Beans are a nourishing and healthy product rich in protein. It works well not only in soups and side dishes, but also in cold snacks. In salads, it is able to completely or partially replace the potatoes, which people who are watching the figure or have a violation of carbohydrate metabolism, try not to include in the diet. Beans go well with a variety of products, including poultry meat. Salads with chicken and beans are not only healthy, but also tasty. They are not ashamed to offer guests. Most recipes are simple, dishes for them can be prepared in a hurry.
Cooking Features
Cooking a salad with chicken and beans will not seem like a daunting task even for a novice hostess, if she knows several subtleties.
- Grain beans are cooked for a long time. So that it boils faster, it is pre-soaked for several hours or even at night in cool water, then washed, poured with a new portion of water and only then begin to cook. Such a manipulation not only accelerates the process of boiling beans, but also helps to avoid subsequent problems with gas formation in the intestine.
- In any recipe that requires the use of boiled beans, it can be replaced with canned. Reverse replacement is also possible. Grain and green beans have a different taste, these products are not interchangeable.
- Salad chicken is usually boiled, rarely fried or baked. To make the fillet of the bird juicy, when cooking it is dipped in already boiling water, salted at the very end of cooking. When baking chicken breast, it must be placed in a culinary sleeve or wrapped in foil.
- It turns out more meatless chicken, which is not subjected to freezing. For salad you need to take a chilled or fresh product. If you decide to use frozen poultry, let it thaw in the refrigerator, then the structure of the meat almost does not change, the meat will remain almost as juicy as fresh.
- Salad refuels shortly before serving to the table so that it retains its freshness as long as possible. It is especially important not to fill up the snack in advance, if there are crunches in its composition - they will be crushed, become tasteless and unaesthetic.
- To prevent the green beans from darkening, immediately after cooking, transfer them to a container of ice water.
There are many recipes for salads with chicken and beans. If you are on a diet, choose recipes without mayonnaise. If you are looking for a salad more richly, a recipe with crackers or cheese will suit you.
Salad with chicken, beans and crackers
Composition:
- chicken breast fillet - 0, 3 kg;
- canned beans - 150 g;
- tomatoes - 0, 2 kg;
- leaf lettuce - 100 g;
- rye crackers - 50 g;
- sour cream - 100 ml;
- table mustard - 5 ml;
- salt - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Wash chicken fillet, dip it in boiling water, boil for 20 minutes. 5 minutes before readiness add salt, pepper, laurel leaf to the broth.
- Cool the chicken fillet and cut into small cubes, put in a bowl.
- Wash the lettuce leaves, let them dry. Put some leaves aside, tear the rest of them with your hands and put them to the chicken.
- Open the jar of beans, drain the liquid. Put the beans to the rest of the ingredients.
- Wash the tomatoes, cut them into cubes of medium size, add to the products in the bowl.
- Mix sour cream with mustard and salt. Whisk with a whisk so that the dressing acquires a uniform consistency.
- Pour the croutons into the bowl with the products, pour in the sauce, mix well.
Put salad leaves on a dish, put snack on them. Sour cream dressing in this recipe can be replaced by mayonnaise, but with it the snack will get a more banal taste, it will become less useful.
Chicken and green beans salad
Composition:
- chicken breast - 0, 5 kg;
- cherry tomatoes - 0, 25 kg;
- green beans - 150 g;
- leaf lettuce - 100 g;
- lemon - 0, 5 pcs .;
- vegetable oil - 40 ml;
- table mustard - 10 ml;
- garlic - 4 cloves;
- ginger root - 20 g;
- soy sauce - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Wash the beans, cut into pieces of about 1, 5-2 cm. You can use frozen.
- Boil the water, put the beans in it, boil it for 15 minutes, put it in cold water. After 5 minutes, drain in a colander, let dry.
- Boil chicken breast in salted water. After cooling it, peel off, separate the fillets from the bone. Slice the chicken meat into small pieces, place in a deep bowl.
- Add dried beans to the chicken.
- Wash tomatoes and dry with a kitchen towel. Cut into halves, put in a bowl with the rest of the products.
- Peel ginger root, chop grated. Put in a small container.
- Crush the garlic with a hand press, add to the ginger.
- Squeeze the juice from half a lemon, pour it into a container with ginger and garlic.
- Add mustard to the spicy mixture, grind to obtain a homogeneous composition.
- Add the butter and soy sauce, whisk thoroughly.
- Wash the lettuce leaves, dry and coarsely tear, put it on the dish.
- Pour some of the sauce over the lettuce leaves.
- Pour the remaining sauce in a bowl with the main ingredients, mix gently.
- Put snack on lettuce leaves.
Salad prepared according to this recipe has a spicy taste. The ingredients in its composition are useful, contribute to the activation of metabolism and weight loss. If the butter in the filling composition is replaced with unsweetened yoghurt, the snack will be low-calorie.
Salad with chicken, beans and mushrooms
Composition:
- chicken breast - 0, 4 kg;
- boiled or canned beans - 0, 25 kg;
- marinated mushrooms - 0, 25 kg;
- hard cheese - 100 g;
- green onions - 100 g;
- canned corn - 120 g;
- garlic - 2 cloves;
- rye bread - 100 g;
- vegetable oil - 40 ml;
- mayonnaise, salt - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Open the cans of canned food, fold the products in a colander, let excess liquid flow from them. Put in a bowl.
- Boil the chicken breast in salted water, separate the fillets, cut into small cubes and put to the rest of the products.
- Chop green onions, add to other ingredients.
- Cut off crusts from bread. Cut the pulp into small cubes.
- Cut the garlic cloves in half. Fry them for 3-4 minutes in vegetable oil, remove from the pan.
- Place the bread cubes in the place of the garlic. Brown them, put them on a baking sheet.
- Send a baking sheet for 10 minutes to an oven heated to 180 degrees. Cool the prepared croutons.
- Add the croutons to the food in the bowl, mix with the mayonnaise, put into a salad bowl.
- Coarsely rub the cheese, sprinkle them with a snack and serve.
Salad according to this recipe is hearty. Homemade croutons in its composition can be replaced with purchased croutons, boiled chicken breast - smoked. Then the taste of the snack will be more piquant.
Smoked Chicken Salad with Beans
Composition:
- smoked chicken breast - 0, 4 kg;
- chicken egg - 3 pcs .;
- onions - 100 g;
- canned beans - 0, 25 kg;
- mayonnaise - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Clean the onion, cut into thin quarters of rings, pour boiling water over it. After 2-3 minutes, drain the water.
- Open a jar of beans, fold it in a colander, let it dry.
- Separate the chicken breast meat from the bone, remove the skin from it. Cut the smoked chicken into small cubes.
- Boil eggs hard, cool under running cold water, free from husks and cut into thin slices.
- Put all ingredients in a bowl, season with mayonnaise.
It remains to shift the salad into a vase and serve. If desired, you can add pickles or canned mushrooms in the appetizer. It will give her a new taste.
How to decorate the salad with chicken and beans
Decoration of salad with chicken and beans depends on the recipe used snacks.
- The salad can be laid out on a platter, giving it the shape of a holiday symbol or cake. In the first case, you will need a stencil - a paper contour, inside which a small portion of lettuce is laid out with a non-thick layer. Then the stencil is removed, only after that the rest of the appetizer is laid out. The cylindrical shape of the snack helps to give a split baking dish. Inside the culinary wrap, the salad is laid out, tamped with a spoon, and only after that the form is removed.
- Chicken and beans salad can be decorated with flowers from vegetables that make up the snack. To make a flower from boiled carrots, it is cut into small plates. One is rolled up with a straw, the others are wrapped around it so that the result is a construction resembling a pink bud. The leaves of the flower are parsley. Similarly, flowers are made from cucumbers, radishes. If the dish contains eggs, flowers can be made from them.
- Green beans look good in a layered salad, but it will help to give a bright look to the snack, if used as a decor. From it you can lay out the contour, the sun's rays, any ornament, the inscription.
- When serving a portion of chicken and beans salad, use special forms with a press to give a snack a neat appearance. In the absence of the said fixture, the molds can be made from cans, cutting the bottom of them. Tamped salad in this case with a spoon.
The appetizer of beans and chicken will look beautiful if you put it on lettuce leaves.
Salad with chicken and beans is a tasty and satisfying treat that can be quickly prepared.
