Assorted salads - dishes are very advantageous. You can cook them from a wide variety of products, which only the imagination will tell you. And the result, as a rule, is unexpectedly interesting and very tasty.
Precious placers
Far from the first year, the garnet salad “Pomegranate Bracelet” is popular with gourmets. Its charming, piquant note is made up of two ingredients - pomegranate seeds and walnut kernels. Cooking enthusiasts have gone further. And for several seasons, it has become fashionable to serve another original “jewel” - “Malachite Bracelet” on the festive table. Salad, of course! Many cooking options have been invented - from the classic with a lot of ingredients to very extravagant. The external design is also diverse: traditional, in the form of a bracelet, or the usual - slide. The main thing that is interesting about the "Malachite Bracelet" (salad) is that it includes kiwi. The sour fruit gives the dish a special note, very pleasant.
Chicken Salad with Celery
The first recipe is very simple. To cook it, you need about 400-500 g of chicken, one bunch of celery and parsley, a glass of peeled walnut kernels, salt and seasonings, 3-4 pieces of kiwi and mayonnaise for dressing. How is the Malachite Bracelet prepared? Salad consists of products that can, but need not be laid out in layers. Finely chop the greens. Boil the meat in salt water, remove from the broth, cool. Cut it into thin strips or cubes. Pepper, sprinkle with seasonings. Finely chop the nuts. Combine the ingredients, season with mayonnaise. For a brighter flavor, add a little mustard. Lay lettuce on a flat plate . On top of them is a slide “Malachite bracelet”. Garnish the salad with thin slices of kiwi (peel, chop). Lay them in circles so that the dish really looks like a bracelet. It will turn out very effective and delicious!
Grilled Chicken Salad
Here is another Malachite Bracelet. With chicken or kiwi to cook it - you decide (suddenly someone does not like this exotic fruit), however, what we offer deserves attention, believe me! You will need chicken, but not boiled, but grilled. Or smoked, which is even better. Grams are approximately 300-350. Cut it into cubes. Chop the red onion finely. To remove the bitterness, pour boiling water onion and immediately drain the water. Combine with meat. Also chop the red cabbage with small strips and put to the rest of the products. Add a little chopped cilantro, sprinkle with coriander, pepper. This salad “Malachite Bracelet with Chicken” is seasoned not with mayonnaise, but with a special filling. It is prepared as follows: squeeze the juice of 1 lemon, add a little vegetable oil and a few teaspoons of honey. Dissolve everything well and pour into the salad, mix. If any component is missing in the dressing, add to your taste. Transfer the mixture to a salad bowl. Take a few limes and kiwi, peel, cut into slices or small circles and decorate the dish with “precious stones”. You can stick and pieces of nucleoli nuts. It should turn out very elegant, bright, spectacular and tasty.
Mushroom Chicken Salad
Let's continue our acquaintance with recipes. This salad “Malachite bracelet” (photos show how different it can be) is a little more complicated in composition and more laborious. But more satisfying, nutritious than those that are already presented to your attention. It may well be considered an independent dish. Boil in a peel 1 medium beets, 3-4 potatoes, 3 carrots. Cool, peel, grate on a coarse grater - each vegetable separately. Chop a handful of nuts finely. Cut the onion in half rings. Cut 300 g of boiled chicken into slices. Hard boil 3 eggs, chop medium-sized. Also chop pickled or salted mushrooms (take quantity to taste). Take a flat plate or dish. In the center, place the tea cup turned upside down. And lay the ingredients around it in layers. The very first meat is put. Add it a little and pepper. Then a layer of onions. Sprinkle it lightly with vinegar and apply a thin mesh of mayonnaise. Next come the mushrooms, potatoes, carrots, eggs. After each layer, do not forget to flavor the products with mayonnaise. If desired, add a little. The penultimate layer of meat is again placed, on it beets mixed with nuts. The top is smeared with mayonnaise and decorated with canned peas. It turns out very tasty and beautiful. At the end, carefully pull out the glass, trim the sides of the "bracelet". You can carry it to the table, do not hesitate: the treat will go away "with a bang."
Useful clarifications
Like any dish, this "Malachite bracelet" is a work of culinary creativity. And this means that at your discretion, you can change or supplement the recipe with your products. In the cooking variant described above, such a substitution is possible: the carrots are laid not boiled, but raw, grated on a grater. Squeeze a clove of garlic into it and immediately season with mayonnaise. In this form, and put in a salad. You can do the same with beets: add garlic, nuts, mix with mayonnaise and put in a separate layer in the salad. Garlic will add piquancy and spice to the dish, besides it goes well with carrots and beets. And with other components it gets along well.