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Chicken salad is on the table for almost every person. It is very easy to prepare, has excellent taste, especially if you choose the right combination of products. For its preparation, you can use any ingredients you like. The whole secret is in the correct, harmonious selection. Salad "Birch with chicken fillet", in the best possible way, combines these rules. An excellent combination of products plus an unforgettable taste will not leave you indifferent. The ingredients for the dish can be cut, chopped or grated. Chicken salad tastes fantastic. Do not blindly adhere to clear instructions. They simply do not exist. Imagine!
You will need:
We boil the chicken fillet in slightly salted water. Chop the mushrooms, green onions and boiled chicken. In boiled eggs, separate the white from the yolk, rub on a grater. Now we collect our salad. We put the meat on the bottom, then the mushrooms, grated protein, followed by the yolk. Sprinkle everything with green onions. All layers are smeared with mayonnaise among themselves. You can draw a birch on the background of a shabby yolk with mayonnaise. Make leaves from green onions. It will be very festive. Our "birch" is ready. It's simple.
Chicken provides our body with such essential fat-soluble vitamins as A, D, E. Minerals contained in meat play an important biological role in the human body. Ideal for athletes as well as those on a diet.
The chicken salad, the recipe for which is presented here, is a classic. If you would like to slightly change its taste, then you can add prunes. Then your salad will sparkle with different colors. Prunes add spicy notes to the recipe, the taste becomes richer and more interesting. Salad "Birch with chicken fillet and prunes" will decorate any festive table. Surprise your guests.
For a salad with prunes you will need:
Cooking salad with prunes. Boil the meat. Leave to cool. Cut the onion into thin half rings and pour over boiling water to remove the bitterness, and then immediately put it under cold water. Then the onion will not lose its juiciness and firmness. Let the water drain well and mix with a few tablespoons of mayonnaise. Let it stand for 15-20 minutes. In the meantime, we cut the meat, grate the eggs, the yolks are separate from the proteins. Dried fruits for salad are well washed and chopped. Everything is ready for picking the prune salad. At the bottom of the plate we put chicken, pickled onions, prunes, grated whites and yolks on top. Coat the salad with mayonnaise. Decorate the top with green onions. Salad "Birch with chicken fillet and prunes" is ready. Try it! Prune food is famous for its unique taste.
Prunes are the magician among dried fruits. It contains many useful properties that have a positive effect on the human body. It has a general strengthening immunostimulating effect. Prunes are treated with vitamin deficiency and anemia. It helps with diseases of the stomach and intestines, people suffering from constipation, acting as a laxative. Enough high-calorie.
There is also another recipe that includes mushrooms. Cook it, you will like it with its delicate taste and aroma.
For cooking you will need:
Boil the meat, cut into arbitrary pieces. Fry mushrooms in a pan with vegetable oil, salt and pepper to taste. Cool it down. We put the chicken on the bottom of the plate, fill it with mushrooms, grated whites on top, then the yolks. Decorate the top with green onions. We smear the layers with each other with mayonnaise. You can enjoy the unique taste of the mushroom and chicken dish.
According to the latest research by scientists, it was found that there is almost no cholesterol and sodium in mushrooms. They are low in calories. They also contain useful dietary fiber, which, when entering our intestines with mushrooms, has a beneficial effect on it. Mushrooms have properties to positively influence the cells of the immune system. Indicated for the fight against malignant tumors. The antioxidants found in mushrooms are beneficial for the kidneys, liver, bone marrow and eyes.
If you want a delicate and light salad, then we present a version of this dish with cucumbers.
Ingredients:
Cook the meat, cool and cut into cubes. We rub the eggs separately from the whites of the yolks. Cut the cucumbers finely, fresh can be grated on a coarse grater. we lay in layers: chicken, cucumbers, protein, yolk, green onions. Grease each layer with sour cream or yogurt. The most delicate dish is ready to eat. Useful and a minimum of calories. Enjoy your meal.
Important! How to store salads correctly?
If the salad consists of a large number of components, then it is better to store it in the refrigerator without mayonnaise. Maximum one day. Season the salad just before serving. If you store a salad dressed with mayonnaise, then its refrigeration time is reduced to six hours. It is especially important to comply with these norms in the summer, when pathogenic bacteria develop very quickly. Salad is a perishable product! Take care of your health.
Such a salad will be a salvation for any hostess who wants to surprise her guests and quickly create a masterpiece. The salad contains the simplest products. But the main element will be YOUR FANTASY in the design of this dish. For serving, it is better to use a herring so that the dish looks oblong, like the trunk of a birch.
Birch salad with chicken fillet can be decorated with parsley sprigs, imitating the green foliage of a tree.
Prunes bring a special piquancy and sweet note, it is better not to replace it with anything. Guests and family members will be amazed at your culinary talents.
The original salad recipe, the simplest ingredients. Unpretentious in design.
Ingredients:
Preparation:
It is better to pour prunes in warm water in advance, boil chicken fillet, eggs and cool
Cut fresh cucumbers and prunes into strips.
We cut the chicken fillet, three eggs on a grater. Fry onions and mushrooms.
Put layers in a salad bowl: prunes, mayonnaise, mushrooms, onions, salt a little, mayonnaise, chicken fillet, salt, pour with mayonnaise, eggs, mayonnaise again, cucumbers, mayonnaise.
We decorate the salad with herbs and prunes. We put the salad in the refrigerator for 2 hours.
You can slightly diversify the classic recipe with the help of smoked chicken fillet and walnuts.
Ingredients:
Preparation:
Cut the fillet, prunes and cucumber into strips.
Three eggs on a fine grater in a separate bowl, add 120g of mayonnaise, salt and pepper. Mix thoroughly.
Pre-soaked prunes, soak and dry between two paper towels
We take an oblong and deep shape, pre-cover with cling film.
Lay out in layers: chicken fillet, prunes and finely chopped walnuts, cucumbers, chicken fillet, mushroom onions. Each layer, EXCEPT THE LAST, coat with an egg and mayonnaise.
Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate for 2 hours.
We spread the salad on a dish, coat the top with mayonnaise and decorate with prunes.
For a detailed video with a recipe for such a salad, see below:
Birch salad can be prepared using not only fried champignons, but also other forest mushrooms to your taste. But first they need to be boiled and fried with onions.
Ingredients:
Preparation:
Cut the boiled fillet and cucumbers into strips. Cut the prunes.
Separate the yolks and whites, grate on a fine grater.
We spread the prunes, pour with mayonnaise.
Do not pour a thick layer and try to smudge it, just make a "mesh" on top
Then cucumbers, mayonnaise, and egg whites (making a white trunk).
Decorate, you can make "fly agaric" from tomatoes (as in the photo).
Most birch salad recipes use prunes. But if you don't have prunes on hand and you just don't like its taste, you can replace it. The recipe below uses black olives.
Ingredients:
Preparation:
Choose bigger champignons
Coarsely chop the mushrooms. Fry each mushroom separately. Leave the mushrooms for decoration.
Place the sliced \u200b\u200bchicken in a dish. We coat with mayonnaise, salt and pepper.
We spread the mushrooms, chopped pickled cucumbers and olives.
Sprinkle with finely chopped green onions.
Rub the eggs on a fine grater on top. We make a mesh of mayonnaise.
If you make a mesh of mayonnaise, and not smear and crush it with a spoon, the salad will remain airy, light.
Three cheese on top.
We decorate the salad.
The main ingredients of the salad will be summer fresh vegetables (you can also do without chicken fillet).
Ingredients:
Preparation:
All ingredients are cut, stacked in layers. Salt each layer a little and make a mayonnaise mesh. Top layer - bell pepper, mayonnaise, grated egg.
Decorate as in the photo.
Another of the cooking options for the very popular Birch salad. In this recipe, chicken is also used, and potatoes with carrots are present.
Ingredients:
Preparation:
Finely chop all ingredients.
Separate the yolks from the whites, rub on a fine grater.
Lay out in layers. Finely chopped onions, pickled cucumbers, boiled carrots, grated on a fine grater, grease with mayonnaise.
We put chicken, pickled mushrooms, potatoes (it is better to grate), mayonnaise.
Sprinkle everything with cheese and yolk.
For convenience, you can use a food bag with mayonnaise. This makes the lines thinner.
We decorate as desired.
This recipe will help you out if one ingredient was not at hand - mushrooms. But this does not matter, the salad will turn out to be no worse than the classic Birch recipe.
Ingredients:
Preparation:
All ingredients are finely chopped and laid out in layers. Salt each layer a little and grease with mayonnaise.
Also, the salad can be simply mixed with mayonnaise, only in this case it is better to season the salad before serving.
A variation of this recipe for the winter, when you can use pickled cucumbers instead of fresh ones.
Ingredients:
Preparation:
Cut the fillets.
Fry mushrooms with onions.
Finely chop the pickled cucumbers.
Put in a salad bowl in layers: mushrooms, chicken breast, mayonnaise, grated protein, pickled cucumbers.
Thoroughly grease the top layer with mayonnaise, sprinkle with grated yolk. Decorate as in the photo.
Not everyone loves fresh onions in a salad, but you can replace it. An excellent alternative is pickled red (Yalta) onion. This ingredient will add a pleasant crunch to the dish.
Ingredients:
Preparation:
Marinate the Yalta onions in vinegar and sugar for 2 hours.
Chop the rest of the ingredients, grate (whites and yolks separately - if laid out in layers).
You can mix the salad with mayonnaise, salt and pepper.
Sprinkle the top layer with yolks. Decorate to your liking.
It is better to cook such a salad in a larger and deeper form. An excellent solution for a large family. Also, this salad will be an excellent decoration for a festive New Year's table.
Ingredients:
Preparation:
Cut all the ingredients, grate the eggs.
Salt the chicken fillet. Season with a little mayonnaise. We put it in the form.
Sprinkle with grated egg. We make a mayonnaise mesh.
We spread chopped walnuts (hazelnuts can be used) and prunes.
We spread the sliced \u200b\u200bcucumbers. Salt.
Pour in the pickled mushrooms. Lubricate liberally with mayonnaise. We spread the prunes in strips.
The French version of this salad is not much different in composition from our "Russian birch", but there are some nuances. Perfect for a romantic dinner.
Ingredients:
Preparation:
Pour prunes with warm water, let stand. Drain, pat dry with a towel, cut into strips.
Cut the fillet. Grate hard cheese, boiled eggs and mix with mayonnaise (leave a little grated egg for the top layer).
Layer gently on a plate. First, sprinkle the chicken with prunes, make a light mesh of mayonnaise. We spread the carrots in Korean, again pour mayonnaise, cucumber.
We spread the cheese and egg dressing, sprinkle with grated eggs.
Decorate with herbs and nuts.
In this version of this salad, you can replace the chicken fillet with boiled legs, their meat will not be so dry. We also add potatoes and any mushrooms. And we will not add prunes, we will replace it with black olives.
Ingredients:
Preparation:
We cut all the ingredients, grate potatoes, cucumber, eggs on a coarse grater.
We leave some of the olives for decoration. Chop the rest of the olives - the first layer. We spread the chicken, mayonnaise.
Pour mushrooms, mayonnaise.
Three potatoes, pour out, do not crush much. We coat well with mayonnaise. Add eggs. Pour in grated cucumber, mayonnaise.
We decorate the salad.
The composition of the Birch salad can be endlessly supplemented with new ingredients, but it will go well with sweet prunes and walnuts - an apple. A proven and delicious recipe.
Ingredients:
Preparation:
Fry onions with mushrooms.
Cut the chicken breast and mix with mayonnaise.
We rub the cheese on a coarse grater.
Finely chop the prunes and apples.
Layer mushrooms, mayonnaise, apples (not too thick), chicken breast, salt, cucumber, prunes, mayonnaise, cheese, a little mayonnaise, sprinkle with walnuts. We decorate as desired.
What happens if you replace chicken fillet with chicken liver? The new Berezka salad, which is in no way inferior to the classic recipe. Such a dish can be different every time.
Ingredients:
Preparation:
If you chose the liver, chop and fry with onions. Just boil the chicken fillet in salted water.
Finely chop potatoes, finely grate eggs and cheese.
The salad can be laid out in layers, smearing with mayonnaise and sour cream, or mix everything.
At the bottom there must be fillet (liver), sprinkle the top with grated yolks.
Garnish with chopped olives.
Ingredients:
Festive dishes should be distinguished not only by excellent taste, but also by an original way of serving. Birch salad is just one of such appetizers. It will decorate any meal, but it will disappear from the plate faster than other treats, because such fresh and beautiful salads are especially popular among guests.
Usually Beryozka salad is prepared with chicken fillet and prunes, thanks to which the taste is spicy, and the dish itself is quite satisfying. The salad owes its name to the resemblance to the trunk of a birch tree, where black marks are visible on a white background.
Often, the appetizer is decorated with sprigs of parsley, depicting green foliage, or salad leaves. As a dressing, both ordinary mayonnaise and homemade mayonnaise are used, the latter will significantly improve the taste of the dish.
The Birch salad is layered, but it is easy to do, and a step-by-step recipe with a photo will help even inexperienced housewives prepare the appetizer correctly.
Cooking Birch salad with prunes will take no more than 40 minutes, but it is worth preparing the products in advance.
Birch salad with chicken fillet can be prepared with any mushrooms, not only with champignons. In this case, they should be pre-cooked (about 10 minutes) and only then fried with onions.
It is better to lay out layers of Birch salad prepared according to this step-by-step recipe on a flat dish.
Cut the remaining prunes into strips and put on top of the dish, imitating the marks on the birch. Decorate the "Birch" salad with prunes with parsley sprigs, as you can see in the photo. Before serving, the dish should be infused in the refrigerator for at least 2 hours.
If you prepare a Birch salad according to a recipe with prunes, then lay out the layers in the shape of a rectangle. This will make the finished dish look more like a tree trunk.
You can supplement the salad with a layer of grated cheese, laid in front of the proteins. Garlic and black pepper are sometimes added to mayonnaise, which is applied to the layers. Due to these ingredients, the taste of the salad will turn out to be more piquant.
The recipe for the "Birch" salad can be slightly modified and the dish can be decorated in a different way. In this case, the prunes are not added, and the pickled cucumbers are placed. Layers are best laid out in the form of an oval or rectangle, and their order is somewhat different from the previous step-by-step recipe.
Birch salad is formed in the following order: fried mushrooms, chicken, proteins, cucumbers, yolk. Lubricate all layers with mayonnaise, except for the last one. On top of the yolks, draw the trunk and branches of the future tree with mayonnaise.
Cut the olives into thin strips and place them on the mayonnaise strips. Sprinkle the pattern around the edges with finely chopped green onions or parsley, forming foliage. In the photo you can see the ideas of decorating the Birch salad with mushrooms and herbs.
Recipes with photos will help you quickly prepare a Birch salad and serve it in an original way. There is no need to be afraid to show imagination when decorating a dish, you can even change the order of layers, creating your own "Birch" or even a whole forest.
It is not at all necessary to always cook the same variation of the dish, because the Birch salad can consist of a wide variety of ingredients - try experimenting!
The classic recipe is where to start. The dish turns out to be tender and slightly sweet.
We decorate the salad with chicken and prunes, using mayonnaise to form a birch trunk. We make leaves with greens, and bark with prunes.
"Birch" with prunes and crab sticks is a relatively new recipe.
But you can be sure that this is a very interesting combination of ingredients.
Decorate the dish with lettuce leaves, herbs, mayonnaise and olives.
Calorie content: Not specified
Time for preparing: Not indicated
Once the famous Julia Child said that at home it is also quite possible to cook delicious and admirable dishes. And the more ingredients there are in the dish, the more sophisticated its taste will be. Although they can also have a delicious taste, but this, of course, in the event that they are selected correctly and go well with each other.
The “Birch” salad, a step-by-step recipe with a photo of which we are sharing with you, in theory has nothing to do with French cuisine, but the set of products and the technology of its preparation suggest that such a salad may well be considered a gourmet restaurant dish. At the same time, it is prepared from simple and affordable ingredients.
Chicken meat for a salad can either be boiled with vegetables and spices, or marinated in a sauce and then baked. It will be very tasty if you prepare salsa from tomatoes and onions for the marinade. To do this, ripe tomato fruits and peeled onions, turnips must be baked in the oven for 15-20 minutes. And then remove the peel from the tomatoes and beat them with a blender along with onions, spices, garlic and herbs. In this sauce, marinate the chicken, and then put it in a roasting sleeve and bake it until tender.
We will put mushrooms stewed into the salad. This is done in order to give them juiciness and a certain taste. It is very important to choose the right mushrooms in the store, if you take large mushrooms with gray caps, then be sure that they are not as tasty and juicy as young mushrooms. Which have white small hats with a thin film and a delicate, subtle scent. Champignons can be eaten raw, but we will peel them for salad, chop them and fry them with onions.
Hard cheese is an equally important ingredient in the salad. It should harmonize all the flavors in the dish, so it is best to buy a spicy, spicy cheese with a nutty flavor.
The salad will also contain such an ingredient as prunes, it's like a cherry on a cake - the final touch in the flavor palette of the salad.
It is necessary to present the Birch salad in a flaky form, each layer will be slightly coated with mayonnaise.
Ingredients:
- boiled chicken meat - 300 g,
- fresh mushrooms champignons - 150 g,
- turnip onion - 1 pc,
- prunes - 150 g,
- hard cheese - 70 g,
- table chicken eggs - 4 pcs,
- fresh cucumber - 1 pc,
- sunflower oil - 20 g,
- mayonnaise - 150 g.
Recipe with photo step by step:
Peel the mushroom caps, rinse in cold water and cut into small cubes.
Finely chop the onion peeled from the husk.
Saute the onions and mushrooms for 5-7 minutes in vegetable oil until the water evaporates and they change their color.
Cut boiled or baked chicken into thin strips and put on a flat dish. Smear on top with mayonnaise.
Next, put a layer of finely chopped onions and also coat it with mayonnaise.
Then we cut the cucumber, spread it in the next layer and grease it with mayonnaise.
Now put the washed and chopped prunes, smear with mayonnaise. We leave a couple of prunes for decoration.
The turn came to lay out the mushrooms with onions, I did not grease this layer with mayonnaise.
Boil hard-boiled chicken eggs and divide them into whites and yolks. Grind the yolks and cover the next layer with them and again spread with mayonnaise.
Now sprinkle the salad with hard cheese and coat with mayonnaise.
And finally, cover the salad with grated proteins.
For decoration, put slices of prunes and parsley on the salad.
But even if there are not many ingredients in a dish, it can still be delicious. Proof of this can be