Chicken salad

Chicken salads are snacks that can be both festive and everyday. The selection contains various options. There are recipes that are more expensive, but there are also simpler ones. Preparing salads is not difficult. Anyone can cook chicken, and the rest of the steps are simple. Assembling delicious salads is a fun process that children can help with.

Chicken and pineapple salad

Salad with chicken and pineapples will decorate any feast. The available products harmonize perfectly. Once you try it, not a single holiday will be complete without such a treat. The dish is prepared without much hassle. While the chicken and eggs are cooking, let’s do the rest of the cutting without wasting time.

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   A delicious chicken salad is very easy to prepare. We prepare the products. Boil the eggs until hard-boiled. Cook the chicken, not forgetting to add salt to the water. Cool the cooked meat.Thigh flesh can be replaced with fillet.
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   Grind the chicken.
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   Place a ring on the dish and place a glass in the center. Form a chicken layer.
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   Cool the eggs and peel them. Dividing them into yolks and whites, three whites on a fine grater.
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   Sprinkle the egg whites evenly over the chicken. Soak with mayonnaise.
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   Sprinkle with pine nuts, leaving a little for decoration. If desired, replace them with walnuts. For a brighter taste, dry the nut kernels in a dry frying pan.
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   Grind the yolks and sprinkle with the next layer. Coat with mayonnaise.
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   After uncorking the canned pineapples and draining the juice, cut the fruit into cubes. Leave a few rings for decoration.
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   Cover the pineapples in an even layer and soak them in mayonnaise.
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    Grind the cheese with a grater.
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    Distribute the cheese shavings in the next layer and level it out.
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    Cover the dish with cling film and refrigerate overnight.
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    After a while, we take out the dish, remove the film, carefully take out the glass and remove the ring by running a knife along the sides.
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    Decorate the appetizer with pineapple and pine nuts. Chicken salad is ready! Bon appetit!

Simple and delicious salad with chicken and mushrooms

A simple and delicious salad with chicken and mushrooms will become a favorite among puff salads. The appetizer is suitable for holiday menus and everyday meals. We use any mushrooms. The soaked salad practically melts in your mouth. All components are in perfect harmony, turning the appetizer into a gastronomic masterpiece.

Cooking time – 1 hour 00 minutes

Cooking time – 1 hour 00 minutes

Portions – 8

Ingredients:

• Chicken eggs – 6 pcs.
• Hard cheese – 250 gr.
• Fresh/frozen mushrooms – 250 gr.
• Chicken fillet – 1-2 pcs.
• Walnuts – 200 gr.
• Mayonnaise – 300-400 gr.
• Onions – 2 pcs.
• Vegetable oil - for frying.

Cooking process:

Step 1. After reading the description, we take out the products.

Step 2. After peeling the onions, cut them into half rings.

Step 3. Boil the chicken fillet and let it cool after cooking.

Step 4. Process or defrost the mushrooms. You can use different ones. Cut into convenient segments. Heat the vegetable oil and fry the mushrooms and onions for a quarter of an hour. Season with three spoons of mayonnaise. Simmer for 5 minutes.

Step 5. Boil the eggs. It will take at least 10 minutes to achieve the “hard-boiled” state. Then we place it in ice water and remove the shell.

Step 6. After cooling the chicken fillet, cut into cubes.

Step 7. Place the chicken on a plate for assembly and soak it in mayonnaise.

Step 8. We sort out the walnuts from the partitions, inspect them so that no shell fragments are caught. Finely chop the nuts. Sprinkle with the next layer.

Step 9. Grate the cooled and peeled eggs.

Step 10. Distribute the egg shavings and coat with mayonnaise.

Step 11. Add the fried mushrooms and onions. Carefully add salt to the layers, if necessary - the cheese and mayonnaise mixture contain enough salt.

Step 12. Grate the cheese.

Step 13. Sprinkle with a final layer. If desired, soak in mayonnaise. Decorate and let stand in the cold. Bon appetit!

Classic Caesar salad with chicken

The classic Caesar salad with chicken is incredibly appetizing and easy to make. The number of ingredients can be intimidating, but once you read the recipe, your fear will dissipate. The dish will conquer everyone without exception with its deliciousness. The salad will decorate any event.

Cooking time – 1 hour 05 minutes

Cooking time - 30 min.

Portions – 3

Ingredients:

• Chicken eggs – 1 pc.
• Hard cheese – 70 gr.
• Cherry tomatoes – 200 gr.
• Chicken fillet – 350 gr.
• Salad – 100 gr.
• Olive oil – 2 tsp.
• Loaf – 150 gr.
• Vegetable oil – 150 ml.
• Honey – 1 tsp.
• Butter – 30 gr.
• Granulated sugar – 1 tsp.
• Mustard – 2 tsp.
• Salt – 1 tsp.
• Lemon juice – 1 tsp.
• Capers – 1 tsp.
• Ground black pepper – 2 pinches.
• Mixture of Italian herbs – 2 pinches.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Prepare the ingredients. Wash the chicken fillet and wipe dry.

Step 2. Salt the bird, season with a teaspoon of mustard, honey and olive oil. Let's pepper it. Rub in the ingredients, let marinate for half an hour, wrapped in film and refrigerated.

Step 3. Cut the loaf into squares of the same size, trimming the crusts if desired. White bread will also work.

Step 4. Sprinkle the bread with aromatic herbs and salt. Sprinkle with olive oil. After stirring, place in a preheated oven and dry at 180 degrees for about 10 minutes. Stir from time to time and make sure that the crackers do not burn.

Step 5. Take out the vegetable oil and egg in advance and warm it on the workbench to room temperature. Pour oil into a glass, add salt, season with granulated sugar, mustard, lemon juice and finely chopped garlic. Break the egg. It is important that the yolk is intact.

Step 6. Cover the yolk with an immersion device. Beat without lifting it. When the mixture becomes thick, raise and lower the blender and beat for a couple more minutes. After standing, the sauce will acquire a thick consistency.

Step 7. Finely chop the capers and grate the cheese (ideally Parmesan). Combine the products with the sauce. After mixing, check if there is enough of everything and adjust the taste if necessary.

Step 8. Take out the marinated chicken fillet. Place the frying pan on the burner and heat it with vegetable oil.Place the bird and fry for 3 minutes on each side at maximum temperature. If you have a grill pan, delicious stripes will form on the fillet.

Step 9. Place the fried chicken fillet on foil and soak it in butter. Pack in foil. Place in a hot oven and cook at 160 degrees for 5-7 minutes.

Step 10. Cut the chicken into slices diagonally, maintaining the same thickness when slicing. To do this, we arm ourselves with a well-sharpened knife.

Step 11. Coat the dish with sauce. Place washed and dried lettuce leaves. If necessary, we tear them first.

Step 12. Wash the cherry tomatoes and divide them in half. Remove the stems and place on the salad.

Step 13. Distribute the chicken and thin cheese slices, using a housekeeper for convenience. Season with sauce and sprinkle with crackers. Add capers. Before serving, combine the ingredients. Bon appetit!

Salad with smoked chicken, Korean carrots and corn

Salad with smoked chicken, Korean carrots and corn is an elementary and time-consuming appetizer that even a child can prepare. The advantage of the salad is that the products do not require additional preparation. All that remains is to mix them and have a delicious appetizer on the table. The salad looks bright and attracts with its aromas. Everyone who tries the amazing treat is delighted.

Cooking time - 20 minutes.

Cooking time - 10 min.

Portions – 3

Ingredients:

• Smoked chicken – 600 gr.
• Korean carrots – 250 gr.
• Canned corn - small jar.
• Cheese flavored crackers – 1 pack.
• Mayonnaise – 150 gr.
• Dill - to taste.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Remove the skin from the smoked chicken and remove the bones.Cut the fleshy part into cubes. Breast, thighs or drumsticks will do. Pour into a bowl to assemble the salad.

Step 2. After uncorking a small jar of corn, filter the grains through a sieve and send to the chicken.

Step 3. For convenience, cut the finished Korean carrots into pieces and add them to the rest of the ingredients. I made mine at home, but store-bought will do just fine.

Step 4. Season with mayonnaise and mix well. You don’t need to put a lot of mayonnaise, the carrots will give you their juiciness.

Step 5. Add crackers. You can use store-bought ones or dry your own bread.

Step 6. After stirring, serve immediately so that the crackers do not soften and turn into porridge, losing their crispness. If desired, add chopped dill. Bon appetit!

Salad with chicken, cheese and egg

Salad with chicken, cheese and eggs is prepared as quickly as possible. By cooking the chicken ahead of time, assembling the salad will take even less time. For a low-calorie version, use mayonnaise and low-fat cheese. If you don’t like store-bought mayonnaise, make it yourself by mixing natural yogurt with spices.

Cooking time – 35 min.

Cooking time - 15 minutes.

Portions – 2

Ingredients:

• Chicken meat – 300 gr.
• Mayonnaise – 3 tbsp.
• Chicken eggs – 2 pcs.
• Hard cheese – 100 gr.
• Salt - to taste.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Cook the chicken in the usual way. This could be breast meat or thigh meat. Don't forget to salt the water. While the chicken is cooking, boil the eggs. After cooling, cut into pieces and pour the chicken into a bowl. Layer with mayonnaise mesh.

Step 2. Cool the cooked eggs by immersing them in ice water. We clean the shell. Divide into whites and yolks. Grind the whites coarsely and sprinkle over the chicken meat. Add some salt and soak in the sauce.

Step 3.Grate the cheese and distribute it over the protein layer.

Step 4. Make a mesh of mayonnaise.

Step 5. Finely grate the egg yolks and distribute them into a final layer.

Step 6. Decorate with onion feathers at your discretion. Bon appetit!

Delicious salad with chicken breast, prunes and walnuts

A delicious salad with chicken breast, prunes and walnuts is a good option for a holiday table. The salad is assembled in layers, which makes its appearance more presentable. The appetizer must be left in the refrigerator to soak, this will make it tastier and the salad will be more tender.

Cooking time – 1 hour 20 minutes

Cooking time – 40 min.

Portions – 8

Ingredients:

• Chicken fillet – 500 gr.
• Mayonnaise – 350 gr.
• Champignons – 500 gr.
• Hard cheese – 200 gr.
• Salt - to taste.
• Vegetable oil – 3 tbsp.
• Prunes – 150 gr.
• Walnuts – 100 gr.
• Onions – 2 pcs.
• Ground black pepper - to taste.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Prepare the ingredients. We sort the nuts so that shell fragments and partitions do not fall into them. We try to make sure there are no rotten kernels.

Step 2. Place the washed chicken fillet in a pan of water, place it on the fire, and wait until it boils. Remove the foam and minimize the flame. Cook for 25 minutes.

Step 3. Sort out the prunes and pour boiling water over them. After holding for 3 minutes, rinse in cold water and dry.

Step 4. After peeling the onion, rinse and finely chop.

Step 5. Quickly rinse the champignons, wipe off moisture and chop finely.

Step 6. Heat a frying pan with vegetable oil and fry the mushrooms and onions until lightly browned and the liquid has evaporated. Season with salt and pepper. Stir.

Step 7. Chop the cooked and cooled chicken into cubes.

Step 8Spread on the dish in an even layer. Add some salt if necessary.

Step 9. Soak with mayonnaise.

Step 10. Chop the prunes and spread over the meat layer.

Step 11. Soak with mayonnaise.

Step 12. Coarsely grate the cheese.

Step 13. Sprinkle cheese shavings in an even layer.

Step 14. Layer with mayonnaise.

Step 15. Form the mushroom layer.

Step 16. Chop the walnuts.

Step 17. Sprinkle the salad with nut crumbs. If desired, the nuts can be dried in a frying pan without oil.

Step 18. Move the salad into the cold to brew, first covering it with cling film so that the salad does not absorb odors from the refrigerator.

Step 19. Present the soaked salad to the guests. Bon appetit!

Salad with chicken and canned beans

Salad with chicken and canned beans turns out to be quite satisfying and completely replaces a balanced dish. To implement the recipe you will need accessible and inexpensive ingredients. Use sour cream or mayonnaise as a dressing. Garlic and nuts give the snack some specialness and personality.

Cooking time – 40 min.

Cooking time - 20 minutes.

Portions – 6

Ingredients:

• Chicken fillet – 500 gr.
• Sour cream – 3 tbsp.
• Canned red beans – 450 gr.
• Garlic – 2 cloves.
• Salt - to taste.
• Ground black pepper - to taste.
• Walnut kernels – 120 gr.

Cooking process:

Step 1. We collect products after reading the description. After uncorking the beans, strain through a sieve. Wash the chicken under running water.

Step 2. Turn on the stove. Having filled the pan with water, place it on the stove and bring to a boil. We lower the chicken. After boiling, remove the foam. Salt and cook for 20 minutes.

Step 3. After sorting out the walnut kernels from the garbage, chop them, but not into crumbs, leaving pieces.

Step 4.After peeling the garlic, chop it with a sharp knife.

Step 5. Cool the cooked poultry and disassemble it into pieces or cut into cubes.

Step 6. Combine the products into containers.

Step 7. Season with sour cream, add salt and pepper, based on your taste preferences. If the calorie content of the snack is not important, we take full-fat sour cream. For a low-calorie version, use a low-fat product or replace it with natural yogurt.

Step 8. Stir the contents of the salad bowl.

Step 9. Serve the appetizer in a common salad bowl or distribute into portions. Bon appetit!

Salad with chicken, cheese and tomatoes

Salad with chicken, cheese and tomatoes looks attractive and is suitable for family dinners or holiday feasts. Tomatoes produce excess liquid, so the salad should be collected just before serving or the core and seeds removed. An appetizing salad is prepared even faster if you boil the chicken in advance.

Cooking time – 45 min.

Cooking time - 10 min.

Portions – 4

Ingredients:

• Chicken eggs – 2-3 pcs.
• Hard cheese – 100 gr.
• Tomatoes – 2-3 pcs.
• Chicken fillet – 300 gr.
• Garlic – 2 cloves.
• Mayonnaise/sour cream – to taste.
• Salt - to taste.
• Ground black pepper - to taste.

Cooking process:

Step 1. In order not to waste time while we are working on the chicken, turn on the oven on the temperature switch and set it to 180°C. Season the washed and dried chicken fillet with salt, pepper and, if necessary, other spices. After rubbing in the spices, place the meat in a baking dish. Seal with foil, place in a preheated oven and bake for 30 minutes.

Step 2. Cool the chicken meat, cut it or disassemble it into fibers. The bird can be fried in a pan or boiled if desired.

Step 3.Boil the eggs, after cooling, remove the shells and finely chop.

Step 4. Coarsely grate the cheese.

Step 5. Cut the washed tomatoes into cubes.

Step 6. Combine the prepared ingredients in a salad bowl. Squeeze out the garlic cloves and season with mayonnaise or replace with sour cream. Stir.

Step 7. Take a sample and balance the taste if the situation requires it. Distribute the salad among portions and taste. Bon appetit!

Salad with chicken breast and Chinese cabbage

Salad with chicken breast and Chinese cabbage is a delicious and satisfying salad for every day. The dish is quite easy to prepare. The recipe uses mayonnaise as a dressing, which can be replaced with sour cream or natural yogurt if desired. It is better not to leave this salad in the refrigerator, so I recommend preparing it in such quantities that you can eat it right away.

Cooking time – 45 min.

Cooking time - 10 min.

Portions – 2

Ingredients:

• Chicken eggs – 2 pcs.
• Chicken fillet – 150 gr.
• Peking cabbage – 300 gr.
• Cucumbers – 125 gr.
• Tomatoes – 200 gr.
• Mayonnaise/sour cream – 2 tbsp.
• Dill - to taste.
• Salt - to taste.
• Ground black pepper - to taste.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Prepare the ingredients.

Step 2. Bring the water to a boil by placing the pan over medium heat. Drop in the pre-washed chicken. After boiling, remove the foam, reduce the flame and cook the chicken in the usual way. Leave the cooked chicken in the broth until it cools. Strain the broth and use it for soups or freeze it.

Step 3. Remove wilted leaves from Chinese cabbage. We chop the Beijing into strips.

Step 4. Dry the washed tomatoes. Remove the stem and cut into slices.

Step 5. Wash the cucumbers, wipe dry and cut into cubes.

Step 6.Boil the eggs hard. Place in ice water and remove the shell. Chop into cubes.

Step 7. Cut the cooled chicken meat into cubes.

Step 8. Combine the ingredients in a salad bowl. After rinsing the dill, finely chop and add to the contents of the salad bowl.

Step 9. Season with mayonnaise. Salt and pepper. Stir.

Step 10. Transfer to a serving dish. Bon appetit!

Tiffany salad with chicken and grapes

Tiffany salad with chicken and grapes looks very presentable. The snack is ideal for important events and festive occasions. For decoration, choose large seedless grapes. If desired, replace Parmesan in the recipe with any hard cheese. A delicious salad will appeal to many.

Cooking time – 45 min.

Cooking time - 10 min.

Portions – 4

Ingredients:

• Chicken eggs – 3 pcs.
• Parmesan cheese – 150 gr.
• Dark grapes – 400 gr.
• Chicken fillet – 400 gr.
• Walnuts – 65 gr.
• Light mayonnaise – 100 gr.
• Curry – 2 tsp.
• Lemon – 1 pc.
• Vegetable oil - for frying.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Prepare the products.

Step 2. Cut the washed chicken fillet into pieces and pour in lemon juice. While the bird is marinating, let's move on to other products.

Step 3. Chop the walnut kernels not too finely. If the nuts are not from a pack, but loose, I recommend going through them so that you don’t get any partitions or shell fragments. Coarsely grate the hard-boiled eggs and cheese.

Step 4. In a frying pan with vegetable oil, fry the marinated bird until golden. Season with curry and stir. Cover, simmer for 5 minutes and transfer to a colander to remove moisture.

Step 5. Distribute the meat over the dish, forming a bunch of grapes. Soak in mayonnaise and sprinkle with chopped nuts.

Step 6.Place eggs and soak in sauce. Sprinkle with nuts and distribute cheese shavings. Coat with Provençal and sprinkle with nut crumbs again. Coat with mayonnaise. We cut the washed grapes lengthwise and place them as shown in the photo.

Step 7. Decorate with a sprig of greenery. Let it soak and surprise your guests with a delicious appetizer. The combination of the sweetness from the grapes with the seasoned chicken and other ingredients is incredible. Bon appetit!