Do you want to make your diet complete, rich in vitamins and minerals? Introduce delicious and healthy salads to the menu. A step-by-step recipe with a photo of a salad with chicken, cabbage, cheese and cucumbers. Video recipe.
Chicken and cabbage complement each other well in salads and appetizers. Thanks to the easily digestible poultry protein and cabbage fiber, lettuce forms a "vitamin bomb" that feeds our body. And in a company with other useful substances contained in this salad, like cheese and cucumbers, the dish turns out to be very satisfying, but low in calories. Therefore, it is ideal for those who follow a diet, lead a healthy lifestyle and want to lose excess weight. Preparing a salad is simple, the taste is very pleasant. Crispy juicy vegetables and soft dense chicken pieces with cheese. This is a hearty, but low-calorie meal that goes well during autumn depression and winter beriberi.
The recipe for this salad can be developed independently. For example, chicken and cabbage go great with green peas, pickled corn, garlic, lemon juice, eggs, crab sticks, ham, herbs, and many other foods. Therefore, according to your preference, you can diversify or supplement this salad to your liking. A variety of flavors guaranteed.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 165 kcal.
- Servings - 2
- Cooking time - 15 minutes for slicing, plus time for boiling and cooling chicken
Ingredients:
- White cabbage - 200 g
- Salt - a pinch
- Cucumbers - 1 pc.
- Vegetable oil - for dressing
- Chicken fillet (boiled) - 1 breast
- Greens - a few twigs
- Cheese - 100 g
Step by step cooking salad with chicken, cabbage, cheese and cucumbers, recipe with photo:
1. Wash the chicken fillet under running water, cut off the film and place in a saucepan. Pour water over the meat, salt and boil until tender. Then cool completely and cut into medium pieces or tear along the fibers. Do not mix salad with hot meat, otherwise the dish will spoil. Chicken fillet can be fried in a pan or smoked - this will make the taste of the salad richer.
2. Cut the cheese into medium slices and add to the chicken bowl.
3. Remove the top coarse leaves from the cabbage, wash in running water and chop with a fine salt shaker or cubes. Wrap your hands around it or use a pestle to soften it and give it juice. For the salad, take young, juicy and dense (not friable) cabbage heads weighing 1-1.3 kg, without large and hard veins on the leaves.
Wash the cucumbers, dry with a paper towel, cut off the ends on both sides and cut into thin half rings.
Send vegetables to the container with all the food.
4. Wash greens, dry and finely chop.
5. Season salad with chicken, cabbage, cheese and cucumbers with salt, add vegetable oil and serve. Salad should be seasoned and salted just before serving, otherwise it will settle very quickly and become tasteless.
For dressing, you can use homemade mayonnaise, yogurt, sour cream, olive oil, or your favorite sauce. Before serving, you can cool the salad a little in the refrigerator, and decorate with sesame seeds when serving.
See also the video recipe on how to make fresh cabbage salad with chicken.
