Chicken salad with bell pepper is very fresh and juicy, while it is hearty and can become a full lunch or dinner. It is thanks to sweet pepper that the salad acquires a special freshness and will be popular among your household.
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You will need
- - chicken breast - 1 pc.;
- - onions - 1 pc.;
- - carrots - 1 pc.;
- - bell pepper - 2 pcs.;
- - hard cheese - 150 g;
- - sour cream - 150 ml;
- - champignons - 300 g;
- - celery - 1 stalk;
- - butter - 1 tsp;
- - mustard - 1 tsp;
- - pepper, salt - to taste and desire.
Instruction manual
1
Boil chicken breast with carrots, celery stalk and onions. In this case, you can use the resulting broth to make soup or freeze it if necessary. When boiling chicken breasts, it’s better not to salt the water, in the future you will add the right amount of salt directly to the salad itself. You can also cook chicken breast in the oven at a temperature of 180 degrees: wrap in foil and pre-grate with salt, pepper and any spices.
2
Cool the finished chicken at room temperature and cut into cubes of the desired size. Rinse the sweet Bulgarian singer, cut in half and remove the core, cut into cubes. In the event that you take peppers of different colors, you will also get a very beautiful salad.
3
Wash the mushrooms, peel, chop and fry on low heat for 5 minutes in butter. Grate hard cheese on a coarse or medium grater.
4
In a large salad bowl, combine all the ingredients, salt and pepper to your taste. In a separate container, combine sour cream with mustard. This sauce is used for salad dressing.
5
Now the finished chicken salad with bell pepper can be laid out on plates, add the sauce and serve. The calorie content of such a dish is 106 kcal per 100 g.
6
This salad can be made low-calorie: for this, take chicken breast without skin, sour cream and cheese with a minimum amount of fat. An apple fits perfectly into the list of ingredients for this salad. Depending on your desire, take a not too sweet or sour apple, peel it, remove the core and cut into cubes.