Of course, for a holiday or family dinner, any housewife tries to cook something very tasty and unusual, but on weekdays you can serve simple meals to the table. If after lunch you have leftovers in the refrigerator, for example, boiled or cooked poultry in the oven, you can easily make a simple chicken salad out of them. Let it be the main ingredient for a hearty meal for dinner, the rest of the components can be selected from what you have in stock: any vegetables (fresh or canned), greens are suitable, and you can fill a salad with mayonnaise, sour cream or vegetable oil. In our article, we offer several recipes to choose from, take the one that you like. And after 10-15 minutes you will get the finished dish.
A simple salad with chicken and corn
For him you will need:
- 400 g of cabbage - you can take white or Chinese;
- 2 large tomatoes;
- 1 can of sweet canned corn;
- 200 g chicken fillet - boiled or baked in the oven;
- 2 eggs;
- mayonnaise and natural yogurt for dressing, as well as salt and pepper.
Finely chop the cabbage, slightly salt and mash it with your hands - it will turn out much juicier. Peel the chicken, cut into small cubes, the same thing needs to be done with boiled eggs. Remove the peel from the tomato - for this you need to scald the vegetables with boiling water, wait 1-2 minutes, after which the skin will peel off very easily, and then cut them into cubes. Drain the water from the corn. Combine all the prepared ingredients in a deep bowl, season with a mixture of mayonnaise and yogurt, mix thoroughly, salt and sprinkle with ground black pepper and other spices to taste. Our simple chicken salad is ready, you can decorate it with corn kernels and serve. By the way, if for refueling you take low-fat mayonnaise or do without it at all, then this dish will be completely dietary. Its calorie content per 100 g will be only 102 kcal, that is, even those who follow a diet can afford a large portion of a delicious vegetable mix with white meat.
How to Make Simple Smoked Chicken Salads
Smoked poultry will give your dish a unique taste and aroma. If you have a ham in your fridge, then you can make such an appetizer. You will need:
- 1 can of champignons in brine;
- 200 or a little more grams of smoked chicken meat;
- 80 g of cheese grated on a coarse grater;
- 2 onions;
- mayonnaise, which need to season salad, vegetable oil for frying.
Chop the onions finely, put in a frying pan and lightly fry, then add the mushrooms and cook for a couple of minutes. Peel smoked ham, remove the bones, cut into cubes and put in a bowl. Arrange the fried mushrooms and grated cheese there too. Stir, salt and pepper, and then season with mayonnaise.
A simple salad with chicken and mushrooms is ready. By the way, together with mushrooms, you can add 1 can of canned beans and corn to the dish - in this case, you will get a tasty and nutritious salad, which can be served at the festive table.
Simple Caesar Salad with Chicken
This regular guest of the restaurant menu is easy to prepare and at home, there are no special tricks here. Remove from the refrigerator:
- 200 g of leaf lettuce;
- 300 g of chicken fillet - boiled or grilled;
- 50 g of cheese (any hard);
- crackers with garlic flavor.
For refueling you will need:
- 2 tsp. Of ordinary Russian mustard;
- 2 hard-boiled yolks;
- 2 tbsp. l concentrated lemon juice;
- 70 olive oil - 4-5 tablespoons;
- 1 tsp 6% vinegar, garlic, and salt and pepper.
Tear lettuce leaves with your hands, chop the chicken fillet with medium-sized plates. Grate the cheese. For dressing, carefully grind the yolks with mustard, put chopped garlic to them, mix well, and then pour in the lemon juice and 6% vinegar. Add olive oil and beat (you can use a blender) until the sauce is smooth. And now we are collecting salad: put lettuce leaves on a large flat plate, chicken plates on top, pour garlic crackers. Pour over the sauce and sprinkle with grated Parmesan at the end. The dish will turn out better than in a restaurant. It's just that you can cook 3 different delicious salads from the usual chicken meat.