Salads (all kinds and even impossible ones) have long beenand have firmly taken their rightful place in our everyday menu. And it is impossible to imagine a holiday table without salads! How many of them have been tried and tried, cooked and re-cooked, and we are still constantly looking for something new. In order to find something unusual and try something amazing! Well, we do not promise you amazing recipes, but we will offer an unusual combination of products for a salad. Try, for example, making a salad with chicken and apples. And not only a new salad for you, but also a well-known one. Choose!
Salad "Spicy"
Ingredients:
- 250 g of chicken fillet;
- 2 small apples;
- 400 g of lettuce;
- 2 tablespoons of seeds;
- 200 g of Roquefort cheese.
For the sauce:
- One third of a glass of vegetable oil;
- A teaspoon of liquid honey;
- A teaspoon of French mustard;
- Tablespoon of wine vinegar;
- Tablespoon of orange juice;
- Salt and pepper on your own.
Preparation:First, fry the chicken fillet (preferably the breast) in one piece in vegetable oil, then let it cool. Fry the seeds (sunflower seeds) in a dry frying pan and let them cool too. While all this is cooling, prepare the sauce. Pour the honey, vinegar and juice into a bowl, add the mustard and rub. Then add the vegetable oil and beat the sauce with a fork. Now separate the chicken meat into fibers and put it in a bowl with the sauce. Wash the apples and lettuce leaves. Peel the apples, cut out the tough core, cut the pulp into slices and put it in a bowl. Tear the lettuce leaves into small pieces with your hands and add them to the other ingredients. At the end of cooking, put the seeds and crumbled cheese in the salad. Mix everything, put it in a salad bowl and serve.
Turtle salad
Ingredients:
- Chicken breast;
- 2 apples;
- 4 eggs;
- Head of onions;
- 100 g of cheese;
- Walnuts;
- Salad leaves;
- Salt and mayonnaise.
Preparation:Boil the chicken breast in salted water for about twenty minutes, then cool and cut into small pieces. Boil the chicken eggs hard. Peel the onion, chop it, pour boiling water over it and leave for about ten minutes. Then drain the water, rinse the onion with cold water and put it in a colander. Separate the boiled eggs into yolks and whites (leave one whole) and grate them separately (fine). Grind the walnuts in a blender or coffee grinder, leaving a few whole nuts to decorate the salad. Turn the cheese into shavings, peel and grate the apples on a coarse grater. Now let's start assembling the salad. Take a dish and line it with washed and dried lettuce leaves, then layer the prepared products in the form of an oval hill:
- proteins (salted);
- mayonnaise;
- chicken meat;
- mayonnaise;
- bow;
- mayonnaise;
- apples;
- mayonnaise;
- cheese (a tablespoon is left for decoration);
- mayonnaise;
- yolks;
- mayonnaise;
- nuts.
We got a turtle shell.Now we make a head from the egg, and legs from the cheese, insert two black peppercorns instead of eyes, and decorate the shell on top with walnut kernel halves. The salad is ready. We put it in the refrigerator to infuse, and then serve it.
"Little Pepper" salad
Ingredients:
- Chicken breast;
- 2 red apples;
- 300 g of Peking cabbage;
- 50 g of raisins without pits;
- 30 g of pine nuts;
- 1 cube seasoning "Little Pepper";
- A bunch of fresh basil;
- Mayonnaise and sour cream.
Preparation: Boil the chicken meat insalted water, cool and cut into narrow strips. Remove the top loose leaves from the cabbage. Wash the apples, basil and cabbage leaves. Soak the raisins in warm water for ten minutes, then dry them. Now cut the apple into thin strips and put it in a bowl, add the torn Chinese cabbage leaves, chicken meat, pine nuts and raisins. Crumble the seasoning cube, sprinkle the salad and dress it with mayonnaise and sour cream mixed in equal quantities. Decorate the salad with chopped basil on top.
Salad "Slavic"
Ingredients:
- Grilled chicken;
- 2 green apples;
- 200 g of cheese;
- Head of onions;
- 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar;
- Mayonnaise and sour cream.
Preparation:Remove the chicken fillet and cut it into narrow strips. Cut the peeled and seeded apples in the same way, and grate the cheese into cheese shavings using a coarse grater. Peel the onion, cut into thin half rings, place in a bowl and pour in apple cider vinegar. After about ten minutes, drain the liquid, squeeze the onion and add the remaining salad ingredients to the bowl. Dress the salad with a sauce of sour cream and mayonnaise, which are mixed in equal proportions.
Lettuce salad
Ingredients;
- 2 breasts of smoked chicken;
- 300 g of cheese;
- 3 large apples;
- 3 pods of sweet pepper (yellow, green, red);
- Lemon juice;
- Mayonnaise.
Preparation:Wash the peppers, cut them in half (lengthwise) and remove the seeds and membranes. Then cut them into thin half rings and put them in a bowl. Peel the apples and remove the hard core and cut them into thin slices (petals). Cut the chicken and cheese into strips. Put all the ingredients in a bowl with the peppers, season with lemon juice and mayonnaise and mix. Our "Traffic Light" is ready!
Gnome salad
Ingredients:
- Smoked chicken;
- 2 apples;
- 2 eggs;
- 200 g of sweet corn;
- Green parsley;
- Curry seasoning;
- Mayonnaise.
Preparation:Boil the eggs, cool them, peel and cut into slices. Peel the apples and chop them with a coarse grater. Separate the chicken meat from the bones and cut into cubes. Drain the marinade from the corn and put it in a bowl. Put the apples, chicken and eggs there, sprinkle the salad with half a teaspoon of curry and season with mayonnaise. Transfer the salad to a salad bowl and garnish with chopped parsley.
Olivier with apples and chicken
Ingredients:
- Chicken fillet;
- Fresh apple (large);
- 4 eggs;
- 1 fresh cucumber;
- 4 potatoes;
- Head of onions;
- Mayonnaise and salt.
Preparation: Boil the eggs hard.Boil the chicken fillet in salted water. Boil the potatoes in their skins. Cool the eggs and potatoes and peel them, let the chicken cool too. Wash the cucumber and apples, and peel the apple. Cut all the ingredients into small cubes and chop the onion (also finely). Put everything in a salad bowl, salt and season with mayonnaise. Here are some different ways to prepare a salad with chicken and apples. By adding other ingredients to these main ingredients, you can experiment and come up with your own recipe for this salad. Don't be afraid of impromptu and experimenting! Salads can be so unpredictable in their composition that initially the idea of such a combination of products would not even occur to you! Cook with pleasure. Enjoy your meal and successful experiments! We recommend reading:
