There are many salad recipes with the playful name “Mistress”. Some of these dishes are decorated with pomegranate seeds, while others are decorated with pineapple slices. There are also those where the top is densely studded with nuts or prunes. What makes these seemingly so different snacks related? Of course, piquancy in taste, an extraordinary combination of something substantial (smoked chicken, for example) and a sweet fruity note. In addition, the French Mistress salad is layered. In a beautiful transparent dish, it will be very appropriate on the festive table. Each layer needs to be coated with mayonnaise, so you can not call a dietary dish in any way. The "mistress" is often cooked by cooks with experience, because the ingredients can vary, which gives free rein to imagination.
Classic salad "French mistress"
First, boil the chicken breast. We need it without bones and skin, cut into small pieces. Next, steam a couple of tablespoons of light raisins. Two onions cut into half rings in a bowl, add a pinch of salt and sugar, a few drops of vinegar and pour over boiling water. We chop one glass of walnuts, we calcinate in a frying pan without oil. We rub two carrots with large chips, and fifty grams of hard cheese - small. How to make a French Mistress salad? If all the ingredients are already at hand, we can proceed with the assembly of the dish. At the bottom is a layer of chicken. Cover the meat with half onion rings. The marinade, of course, needs to be drained, he did his job. We put steamed raisins on the onion without bitterness. We put a carrot on it, and then cheese. Do not forget to grease each layer with mayonnaise? Sprinkle the top of the salad with red hot nuts and decorate with oranges, cut into small cubes.
Piquant option
You can make a delicious French Mistress salad if you make some substitution in the ingredients. First of all, chicken. It will turn out more piquant if a slight aroma of haze is felt in the dish. Take a smoked chicken, well baked. Raw carrots here will be appropriate to replace Korean (250 g). It only needs to be cut smaller. The proportion of cheese and raisins is increased to one hundred grams. All other components of the dish remain the same. Layers alternate in the same sequence as in the previous recipe.
Salad "French mistress" with beets
This is a more complicated dish. Each layer in it is not just an ingredient, but a mixture of components. Boil small, sweet-tasting beets. We need a carrot young, juicy. So, the first layer: three finely carrots, mix it with a clove of garlic and a small handful of crushed walnuts, passed through the press. Lubricate with mayonnaise. We prepare the second layer: in 200 g of hard grated cheese, squeeze a clove of garlic, mix. Grease with mayonnaise again. The third layer is boiled beets. We clean it and rub it with large chips. Mix with a fistful of nuts and a clove of garlic. Salt to taste. The last time we apply mayonnaise dressing. Traditionally we decorate with cubes of oranges or slices of tangerines.
Quick cooking
The inconvenience that all puff salads create is that the dish must be kept in the refrigerator for some time so that the tastes of the layers are mixed and the aroma is fully revealed. Using this recipe, the French Mistress salad can be served immediately after cooking. Boil the chicken breast, disassemble it into fibers or cut into slices, salt, mix with mayonnaise. Pickle the onion, decant and add a spoonful of dressing. We do the same with grated fresh carrots. Then lay out a layer of raisins. We rub the cheese very finely, mix with a clove of garlic and a spoonful of mayonnaise. And finally, nuts and orange come from above - without dressing.