Salad “Birch” is not only tasty, but also amazingly beautiful dish. It will take pride of place on the holiday table. At the same time it is prepared very simply and from the simplest ingredients.
Salad “Birch” with prunes - general principles of cooking
Puff dish. Usually, poultry, mushrooms, prunes are used for filling. If the dried fruits are hard, they are pre-soaked in warm water. Chicken use boiled, smoked, baked. An interesting salad is made with a liver, its recipe is below. Mushrooms in the dish are marinated or fried.
What else can be included in the salad:
• eggs;
• cheese;
• fresh and boiled vegetables;
• canned corn.
Each layer of salad dressing sauce, usually a mayonnaise. For a careful application of a thin layer squeeze the mesh. On top of the dish is also covered with a layer of mayonnaise, sometimes covered with egg yolk or cheese. The most interesting thing is the decoration of the salad. Spread slices of prunes, imitating strips on the trunk of birch. You can portray the trunk itself, also lay out prunes, make the crown of the tree of greenery.
Delicate “Birch” Salad with Prunes and Mushrooms
For the preparation of this “Birch” salad with prunes, fresh champignons and boiled chicken fillet are used. It is advisable to prepare a snack in advance, so she had time to insist.
Ingredients
• 300 g of champignons;
• 300 g chicken fillet;
• 100 g onions;
• 100 g of prunes;
• 200 g cucumbers;
• 140 ml of mayonnaise;
• 3 eggs;
• greens for decoration.
Cooking
1. Boil the fillets until cooked and boiled eggs, cool.
2. Pour the prunes with warm water, let them swell. Then squeeze, dry, cut into strips. The fourth part set aside for decoration.
3. Fry mushrooms and onions together in a skillet, bring to full readiness. Do not add much oil. Season with spices, leave to cool.
4. Cut the fillet into small straws across the fibers so that it is well soaked in the sauce. Rub eggs. 5. Rinse the cucumbers, remove the tips and also cut into small straws.
6. You can collect birch. Sprinkle prunes with the first layer on a flat dish.
7. Cover it with fried mushrooms and onions. Apply a thin mesh of mayonnaise.
8. Now comes the chicken fillet, seasoned with spices. We grease it more abundantly so that the white meat is well soaked.
9. Spread a layer of boiled eggs, a little grease.
10. Fold the fine straws of cucumbers, cover the salad with mayonnaise.
11. We lay out the strips of prunes in the form of strips of birch. Decorate the salad with fresh herbs.
Salad “Birch” with prunes and pickled mushrooms
This salad has a brighter taste, as mushrooms are used marinated. You can use champignons or any other kind.
Ingredients
• 180 g pickled mushrooms;
• 1 boiled ham;
• 4 eggs;
• 80 g of prunes;
• 1-2 cucumbers;
• 170 ml of mayonnaise;
• spices, greens.
Cooking
1. Leave 3-4 prunes for decoration, pour the remaining dried fruits with water, leave to soak, then chop finely.
2. Free the boiled chicken leg from the stone and the skins, cut it finely.
3. Eggs are also boiled. We divide into whites with yolks, grind into different dishes.
4. Cut the cucumber into small cubes.
5. Mushrooms are laid out in a colander. As soon as all the marinade droplets are drained from them, cut into thin slices.
6. Begin to collect the dish. We spread the chicken, grease and sprinkle with prunes.
7. Now a layer of pickled mushrooms, also we coat, sprinkle with yolks.
8. Spread chopped cucumbers. In no case do not add salt, otherwise they will begin to produce juice. From above we smear a little bit with mayonnaise.
9. Hide the cucumber layer under the grated proteins. Gently grease the whole salad with mayonnaise.
10. Left dry prunes are washed, wiped, cut with a beautiful straw. We decorate the salad in the form of birch, do not forget about the greens.
Salad “Birch” with prunes and potatoes
Option salad "Birch" with prunes and fresh mushrooms, but without chicken. Perhaps he will like it more. Vegetables can be cooked in advance. Ingredients
• 250-300 g of potatoes;
• 4 eggs;
• prunes 100 g;
• 300 g of mushrooms;
• 150 g onions;
• 200 g of mayonnaise;
• 150 g cucumbers
• any greens.
Cooking
1. Mushrooms cut into cubes, pour into the pan, fry until all the liquid evaporates. Then add the onions and fry the ingredients until ready. Season with spices.
2. Cook eggs, peel. Separately rub the yolks with proteins.
3. Cut the prunes into strips, set aside a little.
4. We rub potatoes, we stack on a bottom as the first layer, we salt and well we coat with mayonnaise.
5. Lay out a layer of mushrooms and onions, sprinkle with prunes and slightly grease.
6. Now go cucumbers, also grease.
7. Spread a layer of proteins, lubricate, sprinkle with grated yolks. This will be the background.
8. Extrude the birch trunk from a pack of mayonnaise. Making a tree crown of green. We spread the strips of prunes on the trunk. You can plant a grass or a mushroom under a tree.
Salad “Birch” with prunes and smoked chicken
For this wonderful salad, you can use smoked breast or ham. Skin is desirable to remove. Recipe without mushrooms.
Ingredients
• 2 potatoes;
• 300 g smoked chicken;
• 80 g of prunes;
• 1 cucumber;
• mayonnaise;
• greenery;
• 4 eggs.
Cooking
1. Rub the boiled potatoes, salt, lay out on the bottom of the salad bowl, lubricate.
2. Cut the chicken into small cubes, spread on a layer of mayonnaise-smeared potatoes.
3. We also coat this layer, sprinkle with chopped prunes. If it is dry, pre-soak it.
4. Now lay out a layer of sliced finely cucumber. If the vegetable is small, then you can take two things, lubricate.
5. Boiled eggs are used. Immediately rub the yolks with whites, cover the entire salad, flatten.
6. We coat with mayonnaise, decorate with prunes, greens, leave for a couple of hours for impregnation.
Salad "Birch" with prunes and chicken liver
Option useful salad "Birch", which uses chicken liver. For promazyvaniya layers used sauce based on sour cream with mayonnaise. Ingredients
• 200 g of pickled mushrooms;
• 250 g of liver;
• 60 g of prunes;
• 150 grams of corn;
• greenery;
• 100 g of hard cheese;
• 3 eggs.
For the sauce:
• 100 g of mayonnaise;
• 100 g sour cream;
• salt pepper;
• 1 clove garlic.
Cooking
1. Make a sauce of sour cream, mayonnaise, dressed with chopped garlic and spices.
2. Boil the liver, rub on a coarse grater, or chop finely. Put in a salad bowl, grease with sauce.
3. Sprinkle with chopped prunes.
4. Rub the layer of egg yolks, you can not lubricate it.
5. Merge the liquid from the corn, put it on the yolks, cover with sour cream sauce.
6. We take out the mushrooms from the marinade, cut and spread on the corn. Lubricate the sauce.
7. Boiled proteins remain. We rub, we stack.
8. Cover the salad with sauce, smooth. We decorate with stripes of prunes imitating a birch trunk.
Salad “Birch” with prunes, apples and cheese
Recipe for spicy salad, which is prepared with a fresh apple. It is advisable to take a sour fruit.
Ingredients
• 1 apple;
• 1 lettuce;
• 2 chicken fillets;
• 50 g of prunes;
• 150 grams of cheese;
• 3 eggs;
• vinegar;
• mayonnaise.
Cooking
1. Cut the lettuce into small cubes, pour water, acidified with vinegar, leave to marinate.
2. Chicken fillet take boiled. Chop finely, add 2 spoons of mayonnaise, stir. Leave to soak.
3. Cut the prunes into small cubes, immediately send to the chicken. Do not forget to leave a little for registration.
4. Apple peel, cut into thin pieces, remove the stub.
5. Squeeze the onion, spread on the bottom of the salad bowl. If the head is small, then you can use 2 things.
6. Now comes a layer of chicken with mayonnaise and prunes.
7. Spread a layer of grated eggs, lubricate.
8. Now the apple layer is covered with a fine mesh of mayonnaise.
9. Rub cheese, put off a third. Sprinkle the rest of the salad, grease. Sprinkle with deferred cheese chips.
10. Decorate the dish with stripes of prunes.
Salad “Birch” with prunes and Peking cabbage
For this salad, you can take white cabbage, if it is tender and not hard. Corn is used canned.
Ingredients
• 250 g cabbage;
• 1 chicken fillet;
• 120 grams of corn;
• 100 g of prunes;
• 3-4 eggs;
• mayonnaise.
Cooking
1. Cut the cabbage into small pieces, a little mneem, to get rid of the volume, spread on a dish.
2. Sprinkle with corn, grease with mayonnaise.
3. Boiled fillet cut into cubes, spread over corn, grease.
4. Now a layer of prunes. If it is dry, pre-soak it. Cut into cubes or straws.
5. Rub the eggs, first lay the yolks, then the whites, so that the photo is bright.
6. Liberally coat the top of the salad.
7. Apply strips of chopped prunes.
“Birch” salad with prunes - useful tips and tricks
• All salad ingredients must be cold at the time of assembly. Warm foods will spoil the taste and shorten the freshness of the dish.
• When frying ingredients, it is advisable to use a minimal amount of oil. Otherwise, cold salad will be oily and unpleasant to the taste. After frying, you can lift the pan from one edge and collect all the ingredients for it so that the oil flows to the opposite edge.
• Reduced calorie salad will help sour cream or natural yogurt. They can be added to mayonnaise or used as a base for the sauce. To taste, mustard, pepper, salt, lemon juice or vinegar are added to them.
• It is possible to decorate the “Birch” salad not only with chopped prunes, but also with slices of olives.
