Gentle poultry meat goes well with fruits and berries - this fact has long been noticed by cooks. Chicken, turkey and duck are baked with apples, stewed with prunes, served with orange sauce. Often, nuts and grapes are added to salads based on poultry meat, producing an unusual, elegant and harmonious combination. Salad with grapes, chicken and walnuts looks fresh and appetizing, this snack is worthy of a festive table and like almost everyone. To cook it and serve beautifully, it is not necessary to have culinary skills.
Cooking Features
The combination of chicken, grapes and walnuts is so perfect that it is difficult to spoil a salad based on these products. But not everyone gets this snack equally well. Knowing a few moments will achieve the best possible result.
- Chicken breast meat is the most tender, but it can be dry. To prevent this from happening, lower the chicken breast for boiling preferably in the already boiling water and cool it to leave in the broth.
- Boiled chicken breast can be replaced by smoked. This will give the snack a savory flavor.
- Grapes for salad is better to choose those varieties whose berries contain almost no bones. If you have grapes with stones, they will have to be extracted by hand, cutting the berries in half.
- Dark grape berries are often more fragrant and have a sweeter taste. If you do not want the snack to have a pronounced sweet taste, give preference to green grapes.
- If you are making a layered salad, make it in advance. These kinds of snacks get tastier when foods have time to soak in the sauce.
- Ingredients will be soaked with sauce faster and it will be better to keep the shape if mixed with mayonnaise before putting it on a dish or in a salad bowl. However, the sauce in this case may require more.
- You can chop walnuts in different ways. One of the easiest is to cover them with a towel and roll them with a rolling pin.
Appetizer will look more appetizing if the ingredients for it are ground finely.
Tiffany Salad
Composition:
- chicken breast fillet - 0, 2 kg;
- grapes - 120 g;
- walnuts - 50 g;
- chicken egg - 4 pcs .;
- hard cheese - 150 g;
- salt, pepper - to taste;
- mayonnaise - how much will go.
Preparation Method:
- Boil the chicken breast, let it cool in the broth.
- Boiled chicken eggs. Put them in the sink and open the faucet with cold water. Under an icy stream, the eggs cool faster. In addition, such a shower will make it easier to clean the eggs.
- Dry the kernels of walnuts in the oven or in a dry frying pan, then grind in a blender or other method to a fine crumb.
- Chop grated cheese with large holes.
- Clean and coarsely rub the eggs.
- Wash grapes, dry. Cut in half, remove bones if necessary.
- Remove the cooled chicken fillet from the broth, cut it into small pieces.
- In the center of the dish, lay out the chicken fillet, using half, salt it and pepper, grease with mayonnaise.
- Spread half the eggs, brush them with the sauce.
- In the next layer, add half of the cheese, add the sauce.
- Sprinkle with nuts.
- Put the remaining chicken, eggs and cheese in the same sequence, smearing with mayonnaise.
- On the surface of the salad, spread the halves of the grapes with the convex side up.
Salad can also be decorated with fresh herbs, laying it around the perimeter. The grapes for this snack are most often used light, although there are no firm rules on this score.
First Snow Salad
Composition:
- chicken breast - 0, 5 kg;
- fresh cucumber - 150 g;
- walnut kernels - 100 g;
- hard cheese - 150 g;
- chicken egg - 4 pcs .;
- dark grapes - 100 g;
- mayonnaise - how much will go.
Preparation Method:
- Boil chicken breast. When it cools down, separate the meat from the bones, remove the skin, finely chop the meat, divide into two parts. To each part add a large spoon of mayonnaise, mix.
- Finely rub the cheese. Mix the third part with a spoon of mayonnaise.
- Cool hard-boiled eggs, free from shell. Grind grated, mix with mayonnaise.
- Finely chop the walnut kernels with a knife.
- Cut grapes, remove bones from them.
- Coarsely rub the cucumber, squeeze. Add some mayonnaise, mix.
- Put chicken fillet in a dish, sandwich cucumbers, sprinkle with nuts.
- Next lay out the cheese mixed with mayonnaise.
- Put eggs on it.
- Spread out the grapes.
- Sprinkle with the remaining cheese.
Cucumber gives the salad a new flavor, making the chicken fillet even more juicy and tender. Despite the fact that the recipe for this salad is similar to the previous one, the taste of the snack is completely different.
Warm salad with chicken liver, grapes and walnuts
Composition:
- chicken liver - 0, 3 kg;
- grapes - 0, 3 kg;
- leaf lettuce - 100 g;
- olive oil - 100 ml;
- walnut kernels - 50 g;
- garlic - 3 cloves;
- salt, pepper - to taste.
Preparation Method:
- Rinse the chicken liver thoroughly. Drain. Cut into chunks of medium size.
- Finely chop the garlic.
- Heat the oil.
- Fry the garlic in butter for 2 minutes.
- Place chicken liver in a frying pan. Fry it on medium heat, then reduce heat. Pepper and salt to taste, cover the pan with a lid and bring the liver to readiness.
- Transfer the liver to a bowl along with the oil in which it was fried.
- Cut the grapes in half, add to the liver.
- Chop nuts, put them to the rest of the products.
- Lay a few lettuce leaves on a dish, tear the rest of them with your hands and add to other ingredients. Stir.
- Spread the salad on the vine leaves.
Salad prepared according to this recipe is served warm. Despite the modest composition, the appetizer turns out very tasty and healthy.
How to decorate a salad
To decorate a salad of grapes, chicken and walnuts, grapes are most often used, but this does not mean that they all look the same. You can offer several options for the design of these snacks.
- A bunch of grapes can be laid out on the surface of a salad. Many housewives give this form to the salad itself, in which case the berries cover its entire surface.
- Using dark and light grapes on the surface of the salad you can lay out a variety of patterns. Concentric circles, heart, rays look beautiful.
- From black and green grapes you can lay out flowers with a dark middle and light petals.
The grape-sprinkled salad laid out in wine glasses or small glasses looks beautiful.
Salad from grapes, chicken and walnuts is an exquisite treat that can decorate a festive table set for any reason. This appetizer is especially popular with ladies, although men will not refuse it.
