"Heart of an angel" - a salad that can decorate any table

Incredibly tasty and “rich” salad “Heart of an Angel” (the recipe with a photo is presented in this review) will certainly become one of the main decorations of any holiday table. Thanks to the bright decoration and shape, the dish will attract the eye of every guest.

There are several cooking options for this salad. Below you can get acquainted with the most popular of them.

For those who love seafood

This recipe should be appreciated by gourmets and fans of exotic and seafood, as the dish includes squid, shrimp and red caviar. At the output of "Heart of an Angel" (this salad is exotic), it turns out not only surprisingly tasty, but also hearty and healthy.

The ingredients that make up the dish are as follows:

• fresh or canned squids - 450 g;
• a jar of red caviar;
• shrimp - 20 pieces;
• potatoes - 3 pieces;
• chicken eggs - 5 pieces;
• fresh champignons - 350 g;
• cheese - 100 g;
• onion head;
• ground pepper and salt;
• mayonnaise;
• sunflower oil.

We begin to prepare the salad "Heart of an Angel" with seafood:

1. Boil the potatoes in their uniforms, let it cool, remove the skin and rub on a grater with small teeth.
2. The next stage of preparation is the distribution of potato mass on a flat dish, while it should be given the shape of a heart. Then lightly salt the layer and grease with mayonnaise. It is not necessary to salt strongly, since mayonnaise already contains a sufficiently large amount of this seasoning.
3. We wash the squid, remove the entrails from them. We lower the carcasses into boiling salt water for a couple of minutes, and then quickly remove the transparent film from them. After the squids have cooled, cut them into strips and lay on top of the potato layer. We again coat with mayonnaise (fresh squids can be replaced with canned ones).
4. Boil the eggs, peel them and grind. Spread the next layer. Trying to keep fit. Salt and pepper.
5. My mushrooms, cut into thin plates, combine with finely chopped onions. Fry the mixture in warmed vegetable oil. Let cool, season and distribute over the salad. Smear a little with mayonnaise.
6. On a grater with small cloves, we rub the cheese (necessarily hard variety) and lay on top of the mushrooms. We coat with mayonnaise.
7. Cover the top layer of the dish with red caviar.
8. At the last stage, the Angel Heart salad is decorated with shrimp. They need to be boiled, cleaned of the shell and laid out along the contour of the heart.

We remove the finished dish in the refrigerator for several hours, thereby allowing the components to soak. And after the specified time, we serve the dish to the table.

More budget option

This recipe for the salad “Angel's Heart”, the photo of which is presented in the article, excludes squid and shrimp from its composition, due to which its cost price is significantly reduced. According to the recipe below, the dish is tender and harmonious.

Required Products:

• chicken fillet;
• cheese (200 g);
• one green apple;
• caviar or pomegranate seeds (100 g);
• mayonnaise.

Stages of cooking:

1. Boil the fillet, let it cool and chop finely. Then we distribute it over the dish, giving the shape of a heart, and coat with mayonnaise on top.
2. Remove the peel and core of the apple and rub it on a coarse grater. We spread on top of the fillet and coat with mayonnaise.
3. About three cheese on top of the apple layer, on top - mayonnaise.
4. We put caviar on top of the cheese (for a very economical option, pomegranate seeds are suitable), evenly distribute it over the salad and send the fruit of effort to the refrigerator.

Three hours later, the dish is ready to eat.

A completely different variation of the salad "Heart of an Angel"

According to this recipe, the dish still remains flaky and has the shape of a heart, but the products included in the composition are completely different from the previous ones.

For a salad you will need:

• smoked breast;
• small cucumber;
• Champignon;
• eggs
• prunes
• bow;
• olives for decoration;
• mayonnaise.

We lay out the components in layers:

1. Half chopped chicken breast.
2. Soaked in boiling water and chopped prunes.
3. Yolks of boiled eggs grated.
4. Mushrooms fried with onions.
5. Fresh Cucumber Straws.
6. The rest of the breast.

Do not forget to coat each layer with mayonnaise.

After laying all the layers, it's time to decorate the salad. To do this, rub the egg whites on a coarse grater and divide the mass into two equal parts. We spread one part on top of the salad so that it covers only half the heart. Boil the second part for several minutes in a strong tea leaves, then filter and place on a napkin. After the protein has stained, put it on the second part of the heart, and select the finely chopped olives in the strip between the egg whites.

Salad for this recipe is ready!

Cooking Tricks

In order for the Heart of Angel salad to be in perfect shape, you can go for a trick:

• Use a heart-shaped plate.
• Prepare a salad in a special baking dish in the form of a heart. It can be purchased at any hypermarket.
• Also, the form is not difficult to make at home, for example using thick cardboard.

Time for preparing

The salad is cooked long enough and is not included in the list of dishes that are easy to prepare. Therefore, it is advisable to start preparing "Heart of an Angel" 5-6 hours before the arrival of guests. Enjoy your meal!