Such an appetizer as salads is loved and eaten by everyone, without exception. It is an obligatory dish on the festive table, and even on weekdays, rarely will anyone give up a light or, on the contrary, a hearty salad. Each cook has their own proprietary recipes, which they use constantly. But everyone is ever bored. Today I want to replenish your piggy bank with a few more. There are many different Natalie salads. Let's talk about the most delicious and proven many recipes.
Natalie Salad with Prunes
For the first version of the salad, which is multi-layered, we need such products:
- One glass of already boiled rice.
- One smoked chicken breast.
- Half a glass of prunes.
- Mushrooms, champignons, two hundred grams are best suited.
- Two hundred grams of hard cheese, choose a variety to your taste.
- Two chicken eggs.
- Fresh cucumber.
- Onion.
- Mayonnaise.
You can decorate the Natalie salad with greens and cream cheese.
How to cook
At the very beginning of cooking, it is worth preparing the mushrooms. To do this, cut them into pieces. Peel the onion and cut into half rings. Next, fry it together with mushrooms in a pan with preheated vegetable or butter.
Boil eggs and three hard cheese on a coarse grater, folding them into separate plates. Grind smoked chicken and cucumber into a thin straw.
Prunes must be soaked in hot water for ten, fifteen minutes. After draining excess fluid from it, and squeezing. Cut into strips.
Next, to decorate the salad "Natalie" is to take a wide dish with raised edges. On it we spread the ingredients prepared for the salad in layers. They go in the following order:
- Boiled rice, it should be slightly salted.
- Ground Prunes.
- Smoked chicken.
- Mayonnaise.
- Mushrooms fried with onions.
- The eggs. They should be mixed in advance with grated cheese and mayonnaise.
- The final layer is cucumbers, cut into strips.
On top of the salad "Natalie" decorate in random order. You can use cream cheese for this, for sandwiches.
Boiled Chicken Option
For this version of the preparation of salad "Natalie" requires a small amount of products. At the same time, they are perfectly combined with each other, making the taste of the salad delicate and refined. And so, we will need the following ingredients:
- One chicken breast, can be replaced with two legs.
- Three chicken eggs.
- Fresh cucumber.
- Half a glass of chopped walnuts.
- Six to eight pieces of prunes.
- Mayonnaise and herbs.
Cooking method:
Salad "Natalie" with chicken is prepared very simply and quickly. The longest cooking process is cooking meat.
Boil it in salted water for about forty minutes. Boil chicken eggs, peel and rub on a coarse grater. Cut the cucumber and prunes into strips. Chilled chicken meat is chopped in random order.
Next, in a deep dish, mix all the prepared ingredients. We season them with mayonnaise, salt a little and add chopped green onions. Mix well.
Ready salad “Natalie” is served in portions or in one beautiful dish, garnished with dill or parsley.