The desire to eat tasty and satisfying, without gaining weight, occurs in many people. It is quite realistic: there are many foods that are dominated by low-fat and non-nutritive foods, while rich in protein and fiber. Among them are salads with Chinese cabbage and chicken. The advantages of these snacks include ease of preparation, availability of basic ingredients, pleasant taste. They can be done on weekdays and for the holiday table.
Cooking Features
Even an inexperienced cook will be able to prepare a delicious salad from Peking cabbage and chicken, but he will need some knowledge of some moments.
- Peking cabbage has juicy and crunchy leaves that give the snack a unique taste. However, if you cut it in advance, the juice from it will begin to flow. The salad will turn out watery, the cabbage will lose its crispness. The unpleasant effect will be even more noticeable if the salted cabbage or seasoned with sauce. To avoid negative moments, chop the cabbage should be the last thing to fill the salad, which includes it, you can only before serving it to the table.
- Boiled, fried, baked or smoked chicken meat can be used to make salad. The most dietary will be boiled chicken breast fillet. If it is marinated and baked, the calorie content of the product will hardly change, but the dish will become even brighter. Smoked chicken is less useful, but gives the dish a piquancy, successfully contrasting with the fresh and almost neutral taste of Chinese cabbage.
- If you want the chicken in the salad to be juicy, give preference to the chilled product. When freezing and thawing, the structure of the meat changes, some of the moisture is lost, which makes it hard and dry. If you are forced to use frozen chicken to make a snack, let it thaw in the refrigerator, then the damage will be minimal and it will almost not lose its juiciness.
Chicken fillet and Chinese cabbage are an amazing pair that is good at making friends with a variety of foods: ham, seafood, all kinds of vegetables, and even some fruits. Therefore, salads from them, cooked according to different recipes, have a completely unique taste.
Salad with Chinese cabbage, chicken and tomatoes
Composition:
- chicken breast fillet - 0, 4 kg;
- tomatoes - 0, 3 kg;
- Chinese cabbage - 0, 4 kg;
- red onion - 100 g;
- processed cheese - 100 g;
- mayonnaise - 0, 2 l;
- salt, pepper - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Peking cabbage disassemble into leaves, wash, leave to dry.
- Wash and dry the tomatoes with a napkin.
- Free the onion from the husk.
- Put the melted cheese in the freezer to make it easier to grind.
- Dip chicken breast in boiling salted water, cook for half an hour. Cool, remove the skin, separate the meat from the bone, cut into cubes about 1 cm in size.
- Put the chicken in the bowl.
- Tomatoes cut into pieces a little larger than chicken. Also put in a bowl.
- Chop the cabbage into medium sized pieces, add to the rest of the ingredients.
- Cut onion into thin half-rings, add to chicken, tomatoes and cabbage.
- Chop the cheese on a grater, put it in the bowl of the blender, cover with mayonnaise, whisk.
- Season the salad with cheese sauce.
The appetizer prepared according to this recipe has a delicate and fresh taste. If you want to give it a piquancy, add a pair of garlic cloves to the sauce, after having crushed them with a hand press.
Salad with Peking cabbage, chicken and cheese
Composition:
- chicken breast - 0, 45 kg;
- Chinese cabbage - 0, 3 kg;
- cheese - 0, 2 kg;
- chicken egg - 3 pcs .;
- mayonnaise - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Boil chicken breast in salted water, cool, separate the fillets. Cut into cubes just under 1 cm in size, fold into a deep container.
- Eggs boil hard boiled. Put it under a stream of cold water so that they cool down faster and clean better. Free from the shell, cut into thin slices, send to the chicken fillet.
- Cut the cheese into small cubes, put them to other ingredients.
- Wash the leaves of Peking cabbage, pat dry with a napkin. Stack each other, cut into 3 pieces lengthwise, chop, put to the rest of the products.
- Season with mayonnaise, put it in a salad bowl and serve.
The taste of the dish will be more piquant, if you add in it wheat croutons with garlic flavor or replace the boiled chicken breast with smoked.
Caesar salad with Chinese cabbage, chicken and crackers
Composition:
- chicken breast fillet - 0, 2 kg;
- cherry tomatoes - 0, 2 kg;
- Chinese cabbage - 0, 2 kg;
- wheat crackers - 100 g;
- garlic - 2 cloves;
- olive oil - 40 ml;
- Caesar sauce or mayonnaise - 0, 2 kg;
- seasoning for chicken - to taste;
- hard cheese - 100 g.
Method of preparation:
- Wash chicken fillet, pat dry, cut into small pieces. Rub the seasonings for chicken.
- Heat oil in a pan, put 2-3 cloves of garlic cut into it.
- After 2-3 minutes, remove the garlic, put the chicken pieces into the pan and fry them until ready. Put on a napkin so that it absorbs excess oil.
- Wash and dry Beijing cabbage, chop coarsely, mix with half the sauce, put on a dish.
- Spread chicken pieces and halves of tomatoes on cabbage. Pour the croutons on top, pour the remaining sauce.
- On a coarse grater, chop the cheese, sprinkle them with a snack.
This variant of Caesar salad is one of the most popular, since it is prepared from the available ingredients, it turns out tasty, it looks elegant.
Salad with Chinese cabbage, chicken and fresh cucumber
Composition:
- boiled chicken breast (fillet) - 0.3 kg;
- Chinese cabbage - 0, 3 kg;
- fresh cucumber - 0, 2 kg;
- semi-hard cheese - 150 g;
- garlic - 2 cloves;
- fresh dill - 50 g;
- unsweetened yogurt - 150 ml;
- salt, pepper - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Finely chop the washed and dried dill. Garlic skip through the press, add to dill. Pour some salt and pepper, pour with yogurt, whisk together. Temporarily set aside the sauce.
- Wash cucumbers, wipe with a kitchen towel, cut off the tips. Cut the fruit along, cut into halves or quarters circles, put in a bowl.
- Cut chicken breast boiled in salted water and cut into small cubes, add to cucumbers.
- Wash, dry and chop the cabbage into medium-sized pieces, combine with other ingredients.
- Season the salad with the prepared sauce, put it in a salad bowl.
- Sprinkle thickly with grated cheese.
Cheese from the recipe can be excluded. Then the salad will turn out even easier, though not so nourishing.
Salad with Peking cabbage, smoked chicken and pepper
Composition:
- smoked breast - 0, 45 kg;
- Chinese cabbage - 0.5 kg;
- corn - 130 g;
- Bulgarian pepper - 0, 25 kg;
- tomatoes - 0, 3 kg;
- salt, pepper - to taste;
- mayonnaise - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Cut the meat of smoked chicken into cubes, place in a bowl.
- Peking cabbage disassemble into leaves, wash them and dry. Shred, send to the chicken.
- Pepper free from seeds, cut into strips or quarters of rings, put to the main ingredients.
- Cut the tomatoes into semicircles, combine with the rest of the ingredients.
- Open a jar of corn, pour water out of it, pour corn grains in a bowl to other products.
- Salt, pepper salad, season with mayonnaise.
Salad prepared according to this recipe looks colorful and can become an ornament of the festive table.
Unusual salad with Chinese cabbage, chicken and celery
Composition:
- chicken fillet (boiled) - 0, 2 kg;
- grapes - 100 g;
- celery stalks - 100 g;
- Chinese cabbage - 100 g;
- lemon juice - 5 ml;
- vegetable oil - 50 ml.
Method of preparation:
- Wash grapes, dry, cut in half, remove bones. Peeled halves of berries put in a bowl.
- Cut chicken into small cubes, add to grapes.
- Rinse the celery stalks, remove the coarse fibers. Cut into thin pieces across, put to other ingredients.
- Chop cabbage, connect it with other products.
- Combine butter with lemon juice, fill them with snacks.
Salad prepared according to this recipe has an unusual but harmonious taste.
How to decorate a salad with Chinese cabbage and chicken
Gentle green shade of cabbage in the salad makes it bright, fresh and appetizing. However, preparing this snack for the festive table, it would not hurt to think about additional decor.
- If the salad contains cucumbers, tomatoes or eggs, you can decorate the appetizer with flowers made from them. One of the options for making flowers from vegetables: a round thin slice of vegetable is rolled up into a tube, the other slices are laid around it like petals. Another option is to cut the vegetable into milling and cut along the contour with a zigzag. By this principle, make flowers from eggs.
- Quail eggs, cherry tomatoes, olives or olives, if they are included in the recipe, can be cut in half and spread around the perimeter of the dish.
- If there are shrimps in the salad, they can be fixed on the edge of cocktail glasses, which are pre-filled with salad. In these glasses, a salad of Peking cabbage and chicken will look appetizing and without additional decor.
Simply sprinkling a salad with fried sesame, chopped greens or grated cheese will significantly improve its appearance.
Salads with Chinese cabbage and chicken are nourishing, but not heavy for the stomach. These products are combined with a variety of ingredients, which allows you to cook on their basis snacks that do not resemble each other in taste.
