The uncomplicated recipe, the originality of the decoration and the refined taste make this salad a welcome dish at any holiday. Calla salad, the recipe of which will be discussed below, owes its name to decoration in the form of calla flowers made from cream cheese. Delicate, memorable taste will not leave indifferent not only gourmets, but also those who are not inclined to culinary delights.
Salad "Callas". Recipes with photos and step-by-step cooking instructions
Consider several variations of the preparation of this salad and determine which one is better. There are several ways of execution: with chicken and seafood, prunes and nuts. In puff or mixed form. Puff salad based on chicken is considered a classic. Recently, however, poultry meat has increasingly been replaced by seafood such as shrimp and crab sticks.
Classic Calla Salad. Step by step recipe
Required Products:
- 250 g of chicken or chicken meat;
- 2 chicken eggs;
- 120-150 g of hard cheese;
- 250 g of champignons;
- 250 g of pineapple;
- 3 carrots;
- 1 medium onion.
To decorate:
- Leek - 2-3 branches.
- Parsley - a few twigs.
- Processed cheese in plates - 5 pcs.
- Mayonnaise.
- Vegetable oil.
Salad "Calla", the recipe for which is discussed below, is laid out exclusively in layers. There are options where the ingredients are simply altered and seasoned with mayonnaise, but then the special taste of the salad is lost, achieved precisely by layering the above products. This is its highlight.
Layer preparation
- My filet or ham and put on medium heat. After boiling, salt the water, reduce the fire, remove the foam and cook until tender. As a rule - 40–45 minutes. After the meat is cooked, remove it from the pan, allow to cool and chop finely.
- Cook carrots, cool and three on a grater.
- Fry mushrooms and onions in a pan until golden brown.
- Pineapples are cut into small pieces and let the juice drain.
- Three cheese on a grater.
- Boil the eggs and finely chop.
The ingredients for the Calla salad with chicken are ready! We lay out the layers.
The sequence of arrangement of layers and their variations
Having prepared all the necessary components, we begin to lay them on top of each other. There can be many options for arranging layers; let us consider two of them.
I option:
- Chicken. Mayonnaise.
- Mushrooms mixed with onions.
- Carrot. Lubricate with mayonnaise.
- The eggs.
- Cheese. Mayonnaise.
- Pineapples Lubricate with mayonnaise.
II option:
- Chicken. Mayonnaise.
- Pineapples Mayonnaise.
- Cheese.
- Mushrooms with onions. Mayonnaise.
- Carrot.
- The eggs. Mayonnaise.
Salad dressing
Having finished the main part, we proceed to decorate the finished dish. As a background, lettuce can be sprinkled on top with grated yolk or finely chopped dill. We will lay improvised flowers on it. We take a sheet of
processed cheese (before that it is desirable that it is in the refrigerator, otherwise the cheese will be too soft and brittle) and curl up with a small bag. Put a slice of carrot in the center of the flower. We make the stem from green onions or dill. On the rim of the plate you can put dill.
As soon as the decoration is finished, you must immediately put the dish in the refrigerator, otherwise the flowers will lose their shape and become flat. It is advisable to consume the salad after a couple of hours, when all layers are saturated and get their own special taste.
Calla salad, the recipe of which we reviewed, is a classic. And is prepared on the basis of chicken fillet. Replacing the meat with seafood, we get, in fact, a completely new salad, which will have a completely different taste. We recommend that you try both options and decide which one you like best.
Calla salad with seafood
Required Products:
- 150 gr shrimp.
- 100 g of crab sticks (surimi).
- 1 carrot.
- 1 medium onion.
- 4 chicken eggs.
- 250 g canned pineapple.
- 150 g canned or pickled mushrooms.
- 150 g of hard cheese.
- Mayonnaise.
To decorate:
- Leek - a small bunch.
- Dill - a few twigs.
- Cream cheese - 3-5 plates.
Salad "Calla", a step-by-step recipe for the preparation of which is described above, is practically no different from the version of the same salad, but with seafood.
- Shrimps are washed and boiled in salted water with seasonings. Then peeled and finely chopped.
- Eggs and carrots are boiled and finely chopped.
- Mushrooms and onions are overcooked.
- Surimi, onions, pineapples are also cut into small pieces.
- Cheese is rubbed on a medium grater.
Layers in the Calla salad with shrimp are laid out in the following sequence:
- Shrimp with crab sticks. Mayonnaise.
- Mushrooms with onions.
- Carrot. Mayonnaise.
- Cheese.
- Pineapples Mayonnaise.
The salad is also decorated with a plate of cheese folded in the form of a cone, carrot in the form of a tongue and onion - like a flower stalk.
Salad "Calla", the recipe for which is based on seafood, differs from the classic taste shades attached to it by shrimp and surimi. It is in no way inferior to chicken salad and will become a gourmet dish that your guests will appreciate.
Useful tips for housewives!
- If you take fresh mushrooms, you need to take twice as much as indicated in the recipe, since when cooking they will stew almost twice. And, accordingly, first fresh mushrooms must be stewed for some time (about 10 minutes), and then fry. When frying, you can also add some Provence herbs, this will give the mushrooms piquancy.
- You can replace canned pineapples with fresh ones, then the taste will be more delicate.
- You can not fry the onions, but scald them with boiling water and pickle them a little (1 tbsp.spoon of 9% vinegar in half a glass of water). Pickle for 10-15 minutes.
- Before spreading the frying, it is necessary to let the oil drain, otherwise the salad may “float”.
- You can use both peeled and unpeeled shrimp. There is not much difference.