Salad with nuts and chicken in recipes is called differently: "Royal", "Original" and "Exotic". Also, the components that make up the dish are slightly different, but the mandatory ingredients are chicken and walnuts.
The easiest way to make a meat salad with walnuts is to cut chicken and walnut kernels, mix, season with mayonnaise - it will turn out quite tasty and satisfying dish.
But, you can, adding other ingredients, make a variety of taste and appearance of delicious salads with nuts, which will be a real decoration of the festive table.
We offer several recipes for salads with nuts, the preparation of which will be simple and effortless.
Salad with nuts and prunes
Ingredients:
- chicken breast - 300 g;
- prunes without pips - 25 pcs .;
- walnut kernels - ½ cup;
- garlic - 2 cloves;
- lemon juice - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
- mayonnaise - 250 g;
- salt to taste.
Preparation
Soak the boiling water in prunes for 15-20 minutes. Cut the boiled chicken breast into cubes. Steamed prunes cut straws, nuts chopped large.
For the sauce finely rub garlic, pour lemon juice, add salt and mayonnaise, all carefully mix together with the remaining components of the salad. In the fridge we let you stand for 2-3 hours and then we serve it to the table.
In the proposed recipe you can add boiled, diced carrots and potatoes, and you will get another variation of this salad.
Another proposed recipe for a delicious salad with walnuts guarantees a rapid saturation due to the content of mushrooms in it.
Salad with nuts and mushrooms
Ingredients:
- chicken fillet - 400 g;
- eggs - 4 pieces;
- cheese - 150 g;
- champignons - 400 g;
- onion - 2 pcs .;
- walnut kernels - ½ cup;
- home-made mayonnaise - 250 g;
- salt and ground black pepper to taste;
- vegetable oil for frying onions.
Preparation
Onions cut into cubes, fry until golden. Chicken and eggs are also cut into small cubes, and mushrooms - plates. Grind the nuts. All ingredients are mixed, add grated cheese and homemade mayonnaise , salt and pepper.
The last two salads will be especially presentable in a transparent, colorless glass or crystal salad bowl.
Also, in each of the proposed recipes, it is possible to replace boiled chicken meat with smoked chicken leg or even fried chicken meat, the dish will receive new flavor nuances that you will like.
Salad with chicken and walnuts
Ingredients:
- eggs - 4 pieces;
- hard cheese - 150 g;
- boiled chicken fillet - 300 g;
- walnut kernels - 3/4 cup;
- sour apple - 1 piece;
- onion - 1 pc .;
- table vinegar (9%) - 4 tbsp. spoons;
- Salt and sugar for pickling onions to taste;
- mayonnaise - 200 g.
Preparation
Onions are cut into cubes and marinated in vinegar with salt and sugar added for 1 hour. Eggs are boiled, egg white finely chopped, yolk is rubbed into crumbs. Nuts should be crushed, apples grate on a large grater. Chicken meat is cut into small cubes.
Salad with an apple , chicken and nuts spread in the dishes layers, lightly ramming each layer with a spoon:
- 1 layer - crushed yolks;
- 2 layer - cheese, cover with mayonnaise;
- 3 layer - 1/3 walnuts;
- 4 layer - grated apples, cover with mayonnaise;
- 5 layer - 1/3 of walnuts;
- 6 layer - chicken meat;
- 7 layer - marinated onion, mayonnaise;
- 8 layer - 1/3 of walnuts;
- 9 layer - protein from the egg.
After all the layers are laid, take a beautiful plate. Before us is the task - turn the salad on the plate, so that the last layer becomes the top one. For this, we will walk along the edges of the dishes with a salad, slightly separating it, and turn it sharply onto the plate. Align the salad and decorate it on top at your discretion, for example, with twigs of greenery.