Salad is one of the most popular and most beloved snacks in the whole world. They are traditionally present at festive and other feasts. But habitual for all olivier and vinaigrette will not surprise anyone. I want to bring to your attention Josephine salad. It is a fairly satisfying dish, as it is based on chicken and mushrooms. But at the same time, the snack has a very delicate taste. Salad "Josephine" with chicken will appeal to both women and men.
Salad Ingredients
In order to cook this appetizer, as the name implies, of French origin, the products require the most ordinary. They are easy to purchase in any store, and in stock from any chef they will always be found. These products are:
- Fresh champignons or oyster mushrooms, about two hundred to two hundred and fifty grams.
- Two hundred grams of chicken.
- One hundred and fifty grams of hard cheese, take the variety to your personal taste.
- Three to four chicken eggs.
- Two medium fresh tomatoes.
- Chives, a small bunch.
- Dill and parsley.
- Mayonnaise, its quantity is also worth taking to your taste, but three or four tablespoons will be quite enough.
In addition, we need a small amount of any cooking oil for frying, as well as salt and pepper.
Product pretreatment
A very simple salad recipe "Josephine" still requires preliminary preparation of products. First you need to boil the chicken. To do this, it is placed in boiling, slightly salted water. You can add various spices and seasonings to it. Cooking chicken fillet costs about half an hour over low heat. This is necessary so that the meat is soft and juicy. After it cools completely, you can start cutting it into small pieces.
Chicken eggs are also boiled, cooled and peeled. Next, cut them into small squares. It is very convenient to use an egg cutter for this.
Hard cheese and tomatoes are also cut into small cubes.
Grind the mushrooms and put in a pan with warmed vegetable oil. Fry them until the liquid evaporates completely. Let cool. The feathers of green onions for Josephine salad should be finely chopped with a knife. It will replace ordinary onions. So the taste of the snack will be more delicate.
Shaping and decorating salad
Making salad "Josephine" is not difficult at all. Because this is not a puff snack dish. To do this, put all prepared and cut products in a deep bowl. Salt a little and add a little pepper. Better if it is freshly ground. Such a pepper, unlike ordinary black, bought in a store, has a bright and unique flavor. We season with mayonnaise, you can mix it with sour cream, and mix our dish well. Salad "Josephine" from the specified number of products is quite a lot. For this reason, if you are preparing an appetizer for the first time, you can halve their quantity for a sample.
We shift the finished appetizer into a salad bowl, the bottom of which is laid with green lettuce leaves. You can also take the leaves of Beijing cabbage. Sprinkle it with finely chopped dill or parsley.
Other options for salad "Josephine"
In addition to the above, classic cooking options, this snack can be varied by adding or replacing one of the ingredients. So, for example, if you do not really like mushrooms or they simply were not at hand, you can replace them with crab sticks or meat. In this case, it is recommended to add one sweet bell pepper to the Josephine salad.
Also in the classic version of the snack you can tear salad leaves.
The salad is decorated in random order. If desired, it can be laid out a hill and sprinkle with grated cheese on top.