The combination of the incongruous often becomespledge of a new culinary masterpiece. Therefore, writing and creating at the kitchen stove can be endlessly long and uncontrollably enthusiastic. It's not a fact, of course, that the result will be a masterpiece, but still ... However, if you are not so obsessed with kitchen-culinary creativity, to spend hours and days at the stove and translate mountains of products in order to create your own masterpiece, proven recipes. Moreover, we suggest that you prepare a salad, in which there are simultaneously meat, fresh vegetables, and dried fruits. And we will cook chicken salad with cucumbers and prunes. Here it is, the very combination of the incongruous, and already proven and tested. However, not only tried, but also tried, and evaluated. Because the initial set of ingredients has already been repeatedly supplemented, the salad has acquired new names, but the essence of it has not changed. In any case, it remained, first of all, a salad with chicken, prunes and cucumber. 
Salad with chicken, prunes and fresh cucumber
The so-called basic basis of all possible recipes for this salad. For him we need the following ingredients:
- Chicken carcass (gram for 700) - 1 piece;
- Fresh cucumbers - 3 pieces;
- Prunes - 100 g;
- Walnuts - 100 g;
- Garlic, salt and pepper - at your discretion.
For refueling:
- Mayonnaise, mixed with sour cream - in equal proportions.
Preparation: In advance, steal prunes, fill it with boiling water and leave for ten minutes. Boil in the salted water chicken, cool it and separate the meat from the bones. Mine and peel the cucumber from the peel. Then cut the meat and cucumbers into cubes, and the prunes with straw. Grind the nuts and garlic. We put all the products in a salad bowl, add salt, mayonnaise and sour cream and mix well. Salad with chicken, prunes and cucumbers ready!
Salad "Tenderness"
This recipe is present in the menu of many restaurants, and it can be called completely differently, but it is always prepared approximately equally. Ingredients:
- Boiled chicken fillet - 200 g;
- Hard boiled eggs - 6 pieces;
- Prunes - 200 g;
- Fresh cucumbers - 2 pieces;
- Mayonnaise and salt for refueling;
- Walnuts and greens - for decoration.
Preparation: Pre-boil and chill chicken or part of it - breast, for example. Also in advance, you need to boil eggs and soak prunes. With prunes, you do not need to stand on ceremony for a long time, just rinse and hold in warm water to soften it. Cucumbers for salad necessarily clear from the peel (lettuce is gentle). Then all the ingredients except for egg yolk, greens and nuts are cut into small strips. And yolk with nuts and herbs crushed (individually). Then we collect the salad, laying it in layers, coating the layers with mayonnaise and sprinkling with salt:
- a hen,
- prunes,
- cucumbers,
- egg whites,
- nuts,
- egg yolks.
The last layer of yolks is left dry (without mayonnaise), but sprinkle with herbs. 
Salad "Lady's whim"
Why this name? Probably, some lady, zakapriznichala and decided salad "Tenderness" to cook a little differently. Here and there was a lady's whim with chicken, prunes and cucumbers. Ingredients:
- Boiled chicken breast - 500 g;
- Hard boiled eggs - 5 pieces;
- Prunes - 200 g;
- Fresh cucumbers - 3 pieces;
- Walnuts and greens for decoration.
For refueling:
- Mayonnaise - 3 tablespoons;
- Sunflower oil - 3 tablespoons;
- Pepper and salt - a pinch.
Preparation: If the composition of this salad is almost identical to the previous one, the cooking is somewhat different. Chicken meat boil in advance or cook on the grill, cool and cut into strips. We cut straws and cucumber, which we previously wash, and eggs, hard-boiled, grate. Prunes are washed and cut into halves, and the nuts are crushed to a large crumb. Salad is also put in layers, seasoning with salt and pepper:
- cucumbers,
- a hen,
- prunes,
- eggs.
Eggs water with vegetable oil and sprinklewalnuts. And once again stack all the layers in the same sequence. Top with lettuce and mayonnaise and decorate with greens. Note: Under the name "Lady's whim", there are also completely different recipes for salads. True, in almost all of them there are chicken and nuts.
Salad "Lady's sinner"
Here's to you and another salad, which, judging by the name, is intended solely for ladies. And, of course, that it contains chicken, cucumbers and prunes. Ingredients:
- Smoked chicken meat - 300 g;
- Eggs - 3 pieces;
- Fresh cucumbers - 1 piece;
- Prunes - 100 g;
- Fresh mushrooms - 300 g;
- Onion - 2 heads;
- Mayonnaise;
- Vegetable oil.
Preparation: In this salad put fried mushrooms. For frying, we clean and chop the onion, which we then put in a frying pan with vegetable oil and fry until half cooked. While the onions are fried, we will wash and cut the mushrooms, let them dry a little, and then add to the onions. Onions together with mushrooms will be fried for another seven minutes. We can turn the prepared fry into a colander to allow the excess oil to drain off. And for about fifteen minutes we'll drench prunes. In the meantime, cut the smoked chicken into cubes, grate the fresh cucumber and finely chop the eggs. Salad «Lady's man» also lay out layers:
- prunes (watering mayonnaise),
- chicken (watering mayonnaise),
- mushroom toast,
- eggs,
- cucumbers.
We serve lettuce, decorating with parsley sprigs or basil leaves. 
Salad "Chicken Pestrushka"
One interpretation of a salad with chicken and prunes. Prepare it also with tomatoes, but we will prepare this salad with fresh cucumber. Ingredients:
- Boiled chicken breast - 1 piece;
- Prunes - 200 g;
- Fresh cucumber - 1-2 pieces;
- Cheese (solid) - 150 g;
- Leaf salad - 4-5 leaves;
- Mayonnaise and salt for refueling.
Preparation: To begin with, we will pour prunes in warm water. While he is soaking away, chicken fillet is separated from the bones, slightly beaten and fried in vegetable oil. We let the meat cool and cut it into strips. Straw we cut a cucumber and a softened prune, and the cheese is rubbed on a grater. We put all these products in a bowl, add salt, mayonnaise and mix well. On a flat dish lay out lettuce leaves, and from the top we lay out a salad. We serve on the table chilled.
Salad with chicken, prunes and pickled cucumber
Finally we present you a completely unexpected salad, in which instead of fresh cucumber put salt. What, experiment, so experiment! Ingredients:
- Smoked chicken breast - 1 piece;
- Cucumber salted - 1 piece;
- Prunes - 1 handful;
- Eggs - 4 pieces;
- Walnuts (kernels) - half a glass;
- Mayonnaise and sour cream for refueling.
Preparation: We fill the prunes with boiling water and leave it for fifteen minutes. Meanwhile, boil the eggs, let them cool and finely chop. Chicken meat is separated from the bones and cut into strips, and we cut the salted cucumber. Pruned prunes and walnuts are crushed. We put all the ingredients in a salad bowl and fill it with a creamy-mayonnaise mixture. Be braver, ma'am! Who knows what a masterpiece will be born in your kitchen? And for training use proven recipes, for example, salad with chicken, prunes and cucumbers. The main thing is to cook with pleasure. And a pleasant appetite for you! We advise you to read:
