Of the hundreds of recipes, chicken and tomato salad is the easiest to make. Most often, culinary experts suggest boiling chicken breast and mixing it with tomatoes, adding spices to taste, but real chicken connoisseurs create delicious culinary masterpieces by adding various ingredients and seasonings. The main secret of a fragrant salad is properly selected and cooked chicken. That is why it must be baked in its own juice (in a sleeve or foil), then all the useful properties will not go into the broth, and the meat will turn out to be juicy and tender.
The versatility of this dish is that you can season it not only with your usual mayonnaise, but also with sour cream and yogurt sauces , as well as vegetable oil. For adherents of dietary nutrition, we recommend adding chicken and tomato salad to the broth that the chicken will emit when baking in the sleeve. To give the salad a piquant flavor, you need grilled chicken with tomatoes.
"Ryabushka" or salad with chicken and tomatoes.
Ingredients for Ryabushka:
- 550 fresh chicken young breasts;
- two fleshy tomatoes;
- three selected eggs;
- one purple onion;
- 120 g of hard cheese;
- mayonnaise and sour cream in equal proportions;
- three cloves of purple garlic;
- greens and coarse salt.
Chicken and tomato salad (preparation):
1. Rinse the chicken breast, chop, crush the garlic and grate half the onion, sprinkle with salt and put in the sleeve, tightly fastened, send to the oven for 40 minutes. Cool and cut into small cubes.
2. Break the eggs into a prepared bowl, mix with salt and fry in the form of pancakes. Allow to cool and cut into small cubes.
3. Rinse the tomatoes and cut into small cubes, chop the remaining onion lightly.
4. Grate cheese on a very coarse grater or cut by hand.
5. Stir in mayonnaise and sour cream with crushed garlic clove.
Prepare a deep dish and lay it out in layers in the following order, pouring sauce on each layer: first lay the tomatoes, then finely chopped onions, followed by chicken, then egg pancakes, after grated cheese and, after greasing the top of the salad, garnish with finely chopped fresh herbs.
The second recipe will be Caesar with chicken and tomatoes.
For salad, the following ingredients will be required:
- large fresh chicken breast;
- unleavened loaf or baguette with garlic sprinkle or plain;
- fresh lettuce;
- fleshy large tomato;
- 170 g of spicy cheese of any hard variety;
- 30 ml of mayonnaise and 30 ml of any sour cream;
- juice from fresh lemon;
- seasonings for grilled chicken and coarse salt.
Cooking method:
1. Rinse the breast well, rub the garlic and salt, put on a skewer and put in the oven on the grill mode. Cut the finished chicken into small cubes.
2. Grate the baguette with garlic (if it is not soaked) and grind it on crackers and dry in the oven until crunched.
3. Pick salad and chop the tomato into medium slices.
4. Stir in sour cream and mayonnaise with squeezed garlic clove.
Put in a prepared salad bowl in layers, smearing with sauce each level of ingredients:
- Narrated lettuce leaves in a layer - sauce;
- then tomato - sauce;
- on top of kuru - sauce;
- then cheese - sauce.
Give the salad the desired shape, thoroughly missing the sauce and decorate with the resulting crackers.
And, of course, a whip salad of chicken and tomatoes.
Ingredients:
- two medium fresh chicken breasts;
- 24 ripe cherry tomatoes;
- 30 ml of sweet golden mustard;
- five cloves of purple garlic;
- coarse salt and favorite spices;
150 ml low-fat sour cream.
Recipe:
Rinse the breasts, cut into small pieces and pour the marinade made from sweet mustard with garlic and salt, seasoned with spices, lay in the sleeve and put in the oven for 25 minutes. At this time, cut into halves of the cherry and fry in oil, you can dip them in flour with a slice. Get the chicken, cool and cut into medium sized cubes, put everything in one bowl and season with sour cream, into which crush a clove of garlic. It turns out delicious and satisfying, takes 30 minutes to cook.