Chicken is present in many salads, adding nutrients to them, but not making them heavier. One of the popular recipes, with the addition of mushrooms, is described below with detailed cooking recommendations. Learn how to treat yourself and guests to a delicious salad.
Selection and preparation of ingredients
The best part of chicken for salad is the breast, it is boiled quickly and is well divided into fibers. When processing meat, you do not have to remove cartilage, films and connective tissue. The pulp of the bird easily leaves the skeleton. The choice of fresh champignons requires a careful inspection of the goods.
Signs of high quality:
- fruit body color - white or golden beige;
- surface is dry and elastic;
- smell - absent or light mushroom;
- the plates under the hat are light, the hat itself is not fully open.
Important! The more the mushroom hat is opened, the darker its plates, the older the specimen. An old mushroom accumulates alkaloids and decay products of its own fatty substances, such champignon is unhealthy.
Chicken and Mushroom Salad Recipe
700-800 g35-45 minutes
vegetable oil
2-3 tbsp. l
Nutritional value per 100 g:
- While the breast is cooked, cut the mushrooms into plates and fry with chopped onion in half rings. At the end of frying, when the products turn golden brown, salt and pepper.
- Peel boiled eggs and cut into cubes. Chicken breast also cut into pieces.
- Grate the cheese. Dry the nuts in a pan and chop.
- Before layering the salad, it is advisable to place the fried mushrooms with onions on a paper towel to remove excess oil.
- Put the first layer - mushroom with onion.
- Following are the meat pieces, they must be greased with mayonnaise.
- The next layer is boiled eggs, also coated with mayonnaise.
- Then nuts and cheese, and grease with dressing again.
- To finally prepare a dish for serving, you can decorate it with halves of walnut kernels.
Video recipe
Did you know? It is useful to eat chicken for mental workers engaged in social or educational fields: the niacin element in meat strengthens nerve fibers and stimulates brain function.
So, a simple recipe promises great pleasure. Chicken salad with mushrooms is tender and textured thanks to nuts. And when choosing a light low-calorie mayonnaise as a dressing, the dish will not be too heavy.
