The recipe for Stolichniy salad may have some nuances, depending on which set of products the cook has. However, this dish is always in constant demand and success. Everyone wants to taste it not only during the festive feast, but also in the circle of a family dinner. We are unlikely to unravel the secret of popularity. But we learn a few recipes. How to cook Stolichny salad with chicken and fresh cucumber or with sausages and canned peas? About this in today's article.
Classical
Let's start with the classics. This option has become the ancestor of all the other aspects of this snack. Let's try a salad with canned green peas. We implement the recipe, starting with the necessary food package:
- boiled and chilled chicken meat - 280-400 grams;
- can of green peas;
- pickled cucumbers - 2-3 pieces;
- 5 chicken eggs;
- large potato root crops - 3-4 copies;
- 1-2 large carrots;
- green onions; during off-season, such onions were successfully replaced by onions - 1/2 onions;
- salt to taste;
- mayonnaise - 250 grams.
Component Preparation
We wash root vegetables - carrots and potatoes. Cook them in a peel until cooked. We take out of the pan and let cool. We clean from the skin. Cook eggs, cool and release from the shell. If you use onions, then it must be chopped very finely.
In the salad bowl
Spread salad in any form. Just pour all the ingredients in one dish. Eggs - finely chop and send to the salad bowl. We do the same with cucumbers. But if the cucumbers had a hard peel, then it is better to remove it before chopping the vegetable. Onions, chopped chicken into small cubes, carrots and potatoes - also finely and in a common bowl.
Now salt the future salad. Open a jar of peas. We drain the liquid, we do not need it. Pour grains directly to other products. We send mayonnaise after peas. Mix the "Capital" salad. The design of the finished dish can be any. You can just sprinkle with chopped herbs or cut flowers from carrot circles. But even this salad in itself resembles a bright tasty mosaic.
You can serve the salad using a special portion form.
With fresh cucumber
Now we will prepare a capital salad with chicken and fresh cucumber. Let's move away from the classic canons. Required Products:
- chicken breast - 600 grams of raw ingredient;
- medium carrots - 2 pieces;
- potatoes - 2 medium root crops;
- three eggs;
- also for the dish you need one medium onion;
- fresh cucumbers - 2-3 pieces, the exact amount depends on the size of the vegetable and on how much more or less you want to feel their taste;
- greens - for decoration, in the "Capital" salad with chicken and fresh cucumber, dill and green onions are good;
- green peas - 150-200 grams;
- salt and ground black pepper are used to taste;
- mayonnaise - according to the circumstances.
Cooking steps
In a pan with plenty of water, boil the chicken breast until tender. Add salt and bay leaf to make the meat more flavorful and tender. Let the meat cool. We cut into small cubes.
Now wash all the vegetables. We will especially do this with carrots and potatoes. Cook eggs for ten minutes from the moment of boiling water. Then transfer to cold water for 5 minutes. We take out, clean and rinse the prepared eggs. Grind, turning into cubes.
Cook potatoes and carrots until they are ready. Drain the water from the finished vegetables. We freeze them and free them from everything inedible. We chop root vegetables into small cubes.
Peel the onion. Also cut it finely. Rinse the greens in cold water and grind randomly.
We take out the most beautiful deep salad bowl. We mix all the components, add the peas without liquid. Salt and pepper according to personal taste preferences. Stolichniy salad with chicken and fresh cucumber is ready.
Other cooking options
Today, such a salad can be served by changing or removing an objectionable component. Guests will only notice a slightly different flavor palette. And someone will not notice the substitution at all. So, the ingredients of the Stolichniy salad can be replaced, for example, with beef or pork chicken. You can send sausages to the salad instead of the meat product. With meat or sausage, they act accordingly: the meat is cooked, then they grind both.
Instead of mayonnaise, you can use sour cream. The taste will become softer. Or mix sour cream and mayonnaise in a ratio of one to one - again a different taste of salad.
Not everyone likes boiled carrots. Therefore, many housewives miss her from the recipe. Salad still remains a favorite and quickly leaves the table.
Cucumbers are pickled, salted or fresh. Sometimes they are combined. Let’s try and we will prepare the “Capital” salad with chicken and fresh cucumber with the addition of pickled.
Component List:
- ready-made chicken - 400 grams;
- can of green peas;
- three boiled potatoes;
- three boiled eggs;
- 1 carrot - boil;
- pickled cucumber - 1 piece;
- fresh cucumber - 1 piece;
- onions - half the onion;
- mayonnaise and sour cream 50/50;
- greens - to taste;
- salt, pepper, mayonnaise - to taste.
We clean the vegetables. Grind them, as is customary in this salad, into cubes. We will cut the onion smaller, so as not to crunch on the teeth.
We wash the fresh cucumber. Cut off the tips. Pickled peel. We chop both types of cucumbers in equal slices.
Boil the eggs in advance and, having cleared the shell, also cut into small cubes. Open the peas and decant the excess moisture. Cut the chicken meat into medium cubes.
We spread all the components in one bowl. Salt to your taste, add pepper if you want. Mix. Fill with a mixture of sour cream and mayonnaise. Mix again and decorate, serve. This salad has a not quite familiar taste, but usually guests really like it. Everyone will ask for supplements.