Before the holidays, home chefs are feverishly sorting out recipes in their notebooks or wandering around different Internet sites in search of some interesting and not yet “hackneyed” dish. If you share these torments, you will probably be interested in “My General” - the salad is not only delicious, but also very beautiful. Moreover, his taste is quite unconventional, but not too exotic, so the vast majority of tasters will like it.
How to choose meat
"My General" is a salad with meat, which is the leading component in it. And the taste of the whole dish will depend on which meat you prefer. Most recipes indicate boiled beef. However, there are options with pork - in this case, you need to choose a piece more openly. There are versions of salad and chicken. In our opinion - not the most successful. Unless you take the breast, and the thigh. The salad with smoked chicken is very elegant in taste - a real table decoration.
By the way, it is not necessary to cook meat. You can make My General very unconventionally: the salad is based on fried meat. Pepper and salted, it is cut into thin strips and brought to the pan until cooked. In the end, for aroma, two crushed garlic wedges are added.
Product Preparation
In addition to meat, you will also need beets, carrots, eggs. They are cooked and cooled in advance. All products are rubbed into different bowls on a coarse grater. The meat is cut into small cubes or disassembled into fibers, it depends on what kind of meat you stopped at. You will also need to grate the cheese; it is taken from hard varieties, by weight - about half of the meat component.
The last ingredient is walnuts. They are cleaned, fried dry and chopped not too finely. A quarter kilo of meat will go somewhere in half a glass of nut crumbs.
Salad assembly
"My General" - puff salad. That is why it looks attractive, and the taste buds are pleasing. In principle, the sequence of layers is not particularly important, but the following is recommended.
1 layer of meat. If you cooked meat, but did not fry it with garlic, you need to flavor the layer a little with chopped cloves, and then coat with mayonnaise.
2 layer cheesy. It is also covered with mayonnaise mesh.
3 layer egg. To smear or not - at the discretion of the hostess: the layer is quite thin, care must be taken not to get too “wet” salad.
4 layer carrot, and it is necessarily missed with mayonnaise.
5 layer - beets. Again, mayonnaise and sprinkle with nuts. You can also decorate with sprigs of greenery.
So, “My General” is ready. The salad can only be kept in the refrigerator so that the layers are mutually saturated with juices. So it is advised to do it in the evening, or in the morning, if the celebration is scheduled for a while in the dinner area.
"My General": prune salad and other versions of the dish
A spicy touch can be added to the festive salad, if you add a prune layer. Dried fruits are steamed, freed from the seeds, cut into strips and laid on top of the meat.
“My General” is a salad that is seen by different housewives in its own way. Some add a potato layer. This idea seems to us not too successful - the salad begins to resemble a "fur coat", not just with herring, but with meat. But the idea of mixing garlic with beets, rather than sprinkling them with meat, is quite robust: the smell and taste soften, but are not lost. Some cooks also layered the salad with onions, chopped and soaked in lemon juice. This is an amateur, but you can try.
Pomegranate grains can also add a touch to the salad, they sprinkle them over the beetroot layer. In short, experiment: "My General" is a salad that gives a fairly wide scope for culinary imagination.