If you like hearty salads, then you should definitely try Orchid Salad. It looks very unusual and tender, but in itself it is quite heavy and high-calorie. Ideal for a large feast, but slimming ladies should not recommend it.
Preparation for work
For salad, you need to visit the store and buy the following products:
- ham;
- salted or pickled mushrooms;
- potato chips without fillers and flavorings;
- eggs;
- Korean carrots
- hard cheese;
- mayonnaise.
To save a little, mushrooms can be replaced by self-collected and salted loaves or oils. This will give the salad an additional aroma and taste. Buy quality ham. You should not buy a cheap version of this ingredient, as this can ruin the whole taste of the salad. The same can be said about eggs and cheese. In general, in the preparation of the salad, the taste is built from a combination of all the ingredients, so everyone should pay special attention. For example, it is good if the cheese is Parmesan, you can also take maasdam or other hard cheeses with a bright taste.
Cooking
Cooking this salad is very simple. You need to boil the eggs and separate the yolk from the protein in them. The yolk will go to the decoration, and the protein needs to be cut into strips. This form will need to be followed when cutting all the ingredients. We also chop mushrooms and ham. If the mushrooms are small, you can leave them whole. Cheese must be grated, and crumble the chips with your hands. Orchid salad is stacked in layers, so the order is as follows: carrots, mushrooms, chips, ham, followed by cheese and eggs. We coat each layer a little with mayonnaise, but better less than more. You need to lay out the salad in a small slide.
Decoration
You can find the recipe for the Orchid salad with a photograph in our article, but even without it, it’s very simple to draw it up. So, proceed to the decoration. It plays an almost decisive role here. Orchid salad is decorated like a flower of the same name, whose leaves are chips. The salad itself is sprinkled with crumbled yolks, and flowers from chips are stacked on top. If you want to indicate the middle of the flowers, then this can be done with olives or red currant berries.
More variations on the theme
Orchid salad will also look good in the cocktail version, when you put all the ingredients in individual portions, and on top decorate each portion with a chip flower. If you do not have many guests, then each of them will be pleased to receive such a flower. It looks original and festive. In addition, you can decorate the salad with beetroot sliced chips and place a slice of carrot in the middle. You can simply lay the egg rings on top. Instead of pickled mushrooms, you can take ordinary mushrooms, having previously fried them. However, do not forget that it is better to collect the salad just before the guests arrive, so that the chips do not soften quickly. In addition, this layer is best left without mayonnaise.
Salad "Orchid" with chips is a very good festive version of the dish. So your feast will be not only tasty, but also beautiful!