Previously, due to a shortage of food, hostesses limited themselves to preparing standard salads for the holiday table. Usually they included the same dishes - olivier, vinaigrette and herring under a fur coat. Today, the need to prepare just these “luminaries” disappears, because our market offers a huge number of different products that are able to add variety to the festive menu. One of the most relevant today is the Gorka salad.
Regarding the ingredients, they can be very diverse. The main thing is the appearance and design of the salad, and the recipe can be selected depending on your preferences.
Chicken and Cabbage Salad
Almost all of Gorka salad recipes require meat in the dish. This food is quite satisfying and high-calorie, so it can be used as the main one. So, the ingredients that we will need to prepare the "Hill":
- chicken fillet - 1 pc.;
- eggs - 3 pcs.;
- cheese - 150 g;
- fresh tomatoes - 3 pcs.;
- Chinese cabbage (white cabbage) - 300 g;
- greens;
- flour;
- salt pepper;
- mayonnaise;
- sunflower oil.
What to do next?
To get started, we are going to make dough balls. To do this, combine the eggs, salt and flour. Knead the dough and divide it into small balls, which are placed in boiling vegetable oil. Then we wash the tomatoes and throw them in boiling water. Remove the skin and cut into strips.
Shred the cabbage and mash hands, add finely chopped greens to it. Cheese cut into strips. Place the chicken fillet in boiling salted water and cook for 12-15 minutes. Then cool and cut into cubes.
Hard-boiled eggs, put them in cold water and clean. Three squirrels and yolks on a grater separately.
Now we take the dishes on which the salad will be located. A large dish is ideal for these purposes. So, the Gorka salad is laid out in layers in the following order: cabbage, yolks, mayonnaise, chicken, proteins, mayonnaise, tomatoes, cheese, mayonnaise.
Decorate the top of the dish with the prepared balls of dough.
That's all, our Gorka salad is cooked. Enjoy your meal!
"Hill" in Mongolian
So, how is the Mongolian Gorka salad prepared? The recipe is absolutely not complicated. We will need such components:
- chicken fillet - 500 g;
- beets (medium size) - 4 pcs.;
- carrot - 2 pcs.;
- hard cheese - 200 g;
- prunes - 6 pcs.;
- garlic - 3 cloves;
- mayonnaise;
- dill - a bunch;
- walnuts - a handful.
Step cooking
We lay the beets in boiling water and cook for 40 minutes. Then put in cold water. We do the same with carrots and chicken. We rub the cooked vegetables on a grater. Chicken meat is cut into small pieces and lightly fry in a pan. Grind prunes in a blender, then walnuts. Three cheese on a medium grater, chop dill, pass the garlic through a crush.
Mix mayonnaise with garlic, salt, pepper to taste. Lay out the Gorka salad in layers on a large dish. First, half the beetroot mass, then chicken mixed with nuts, mayonnaise. This is followed by carrots with cheese, mayonnaise, prunes. From above, everything is covered with beetroot mass (including the sides).
The dish is chopped with chopped herbs. Now the Mongolian Gorka salad, the recipe of which we have proposed, is ready for use. Enjoy your meal!
"New Year's hill"
This salad will look great on the New Year's festive table. It is quite satisfying and very tasty. So, what products do we need in order to prepare the New Year’s Hill salad? It:
- chicken fillet - 1 pc.;
- champignons - 250 g;
- eggs - 3 pcs.;
- cheese - 150 g;
- fresh cucumber - 2 pcs.;
- walnuts - a handful;
- dressing mayonnaise;
- cooking oil for frying;
- lettuce;
- salt.
Cooking according to the recipe
Boil chicken fillet in boiling salted water for 12-15 minutes. Then pull out of the pan and cool. Cut the chicken into small pieces. We put on the stove in a pan and pour vegetable oil there. Wash the mushrooms, chop finely and send to fry for 2-4 minutes.
Cook hard-boiled eggs, cool and rub on a coarse grater. We also do with cheese. We cut the cucumber into strips, chop the walnuts or finely chop with a knife.
On a wide dish, spread the washed and dried lettuce leaves. This is followed by a layer of chicken mixed with mushrooms, and mayonnaise. Next are eggs and cucumbers. Between them must have mayonnaise. Cheese follows.
Gorka salad, the recipe of which we offered in several variations, is sprinkled with walnuts and served at the table. Enjoy it!
By the way, if it seemed to you that the dish is high in calories, replace mayonnaise with sour cream or low-fat yogurt. Then it will be not only tasty, but also useful.