This year's New Year's table is obliged to be as bright and colorful as its symbol. The best choice for any housewife is dishes that are easily prepared, but at the same time look spectacular and colorful. One such recipe will be the Temptation salad. And it’s not at all scary that the main ingredient is chicken. This product is not only hearty and healthy, but also goes well with other components of the dish.
When preparing holiday feasts, it is very important to find recipes that would allow you to experiment with the ingredients. Sometimes it happens that something at the last moment was not in the refrigerator or store, and the menu has already been drawn up. The salad offered today is a universal dish, allowing to supplement and exclude some products at the discretion of the cook.
Temptation Salad Products
- Smoked meat - 150 g.
- Canned champignons - 1 pc.
- Cream Cheese - 40 g.
- Roasted salted peanuts - one handful.
- Mayonnaise - 4-6 table. spoons.
- Salted crackers, fresh parsley - for decoration.
- Large lettuce leaves - for the base.
Advice
For any temptation salad recipe, you can use any kind of meat. The main thing is that it be smoked. At the discretion of the hostess or at the request of the guests, smoked chicken breast can be replaced with boiled pork or ham.
To decorate the salad, you can use not only fresh parsley leaves, but also canned corn, which will add brightness to the dish. Temptation salad with chicken can either be decorated in the form of a puff cake, or it can be casual products scattered and awkwardly mixed.
If desired, instead of canned mushrooms, you can take fresh champignons. Fried mushrooms will be more saturated in taste. However, in order to save time, we advise you to resort to the help of ready-made ingredients.
How to Make Temptation Salad
In a layered version, the chicken fillet (or the type of smoked meat that was selected) is cut into long, but rather thin slices. We lay the chicken sticks on the bottom of a flat plate. Champignons can be cut into two parts. If this is a small mushroom, then leave them in their original form. This will be the second layer of Temptation salad. We coat generously with mayonnaise. This will be the first and only inner layer.
Put the cheese on the mushrooms. It can be cut into small cubes or use a coarse grater. The taste of the dish does not change. In a mortar, slightly break the salted peanuts and sprinkle on top on the cheese layer. Next will go crackers. It remains only to add a couple of leaves of parsley, and the salad is ready. If you are making a layered version of the salad, we recommend putting it in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
The "sloppy" way of making salad is very often used in restaurants. In a separate container, lettuce and mayonnaise torn into arbitrary parts are mixed. We spread the sauce-soaked leaves on the bottom of the plate. On top, “throw” strips of meat, add mushrooms. Grind the cheese with a fine grater and mix it with salted nuts grated in a mortar. This mass will be on top of the mushrooms. It remains only to add the finishing touches - crackers and green leaves of parsley.