One of the decorations of the holiday feast can be called Sunflower salad with chips. The classic recipe is quite popular, but besides it there are many variations, with smoked chicken, mushrooms, canned fish, cod liver, there are many options for decorating and additives to the dish, olives, seeds, corn, pineapples.
The sunflower is named absolutely not by chance, the petals are of chips, the middle, decorated with black olives or bright yellow corn. The hostesses also decorate the center of the salad with chicken yolks and a thin net of mayonnaise, which also turns out beautifully and original.
Step-by-step recipes for salad Sunflower
This salad is laid out in layers, each smeared with sauce. The basis is taken meat or fish, you can take boiled or from canned food.
Chips for decoration need to buy whole petals, without chipping, I always take Prings.
Some of the products are interchangeable, if suddenly something you did not have. Also, you can always experiment, do not be afraid to include imagination when cooking.
Classic recipe with photos, step by step
I offer a step-by-step recipe for a festive salad with Pringles, as well as detailed photos, I think this option will appeal to those who will prepare it for the first time.
We take for cooking:
- 200 grams of chilled chicken fillet
- 200 grams of fresh champignons
- 100 grams of hard cheese
- 3 boiled eggs
- A jar of canned olives or olives without stones
- Mayonnaise
- Chips
How to cook:
Boil chicken meat, cut into pieces.
We spread the bottom layer on a flat dish, spread it over the sauce.
Mushrooms cut into small pieces, fry.
Put them on the chicken, also soak it in the sauce.
Rubbed boiled egg whites through a large grater, lay them out with the next layer, which we don’t forget to miss.
Some yolks are also three, make a layer, soak it. We put in this form our semi-finished salad on the bottom shelf of the refrigerator for 12 hours for impregnation.
Lastly, we make the decoration. The rest of the grated proteins sprinkle on top of an even layer.
We put chips in a circle.
Decorate the top with quarters of olives.
Recipe with smoked chicken
I really liked the stunning recipe with smoked chicken, because it saves time for boiling the breast and cooling it down. The taste of this variant of the Sunflower becomes spicy. Also in this embodiment, I recommend using not pure mayonnaise, but sauce, so as not to overload your body.
We take the ingredients:
- 200 grams of smoked chicken breast
- 3 pre-boiled eggs
- 1 fresh cucumber
- 10 pieces of small champignons
- Medium-sized carrots
- Small Onion
- 3 tablespoons of sour cream, mayonnaise and cream
- A jar of corn
- 200 grams of any hard cheese
- A jar of olives or olives
- Chips
- Salt
Cooking process:
Smoked breast cut into small pieces, make the first layer on a dish. After chopping the onion, fry together with the diced champignons in the pan. This will be the next layer. We shall salt it a little for taste.
Now it's time to make a sauce, just mix sour cream and cream with mayonnaise, if desired, add a little salt, add pepper. Grease them with a layer of mushrooms.
The next layer is made of pre-boiled carrots, which we cut into cubes, mix with chips from chips. Also we smear sauce over it.
Eggs, grated, spread on carrots, sprinkle with cheese on top, grease again with sauce. Top sprinkle canned corn. Then cut the olives in circles, lay them on the sides. We cut the cucumber into ringlets, arrange it in a circle along the edges of the dish, these will be the green leaves of our sunflower. On top of the cucumber rings we lay out the petals of the chips and decorate the salad with a net of sauce.
Sunflower with Chicken and Mushrooms
For such an amazing recipe with chicken and mushrooms, I sometimes replace fresh marinated mushrooms. And if you still have homemade butter, then they go to the dish.
We use :
- 300 grams of boiled chicken breast
- 400 grams of fresh champignons
- 200 grams of any hard cheese
- 5 pre-boiled eggs
- Onion
- 300 grams of mayonnaise
- Unscented vegetable oil for roasting
- Olives as decoration
- Salt pinch
Cooking process:
We wash the mushrooms, cut them into small pieces, cut the onion into smaller pieces, fry everything in a frying pan. Next, with the bottom layer, we make half of all the mushrooms, we put them on with the sauce and place the slices of boiled chicken breast on top, grease them again, put the remaining mushrooms, again a little bit of the sauce.
Now we need to rub the squirrels from boiled eggs, spread them out with the next layer, let's not forget to miss the mark with mayonnaise. The next one is finely grated cheese, also soaked in mayonnaise.
Last, we sprinkle chopped egg yolks, stick chips in a circle, decorate the top with quarters of olives.
With corn
The recipe with corn is very juicy and beautiful. I always put her a little more, the guests gasp at the sight of such a bright dish.
We will need to take:
- 300 grams of fresh chicken meat
- Canned Sweet Corn
- 2 small carrots
- A bunch of green onions
- 3 pre-boiled eggs
- 200 grams of pickled mushrooms, any
- Mayonnaise
- Sunflower oil
- Salt, pepper
- For decorating chips and olives
Cooking process:
Chicken cut into small pieces, fry lightly in butter. This will be the lowest of the layers, we will mix it with sauce and spread mushrooms on the top, which are also missed. Then comes boiled carrot, rubbed or chopped with a knife, also missed.
Place carrots of crumbled eggs on top of carrots, grease them, then sprinkle them all with an even layer of finely crumbled green onions, put corn on top. We stick around the chips, decorate with slices of olives.
With cod liver
The original taste is obtained with cod liver. Quite a hearty dish, at the same time, festive and very appetizing.
We will need the following components:
- 2 cans of cod liver
- 3 medium-sized potatoes
- 6 eggs
- 2 bulbs
- Piece of butter
- A glass of mayonnaise
- Chips
- Olives
- Salt, optional pepper
Cooking process:
We make the first layer out of boiled, chopped potatoes, coat it with sauce, place the onion, fried in butter, and soak it again.
We open the jars with the liver, drain the oil, then knead with a fork, make another layer for the salad, coat the top again, sprinkle with grated whites, then again the sauce and the last yolks go. Arrange the petals in a circle and decorate with slices of olives.
Recipe with cucumbers
I like to make a variant of the Sunflower with cucumbers in the summer, when they are fresh, from their garden. But in winter you can also indulge with vitamins.
We use:
- 200 grams of boiled chicken fillet
- 2 fresh cucumbers
- 100 grams of soft cheese
- 3 boiled chicken eggs
- Average bulb bulb
- 200 grams of champignons
- Green Salad Leaves
- Chips
- Mayonnaise
- Salt
- Sunflower oil
Cooking process:
Boil chicken breast, cut into thin strips or cubes, this will be the basis. Next, cut the mushrooms into slices, fry with the onions, do not forget to salt. This will be the next layer, all gouged with sauce.
Next come slices of cucumber, again sauce, then grated whites from chicken eggs, mayonnaise again, grated cheese, smeared with sauce, the last yolks. We make decorations of olives on them and stick chips in a circle.
Recipe without mushrooms
I offer a wonderful version of the recipe without mushrooms, easy and tasty, all guests usually ask for this recipe.
We will need the following products:
- 200 grams of smoked chicken breast
- Large Onion
- Corn Bank
- 2 tablespoons of freshly squeezed lemon juice
- 3 tablespoons of boiled cooled water
- Mayonnaise
- Chips
Cooking process:
Onions cut into quarters of small rings, sprinkle marinade from water and lemon juice. So leave for half an hour, then lay out the main layer on the dish. The second is the top of the mayonnaise, then the diced chicken, again the sauce and the corn. Along the edges remains spread chips and put to the feast.
Sunflower with crab sticks
No one knows whose invention this is with crab sticks, but some people like this version of the salad.
We take the ingredients:
- 300 grams of crab sticks
- Large onion
- 3 chicken eggs
- Mayonnaise
- Sunflower oil
- Canned corn
- 2 small carrots
- Greens
- Chips
- Salt and pepper
Cooking recipe:
Cut onions and carrots finely, save them on unscented oil. Half put the first layer, add salt, season with pepper, spread with sauce. Next comes a layer of half of the wiped eggs, we also coat them, spread the chopped crab sticks, again the mayonnaise, then the remaining eggs and the onions and carrots on top. Fall asleep with an even layer of corn and lay out the chips.
Sunflower salad with pineapple
In the recipe for Sunflower with pineapples, the main thing is not to smear mayonnaise, because all the ingredients are juicy and it can just float.
We take:
- 200 grams of boiled chicken breast in advance
- A can of canned pineapples
- A can of champignons
- A jar of canned pitted olives
- 3 pre-boiled eggs
- Two hundred grams of any hard cheese
- Chips
- Greens
- Mayonnaise
Cooking process:
Breast cut thin feathers, lay out, grease with sauce, then go chopped mushrooms, again sauce, after whites of wiped boiled eggs, a little more mayonnaise, after there is rubbed cheese and the top of yolks. For a couple of hours we remove the brew on the cold dish. Then in a circle stick chips and sprinkle with chopped greens.
