“Pomegranate bracelet” can become a decoration of a festive table, due to its unusual design with the help of grains of bright red garnet. You can find the classic salad recipe “Pomegranate Bracelet”, as well as several other variations of its preparation below.
Material Content:
Classic Salad Recipe Pomegranate Bracelet
For the "Garnet Bracelet" in the classic version you will need:
- 2 pomegranate fruits;
- 0.3 kg chicken fillet;
- carrots - 2 pcs.;
- 1 onion;
- eggs - 3 pcs.;
- black pepper;
- 3 potatoes;
- mayonnaise;
- walnuts - 70 g;
- 1 teaspoon of sugar;
- beets - 2 pcs.;
- salt;
- table vinegar - 1 tbsp. l
First you should boil eggs, potatoes, beets. All three individually on a grater. The meat also needs to be boiled in a little salt water, cut into small cubes. Chop the onion, pickle for a quarter of an hour in a vinegar marinade with sugar, salt. Three carrots, if necessary, remove excess juice.
Now it remains to “collect” the salad - put a glass in the center of the dish for the convenience of forming a ring. Around it lay out the ingredients in layers: potatoes, half a serving of beets, carrots, chopped nuts, half a brisket, onions, eggs, brisket again and beetroot again. We remove the glass so as not to damage the walls of the bracelet, grease the salad with mayonnaise. Gently spread pomegranate seeds over the entire surface. So that the salad does not “float”, it must be covered with cling film, put in the cold for 1-2 hours.
How to cook with smoked chicken?
Smoked chicken fillet will give the dish a richer flavor. The smoked chicken garnet bracelet recipe has a rather original taste and it has fans.
What products will be needed:
- 2 potatoes;
- smoked ham - 3 pcs.;
- 3 eggs;
- 50 g of nuts;
- mayonnaise;
- 1 carrot;
- bulb;
- sunflower oil;
- 1 pomegranate;
- pepper, salt.
Boil eggs, carrots. You should also boil potatoes, but not peeled, but in their uniforms. Wrap beets in food foil, send for half an hour to a preheated oven (1800С). After cooling, root crops need to be cleaned, grated coarsely. Also three other ingredients. Onion needs to be chopped, a little fry in sunflower oil. Chicken legs, peel the meat from the bones. The resulting fillet is cut into small pieces.
The layering is as follows - half a portion of smoked chicken fillet, carrot, potato, 1/3 chopped nuts, again potato, onion (excess oil from frying should be removed), the second half of chicken fillet, eggs, beets. It is necessary to compact the layers, but not to allow their creep. So that the layers do not crumble, they need to be smeared with mayonnaise. Mix the beets and eggs separately with mayonnaise and when it comes to them, they are laid out not as a layer, but cover the entire salad. Let the dish melt a little in the cold. Decorate the entire surface of the dish with pomegranate seeds.
On a note. If desired, chicken can be seasoned with black pepper.
With nuts
A “pomegranate bracelet” is more often prepared in the winter season and will completely pass for the crown dish of the New Year's holiday table.
We will prepare the products that are needed by prescription:
- 2 beets;
- half a glass of nuts;
- mayonnaise;
- 4 potatoes;
- 1 onion;
- eggs - 2 pcs.;
- 1 pomegranate;
- 0.3 kg of breast (chicken).
- carrots - 2 pcs.
Cook eggs and vegetables separately, potatoes can be slightly salted, chopped on a grater, divided into two servings. Walnuts are most commonly used, but you can also mix a few of your favorite types. They need to be crushed, also divided into two portions. We lay out the salad in layers, while greasing the layers with mayonnaise - potatoes, grated beets, carrots, chopped nuts, slices of breast, a layer of finely chopped onions (optional), finely chopped boiled eggs. Now repeat the layers in reverse order. The highlight of the dish is pomegranate seed decoration.
With mushrooms
For a change, you can prepare a “Pomegranate bracelet” with mushrooms:
- 0.3 kg of fresh mushrooms (champignons);
- breast (chicken) - 200 g;
- onion - 2 pcs.;
- 3 potatoes;
- oil drain. - 50 g;
- mayonnaise;
- 0.3 kg of carrots (Korean);
- 3 cloves of garlic;
- green salad - 50 g;
- 50 g of nuts;
- cheese - 200 g;
- ripe pomegranate.
Fry chopped onion and sliced mushrooms in oil. Three jacket potatoes and cheese, nuts need to be chopped. Preparing a sauce of mayonnaise and chopped garlic. We collect the dish in layers - lay out potatoes in layers of lettuce, then chicken, Korean carrots, mushrooms, onions. Smear the layers with garlic sauce. Then sprinkle with cheese, nuts, grease again with sauce. The recipe's business card is pomegranate seeds as a decoration.
Beef salad
To make the dish more nutritious, you can add a layer of fried or boiled beef to it. A garnet bracelet with beef can be prepared both as a festive dish, and for a variety of everyday menus.
- potatoes - 0.2 kg;
- 1 carrot;
- 0.3 kg of beets;
- mayonnaise;
- 0.3 kg of beef;
- nut crumbs - 100 g;
- 2 grenades.
As in previous recipes, vegetables should be boiled, as well as meat, grated. If desired, the meat can be fried. The layers are laid out - potatoes, carrots, diced beef, beets, chopped nuts. We coat the layers with mayonnaise, decorate with pomegranate seeds on top. So that the dish is well saturated, it is recommended to keep it in the cold for a couple of hours.
Cooking without adding beets
If you do not like boiled beets, then it can be successfully replaced with other products, for example, an apple.
To prepare the salad “Pomegranate Bracelet” without beets, you will need:
- 4 potatoes;
- chicken breast;
- 1 pomegranate;
- bulb;
- 1 apple
- mayonnaise;
- carrots - 1 pc.;
- egg;
- 50 g of nuts;
- salt.
Boil the breast.Grind potatoes with a coarse grater. Shred the onion, fry a little. We grind eggs and carrots (boiled). The sequence of laying out the salad is as follows - potatoes, carrots, diced brisket - the layers are smeared with mayonnaise. Next, apply onions, eggs, chopped nuts. Grind the apple with a grater and spread on top of the nuts. Garnish with pomegranate seeds.
On a note. To make it easier to eat salad without thinking about pomegranate seeds, it is better to decorate the dish with seedless pink pomegranate.
With prunes
A pomegranate bracelet with meat will acquire an even more original taste if prunes are present in the combination of products.
For such a piquant salad you will need:
- prunes - 100 g;
- ripe pomegranate;
- mayonnaise;
- carrots - 2 pcs.;
- 4 eggs;
- half a kilo of meat (veal, beef);
- potatoes - 3 pcs.;
- 4 cucumbers (fresh);
- salt.
Boil potatoes, salt, grind. Boil and cut the meat into small cubes. We cut the cucumbers into strips, three eggs and a carrot. Prunes need to be steamed, cut into cubes. The sequence is potatoes, boiled meat, cucumbers, chopped eggs, carrots, prunes. Lubricate the layers with mayonnaise, and spread pomegranate seeds on top of the prunes.
Ideally apply homemade homemade mayonnaise. It contains a minimum of components, but the taste is not worse than a store product.