Looking forward to a happy New Year 2019? According to the Eastern calendar, this is the Year of the Pig, so you should cook something that suits this animal's taste. Acorn salad is exactly what you need!
There are many successful salads that are not ashamed to be put on the festive table, but the New Year's celebration should be distinguished by especially outstanding culinary masterpieces. I present to you the Acorn salad for the New Year 2019, the year of the pig. I am sure that such a presentation will cause a lot of kind smiles on the faces of the guests. The salad contains the most familiar and delicious ingredients: chicken, eggs, carrots, mushrooms and pickled or pickled cucumbers. We will collect the salad in layers - such snacks always look very festive.
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- Caloric content per 100 g - 50 kcal.
- Servings - 2
- Cooking time - 15 minutes
Ingredients:
- Boiled chicken - 250 g
- Bulb onions - 1 pc.
- Carrots - 1 pc.
- Eggs - 2 pcs.
- Pickled cucumbers - 2 pcs. grated and wrung out
- Pickled mushrooms - 100 g.
- Mayonnaise - 150 g.
Step-by-step preparation of the Acorn salad for the New Year 2019:
1. Let's start by preparing the ingredients. Boil the chicken and cool, cook the carrots too, and grate the pickled cucumbers, squeeze lightly and discard on a sieve to drain.
2. On a serving platter, begin to collect the layers of lettuce. Let's start with boiled chicken. Wrap the meat from the chicken leg and cut into small pieces, arrange it in an oval shape on a plate.
3. Peel and chop the onions as finely as possible and spread them in a second layer over the chicken.
4. The next layer is a mayonnaise mesh. You do not have to grease the entire layer with the sauce, but simply apply it in a zigzag straight from the package.
5. Pre-cooked carrots rub on a coarse grater. This will be the next layer of the salad. Cover the carrots with a thin layer of mayonnaise.
6. Hard boiled eggs in the next three layers on the salad. When collecting a snack, do not forget to form layers each time, giving the salad slide the shape of an oval.
7. Put the squeezed pre-pickled cucumbers on the salad, covering about 3 quarters of it with them. This is the body of an acorn.
8. On the top, remaining open part of the appetizer, put lightly fried pickled mushrooms, which we finely chopped.
9. A stick of cinnamon will replace the leg of an acorn. This completes the decor of the salad.
10. It remains to serve the Acorn salad on the festive table and be sure that the New 2019 - the Year of the Pig - will be successful, fun and tasty!
See also video recipes:
1. Salad with chicken, mushrooms and pickles
2. Layered salad with chicken and mushrooms