Chicken breast is a dietary meat that can be eaten even by children.
Properly prepared meat is perfect for salads.
You can use boiled, baked or smoked chicken.
A simple salad with chicken breast - the basic principles of preparation
The taste of the salad depends on the ingredients that are in the composition, as well as spices, herbs and fresh or dried herbs. If you pre-marinate the chicken breast and then fry it, the taste of the salad will be richer and more interesting.
Many believe that chicken breast is fairly dry meat. However, this is not true, if cooked correctly, it will be juicy and tasty. Once the breast is cooked, leave it for an hour in the broth, fry the breast for no more than 10 minutes. If you bake meat, then twenty minutes is enough. Do not overexpose the breast in a pan or oven, otherwise it will turn out to be dry and stiff.
As a rule, they use mayonnaise or sour cream as a dressing, but if you follow the figure, try replacing fatty sauces with dressing made from olive or unrefined sunflower oil. This dressing will make the salad not only tasty, but also useful.
To make a salad is quite simple. All ingredients are finely chopped. If the salad contains eggs and vegetables, they are pre-boiled. All mix and season with sauce or dressing.
Recipe 1. A simple salad with chicken breast and prunes
Ingredients
300 g of boiled chicken breast;
100 g of prunes;
two fresh cucumbers;
150 g of cheese;
2 tbsp. spoons of walnut kernels.
For pancakes:
2 eggs;
Art. a spoonful of milk;
tsp flour;
vegetable oil.
Cooking method
1. Break eggs into a bowl, add milk, flour, salt and beat. Bake pancakes in vegetable oil. Three pancakes will be made from this amount of ingredients.
2. Take a flat dish on which the salad lay in layers. Cut the boiled chicken breast into strips, put on a dish, salt and grease with mayonnaise. Spread chopped prunes with a second layer. Wash fresh cucumbers, cut from two sides and chop into cubes. Lay out the third layer of cucumbers, salt and grease with mayonnaise. Cut the pancakes into cubes and arrange them into cucumbers - this is the fourth layer. Sprinkle the salad with grated cheese and coat with mayonnaise.
3. Sprinkle the finished salad with nuts and chopped prunes. Put in the refrigerator for two hours to soak it.
2. Salad with chicken breast "Glutton"
Ingredients
chicken breast - 400 g;
two carrots and onions;
4 pickled cucumbers;
100 g mayonnaise;
olive oil;
pepper and salt.
Cooking method
1. Rinse the chicken breast and boil in slightly salted water for 20 minutes. Wash onions and carrots well and rinse. Chop the onion into small cubes, and cut the carrots into thin strips or rub coarsely. Chicken meat is cut into small pieces.
2. Put the pan on the fire, pour olive oil and fry the carrots on low heat for about five minutes. Put the carrots in a plate. In the same pan, pass the onions until transparent. Peel the garlic and chop finely with a knife. Pickled cucumbers shred in thin strips or a small cube.
3. Put all prepared ingredients in a bowl, salt, season with pepper and season with mayonnaise. Mix well, put in a salad bowl and decorate with sprigs of greenery.
Recipe 3. Simple salad with chicken breast "Incredible tenderness"
Ingredients
a pound of chicken breast;
100 g of rice;
six eggs;
two carrots;
200 g of cheese;
two cloves of garlic;
a small pack of mayonnaise;
parsley greens;
pepper, salt.
Cooking method
1. Carrots in this salad can be used both raw and boiled. Wash it and grate on a shallow grater. Wash the chicken breast, place in the pan, fill with water, add a few peas of pepper and a couple of bay leaves and boil until cooked. Boil hard-boiled eggs, cool and peel. Finely grate four eggs, and use two eggs to decorate the finished dish.
2. Pour the washed rice with water and cook for 20 minutes. Flip the boiled rice onto a sieve and rinse under running water and leave the glass to water. Peeled garlic through a garlic squeezer, add it to mayonnaise and mix well.
3. Cut the chicken into small cubes. Lay out the salad in layers, each coated with mayonnaise, in this order:
1 layer - chicken breast, salt;
2 layer - boiled rice;
3 layer - crushed eggs;
4 layer - grated carrots;
5 layer - grated cheese.
4. Cut the remaining eggs into two halves. Grate the yolks and sprinkle them on the finished salad. Cut flowers from proteins, and use parsley as leaves and flower stalk.
Recipe 4. Simple salad with chicken breast "Ryaba Chicken"
Ingredients
one chicken breast;
3 eggs;
carrot and bulb;
processed cheese;
300 g of mushrooms;
green onions;
three cloves of garlic;
40 ml olive oil;
200 ml of mayonnaise;
salt and greens.
Cooking method
1. Hard boiled eggs, cool and clean. Boil carrots and chicken breast until tender. Cool the meat and cut into small pieces. Grind carrots and eggs on the track. Finely chop the green onion with a knife. Cream cheese is grated coarsely.
2. We clean the mushrooms, cut into plates, add finely chopped onions and fry in oil until all the liquid has evaporated. At the end, add chopped garlic, salt, add spices and fry for another minute.
3. Put everything in a bowl, salt, use mayonnaise as a dressing and mix well. Put the finished salad on a plate and decorate with herbs.
Recipe 5. Salad with chicken breast "Chicken"
Ingredients
350 g of boiled chicken breast;
2 potatoes;
5 eggs;
10 g of starch;
a can of canned corn;
50 g of olives;
two cloves of garlic;
100 g mayonnaise;
olive oil;
black pepper and salt
Cooking method
1. Pour the washed potatoes with boiling water and cook for half an hour from the moment of boiling. Check for readiness with a fork. Cool the potatoes, peel and grate on a large segment of the grater.
2. Wash the chicken breast, boil and cut into small pieces.
3. Beat eggs with starch, salt and bake pancakes. Finished pancakes cut into small cubes.
4. Peel and pass the garlic through a garlic squeezer. Wash the carrots and grind in a Korean carrot grater.
5. Put everything in a bowl, salt. Use mayonnaise as a dressing. Mix well. Put the finished salad in a deep plate, and decorate with olives and canned corn.
Recipe 6. A simple salad with chicken breast "Hello Autumn"
Ingredients
two chicken breasts;
2 potatoes;
250 g of champignons;
2 pcs. carrots, onions and pickled cucumbers;
300 g canned corn;
four eggs;
a small pack of mayonnaise;
two cloves of garlic;
vegetable oil;
pepper, salt and herbs.
Cooking method
1. Place the washed chicken breast in a pan, fill with water and cook for 40 minutes until cooked. Cool and cut into small pieces or tear by hand.
2. Washed potatoes and carrots are boiled for 25 minutes. Readiness with a fork. Finely chop them into cubes.
3. Cool hard-boiled eggs, cool, peel and cut into cubes.
4. Peel, rinse and chop the onion into cubes. Wash the mushrooms and cut into plates. Pour oil into a preheated pan, put half of the onion here and pass until transparent. Then add the mushrooms and fry until all the moisture has evaporated. Chop pickled cucumbers in small cubes.
5. Put the prepared ingredients in a bowl. Open a can of canned corn, drain the liquid and add it to the salad. Chop the garlic finely with a knife. Add corn and garlic to the salad, salt, pepper, lay out the mayonnaise and mix well. Put the salad in the refrigerator for a couple of hours to soak it.
Recipe 7. A simple salad with chicken breast "Spring"
Ingredients
a pound of chicken breast;
3 tomatoes;
150 g of cheese;
a can of canned beans;
a bunch of green salad;
crackers and greens.
Cooking method
1. Wash the chicken breast, cut the meat into small cubes and simmer it for about 20 minutes on low heat. You can lightly fry.
2. Cut the washed tomatoes into small cubes. Grind cheese on a small segment of the grater. Open and drain the jar of canned beans. Tear green salad with your hands. You can take breadcrumbs purchased, or you can cut a few slices of bread into cubes and dry in the oven.
3. Put the prepared foods in a bowl, add salt and pepper, season with mayonnaise or sour cream. Mix well. Serve salad, garnished with herbs.
Recipe 8. Salad with Chicken Breast and Cucumbers
Ingredients
two chicken breasts;
100 g of grated cheese;
20 g of soy sauce;
10 g of lemon juice;
4 fresh cucumbers.
Cooking method
1. My chicken breasts and boil until tender. At the same time, we do not salt water. Torn boiled meat with your hands, or cut into small pieces.
2. The washed cucumbers are peeled and chopped with a thin and short straw.
3. Put cucumbers, pieces of meat and grated cheese in a bowl, season with lemon juice and soy sauce. Do not salt the salad! Stir, put in a deep plate and garnish with lemon slices.
Recipe 9. A simple salad with chicken breast, cucumbers and prunes
Ingredients
eggs and cucumbers - 4 pcs.;
two chicken breasts;
200 g pitted prunes;
pack of mayonnaise.
Cooking method
1. Rinse the chicken breast. Put it in a pan, pour in cold water, add a few peas of black pepper, bay leaf and cook until cooked. Boil and clean the eggs. Soak the prunes in warm water, and leave for a while.
2. Boiled chicken breast, eggs, squeezed prunes finely chopped into cubes. Put everything in a bowl. Dilute the mayonnaise with chicken stock, mix and season the salad with this sauce. Salt to taste.
Recipe 10. Simple salad with chicken breast and Peking cabbage
Ingredients
kilogram of chicken breast;
head of Beijing cabbage;
2 cucumbers;
a can of canned corn;
Bulgarian pepper - 1 pc.;
sour cream, a bunch of greens and salt.
Cooking method
1. Wash the vegetables, sort out the greens and rinse. Finely chop the cabbage of Beijing cabbage and put in a bowl.
2. Cut the boiled chicken breast into small pieces.
3. Pepper free from seeds and cut into strips.
4. Peel the cucumbers, and chop into thin slices.
5. Open a can of corn and drain the liquid from it. Finely chop the greens with a knife.
6. Put everything in a bowl, salt, season with sour cream and mix.
A simple chicken breast salad - cooking tips and tricks
- To get a tender and juicy chicken breast, cook it in salted water for no more than 20 minutes. With prolonged cooking, the chicken meat becomes dry. Leave the boiled breast for an hour in the broth.
- If you add a small amount of garlic, mustard or finely chopped dill to mayonnaise, the taste of the salad will be more piquant.
- Wash herbs from the refrigerator with warm water, this will return the aroma lost in the cold.
- It is advisable to season the salad before serving, especially if there are tomatoes in it so that it does not “float”.
- Chicken breast is combined with any products, vegetables, and even fruits. By experimenting, you can come up with your own recipe for a simple salad with chicken breast.
- Chicken breast for salad is also baked in the oven or fried.
- Champignons can be replaced with any other mushrooms.
- Instead of mayonnaise, you can use sour cream, natural yogurt or dressing based on olive oil.
