Petrovsky salad is a tasty and nutritious dish. It can not only be included in the daily diet, but also served at the festive table. The composition of the product includes poultry, mushrooms and toasted vegetables. This is a hearty cold appetizer. Salad should be served as a complement to light dishes, since its calorie content is quite high. The energy value of the product is about 270 Kcal.
Salad Ingredients
To prepare the product, you need 200 g of poultry meat. Better to take chicken fillet or breast. Some Petrovsky salad recipes recommend replacing chicken with beef. However, in this case, the dish will turn out to be rude and excessively high in calories. Therefore, the ideal option is a bird fillet. Next will be considered a salad recipe "Petrovsky" with chicken.
It is important to choose the right mushrooms for cooking. You can use canned champignons, but it is better to take a fresh product. Oyster mushrooms or mushrooms are also suitable. A total of 200 g of mushrooms will be required.
For salad, you need to prepare 1 piece of carrots and onions, as well as 3 chicken eggs and a small piece of cheese (100 g). You will also need some vegetable oil to fry vegetables and mayonnaise to season your meal.
In the Petrovsky salad with mushrooms, the daikon root crop (1 piece) is used. This is a hybrid of radish and radish. Daikon does not have a pronounced aroma and does not have a bitter taste. In some recipes, this root crop is advised to be replaced with ordinary green radish. However, this is not worth doing. Weathering out a specific smell and bitterness from radish is very difficult, as a result, the salad can acquire an unpleasant aftertaste. Daikon is quite affordable, it can be purchased at many large supermarkets.
Preparation of meat, mushrooms and vegetables
The preparation of Petrovsky salad should begin with the thermal treatment of poultry meat. Boil the chicken breast or fillet in slightly salted water. For taste, you can add roots to the broth. Then the meat should be cooled.
If fresh mushrooms are used in the dish, then they must be thoroughly washed, cut into plates, fry in vegetable oil. The finished product for the salad is laid out in a bowl and cooled. Next, you need to peel the vegetables. Carrots are crushed with a coarse grater, fried in a pan and placed in a separate bowl or deep plate. Then cut the onion in half rings and process in the same way. Eggs are pre-boiled and cooled.
Daikon, eggs and a slice of cheese and grind. Before assembling the salad, the ingredients are not mixed. Each salad component should be in a separate bowl or plate.
How to collect a salad
After all the ingredients are prepared, you can proceed to the assembly of the Petrovsky salad. To do this, take the cylindrical dishes and lay all the layers of the dish in the following order:
- a hen;
- mushrooms;
- bow;
- carrot;
- daikon;
- eggs
- cheese.
Each layer of salad (except the top) must be covered with mayonnaise. However, you should not take too much dressing so that the salad does not turn out to be excessively fat.
After cooking, the dish is placed in the refrigerator. Puff salad should be saturated with dressing. After 2-3 hours, the snack can be served.
Salad decoration
If the Petrovsky salad is served at the festive table, then it must be issued. The upper part of the salad can be decorated with sprigs of greens, beautifully sliced pieces of carrots or eggs.
You can arrange a dish in the form of a forest glade. For this, the top of the salad is liberally greased with mayonnaise, sprinkled with herbs and garnished with whole mushrooms. You can also make patterns of green peas and canned corn. One of the options for designing the dish can be seen in the photo below.
Other recipes
There are many varied options for this dish. The following ingredients can be added to the salad with chicken, mushrooms and fried vegetables:
- ham;
- fresh tomatoes;
- canned corn;
- fresh cabbage;
- rice
- potatoes.
All these products go well with poultry and mushrooms to taste.
Replacing some of its ingredients will help reduce the calorie content of a product. To get a diet dish, you should abandon the frying of mushrooms and vegetables for salad. In this case, it is better to use canned champignons, boiled carrots and raw onions. Mayonnaise can be replaced with low-calorie dressing. To cook it, you need to mix 150 - 180 g of bio-yogurt with 3 tablespoons of olive oil. Then add a small spoonful of mustard and lemon juice to the mixture. Grind greens and pine nuts and add to the dressing. You get a delicious and nutritious salad supplement. With this mixture, you can lubricate the layers of the dish during cooking.
In the spring, the salad is prepared with white cabbage, ham, tomatoes and green onions. Use only fresh vegetables without frying. Chicken in the dish can also be replaced with tuna. This fish contains a large amount of nutrients. In such a salad, you can add bread croutons. fried in mustard oil and a small amount of boiled rice.