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Classic recipe for grouse nest salad with chicken

The composition of the components:

  • village eggs - 3 pcs.;
  • fillet - 0.3 kg;
  • quail eggs - 3 pcs.;
  • white onion head;
  • mayonnaise;
  • potatoes - 3 tubers;
  • salt pepper;
  • fresh greens;
  • cucumbers - 2 pcs.

Cooking:

  1. Finely chop the onion, scald with boiling water to remove the bitterness.
  2. Boil the chicken in salt water. Finished meat cut into thin cubes.
  3. Chop fresh cucumbers into strips.
  4. Boil rustic eggs hard boiled. Protein chop into cubes.
  5. Peel the potatoes. Chop or grate it (like Korean carrots).
  6. Fry a sufficient amount of oil.
  7. In a beautiful salad bowl, mix the following components: boiled chicken; cucumbers egg whites; onion; ¾ potato.
  8. Add salt, mayonnaise and pepper to the salad.
  9. Grate the yolk and rub it on top.
  10. Hard-boiled quail eggs.
  11. Spread the remaining fried potatoes along the edges of the salad bowl to form a nest.
  12. Fold chopped greens inside.
  13. Place three small eggs in the center.
  14. The classic salad recipe is ready to serve.

How to make a capercaillie nest salad in layers?

The composition of the components:

  • milled breast - 0.3 kg;
  • cucumbers - 0.22 kg;
  • mayonnaise - 0.18 kg;
  • processed cheese - 1 pack (90 grams);
  • potatoes - 0.28 kg;
  • sugar - 5 g;
  • turnip onion head (large);
  • quail eggs - 4 pcs.;
  • a bunch of dill;
  • vinegar - 32 ml;
  • hard cheese - 0.15 kg;
  • eggs of category C1 - 4 pcs.;
  • non-aromatic oil - 0.2 l.

Cooking:

  1. Boil water in a saucepan.
  2. Dip the cooked fillet in boiling liquid, adding a little salt. Cooking time: 30-40 minutes. If the fillet is easily pierced, it is ready.
  3. In a small saucepan with moderate heating, cook quail eggs for 5 minutes, chicken - 10 minutes.
  4. Cut a large onion into half rings.
  5. Chop potatoes with cubes, trying to make them as thin as possible.
  6. Place the potatoes in small portions in a deep fat fryer or in a pan with butter. Cook to a pleasant crust.
  7. Put the finished vegetable on paper napkins to remove fat. Sprinkle potatoes with salt.
  8. Fold onions in a deep container, pour warm water (90 ml) and vinegar (32 ml), add salt and sugar, 5 grams each. Leave the onions to marinate for 15-25 minutes.
  9. Chopped washed dill very finely by hand.
  10. Grind chicken eggs on a coarse grater.
  11. Dismantle the chicken fillet or cut into cubes.
  12. Grate hard cheese on a large grater.
  13. Cut cucumbers into thin sticks. Their approximate length is 4 centimeters.
  14. Prepare a round and flat dish. Spread the whole diameter of the pickled onions.
  15. Put chicken on top. Coat this layer with mayonnaise.
  16. Put cucumbers on the chicken. Make a thin mesh of mayonnaise.
  17. Crush everything with grated eggs. Lubricate this ball with mayonnaise.
  18. Put hard cheese. In the middle, make a small deepening and coat with mayonnaise.
  19. Chop the middle with chopped dill. Leave one handful of greens for egg filling.
  20. Put fried potatoes on the edges of the salad. Only the recess (with dill) should remain visible.
  21. Cut along into 2 parts quail eggs.
  22. Add a little salt and dill to the yolks. Mix everything.
  23. Grate cream cheese and add it to the yolk mass.
  24. Fill empty proteins with the cheese mixture.
  25. Lay out the stuffed eggs on a pillow of dill. The salad is ready in layers.

How to cook a ham appetizer?

Capercaillie noodle salad with ham is one of the simplest snacks. It is prepared quickly, without requiring a large cash outlay.

Ingredients:

  • village eggs - 3 pcs.;
  • chips - a small packet;
  • fresh greens;
  • pickle;
  • mayonnaise;
  • mushrooms - 0.1 kg;
  • ham - 0.2 kg.

Cooking in stages:

  1. Cut the ham and cucumber into cubes.
  2. Boil eggs, chop finely.
  3. Fry the mushrooms until cooked.
  4. Mix all of the above components. Add mayonnaise.
  5. Chips a little chop.
  6. Finely chop the greens.
  7. Put the salad in the shape of a nest. Sprinkle with chips on top.
  8. Put chopped greens in the center.
  9. Ham and mushroom salad can be served.

With beef and french fries

The composition of the components:

  • boiled beef - 0.5 kg;
  • potatoes - 0.5 kg;
  • mayonnaise;
  • hard cheese - 0.1 kg;
  • cucumber - 3 pcs.;
  • onion head;
  • a bunch of dill or parsley;
  • table eggs - 5 pcs.

Cooking:

  1. Peel the potatoes, cut into long strips.
  2. Lubricate the pan with a thin ball of oil, fry the potatoes until crisp.
  3. Beef cut into small cubes.
  4. Cut the onion into rings, dousing with boiling water.
  5. Cut the cucumber into thin strips, like Korean carrots.
  6. Boil the eggs. Dice the yolks.
  7. Let's make small eggs: grate the cheese on a fine grater; chop greens manually. You only need a handful of dill; knead the yolk with a fork; mix all of the above components and season with mayonnaise; to form small balls with wet hands.
  8. In a deep bowl, combine eggs, cucumber, beef and onions.
  9. Put the salad on a large flat dish. In the center, make a depression.
  10. Sprinkle with fried potatoes.
  11. Put the remaining dill in the center. Put stuck eggs in the "nest". All!

With turkey and asparagus

The composition of the components:

  • table eggs - 4 pcs.;
  • ground black pepper, salt;
  • potatoes - 3 pcs.;
  • canned cucumbers - 2 pcs. (about 90 gr.);
  • green onions - 20 gr.;
  • turkey fillet - 0.1 kg;
  • quinoa (greens) - 3 branches;
  • non-aromatic oil - 60 gr.;
  • asparagus (frozen) - 0.13 kg;
  • mayonnaise.

Cooking:

  1. Boil hard boiled eggs.
  2. Cook the turkey. Cut into cubes.
  3. Finely chop green onions and canned cucumbers.
  4. Boil water in a small container. Add salt. Cook asparagus for about 8 minutes over moderate heat.
  5. Throw ready asparagus into a colander and transfer to a large container. Add the remaining crushed components to it. Season salad with mayonnaise.
  6. Cut the potatoes into flat plates and fry.
  7. Put mayonnaise salad on a round flat dish, make a depression in the center.
  8. Lay the whole salad with fried potatoes.
  9. Cut boiled chicken eggs across, spread in the center of the nest.
  10. Sprinkle the eggs with black pepper.
  11. Decorate the finished salad with the leaves of the quinoa.

With cabbage and quail eggs

Ingredients:

  • hard cheese - 0.1 kg;
  • chicken fillet - 0.1 kg;
  • almonds - 5 pcs.;
  • onions - 80 gr.;
  • Beijing cabbage - 0.1 kg;
  • quail eggs - 5 pcs.;
  • mayonnaise - 2 tbsp. spoons;
  • non-aromatic oil - 2 tbsp. l .;
  • champignons - 0.1 kg;
  • lemon juice - 2 tsp;
  • apples - 0.1 kg.

Cooking:

  1. Boil the eggs.
  2. Chop the onion and mushrooms into strips.
  3. Fry the mushrooms with onions in a heated skillet. At the end of frying, add salt.
  4. Grate the cheese on a large grater.
  5. Boil the fillet, and cut into slices, or disassemble into fibers.
  6. Peking cabbage finely chop.
  7. Cut apples into cubes, sprinkled with lemon juice so that the fruits do not darken.
  8. Mix the chopped ingredients, add mayonnaise.
  9. Put the salad on a beautiful plate, making a depression in the middle.
  10. Grind the almonds in a blender, sprinkle them in the middle.
  11. Put boiled quail eggs in the center.
  12. That's all - the capercaillie nest with quail eggs is ready.

Smoked chicken

For the recipe, any type of mushroom is chosen - oyster mushrooms, forest or champignons. The main thing is to fry them. With pickled or boiled ingredients, the salad will have a completely different taste.

Prepare:

  • chicken eggs - 3 pcs.;
  • smoked chicken breast - 0.3 kg;
  • boiled potatoes - 3 tubers;
  • mayonnaise;
  • raw potatoes - 3 tubers;
  • quail eggs - 3-5 pcs.;
  • salt pepper;
  • pickles - 2 pcs.;
  • champignons - 0.2 kg;
  • cooking oil.

We cook sequentially:

  1. Finely chop the chicken.
  2. Boiled potatoes, cucumbers cut into cubes.
  3. Chicken eggs, boiled in advance, finely chopped with a knife.
  4. Chop mushrooms with plates and fry in oil until golden brown.
  5. Mix all of the listed ingredients with mayonnaise.
  6. Raw potato tubers cut into strips and fry in vegetable oil.
  7. On a square dish, lay the whole mayonnaise salad on a slide. Put the fried potatoes on top, where to put the boiled quail eggs.
  8. Capercaillie nest with chicken is ready to eat.

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