Champignon salads are famous for their excellent taste and originality. In addition, they are very nutritious, which also makes them popular. So, what are the simplest and most original recipes for such dishes? What features does the technology for preparing salads with champignons have? About all this further.
general information
To prepare salads with mushrooms, you can use both pickled and fresh champignons, only in the second case they must necessarily be subjected to heat treatment. You can increase the nutritional value of the finished dish using potatoes, beans, rice or even greens together with mushrooms of this kind - all these products go well with mushrooms prepared in any way.
What foods is this ingredient compatible with? Legumes, corn, cheese, eggs, and smoked foods are great for this. In addition, prunes and bacon can add piquancy to any salad with champignons.
Some chefs prefer to cook warm salads with this ingredient - they have a special taste.
So, what recipes for salads with champignons are considered the most popular, and dishes prepared according to them are delicious? Let's consider some of them further.
With chicken and mushrooms
As you know, smoked and boiled chicken goes well with mushrooms cooked in any way. Using this knowledge, for any occasion you can cook a puff salad with champignons and chicken. It will be not only very nutritious, but also juicy, as each layer of it is covered with separately prepared sauce.
To do this, you need to boil 400 g of chicken fillet (it is best to take the breast - this is the leanest part), then cool it and cut into small cubes. In addition, hard-boiled eggs should also be boiled. Then they must be peeled and divided into proteins and yolks. Each part should be grated and placed in a separate bowl.
After all the preparations described above are done, you can begin to prepare onions and mushrooms. For this, a large head of onion must be chopped and sent to a pan with oil. It should be fried for five minutes, after which finely chopped mushrooms (about 400 g) should be sent there. Constantly stirring, you must simmer the indicated products over low heat, under a lid, for 15 minutes. After the specified time, the lid must be removed, salt the ingredients to taste and continue the frying process without it for another 10 minutes.
In a separate bowl, soak 150 g of prunes so that it swells a lot. In another bowl, grate 60 g of walnuts, which must first be peeled and veined. In addition, you need to prepare a couple of fresh cucumbers: they should be washed and chopped with small sticks.
When all the components have been prepared, you can begin to collect the salad. As mentioned above, it is a layered composition, in the lower part of which should be a mixture of nuts with prunes. After laying the ingredients should be greased with a small amount of cooked sauce. In the process of collecting the dish, you should always remember that each of its tiers should be lubricated with prepared sauce. After a layer of prunes, put the other ingredients on top of each other in the following sequence:
- mushrooms fried with onions;
- boiled chicken;
- fresh cucumbers;
- egg whites;
- the yolks.
After all this, you can design a beautiful salad. Some housewives with good imagination prefer to make decoration for this delicious salad with champignons in the form of a birch, which can be prepared from a strip of mayonnaise, thin slices of prunes, as well as a sprig of parsley, which can be put on top.
How to make sauce for impregnating such a salad? To do this, combine in one dish half a glass of kefir, 150 g of mayonnaise, as well as half a teaspoon of curry. All the ingredients must be mixed very well until uniform, and the sauce is ready.
With beans
Of course, a salad with champignons and beans will be a great option for any snack with different types of side dishes. It is much easier to cook it than the previous version, but it is not inferior in taste.
In order to make a salad with beans and mushrooms, you should take a small amount of fresh mushrooms (no more than 250 g), wash them and cut into plates. After that, they need to be immersed in a pan with hot vegetable oil, carefully fry for five minutes until the golden crust is formed. After the specified period, 200 g of pearl onions should be sent to the mushrooms. All ingredients should be pepper and salt to taste and continue to fry until they become rosy. As soon as this happens, add shallots (1 pc.) And a couple of crushed garlic cloves to the same pan. After that, two tablespoons of balsamic vinegar and a small amount of water should be added to the ingredients - this is necessary so that during the cooking process the mass does not begin to gather in lumps.
In a separate pan you need to collect water, salt it, let it boil. Only after that 450 g of string beans should be poured into it. Boil it for 3 to 5 minutes, then drain the water and let the pods cool slightly. If there is a desire to keep the vegetable a beautiful bright green color, after draining the boiling water, it must be doused with cold water and then drained. The cooled beans must be crushed into convenient particles, then sent to the mushrooms, mix and transfer to a plate for serving. This salad is served warm, so many people prefer not to shift it from the pan, but to put it on the table right in it.
Green salad
Salad with fried champignons can be prepared and served in a very original green color. To create such an amazing culinary masterpiece, you need to take 300 g of mushrooms, peel or wash them, then cut into plates and send to a frying pan with frying oil. After they take on a golden color, they should add their favorite spicy herbs.
In a separate pan, boil the water and throw 300-400 g of broccoli into it, after having sorted it into small inflorescences. After three minutes of cooking, it is necessary to quickly drain hot water and rinse it in cold water - this will stop the cooking process, it will not lose its bright green color and remain dense.
After the main ingredients are ready, in a bowl for cooking you need to put the mushrooms and chopped cabbage inflorescences. There, you need to add 300 g of canned peas and corn, as well as four chicken eggs, hard-boiled and cut into small cubes. After this, the ingredients should be salt to taste, add black ground pepper, season with a mass of 2/3 cup mayonnaise and mix. An original and very healthy salad with fried champignons is ready!
"Tenderness"
This dish very often serves as a decoration of a festive table. It should be noted that the salad with canned tenderness โTendernessโ can be prepared not only on holidays, but also for every day, surprising its household with its amazing taste.
To create this culinary masterpiece, first you need to boil three chicken eggs and 200 g of chicken. These ingredients must be crushed in small cubes and set aside for some time (egg whites and yolks - separately).
Now you should start cooking other products - onions and mushrooms. To create a salad, you should take the onion, chop it very finely and fry it in vegetable oil until it is translucent. After this, 200 g of pickled champignons, chopped into plates, should be sent to it and also fried from all sides until a pleasant golden color is formed - this will take literally 1-2 minutes.
When all the ingredients are ready, you can begin to build the structure. It should be noted that such a salad with mushrooms is laid out in layers, and each of them must be smeared with a thin mayonnaise net.
At the very bottom of the "Tenderness" should be a layer of half the entire mass of chicken. It must be covered with mayonnaise. Next, the ingredients are laid out in the following order:
- 1/2 portion of mushrooms fried with onions;
- 50 g of grated hard cheese;
- egg whites.
Further, all layers must be repeated in the same order as they were laid out earlier, only in this case, the yolks should act as the upper tier.
After the salad is collected with canned mushrooms, it should be sent to the refrigerator for at least 20-30 minutes so that it is well-nourished. Thus, he will be finally ready to serve.
Piquant salad
You can always surprise your household with a deliciously prepared salad with smoked breast and champignons. This dish is very satisfying, therefore it is not worth cooking in large quantities, unless, of course, a mass feast is planned.
So, to create this unique masterpiece from the field of cooking, you need to boil 3-4 potatoes and medium-sized carrots in their uniforms. Also, you need to hard-boiled a couple of eggs. The listed ingredients should be cooled after completion of the cooking process.
After this, we must begin to prepare the mushrooms. To do this, they should take 350 g, cut into small pieces and fry in a pan until a golden crust appears. After the mushrooms are ready, they must be salt to taste and cool. In another pan, fry the finely chopped onion, for which it is also recommended to use vegetable or olive oil.
Separately, finely chop 250 g of smoked chicken breast. Boiled vegetables must be peeled and grated. The same thing needs to be done with eggs.
This salad with champignons and chicken should be layered. Moreover, as in previous cases, each tier must be lubricated with a grid of mayonnaise. At the very bottom of the dishes for serving, you need to lay the chicken breast, and then the mushrooms, onions, potatoes, carrots, and the eggs should be at the very top. You can decorate the finished dish in any way, if desired. Before serving, it is recommended to keep the salad in the refrigerator for half an hour or more.
With tongue
As practice shows, a salad with champignons and cheese, prepared with the addition of boiled pork tongue, is considered to be very tasty. The result is a very juicy dish that will adorn any meal in a wonderful way.
To create this culinary masterpiece, you need to prepare all its ingredients individually. To do this, boil the pork tongue, cool it, and then cut into small slices. In the same way, four pickles must be chopped, after cutting off their tips. In a pan you need to boil 4 chicken eggs, peel them and cut in any way.
To prepare such a salad with mushrooms, mushrooms (100 g) should be finely chopped and fried in a hot pan with the addition of a small amount of butter (or vegetable). After the mushrooms have cooled, all the components of the future salad should be combined in one dish, season them with a small amount of black pepper, add the desired amount of mayonnaise, 150 g of grated hard cheese and mix thoroughly until a homogeneous state is obtained.
When this simple salad with mushrooms is ready, it should be laid out in small bowls for serving and sent to the table. As practice shows, four portions of the dish are obtained from the indicated amount of ingredients, but their volume can be increased if desired.
With squid
A rather unusual but pleasant taste is the salad with champignons and squid. For its preparation, a separate preparation of fresh mushrooms will be required. To do this, wash 200 g of mushrooms and cut into small cubes. The ingredient should be placed in a pan with hot butter and fry thoroughly. In the process of frying, they need to add chopped onion, as well as grated carrots (also 1 pc.). When the frying procedure comes to an end, vegetables should be salted to taste, as well as pepper. In addition, some culinary experts recommend adding spicy herbs to this part of the dish - they make the taste of the prepared salad very spicy.
In different dishes, you need to boil three carcasses of squid and 100 g of rice noodles, following the instructions on its packaging. As for squids, they must be dipped in boiling salted water and boiled for 1.5-2 minutes - otherwise they can become "rubber".
In a bowl in which this delicious and simple salad with champignons and seafood will be prepared, you should add the mushrooms fried with vegetables, add rice noodles to them, and then send the squids cut into rings, which should be cooled beforehand. It is also necessary to add half a can of canned peas to the dish (the brine must first be drained). When all the ingredients are put together, the salad must be salt and pepper to taste.
For dressing this dish is great sauce, which makes the simplest way. To do this, mix wine vinegar and soy sauce in a 1: 4 ratio, and also add a small amount of chili there (if there is no fan of spicy foods among households or it is contraindicated for medical reasons, then this ingredient can be excluded).
"Mushroom glade"
The recipe for mushroom salad "Mushroom Glade" was widely known back in Soviet times. Then this unusual and very beautiful dish decorated many feasts. Cooking it is quite simple, you just have to follow the prescribed technology.
To create this beautiful salad, you should take a deep dish with even edges and cover its bottom and sides from the inside with cling film. After that, the entire bottom of the form should be laid with pickled mushrooms, placing them with their hats down. It should be remembered that the dishes will need to be turned over, as a result of which the pickled champignons will be on top. That is why to create such a dish you need to choose only the most beautiful mushrooms, preferably the same size. As for the gaps between them, they can be filled with dill or parsley.
To create a salad with mushrooms "Mushroom Glade" you need to boil a couple of large potatoes, three eggs, medium carrots, and 200 g of chicken fillet in advance. When these ingredients have cooled, they should form a layered salad. In the process of formation, we must remember that each of its tiers must be lubricated with a small amount of mayonnaise to give juiciness. Layers are stacked in this order:
- chopped chicken into small cubes;
- grated carrots;
- grated hard cheese (100 g);
- diced chicken eggs.
The final layer of salad should be pickled cucumbers, cut into small cubes (1-2 pieces).
After carrying out all the preparations, it is necessary to turn the form over, laying the salad on a beautiful serving dish. As such, it should be sent to the refrigerator for a couple of hours to soak.
Salad "21st Century"
Another recipe for a salad with champignons, which will captivate with its simplicity and original taste. Salad "21st Century" is a dish that is best prepared in the winter.
To create it, you need to boil 3 hard boiled eggs, cool and cut them into small cubes. After that, they must be laid out in a deep form, in which this puff dish will be laid out initially. Eggs serve as the first layer of 21st Century Salad. On top of them you need to apply a small amount of mayonnaise - so you will need to do with each tier of the dish. Next, the ingredients should be layered in the following order:
- 100 g diced gherkins;
- 150 g of grated cheese (hard fatty variety);
- boiled and chopped chicken breast (200 g).
Then again, you need to place 150 g of grated cheese, on top of which ham (150 g) is laid, crushed in cubes. On top of such a salad with champignons and cucumbers, you can decorate with small tomatoes and sprinkle with a small amount of cheese.