They say that salads can be cooked practicallyfrom any products. Make them with meat and cereals, with cheese and fruits, with fish and vegetables. There are recipes with long traditions, but new products are emerging, and with them - new salads. And new recipes for salads are born from our irrepressible desire for experiments. Sometimes you really want to try to make a salad from the usual products, but with an unusual combination. For example, a salad of chicken with oranges. Agree that the combination of the sweet taste of this "New Year fruit" with the chicken is rather unusual, if not extravagant. And meanwhile such a salad is made! Yes, and in various variations. Add to the salads of chicken and orange cheese, fresh vegetables, ham and even yogurt. We offer you "for testing" several recipes for such interesting salads.

Salad with chicken, orange and vegetables

Cooking time 40 minutes. For 4 servings you will need the following ingredients:

• boiled chicken fillet (200-300 g)
• a small head of Peking cabbage (400 g)
• 2 oranges
• 1 pod of red sweet pepper
• 100 g of olives
• 1 large onion

For sauce:

• 2 cloves of garlic
• 1 tsp coriander seeds
• 6 tbsp. spoons of vegetable oil
• 5 tbsp. spoons of wine vinegar
• 1 teaspoon of sugar
• salt

Preparation: Cook boiled chicken meat cut into small pieces. Shred cabbage. Oranges clean, divide into slices, remove the transparent films from the lobules. Sweet pepper cut in half, remove the stem and core, wash the pod, dry and thin with thin strips. With olives, merge the marinade and, if desired, cut in half or cut into circles. Cut the onions into half rings. Mix all ingredients and put them in a salad bowl. For sauce, garlic cloves should be cleaned and crushed in a mortar together with coriander seeds. Then gradually add the vegetable oil, vinegar and sugar. Sauce to taste, salt and pour into a small saucepan. Salad and sauce serve separately.

Salad with chicken, orange and apple

Another version of a salad of chicken and orange. For its preparation you will need the following ingredients:

• chicken breast
• 1 orange
• 1 apple
• 1 cucumber
• 4 tbsp. l. hard cheese
• salt
• unsweetened yogurt for refueling

Preparation: Chicken fillet boil in salted water, cool and cut into small pieces. Peel the orange from the peel and white fibers. Slice it into thin slices. Grate cheese on a large grater (preferably salty and spicy). Wash the apple, cut off the skin and remove the hard core. Slice the apple with long strips. Cucumber, too, wash and cut into cubes or semicircles. All the prepared foods, except cheese, put in a salad bowl, season with yogurt and sprinkle with cheese. Note: You can use non-fat sour cream or kefir instead of yogurt.

Salad with chicken, orange and avocado

This dessert version of the salad from chicken with orange is distinguished by its exquisite taste and no less refined set of products. Ingredients:

• leaves of green salad
• red onion
• avocado (1 pc)
• smoked chicken breast
• oranges (3 pieces)
• grains of red garnet

For sauce:

• lemon
• orange
• honey (1 tsp)
• mustard (1 tsp)
• vegetable oil (2 tbsp.)
• clove of garlic
• white pepper

Preparation: Let's cut the green salad into small pieces and put it in a salad bowl. Chicken meat cut into cubes. We clean the peel and films of oranges and cut them into slices. Avocado clean, cut and remove a bone from it. Cut the flesh and sprinkle with lemon juice. The onion is chopped with very thin semirings. All products except lettuce leaves are mixed and dressed with sauce. For sauce, squeeze the juice of lemon and orange, mix it with honey, mustard and rastolchennym garlic, season with pepper (preferably freshly ground) and salt. Put the dressed salad on the green leaves prepared earlier and sprinkle with the pomegranate seeds.

Salad with chicken, oranges and nuts

Ingredients:

• chicken leg
• orange
• walnuts
• salt
• mayonnaise

Preparation: Let's boil the whole leg, let it cool and separate the meat from the bones. We will cut the fillet into small cubes, and divide the cleared orange into slices. Nuts (about half a glass) are ground. We mix all the products, salted and dressed with mayonnaise. Note: The number of nuts can be varied to your liking, and instead of walnuts use roasted almonds. In general, in salads from chicken with orange you can put any nuts: almonds, hazelnuts, pine nuts and even seeds. And also add to them dry breads or solid fruits: pear, apple, quince. Roasts and potatoes are not suitable for such salads. In any case, it is generally accepted. But everything is in your hands. So try, experiment and cook with pleasure! We advise you to read:

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