Salad with spicy chicken, mushrooms, cheese and grapes - fragrant and nourishing. This dish can be served as a main course if you are preparing a cold dinner. Cheese, nuts, mayonnaise - high-calorie foods, in combination with spicy fried chicken and fried mushrooms it turns out a very nutritious snack that refreshes sour-sweet grapes.
The chicken fillet in this recipe is pickled in a spicy mixture of ground cinnamon, turmeric and chili powder. If you like food with a twinkle, use hot chili, if not, take a sweet paprika.
- Cooking time: 35 minutes
- Servings: 4-5
Ingredients for nutritious salad with spicy chicken and grapes
- 500 g chicken breast fillet;
- 250 g fresh champignons;
- 120 g of cheese;
- 70 g hazelnuts;
- 3 eggs;
- 250 grams of grapes;
- 150 g of mayonnaise;
- ground cinnamon, turmeric, chili powder, soy sauce, honey, balsamic vinegar;
- 1 tablespoon of cornstarch;
- vegetable oil, onion, salt, pepper.
A way of cooking nutritious salad with spicy chicken and grapes
For a start, make a spicy chicken fillet - the basis of this salad.
Rinse the meat with cold water, dry it on a paper towel, cut into narrow, thin strips.
Put the sliced fillet in a bowl, pour 1 teaspoon ground turmeric, 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon, 1 \ 2 teaspoon chili powder. Pour the dessert spoon with soy sauce and liquid honey, sprinkle the meat with balsamic vinegar, salt to taste, mix.
Then pour two tablespoons of vegetable oil.
Marinate meat in the fridge for 1 to 3 hours, we get out, we fry the pieces in the cornstarch.
We heat the frying pan with a thick bottom, grease with vegetable oil, quickly fry the chicken pieces until golden brown.
Put the roasted meat on a paper towel so that excess oil is absorbed into the paper.
Chilled chicken cut into small cubes.
Now prepare the remaining ingredients of the salad. Boiled hard-boiled chicken eggs rubbed on a grater or chopped finely.
Three cheese on a fine grater, it is better to use fat soft cheese with a creamy taste, it will set off a spicy chicken.
Roast the hazelnuts in a dry frying pan until golden brown. Grind the roasted nuts in a blender to make large crumbs.
Fry fresh champignons with onions in vegetable oil, salt to taste at the end, cool to room temperature.
Put all the ingredients in a salad bowl, add mayonnaise, mix.
You can make a dressing of mayonnaise, sour cream and mustard - 70 g of mayonnaise, 70 g of sour cream and 2 teaspoons of table mustard.
Rinse a large brush of green grapes with running cold water and dry. For this recipe, choose seedless grapes.
Place the grapes in a thick layer on the finished salad, put the snack in the fridge for several hours, so that the ingredients are soaked with juices.
A nutritious salad with spicy chicken and grapes can be harvested in layers, but it is worth considering that the layered salad should soak longer, so it is better to cook it in advance. Enjoy your meal!
