Salad "Pomegranate Bracelet": recipe with photo

The recipe for the salad “Pomegranate Bracelet” begins to search for everyone who tried it for the first time. This salad with the addition of ripe pomegranate can be prepared in different ways: according to the classic recipe or by bringing something of your own. The main thing is the formation of the dish in layers.

In the finished version, the salad resembles a beautiful bracelet made of semiprecious stone - pomegranate. The plot of Kuprin's work “Garnet Bracelet” immediately arises in my head.

Let's touch the beautiful not only in the literary world, but also in the culinary and consider the recipe for salad “Pomegranate Bracelet” with a photo.

Classic recipe

For those who have never prepared a Pomegranate Bracelet, but want to try it, it is better to start with a classic recipe. Having already understood the “meaning” and content of the dish, the next time you can add a new ingredient to it, replace one with another, focusing on your taste.

So, the salad recipe (with photo) “Pomegranate Bracelet”, or rather its classic version, requires the following components:

• 2 ripe large pomegranates;
• 2 medium beets;
• 3 potato tubers;
• 400 grams of chicken;
• 2 carrots;
• 3 boiled egg whites and yolk;
• 1 medium onion;
• 70 grams of chopped walnuts;
• 1 teaspoon of sugar;
• 1 tablespoon of vinegar;
• spice for flavoring;
• spicy spice;
• mayonnaise - to complete the cooking.

Stages of preparation:

1. First, boil potatoes, eggs and beets. Cool down. Each ingredient is grated, but not mixed with each other.
2. Part of the chicken carcass is boiled in salt-flavored water until tender. Boiled chicken is cut into small cubes.
3. Vinegar is combined with sugar and salt, mixed.
4. Dice the onions and pour in the vinegar marinade. Leave for 25 minutes.
5. Juicy carrots are peeled, washed from dirt and crushed on the fine side of the grater.
6. When all the components are prepared, it remains to build a "Garnet bracelet". To begin with, they take a flat dish and put a wide glass in its center. It will help to accurately form a “bracelet”.
7. Layers of salad are spread around the glass: potato, 1/2 grated beets, carrots, nuts, 1/2 chopped chicken, onions, eggs, half the chicken, and beet leftovers.
8. They take out a glass, sprinkle salad over the entire surface to taste and generously coat the entire surface, inside and outside the ring with mayonnaise.
9. Pomegranate is cleaned and grains are taken out. Sprinkle with them a salad ring, so that there are no white spots.
10. The formed salad is covered with cling film and put in the refrigerator for a couple of hours.

The dish in the form of a bracelet is easy to cut into portions. Cooked culinary masterpiece can be decorated with lemon rings or parsley sprigs.

"Pomegranate bracelet" with smoked chicken meat

Smoked chicken gives any salad a special piquancy and great satiety. Therefore, if you want your guests to surely not remain hungry, then add smoked chicken to the recipe for the Pomegranate Bracelet salad.

In addition to this ingredient, the salad contains the following:

• a pair of medium potato tubers;
• 3 smoked legs;
• 3 eggs;
• carrot;
• bulb head;
• 1 ripe pomegranate;
• 50 grams of ground nuts, often use walnuts;
• mayonnaise;
• sunflower oil or from olives;
• spices to add flavor.

Stages of the culinary process:

1. Boil potatoes (unpeeled), eggs and carrots.
2. Beets can also be cooked, or baked in the oven (30 minutes at 180 ° C).
3. All cooked ingredients are grated coarsely.
4. Pomegranate is sorted into seeds.
5. Onions are diced and fried in sunflower oil until a delicious rosy color.
6. Chicken legs are freed from skin and bones, meat is cut into small cubes.
7. Spread the salad in layers using a flat dish and a wide glass: 1/2 chopped smoked chicken, carrots, potatoes, 1/3 nuts, potatoes, onions, chicken fillet, eggs and beets.
8. When laying out layers, it is necessary to take into account several nuances: mayonnaise is applied to each layer. Grated eggs, as well as beets, are mixed with mayonnaise, and when it is their turn in the salad, they completely cover the previously laid layers with them: from above and from the sides.
9. At the end of the culinary process, the entire surface of the salad is spread with pomegranate seeds.
10. Ready “Pomegranate bracelet” is removed for an hour in the refrigerator.
    

Delicious salad “Pomegranate bracelet”: recipe with prunes

The combination of chicken with prunes in dishes was loved by many, due to its sweet and sour taste. And the taste of the guarantor adds a special piquancy to the salad.

A dish is prepared from the following ingredients:

• 3 large potato tubers;
• 1 medium beetroot;
• 0.2 kg chicken fillet;
• 10 fruits of prunes;
• 1 pomegranate;
• 3 boiled eggs;
• 50 grams of walnuts, but can be replaced with almonds;
• salt, mayonnaise - to taste.

The recipe for pomegranate bracelet salad with chicken and prunes includes the following steps:

1. Before starting to cook, prunes should be poured with boiling water to make it soft.
2. Boil potatoes, beets and eggs and rub on the shallow side of the grater.
3. Selected nuts are slightly fried in a pan without oil.
4. Pomegranate is cleaned and grain is extracted.
5. All prepared and crushed products, except for nuts and pomegranate, are separately seasoned with mayonnaise and salted.
6. Lay out layers of salad in the following sequence: potatoes, beets, nuts, chopped prunes, chicken and eggs.
7. On top of the formed "bracelet" sprinkled with a dense layer of pomegranate seeds.

Do not forget to put the cooked dish in the refrigerator for a couple of hours.

Cheese Salad Option

The recipe from the salad photo “Pomegranate Bracelet” with chicken and cheese contains few ingredients, unlike the classic version, but it tastes great. Another feature of this dish is that it is not laid out in layers, and the bracelet is formed from already mixed components.

The following set of products is required:

• 300 grams of hard cheese;
• 300 grams of boiled chicken;
• 3 garlic cloves;
• 1 large ripe pomegranate;
• 200 grams of walnuts;
• 150 grams of mayonnaise;
• salt to taste.

Let's take a look at the recipe step by step with the photo of the salad “Pomegranate Bracelet”:

1. Chicken is cooked, cooled and the meat is pulled into fibers.
2. Cheese on a coarse grater.
3. Nuts are dried and chopped.
4. Pomegranate sorted into grains.
5. Garlic is ground and mixed with mayonnaise.
6. All ingredients are mixed and seasoned with mayonnaise. Form a ring and sprinkle with pomegranate seeds.
   

Dish without beetroot

For those who don’t like beets, it’s permissible to create a creative salad “Pomegranate Bracelet” according to the recipe without using this vegetable.

For cooking you will need:

• 300 grams of boiled chicken;
• a pair of apples;
• 200 grams of hard cheese;
• 100 grams of nut crumbs;
• Garnet;
• 1 onion;
• 3 potatoes;
• mayonnaise to taste.

Without beets, “Pomegranate Bracelet” is prepared as follows:

1. Chicken is cooked until cooked, cooled and divided into fibers, or simply cut into small pieces.
2. Potatoes are also cooked until cooked, and already cooled tubers are grated.
3. The apples are peeled, the core and seeds are cut, and the prepared pulp is triturated.
4. Nuts are dried in a pan or in the oven.
5. Cheese grated.
6. Bulb cut into small cubes.
7. Pomegranate is cleaned and seeds are taken out.
8. When all the ingredients are prepared, begin to form a “Pomegranate bracelet” using a glass. The dish is formed in layers: meat, apples, cheese, onions, potatoes, nuts. Remember to coat each layer with mayonnaise and salt.
9. When a “bracelet” is formed, the whole salad is poured with pomegranate seeds and removed for an hour in the refrigerator.

Beef Tongue Salad

Instead of chicken, you can add beef tongue, giving the salad sophistication. For this option you will need:

• 2 ripe medium pomegranates;
• 2 medium beets;
• a couple of carrots;
• 1 beef tongue;
• 4 chicken eggs;
• 5 potato tubers;
• 50 grams of pine nuts;
• mayonnaise dressing and spices.
  

Stages of preparation:

1. Begin cooking with boiling beef tongue. This process will take 2 hours.
2. Potatoes, eggs, carrots and beets are cooked until cooked.
3. The finished tongue is diced, and the cooked vegetables and eggs are rubbed on a coarse grater.
4. Using a flat dish and a glass (you can take a bottle), spread the salad in layers: potatoes with mayonnaise, half a chopped tongue, carrots with mayonnaise, beets, nuts with mayonnaise, the rest of the tongue, an egg with mayonnaise, and finally a pomegranate. Each layer or through the layer is salted dish.

Beef dish

The male version of the “Pomegranate Bracelet” is prepared with the addition of beef tenderloin. Men will appreciate the dish.

• beef tenderloin - 0.3 kg;
• prunes in the amount of 12 berries;
• onion - 1 pc.;
• carrots - 1 pc.;
• beets - 1 pc.;
• medium potatoes - 3 pcs.;
• pomegranate - 1 pc.;
• apple cider vinegar - 1 tbsp. l .;
• mayonnaise to taste.

So let's get started:

1. Beef tenderloin is boiled with salt, peppercorns and bay leaves. Cool and cut into small cubes.
2. Beets, carrots and potatoes are boiled and grated.
3. Prune fruits are soaked for 20 minutes in hot water and then cut into strips.
4. Grains are taken out of the pomegranate.
5. Finely chopped onions are soaked in a vinegar marinade with water (1: 1).
6. Spread the salad in layers, each smearing with mayonnaise: potatoes, chopped prunes, beef, onions, carrots, beets. The last layer is pomegranate.

Garnet bracelet with mushrooms

The recipe for the salad “Pomegranate Bracelet” with mushrooms recalls the taste of other dishes with the same ingredients, of which there are many, but thanks to the pomegranate, a more original taste is nevertheless obtained.

Are needed:

• boiled chicken - 400 grams;
• pickled mushrooms —0.2 kg;
• onion head - 1 pc.;
• chicken eggs - 4 pcs.;
• walnuts - 100 grams;
• boiled beets - 2 pcs.;
• mayonnaise - to taste;
• salt;
• pomegranate - 1 fruit;
• processed cheese, preferably sausage - 200 grams.

Cooking process:

1. Chicken, onions and pickled mushrooms are cut into small cubes.
2. On a fine grater, beets, cheese and eggs are rubbed.
3. The nuts are dried in a pan, and then crushed into crumbs.
4. Pomegranate is cleaned and grain removed.
5. Take a flat dish and in the middle put a wide glass, which is greased with a small amount of oil so that the salad does not stick.
6. Lay out the salad in layers: chicken, onions and mayonnaise, mushrooms, eggs and mayonnaise, cheese and mayonnaise, eggs and mayonnaise, beets. Pomegranate seeds are laid out last. Do not forget to flush each layer with a small amount of salt.
   

Professional Tips

To make a salad with an unusual appearance with the name “Pomegranate Bracelet” tasty, it is worth considering the advice of professionals:

1. Chicken meat is cooked no longer than 20 minutes.
2. Simmered vegetables preserve vitamins and taste.
3. It is better to place the glass for forming upside down so that it is easier to remove.
4. Lemon juice or a little spicy mustard can be added to the mayonnaise.

Conclusion

“Pomegranate bracelet” is mainly a festive dish, which has already been loved by many families. The set of ingredients is simple and straightforward, so over time you can change or supplement other components to taste the classic salad recipe “Pomegranate Bracelet”.