If you want to enjoy a light, but at the same time nutritious dish, then prepare a salad with beans and smoked chicken. This dish contains a lot of proteins. Therefore, its calorie content is quite acceptable for those who follow the figure. For a salad, you need only 5 ingredients that are easy to buy.
Ingredients:
- 300 grams of smoked breast;
- 1 can of red beans ;
- 1 pack of crackers;
- 100 grams of cheese;
- mayonnaise;
- optional - 2 cloves of garlic.
With garlic, the salad will turn out more spicy. If you are not afraid of the garlic smell, then you can add this spice, but without it it will turn out very tasty. Moreover, crackers can be bought with any taste, and they will give an additional flavor to the salad.
How to cook "Smoked Chicken Bean Salad"
The preparation of this dish is very fast. Therefore, if the refrigerator already has everything you need, then ten minutes is enough - and you can feast on it.
Cut the chicken into small squares, three cheese on a coarse grater. Open the beans. You can drain part of the liquid from it, or you can put the vegetable along with it. After all, crackers absorb a lot of moisture. Without liquid, the salad will turn out dry, and you will have to add a lot of mayonnaise, which will make the dish high-calorie. And we want to get an almost dietary salad. Smoked chicken, beans - these are products that do not entail a set of excess weight. If you want the dish to be even lighter, you can replace the smoked chicken with boiled chicken.
It remains to add chopped garlic, mayonnaise. Let the crackers soak, and after 20 minutes you can already conduct a tasting, enjoying the divine taste.
Smoked chicken, beans, crackers salad - variations on the theme
There are several varieties of this dish. Vegetable lovers can add Peking cabbage and tomatoes to the salad.
Ingredients:
- 3 smoked breasts;
- 300 grams of hard cheese;
- 1 medium head of Beijing cabbage;
- 1 pack of crackers;
- a can of white beans;
- 3 tablespoons of mayonnaise.
This amount is enough for a large company. Therefore, such a dish can be prepared for a family dinner or some kind of home holiday. This salad with beans, with smoked chicken in its composition has even fewer calories than the previous version.
It is not difficult to do it. Vegetables need to be washed. Tomatoes - cut into cubes, salad - planed in the form of noodles. Grate the cheese as in the first recipe. Everything is mixed, infused and served at the table.
Another interesting recipe
The next smoked chicken bean salad is prepared a little longer. But beans for it will cost less. After all, you need not a can, but a boiled one.
Ingredients:
- 1 cup (200 grams) of white beans;
- 2 fresh cucumbers;
- 1.5 smoked chicken breasts;
- 1 pack of crackers;
- 2-3 tablespoons of mayonnaise.
Cooking
Soak the beans for the night, then in the morning you can already boil it for 30-40 minutes in boiling water. Shred the cucumbers with straws, and the chicken with cubes.
Now we spread the prepared products in layers. First, crackers. We coat them quite abundantly with mayonnaise. Then a chicken. We also cover it, but with a small layer of this light sauce. We put cucumbers on the chicken, and beans on them. And so we lay out several layers. Each layer is slightly salted and greased with a small amount of mayonnaise. Spread a little more mayonnaise on top and decorate the salad. You can make 3 flowers from cucumber shavings by folding it. And the leaves will be obtained from sprigs of parsley or dill. It’s easy to make lily flowers. To do this, cut a slice from a cucumber 8 cm long. Stick a knife into its middle and divide into 2 parts in a zigzag motion. It will turn out beautifully.
We must not forget that decoration, like taste, is important for any dish.