The proposed festive, very satisfying Petrogradsky salad is liked by almost everyone not only because of its harmonious, classic combination of ingredients, but also its sonorous name. One retail chain in St. Petersburg has long and successfully offered its customers a ready-made option. But at home, making it easy. Products can be found in the nearest supermarket, and it will make a huge impression on your guests.
Petrogradsky salad with chicken and mushrooms is being prepared - these are the main components. You will also need some cheese, several eggs, several potatoes, carrots, mayonnaise.
So, in order to cook a delicious salad "Petrograd", the recipe of which is given below, you need a good mood and a desire to surprise.
Essential Products
- Chicken Breast - 1 filet.
- Egg - 4 pieces.
- Potatoes - 3-4 tubers.
- Carrots - 1-2 pcs.
- Packaging of fresh champignons - 500 g, or canned - 1 can.
- Hard cheese - 100-150 g.
- Mayonnaise.
- Salt.
Cooking Petrograd Salad
- Boil chicken, cool.
- Boil eggs, potatoes and carrots, cool and peel. Especially good to cool the potatoes. If this is not done, then in a salad, potatoes can be very sticky, which will negatively affect the taste of the finished dish. This rule, by the way, applies to all salad recipes that use boiled potatoes.
- If fresh mushrooms - fry (can be with onions), if canned mushrooms - cut into strips.
- Chicken meat into thin slices.
- Potatoes, eggs and carrots must be passed through a coarse grater.
Finishing touches
Prepared foods must be placed on the dish in the following order:
- At the bottom of the dish lay chicken, grease with mayonnaise.
- Then put the mushrooms on the chicken, also grease with mayonnaise.
- For mushrooms - potatoes, slightly salted, and again - mayonnaise impregnation.
- The next layer is carrots and a thin layer of mayonnaise.
- Place eggs on carrots and coat with mayonnaise as well.
- The final (top) layer of salad is your favorite type of hard cheese grated on a fine grater. They can also be powdered on the sides.
If you use fresh champignons fried with onions, then the salad will turn out to be more satisfying and saturated. If you use mushrooms from a can, the salad will come out lighter and fresher. It is only a matter of taste.
If desired, all layers can be repeated, then the salad will turn out higher, even more satisfying and, accordingly, in larger quantities.
After the assembly is complete, the salad must be refrigerated for several hours. Ideally, it is better at night, especially if the layers are repeated twice. The top layer can be covered with cling film to ensure that the cheese is not weathered.
If you are a little tired of traditional salads - olivier, herring under a fur coat, mimosa and others, then be sure to try to cook Petrogradsky salad for the next celebration. The pleasure that your guests and you yourself will receive from praise is worth it.
In advance, you can propagate the instructions for preparing the salad, as the female half of the invitees will simply attack you with a request to give a recipe. Your reputation as a good housewife, who knows how to pleasantly surprise, will undoubtedly increase by several points up.