Salad with prunes, walnuts, with chicken: recipe with photo

Chicken meat is the oldest food of mankind. This unpretentious bird was tamed and kept in order to obtain protein food in the most ancient times. Of course, over the years, culinary experts from all countries and times have accumulated a great many dishes with his participation as the main ingredient. Such dishes, rather festive than everyday, include salad with prunes, walnuts, and chicken. The dish has many variations in composition and preparation. Almost every housewife adds something special there, some ingredients that make salad with prunes, walnuts and chicken an individual product that has "its own face." It is usually done on New Year's, birthday, wedding or other generally accepted holidays, when you can walk and relax for a long time. Well, let’s and we try to cook?

Salad: chicken, prunes, egg, walnut

These ingredients, plus mayonnaise, are included in the basic recipe. Salad with prunes, walnuts, chicken is very tasty, respectively, it is quickly eaten. And therefore, you need to cook a lot right away: a large bowl. Small quantities are unacceptable, especially in a large family or when guests are expected to arrive. After all, they should all try at least a spoonful of delicious food. That is why the main product - chicken - you need to take more! So, we need: a kilogram of boiled chicken breast (you can use the broth from under it to prepare excellent first courses), 12 hard-boiled eggs, a glass of good prunes peeled from a bone, peeled walnuts, a mayonnaise (its amount is determined by the traditional recommendation : “How much will the salad take”).

Cooking

1. This version of the dish will not be “grated”, but “lumpy”. This means that all the ingredients should be cut into medium sized pieces. We do not crush the dried raw nuts, but cut into pieces with a sharp knife.
2. Before cutting, it is advisable to scalp the prunes with boiling water, and then drain the water.
3. Sliced ​​pieces of prepared ingredients are mixed in a suitable dish, adding mayonnaise slowly. It is best to take Provence. But for those who prefer to consume fewer calories, it is recommended to take "Salad" - 30%. Although the salad of prunes, chicken and walnuts in itself turns out to be very high-calorie, frankly, not for a diet! So it is best to take mayonnaise 67%, i.e., classic.
4. Do not introduce a lot of mayonnaise, as it will turn out gruel instead of a sensible dish, and we need not a pasty mess for spreading on sandwiches, but a full-fledged product.
5. When the salad of prunes, chicken and walnuts is ready, we transfer it to the ceremonial dishes and decorate with grated eggs, nuts and sprigs of greens.
   

Layered option

The ingredients of this dish are not too different from the previous version. To the above products add 250-300 grams of hard cheese. The remaining proportions are left the same. Here it is all about the cooking method, which is different, and significantly.

Cooking

1. The essence of the method is that the eggs (divided into yolks and squirrels) and cheese need to be grated, and the nuts should be crushed in a mortar or ground, in a modern way, in a coffee grinder or meat grinder.
2. Prune and chicken breast are cut into very small pieces.
3. Next, create layers of salad. The first is a finely chopped breast. We cover it with a grid of mayonnaise.
4. The second layer - yolks, the third - prunes, the fourth - cheese, the fifth - crushed nuts, the sixth - egg whites. Between the layers we always insert a mesh of mayonnaise for good impregnation of products.
5. If there are many products, then the layers can be repeated again. Then our salad with prunes, walnuts and chicken will turn out lush and high.
6. You can decorate everything with the same nuts and grated eggs, having built a simple drawing on top, for example, the sun.
7. Be sure to let the salad soak in the refrigerator before eating and serving it (at least half an hour).

Option with mushrooms

Another similar salad: chicken, mushrooms, prunes, walnuts. These are the main ingredients. For a pound of chicken breast we take 100-150 grams of prunes, peeled, the same amount of peeled nuts, 300 grams of champignons. In addition, to implement the culinary idea, a couple of medium-sized pickles, 3-4 eggs, mayonnaise, large onions.

Cooking

1. Finely chop the mushrooms and fry together with onions in vegetable oil.
2. Scald the prunes in boiling water and chop finely.
3. Nuts must be drained.
4. Boil eggs and grate.
5. Finely chop the cucumbers into cubes (or you can grate).
6. This salad is also puff. The first layer we have is a chicken breast cut into cubes. Next up is prunes with nuts.
7. Next - mushrooms with onions, pickles, eggs. We coat each layer with a mesh of Provencal or Salad mayonnaise.
8. Sprinkle the finished salad with grated egg, nuts and decorate with sprigs of greenery. Before serving and eating, the dish is left to stand for 1 or 2 hours in the refrigerator at plus temperature.
   

Salad: chicken, prunes, cheese, walnut, cucumber

In principle, this salad is similar to the previous one. But this time, eggs, mushrooms and onions are not used. A cucumber, to spice up the dish, we take fresh (but in winter you can take salty).

Ingredients: half a pound of chicken, pre-cooked and cooled, half a glass of pitted prunes, half a glass of peeled walnuts, 200 grams of any hard cheese, several medium cucumbers, mayonnaise.

Cooking

1. Nuts crush. Scald the prunes with boiling water and cut into small pieces. Cucumbers - in cubes.
2. Hard cheese three large.
3. Cut the fillet into microscopic cubes.
4. We are building a puff structure. The first layer is fillet. The second is prunes with nuts. Cucumbers Cheese. Between the layers - a mesh of mayonnaise.
5. If desired and a sufficient amount of product (double, triple portion), the layers are repeated in the same sequence.
6. We decorate the dish with grated eggs and nuts. Be sure to leave the bottom of the refrigerator for at least an hour - soak.
7. Serve to the table and enjoy the taste. A special piquancy of this variety of salad with chicken and prunes gives a fresh cucumber.
   

Another option

And finally, the next salad. Chicken, prunes, walnuts, cucumbers are also the main ingredients. In addition, we use mayonnaise and a little onion, slightly pickled in lemon juice with spices. The whole relish of such a dish is that we take smoked bird fillet. It will give the dish an exquisite taste and aroma, shaded by the freshness of the cucumber and the spicy bitterness of pickled onions.

Ingredients: half a pound of smoked fillet, half a glass of prunes, half a glass of peeled nuts, two medium fresh cucumbers, a couple of onions, chopped in half rings and slightly pickled (but preferably without vinegar), mayonnaise, black pepper, ground by hand.

How to cook

1. All the ingredients are not three, but cut into medium pieces so that they are perceived separately.
2. Nuts only push in a mortar or boldly in a coffee grinder.
3. Mix and season with mayonnaise.

Note: this salad is not flaky, and you need to serve it in a traditional salad bowl, mixing a little before use and decorating with sprigs of greens, cucumber slices, grated yolk.