Filling up the cookbook: salad "Shishka"

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

If you are a lover of unusual serving of dishes, then the "Shishka" salad is something that will undoubtedly please you. It tastes pretty good. In the finished version, the salad looks like a real pine cone. Very original and attractive.

So, the appearance of the dish completely coincides with its excellent taste. The composition can be slightly changed. Next will be presented salad recipes "Shishka".

Classic Spruce Cone Salad

Pine cones, fir cones. They seem to be the same, but they are different at the same time. And how will this affect the appearance and taste of the salad?

So, for the "Spruce Cone" dish, what do you need?

Product List:

• Smoked chicken meat (breast or leg) - 300g
• Boiled potatoes - 4 medium tubers.
• Hard boiled chicken eggs - 4 pcs
• Onion, preferably purple - 1 large head.
• Processed cheese - 2 pcs
• Cucumbers in brine - 2 medium size.
• Mayonnaise (quantity depends on taste).
• A handful of almonds for decoration.
• Sprigs of rosemary for decoration. Especially creative housewives can replace it with real spruce branches.

Setproducts is not exotic and is available to all housewives. Once all the ingredients are prepared, you can proceed to cooking:

1. Chicken meat is deboned and diced.
2. Boiled potatoes and eggs are rubbed on a coarse grater.
3. The onion is cut into cubes, but do not chop.
4. Cheese can be cut into cubes, but it is better to give preference to a fine grater.
5. First, boiled potatoes are laid on a flat dish, forming a spruce cone, which, unlike a pine cone, is more oblong.
6. Spread mayonnaise over the potato layer.
7. Next, shredded chicken, onions, cucumbers, eggs and cheese are evenly distributed. Do not forget to coat each layer with mayonnaise and add some s alt.
8. The very top of the future "bump" is leveled and the almonds are laid out in rows so as to imitate the "flakes" of the cone. Sprigs of rosemary or sprigs of spruce, previously doused with boiling water, are laid out at a wide base. This will remove the causticity and overly intrusive smell.

"Spruce cone" is ready to "fall" into your plate.

"Pine cone" with grapes

Tired of the boring taste of salads with the same ingredients? Then salad "Shishka" with grapes is what you need.

The composition is somewhat unusual for everyday cuisine. What you need:

• chilled chicken breast - 1 will suffice;
• quail eggs, not chicken, - 6 pieces;
• hard cheesevarieties - 100 grams;
• Curry seasoning - 0.5 tsp;
• s alt - 1/3 teaspoon;
• fresh large grapes - 1 sprig;
• almonds - 1 handful;
• mayonnaise or sour cream.

Cooking process:

1. First, s alt and "Curry" are mixed and generously rub the chilled breast with the resulting spice.
2. The meat is left to soak, and then fried on both sides in a pan, not excluding the oil.
3. Quail eggs are boiled to "coolness".
4. Grapes are washed, halved and pitted, if any.
5. Cheese is grated, coarse or fine - choose for yourself.
6. Grapes, halved eggs and grated cheese are combined into one mass.
7. The chicken is cooled, the meat is separated from the bones and cut.
8. All components are mixed, generously seasoned with mayonnaise or sour cream.
9. The "cone" is laid out on a flat dish and decorated with almonds.

"Bump" with pine nuts

The original idea of this variant of the "Bump" salad is the presence of real pine nuts.

What else do you need:

• ham - 0.2 kg;
• cream cheese, without additives - 200 grams;
• Siberian nuts - 50 grams;
• garlic - a couple of cloves;
• dill - a few branches;
• mayonnaise;
• almond nuts.

And now cooking:

1. The basis of the salad - ham - cut into small cubes.
2. The cheese mass is whipped with a blender, adding finely choppeddill, garlic and mayonnaise.
3. Ham is mixed with peeled pine nuts, and everything is seasoned with previously prepared cheese-mayonnaise sauce.
4. The same cone is formed on the dish, but making it shorter than the spruce cone. They send them to the refrigerator for 20 minutes.
5. And in the end, decorate with almonds and dill sprigs. Salad is ready to serve.

In closing

Salad "Bump" will perfectly decorate the New Year's table or come in handy for another winter holiday. The original serving will increase the appetite. Guests will certainly appreciate the creativity of the hostess.