No modern holiday table is complete without cold appetizers and various salads. And in the daily diet of the family, these dishes will bring a pleasant variety. Therefore, it is important for any housewife to have as many interesting recipes on hand as possible in order to surprise relatives and friends from time to time.
Chicken and mushrooms
Perhaps the most popular type of salads is assorted, with meat and vegetable ingredients. They are both nutritious and healthy, because protein is a building material for the body, and fiber, minerals and vitamins are simply necessary for the immune system and the normal functioning of all organs. Therefore, the first thing we offer you to cook is a salad with mushrooms and smoked chicken. It can be used both as an independent dish, and as an addition to others. The main advantages of food - it requires very little time, and the taste is just an overeating. To make a salad with mushrooms and smoked chicken on your table, you need the following products: mushrooms or mushrooms, mushrooms or mushrooms (any sort of mushrooms) - 200-250 g, the same amount of meat fillet, 1 head of onion, a bag of rye crackers, a few cloves of garlic and mayonnaise for dressing.
Cooking with pleasure
Cooking a
salad with mushrooms and
smoked chicken should start with frying. Dice the onion and spasser in a small amount of butter. Wash fresh mushrooms, peel, cut into small slices. Put them in a pan and fry until cooked. Salt to taste, add hot ground pepper. Then transfer to a bowl.
Smoked chicken fillet cut across the fibers in small cubes and combine with mushrooms. Chop the garlic finely, mix with a few tablespoons of mayonnaise. Pour crackers into the resulting salad with mushrooms and smoked chicken, season with the sauce, and sprinkle with pepper. Mix everything thoroughly, put in a salad bowl, garnish with sprigs of fresh parsley or dill. And serve immediately until the crackers are soaked. This salad of mushrooms and smoked chicken is great for fried potatoes or mashed potatoes. And goes well with a glass of dry red wine.
Salad with mushrooms and olives
Another advantage of cold appetizers - changing 1-2 ingredients in the main set of products, you can get almost different full-fledged dishes, each of which is not inferior to the other in taste. That is why, if you put on the table a
salad with pickled mushrooms and smoked chicken, adding olives and canned corn to them, then this delicacy will take pride of place next to that dish, the preparation of which you already know - your guests will be very pleased! You need: a jar of honey mushrooms, 350 g of chicken, a jar of seedless olives. Mushrooms, if they are too acidic or salty, should be washed with brine. You do not need to fry them. Just cut into small pieces, do the same with olives. Dice the chicken into cubes. Combine with mushrooms, olives and corn. Season with mayonnaise, pepper and salt, if necessary. For greater sharpness, pass a few cloves of garlic through a press and add to the dish. Mix thoroughly and help yourself!
Exotic salad
Salad with mushrooms, pineapples and smoked chicken - an exotic dish, it tastes soft and pleasant. In general, meat is in perfect harmony with some fruits and berries, in particular with pineapple. You can supplement the dish with such a component as your favorite kind of cheese. And then there will be no limit to the joys of gourmets. So, as you already understood, you need: a jar of canned pineapples (or a fresh fruit), chicken meat from 250 g, 300 g of mushrooms (it is better to fry them: it is fried that they are more combined with smoked chicken), about 100 g hard cheese. Remove the canned pineapples from the can, drain the juice, and cut the flesh into cubes. The fresh fruit must be freed from the peel, and the pulp should also be cut (determine the amount to your liking). Cut meat and cheese into pieces. Mix all the ingredients, add salt and pepper, season with mayonnaise with a mild flavor or yogurt. And in order to completely turn the salad into the food of the gods, put some more prunes in it. Well, great?
And more tips
You can supplement the main recipe with such components as walnuts or cedar, pickled cucumbers and hard-boiled eggs, boiled potatoes and carrots, bell peppers, fresh dill. Pieces of marinated gogosharas will add an original flavor to the dish. And if the dish itself is laid out on juicy green salad leaves, it will become twice as appetizing. So try, experiment, eat varied, healthy and tasty!