Salad "Petrogradsky" - a royal treat on the festive table

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

The proposed festive very hearty salad "Petrogradsky" is liked by almost everyone, not only for its harmonious, classic combination of ingredients, but also for its sonorous name. One trading network in St. Petersburg has long and successfully offered its customers a ready-made option. But it's easy to make at home too. Products can be found in the nearest supermarket, and it will make a huge impression on your guests.

Preparing salad "Petrogradsky" with chicken and mushrooms - these are the main ingredients. You will also need some cheese, some eggs, some potatoes, carrots, mayonnaise.

So, in order to prepare the delicious salad "Petrogradsky", the recipe of which is given below, you need a good mood and a desire to surprise.

Essential Products

• Chicken breast - 1 fillet.
• Egg - 4 pieces.
• Potato - 3-4 tubers.
• Carrots - 1-2 pieces
• Pack of fresh champignons - 500 g, or canned - 1 can.
• Hard cheese - 100-150g
• Mayonnaise.
• S alt.

Cooking salad "Petrogradsky"

• Boil chicken meat, cool.
• Boil eggs, potatoes and carrots, cool and peel. Cool the potatoes especially well. If this is not done, then the potatoes in the salad may turn out to be very sticky, which will negatively affect the taste of the finished dish. This rule, by the way, applies to all salad recipes that use boiled potatoes.
• If the mushrooms are fresh - fry (can be with onions), if the mushrooms are canned - cut into strips.
• Chicken meat cut into thin slices.
• Potatoes, eggs and carrots must be passed through a coarse grater.

Finishing touches

Prepared foods should be placed on the dish in the following order:

• Put chicken meat on the bottom of the dish, grease with mayonnaise.
• Then put mushrooms on the chicken, also smear with mayonnaise.
• For mushrooms - potatoes, a little s alt, and again - mayonnaise impregnation.
• The next layer is carrots and a thin layer of mayonnaise.
• Lay the eggs on the carrots and also smear with mayonnaise.
• The final (top) layer of lettuce is your favorite kind of hard cheese grated on a fine grater. They can also be powdered on the sides.

If you use fresh champignons fried with onions, the salad will turn out to be more satisfying and rich. If you use champignons from a jar, the salad will come outlighter and fresher. It's just a matter of taste.

If desired, all layers can be repeated, then the salad will turn out higher, even more satisfying and, accordingly, in larger quantities.

After assembly is completed, the salad must be placed in the refrigerator for several hours. Ideally, it is better at night, especially if the layers were repeated twice. The top layer can be covered with cling film so that the cheese does not get weathered.

If you are a little tired of traditional salads - Olivier, herring under a fur coat, mimosa and others, then be sure to try to prepare the Petrogradsky salad for the next celebration. The pleasure that your guests and you yourself will receive from laudatory reviews is worth it.

You can multiply the salad preparation instructions in advance, as the female half of the invitees will simply attack you with a request for a recipe. Your reputation as a good hostess who knows how to pleasantly surprise will undoubtedly increase by several points.