Salad layers with chicken breast In the modern dictionary, the concept of "salad" is explained as a cold dish of sliced vegetables, greens, eggs, sometimes meat or fish in sour cream, olive oil, vinegar and the like. In short, cold and chopped - this is a salad. Initially, the word salad meant an exclusively vegetable dish, moreover, from green leaves and garden grasses, which until the 20th century were called salad plants. In the international cuisine salads have entered as a dish of Ancient Rome, which there were known two and a half thousand years ago, and they consisted of endivia, parsley and onions seasoned with honey, pepper, salt. Outside the Apennine peninsula and above all - in France came a salad only at the beginning of the Middle Ages, as a delicious dish, served to the fries. The high level of French art, the climate that gave abundant succulent vegetation - this helped to find a second homeland salad. Well, today salad has become an integral part of the diet for us, especially when it comes to a festive menu.
Ingredients:- Chicken breast 700g
- Eggs chicken 5 pcs.
- Pickled cucumbers 6 pcs.
- Walnut 100 g
- Dried apricots 200 g
- Onions 1 pc.
- Bay leaf 3 pcs.
- Pepper fragrant 7 pcs.
- Pepper black with peas 7 pcs.
- Mayonnaise 300 g
- Salt extra 2 pinch
- Step 1 The main ingredients: chicken breast, canned pickled cucumbers, eggs, dried apricots, nuts and onions.
- Step 2 Put the chicken breast in boiling water, salt, add black and fragrant pepper, bay leaf. Cook the breast until cooked.
- Step 3 Boiled breast cut into cubes.
- Step 4 We clean the onions and cut them into cubes, then we pour it with boiling water.
- Step 5 Next, clean the cucumbers and cut them with strips about 2 cm each.
- Step 6 Boil the eggs hard and then rub them on the grater.
- Step 7 Cut the walnuts.
- Step 8 We cut the bar-strips of dried apricots.
- Step 9 Put the cut chicken breast on a plate and put it in mayonnaise.
- Step 10 Lay the onion on the next layer and also lubricate with mayonnaise.
- Step 11 Then comes a layer of cucumber and mayonnaise.
- Step 12 And lay the last layer of rubbed eggs and mayonnaise. Salad ready. To give it a more festive look - decorate with walnuts and dried apricots.