Have you decided to surprise your friends with delicious dishes? Make a salad using an unusual combination of ingredients. In the culinary craft, one should not be afraid of experiments. Cook dishes not only according to new recipes, but also add touches to classic salads. An unusual composition of ingredients, original solutions and finds await those people who love variety on the table.
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Chicken Salads
Recipe number 1
Prepare a chicken salad that has a twist, and not just one, but a whole glass! To prepare this hearty snack, you will need the following ingredients:
- 250 grams of chicken;
- 250 grams of light raisins;
- 250 grams of walnuts;
- medium sized onion;
- 1 carrot;
- 1 orange
- 1 tbsp Sahara;
- 2 tbsp apple cider vinegar;
- salt;
- mayonnaise.
Peel the onion and cut into half rings. To prevent it from bittering, marinate it for 20 minutes. To do this, prepare the marinade from vinegar, salt and sugar. Rinse nuts and raisins under cold running water, dry with napkins. Soak raisins in hot water for 5 minutes.
Grate the carrots. Divide the peeled orange into slices, remove the film and cut into cubes. Finely chop the nuts with a knife or chop in a blender, but not until powdery. Cook the chicken, then chop it.
The salad must be laid out in layers, greasing each with mayonnaise (except the last). In a deep container, first put the chicken meat, then onions and raisins. Cover the top with carrots and nuts. Put oranges at the end. The dish must be placed in the refrigerator for impregnation. You can decorate the salad with raisins, nuts.
Recipe number 2
If you want to make an unusual low-calorie salad, use chicken breast. It will take you very little time to prepare this dish. For 4 servings of salad, you will need the following ingredients:
- 200 grams of boiled chicken meat from the breast;
- 2 eggs;
- orange;
- Apple;
- a small bunch of grapes;
- 3 tbsp lemon juice;
- 100 grams of low-fat yogurt;
- salt;
- pepper.
Cut boiled chicken into large pieces. Cook the eggs, remove the shell and chop finely. Rinse the fruit thoroughly, remove the peel from the apple, cut into cubes and sprinkle with lemon juice so that the fruit does not darken. Remove the seeds from the grapes, cut the berries in half. Peel oranges, remove films, cut into cubes. Combine the above ingredients, pour yogurt. Season the salad with salt and pepper.