Now we will tell you how to cook English salad. This is a simple dish that consists of healthy foods. An English salad with celery, the recipe of which we will tell you now, can be served as a side dish for meat, or as an independent dish.
Classic Recipe
To prepare this salad, we need:
- 1 tbsp. a spoonful of mustard;
- 160 g mayonnaise;
- 260 g celery;
- greens;
- 160 g of mushrooms (it is advisable to use champignons);
- 360 g chicken;
- 2 cucumbers (salted or pickled);
- freshly ground pepper.
The process of making salad
1. First, take the chicken meat, fry it in a pan or grill. It is best to use fillets for these purposes. Fried meat must be divided into fibers, and then cut into pieces.
2. Then take celery, peel and grate or chop into strips.
3. Cut the cucumbers lengthwise into quarters and then into slices.
4. In English cuisine, champignons are usually used. You will add them to the salad. Boil mushrooms, cut into slices.
5. Combine mustard, mayonnaise and finely chopped greens.
6. English salad is almost ready. It remains to mix all the ingredients in a bowl, season them with sauce, season with pepper. Then you need to transfer the dish to the salad bowl.
That's all, your meal is ready, you can serve it to the table. The dish is perfect for a picnic, family dinner or party.
Salad Diet Recipe
In an English salad, all the ingredients blend perfectly. If you change something, it will not be so tasty. But this dish is very high-calorie, so we’ll now tell you how you can “lighten it up” a little.
This is not particularly difficult to do, you just need to replace the fried chicken with steamed turkey. There is almost no difference in taste, but there are a lot of positive aspects: low cholesterol, fat, low calorie content, a lot of microelements and well-absorbed protein.
There is another component that can be replaced with something else - this is mayonnaise. Of course, such a sauce is very tasty, you can even call it useful if you cook at home from natural ingredients, but it is calorie and contains a lot of vinegar and salt. Mayonnaise can be replaced with low-fat sour cream sauce. To prepare it you will need:
- 1 tbsp. a spoonful of mustard;
- salt;
- 150 g sour cream (10% fat content);
- pepper.
Mix all the ingredients for the sauce, drip a little lemon juice. That's all, now you can season them with an English salad. There are no more differences in the preparation, that is, you need to do everything according to the usual recipe, but with the introduction of the above adjustments.
Little conclusion
Now you know how to cook properly English chicken salad. We told you a diet recipe. And it should be noted that the second option is no less tasty than the original. One difference is calorie content. Salad with sour cream 3 times "lighter". Which cooking option to choose - decide for yourself. If you follow your figure, then, of course, prepare a diet dish. For other purposes, the ideal option is a traditional salad.