"Angel's Heart" - a salad that can decorate any table

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

Incredibly tasty and "rich" salad "Angel's Heart" (the recipe with the photo is presented in this review) will definitely become one of the main decorations of any holiday table. Thanks to the bright decoration and shape, the dish will attract the eye of every guest.

There are several options for preparing this salad. Below you can get acquainted with the most popular of them.

For those who love seafood

This recipe should be appreciated by gourmets and fans of exotic and seafood, as the dish includes squid, shrimp and red caviar. As a result, "Angel's Heart" (this salad is exotic) turns out not only surprisingly tasty, but also satisfying and he althy.

The ingredients that make up the dish are as follows:

• fresh or canned squid - 450g;
• a jar of red caviar;
• shrimps - 20 pieces;
• potatoes - 3 pieces;
• chicken eggs - 5 pieces;
• fresh champignons - 350 g;
• cheese - 100 g;
• onion head;
• groundpepper and s alt;
• mayonnaise;
• sunflower oil.

Start cooking Angel Heart salad with seafood:

1. Boil the potatoes in their skins, let them cool, remove the skin and grate with fine teeth.
2. The next stage of cooking is the distribution of the potato mass over a flat dish, while giving it the shape of a heart. Then lightly s alt the layer and grease with mayonnaise. S alt should not be much, since mayonnaise already contains a fairly large amount of this seasoning.
3. We wash the squids, remove the insides from them. Dip the carcasses in boiling s alt water for a couple of minutes, and then quickly remove the transparent film from them. After the squids have cooled, cut them into strips and lay them on top of the potato layer. Coat again with mayonnaise (fresh squid can be replaced with canned ones).
4. Boil the eggs, peel them and chop them. Lay out the next layer. Trying to keep in shape. S alt and pepper.
5. My mushrooms, cut into thin slices, combine with finely chopped onions. Fry the mixture in hot vegetable oil. Let cool, season and distribute over the salad. Spread a little with mayonnaise.
6. Grate cheese (necessarily hard grade) on a grater with small cloves and lay on top of the mushrooms. Coat with mayonnaise.
7. Cover the top layer of the dish with red caviar.
8. At the last stage, the Angel Heart salad is decorated with shrimps. They need to be boiled, peeled and laid out along the contour of the heart.

Remove the finished dish in the refrigerator for several hours, thereby allowing the components to soak. And after the specified time, we serve the dish to the table.

More budget option

This recipe for Angel's Heart salad, the photo of which is presented in the article, excludes squid and shrimp from its composition, due to which its cost is significantly reduced. According to the recipe below, the dish turns out to be tender and harmonious.

Required products:

• chicken fillet;
• cheese (200g);
• one green apple;
• caviar or pomegranate seeds (100 g);
• mayonnaise.

Steps of cooking:

1. Boil the fillet, let it cool and finely chop. Then we distribute it over the dish, giving it the shape of a heart, and top it with mayonnaise.
2. Remove the peel and core of the apple and rub it on a coarse grater. Spread on top of the fillet and coat with mayonnaise.
3. Three large cheese on top of the apple layer, mayonnaise on top.
4. Place caviar on top of the cheese (for a very economical option, pomegranate seeds are suitable), evenly distribute over the salad and send the fruit of efforts to the refrigerator.

After three hours the dish is ready to eat.

A completely different variation of the Angel Heart salad

This recipe is still flaky and heart shaped, but the ingredients are nothing like the previous ones.

For salad you will need:

• smoked breast;
• small cucumber;
• mushrooms;
• eggs;
• prune;
• bow;
• olives for decoration;
• mayonnaise.

Lay out the components in layers:

1. Half chicken breast, cut into strips.
2. Prunes soaked in boiling water and chopped.
3. Grated boiled egg yolks.
4. Mushrooms fried with onions.
5. Fresh cucumber straws.
6. The rest of the breast.

Do not forget to coat each layer with mayonnaise.

After laying all the layers, it's time to decorate the salad. To do this, rub the egg whites on a coarse grater and divide the mass into two equal parts. We spread one part on top of the salad so that it covers only half of the heart. Boil the second part for several minutes in a strong tea leaves, then filter and place on a napkin. After the protein is colored, spread it on the second part of the heart, and select the strip between the egg whites with finely chopped olives.

The salad according to this recipe is ready!

Cooking tricks

In order for the Angel Heart salad to have the perfect shape, you can use a trick:

• Use a heart shaped plate.
• Preparing a salad in a special form for baking in the shape of a heart. It can be purchased at any hypermarket.
• Also, the shape is not difficult to make at home, for example, using thick cardboard.

Cooking time

The salad takes a long time to cook and is not on the list of easy-to-cook dishes. Therefore, it is advisable to start preparing "Angel's Heart" 5-6 hours before the guests arrive. Bon appetit!