Salad "Delight" is one of the most popular holiday dishes. Its name speaks for itself. This delicacy is characterized by unsurpassed taste, mouth-watering appearance and pleasant aroma.
One name - many tastes!
Like any other popular salad, this one has several cooking options. They differ in the presence of certain ingredients in its composition. In this article, several hostesses for performing this type of snack are presented to the attention of all the hostesses: with chicken, prunes, pineapples and mushrooms. Salad "Delight", prepared according to these descriptions, will be a real culinary masterpiece.
Option number 1 (with meat)
To prepare such an appetizer, we prepare the ingredients according to the list:
- chicken fillet - 400 grams;
- Korean carrot - 200 grams;
- chicken eggs (4 pcs.) or quail (8 pcs.);
- orange - 2 pieces;
- walnuts - 3 pieces;
- salt;
- low-calorie mayonnaise - 50 grams;
- sour cream - 50 grams.
How to cook salad "Delight" with chicken? We read about this further.
Boil the meat in salted water until tender. Drain the liquid from Korean carrots. Hard-boiled eggs. Grind all products, crush nuts with a rolling pin. Mix sour cream and mayonnaise. Put the ingredients in a glass salad bowl in tiers in the following sequence: meat, carrots, orange, cheese. Smear each layer with sour cream-mayonnaise sauce. Ready salad "Delight" (with chicken) sprinkle with nuts on top.
Option number 2 (with pineapple)
This dish is made from the products listed in the following list:
- red onion ("Crimean") - 1 piece;
- turkey or chicken meat - 300 grams;
- chicken eggs - 3 pcs.;
- pineapples - 5 rings;
- hard cheese - 100 grams;
- roasted peanuts - 100 grams;
- table vinegar 9% - 2 large spoons;
- mayonnaise (45% fat);
- fresh greens;
- sugar - 1 small spoon;
- rock salt ;
- water.
Do you want to know how to prepare the Delight salad from these products? Then study the following instructions.
Prepare the marinade from table vinegar, sugar and water (100 g). Cut the onions in half rings, pour boiling water and soak for a quarter of an hour. Then drain the liquid. Put the onion in the marinade for 30 minutes, and then drain. Cook the meat, cool and cut into small pieces. Grind the cheese on a grater with large holes. Hard-boiled eggs, cut into 4-6 pieces. Pineapples in small slices. In a deep glass bowl, lay out all the ingredients in layers: eggs, meat, onions, mayonnaise, pineapple, cheese, mayonnaise. Salad "Delight" (with pineapple) is ready. Garnish the dish with peanuts and herbs of dill, parsley, coriander.
Option number 3 (with prunes)
An appetizer prepared according to this recipe always causes a pleasant surprise for its interesting taste. People who try this dish for the first time very often cannot even understand what foods are in its composition. So, we prepare the Delight salad with prunes and other ingredients. What do we need? We study the list of ingredients:
- half a kilogram of boiled chicken meat (breast, drumstick. thigh);
- 10 pieces of walnuts;
- 100 grams pitted prunes;
- 5 chicken eggs;
- 5 large spoons of mayonnaise with a fat content of 45%;
- 4 cloves of garlic;
- salt;
- vegetable oil.
Description of the process of making snacks
Beat eggs and fry them in oil in the form of pancakes. Pour boiling water over prunes, soak for several minutes. Then fold it onto a sieve and let the liquid drain. Finely chop meat, eggs, prunes, nuts. Grind the garlic. Fold all the products in a deep container, mix with mayonnaise, salt to taste. Leave the salad to infuse.
Option number 4 (with mushrooms)
Fans of "sour" will appreciate this particular dish. Pickled mushrooms in combination with bell pepper and mayonnaise give the dish a special piquancy. To prepare this snack use the following products:
- pickled mushrooms (champignons, oyster mushrooms, chanterelles) - 200 grams;
- chicken breast - 350-400 grams;
- canned corn - 1 jar (250 g);
- sweet pepper - 2 pieces;
- medium fat mayonnaise (45-50%);
- hard cheese - 200-250 grams.
Technology for making salad
Cook the meat for 40 minutes. Then cool it and chop into strips. Cut bell pepper into small pieces. Put corn on the bottom of the flat dish. In a separate bowl, mix the meat with mayonnaise. Transfer this workpiece to corn. The next tier is the mushrooms. Next lay a layer of cheese, then pepper. From above, perform a "mesh" of mayonnaise. Garnish the dish with sprigs of dill and parsley. Salad "Delight" with mushrooms is ready to win the hearts and stomachs of your relatives and guests with its divine taste.
And that is not all…
If you think that the culinary imagination has dried up on these four options for preparing the Delight salad, then you are very mistaken. There are many more ways to prepare this dish. Product combinations are sometimes very unusual. Do not believe? Then we invite you to familiarize yourself with yet another recipe for this type of snack - salad "Delight" with radish.
To prepare this vitamin delicacy, you need the following components:
- radish "Daikon" - 300 grams;
- Peking cabbage - 200-250 grams;
- chicken eggs - 3 pieces;
- beef - 150 grams;
- 50% fat mayonnaise;
- fresh greens of dill and parsley;
- rock salt.
Agree that the “ensemble” of ingredients is rather unusual. But believe me, the salad from them turns out to be very tasty, nutritious and, most importantly, healthy. How to cook it, read on.
Cook the meat until cooked and cool. Then cut it into strips. Peel the radish, grate on a coarse grater and salt. Cut the cabbage "stripes". Hard-boiled eggs and chop. Lay the products in a salad bowl in layers in the following order: beef, Beijing cabbage, eggs, radish. Smear all tiers with mayonnaise. Garnish the dish with parsley and dill, flowers carved from radish, fresh cucumbers or tomatoes.
This article introduces you to several ways to make a salad. They have one name, but differ among themselves in the set of products for cooking, the taste and aroma of the finished dish. But with confidence we can say that from the first try all these options will appeal to you, your family members and all those whom you will treat. And all because the salad "Delight" he is - delight!