Classic Monomakh's Cap salad

Classic Monomakh's Cap salad is a puff appetizer soaked in mayonnaise that has a rather original look. On the Internet you can find different variations with chicken or fish. Despite this seemingly strange composition and combination of incompatible ingredients, the salad turns out very tasty and quite nutritious. Monomakh's hat can be served at a festive table or prepared for a hearty snack on a weekday.

Salad Monomakh's Cap - classic recipe

Salad Monomakh's Cap is a classic recipe for an original, bright dish for a gala feast. The appetizer turns out very juicy thanks to vegetables and mayonnaise. If you want to get a lower-calorie salad, you can mix mayonnaise with natural yogurt.

1. 
   The night before or a couple of hours before cooking, boil chicken breast with spices, boil jacket potatoes and hard-boiled eggs. Peel and wash the carrots.
2. 
   Grate the peeled potatoes on a coarse grater. Also grate hard cheese.
3. 
   Wash the pomegranate well with hot water, open the skin and separate the seeds from the partitions.
4. 
   Clean the walnuts. The kernels can be chopped with a knife, crushed in a mortar or crushed with a rolling pin.
5. 
   Cut the boiled chicken meat into small pieces. Grate raw carrots.
6. 
   Peel the boiled eggs, separate the whites from the yolks. Grate these products separately. All ingredients are ready, you can proceed to assembly.
7. 
   Take a flat dish. Place potato chips as the first layer, salt it and brush with mayonnaise.
8. 
   Next, add a layer of chicken meat and coat it with mayonnaise. Then make layers of grated egg whites and walnuts. Also coat these layers with mayonnaise.
9. 
   The next layer will be grated carrots, salt it to taste and coat with mayonnaise.
10. 
    The last layer will be made of cheese shavings and chopped yolks.
11. 
    Garnish the salad with pomegranate seeds. Cut a crown out of the tomato and place it in the middle of the appetizer. The Monomakh cap salad must be steeped for 2 hours in the refrigerator. Bon appetit!

Salad Monomakh's Cap with pomegranate

Monomakh's Cap salad with pomegranate is a beautiful and tasty treat for your guests. The salad is prepared very simply: prepare all the ingredients, chop them and lay them out in layers. When decorating snacks, you can show all your rich imagination.

Cooking time – 120 min.

Cooking time – 35-40 min.

Portions – 4-6.

Ingredients:

• Garlic – 2 teeth.
• Pomegranate – 0.5 pcs.
• Beets – 1 pc.
• Carrot – 1 pc.
• Potatoes – 7 pcs.
• Chicken eggs – 4 pcs.
• Hard cheese – 200 gr.
• Beef – 0.4 kg.
• Walnuts – 100 gr.
• Mayonnaise – 250 ml.
• Table salt – 0.5 tsp.
• Ground black pepper – 1-2 pinches.
• Greens – 2-3 branches.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Prepare all the products on the list so you don’t forget anything. Boil the beets in their skins, peel and grate on a grater with large holes.

Step 2. Peel the carrots and grate them.

Step 3. Wash the beef tenderloin and boil it in water with salt and spices. Add spices as desired. Cool the meat and cut into bars.

Step 4. Also boil the potatoes in their skins, then cool, peel and grate on a coarse grater.

Step 5. Hard-boil chicken eggs and cool them in cold water. After this, peel and grate on a coarse grater. Save one egg for decoration.

Step 6. Grate the cheese. For a brighter salad taste, use salted cheese.

Step 7. To assemble the salad, take a large flat dish. Make the first layer from half of the grated boiled potatoes, brush it with mayonnaise.

Step 8. Next, add a layer of boiled beets, salt it, brush with mayonnaise and sprinkle with half of the chopped walnuts.

Step 9. Mix 2/3 of the grated cheese with a chopped clove of garlic and spread this mixture in the third layer. Also coat it with mayonnaise.

Step 10. Next, take 2/3 of the beef and place it on top of the cheese layer, apply a mayonnaise mesh on top.

Step 11. Place a layer of chicken eggs on the meat and coat it with mayonnaise.

Step 12. Place the carrot layer on the egg layer, but make it smaller in diameter, apply mayonnaise.

Step 13. Then add the remaining cheese and garlic, spread the layer with mayonnaise, and scatter chopped walnuts on top.

Step 14. Place the last layer of the remaining beef, coat it with mayonnaise and sprinkle with chopped herbs.

Step 15. Now you need to arrange the salad into a hat.Place the remaining potatoes on top of all layers and press them lightly with damp hands.

Step 16. Grease the potatoes with mayonnaise. Apply grated yolk to the lower, wider part of the salad; apply chopped egg white to the upper, narrower part of the salad. Place pomegranate seeds on top, giving Monomakh's hat a beautiful and appetizing look. Place the salad in the refrigerator to soak. Bon appetit!

Monomakh's Hat salad with chicken

Monomakh's Hat salad with chicken is an elegant and tasty dish. If there is a holiday coming up, then it is worth putting it on the menu. To decorate the salad, pomegranate seeds are most often used, which also add their own zest to the taste of the dish.

Cooking time – 40 min.

Cooking time – 35-40 min.

Portions – 4-5.

Ingredients:

• Chicken eggs – 3 pcs.
• Table salt - to taste.
• Mayonnaise – 250 ml.
• Beets – 1 pc.
• Potatoes – 3 pcs.
• Hard cheese – 100 gr.
• Carrot – 1 pc.
• Boiled chicken breast – 300 gr.
• Walnuts – 50 gr.
• Onions – 1 pc.
• Garlic – 2-3 teeth.
• Pomegranate – 1 pc.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Boil beets and potatoes in their jackets. When the vegetables have cooled, peel them and grate them on a coarse grater.

Step 2. Hard-boil chicken eggs. Cool and remove the shell. Grind the whites and yolks separately. Grate the whites, and mash the yolks with a fork or grate them using a fine grater.

Step 3. Grate the carrots and hard cheese on a fine grater. Cut the boiled chicken meat into strips.

Step 4. Peel the garlic cloves and pass through a press. Mix garlic pulp with mayonnaise. The salad dressing is ready.

Step 5.Layer the salad in the following order: half potatoes, boiled beets, half carrots, half chopped walnuts, chicken breast, potatoes again, then half yolks and half cheese, again a carrot layer. Spread each layer with mayonnaise and garlic.

Step 6. Grease the surface of the salad with mayonnaise and cheese, sprinkle chopped egg whites and yolks on top. Garnish the Monomakh cap salad with chopped walnuts and pomegranate seeds. Bon appetit!

Salad Monomakh's Cap with prunes

Salad Monomakh's Cap with prunes is a multi-layer appetizer for holidays and buffets. Dishes for festive feasts should not only be tasty, but also beautiful to look at. This recipe provides everything: you will not only feed your guests deliciously, but also surprise them with your culinary imagination.

Cooking time – 40 min.

Cooking time – 40 min.

Portions – 4-6.

Ingredients:

• Carrots – 3-4 pcs.
• Beets – 1 pc.
• Prunes – 100 gr.
• Parsley – 1 bunch.
• Dried apricots – 100 gr.
• Walnuts – 150 gr.
• Chicken eggs – 5 pcs.
• Hard cheese – 50 gr.
• Pomegranate – 1 pc.
• Mayonnaise - as much as needed.

Cooking process:

Step 1: Review the ingredient list and prepare all the items you need. If you want to get a lower-calorie salad, then mayonnaise can be replaced with natural yogurt.

Step 2. Peel the beets and carrots, wash them and grate them on a grater with large holes.

Step 3. Hard-boil chicken eggs and cool in cold water. Grind the whites separately from the yolks, grate them on a fine grater.

Step 4. Grate the hard cheese on a grater with large holes.

Step 5. Wash dried apricots and prunes well with hot water. Cut dried fruits into small pieces.

Step 6.Rinse the parsley with water and chop finely with a knife.

Step 7. Chop the walnut kernels with a knife.

Step 8. Remove the skin from the pomegranate and separate it into grains.

Step 9. Now you can proceed to assembling the salad; it is laid in layers. Make the first layer from a mixture of carrots and dried apricots. Coat the layer with mayonnaise.

Step 10. Place the second layer of whites, brush the layer with mayonnaise.

Step 11. Next, mix the beets and prunes, lay out the third layer of this mixture. Apply mayonnaise to the layer.

Step 12. Scatter the grated yolks over the salad in a fourth layer.

Step 13. Next, make a layer of chopped walnuts and coat it with mayonnaise.

Step 14. Scatter chopped herbs along the edge of the salad. Place grated cheese on top.

Step 15. Scatter the pomegranate seeds between the strips of cheese. The Monomakh cap salad is ready, put it in the refrigerator to soak for several hours. Bon appetit!

Monomakh's hat with raisins

Monomakh's hat with raisins is a salad that has many combinations of products, but always turns out very tasty and original. Place the appetizer on a common dish in layers, which are coated with mayonnaise or other sauce.

Cooking time – 40 min.

Cooking time – 30-40 min.

Portions – 4.

Ingredients:

• Carrots – 1-2 pcs.
• Seedless raisins – 100-150 gr.
• Hard/semi-hard cheese – 150 gr.
• Walnuts – 100-150 gr.
• Chicken eggs – 5-6 pcs.
• Mayonnaise – 1 tbsp.
• Cranberries/lingonberries – for decoration.

Cooking process:

Step 1. To prepare Monomakh's Cap salad you will need all the products indicated in the list of ingredients. Carrots and chicken eggs must be boiled.

Step 2. Peel the boiled carrots and cut into cubes.

Step 3. Remove the shells from the eggs and separate the whites from the yolks. Cut the whites into cubes.

Step 4.Chop the walnut kernels with a knife and dry in a frying pan. Wash the raisins and soak for 10 minutes in hot water.

Step 5. Grate a piece of hard cheese. Mix the resulting cheese shavings with 1/3 of the mayonnaise.

Step 6. In a bowl, mix chopped carrots, egg whites, walnuts, raisins and 2/3 of the mayonnaise.

Step 7. Place the resulting mixture in heaps on a flat dish. And along the edges of the slide, place cheese mixed with mayonnaise.

Step 8. As a decoration, take lingonberries or cranberries, they will resemble the precious stones with which the real Monomakh's hat was decorated. The salad is ready, place it in the cold for a couple of hours so that it is properly soaked. Bon appetit!

Monomakh's hat with walnut

Monomakh's hat with walnuts is an elegant holiday salad that is prepared in many families for the New Year or Christmas. To decorate the salad and give it a festive look, pomegranate seeds and walnut kernels are used.

Cooking time – 120 min.

Cooking time – 40-50 min.

Portions – 4-5.

Ingredients:

• Boiled beets – 1 pc.
• Boiled potatoes – 3 pcs.
• Hard/semi-hard cheese – 150 gr.
• Boiled eggs – 3 pcs.
• Table salt - to taste.
• Large carrots – 1 pc.
• Boiled pork – 300 gr.
• Pomegranate – 1 pc.
• Walnuts – 50 gr.
• Green peas - to taste.
• Mayonnaise - as much as needed.
• Garlic – 1 tooth.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Cool all boiled vegetables, meat and chicken eggs. Take all the other products that are on the list.

Step 2. Peel vegetables and eggs. Separately, grate the beets, potatoes, carrots and hard cheese on a large-hole grater. Separate the whites from the yolks, grate the whites on a coarse grater, and the yolks on the finest grater.Cut the boiled pork into very small cubes, chop the nuts with a knife. Pass a clove of garlic through a press and mix the mixture with mayonnaise.

Step 3: Assemble the salad on a flat plate. The first layer will be from half of the boiled potatoes, apply a mayonnaise mesh on it.

Step 4. The second layer will be beets, also coat them with mayonnaise.

Step 5. Next, add grated carrots and coat the layer with mayonnaise.

Step 6. Place half of the chopped walnuts on the carrot layer.

Step 7. Then put half of the boiled meat, apply a mayonnaise mesh to the layer.

Step 8. Then comes the second part of the potatoes, mayonnaise and egg yolks.

Step 9. After this, half the grated cheese and the remaining meat. Coat the entire salad with mayonnaise, make a circle of cheese, and sprinkle the salad with grated egg white on top.

Step 10. Scatter the remaining walnuts over the edging, make a decoration with pomegranate seeds and green peas. The Monomakh cap salad is ready, keep it in the refrigerator for a while so that it is well soaked. Bon appetit!