Light, festive salad, with chicken without traditional mayonnaise and potatoes. Try replacing mayonnaise or sour cream with a Dutch lush sauce, just don’t use it in salads that contain highly absorbent ingredients - boiled yolk. If you want to add something new to your holiday menu, then make this simple and delicious salad with chicken, cheese and Hollandaise sauce.
Delicate sauce well envelops meat pieces and vegetables, white cheese gives a festive salad a snow slide view and brings a salty touch to a bouquet of flavors, pomegranate seeds shine on the “snow” like gems, and dill sprigs resemble spruce paws - well, it's not a holiday on the table!
- Cooking time: 1 hour
- Servings: 4
Ingredients for Festive Salad with Chicken, Cheese and Hollandaise Sauce
- 500 g of chicken (thigh, lower leg);
- 2-3 carrots;
- 100 g green olives;
- 70 g leeks;
- 150 g cheese;
- 1 grenade;
- 15 g of green dill.
For the Dutch sauce:
- 2 large eggs;
- 80 g butter;
- 1/2 lemon;
- a pinch of red pepper, salt, sugar.
A way to make a festive salad with chicken, cheese and hollandaise sauce
The salad will be tastier if you cook it from parts of a chicken in which muscles prevail - thighs, legs, wings. Boil chicken pieces with dill, a few chives of garlic and bay leaf. You can put peeled carrots in the broth so as not to cook it separately.
We clean the chicken skin, which is not worth adding to the salad. Remove the meat from the bones, disassemble into large pieces. Boiled carrot cut into thin circles, mix with chicken.
I have long since replaced onions in salads with leeks. Leek is sweeter, more tender, its rings can always decorate the dish, but do not forget to thoroughly wash the leek stem from the remnants of the soil.
Cut leek with rings, fry for 1-2 minutes in heated butter. Add roasted leek and green olives to chicken and carrot.
For dressing ready-made lush Dutch sauce: mix the yolks with salt, sugar and juice of half a lemon, bring the mass to a thickening in a water bath, then pour melted butter in a thin stream. Separately, beat the whites, mix with oil and yolks, and once again bring to a thickening in the bath. Season with a pinch of red pepper, dressing salad.
For more information on how to make a hollandaise sauce, read the hollanda in the recipe: dutch sauce or hollandaise
Salty cheese rubbed on the smallest grater, you can replace the cheese with feta cheese. Salad spread on a serving plate with a slide, sprinkle with grated cheese. The layer of cheese should be quite thick, firstly it is tasty, and secondly the salad will look like a snow hill.
To make a salad with chicken, cheese and Hollandaise sauce look festive, in order for freshness and a little sourness to appear in it, we decorate it with pomegranate seeds. Winter mood will create a small sprig of dill, which can be spread around the perimeter of the plate.
Festive salad with chicken and cheese, seasoned with hollandaise sauce, should not be cooked a few hours before serving. The most optimal time is 1-2 hours, during which time the ingredients will be “friends”, but the salad will retain its freshness. I usually do this - mix all the products for salad, prepare the sauce, and about an hour before serving, season with sauce, decorate with cheese and pomegranate seeds.
