Peking cabbage, chicken salad with cheese and croutons - juicy, crispy and delicious. A cold appetizer is suitable not only for an everyday meal, but also for a small festive table. Step-by-step recipe with a photo. Video recipe.
Relatively recently, Peking cabbage appeared on supermarket shelves, which managed to win the love of many housewives. Moreover, it is available at any time of the year. The vegetable is in demand for a high content of vitamins A, C, B, amino acids and mineral salts. At the same time, Peking is usually used without heat treatment, so the benefits from it are maximum. Any dish with Chinese cabbage is easy to prepare and does not cause any difficulties at all. Salads with all kinds of ingredients are especially popular. For example, a light salad of Chinese cabbage, chicken with cheese and croutons is loved by women because of its low calorie content.
We will separately dwell on crackers, which are better to make yourself. You can find a step-by-step recipe for their preparation on the pages of the site. Any bread is suitable for crackers: black, white, loaf, rye, baguette … But if you wish, you can use purchased crackers, but then choose them with a neutral taste. They add satiety, flavor and interesting appearance. For the dressing, vegetable oil is used, which can be replaced with olive oil and grain mustard. The latter will add a touch of piquancy to the dish. Although you can take the classic mustard.
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- Caloric content per 100 g - 85 kcal.
- Servings - 1
- Cooking time - 15 minutes for slicing food, plus time for boiling and cooling chicken
Ingredients:
- Chinese cabbage - 3 leaves
- White cheese - 100 g
- Salt - 0.5 tbsp or to taste
- Vegetable oil - for dressing
- Boiled chicken fillet - 0.5 pcs.
- French mustard - 0.5 tsp
- Croutons - 1 ghmen
Step-by-step preparation of Peking cabbage salad, chicken with cheese and crackers, recipe with photo:
1. From the head of Peking cabbage, remove the top leaves, wash and dry. Do not wash the whole head of cabbage, because if you use only a few leaves, not all of the cabbage, then it will wilt, and the leaves will become soft. Then cut them into thin strips.
2. Boil and cool the chicken fillet at the beginning of the salad preparation. After that, cut it into pieces or tear along the fibers.
3. Cut the cheese into strips or cubes. Any kind of cheese can be, even processed cheese. If you use melted, then pre-soak it for 15 minutes in the freezer to make it easier to cut.
4. Put all the food in a deep bowl, salt, add mustard and pour over with vegetable oil.
5. Stir food to distribute all ingredients evenly.
6. Peking cabbage salad, chicken with cheese, place on a wide serving plate and sprinkle with croutons. Serve it right after cooking, otherwise the croutons will get wet and lose their beautiful shape. If you will not serve immediately after cooking, add the croutons just before serving.
See also the video recipe on how to make Chinese cabbage, chicken and cheese salad.
