Original, in beauty, and simple in terms of preparation, the salad "Forest Glade" will look spectacular on the festive table and on the ordinary. He is able to pleasantly surprise children as well as adults.
The main ingredients of the dish are meat, mushrooms (champignons, honey agarics), carrots, cheese, greens. Therefore, it is unusually satisfying and tasty.
Salad "Forest Glade" is perfect as an appetizer, and as a main or main dish.
The article describes the different cooking options for this dish.
Cooking recommendations
Recipes salad "Forest Glade" involve the use of various ingredients. Sometimes the main ones are completely replaced, which makes dishes with the same name completely different in taste.
In order for the components to harmoniously combine with each other, it is necessary to choose pickled mushrooms, cucumbers, carrots in Korean. It is important that the spices and aroma of the brines do not interrupt each other.
Instead of mayonnaise, you can use sour cream with salt, cream, pure yogurt to coat the layers and dress the salad.
As for the greens, in this dish it can be unlimited (the grams indicated in each recipe are approximate).
Mushrooms (champignons, honey agarics and other species) are recommended to use pickled, fried, salted.
Classic recipe
Ingredients:
- Mayonnaise - 200 ml.
- Pickled honey agarics - 200 g.
- Carrots - 200 g.
- Fresh cucumbers - 100 g.
- Chicken Fillet - 300 g.
- Chicken eggs - 3 pcs.
- Potato - 300 g.
- Greens - dill, parsley (1 bunch each).
Step by step cooking salad "Forest Glade", the photo of which is presented above:
- Prepare a round-shaped container with a wide bottom.
- Each layer will be smeared with mayonnaise.
- Put mushrooms marinated with their hats down on the bottom of the mold.
- Chop greens finely (parsley, dill, spring onions) and sprinkle with mushrooms.
- Boil carrots, chop with a grater and put on the greens.
- Peel the cucumbers, chop into thin slices, sprinkle the dish on them.
- Cook chicken pulp, cool and chop, put on top of cucumbers.
- Cook the eggs, grind and put on the fillet.
- Boil potatoes, chop into small pieces and make the top layer out of it.
- Chill the dish in the form of 2 hours.
- Prepare a flat plate, make a substrate of greens. Turn the plate with the salad using a plate and put it on a dish.
With champignons
The recipe for Lesnaya Polyana salad in this version can also be considered a classic, only canned mushrooms are used instead of honey mushrooms, and fresh cucumbers are replaced with pickled ones, plus hard cheese is added to the ingredients.
A rather economical salad that will decorate the table at any holiday.
Ingredients:
- Pickled champignons - 200 g.
- Dill, green onions, parsley - 1 bunch each.
- Mayonnaise - 200 ml.
- Chicken fillet - 300 g.
- Hard cheese - 100 g.
- Eggs - 3 pcs.
- Pickled Cucumbers - 300 g.
- Carrots - 200 g.
- Potato - 200 g.
Cooking:
- Put parchment in a deep form, grease with oil.
- Ready mushrooms to place their hats down.
- Chop very finely fresh herbs. Pour mushrooms with it.
- Lubricate this and subsequent layers with mayonnaise.
- Boil chicken, chop into medium cubes, put on greens.
- Grind the cheese with a grater and sprinkle chicken on it.
- Hard-boiled eggs, chop into small pieces and lay out a layer.
- Grind pickled cucumbers, evenly place on top of the ingredients.
- Grate boiled carrots and sprinkle cucumbers with it.
- Boil potatoes, grind with a grater, lay out a layer.
- Close the dish with plastic wrap, cool;
- Prepare a tray or a flat plate and turn the salad form onto this container.
With ham and walnuts
For all lovers of nuts and ham in dishes, including salads, we offer the option of cooking "Forest Glade" with these ingredients. It also contains champignons, green peas, hard cheese and fresh cucumbers.
This recipe is most suitable for the summer-autumn season, when there is an abundance of fresh vegetables.
The dish does not require prolonged freezing in the refrigerator and turning over.
Ingredients:
- Mayonnaise - 100 ml.
- Potato - 200 g.
- Onion - 1 head.
- Canned peas (jar 100 g).
- Fresh cucumbers - 100 g.
- Carrots - 200 g.
- Ham - 300 g
- Hard cheese - 150 g.
- Peeled Walnuts - 100 g.
- Eggs - 3 pcs.
- Pickled champignons - 100 g.
- Dill, parsley - 1 bunch each.
- Salt.
Description of the cooking process:
- You need to coat each layer with mayonnaise.
- Boil the potatoes, finely chop and put in a mold.
- Grind the onion and add to the salad.
- Apply a layer of canned green peas evenly.
- Thinly chop fresh cucumbers, salt.
- Boil carrots, grind with a grater and lay out a layer.
- Dice ham, sprinkle with it a dish.
- Pass the walnut kernels through a meat grinder or blender, lay them a layer of them.
- Grind the cheese and boiled eggs on a grater, put them on the cheese in sequence.
- Chop finely fresh greens of parsley and dill, sprinkle on the surface of the salad, creating the effect of a meadow.
- Pickled mushrooms nicely set on top.
Salad "Forest Glade" with mushrooms, ham and nuts is ready. It can be served at the table and delight your loved ones.
With honey
This recipe for Lesnaya Polyana salad (the photo we posted above) will make the holiday table special and bright.
Ingredients:
- Fresh mushrooms - 200 g.
- Butter - 15 g.
- Parsley, dill - 1 bunch each.
- Ham - 100 g.
- Sour cream - 150 ml.
- Hard cheese - 150 g.
- Eggs - 3 pcs.
- Pickles - 100 g.
- Potato - 200 g.
- Salt.
Description of the cooking process and components:
- Prepare honey mushrooms, boil for 25 minutes, dry, then fry in butter and cool.
- Prepare a salad form, cover the bottom with parchment or food grade polyethylene.
- Lay out thick mushrooms - with their hats down.
- Finely chop the parsley and dill, cover them with mushrooms.
- Cut the ham into cubes and put in the next layer, grease with sour cream and salt.
- Using a fine grater, wipe the cheese, sprinkle it on the surface of the dish, grease with sour cream.
- Grind boiled eggs and put in a layer, coat with sour cream, salt.
- Boil carrots, grate and sprinkle evenly salad, grease with sour cream.
- Chop pickles with medium cubes, form a layer of them.
- Boil the potatoes, grind it with a grater, put the last layer, grease with sour cream.
- Dish to cool.
- Gently flip the form and put the salad on a flat plate.
With honey mushrooms, chicken and sweet pepper
An excellent combination of components such as boiled chicken fillet and pickled honey mushrooms give amazingly delicate and piquant taste to Lesnaya Polyana salad
A recipe with honey mushrooms involves the following cooking steps and ingredients:
- Boil chicken fillet (300 g), cool and chop, lay out a layer.
- Pickled mushrooms (300 g) chopped part finely (next layer), part left whole - to decorate the dish.
- Scalp sweet pepper (200 g) with boiling water, peel seeds and skin, chop into strips.
- Fry slices of pepper in butter (20 g), pour into a salad.
- Boiled potatoes (150 g), peel and grind with a grater, form a layer.
- Chop fresh cucumbers (100 g) with thin plates, lay out a layer.
- Boil chicken eggs (3 pieces), remove the skin, chop into small pieces, sprinkle the salad.
- Chop fresh parsley and dill (100 g) and make a clearing.
- Garnish the top of the salad with whole mushrooms (200 g).
- Coat each with mayonnaise (total 200 g).
The dish is ready, you can immediately serve it to the table.
With Korean carrots and tomatoes
Another option for the preparation of the salad is “Forest Glade”, in which the usual boiled carrots are replaced by spicy “Korean”. Fresh tomatoes and garlic are also added here.
Description of the process and ingredients:
- Chop the ham (250 g).
- Grind hard cheese (250 g) with a coarse grater.
- Prepare fresh cucumbers (100 g) and tomatoes (100 g), chop into medium sized slices.
- Grind garlic (10 g), pour into 200 milliliters of yogurt (pure, without additives), mix (this will be a salad dressing).
- Grind fresh dill and parsley (100 g).
- Put in a salad bowl: cucumbers, cheese, ham, Korean carrots (200 g), tomatoes.
- Dress with sauce and mix, lay out a slide.
- Pickled mushrooms (champignons, mushrooms and others) decorate the top of the dish (total component 150 g), abundantly sprinkled with herbs.
Serve the salad "Forest Glade" chilled.
With crackers and pickles
For everyone who prefers dishes with crackers, a salad recipe “Forest Glade” with honey mushrooms and bread component is offered for consideration. By the way, croutons give the dish a special piquancy.
Description of the cooking process and ingredients:
- To make homemade crackers (croutons), it is necessary to cut white bread (150 g) into cubes, chopped peeled garlic and fry both components in sunflower oil (until golden brown).
- Chop the ham (200 g) with straws.
- Remove liquid from canned mushrooms (150 g).
- Chop pickles (150 g) with straws, squeeze out the liquid.
- Grind fresh dill, chives and parsley (150 grams).
- Mix cucumbers, ham, Korean carrots (100 g), crackers in a bowl.
- Add mayonnaise (100 milliliters) to the dish, mix, form a slide.
- Put the mushrooms and sprinkle abundantly with herbs.
With ham and pineapple
There is also such a recipe for making salad "Forest Glade" with mushrooms, in which there is an exotic pineapple. This product goes well with ham and gives the dish juiciness, expressiveness and tenderness.
Preparation and ingredients:
- Coat each layer with mayonnaise (200 milliliters).
- Boil chicken fillet (300 g), cool and cut into strips, form a layer.
- Chop the ham (200 g) with medium cubes, sprinkle the chicken.
- Put a layer of carrots in Korean (200 g).
- Dice 200 g of canned pineapple (drain the liquid), sprinkle the salad.
- Sweet peppers (150 g) previously peeled from peels and seeds, cut into strips, lay out a layer.
- Sprinkle the top of the salad with chopped fresh herbs of parsley and dill (100 g).
- Evenly pickle pickled mushrooms in the prepared clearing.
With greens and eggs
This recipe for salad "Forest Glade" with honey mushrooms, the photo of which is posted above, is suitable for everyone who loves a combination of butter with greens, garlic, boiled eggs, cheese, ham, mushrooms.
Preparation and ingredients:
- Put lettuce leaves (100 g) on a flat dish.
- Make a layer of carrots in Korean (100 g).
- Chop the chicken fillet (100 g) and fry in a pan for 5 minutes, lay out.
- Cut boiled, peeled chicken eggs (5 pieces) in medium cubes, sprinkle on a dish.
- Grind fresh tomatoes (150 g), lay out a layer.
- In pickled mushrooms (mushrooms) remove the liquid.
- Cut the processed cheese (200 g) into small cubes.
- Prepare garlic (10 g), add cream (100 milliliters), cheese, mayonnaise (50 milliliters), beat with a blender, sprinkle with spices
- Lubricate salad with cream cheese sauce.
- Decorate the top evenly with fresh herbs (100 g) and honey mushrooms (200 g).
Conclusion
This article describes a wide variety of cooking options for a delicious and satisfying salad "Forest Glade" with honey mushrooms or champignons. Each of them is special and bright. Such salads are a great opportunity to improvise and fantasize.