Salad with chicken and walnuts. Recipes for New Year's table

Traditionally, the main component of chicken salad is white chicken meat - breast, but you can use other parts, for example, chicken liver, hearts or stomachs.

By the way, salad with chicken has a number of advantages, such as:

1. Fast cooking
2. Availability due to the low price of chicken
3. Perfect combination with different products
4. Low caloric content. Very suitable for those who watch their figure

The most commonly used additions to chicken in this dish are canned pineapple, fresh cucumber, cheese and walnuts. So, the popular recipes are in front of you.

Salad «Chicken-cucumber-walnut»

The combination of chicken, fresh cucumber and walnut has a beautiful name "Tenderness" and, as best as possible, decorate the New Year's table. This dish fully justifies its name, as it turns out to be tender, tasty and at the same time piquant.

Necessary ingredients:

• chicken meat (breast) - 400 g
• fresh cucumbers - 2-3 pcs
• prunes without seeds - 150 g
• egg chicken - 5-6 pieces
• low-fat mayonnaise - 200 g
• walnut kernels - 100 g
• salt - 1 tsp.

Cooking method:

1. in a small saucepan, boil the chicken breast, while the water should be slightly poured. Cooking time is 25-30 minutes. Then take it out, cool it and cut it into strips;
2. boil 5 eggs, cool and clean them from the shell. Then separately on a coarse grater, grate the proteins of the boiled eggs, and on the fine yolks;
3. peel the cucumbers and cut them into strips;
4. rinse the prunes with water, then in a small bowl, steam it with boiling water for 10-15 minutes. After prunes swell, cut it with straws;
5. finely chop the kernels of walnuts;
6. at the bottom of the transparent form, place the chicken breast and chop the mayonnaise with top;
7. Place the sliced ​​prunes over mayonnaise and cover with chopped walnuts, and lay the grated egg whites over the nuts. Then cover the entire surface again with mayonnaise;
8. On top of mayonnaise, place fresh cucumbers and add mayonnaise again;
9. and the final touch is a layer of grated yolks with twigs of greenery as an ornament;
10. Salad "Tenderness" is ready! Put it in the refrigerator for 2-3 hours, then boldly serve to the table.

Advice: eggs for salads must be welded "hard-boiled". To do this, they must be kept in boiling water for at least 7-8 minutes

"Chicken - Pineapple - Greek - Nut" Salad

Salad with chicken, canned pineapple and walnuts is also very tasty and unusual. Its name is "Royal", so your New Year's table will look like a festive menu of kings.

Necessary ingredients:

• chicken meat (breast) - 300 g
• egg chicken - 4 pieces
• cheese hard - 200 g
• onion - 1 pc.
• canned pineapples - 350 g (1 pot)
• mayonnaise - 250 g
• walnut kernels - 100 g
• vinegar 9% - 1 tsp.
• salt - 1 tsp.

Cooking method:

Preparation of ingredients:

1. Boil the chicken breast in a little salted water. The cooking time is 25-30 minutes. Then take it out, cool it and cut it or with your hands tear it along the fibers;
2. boil 4 eggs, cool, peel off the shell and grate them on a coarse grater;
3. While chicken and eggs are boiled, marinate onions in vinegar. To do this, you need to cut the peeled onions in small pieces and put in a bowl, then pour it with warm water and add 1 tsp. 9% vinegar. Leave to stand for 10-15 minutes and drain. Pickled onions are ready;
4. finely chop the canned pineapple;
5. Nut kernels grind in a blender, and grate the cheese on a fine grater.

Preparation:

Now directly begin to create your delicious culinary masterpiece. To do this, you need to lay out layers on the plate in the following order:

1. spread the chicken fillets all over the plate;
2. Evenly distribute the pickled onions over the fillets;
3. then spread the finely chopped canned pineapple;
4. the next layer is grated eggs, the top of which should be well lubricated with mayonnaise;
5. evenly grated cheese cover the entire surface of mayonnaise and lightly apply cheese hands;
6. and the last layer is shredded nuts, which must also be slightly crushed;
7. Before serving, the salad Royal is recommended to cool in the refrigerator for at least 30 minutes.

Tip: Boil the meat for salad, put it in boiling water. So, it will retain not only the form, but also the maximum of useful substances

Salad «Chicken - cheese - Greek - walnut»

The recipe for this salad is very simple and will take only 15 minutes. And it is known under the name "Original".

Necessary ingredients:

• smoked chicken breast - 300 g
• kernels of a walnut - 50 g
• tomato solid - 4 pcs
• cheese hard - 100 g
• garlic - 2 cloves
• fresh parsley - 50 g
• mayonnaise - 3 tbsp. l.
• salt - 1/4 tsp.

Cooking method:

1. cut the smoked breast and hard cheese;
2. chop the walnuts;
3. cut tomatoes into cubes;
4. chop parsley and garlic;
5. Mix everything in a deep bowl and season with salt to taste;
6. before serving, season with mayonnaise.

Tip: as a decoration of chicken salads, grapes, cut into two halves, and grains of pomegranate are ideally suited.