“Hemp” is a salad that will not leave indifferent any member of your family or an invited guest. Such an appetizer will decorate the festive table and make it unusual.
Hemp Salad: recipe for cooking
There are many ways to prepare this dish. We will consider both the simplest and the most complicated recipe.
So, to make hemp salad with mushrooms, we need:
- carrots are not very large - 3 pcs.;
- medium potatoes - 3 pcs.;
- green apples with sourness - 3 pcs.;
- large chicken eggs - 4 pcs.;
- pickled or boiled mushrooms - about 150 g;
- chilled chicken breasts - approximately 300 g;
- peeled walnuts - about 10 pcs.;
- high-calorie salt and mayonnaise - to your liking;
- green lettuce and black olives - for decorating snacks.
Ingredient Processing
How to quickly and easily make a hemp snack? Salad should begin to be prepared by processing the components. Products such as carrots, chicken eggs and potatoes need to be boiled, cooled and peeled. After that, they need to be grated on a large grater and laid out on different plates.
You should also boil the chicken fillet separately. It is cleaned of skin and bones, and then cut into cubes. Similarly chop green apples (you can just cut them in circles).
As for walnuts, they are washed, fried in a pan, and then crushed with a stupa (some are left to decorate dishes).
Proper formation
“Hemp” is a salad, the preparation of which does not take much time. Once all the products have been processed, take a flat dish, and then set the molding ring on it. The components are laid out in it alternately. They go as follows: carrots, eggs, boiled potatoes, chicken breasts, apples, chopped mushrooms and chopped nuts. All of these layers are carefully lubricated with mayonnaise. After that, the ring is carefully cleaned, and the salad is decorated with greens, whole mushrooms, nuts and olives.
Before serving, such an appetizer must be kept in the refrigerator.
Making a beautiful hemp under the snow salad
The simplest option for making such an appetizer was presented above. If you want to get a real "stump", then we suggest using a more complex recipe. For its implementation we will need:
- carrots are not very large - 3 pcs.;
- medium potatoes - 3 pcs.;
- large chicken eggs - 4 pcs.;
- mushrooms (honey mushrooms) - about 250 g;
- aromatic ham - about 150 g;
- fresh greens - to decorate snacks;
- salt and mayonnaise - to your liking;
- hard cheese - about 100 g;
- thin cooked pancakes - at your discretion.
We process products
Salad “Hemp” with honey mushrooms is very beautiful and unusual. Before forming it, you should prepare all the ingredients.
As in the previous recipe, vegetables for such an appetizer are boiled in salt water, and then they are cooled, peeled and rubbed on a large grater. The same goes for chicken eggs.
Aromatic ham is also treated separately. It is freed from the shell and chopped with a very thin straw.
As for pickled mushrooms, some of them are finely chopped with a knife, and some are left for decoration.
How to form?
Salad "Hemp" with honey mushrooms should be formed without a cooking ring. To do this, use only their imagination. Unlike the previous snack, such a dish is made not in layers, but in a mixed form. To do this, put grated boiled carrots and potatoes in a deep plate, and add fragrant ham, eggs and pickled mushrooms to them. After combining the ingredients with a sufficient amount of mayonnaise, they are thoroughly mixed until a thick and viscous mass is formed. It is carefully laid out on a flat plate and shaped like a hemp.
First, a kind of cylinder is made from the salad mass, and then “roots” are attached to it.
After the image of the “hemp” is created, proceed to its decoration.
Decoration process
As a crust for the “hemp”, we decided to use thin pancakes. By simple circumcisions, they are laid out on top of the salad mass, tightly pressing it to it. The top of the hemp is left open. Pickled mushrooms are spread on it, sprinkled with coarsely chopped dill.
Also, mushrooms can be stuck in other places of the “hemp”, including in its “roots”. The same applies to parsley leaves and dill branches. At the edges of the dish, lettuce leaves can be laid out.
To make such an appetizer more original, it is recommended to sprinkle it with hard grated cheese. It will serve as a kind of snow, making the dish beautiful and tender.
How to serve at the dining table?
Before presenting such a salad to guests, it should be kept in the refrigerator for some time. However, keeping the snack in the cold for too long is not worth it. Otherwise, she will lose her attractive appearance.
To summarize
“Hemp” is a salad that is ideal for a festive table. Such an unusual and very tasty dish will surely surprise and delight your guests.
It should be noted that to create it, you can use not only the above components. For example, some housewives add beef, pickled cucumbers, cream cheese and other ingredients to it. However, mushrooms remain an unchanged component of this dish. They can be used both boiled and fried. But decorating the appetizer is better with pickled mushrooms. They keep their shape well, which will definitely give the salad a special beauty and originality.
As for pancakes, it is not necessary to use them. Although with them such an appetizer will become unusual and very beautiful.