Salad is an indispensable dish used by people daily. A salad is a cold or hot dish made from a mixture of chopped, grated vegetables, which are served on the table, as an addition to meat or to cold snacks. To date, the most popular salads are salads, where the main ingredient is chicken.
Benefits of chicken salads:
- firstly, chicken is an affordable, dietary and easily digestible product;
- secondly, chicken meat is combined with all products: walnuts, cheeses of various varieties, all vegetables and many fruits;
- thirdly, the salad with chicken is seasoned with various dressings (sour cream, mayonnaise, oils of different origin).
There is a great variety of chicken salad recipes, but this article is devoted to salads, where the main ingredients are chicken meat and walnuts.
Step-by-step recipes of salads with chicken meat and walnuts for all occasions:
Recipe 1: Smoked Chicken Salad and Walnuts
This salad is considered to be a “quick hand” treat, since you need only 15 minutes to prepare the salad, and the ingredients do not require heat treatment. Salad highlight is smoked chicken fillet, and garlic adds spicy notes.
To prepare a salad with smoked chicken meat and walnuts for 4 persons, you will need ingredients such as:
- smoked chicken fillet - 250 grams;
- walnuts - 40g;
- solid tomatoes - 4 pieces;
- hard cheese - 100 grams;
- garlic - 2 teeth;
- parsley - a small bunch;
- mayonnaise - 3 tablespoons;
- salt.
To prepare a salad with nuts and smoked chicken fillet, you need no more than 15 minutes.
Step by step - cooking salad with nuts and smoked chicken fillet.
Preparatory process:
- Smoked chicken fillet without skin, cut into strips.
- Hard cheese is cut into strips. - Walnuts are crushed in a mortar.
- Tomatoes are cut into squares.
- Parsley is crushed.
- Garlic is minced.
Ingredients for the salad are combined, brought to taste with salt, dressed with mayonnaise and in the same minute the treat is served on the table. Salad can not be refilled in advance, as tomatoes with salt and mayonnaise, quickly let the juice lose their shape, and the salad becomes watery. Those who do not use mayonnaise, you can fill the dish with low-fat sour cream or mayonnaise + sour cream.
Ready salad is served in a common salad bowl or in bowls, personally for each guest. Enjoy your meal!
Recipe 2: Salad “Royal treat” (salad with boiled chicken and walnuts)
The preparation of this salad is a very laborious process, but the end result will surpass all expectations, and you will taste a truly royal dish. The salad is nourishing and high-calorie, because it consists of six layers, soaked in mayonnaise.
To prepare a salad with boiled chicken meat and walnuts for 4 persons, you will need ingredients such as:
- Chicken meat (fillet or shin) - 300g;
- walnuts - 70g;
- onions - 1 piece;
- egg - 3 pieces;
- mayonnaise - 250 grams;
- carrots - 2 pieces (medium size);
- Salt and vegetable fat for heat treatment.
To make a “Royal” salad, you need about 45 minutes.
Step by step - preparation of “Royal” salad (with boiled chicken and walnuts).
Heat treatment:
- Chicken meat, carrots, eggs are boiled in the usual way;
- Onion half rings are fried in vegetable fat.
Preparatory process:
- Toasted onion reclines on a colander or laid out on a paper towel to remove unwanted fat.
- Walnuts are crushed in a mortar.
- Carrot is ground on grated.
- Boiled chicken is minced through a meat grinder with a large nozzle.
- Protein and yolk are crushed separately.
The prepared ingredients are placed in a salad bowl (preferably transparent) in layers in the following sequence: 1) meat;
2) walnuts are coated with mayonnaise on top;
3) onions;
4) protein;
5) carrots are coated with mayonnaise on top;
7) the yolk.
All the salad is ready, enjoy your meal!
Recipe 3: Galatea salad (salad with boiled chicken, walnuts and prunes)
Despite the fact that the salad is 50% made of nuts and fruits (prunes, apples), it is quite high-calorie and nourishing. Due to the excellent combination of products and sweet and sour notes of fruit and nuts, the dish will be to the taste of both adults and kids.
For cooking salad with boiled chicken meat, walnuts and fruit for 4 persons, you will need ingredients such as:
- Chicken meat (fillet or drumstick) - 500 grams;
- walnuts - 50g;
- apple - 1 piece;
- prunes - 70 grams;
- cheese - 100 grams;
- onions - 1 piece;
- egg - 3 pieces;
- mayonnaise - 150 grams.
- salt.
To make a Galatea salad, you need about 35 minutes.
Step by step - cooking salad "Galatea" (with chicken, walnuts and fruit).
Heat treatment:
For this salad, chicken meat can be cooked in two ways:
1 way - chicken meat is boiled in the usual way or
2 way - the meat is cut into cubes and fried until cooked with curry seasoning;
- eggs are boiled in the usual way.
Preparatory process:
- Finely chopped onions are scalded with boiling water and dried.
- Peeled apple is cut into bars.
- Eggs are cut on an egg cutter;
- prunes finely chopped;
- cheese is ground on a grater;
- Walnuts are crushed into fine chips.
The prepared ingredients are stacked on a flat plate in the shape of a square (the finished salad looks like a cake) in layers in the following sequence:
1) boiled or fried meat;
2) onions;
3) an apple;
4) egg;
5) prunes;
6) cheese;
7) and in conclusion, the top and sides of the salad are sprinkled with nut chips.
Each layer of salad, except cheese, is slightly smeared with mayonnaise.
Formed salad is soaked for 20-30 minutes and served to the table. Enjoy your meal!
Recipe 4: Alpine Salad (with chicken and walnuts)
This fast-food salad is perfect for breakfast, late dinner and picnic. The advantage of the salad is that it consists of only simple and affordable ingredients that do not need additional heat treatment.
For the preparation of “Alpine” salad with smoked chicken and walnuts for 2 persons, you will need ingredients such as:
- Smoked chicken meat - 200 grams;
- walnuts - handful;
- hard tomatoes - 2 pieces;
- crackers - a handful;
- sour cream (mayonnaise) - 50 grams;
- a few sprigs of dill, parsley and green onions;
- pepper, salt.
Preparatory process:
- Smoked chicken fillet without skin, diced.
- Tomato is cut into cubes.
- Parsley and dill breaks, onions - chopped.
- Rusks can be bought ready-made or you can cook them yourself.
- Walnuts are crushed in a mortar.
Salad "Alpine" can be served in two ways:
1 method - before serving, all ingredients are mixed in one container, brought to taste with spices and dressed with sour cream or mayonnaise.
2 way - salad before serving is laid out in layers: chicken, crackers, tomatoes (salted and mayonnaised a little), walnuts, greens. Enjoy your meal.
Salads with chicken and walnuts - recommendations of experienced chefs:
- for preparation of salads use, such parts of a hen as a shin and fillet;
- tomatoes are selected solid varieties;
- greens for salad is better to tear hands;
- salads laid out in layers, before serving, should be soaked for 10-15 minutes, mixed - brought to a spice seasoning and dressed with dressings, just before serving.
