Croutons give salads a piquancy and unique flavor. They shade the taste of chicken, which in itself is not too expressive. This union is especially good, being supplemented with juicy vegetables, spicy pickles, fragrant mushrooms, soft beans, and delicate sauce. Salads with chicken and beans are varied, but always tasty and satisfying, relatively easy and quick to prepare. These snacks are suitable for a family dinner and holiday table. Their recipes do not hurt to know every hostess.
Cooking Features
One of the advantages of chicken and crouton salad is the simplicity of their preparation. However, not all of these snacks are equally tasty. Knowledge of several subtleties will allow you to get the best result.
- The most tender part of the chicken is the breast fillet, the most juicy is the leg meat. You can choose any of these parts, depending on what result you want to get. It is only important to clean the meat from the skin, veins, fat, bones and cartilage, which can spoil the taste of the snack and make it more harmful.
- Smoked chicken salads are more juicy and savory, but less useful.
- Home-made rusks are the most delicious, but if you don’t have time to fiddle with their preparation, you can use store snacks. The main thing is not to choose a product with a pungent smell (horseradish, mustard) that can kill the delicate taste and aroma of chicken, fresh vegetables and other snack foods.
- When adding to heat products that require heat treatment, they should be cooled after cooking. By combining ingredients that have different temperatures, you will significantly shorten the shelf life of the finished dish.
- Refill salads, which include rusks, should be shortly before their submission to the table. Otherwise, the croutons get sodden, lose their crispness, the salad becomes unaesthetic. If you are preparing a layered salad, add the croutons at the end, then the layers will be soaked in the sauce, and the bread will remain mouth-watering and crispy.
Chicken and crackers are well combined with a variety of products, so the recipes for making salads from them are varied. Single technology of cooking does not exist. Carefully studying the instructions accompanying the selected recipe, you will avoid mistakes.
Salad "Obzhorka" with chicken, mushrooms, beans and crackers
Composition:
- chicken meat - 0, 3 kg;
- fresh champignons - 0, 2 kg;
- red canned beans - 0, 25 kg;
- onions - 100 g;
- carrots - 150 g;
- chicken egg - 2 pcs .;
- hard cheese - 150 g;
- rye crackers - 100 g;
- fresh greens, salt, pepper, mayonnaise - to taste;
- vegetable oil - how much will leave.
Method of preparation:
- Boil the chicken, cut it, separating the meat from the bones, removing the skin from it. Cut into small pieces, put in a bowl.
- Cook hard boiled eggs, place them under a stream of cold water so that they cool down faster and clean well. Remove the eggshell from the eggs, cut them into cubes of medium size, add to the chicken.
- Wash mushrooms, blot with a napkin, cut into plates. Fry in vegetable oil. They will be ready when the liquid evolved from the pan evaporates. Put the mushrooms in a plate, leave to cool. Wash and dry the pan, preparing for roasting other products.
- Remove the husks from the bulb. Onions cut into thin half-rings or quarters of rings.
- Scrape, wash carrots. After drying it with a paper towel, cut into strips. You can use a grater for cooking Korean snacks.
- Heat a fresh portion of butter in a pan, put onions and carrots in it. Pass the vegetables until soft. Transfer to a plate, leave to cool.
- Combine cooled mushrooms, onions and carrots with eggs and chicken.
- Open the jar with the beans, fold in a colander. Pour the beans into a bowl with other foods.
- Add finely chopped greens, crackers, mayonnaise. Stir.
- Cut the cheese into strips or chop it on a coarse grater.
It remains to shift the snack on a dish or in a beautiful vase, sprinkle with cheese. The snack will look original if you make it puff. The recipe for this salad variant “Obzhorka” differs significantly from the traditional one, but its taste will not disappoint you.
Caesar salad with chicken and crackers
Composition:
- chicken breast fillet - 0, 2 kg;
- cherry tomatoes - 100 g;
- leaf lettuce - 100 g;
- baguette - 100 g;
- garlic - 1 clove;
- chicken egg - 2 pcs .;
- Dijon mustard - 20 ml;
- lemon juice - 50 ml;
- olive oil - 120 ml;
- Parmesan - 50 g;
- salt, pepper, seasoning for chicken - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Wash chicken fillet, dry, rub with seasonings, wrap in foil and bake until tender, cool.
- Cut off crusts from bread, cut crumbs into cubes. Better to take yesterday's baguette, that is, slightly stale.
- Cut the garlic into plates.
- Heat a spoonful of butter in a pan, fry garlic on it for 2-3 minutes. Remove the garlic plates, roast the bread in garlic oil, sprinkle it on a baking sheet and send it to the oven preheated to 160-180 degrees for 10 minutes. Let the crackers cool.
- Wash the lettuce leaves, put on a kitchen towel, so that it absorbs the water flowing from the leaves. Tear dried lettuce leaves with your hands, put it on the dish.
- Pour eggs into water, bring to a boil. Cook for a minute, remove from heat, cool, prick the shell, remove eggs from it with a spoon, put in a blender bowl, whisk.
- Add mustard and lemon juice, whisk again.
- In parts, add the remaining butter, continuing to beat the sauce.
- Pour the lettuce leaves with half the prepared sauce.
- Remove chicken fillet from foil, cut into slices, place on lettuce leaves.
- Wash cherry tomatoes, dry with paper towels, cut in half, spread between pieces of chicken fillet.
- Put the croutons on top, pour the salad with the remaining sauce.
- Chop up cheese on a coarse grater, sprinkle snack on it.
Caesar salad is considered one of the most exquisite appetizers, it is popular all over the world. The above recipe is a classic dish.
Salad with smoked chicken, corn, gherkins and crackers
Composition:
- smoked chicken (breast or leg) - 0, 4 kg;
- canned corn - 0, 2 kg;
- gherkins (pickled) - 0, 2 kg;
- onions - 100 g;
- crackers - 50 g;
- mayonnaise, fresh dill - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Cut the meat of smoked chicken into small pieces, put in a mixing bowl.
- Open a jar of corn, fold it in a colander, let the grains dry. Pour the corn to the chicken.
- Gherkins cut into slices, add to chicken and corn.
- Peel the onions, chop finely, fill with boiling water. After 2-3 minutes, squeeze, put to the rest of the ingredients.
- Add croutons and mayonnaise, mix.
Before serving, sprinkle this spicy salad with chopped dill. This option of chicken and crackers is one of the easiest to prepare.
Salad with chicken, vegetables, cheese and crackers
Composition:
- chicken breast meat, boiled or smoked - 0, 3 kg;
- tomatoes - 0, 3 kg;
- cucumbers - 0, 3 kg;
- semi-hard cheese - 0, 2 kg;
- lettuce leaves - for decoration;
- wheat crackers with cheese or greens taste - 50 g;
- mayonnaise - 100 ml.
Method of preparation:
- Cut boiled or smoked chicken breast into fillets, chop chicken meat into 7-8 mm cubes.
- Wash tomatoes, pat dry. Cut the fruit in half, spoon out the juicy pulp with seeds. Cut seals in the stalk area. Cut the remaining flesh into cubes, put it to the chicken.
- Wash, blot cucumbers with a napkin. Cut off their tips. Cut vegetables into cubes of approximately the same size as chicken. Add to other ingredients.
- Cut the cheese in the same pieces as the other products. Connect it with chicken and vegetables.
- Add croutons and mayonnaise, mix.
- Put lettuce leaves, previously washed and dried, on a dish, put a snack on them.
Crackers can not be mixed with the other ingredients, and sprinkle them with ready-made salad. Then they will not get wet longer, and the appetizer itself will become more appetizing. Its taste will depend on whether the boiled or smoked chicken meat has been used: in the first case vegetables will dominate, in the second - chicken.
How to decorate a salad with chicken and crackers
Any dish will seem tastier if it is beautifully served. Salads with chicken and crackers are no exception. You can offer a few ideas for decorating such snacks.
- Put the salad on plates with a special mold or a tin can without a bottom. On top, put the croutons or a sprig of fresh greens. Salad will get a refined and festive look.
- A snack can be laid out on the salad leaves in a slide, sprinkled with nuts, sesame seeds, grated cheese or chopped greens. All this will make the salad bright, festive, appetizing.
- Salad can be laid out on a dish, giving it the shape of a hedgehog, making “needles” from crackers. This type of snack design will appeal not only to children, but also to adults.
A beautiful salad with chicken and crackers looks in creamer and cocktail glasses. If you have no time to decorate a salad, simply lay it on the indicated containers, and the guests will surely be satisfied with such a serving.
Salads with chicken and crackers are prepared quickly and easily from the available products that are nourishing, tasty and appetizing. Such dishes are suitable both for a family dinner, and for a festive feast.
