A beautiful snack on the festive table is a matter of first importance, when the turn comes to a festive meal. The salad, which we will talk about in this article, combines the two main criteria of a beautiful dish - beauty and taste, and in addition, originality, thanks to the "zest" of a dish in the form of kiwi.
Prepare malachite bracelet will be able even a novice cook, and recipes we will share below.
Classic "Malachite bracelet"
The traditional version of the salad includes in its list quite a usual set of products: eggs, chicken, carrots, mayonnaise, but what's forgotten overseas kiwi? Let's understand together.
Ingredients:
- chicken (fillet, or thigh) - 150 g;
- eggs - 2 pieces;
- kiwi fruit - 2 pcs .;
- carrots - 1 piece;
- apple - 1 piece;
- mayonnaise - to taste;
- lemon juice - to taste;
- salt pepper.
Preparation
Let's start with the preliminary preparation of ingredients: chicken, eggs and carrots boil, and then cool. Meat cut into cubes, carrots rubbed on the grater, the same way we do with the apple, not forgetting to sprinkle it with lemon juice.
Now the turn comes to the nail of the program - kiwi. We remove the sweet fruit from the skin, cut it in half, and then thinly cut about half of the fruit for decoration. The remaining kiwi is cut into cubes.
Boiled eggs are divided into yolks and proteins, and rub each part separately.
All the prepared ingredients are laid out on a flat dish, having previously placed a glass in the center of it. Lay the layers in the following sequence: chicken, kiwi, egg whites, carrots and an apple. Each layer is blotted with mayonnaise, and sprinkle the top of the salad with grated yolk and decorate with kiwi semicircles.
"Malachite bracelet" with grapes
Malachite coloring of the dish can be given not only with the help of kiwi fruit, but also with the help of more familiar grape berries in cold snacks.
Ingredients:
- chicken fillet - 1 piece;
- eggs - 2 pieces;
- green grapes - 1 cluster;
- cheese - 100 g;
- walnut - 1 handful;
- a mixture of sour cream and mayonnaise - to taste.
Preparation
Chicken fillet cut into strips and fry in a pan, seasoned with salt and pepper. Eggs boil hard. Grapes grind with a knife, or a blender. Hard cheese rubbed on a large grater.
Lay the salad layers, seasoning each of them with creamy-mayonnaise sauce. We spread the salad in the following order: chicken, cheese, grated eggs on a large grater, pieces of walnut. The final malachite layer is laid out with grape berries, which must first be cut and peeled.
"Malachite bracelet" with kiwi and raisins
What if in the "Malachite bracelet" in addition to kiwi add a real zest?
Ingredients:
- kiwi fruit - 2 pcs .;
- raisins - 1 handful;
- eggs - 2 pieces;
- hard cheese - 150 g;
- carrots - 1 piece;
- garlic - 1 clove;
- walnuts - 1 handful;
- mayonnaise - to taste.
Preparation
Raisins steamed in boiling water for 5 minutes, after which the water is drained, and the boiled berries are dried with a kitchen towel. Eggs
Such a vegetarian salad will perfectly decorate the festive table, and any meat-eater can supplement this variation of the "Malachite bracelet" with boiled, or smoked chicken , or ham.