Ingredients:

• Chicken fillet - 300 grams.
• Raisins b / c - 1 tbsp.
• Peeled walnuts - 1 tbsp.
• Onions - 2 pcs.
• Carrots - 1 pc.
• Orange - 1 pc.
• Sugar - 1 tbsp. l.
• Vinegar - 2 tbsp. l.
• Mayonnaise.
• Salt.

Zest of raisins

Salad with raisins will delight connoisseurs of exquisite flavor combinations and simple sweet teeth, because everyone likes dried grapes. Like other dried fruits, for example, prunes or dried apricots, raisins are actively used for making salads. Its flavor goes well with a wide variety of foods.

It is known that raisins are one of the most ancient types of dried fruits, whose manufacturing technology has not changed over several millennia. Today dried grapes are loved all over the world, especially in the Mediterranean and in the countries of the East.

Among the recipes for salads with raisins, you can find both exclusively dessert dishes from fruits and nutritious vegetable or meat snacks. Everyone knows a sweet carrot salad with raisins, which is perfect for breakfast or dessert. Sour cream, yogurt or honey are usually used as a dressing for such a dish.

But the same salad can be spicy if you add cheese to carrots and raisins, and season everything with mayonnaise. The situation is similar with other products, for example, a similar salad can be made from apples and raisins. By the way, a salad with carrots, apples and raisins will turn out to be very tasty. This food will be appreciated by supporters of healthy eating and dieting.

In salads, raisins go well with garlic and other hot ingredients. Few people have not prepared a salad of beets with garlic, but if you add raisins and nuts to it, the taste will become richer, and the appetizer itself is ideal for a festive table. By the way, beetroot salad with nuts and raisins can also be sweet, if you do not add garlic, but season it with sour cream or vegetable oil.

Raisins go well with nuts; there are a lot of salad recipes where both of these ingredients are found. It can also be light snacks or desserts, but you can also find complex layered salads, for example, with raisins and chicken, boiled vegetables. Most often, the salad is prepared with raisins and walnuts, but you can experiment and add peanuts, cashews, or pistachios.

By adding raisins to the salad, you can not only enjoy the amazing taste, but also feel the enormous benefits of dried grapes for the body. Raisins contain large amounts of B vitamins, iron and magnesium. Berries are rich in fiber, which is essential for normal digestion. And regular consumption of raisins in food will have a tonic effect on the body as a whole.

Among the many recipes with a photo, it is easy to choose salads with the addition of raisins for every taste: sweet or spicy, light vegetable or festive and hearty. And the most difficult moment in preparing a dish is to decide on the choice of raisins, because each of them is good in its own way.

Preparation

A puff salad with raisins and nuts will perfectly complement the festive menu, and it is not at all difficult to prepare it.

1. First, boil chicken fillet in salted water, then cool it and chop finely.
2. While the chicken is boiling, you need to pickle the onions. To do this, cut it into half rings, pour with vinegar, sprinkle with sugar, salt, leave for 15 minutes, then drain and squeeze out excess liquid.
3. Rinse the raisins well, soak in hot water for a few minutes.
4. Grate the peeled carrots on a coarse grater.
5. Peel the orange, free the pulp from the films, cut into slices.
6. Chop the nuts, you can pre-dry them in a pan.

It is better to lay out the salad in a deep glass salad bowl so that all the ingredients are clearly visible.

1. Fold the chicken to the bottom, grease it with mayonnaise, cover with pickled onions.
2. Lay raisins on top, make a mayonnaise mesh, put grated carrots on top.
3. Grease the last layer with mayonnaise, sprinkle with nuts.
4. Put the orange in the last layer.
5. Let the salad sit in the refrigerator for about an hour.

Variants

Salads from beets, raisins and walnuts are very tasty. One of the amazing recipes is worth using for the holiday, making the "Mistress" salad with raisins.

1. This salad with beets and raisins is flaky, but it is very simple to prepare.
2. Grate boiled beets, do the same with fresh carrots and cheese. Soak the raisins for the salad, like the prunes, the latter must be finely chopped afterwards.
3. Crush a few cloves of garlic, mix with cheese and mayonnaise.
4. For salad separately combine carrots with raisins, and beets with nuts, with the addition of mayonnaise.
5. First put the carrots with raisins in a salad bowl, then cover with a layer of cheese, and at the end put the beets and prunes.
6. Decorate the finished salad with beetroot and carrot roses, raisins and cheese shavings, put in the refrigerator for an hour.

Simple but tasty salads include a spicy beetroot snack with raisins and cheese. On a grater, you need to grind cheese and boiled beets, add steamed raisins and season everything with mayonnaise and garlic. You can add nuts and chopped herbs (parsley or cilantro) to a salad with cheese and raisins.

A delicious salad with raisins and prunes can be made with apples and chicken.

1. The fried chicken fillet should be cut into slices, the sour apple - into cubes.
2. Mix the steamed raisins with apples, put in a salad bowl, sprinkle with chopped walnuts.
3. Add chicken and chopped prunes. Mix the yogurt dressing with mayonnaise, lemon juice, ground pepper and salt.
4. Pour the sauce over the salad and mix well.

A simple raisin salad can be made with carrots, beets, apples, and garlic.

1. Boil or bake beets, cut into strips.
2. Add grated carrots, steamed raisins.
3. Add roasted nuts (pine nuts, walnuts, cashews, peanuts), chopped parsley, mayonnaise and garlic.
4. Salt, mix well.

You can use sweet apples instead of carrots.

By the way, you can make a bright fruit salad with apples and raisins.

1. To do this, cut the sweet apple into strips, you can also add grated carrots.
2. Combine well-washed raisins with an apple, put cashew nuts, a spoonful of liquid honey there.
3. Drizzle with yogurt, stir.
4. Arrange the raisin salad on plates, garnish with pomegranate or cranberries.

Provencal salad Squeeze the cabbage from the brine, finely chop, if large. Rinse and dry the raisins well. If using frozen cherries, defrost them in the air, rinse them first, and remove the pits. Squeeze marinated products, cut apples into & nbsp ...You will need: sauerkraut - 1 kg, raisins - 2/3 cup, apples - 3-4 pcs., Pickled lingonberries - 1/3 cup, pickled plums - 12-15 pcs., Pickled or frozen cherries - 2 cups, vegetable oil - 1/3 cup, onions - 2 heads, sugar, cinnamon, ...

Bean salad with raisins Cover the red beans with cold water and leave overnight. Drain the water. Pour the beans with 3 cups of cold water and boil until tender. Drain the broth. Season the beans with salt and pepper, put on a dish and sprinkle with chopped herbs. For request ...Required: red beans - 200 g, onions - 2 heads, vegetable oil - 2 tbsp. spoons, wine or apple cider vinegar - 2 tbsp. spoons, raisins - 1 tbsp. spoon, parsley - 1 bunch, garlic - 2 cloves, ground black pepper, salt

Olivier with chicken curry and raisins Combine mayonnaise, curry powder, and water well in a medium bowl. Add lemon-herb-fried chicken, chopped apple, celery, raisins and salt. Mix everything thoroughly. Cover and cool.Required: fat-free mayonnaise - 1/4 cup, curry powder - 1 teaspoon, water - 2 teaspoons, chicken fillet, chopped fried with lemon and herbs - 1 cup, Braburn apple, chopped - 3/4 cup, celery, diced - 1/3 cup, raisins - 3 tsp ....

Potato salad with mushrooms and nuts Rinse the potatoes, cook "in their uniforms", peel, cut into small cubes. Cut the apple into cubes and combine with potatoes. Sprinkle with lemon juice, add raisins, previously washed and steamed, and finely chopped o ...Required: salted mushrooms (mushrooms are better) - 150 g, canned peas - 250 g, seedless raisins - 3 tbsp. spoons, walnuts (peeled) - 2 tbsp. spoons, potatoes - 3 pcs., apple - 1 pc., juice of 1 lemon, herbs, green onions, salt, pepper, vegetable oil

Sweet salad "Snowman" Finely chop the boiled egg yolk and mix with the cheese. Add butter, sour cream crushed with sugar and mix thoroughly. Shape the resulting mass into a snowman. Garnish with raisins when serving.Required: hard cheese - 2 tbsp. spoons, butter - 1 tbsp. spoon, sugar - 1 tsp, sour cream - 1 tbsp. spoon, raisins - 1 tsp, egg - 1 pc.

Raisin salad Rinse the raisins, hold them in warm water for 0.5 hour, drain the water, rinse with boiled water, let the water drain and leave in a strainer overnight. The raisins will swell and dry out a little. Cut carrots into small cubes, mix with raisins. Grate sy ...You will need: hard cheese - 150 g, boiled carrots - 1-2 pcs., Pitted raisins - 100 g, garlic - 2-3 cloves, boiled beets - 400 g, walnuts - 100 g, mayonnaise - 5-6 tbsp. spoons

Algerian salad Cut the turkey fillet and apple into cubes, strawberries and peaches into slices. Finely chop the celery root. Mix yogurt with orange juice. Combine prepared salad ingredients by adding raisins. Before serving, pour over the dressing, ...You will need: greens, chopped hazelnuts - 2 cups, celery root - 1 pc., Pitted raisins - 2 cups, apple - 1 pc., Peaches - 2 pcs., Strawberries - 2 cups, boiled turkey fillet - 100 gr., orange juice - 2 tbsp spoons, yogurt - 1/3 cup

Salad with a twist Products ... Boil eggs, add to rice. Then corn ... Green onions ... Mayonnaise to taste ... And here is the "highlight" of the salad - a teaspoon of horseradish, it spices up any mayonnaise and there is no need to add to the dish! We spread on parsley leaves, decorate ...Required: A glass of rice, 0.5 cups of corn, 2-3 boiled eggs, Green onions, Parsley, Tomato, Mayonnaise, 1 tsp horseradish,

Salad with a twist Peel and seeds of pumpkin and apples, cut into small cubes. Rinse the raisins. Combine prepared foods, add sugar, cinnamon, sour cream, mix.Required: 250 g pumpkin, 2 apples, 0.5 cups of raisins, 3 tbsp. spoons of sour cream, 1 tbsp. a spoonful of sugar, a pinch of cinnamon.,

Summer freshness salad Peel the apple and celery root, cut into thin strips. Boil the celery for 5-8 minutes. Then cool and mix with the apple. For the sauce in a blender, beat the mayonnaise and cream, add the sauce to the apples and celery and put in the cold for 1.5 hours. chop and fry nuts ...Required: 1 celery root, 2 apples, 1 head of Chinese cabbage, 100 grams of walnuts, 100 grams of blue grapes, 1 tablespoon of raisins, for sauce, 100 grams of mayonnaise, 4 tablespoons of cream, salt

When I was preparing this salad with my godfather for the first time (by the way, it was on New Year's Eve), my husband looked into the kitchen. Seeing that the salad would contain a whole layer of raisins, he waved his hands and stamped his feet heart-rendingly (the gift of speech was taken away from him by surprise and indignation). It was then that he confidently stated that he categorically refuses to eat a sweet cake instead of a snack salad.

I don’t remember how we finally persuaded him to try the salad (apparently, the magic of New Year’s Eve had an effect), but since then my husband has ordered me to prepare a “Kiev” salad for any more or less holiday. That was the kind of love from the first spoon. And this love has lasted for over 10 years.

Moreover, even my mother-in-law - an incredible culinary conservative - loved this simple salad. So, feel free to try! Do not be afraid!

The ingredients are the simplest products: beets, carrots, garlic, hard cheese, raisins and mayonnaise.

It seems to me that you don't even have to buy anything especially for this salad, all these products are in every kitchen. And even more so for the holiday, cheese and mayonnaise will definitely be bought in abundance (with a margin, there are never many of them!).

I have no special wishes about cheese, I cooked with completely different varieties of hard cheese - it was always delicious. The only thing I would recommend is not to use bittersweet varieties of cheese (like Radomer, Maasdam, etc.), although, I think, without my wishes, no one would have rubbed such varieties of cheese into a salad. "Russian", "Dutch", "Creamy / Sour cream", "Bukovinsky / Poshekhonsky" are perfect.

I already wrote about the choice of mayonnaise in the recipe for another New Year's salad - here. Therefore, I consider it superfluous to repeat myself.

And finally, in the literal sense, the zest of our festive salad is raisins. Of course, if you choose the finest varieties of raisins, you won't go wrong. But even with simple, most ordinary raisins it will be delicious. This time I specially took the usual raisins - and the salad was a success!

Despite the fact that two main vegetables are used in the salad - beets and carrots - they will be presented in different forms: we take raw carrots, and boiled beets.

Therefore, the preparation of the salad should be started by boiling the beets. You can do the old proven way: just boil in a saucepan. True, it takes too long for me. In addition, I can forget about boiling beets, as a disastrous result - the pan will burn out. And I really do not like washing the pan after boiling the beets, because too bright marks remain on the walls of the dishes.

My favorite thing is to cook beets in the microwave. I put the washed root vegetables into a glass pan, pour cold water about one finger high, close the pan with a lid and put it in the microwave. I set the maximum power (already 800 is enough) and the cooking time is about 20 minutes. After the microwave gives a signal to stop cooking, do not rush to open the door, for about 5 minutes after turning off the cooking process takes place. The beets are ready: fast, simple, clean!

While it cools down, we'll take on the carrots.

It needs to be washed, peeled and grated on a coarse grater.

Also, on a coarse grater, it is worth grating hard cheese. Garlic should be chopped either in a garlic or on a fine grater. I would recommend mixing the cheese and garlic together to form a single flavor layer of the salad.

At this point, be sure to wash the raisins thoroughly and pour boiling water over them to soften the raisins.

Now we will also rub the peeled boiled beets. And then it's time to collect the layers of lettuce. You can simply put a layer in a salad bowl and cover it with a fine mesh of mayonnaise. And you can mix each layer with mayonnaise in separate bowls. This will allow the salad to soak faster.

So, lay the beet layer on the bottom of the salad bowl.

On top of it is a layer of carrots.

Now it's the turn of the cheese-garlic layer.

And finally, raisins.

This embossed salad is very difficult to decorate. Because of the layer of raisins, it looks like "Count Ruins" :) But - if you wish - you can make a small bright accent as a decoration.

Many of my friends are happy to complicate such a salad. No, it is not the cooking process that is complicated, but the flavoring bouquet. So, for example, steamed prunes can be added to the beetroot layer (agree, this is a classic combination ?!), and the layer of carrots can be enriched with dried apricots. True, the salad can get excessive piquancy and sweetness, but there are no comrades for the taste and color.

I am used to making Kievsky salad with raisins only.

I will definitely make this salad for the New Year's table (at the request of my husband, of course!). And I will do it in advance, for example, on December 30th.

The finished salad can be covered with cling film or foil and refrigerated. It will look great on New Year's Eve: infused, soaked. All that remains is to refresh the top mayonnaise layer and decorate the dish a little.

Bon Appetit!

Try, experiment, look for your ideal harmonious combination of products.

Prepare the necessary form for the salad, in which the salad will be laid out in layers. Wash fresh carrots, peel, grind and put in the first layer. Top with mayonnaise.

Wash the raisins and steam in boiling water for several minutes. This will make it more tender. Dry the dried fruit with a paper towel and sprinkle on top of the carrots, also brushing over the sauce.

It is necessary to prepare a gas station. Grind cheese, garlic cloves and mix with mayonnaise. Add salt and pepper to taste, mix thoroughly and put the resulting mixture on top of the dish.

Wash the beets and boil until tender. Peel the cooled vegetable, grate and put in the next layer.

Finely chop the walnuts with a knife or grate. Sprinkle with finishing layer and cover with mayonnaise paste.

The Mistress salad is ready. Bon Appetit! Carefully separate the container so as not to damage the shape of the dish. Can be served, garnished with herbs or whole nuts.