Salad is a universal dish in the arsenal of every self-respecting housewife. By skillfully varying the ingredients, you can create a satisfying presentable dish from improvised products.
Smoked chicken is a popular base for meat salads. Juicy meat with a haze aroma harmoniously combines with fresh vegetables, green salad leaves, cheese and spicy spices. Dressing with mayonnaise, olive oil, soy sauce or Greek yogurt will make the dish taste refined and rich.
Smoked Chicken Bride Salad is one of the most popular recipes. Behind this name are many variations of the dish. Why exactly the "Bride"? Salad with a hearty bird is popular at weddings as a snack. Hungry enough, the guests rejoice at him at the table no less than the bride herself.
To make a dish a part of a daily or festive diet, it is not necessary to wait for a wedding invitation; it is enough to familiarize yourself with several popular variants of the Bride salad with smoked chicken.
Variation on the theme of the “Bride” with walnuts and prunes
The key to the delicate and appetizing taste of any dish is fresh, properly selected ingredients. For this recipe, it is important to choose high-quality chicken meat. The skin of the bird should be glossy, light golden in color without bruising or other damage. The meat is juicy, without odors, pink-red.
Before preparing the Bride salad with smoked chicken and mushrooms, it is necessary to remove the skin from the main ingredient, which contains all the harmful substances that enter the body of the animal during life and during heat treatment.
Basic components:
- Smoked Chicken - 250 grams.
- Dried prunes - 75 grams.
- Chicken egg - 3 pieces.
- Cheese "Russian" - 200 grams.
- Champignons - 200 grams.
- Onions - 1 piece.
- Garlic - 2 cloves
- Walnuts - 30 grams.
- Mayonnaise, sunflower oil, salt, pepper.
For decor:
- Bulgarian pepper - ½ pieces.
- Grains of ripe pomegranate - 15-20 pieces.
- Dill, parsley - a handful.
Cooking recommendations
The bride’s salad recipe with smoked chicken involves layering the ingredients on a large dish. But first you need to prepare them.
Separate the meat from the chicken, cut into medium sized pieces. Rinse prunes under running water from sand and dirt, soak in boiling water for half an hour for softness. Dice.
Grate the whites and yolks of boiled eggs on a coarse grater and place in different bowls. Do the same with cheese.
Peel the onion, chop into a cube, chop walnuts, divide into 5 equal parts. Wash mushrooms, cut into slices.
Pour in the pan sunflower oil, wait until it is well warmed up, fry the onions until light golden in color, add the mushrooms, salt, pepper and fry for 15 minutes. Wait for cooling, put on a plate trying not to get excess oil.
Clean the teeth, pass through the press. Mix with garlic.
Put the fried mushrooms on a round or rectangular dish, sprinkle with one of the nuts, grease with mayonnaise. Stack the yolks. Evenly distribute the cheese "Russian", sprinkle part of the nuts, draw a thick grid of mayonnaise. This is followed by a layer of smoked chicken with walnuts, smeared with mayonnaise. Prunes are laid on the chicken and again nuts, and again mayonnaise. The top of the food pyramid is egg white with mayonnaise.
According to reviews, the Bride salad with smoked chicken looks unsurpassed, presented with slices of sweet pepper, pomegranate seeds and herbs. Before use, let the dish brew for 5-6 hours in the refrigerator.
"Bride" with a sweet touch
The original combination of products will make anyone who tries it fall in love with it. Fast cooking and affordable ingredients allow you to pamper your culinary masterpiece with loved ones when you wish.
A sweet salad recipe with smoked chicken and pineapple will appeal to even small gourmets.
The main ingredients:
- Smoked chicken fillet - 400 grams.
- Pineapple in its own juice - 200 grams.
- Bulgarian pepper - 1 piece.
- Hard cheese - 150 grams.
- Canned corn - 100 grams.
- 40% fat mayonnaise - 6 tablespoons
Stages of creating a dish
Stage number 1. Cheese. Hard varieties without a pronounced flavor are ideal. It should be cut into small cubes.
Stage number 2. Chicken and pineapple. Breasts must first be separated from the skins and bones, torn with fingers on the fibers up to 2 centimeters in length. Remove pineapples from the marinade and squeeze to get rid of the juice as much as possible. Grind to cubes or buy ready-made ones.
Stage number 3. Pepper. Remove the stem and seeds, cut in half, rinse, cut into slices the size of a pineapple.
Stage number 4. Mixing and serving. Combine all ingredients in a deep bowl, add mayonnaise, mix several times. Serve in portions, garnishing with parsley branches and sprinkled with ground chili pepper for piquancy.
The salad recipe with smoked chicken and pineapple low fat mayonnaise indicated for a reason. The sauce is intended for better “adhesion” of components to each other, but should not interrupt their taste and add extra fat to the dish.
"Emerald Bride Bracelet"
Weight-watchers should not deny themselves the pleasure of enjoying the Bride salad with smoked chicken and cheese. The harmonious combination of low-calorie foods does not affect the taste of the dish.
The main ingredients and their substitutes:
- Smoked chicken fillet - 300 grams.
- Hard cheese (30% fat) - 200 grams.
- Fresh cucumber - 300 grams.
- Kiwi - 2 pieces.
- Walnuts - 100 grams.
- Mayonnaise (can be replaced with sour cream or Greek yogurt) - 80 grams.
Description of the cooking process
Put the nuts on a baking sheet, send to the oven for 5 minutes at a temperature of 150 degrees. They will dry out, acquire a caramel taste and grind better.
Cut the chicken into squares, cucumbers with straws (you can cut the peel from them, then the dish will be more tender). Grate the cheese. Grind the nuts in a blender to a state of small grains.
Prepare an oval dish in which the Bride salad with smoked chicken will be served. Put a glass or a jar in the center. Put smoked fillet around the glass appliance, grease with mayonnaise or the chosen substitute. Put a layer of cucumbers on top, then grated cheese. Grease with mayonnaise. Sprinkle with chopped nuts, trying to fill the entire territory of the dish - hide the white traces of sauce.
Gently remove the glass, decorate the lower and upper edges with thinly sliced kiwi slices. Set in the refrigerator for 2-3 hours.
To increase portions of the Bride salad with smoked chicken, you can repeat all layers except nuts and kiwi. And you have to choose a larger glass so that it is convenient to get it out.
Cocktail Salad “Napoleon’s Bride”
The dish received this name due to the outward resemblance to the cake of the same name. Most of the ingredients in its composition are quite high-calorie, you can quickly get enough of them. The recipe for the Bride salad with smoked chicken maintains the balance of meat "digestive" foods with vegetables and lemon juice, it turns out to be tender and balanced in taste.
Dish Components:
- Smoked broiler fillet - 250 grams.
- Pickled pepper with spices - 100 grams.
- Pickled cucumber - 100 grams.
- French mustard - 1 tablespoon.
- Freshly squeezed lemon juice - 40 grams.
- Lettuce - 1 bunch
Sauce:
- Sour cream of average fat content - 75 grams.
- Natural yogurt - 50 grams.
- Grated horseradish - 1 tablespoon
Cooking process
Chop pepper, cucumber and chicken into cubes of the same size, add lemon juice and add mustard. Prepare a bowl (wide glasses for wine can become an alternative). Put a lettuce leaf torn with smaller hands at the bottom. Top - prepared ingredients.
Mix sour cream, yogurt and horseradish until smooth, pour the sauce over the contents of the bowl.
As a decoration, use finely chopped strips of pepper, laid out in the form of sunlight.
Provided that the weight proportions and freshness of the products are observed, a very tasty salad with smoked chicken and an original serving is obtained. It will be appreciated by all family members.