We all want variety on the festive table. In order not only to be tasty, but also to “fill your eyes”. It is becoming increasingly difficult to surprise sophisticated guests. This interesting salad will help you create a small masterpiece from familiar products.
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You will need
- For 4 servings:
- chicken fillet - 100 gr
- hard cheese - 100 gr
- pitted olives - ½ can
- mayonnaise - to taste
- cucumber - 1 pc.
- tomatoes - 2 pcs.
Instruction manual
1
Boil the chicken fillet until cooked in a whole piece. To do this, wash the fillet and dip in boiling water. Be sure to remove the foam. If this is not done, then the broth will be cloudy and the chicken meat will lose in taste. There is another option - drain all the water along with the foam, and transfer the meat to a new boiling water. But this is not a necessity, it is enough to simply remove all the foam that has appeared. After boiling add bay leaf and black pepper. Cut the olives in circles, and rub the cheese on a fine grater. set aside some cheese and olives for decoration. Mix all the ingredients with mayonnaise.
2
The resulting salad is laid out in the form of a watermelon slice in a flat dish. it is desirable that it is not red, that our salad does not merge with it, but contrasts with a lighter or darker background. We give him time to soak. Let's do the decor.
3
We cut the cucumber in half and take out the inner soft part with seeds, we will not need it. This must be done so that the salad does not let the juice go. We do the same with tomatoes. cut into 4 parts and remove the core, leaving only the fleshy part with the skin. Three cucumbers on a coarse grater, and cut the tomato into small pieces. cut olives in half.
4
On our salad “watermelon” we spread the tomato slices with the pulp up, make a thin strip of cheese and finish with a cucumber, which serves as the green peel of a watermelon slice.
5
We put watermelon seeds out of olives.
Our watermelon is ready!
note
If you want to make a salad in advance, then do not mix the ingredients. They can be prepared: boil, cut, grate per day. And mix and decorate before serving. The main thing is that they are stored in sealed containers or covered with cling film.
Useful advice
For the filling, in fact, you can use any salad. And the traditional Olivier, and anyone that you like. Puff salads and structural Caesar salads will not work. You can use meat, turkey, duck in this recipe instead of chicken, or you can make it vegetarian by using only vegetables and mushrooms.