Classic Capercaillie's Nest salad

“The Wood Grouse’s Nest” is a classic salad that will be a very interesting find for those housewives who have never prepared such an original and at the same time simple dish. And for those who are already familiar with the classic recipe for this salad, we offer a choice of 10 different step-by-step options for its preparation with photos. We hope that with us you will definitely find your own recipe that will effectively diversify your holiday and everyday home table.

Classic recipe for Wood Grouse Nest salad with chicken

The classic recipe for the Capercaillie Nest salad calls for boiled chicken breast and ingredients such as quail eggs, pickled cucumbers and thin strips of fresh potatoes fried to a pleasant crunch. It seems that everything is simple, but the end result is a very beautiful and original dish. Cook it with pleasure and eat it with appetite!

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   How to prepare the Wood Grouse Nest salad according to the classic recipe? Lay out the ingredients for the future salad on the kitchen table, this will speed up the process of preparing it.
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   Chop the potatoes very finely and thinly; for this you can use a special grater for Korean carrots.
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   Cut salted or pickled cucumbers into bars, cubes or strips, just like potatoes. Brine will be released from the cucumbers; it needs to be drained.
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   Boil chicken breast and eggs in separate containers until cooked. Boil the eggs hard. Cut the boiled breast into thin strips (to make the meat tastier and juicier, add spices and salt to the broth, and then cool it without removing it from the broth). Fry the potatoes in oil until tender, remove excess oil by placing the potatoes on a paper towel.
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   Combine half of the fried potatoes in a salad bowl with cucumbers and chicken, stir with mayonnaise and add salt to taste, if necessary, sprinkle with ground black pepper.
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   Top the salad with the remaining potatoes, placing them in a circle to form a nest. Place boiled and shelled eggs in the center. Garnish the salad with fresh parsley and serve.

Bon appetit!

Delicious salad “Grookery Nest” with mushrooms and chicken

The appearance of the Wood Grouse Nest salad with mushrooms and chicken will definitely decorate any feast! The salad components can be changed or added, for example, this recipe calls for the addition of fried mushrooms.

Ingredients:

• Salt and ground black pepper - to taste.
• Processed cheese – 1 pc.
• Fried mushrooms – 150 gr.
• Chicken meat – 200 gr.
• Fresh cucumbers – 1-2 pcs.
• Potatoes – 3-4 pcs.
• Chicken eggs – 2-3 pcs.
• Quail eggs – 3-4 pcs.
• Oil for frying – 2 tbsp. l.
• Onions – 1 pc.
• Mayonnaise - to taste.
• Greens - to taste.

Cooking process:

1. Cut fresh mushrooms (champignons, oyster mushrooms or wild mushrooms) into cubes, also chop the onion, and then fry everything together in a frying pan until tender, adding salt and pepper to taste. Place the roast on a plate to help it cool faster.

2. Chop boiled or smoked chicken into strips.

3. Form the salad by placing mushrooms and onions on the dish as the first layer, and then chicken, on top of which place a thin mesh of mayonnaise. The next layer is chicken eggs, grated + a mesh of mayonnaise.

4. Cut potato strips from fresh peeled potatoes, rinse, and let them dry. Then fry until done, stirring all the time.

5. Cut the fresh cucumbers into small strips and place them in the salad, brushing them with a thin mesh of mayonnaise.

6. Place the last layer of grated processed cheese + mayonnaise mesh.

7. Make a depression in the salad, where you need to carefully place the chopped dill.

8. Decorate the top of the salad with potato strips and quail eggs, after which you can serve the dish.

Bon appetit!

A simple recipe for “Gill wood grouse’s nest” with pickled cucumbers

The Wood Grouse Nest salad with pickled cucumbers can be made in a matter of minutes if you add smoked chicken instead of boiled chicken and buy potato strips at the store. Well, all other culinary efforts, time and costs require minimal: prepare the salad quickly, and you will see for yourself!

Ingredients:

• Smoked chicken – 200 gr.
• Chicken eggs – 3 pcs.
• Quail eggs – 5 pcs.
• Pickled cucumbers – 1-2 pcs.
• Onions – 1-2 pcs.
• Mayonnaise - to taste.
• Dill - a bunch.
• Salt - to taste.
• Ground black pepper - to taste.
• Vegetable oil – for frying potatoes.
• Potato straws – 170-200 gr.

Cooking process:

1. Chop the chicken finely (if you don’t want to use smoked meat, then cook and cool the chicken breast in advance).

2. If you don’t have ready-made straws, then you’ll have to fry them yourself. Cut the potatoes very thinly and finely, rinse off any starch and let them dry a little.

3. Add cucumbers, also finely chopped, to the chicken.

4. Chop the onion into thin strips and add to the salad. If you don’t want the onion to taste bitter, pour boiling water over it for a minute or two, and then strain.

5. Boil quail and chicken eggs hard and cool. Chop the chicken eggs into strips or on a grater and add to the salad.

6. Fry the potato strips in batches, stirring so that they fry evenly and quickly and do not burn.

7. Add potatoes to the salad, season it with mayonnaise, add salt and pepper to taste, and stir.

8. Place the salad in a heap on a flat plate, decorate in the center with dill and quail eggs, and on the sides with potato strips.

Bon appetit!

Layered salad “Gill wood grouse’s nest” with smoked chicken

With smoked chicken, the Capercaillie's Nest salad gets a richer taste, it takes on a smoked aroma, which your guests will definitely like. In recent years, this version of the salad has become very popular and many will probably want to repeat it for some family holiday.

Ingredients:

• Potatoes – 5-6 pcs.
• Smoked chicken – 350 gr.
• Pickled cucumbers – 4-5 pcs.
• Quail eggs – 10-15 pcs.
• Mayonnaise – 3 tbsp. l.
• Dill - to taste.
• Vegetable oil - for frying potatoes.
• Salt and pepper - to taste.

Cooking process:

1. Grate the potatoes and dry on a towel or paper napkin.

2. Heat the oil well and fry the potatoes in batches until tender. Let the excess fat from the potatoes soak into a paper towel. Boil a few potatoes in their skins.

3. When the potatoes have cooled, cut them into cubes.

4. At the same time, you need to boil the quail eggs and cool them, then peel them and chop some of them into strips.

5. Chop the pickled cucumbers into the same strips. Remove the skin from the smoked chicken and cut the meat into small pieces.

6. In one bowl, combine all the ingredients chopped for the salad, season the salad with mayonnaise to taste, add salt and pepper.

7. Place the salad in a heap in a flat dish, make a hole, cover the top and sides with potato strips, and place chopped dill or dill sprigs in the hole.

8. Place boiled eggs on the dill and serve the salad to the table so that the potato straws remain crispy.

Bon appetit!

How to prepare the Wood Grouse Nest salad with ham?

Many people love the Capercaillie Nest salad because it is decorated with delicious crispy potato straws, which you can buy ready-made or fry yourself. In order not to waste time boiling chicken breast, as in the classic recipe for this salad, replace it with any ham. In this version, sweet canned corn is also added to the salad.

Ingredients:

• Canned corn – 200 gr.
• Salt and pepper - to taste.
• Fresh cucumber – 100 gr.
• Processed cheese – 1 pc.
• Chicken egg – 3 pcs.
• Ham – 150 gr.
• Dill - a bunch.
• Potatoes 3-4 pcs.
• Vegetable oil - for frying.
• Mayonnaise - to taste.

Cooking process:

1. Place canned corn and diced ham in a deep bowl.

2. Boil the eggs, peel and cool, add two of them to a bowl, do the same with the fresh cucumber.

3. Then season the salad with mayonnaise, stir it with salt and ground black pepper.

4. Grate the remaining chicken egg on a fine grater, add a little chopped cheese and very finely chopped herbs. Mix the mass thoroughly; if it turns out to be too dense, then add a little mayonnaise to it.

5. Roll several small eggs from this mass and hide them in the refrigerator so that they stick together better at cold temperatures.

6. Peel the potatoes, cut them thinly, using a special grater. Fry the potato wedges until they are nice and crispy. When the straws are ready, place them on a paper towel, dry them from excess fat and add salt.

7.Place the salad on a beautiful platter or large plate, forming a depression inside the mound, decorate with potatoes on top, and place homemade eggs in the cavity.

Bon appetit!

A simple and tasty recipe for the Wood Grouse Nest salad with cabbage

With Chinese cabbage, the Wood Grouse Nest salad will be lighter, and a fresh apple will add a pleasant fruity note. You can replace the remaining components to your taste (for example, meat and mushrooms). In addition, the role of decorating the nest here is not played by fried potatoes, but by straws of cheese, apples and cabbage. Also, do not forget that by diluting the mayonnaise with sour cream, you will make the salad even less high in calories.

Ingredients:

• Vegetable oil – 2 tbsp. l.
• Chicken fillet – 150 gr.
• Quail eggs – 5-6 pcs.
• Peking cabbage – 150 gr.
• Hard cheese – 100 gr.
• Onions – 1 pc.
• Champignons – 150 gr.
• Apple – 1-2 pcs.
• Lemon juice – 1 tsp.
• Mayonnaise - to taste.
• Sour cream - to taste.
• Almonds - to taste.

Cooking process:

1. First, boil and peel the quail eggs, cooling them in cold water.

2. Then you need to cut the champignons (or any other mushrooms) into thin strips and fry them in vegetable oil, adding salt and pepper.

3. Grind the cheese into thin strips, set aside a little to decorate the salad.

4. You need to cut the boiled or smoked chicken fillet in the same way as the cheese, setting aside part for decorating the salad.

5. Do the same with Chinese cabbage, setting aside a little for decoration.

6. Chop the apple into strips, set aside a little.

7. Mix all the ingredients in one bowl, seasoning the salad to taste with mayonnaise and sour cream, adding salt and pepper.

8.Place the salad in a deep plate, make a small depression inside where you can put almonds or chopped herbs. Decorate the sides of the salad with the reserved slices, place shelled quail eggs in the middle and serve your treat.

Bon appetit!

“Gill wood grouse’s nest” with beef for the holiday table

One of the common options for preparing the Wood Grouse Nest salad is one that uses boiled beef as a meat component. By the way, it can be paired with any smoked meats, which will only improve the taste of this salad. As a result, you will have on the table not only a very beautiful, original, but also a delicious dish. Have fun cooking it!

Ingredients:

• Quail eggs – 5 pcs.
• Beef – 200-300 gr.
• Potatoes – 3-4 pcs.
• Pickled cucumbers – 2 pcs.
• Onions – 1 pc.
• Hard cheese – 100 gr.
• Fresh herbs - for decoration.
• Vegetable oil - for frying.
• Mayonnaise – 3-4 tbsp. l.
• Salt - to taste.
• Spices - to taste.

Cooking process:

1. Boil beef with aromatic root vegetables in advance to make the meat more tasty. When it has cooled, cut the beef into strips and place it on the bottom of a flat dish, decorate with a mayonnaise mesh.

2. Chop the pickled cucumbers.

3. Cut the onion as desired, or into strips.

4. Place onions and cucumbers on the beef; they can be coated with mayonnaise. Next, place a layer of hard grated cheese on the salad.

5. Finely chop the potatoes so that you get potato straws, then rinse them from starch, dry them from water and fry in oil until tender, stirring often. Make a well in the salad and garnish the salad with potato strips when they have cooled.

6.Line the cavity of the Wood Grouse's Nest with any greenery, perhaps chopped dill. Place boiled quail eggs without shells in the center. That's all, the salad is ready to serve.

Bon appetit!

How to make the Wood Grouse Nest salad with Korean carrots?

To quickly prepare the Capercaillie Nest salad with Korean carrots, you can get by not with homemade, but with ready-made potato straws, if you can find them in the supermarket. By the way, you can also buy Korean carrots, but some housewives prefer to cook them themselves.

Ingredients:

• Raw chicken fillet – 100 gr.
• Salt and ground pepper - to taste.
• Seasonings for chicken - to taste.
• Chicken or pork ham – 150 gr.
• Potato straws – 150-200 gr.
• Quail eggs – 3-5 pcs.
• Korean carrots – 70 gr.
• Hard cheese – 70-100 gr.
• Sunflower oil - for frying.
• Dill or green salad - a bunch.
• Mayonnaise - to taste.

Cooking process:

1. Prepare the chicken fillet for frying by cutting into small pieces and marinating in any spices, do not forget to add salt.

2. Also chop the pork or chicken ham into thin strips.

3. In a small amount of oil, fry the chicken fillet until cooked, which will take no more than 10 minutes. In a bowl, mix chopped Korean carrots with ham and fried chicken and season the salad with mayonnaise.

4. If you don’t have ready-made potato straws, then fry the potatoes yourself, finely cutting them, rinsing them from starch. Remove excess fat by draining on a paper towel.

5. Cool and peel hard-boiled quail eggs.

6. Place the salad on a large flat plate with a recess, place the chopped dill in the recess, then place the potatoes in a circle.Place quail eggs on the dill and serve the salad.

Bon appetit!

A very tasty and simple recipe for the Wood Grouse Nest salad with cheese

The Wood Grouse's Nest salad with cheese is usually liked by all guests, even the little picky ones. Therefore, it can be decorated not only with eggs, but also with a homemade mother bird to surprise and delight the kids, as well as whet their appetite. The processed cheese specified in the recipe can be replaced with any other.

Ingredients:

• Chicken breast – 200-300 gr.
• Processed cheese – 1 pc.
• Champignons – 300 gr.
• Potatoes – 3-4 pcs.
• Onions – 1-2 pcs.
• Fresh cucumber – 1-2 pcs.
• Chicken egg – 3 pcs.
• Mayonnaise - to taste.
• Salt, pepper - to taste.
• Vegetable oil - for frying.
• Carrots – 1 pc.
• Lettuce leaves - for decoration.

For the birds:

• Chicken egg – 1 pc.
• Quail eggs – 5 pcs.
• Raw carrots – 1 pc.
• Carnation buds – 12 pcs.

Cooking process:

1. Chop raw potatoes very finely, rinse off any starch and let them dry. Fry the potato strips in batches in plenty of oil until tender.

2. Place a straw on a paper napkin so that excess fat is absorbed into it.

3. Finely chop the onion and carrots (the carrots can be chopped on a grater), then sauté until tender.

4. Chicken breast, boiled and cooled, also cut into small cubes or disassemble into fibers.

5. Champignons can be used either marinated or fried, raw, finely chopped.

6. Finely chop fresh cucumbers.

7. Crumble the whites of chicken eggs using a grater, and put the yolks on another plate.

8. Assemble the salad like this: place the mushrooms on a flat plate where there are already lettuce leaves, then a layer of grated processed cheese and chopped chicken, then a layer of mayonnaise mesh.

9. Next come onions and carrots + mayonnaise mesh.

10. Next, lay out fresh cucumbers, then egg whites + mayonnaise mesh.

11. Deepen the salad a little in the center and top with fried potatoes.

12. All that remains is to make eggs and birds. Using a fork, mash the yolks with salt and chopped dill, add mayonnaise and form the eggs. Peel quail eggs and one chicken egg, make eyes for the birds from cloves, tails and beaks from pieces of carrots, and wings for mom, as shown in the photo. Place the eggs and birds in the nest and serve the salad.

Bon appetit!

Wood grouse's nest with boiled tongue

The Capercaillie Nest salad with boiled pork or beef, as well as veal tongue, is a spectacular and very tasty dish, suitable for any holiday table. In addition, it will be satisfying, which means it will feed your guests well.

Ingredients:

• Potatoes – 350 gr.
• Vegetable oil - for frying potatoes.
• Canned peas – 150 gr.
• Salt and black pepper - to taste.
• Pickled cucumbers – 2-3 pcs.
• Pork tongue – 1 pc.
• Pork – 150 gr.
• Eggs – 4 pcs.
• Dill - a bunch.
• Mayonnaise - to taste.

Cooking process:

1. First of all, let the pork meat and tongue cook, because this is a long process. Add spices and root vegetables to the broth. The tongue should be rinsed well before cooking, cooked for 15-20 minutes, drained and cooked in clean water until tender. Then cool the tongue in cold water, remove the skin and cut into small cubes. Also cut the cooked pork into cubes.

2. While the tongue is cooking, cut the potatoes into small and very thin strips, using a Korean carrot grater. Then you need to wash the straw very thoroughly in cold water, draining it several times so that all the starch comes out.When the water after washing the straw is clear, this means that there is almost no starch.

3. Then dry the potato straws on a towel so that the water is absorbed. Heat vegetable oil in a deep frying pan and fry the potatoes in batches until tender, stirring occasionally. Dry the potatoes to remove excess fat on a paper towel.

4. For hard-boiled eggs, you need to separate the whites from the yolks, cut the whites into small cubes.

5. Grind the yolks with mayonnaise, add salt and stir the mixture with finely chopped dill. Make oval eggs from this mass - an imitation of capercaillie eggs to decorate the nest.

6. Strain the peas, chop the cucumbers and combine all the ingredients in one container. Add mayonnaise to them (or mayonnaise with sour cream so that the dressing is not very greasy), some fried potatoes and stir the salad.

7. Place the salad in a mound on a large flat plate; use a spoon to form a small depression in the center of the mound. Top the salad with a layer of fried potato wedges.

8. This salad does not need to be infused before serving, as it is not flaky. Place sprigs of dill and “grouse eggs” in the center of the salad and bring your masterpiece to the festive table!

Bon appetit!