At present, one cannot surprise anyone with just a delicious salad. Mistresses need to invent something new, unusual. If your holiday table lacked a delicious dish, exquisite in appearance and giving aesthetic pleasure, then we suggest preparing a Sunflower salad with chips, chicken and mushrooms. This multilayer snack with an unusual serving will appeal to even picky gourmets.
Salad with Chicken, Mushrooms and Chips
The dish that we will cook today will appeal to both children and adults. At first, everyone eats petal chips with enthusiasm, and then they take them for a delicious middle. To prepare a salad "Sunflower" with chips, chicken and mushrooms, certain cooking skills are not required. The cooking process is very simple and straightforward.
The main thing is to choose the right quality ingredients. It is important to remember that cold and hot foods should not be mixed. Eggs can be boiled in advance to cool. As for chips, experienced housewives recommend using Prings products. This is ideal for such a salad, as the chips have the same shape and size.
List of Essential Ingredients
The classic version of this salad is a combination of tender chicken and fragrant champignons that is already well-established and liked by many. If you wish, you can use absolutely any mushrooms. They do not have to be fresh. It can be mushrooms that you picked last fall and personally salted in a jar.
The ingredients for the Sunflower salad can be selected at your discretion, the main thing is that there are two main products: chicken and mushrooms. Some housewives add canned peas, others prefer corn. Someone does not put onions, but someone prefers to put more garlic. For the classic version:
- 320 g chicken;
- 260 g of champignons (fresh or pickled);
- three eggs;
- 220 g canned corn;
- two carrots;
- 180 g of olives or olives;
- a pinch of salt;
- 160 g mayonnaise;
- a small package of chips (on average 20-24 pieces are required to decorate a salad);
- leaf salad;
- ground black pepper;
- sweet onions;
- sunflower oil.
How to make a Sunflower Salad with Chips, Chicken and Mushrooms
At the first stage, we will deal with carrots. The vegetables must be washed, cut into large pieces and put in a pan with cold water. We put the dishes on medium heat. Cook the carrots until they are soft. After cooking, we get the vegetables out of the water, put them on a plate to cool. Peel the chilled carrots from the skin and three on a fine grater.
A hen
Next, according to the classic recipe for Sunflower salad with chips, you need to rinse the chicken meat, dry it with a paper towel and cut into small pieces. Fry the chicken fillet for 12 minutes in a well-heated pan with the addition of several tablespoons of sunflower oil. We spread the chicken on a plate, which is better to lay in advance with a paper towel. While the chicken fillet cools, the excess oil is absorbed.
Eggs
The next step in the preparation of the Sunflower salad with chips, chicken and mushrooms is egg cooking. To save valuable time, you can boil eggs with carrots. Some housewives cook eggs in advance, as they say, in the evening. Boiled chicken eggs need to be cooled, peeled and chopped with a knife or grater.
Mushrooms
Next we will deal with mushrooms. If you use fresh champignons for cooking, it is recommended to rinse them well, removing all dust. Then cut the bottom of the legs, cut the rest into small cubes. Fry the mushrooms in a small amount of sunflower oil for 3-5 minutes. You can add some spices and salt to your taste. If you took pickled champignons, then the process of making Sunflower salad with chips, chicken and mushrooms will significantly accelerate. We take out the mushrooms from the jar, with the help of a colander we drain the excess liquid. Cut into medium pieces.
Bow
Following the classic recipe for "Sunflower" salad with chips, we will prepare onions. If you chose sweet onion for cooking, then it should be cleaned, cut into half rings and lightly fry. Some housewives prefer to use leeks. In this case, the product is simply cut into small rings. Not fried.
Other ingredients
Open a jar of olives, drain the liquid in which they were. We cut each berry into two halves. Canned corn must also be removed from excess fluid. We throw it in a colander, let it drain well. If you have chosen sweet peas for cooking, then you will deal with it the same way as with corn. For serving, you need a sheet salad. Tear off individual leaves, rinse them well under cold water and lay them on the table to dry.
Salad assembly
Now let's talk about how to make a salad "Sunflower" with chips, chicken and mushrooms. To begin with, it is recommended to choose a suitable dish for serving. Perfect for "Sunflower" flat, but wide and not deep plate.
At the bottom of the selected dishes, lay out washed and dried salad leaves. Try to arrange them so that the ends of the greens go slightly beyond the limits of the plate. They will act as sunflower leaves. Next is the standard puff salad dressing.
Immediately say that smearing mayonnaise with a spoon on each layer is very inconvenient. Therefore, it is recommended to transfer a few spoons to a pastry bag or a regular plastic bag. Make a small hole in the bag. Now it will be very convenient to smear each layer of mayonnaise with a thin stream.
On the edge of the greens, in the very center of the plate, put the chopped and fried chicken fillet. Spill with mayonnaise. The next layer is grated carrots. And again, some mayonnaise. Place the pickled mushrooms on the carrots, and then spread the fried onions. And again, we make a grid of mayonnaise. After the onion is a layer of finely chopped egg mass. We spread canned corn on top of the eggs.
Now it remains, as they say, to gloss. On top of canned corn, we make a neat and beautiful mesh of mayonnaise. We prepare the halves of olives prepared in advance on top of the mayonnaise spider web. Olives will symbolize sunflower seeds. Try to lay the halves in neat, beautiful rows with the glossy side up.
Judging by the reviews on the Sunflower salad, the dish is tastier if you let it brew for about 30-40 minutes in the refrigerator. Chips are recommended to be laid out only after the salad has stood. Distribute the sunflower “petals” so that they fill the entire circumference of the plate. It is very important to serve the dish immediately after the chips have been laid out. If the salad stands for a long time, then they will simply become soft, soaked in juices from the dish and lose their pleasant and spicy crunch.