As soon as you try the unusual Brooklyn salad, you will immediately realize that your family cookbook must certainly be replenished with its recipe. This simple appetizer is perfect for everyday dinners and holiday dinners. And an unusual combination of components is quite capable of making Brooklyn salad one of the most requested dishes in your home. Moreover, its preparation will not take you a lot of time.
Essential Ingredients
To prepare a spicy and amazingly delicious salad, you will need:
- 400 g chicken;
- 200 g of pickled mushrooms;
- 300 g broccoli;
- a tablespoon of mayonnaise;
- 200 g pickled cucumbers or gherkins;
- as many canned corn cobs;
- 2 tablespoons of sour cream;
- a pinch of pepper and salt;
- a teaspoon of freshly squeezed lemon juice.
From so many foods, you get about 5 servings of Brooklyn gourmet chicken salad.
Cooking
First of all, fill the chicken with water and put it to cook. After cooking, cool the meat and cut it into small cubes. Wash and dry the broccoli thoroughly. Gently spread the inflorescences, and then chop them in small pieces. Then sprinkle the broccoli with lemon juice and leave them aside for a while.
Discard the pickled mushrooms in a colander so that liquid is removed from them. By the way, you can choose any variety, but for the preparation of this salad it is best to stock up with champignons. Then cut the mushrooms into thin slices. You can also use fried champignons for this appetizer. Only one thing is important - do not dry them during cooking. Otherwise, it all depends on your personal preferences.
Remove the pickled cucumbers from the liquid, dry and chop thin rings. It is advisable to buy gherkins - they are more crispy and piquant. But if you didn’t have them available, that's okay. The taste of salad from this certainly will not go bad.
Canned corn must also be thrown into a colander and wait until it dries. Cut the cobs into thin slices. To spice up your dish, you can add it with pickled bell peppers. It also needs to be cut into small cubes. And if you prefer tender, nutritious salads, add 100 g of hard cheese to the mixture. It is advisable to choose a softer, creamier product.
Mix all chopped products in a deep container and mix well. Prepare Brooklyn Salad Sauce in a separate bowl. To do this, simply combine sour cream and mayonnaise, mix and add spices. Optionally, add dressing with chopped garlic or finely chopped herbs. Add the sauce and mix all the ingredients thoroughly. This is the classic Brooklyn salad with chicken ready. Serve it preferably immediately after cooking. If you plan to do this a little later, do not rush to fill the dish so that it does not let the juice out.
Vegetarian Salad
The classic Brooklyn appetizer necessarily includes chicken. However, adherents of a healthy, dietary diet will surely like the vegetarian version of this wonderful salad. In fact, it is as simple as a traditional salad. You need literally one thing - just remove the meat ingredient from the recipe.
The basis of this salad is broccoli. But in order for them not to feel too hard in the dish, they must first be blanched. In other words, sprinkle with boiling water or hold for a couple of minutes 5. You can’t dry broccoli in any case - so they will lose all their useful properties and pleasant elasticity.
In addition, mushrooms are included in the Brooklyn Salad Vegetarian Recipe. You can add pre-fried champignons. So the appetizer will turn out really unusual and piquant. Well, conservation lovers should give preference to pickled champignons.
The dressing in this salad is vegetable or olive oil. You can also use homemade mayonnaise. Salt in such a salad is not necessary to add, because due to the large number of pickled components, it is already quite spicy.
Structure
So, to prepare a low-calorie snack, you will need:
- 200 g broccoli;
- 150 g pickled cucumbers, best gherkins;
- 200 g of mushrooms in fresh or pickled form;
- 100 g canned corn cobs;
- a pinch of ground pepper and herbs if desired.
From the specified amount of ingredients, you will get about 2 servings of the finished dish. And the preparation itself will take you about 20 minutes.
Process
Boil water to blanch broccoli. Divide them into inflorescences, then pour over boiling water. Cut mushrooms, corn and cucumbers into thin slices. If you bought fresh champignons, fry them in a minimum amount of vegetable oil. Then wait for the mushrooms to cool.
After the broccoli and mushrooms have cooled, mix all the ingredients in a deep bowl. Add pepper, finely chopped greens and dressing to the mixture. At this vegetarian Brooklyn is ready!