Recipe for salad "Garnet bracelet"

To decorate the festive table, caring housewives are ready to spend a long time in the kitchen. But in order not to meet guests completely exhausted and without any solemn mood, choose such dishes and salads, which look spectacular, and do not require too many victims.

Surely, many heard about the salad "Pomegranate Bracelet". Apparently, he was so called because of the round shape with an opening in the middle and the top layer of pomegranate grains.

How to prepare such a treat

Since the salad is laid out in layers and you need to monitor its shape, it may seem that it is quite complicated. But in the cooking process you will see that there are practically no big difficulties, and the foods that are part of the dish are not too expensive and are available all year round.

On the Internet there are a lot of articles devoted to this dish and recommendations for its preparation. But in this article, we not only give practical advice to facilitate the work of the hostesses, but also lay out the classic salad recipe.

So, you will need:

• chicken breast without bone or fillet - 250 g (you can take smoked meat, then the dish will get an extra piquancy)
• potatoes, beets and carrots - 2 pcs.
• eggs - 3 pcs.
• onions - 1 pc.
• garnet - 1 pc.
• walnuts - 2 tbsp. l.
• vegetable oil
• mayonnaise
• salt pepper

1. First we prepare the products. Vegetables are carefully washed, poured into a saucepan and poured cold water. Lightly add salt, and put on the stove. Since potatoes, carrots and beets have different cooking times, periodically pierce them with a fork and take them out of boiling water.
2. We put the meat in boiling water and cook. At the end of the cooking, add salt and a couple of bay leaves. The fillet is cooked quite quickly - about twenty minutes. If you have a breast on a bone or a leg, then wait until they have to cook twice as much.
3. Similarly, we cook eggs.
4. All ingredients must be cooled under a stream of cold water (except meat). proceed to cutting. It's better if you share them on different plates. So it will be easier to form a salad in the future. So, vegetables and eggs rubbed on the grater, chicken cut into cubes.
5. Onions cut into large pieces (about a quarter of a half ring) and fry in vegetable oil until it becomes transparent.
6. Finely chop the nuts or grind them to the blender.

We start spreading the salad

To do this, take a large flat plate, and in its center put a glass or a clean bottle. It will serve as the basis for the salad dressing.

Layers will be arranged as follows:

1. Half of the chicken, slightly attached and sprinkled with pepper.
2. Carrots with salt and pepper.
3. In the same way we spread potatoes.
4. Walnuts.
5. Half a beet + salt and pepper.
6. Again shredded nuts.
7. Fried onions.
8. Again, add salted and pepper chicken.
9. Spread the last nuts.
10. Sprinkle with grated eggs.
11. Spread the remaining beets with pepper.

Each layer should be greased with plenty of mayonnaise, including top. After all the layers are laid, take out the glass and cover the entire surface of the lettuce with pomegranate seeds. It is better not to serve the dish immediately, but let the night stand in the refrigerator. If desired, onions and carrots can be replaced with grated cheese and pickled cucumbers. For sharpness, you can sprinkle each layer with wine vinegar.

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