Salad "Chicken with nuts": cooking recipes

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

There are several "Chicken with Nuts" salads. This is both a simple, classic cooking option, and interesting combinations of chicken with pineapples or prunes. You can cook such a dish for dinner for your family, and for serving on the festive table. It is easy to make, even a novice hostess can handle it.

In the article, we will consider several popular recipes for the "Chicken with Nuts" salad with a detailed description of the preparation and the ingredients included in the composition. The most commonly used boiled chicken fillet. This is the leanest and densest part of the bird, which is convenient to cut into small cubes. You can also use smoked chicken breast for this dish. This will add interesting notes, facilitate and speed up the cooking process.

This salad is so popular that Belarusian producers started producing ready-made portions. We are talking about the salad "Chicken with nuts" from "Santa Bremor", produced in convenient packages in the formdeep dish. You take off the top film and immediately eat it. Fast and convenient. But naturally, preservatives and flavor enhancers are used to preserve the salad for a long time.

If you make Chicken Ryaba salad with nuts at home, you can feed a family or many guests and save a lot of money. Moreover, the preparation does not take much time. The dish does not contain any exotic ingredients, everything is as simple as shelling pears. So, let's start the review of recipes with the classic version.

Chicken salad - classic recipe

Salad "Chicken with walnuts" has the original version of the preparation, which later acquired new components and, accordingly, tastes. The classic version of the dish is made in just a few minutes, because all products are used without pre-cooking.

Let's consider what is included in it:

• smoked chicken breast - 300 grams;
• hard cheese - 200 grams;
• bunch of parsley;
• half a cup of chopped walnuts;
• 5-6 dried apricots;
• sour cream - a couple of spoons.

How to cook

Chicken fillet is cut into small cubes, like hard cheese. You can choose any favorite product for the salad. It is desirable that it has a dense structure for ease of cutting. Wash the dried apricots under water. You can soak it in hot water for a couple of minutes to soften it. Then cut in the same way - into cubes.

Walnutscan be ground by hand or with a blender, but not to a powder state. Should be a fine cut. Everything is mixed with sour cream and sprinkled with finely chopped herbs on top.

Classic Boiled Chicken

Salad "Chicken with nuts" is delicious with boiled meat. You will have to tinker longer, but if you boil the chicken fillet in advance, then the process of cutting the ingredients, as well as in the previous cooking option, will not take much time.

Let's open a little secret. To make an ordinary dry chicken breast tender, the meat is dipped during cooking not into cold water, but already into a boil. First, the pan is put on fire, and when the water boils, the washed breast is lowered into it. After boiling again, remove the foam with a slotted spoon and simmer until tender.

Before cutting the meat into the "Chicken with Nuts" salad, it must be removed from the broth and put in a cool place to cool. Only cold boiled meat is used, otherwise it will be difficult to cut it into cubes beautifully.

Essential Products

Let's look at what other ingredients are needed for a simple salad with boiled chicken breast. For 400 grams of chicken fillet goes:

• ¾ cup chopped walnuts;
• 130 grams of hard cheese of your choice. Some housewives even use processed cheese, rubbing it on a coarse grater. It is preliminary recommended to put it in the freezer for 10 minutes, so that it becomes harder and easier to rub;
• greens -dill or parsley (optional or combined);
• spices - s alt and black pepper - pinch each;
• mayonnaise - 2-3 tbsp. l.

Since the salad "Chicken with Nuts" according to the recipe is laid out in layers, then we will consider the sequence of their arrangement on the dish.

How to arrange layers

So that the salad does not stick to the plate, its bottom is smeared with a small amount of mayonnaise. First spread the boiled chicken fillet, cut into cubes. Season with s alt and top with freshly ground black pepper, if desired. Lubricate the layer with mayonnaise. To do this, it is best to put the sauce in the center of the layer and spread the mayonnaise over the entire chicken with the back of a tablespoon.

Sprinkle finely chopped greens on top and spread hard cheese grated on a coarse grater on it. You don't need to add s alt as the cheese already contains s alt. Just cover the layer with mayonnaise.

The chicken cubes are laid out again, spices are added and smeared with mayonnaise.

The top is completely covered with chopped walnuts. For the originality of the design, you can decorate the "cake" with any patterns of olives or green sprigs, lay out pomegranate seeds. To decorate the top layer, use your imagination and the products available in the kitchen.

Pineapple and mushroom salad

The next version of the salad is more rich in composition and satisfying. Prepare it with the following products:

• 300 grams of boiled chicken breast.
• The same amount of champignons.
• Potatoes - 4-5 pieces (depending on size).
• Sweet corn - 1 tin.
• 4 chicken eggs.
• Walnuts - ½ cup.
• Bunch of green onions.
• 1 fresh pineapple or half a can of canned fruit pieces.
• Mayonnaise.

Cooking a dish

In order to make the "Chicken with Pineapple and Walnut" salad, you need to boil the chicken fillet in advance. Many housewives use more tender chicken thighs. When the meat has cooled, cut it into cubes and pour into a salad bowl. Potatoes are boiled in their skins, cooled and peeled. Then finely chop and add to the bowl. Wash the eggs, boil them hard for 5 minutes and immediately fill the pot with cold running water to make the shell easier to remove. After cleaning, knead them with a fork on a plank and add to the rest of the products. Drain the corn can before adding it to the bowl.

Most often for salad "Chicken with pineapple and nuts" mushrooms are used, and in different forms. Some housewives buy pickled and rinse excess vinegar under wastewater. It remains only to chop them finely, and you can throw them into a salad bowl. However, a dish with fresh mushrooms will be very tasty. Before using them for food, rinse well from the remnants of the soil and throw in boiling water for 3-5 minutes. After cooling, they are cut into small pieces. Let's take a closer look at how they treat pineapple.

Dish decoration

Since the "Chicken with Nuts" salad contains pineapple, it is interesting to use fresh fruit. Wash it well andcut in half. Carefully remove all the pulp from the half and cut it into cubes, adding to the salad bowl. For this cooking option, walnuts are crushed and poured into other products. Add mayonnaise, s alt, pepper to taste and mix. The resulting mass is filled with a pineapple cavity and served at the table. You can also use the other half of the fruit for a large company.

If canned pineapples were bought for the salad, then the nuts are left to decorate the top layer, and they are not added to the salad itself. All products are mixed with mayonnaise and laid out on an oval dish in a slide, as in the photo above. Green onion feathers serve as the green of the pineapple fruit, and walnut halves cover the entire salad, giving it the appearance of an exotic fruit. The salad "Chicken Ryaba with Walnuts" looks very impressive. Surprise your loved ones with this festive dish. It looks beautiful, very tasty and satisfying.

Salad using prunes

With the addition of prunes, chicken salad acquires interesting flavor notes, so this recipe is in demand among experienced housewives.

The salad contains the following ingredients:

• chicken fillet - 1 piece;
• a glass of walnuts;
• 1 fresh cucumber;
• 4 eggs;
• prunes - 150 grams;
• dill and parsley - several branches each;
• mayonnaise.

The dish is decorated in layers,each of which is smeared with sauce. How to prepare a salad, we will consider in more detail later in the article.

Preparing food

Boil the chicken fillet in advance so that it is already cold by the time of dicing. Chop the nuts with a blender, leaving a few whole halves to decorate the top layer of the "cake".

Prunes are too hard to cut straight into a salad. Pre-dried fruits are poured with boiling water and kept for at least 15 minutes. Then put the plums on a napkin to drain excess moisture.

It is advisable to peel a fresh cucumber with a vegetable cutter to get rid of only a thin layer. Next, the vegetable is cut into thin strips. Hard-boiled eggs, remove the shell and finely knead with a fork. Set one yolk aside ahead of time. We will use it for the top of the layered salad. Greens are chopped very finely.

Cooking layered salad

Salad "Chicken with prunes and nuts" can be arranged in layers on one large dish or put them into portioned transparent glasses with a large diameter. A layer of chicken cubes is laid at the bottom, everything is s alted and, if desired, sprinkled with pepper. After lubrication with mayonnaise, prunes are laid out and immediately covered with a layer of cucumber. Lightly s alt and brush again with mayonnaise.

The next layer is chopped eggs plus mayonnaise. Top with all the nuts and the remaining yolk. You can sprinkle the top with herbs in different ways: cover completely, draw rays from the center point to the edges of the plate, or sprinkle with thina ring around the perimeter of the dish.

Chicken salad with apples

This is a very tasty and sophisticated version of the salad, which is sure to please all family members. The meat goes well with nuts and fruits, and both fresh apples and dried cranberries are used. Sweet red onion and green celery will add freshness.

Walnuts for this salad are recommended to be slightly dried in the oven. Then it will be easier to chop them, and the taste of the salad will change for the better.

Cranberries are already sold seedless, but the berries can be large. It is advisable to additionally chop the dried fruits, cutting them into halves. Chicken can be taken both boiled and grilled. If you have leftover chicken skewers after a picnic, then you can use the meat to make such a delicious salad too. Peel the apples from the core and cut into slices. The skin can be removed, or you can use an unpeeled apple. Onion and celery stalk cut into small cubes.

Be sure to add finely chopped parsley to the salad. It will add brightness and contrast to the color scheme of the dish. The simplest version of the sauce is mayonnaise, but you can also make a lighter version yourself from natural yogurt with the addition of 1 tsp. Dijon mustard and a pinch of black pepper. Greens can be mixed with sauce.

When all the products are cut and sent to the salad bowl, pour in the sauce and mix. The dish looks bright and festive. If you have prepared such a salad for breakfast with your family, then it can be served on the table in a bun. First, it is cut in half, dried a little in the oven or toaster, then the core is taken out and the void is filled with salad. For juiciness, you can add a couple of lettuce leaves.

The article gives a detailed description of the recipes for salad "Chicken with nuts" with a photo. Choose your favorite option for preparing a festive dish and be sure to try to make such a delicious and satisfying salad for your friends and relatives. As you can see, you can serve it to the table mixed or laid out in layers. Decide for yourself how best it will look on your holiday. You can decorate the salad using your creative ideas. Bon appetit!