Salads decorate any feast, each hostess knows at least a dozen recipes for every day and even more festive options. This article is one of the most delicious salad appetizers with chicken, grapes and walnuts.
How to prepare the ingredients
Lettuce, which will be discussed, is called "Tiffany." A delicate, tasty and satisfying dish has undergone many additions and replacement of ingredients since its appearance, but the classic version will be considered in the article.
To make the dish balanced in taste, you need to correctly select and prepare the ingredients:
- When choosing grapes, preference should be given to white varieties, since they are less sweet than dark ones. Blue berries can be included for decoration in a minimal amount. Quiche-mish is ideal for salads: it does not need to be cut, it is small, and most importantly its advantage is the absence of seeds.
- Chicken to preserve juiciness when cooking is dipped in boiling water. If you cook, lowering it initially into cold water, it will turn out to be rather dry. Do not experiment with chicken, choosing another part of the carcass. Chicken breast is the softest and is well divided into fibers, and the drumstick or thigh has veins.
- To make it easier to peel the eggshell, the water is slightly salted during cooking.
- Hard cheese is best rubbed chilled.
- When buying, you need to inspect: the kernels should be dry and evenly painted golden brown.
Did you know? According to one version, the salad appeared in 2003, a girl with the nickname Tiffany posted the recipe on the Internet on the culinary site. The dish instantly gained popularity in many countries, getting the name from the nickname of its creator.
Recipe
4 40 min.
olive oil
2-3 tbsp. l
Nutritional value per 100 g:
- First boil the chicken in salted water. Also put boiled eggs. Then cut into pieces and fry in olive oil, sprinkled with curry until golden brown.
- Boiled eggs and cheese are rubbed on a coarse grater.
- Grind nuts into crumbs with a blender or knead with a rolling pin.
- Wash and dry lettuce leaves on a kitchen towel.
- Wash and separate grapes from twigs. If it is seedless and not large, you can use whole berries. If with seeds, it is better to cut along in half and remove the seeds.
- Put the leaves on the dish so that the tips slightly protrude beyond the edge of the dish.
- Then put the chicken disassembled into fibers, grease this layer with a tablespoon of mayonnaise.
- Then sprinkle evenly with nut crumbs, do not need to cover this layer with mayonnaise, it will be too greasy.
- The next layer is boiled, grated eggs, a layer of mayonnaise - 1 tbsp. l
- Distribute cheese on top, grease with mayonnaise.
- The final touch is grape decoration. It is laid over the entire surface of the salad, slightly pressing into a soft layer.
- For good soaking, the dish is cleaned in the refrigerator for 1-2 hours.
This dish diversifies the everyday menu and decorates the festive table. The beauty of the salad is that you can experiment with the recipe by adding new ingredients, changing the dressing and serving style.Important! For a pillow, a Lollo-Ross salad is ideal, which is famous for its soft transition of green leaves to a dark burgundy tone and a pleasant fresh note in taste.
