Culinary specialists know many salad recipes. These are cold dishes of meat, mushrooms, vegetables or fruits seasoned with oil or sauce. The ingredients can be very different, they are mixed or laid out on a dish in layers.
In the article we will tell you how to cook "Manon" - a salad of vegetables, as well as its variety with chicken breast and cheese. This cold dish is prepared very quickly and simply, even a novice hostess will cope with the process. A big advantage is the fact that the products for the salad are needed the simplest, the result is a low-budget, but very tasty and satisfying dish.
Ingredients
How to make "Manon"? Salad is prepared from such products:
- Onions - 2 medium heads.
- Potatoes - 2-3 medium sized tubers.
- Pickled cucumbers - 2 pieces.
- Beets - 1 large piece or 2 medium ones.
- Carrots - 1 large.
- Chicken eggs - 3 pieces.
- Garlic - 3 large cloves.
- Mayonnaise - 1 small pack. Its fat content should be at least 67%.
How to cook "Manon" (salad) from these products, read on.
Cooking process
Having bought all the above products, you need to boil hard-boiled eggs, cook vegetables until cooked - potatoes, carrots, beets. Garlic should be crushed using a garlic press or chopped very finely with a knife and mixed with mayonnaise.
Now lay the salad in layers in the following order:
- at the bottom of the dish with high sides, put finely chopped onions, grease it with garlic and mayonnaise sauce;
- Next, lay out a layer of boiled potatoes, grated on a coarse grater, top with potatoes again covered with garlic seasoning;
- the third layer is made from finely chopped pickles;
- the fourth layer is beets grated on a coarse grater mixed with garlic sauce; if the beets are not sweet enough, its taste can be improved with a teaspoon of sugar;
- then coarsely grated carrot is laid out, which is again smeared with sharp mayonnaise;
- the last layer is crushed eggs.
Now ready "Manon"! The salad will delight guests with its taste. If desired, it can be decorated with green onions, dill or parsley branches.
Manon salad with chicken and cheese
When preparing this cold dish, enterprising housewives made some changes to the classic recipe:
- the first layer is made of finely chopped chicken breast (0.5 kg), boiled in salted water with spices;
- the last layer is finely grated hard cheese.
In this case, "Manon" - the salad is not only tasty, but also very satisfying.