If you ask how attractive salads are for lovers, the answers will be very different. For some, this is a great snack before the main meal. Its purpose is to stimulate appetite, create an atmosphere of anticipation. For others, a light snack between lunch or dinner. Someone generally refers salads to hearty main dishes, side dishes. And many gourmets prefer them as refreshing desserts. What conclusion can be made? Simple: all salads are good, fit almost any table and make a pleasant variety in our menu!
Salad "Spicy" - ingredients
Therefore, the more different dishes the hostess knows, the easier it is for her to cook something special, pleasantly surprising her family. And what’s interesting: usually a few products are required, and the result is amazing! For example, a salad with pine nuts and chicken. Very simple at first glance, inexpensive, but how nutritious. And literally melts in your mouth! What is needed for the dish: chicken fillet - about 200-250 g, 4 tablespoons of peeled
pine nuts, a bunch of salad leaves. And dressing for dressing. We will talk about him a little lower.
Cooking
This salad with pine nuts and chicken can be made from smoked meat or boiled. If the
chicken is smoked, remove the skin from it, cut the fillet into thin strips. Raw fillet should first be boiled in salted water with spices. Then also peel, cool and chop. In order for the salad with pine nuts and chicken to acquire a special mouth-watering flavor, boiled meat can be fried in butter with spices. Now nuts. If you buy a bag of ready-made, fried and salted bags, you can add them to the meat. If unpeeled, peel, fry, cool and mix with meat. An important component of such a dish as a salad with pine nuts and chicken is greens. Wash the lettuce leaves, dry and tear into small pieces with your hands. Mix the ingredients, season with mayonnaise or a sauce of several tablespoons of vegetable oil, lemon juice, pepper and salt. Add a few chopped cloves of garlic for sharpness.
Delicacy with mushrooms
A surprisingly delicious treat is a salad with pine nuts and chicken and mushrooms. There are also possible options. Gifts of the forest are suitable for both fried and pickled. The variety does not play their special role. Mushrooms and saffron mushrooms are good here, as they say. Raw mushrooms should be boiled and fried with onions. In pickled, drain the brine, rinse. As for the meat, which is put in a salad with pine nuts and chicken and mushrooms, cook it until tender in salted water. Cool and disassemble into small fiber pieces or cut into small cubes. Grind the mushrooms. Combine all the ingredients (meat - 300 g, nuts - 100 g, mushrooms - 200 g), season with mayonnaise, add salt. Grind 3 cloves of garlic under a press, add to a salad. Garnish the dish with herbs and serve. Believe me, it’s very tasty!
Assorted salad
As you already understood, you can make a completely different salad with pine nuts. The recipe for this dish is this: 300 g smoked chicken or bacon, 200 g mushrooms, 4-5 eggs, spinach or lettuce leaves, vegetable oil, salt and pepper for dressing. Where to start cooking our salad with pine
nuts? The recipe recommends chopping the meat into strips and putting it in a hot pan. Fry it in vegetable oil so that a crust appears, but do not dry it. Then take it out, put it in a bowl, where you will mix all the ingredients and let cool. Hard-boiled eggs, cool, clean. Chop two finely, add to the meat. Free the rest from the shell, cut into circles - they will serve as a decoration for the dish. Now the mushrooms that are put in this salad with pine nuts and chicken. The recipe offers fresh ones just boil, cool and chop, and rinse canned ones from brine, cut large ones into slices, and leave small ones as they are. Add them to the rest of the ingredients, pour to taste nuts, add chopped green leaves. Everything is well mixed, poured with oil, pepper and salted to taste. Put the finished salad in a slide on a plate or in a vase, garnish with egg circles and bring to the table. What else can be added for a brighter taste - these are pieces of olives. Great food, right?
Salad "Tenderness" - composition
You have often noticed, probably, that many culinary masters combine meat with fruits in sauces, mixes, salads. And the thing is that sweet and sour fruits in a special way emphasize the taste of meat products, emphasize all the best in them. To check this out, try a salad with pine nuts and chicken and grapes. You will need: about 1 kg of fillet, to taste of salt, 350-400 g of cucumbers, several tomatoes, 300 g of seedless grapes, a bunch of salad leaves, 3 tablespoons of table grape or apple vinegar and the same amount of freshly squeezed grape juice. Another vegetable oil, ground black pepper and chopped fresh greens of dill.
How to cook
We begin the sacred action in the kitchen by boiling the chicken until cooked. Add salt and spices and roots to the meat pan. Use the broth under the base for the soup. And the meat, when it is well separated from the bones, cool. Remove the skin from the carcass, remove the bones. Cut the fillet into small pieces or tear into fibers. Dice the cucumbers, into quarters - tomatoes, julienne salad greens. If you wish, you can diversify the recipe by adding onion shredded in half rings or feathers of green onions. Grapes, necessarily large, cut along. Transfer all components to a bowl. Refuel by mixing oil, vinegar, juice, adding salt and pepper. If the sauce is acidic, slightly sweeten with sugar. Dress salad, let it brew for 10 minutes. Put on a dish, sprinkle with dill. That's it, the merger is ready!