Salad "Birch": a step by step recipe for cooking with a photo

If you are planning a feast for some special occasion, then the question immediately arises: what would be unusual and tasty to prepare for the festive table? The problem is that the choice of dishes is huge and it is sometimes difficult for the hostess to decide on the menu. And you always want to surprise guests with something new and unbroken.

Salad for all occasions

This review offers you a very interesting idea for a snack, namely the recipe for the salad "Birch" in its various variations. This dish has a very attractive appearance and can decorate any table. In addition, the salad was able to become a worthy substitute for the well-known and slightly bored olivier. The dish is decorated according to its name in the form of a birch or a birch log with pronounced black stripes on the “bark”.

Classic snacks

Salad "Birch" with prunes, prepared according to this recipe, has a delicate texture and a slightly sweet taste.

Components:

• 300 g chicken fillet.
• 0.2 kg of champignons.
• 5 eggs.
• 4 fresh cucumbers.
• Bulb.
• Mayonnaise.
• Prunes
• Parsley.

Stages of preparation:

1. Mushrooms and onions cut into a cube and fry until cooked.
   
2. Cut the boiled breast into strips.
   
3. Soak prunes for 15 minutes in boiling water, then squeeze and cut into small cubes.
   
4. Boil and chop the eggs (proteins and yolks separately).
   
5. Cucumbers cut into strips.
   
6. We lay the finished products in a salad bowl in layers: first prunes, then mushrooms, mayonnaise, meat, cucumbers, mayonnaise, yolks. Using mayonnaise, draw a birch on the surface, spread the stripes with prunes, parsley - the crown.

Walnut Option

Nuts give this salad a special zest, and their crunch complements the flavor spectrum. In addition, instead of boiled fillet according to the recipe, smoked chicken meat is used, and the cooking order changes slightly. We coat the layers of salad with dressing made from a mixture of mayonnaise and chopped eggs. The rest of the recipe is similar to the previous one.

We cover the salad dish with cling film and put it in order:

• Diced ½ piece of smoked chicken, cut into cubes or sticks.
• Pre-soaked and chopped prunes with crumbs of nuts.
• Straws of fresh cucumbers.
• Mushrooms fried with onions.
• Chicken meat.

We coat each layer with dressing, cover the finished salad with a film and put it in a cold place. After a couple of hours, we take out the dish, remove the film and gently turn the salad over. At the exit, its appearance should resemble a log, which is smeared with mayonnaise on top and made out, as shown in the photographs.

Salad "Birch" with salted cucumbers

Components included:

• Chicken Breast - 300 g.
• Mayonnaise.
• Mushrooms - 300 g.
• Five eggs.
• Salted cucumbers - 3 pcs.
• The bulb is medium in size.
• Greens.
• Prunes

Cooking:

• The initial layer consists of chopped or finely chopped cooked fillet (chicken meat). The meat is laid out on a large flat plate, leveled, and greased with mayonnaise abundantly on top.
• The second layer is fried thin plates of mushrooms mixed with onions (ideally champignons). Mushrooms during frying should not be forgotten to salt, and before laying on the chicken, drain the liquid from them.
• The next layer is finely chopped cucumbers, which are poured with mayonnaise on top, like the first layer.
• Next, boil the eggs. Two three eggs on a grater and spread the final layer, plus mayonnaise. The remaining eggs are divided into protein and yolk and three separately from each other.
• We proceed to the final stage: sprinkle the surface of the finished salad with crumbs of yolk, and the sides with crumbs of protein and put the snack in the refrigerator for a couple of hours.
• Before serving, we make out the salad: with mayonnaise, draw the trunk and branches of the birch, put strips of olives or prunes on them, and use parsley as the leaves. Also, at the base of the "tree", you can lay out strips of onion stems (imitation grass) and arrange several mushrooms.

Crab sticks recipe

Structure:

• Packaging crab sticks.
• Prunes
• Cheese.
• Salty mushrooms.
• Bow.
• Lettuce leaves.
• Mayonnaise.

To prepare a snack should be as follows:

1. Fry the onion half rings until golden brown.
2. Throw the mushrooms in a colander and rinse.
3. We cut crab sticks.
4. Grind the cheese on a grater.
5. We spread washed lettuce leaves on a dish, on top - crab sticks, dressing and mushrooms with onions.
6. Sprinkle the surface of the Birch salad with a chip of cheese and decorate according to the name, using prunes and mayonnaise.

An interesting option using the liver

This appetizer, unlike Chicken Birch salad, uses beef liver. The combination of components is bold, but the taste of the dish is quite rich, for an amateur.

Structure:

• Liver - 0.5 kg.
• A small carrot.
• Mayonnaise.
• Three potatoes.
• Eggs - 3 pcs.
• Black olives.
• Onion - 1 pc.
• Greens.

Recipe:

1. Soak the liver for three hours in milk, cut into pieces, boil and grind in a blender.
2. Cut the carrots into strips and overcook with onion half rings.
3. We boil potatoes with eggs in salted water and three on a grater with large cloves (three squirrels and yolks separately).
4. First, lay the liver in layers, followed by carrots with onions, then potatoes, proteins and yolks. For decoration we use olives.

Salad "Birch" with mushrooms without prunes

In this version of the salad, prunes are absent, and olives are used to decorate the tree trunk.

The composition of the dish:

• Chicken meat - 200 g.
• Mushrooms - 200 g.
• Potato - 2 pcs.
• 5 pickled cucumbers
• Eggs - 4 pcs.
• Bow.
• Black olives.

How to cook a salad:

1. Fry mushrooms with onions.
2. Boil chicken meat.
3. Cucumbers cut into cubes or stripes.
4. Boil potatoes in their skins, peel and three on a grater.
5. Boil and chop eggs.
6. The first layer in the Birch salad with chicken and mushrooms is potatoes, the second layer is mushrooms, then the meat, squirrels and cucumbers. Moreover, each layer, except for mushrooms, is greased with a mesh of mayonnaise.
7. On top of the dish we lay out chopped egg yolks and arrange the salad according to its name.
   

Cooking Tips

• It will be much easier to get rid of the film on the liver if you lower it for one minute in boiling water and then in cold water.
• It is better to take solid pickled cucumbers for Birch salad with a pronounced taste. In addition, it is advisable to drain the whole brine so that later the ingredient does not let in a lot of juice.
• In order for onions not to give bitterness to the salad, after cutting, you need to pour boiling water over it and put it in a colander. This will give the product a more delicate taste.
• To let the salad soak well, it is advisable to cook it in advance and, if possible, let it stand for about three hours before serving in the refrigerator.

Output

Salad "Birch" will be a great addition to a festive or everyday dinner. It does not require any special skills or abilities in its preparation, it is only worth applying a little imagination at the stage of its design. The dish is quite simple, but original, with a delicate combination of ingredients.