- Video recipe
Salad is a versatile dish. By varying the ingredients, you can always create new hearty and light masterpieces for the festive table. And one of the most beloved and popular salad ingredients is chicken. Its tender and juicy meat goes well with fresh, baked and boiled vegetables. Cheese, mushrooms, herbs, spices - all this will complement the taste of the dish, making the bouquet of the senses of touch refined and rich. Smoked chicken is most in demand for salads. It has a bright taste and aroma, tender and juicy meat, while it goes well with many products. In addition, chicken is considered a dietary product and, at the same time, nutritious at the same time. Having decided to cook a salad with her, you have to choose for a long time from a variety of recipes. Therefore, I want to offer my proven version of the dish.
To prepare this salad, it is very important to buy quality smoked chicken meat. You need to choose a chicken with a glossy skin, which has a slight golden hue, and does not have visible mechanical damage. The meat of quality smoked chicken is juicy and reddish in color. Before using the poultry for salad, you need to remove the skin from it, because it contains harmful substances that entered the body of the chicken during its life and smoking. After that, the chicken meat is separated from the bones and cut according to the recipe.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 143 kcal.
- Servings - 4
- Cooking time - 15 minutes - cutting food, 1, 5 hours - boiling and cooling carrots
Ingredients:
- Smoked chicken leg - 1 pc.
- Canned green peas - 200 g
- Eggs - 3 pcs.
- Carrots - 1 pc. (big size)
- Pickled cucumber - 2 pcs.
- Green onions - bunch
- Mayonnaise - for dressing
- Salt - pinch or to taste
Making smoked chicken salad
1. First rinse the smoked ham under running water. Perhaps many do not, but the product is often sold without sealed packaging, so it may be in non-sterile boxes and pallets.
Then dry the chicken with a paper towel, remove the skin, remove the meat from the bone and cut into pieces or tear along the fibers.
2. Boil eggs until hard, peel and cut into cubes with sides no more than 8 mm.
3. Boil the carrots until soft, cool completely, peel and cut into cubes. To make the cooking process faster, you can prepare the carrots in advance, for example, in the evening. It will cool down well overnight, and in the morning prepare a fresh salad.
4. Remove the pickles from the jar, blot with a paper towel to remove all the pickle, cut into cubes and add to all foods.
5. Transfer the green peas to a sieve to glass all the liquid, then add to the salad bowl.
6. Wash green onions, chop finely and add to salad. By the way, it can be used frozen, it will not affect the taste of the finished dish in any way.
7. Add mayonnaise to food.
8. Stir the ingredients and taste the salad. Add salt as needed. But do not salt the dish before, perhaps there will be enough salt from chicken, peas and cucumbers.
9. Chill the finished salad in the refrigerator and serve.
See also a video recipe on how to make a smoked chicken salad with pineapple.
