Selection of chicken fillet salads

Chicken salads have long and firmly established themselves at the top of the Russian culinary rating. Recall at least the salad "Caesar", without which it is difficult to imagine any menu in catering establishments - from a cafe at the station to an expensive restaurant.





This salad is popular among housewives due to the fact that chicken meat is quickly cooked, it is available, and also goes well with many products: vegetables, fruits, cheese, mushrooms, nuts.

And many people love diet salads with chicken for the fact that they, with all their nutritional value, cause minimal damage to the female figure. In this sense, low-fat chicken fillets are simply indispensable.





It is with chicken that the most delicious salads are made! "Site" I've got 12 best recipes for you.

The best taste of chicken salad can be achieved if you use not boiled chicken, but pre-soaked in a marinade and grilled or baked in foil.





With this method of cooking chicken fillets becomes fragrant, juicy and tender, and this, in turn, can not but affect the taste of our favorite salads.

Contrary to popular belief, the salad is not named after the great Roman emperor. The world-famous Caesar salad was created in Mexico by Italian immigrant Caesar Cardini.





It happened in 1924 in Tijuana, Mexico, where Cardini was the chef of a restaurant. According to legend, the restaurant had so many visitors on Independence Day that the kitchen ran out of food.

Caesar Cardini began to improvise what was left. So came the recipe for one of the most famous and common salads. Today, many cooks prepare Caesar in their own way.





Both meat (bacon, ham, chicken, turkey) and seafood (shrimp, herring fillets, anchovies) are put in it. Let’s try to get close to the original. Caesar salad with chicken and tomatoes.

Salad ingredients

• 400g chicken fillet
• 200g cherry tomatoes
• 150g parmesan
• 5-6 quail eggs
• 1 knot of iceberg lettuce
• 100g crackers
• salt and pepper

Sauce ingredients

• 2 chicken eggs
• 50ml olive oil
• 1 tsp mustard
• 2 tbsp lime juice (lemon)
• 3 cloves of garlic
• 80g parmesan

Preparation

1. Mix in a bowl of blender chicken eggs, squeeze garlic and lime juice. Add olive oil, cheese grated on a very fine grater, mustard.
2. Beat all the ingredients of the sauce to uniformity.
3. Cut the chicken fillet into flat strips, each salted and peppered, roast to a golden crust. Cut into identical pieces.
4. Cut cherry tomatoes and boiled quail eggs in half. Divide the salad head into leaves. Parmesan sodium.
5. The recipe for salad provides a special design. First, put on a plate of lettuce leaves, on them in the center pieces of fillets, and on the edges - eggs and tomatoes.
6. Cheese and crackers on top.
7. Pour it all with cooked sauce.
8. Bon appetit!

Earlier, we shared with readers the recipe for another world famous salad. Waldorf salad was invented in the restaurant of the fashionable New York hotel Waldorf-Astoria. Today it is a classic of world cuisine, which is most likely to be found in any major hotel.

Beijing cabbage salad with chicken fillet and crackers



A kind of variation on the theme of Caesar salad with Beijing cabbage. Among all types of cabbage, Beijing is the juiciest. And among the crunchy ones, it is also the softest. Doctors recommend including dishes from it in the menu of diabetics and patients suffering from heart disease.

The ingredients

• 1 stud of Peking cabbage
• 1 chicken fillet
• 1 bulb (optional)
• 1 jar of canned corn
• 1-2 parsley branches
• olive-oil
• lemon juice or balsamic vinegar to taste
• crackers
• salt, oregano, black ground pepper to taste

Preparation

1. Cut the cabbage into a thin straw.
2. Frozen chicken fillet lightly, some pepper and salty. Roast the chicken fillet on the grill or pan until ready.
3. Cut the onions and parsley leaves fine.
4. Mix in a large salad bowl sliced Peking cabbage, canned corn grains, sliced parsley and white bread crackers.
5. Add 1-2 pinches of dry oregano. Mix all prepared ingredients.
6. Cooled chicken fillet cut into small cubes or straws and add to the salad.
7. You can dress the salad with olive oil and lemon juice. Alternatively, instead of juice, you can add a few drops of balsamic vinegar to the oil and mix it.
8. Bon appetit!
   
   
   

Chicken and grape salad



Ingredients for 2 servings

• 200g boiled chicken fillet
• 150g grapes
• 100g walnuts
• 150g lettuce leaves
• 3 tbsp olive oil
• 1–1.5 tbsp mustard
• 1 tbsp lemon juice
• 100g yogurt
• salt, pepper to taste

Preparation

1. Cook the chicken and cut it into small pieces.
2. Wash the grapes, cut the nuts finely. Wash the salad leaf and also cut it.
3. To prepare fitness mayonnaise, mix olive oil, mustard, lemon juice and yogurt in a separate container. Please note that the proportions of ingredients for filling can be selected to taste!
4. Mix all the ingredients and fill them with sauce. If desired, you can pepper and salt the salad to taste.

French mistress salad with chicken and oranges



Due to the fact that the salad combines several tastes at once - salty, spicy and sweet, it turns out to be spicy and so unusual that it is very difficult to forget its taste. Maybe that's where the playful name comes from.

The ingredients

• 300g boiled chicken fillet
• 50g hard cheese
• 1 tbsp raisins
• 1-2 carrots
• 1 tbsp walnuts
• 1 orange
• mayonnaise

Onion pickling ingredients

• 2 bulbs
• 50–70 ml of water
• 1 tsp sugar
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 tsp vinegar

Preparation

1. Cool (or smoked) chicken and cut with a thin straw. Or take it apart by hand.
2. From water, vinegar, sugar and salt, prepare marinades.
3. Cut the onions, put them in the marinade and stir. Let him marinate for at least 30 minutes.
4. Peel the carrots and rub them on a medium grater.
5. Finely cut with a knife dried in the oven or microwave walnuts.
6. Pour the raisins with hot water for 10 minutes. Then drain the water, leave the raisins to cool.
7. Sodium hard cheese on a medium grater.
8. Once all the ingredients have been prepared, lettuce can be formed. I will say right away that it is not necessary to observe this sequence. You can experiment and try other options to your taste.
9. Salad, preferably plastic, covered with food film. Put the first layer of walnuts at the bottom.
10. Miss this layer with mayonnaise. Put the grated cheese on top.
11. Put the grated carrots out, salt them and miss them with mayonnaise.
12. Then put the steamed raisins out.
13. Put a layer of pickled onions on the salad and also grease with mayonnaise. If you have time, cool the salad for one hour.
14. Turn the finished chicken salad on a flat plate. Decorate it with orange pieces on top.
15. Orange and chicken salad ready. Bon appetit!

Viennese salad with rice and Bulgarian pepper



The ingredients

• 400g chicken fillet
• 1 tuft of cilantro
• 1 bundle of celery
• 200g ready rice
• 2 large Bulgarian peppers
• 2 mandarins
• curry sauce to taste

Preparation

1. Peel and cut Bulgarian pepper and celery.
2. Peel off the tangerines and cut each slice into cubes.
3. Boil the rice and add cilantro to the salad.
4. Cut the fillet and make the salad with curry sauce.
5. Bon appetit!

Salad "Lady whim" with prunes, chicken and cheese



The ingredients

• 100g prunes
• 400g chicken fillet
• 4 eggs
• 200g fresh cucumbers
• 100g hard cheese
• 180g mayonnaise

Preparation

1. Boil chicken fillets, boil hard-boiled eggs.
2. Prunes pour boiling water for 10 minutes.
3. Cut cucumbers with straw and chicken and eggs with cubes.
4. Rub the cheese on a fine grater.
5. Cut the steamed prunes into small pieces.
6. Install a culinary ring on the dish and put the salad in layers. Sequence of layers: chicken, mayonnaise netting, cucumbers, mayonnaise netting, eggs, mayonnaise, part of prunes, grated cheese and slices of prune on top for decoration.
7. Let the salad stand in the fridge for an hour and serve it on the table.
8. Bon appetit!

Salad "Capital" with smoked chicken



It is believed that the creator of this famous snack was Ivan Mikhailovich Ivanov - chef of the restaurant "Moscow". He slightly modified the French olive, replacing capers, olives, cancerous necks and red caviar for boiled poultry meat, pickles, peas.

The ingredients

• 300g smoked chicken meat
• 200g boiled potatoes
• 100g carrots
• 50g fresh cucumbers
• 100g pickles
• 100g peas
• 150g mayonnaise
• 3 boiled eggs
• cilantro, parsley, dill to taste

Preparation

1. A professional cook smokes chicken thighs in his own smokehouse, but you can, as you understand, do more modestly. The main thing is that you have smoked chicken that can be cut in medium cubes.
2. Boil the potatoes, slightly undercooked. It is better to cook it in a uniform, and clean it later: it turns out to be much more tasty. Cut the potatoes with dice-sized cubes. Do the same with carrots, eggs, salted and fresh cucumbers.
3. Stir all this with peas and tuck in homemade mayonnaise, quite easy to prepare: thoroughly grind the mustard with egg yolks and salt, gradually introduce olive oil, without ceasing to mix the mass with a wreath, mixer or even a fork.

Salad with chicken, potatoes and pickled mushrooms



The ingredients

• 300g chicken meat
• 300g pickled mushrooms
• 250g potatoes
• 30g hard cheese
• 100g mayonnaise
• 5 eggs
• greenbow
• dillbundle
• salt
• pomegranate

Preparation

1. Chicken meat is boiled and cut into small cubes. You can take chicken legs and thighs, and you can also fillet.
2. Eggs and potatoes also need to be boiled. Then rub the potatoes in a fine grater. Proteins and yolks were separated and separately sod on a small grater. Green onions cut fine, mushrooms - cubes.
3. Now start picking the salad. You can use a serving ring, and if it is not, then an ordinary salad bowl. The first layer lay out the potatoes, level and tambuy, if desired, you can salt a little. Next is a mayonnaise net.
4. The next layer is green onions, then mushrooms. On top is a mayonnaise net.
5. Then a layer of yolks, then chicken meat. Well level and seal the layer, and then lubricate with mayonnaise. On top, carefully lay out the proteins and grated cheese. Put the salad in the refrigerator for 1-2 hours.
6. After taking the salad out of the refrigerator, remove the serving ring and decorate with dill sprigs and berries of the kalina. You can serve on the table.

Salad with avocado, chicken and Bulgarian pepper



Two neutral in taste, but very useful products - chicken and avocado - are combined with sweet juicy Bulgarian pepper and orange.

The ingredients

• 1 avocado
• 250g chicken fillet
• 2 Bulgarian peppers
• 1 orange
• parsley
• 2-4 leaves of lettuce

Refueling ingredients

• 2 tbsp lemon juice
• 2 tbsp olive oil
• 1 tsp honey

Preparation

1. Boil the chicken fillet and cut it in cubes.
2. Slice the avocado flesh in cubes and slightly splash lemon juice (or lime juice) so that it does not darken.
3. Clean the Bulgarian pepper from the peduncle and seeds and cut with straw.
4. Clean the orange from the peel and white film, divide into slices and cut in cubes.
5. Chop parsley.
6. Combine a bowl of lemon juice, honey, olive oil, salt, black pepper and stir.
7. Put on portion plates for 1-2 leaves of lettuce, on top - all sliced ingredients.
8. Pour the salad with dressing and stir gently.

Salad with cucumber, pancakes and chicken



Pancake ingredients

• 2 eggs
• 2 tbsp milk
• 1 tbsp flour
• salt-tip
• vegetable-oil

Salad ingredients

• 250g boiled chicken fillet
• 1 fresh cucumber
• 1 bulb
• 1 tbsp 9% vinegar
• mayonnaise
• green

Preparation

1. Pour two eggs into the bowl, add milk and salt. Wrench it.
2. Add the flour and stir the wreath to uniformity.
3. Lubricate the pan with vegetable oil and fry the resulting pancake dough.
4. Clean and cut the bulb finely. Roast in vegetable oil until translucent.
5. Cut straw chicken fillet, cucumber and pancakes. Fresh cucumber can be replaced with salt.
6. Put the salad in layers: onions, half meat and mayonnaise, half cucumbers, half pancakes and mayonnaise.
7. And repeat: the remaining half of the meat and mayonnaise, the remaining cucumbers, the remaining pancakes and mayonnaise.
8. Chicken salad ready. Decorate it with greenery and serve it on the table.
9. Bon appetit!

Salad with smoked chicken and pickled cucumbers



The ingredients

• 0.5 smoked chicken breast
• 200g pickled mushrooms
• 250g pickles
• 150g cheese
• 2 bulbs
• 3 tbsp mayonnaise
• salt, pepper to taste
• sunflower-oil

Preparation

1. Clean, wash and cut the onions with half rings.
2. Pour some sunflower oil into the pan and roast the onions until golden.
3. Cube the chicken and cheese.
4. Cut the mushrooms into small pieces. The three most beautiful mushrooms put aside - they will go to decorate the salad. Cut the cucumbers in circles.
5. In a convenient container, combine all the chopped ingredients and add cooled onions to them. Sprinkle and pepper. Fill the salad with mayonnaise and mix it well.
6. Put the salad in a beautiful bowl and decorate with mushrooms. You can also decorate with grated cheese or parsley twigs - the serving depends only on your aesthetic and taste preferences.
7. That's it, lettuce is ready. Bon appetit!

Chicken and walnut salad



The ingredients

• 250-300g boiled chicken fillet
• 3 eggs
• 150g hard cheese
• 40g walnuts
• mayonnaise
• olive
• salt

Preparation

1. Chicken fillet decoction and cut in small cubes.
2. Boiled eggs on a large grater, do the same with cheese. Cut the walnuts with a knife.
3. Put a layer of chicken fillet on the plate, forming a circle, and on top of the fields with mayonnaise.
4. On top of the chicken, lay a uniform layer of crushed walnuts, again pour mayonnaise.
5. The next layer is cheese. It's also heavily smeared with mayonnaise.
6. On top of the cheese lay grated on a large grater boiled eggs. Form the salad beautifully and carefully with the help of a serving ring.
7. Miss the mayonnaise salad again, put olives or cherry tomatoes on top. Before serving on the table, sprinkle the sides of the salad with grated cheese, and on top decorate with snowflakes from cheese fibers. Bon appetit!

Low calorie content makes chicken fillet an indispensable source of protein for people suffering from obesity and overweight, and low cholesterol allows you to recommend it for cardiovascular diseases. We hope that delicious salads with chicken breast will find their place on your menu.