Sunflower salad with corn and chips: cooking options

Undoubtedly, every housewife wants to serve dishes not only delicious, but also beautifully decorated to the festive table. One of them is Sunflower salad with corn and chips or other ingredients. As the name implies, the salad is made in the form of a sunflower. Petals can be made, for example, from slices of cheese or yellow bell pepper. But the easiest and most successful way to turn a salad into a “flower” is to use rounded chips. There are a lot of options for how to cook Sunflower salad with chips. Consider the most popular. If desired, you can adjust any recipe below to your taste.

Sunflower Salad with Corn, Chicken and Chips

This is one of the most common salad options, the preparation of which requires the following products:

• chicken (turkey) meat - 300 g;
• canned mushrooms - 200 g;
• sweet canned corn - 400 g;
• carrot - 200 g;
• eggs - 4 pcs.;
• sunflower oil (for frying);
• leeks or onions;
• mayonnaise;
• dill or green onion (if desired);
• chips (any oval);
• salt and pepper.

Stages of preparation:

1. Peel and grate the cooked and cooled carrots using a fine grater.
2. Cut the fillet medium-sized, fry in oil until tender, do not forget to salt and pepper.
3. Cut the leek into half rings. If onion is used, it should be finely chopped and held for 10 minutes in boiling water.
4. Finely chop the mushrooms.
5. Grate the eggs (preferably small).
6. Finely chop the dill.
7. Put prepared foods on the dish in layers in the following order: fillet, carrot, mushrooms, onions, eggs. Coat the layers with mayonnaise. Cover the salad with corn and sprinkle with dill.
8. Before serving, garnish with chips in a circle. This should not be done in advance, since the "petals" can get wet. For additional decoration, a ladybug can be made from half a cherry tomato and tiny pieces of olives.

To make the Sunflower salad with corn and mushrooms more piquant, it is recommended to marinate onions. Mix in equal proportions a little water and vinegar, add a little sugar, salt and black pepper. After pouring boiling water from the onion, pour it with the obtained marinade for 15-30 minutes, squeeze and add to the salad. Instead of pickled mushrooms, you can take fresh ones. In this case, the carrots are not boiled, but fried with mushrooms together.

Sunflower Salad with Pineapple

Another salad “Sunflower” with corn and chips, but completely different in taste and composition from the previous version.

Products for cooking:

• corn - 1 can;
• fresh tomatoes (preferably tight) - 5 pcs. medium;
• canned pineapple (chopped) - 1 can;
• smoked chicken meat - 400 g;
• mayonnaise;
• boiled yolks - 4 pcs.;
• olives;
• chips.

To prepare this salad, use a flat dish on which lay out the following layers in turn:

1. Diced meat coated with mayonnaise net.
2. Peeled and diced tomatoes.
3. Corn with mayonnaise net.
4. Pieces of pineapple and mayonnaise layer.
5. The crumbled yolks.
   

Before serving, decorate the salad: make “seeds” of chopped olives, and insert “petals” of chips on the edge. Olives for decoration can be replaced with slices of chopped prunes or poppy seeds.

Sunflower Salad with Chips and Hard Cheese

Required Products:

• hard cheese - 200 g;
• fresh champignons (can be pickled) - 300 g;
• smoked chicken meat (can be boiled) - 300 g;
• onions - 1 large head;
• eggs - 4 or 5 pcs.;
• chips;
• olives - 1 can;
• mayonnaise.

Cooking sequence:

1. Fry the mushrooms and onions until cooked, using vegetable oil, cool.
2. Finely chop (or tear with your hands) chicken fillet.
3. Grate cheese and boiled eggs using a coarse grater.
4. Lay the prepared foods on a plate in layers (topping each with mayonnaise): fillet, mushrooms with onions, eggs, cheese. After that, repeat the layers in the same order.
5. Let it soak in the refrigerator for a couple of hours, before serving, decorate in the same way as the Sunflower salad with corn and chips, including pineapples, or in any other way, at your discretion. But do not use a layer of corn as a decoration, so as not to interrupt the taste of the ingredients included in this salad.

"Sunflower" with tuna

For those who don’t like meat or mushrooms (or maybe both), a recipe will tell you how to make Sunflower salad with chips and tuna. For cooking, you need the following components:

• potatoes - 4 pcs. medium;
• canned tuna - 1 can;
• green onions;
• eggs - 4 pcs.;
• chips;
• black olives.

Cooking:

1. Grate boiled and completely cooled potatoes on a grater (preferably large).
2. Chop green onions finely.
3. Mash canned food with a fork.
4. Squirrels and yolks separately, using a fine grater.
5. Lay the prepared foods on the dish in layers, each smearing with mayonnaise: potatoes, onions, tuna, egg white, yolk (do not smear with mayonnaise).
6. On the top layer of yolk, draw a net with mayonnaise, spread the chopped olives, before serving, insert circles of chips on the edges.
   

Instead of canned tuna for this recipe, you can take cod liver. You get an original and no less tasty salad.

When making the classic Sunflower salad with corn and chips, as well as some other variant of it, experiment and boldly introduce new products. And you can even just use the design idea and turn any puff salad into a “Sunflower”, but your own, branded one.