Salads are a must for any table. A variety of recipes allows you to cook exactly what guests like. No festive table can do without these wonderful cold dishes.
Salads belong to the category of light, but at the same time, hearty meal. Various ingredients allow you to experience a variety of tastes. After all, they contain vegetables, and meat, and eggs, and cheese, and so on. The most important thing is to choose the right dressing: mayonnaise, vegetable oil, vinegar, yogurt.
The presence of several types of salad at once can admirably decorate the festive table. Because they usually come in different colors - red, yellow, orange, green, and because of this give unforgettable brightness.
Hector salad is one of the favorite for many
There are a huge number of salads in the world. Along with such popular and beloved ones as “Caesar”, “Mimosa”, “Winter”, “Summer”, “Herring under a fur coat” and so on, one can note a wonderful and tasty exotic salad “Hector”.
Boiled chicken, delicate taste of pineapple, juicy champignons, pieces of nuts give the dish an unforgettable and interesting taste. By the way, despite the large number of ingredients, the Hector salad is very easy to prepare. And if you add children to this matter, then it will become a real fascinating action for them.
Delicious "Hector" (salad): a step by step recipe
Many have now adopted the right and wholesome diet in fashion. Therefore, it is not surprising that people choose a dish such as Hector salad for a festive or even daily menu. Its recipe includes such useful foods as meat (protein), nuts, olives and others.
Let's consider step by step how he is preparing:
- Chicken fillet (300 grams) is washed and cut into small cubes.
- It is fried in a skillet for 10-15 minutes until a rosy chicken appears. Instead, this process can be boiled and then cut into cubes.
- Next, onions (1 pc.) And champignons (200 g), also diced, are fried in a pan. Excess moisture from the mushrooms should be evaporated.
- Pineapple is diced, and pitted olives are sliced.
- Cooked ingredients are placed in a beautiful salad bowl and seasoned with mayonnaise.
- There are added chopped nuts, salt and pepper to taste.
- Everything is neatly mixed.
For those who do not like the sweet taste of pineapple in unsweetened salad, there is an alternative - use pickled cucumber instead. You can also add boiled eggs and celery to the dish - thanks to this, the salad will become hearty and vitamin. You can take any nuts: walnuts, cashews, hazelnuts, peanuts and others.
To change the taste of the salad and make it brighter, you can add tkemale sauce to it. It is also not difficult to cook it - tkemali plums are boiled in water with the addition of various seasonings (in the form of mint, coriander, garlic, dill, ground pepper). This sauce will reveal the taste of boiled chicken.
Serve the dish on large leaves of green salad.
Finally
Hector Salad is ready to eat. It is advisable to cool it before serving. Then all the ingredients are saturated with the taste and smell of each other. Without exaggeration, we can say that guests will be delighted with this gourmet dish. Not for nothing at the holidays "Hector" is eaten first.