Overture salad is an easy-to-cook dish that deserves the attention of every housewife. The appetizer is very tasty and tender. You can cook it both for a magnificent celebration, and for a family holiday.
Overture Salad with Prunes
This appetizer is a great choice for lovers of prunes and walnuts. Another of its advantages is the originality of the filing.
The following products will come in handy:
- champignons - 0.4 kg;
- chicken fillet - 0.4 kg;
- cheese - 150 g;
- prunes - 150 g;
- nuts - 1 tbsp.
Practical part
To prepare the Overture salad, you first need to prepare the fillet. It needs to be boiled, cut and mixed with mayonnaise. Prepared champignons must be stewed together with onions in a pan. Leave dried fruits in boiling water for several minutes, then rinse them and cut into small cubes. Grind the cheese with a grater, and cut the walnut into squares.
Now you should start forming the salad:
- put mushrooms and fried onions at the bottom of the dish;
- second layer - chopped fillet;
- the next layer will be prune coated with mayonnaise;
- the last layer is grated cheese, topped with mayonnaise;
- the top of the salad is laid out from nuts.
Before use, the cooked appetizer must be hidden in the refrigerator for an hour. If desired, the top is decorated with greens or cranberries.
Overture salad recipe with pineapple
Cooking a salad does not take much time. A distinctive feature of this version of the Overture salad is the use of a tropical plant instead of the usual prunes. It turns out a salad delicious, sophisticated and original.
Such products are useful:
- mushrooms - 0, 3 kg;
- fillet - 0, 4 kg;
- cheese - 150 g;
- pineapple - 150 g;
- walnut - 1 tbsp .;
Start cooking salad with the beautiful name "Overture" should be with the fillet. It must be boiled, cut into small cubes and mixed with mayonnaise.
Selected mushrooms (oyster mushrooms or champignons) should be chopped and stewed with onions until cooked. Cut canned pineapple into small cubes. Walnuts need to be slightly fried and chopped. Grind the cheese.
The next step is the design of the salad:
- put the stewed mushrooms with onions at the bottom of the dish;
- second layer - fillet cut into cubes;
- the next layer is pineapple with mayonnaise;
- the last layer is grated cheese, carefully coated with mayonnaise;
- the top of the Overture salad is sprinkled with prepared walnuts.
Before serving, the appetizer should be allowed to stand in the refrigerator, so that it can soak and infuse well.
Variant of salad with olives and radishes
This variation of the snack charms with its piquancy due to the combination of mustard with garlic, as well as the tenderness and sweetness inherent in prunes. Preparing the dish is quite simple. This will take a little time and a set of ingredients available to each hostess.
Such products are useful:
- meat - 0.3 kg;
- radish - 4 pcs.;
- olives - 75 g;
- cheese - 120 g;
- prunes 100 g;
- garlic - 2 teeth .;
- nuts - 120 g.
It is necessary to start cooking an appetizer by boiling meat. Then it should be cut and thoroughly greased with a sauce made from sour cream, mustard, chopped herbs and chopped garlic.
Finely chopped radishes and chopped olives must be added to the laid meat layer. It should also be coated with cooked sauce. Then put a layer of chopped onion and prunes, covering it with sauce on top. The next layer is chopped walnuts, as well as grated cheese.
You can decorate the resulting appetizing salad with a scattering of sesame or poppy seeds. Serve such an appetizer, usually in small transparent bowls or deep rectangular salad bowls.