Simple, affordable ingredients, exquisite aroma and appetizing appearance make salads with chicken and champignons the most popular dishes on any table.
The combination of chicken and mushrooms can be called a classic, one of the most popular. The secret is simple - the aroma of mushrooms perfectly complements the juiciness and delicate taste of chicken meat. This culinary duet is often found in hot dishes, soups and salads.
Chicken and Mushroom Salad Recipe
Before you prepare the dish, you need to choose all the ingredients correctly.
For example, buying champignons, you should pay attention to their freshness, appearance and texture.
High-quality champignons have a pale cream color, tight caps and legs and a soft film under the cap. Do not buy mushrooms that are cracked, too thick film and dry legs.
When buying chicken fillet, be sure to pay attention to its color (it should be light pink, not red), meat density and smell - they should be natural, pleasant.
Required Products:
- 400 grams of champignons;
- 300 grams of chicken fillet;
- 30 milliliters of vegetable (olive) oil;
- 2 medium bulbs of non-acute varieties;
- 3 cloves of garlic as desired;
- 200 grams of sour cream (15-20% fat).
Cooking time: 50 minutes.
Caloric content: 269 Kcal / 100 grams.
- First you need to prepare the mushrooms. We will not wash them thoroughly, peel them. It is enough to wipe the young champignons with a paper towel or napkin and cut into slices (thin slices).
- We spread the slices of mushrooms in a dry frying pan and cover with a lid. Mushrooms should then be 10-12 minutes like this.
- Only at this stage, you can add a little vegetable or butter to the pan and bring the mushrooms until ready.
Tip: Mushrooms need to be properly roasted: first put them on a dry frying pan, wait until excess moisture is gone and only then add butter and onions.
- Boil chicken meat in water with salt and spices for 20 minutes until cooked.
- Peel the onions and cut them into small cubes. You can add it at this stage to the champignons, and you can fry separately in a small amount of oil.
- All the ingredients of the salad are ready - you can collect the dish. Some housewives make the salad layered, but you can mix all the ingredients.
- In the salad bowl lay out chicken, mushrooms and fried onions. Mix with sour cream and garlic, passed through a press, seasoned with spices and salt. Salad is ready - served to the table!
Chicken, champignons and cheese salad
Delicious, appetizing salad, which alone by its appearance causes the desire to eat it immediately. Classic, popular ingredients make this salad a versatile dish, and a special (cocktail) serving gives you the opportunity to cook a salad on a festive table.
Required Products:
- 400 grams of champignons;
- 300 grams of chicken fillet;
- 30 milliliters of vegetable oil;
- 2 medium bulbs;
- 100 grams of hard cheese;
- 200 grams of mayonnaise.
Cooking time: 40 minutes.
Caloric content: 292 Kcal / 100 grams.
This salad can be called more refined, tender due to the presence in it of eggs and cheese. Few people know that cheese creates the unique taste of salad. For example, in this case, more suitable hard varieties, such as "Russian" or "Dutch".
- We clean the onions (it is better to use onions of not sharp varieties) and cut them into half rings. Fry it in a small amount of vegetable oil until onion is soft. It is better to do this by covering the pan with a lid.
- Mushrooms are cleaned and cut into slices. Fry them in the same pan, where the onions were fried.
- Boil chicken flesh until cooked in water with a small amount of salt and ground pepper. Boiled fillet divided into fibers.
- Boil chicken eggs until cooked (hard boiled) in salted water, cool and finely chop with a knife.
- Hard cheese three on a grater with medium cells.
- Form the salad. In this case, we will prepare a cocktail serving option, so we put a round shape for cookies on a flat dish (it may be a half-cut plastic bottle).
- Lay the chicken fillet on the bottom of the mold, then a layer of eggs, cooled fried onion, and grease everything with a layer of mayonnaise.
- The last layer - mushrooms. Carefully lay them out and sprinkle with cheese.
- It remains to decorate the salad with greens if desired.
- Carefully remove the form, trying not to disturb the shape of the salad, and serve the dish to the table.
Salad with pineapple, chicken and champignons
Exquisite variety of popular salad, suitable for lovers of the combination of "pineapple chicken". But for a special, unique taste, it is worth replacing the usual boiled chicken fillet with smoked meat.
Required Products:
- 300 grams of smoked chicken meat;
- 150 grams of mushrooms (preferably marinated);
- 1 can of canned pineapple or 200 grams of fresh;
- 200 grams of mayonnaise;
- 2 cloves of garlic;
- 150 grams of cheese;
- a handful of pine nuts.
Cooking time: 50 minutes.
Calories: 286 Kcal / 100 grams.
- We start making the salad with the preparation of all the ingredients. Chicken meat is separated by bones (if it is the legs or thighs) and finely chopped with a knife. If you have a fillet, you can simply split into fibers.
- Open a jar of pineapples and pour the syrup, and then cut them into cubes.
- Hard cheese is not rubbed on a grater, as we used to, and cut into cubes.
- Marinated champignons are also dried from the marinade and cut into slices.
- Garlic skip through a special press and combine with mayonnaise.
- In the salad bowl lay out all the ingredients of the dish and dressing sauce.
Sprinkle ready salad with pine nuts and serve to the table.
Salad with canned mushrooms champignons and chicken
This salad will not go unnoticed on the holiday table. A bold combination of ingredients creates a unique taste that will be remembered for a long time.
Required Products:
- 1 can of pineapple in syrup;
- 300 grams of chicken fillet;
- 4 chicken eggs;
- 250 grams of mushrooms (salted or pickled);
- 100 grams of mayonnaise;
- seasonings and salt to taste.
Cooking time: 45 minutes.
Caloric content: 271 Kcal / 100 grams.
- Boil the chicken meat in a small amount of salted water and spices. It will take about 20 minutes.
- Eggs are also boiled until cooked "hard boiled."
- Canned champignons are placed on a sieve, giving the opportunity to leave excess liquid, and cut into slices.
- Pineapples cut into cubes, pre-dried on a towel or napkin.
- We grind chicken fillet - we just break it down into fibers and chop eggs with a knife.
- Putting salad in layers. Lay the chicken fillet on the bottom of the salad bowl, then a layer of mushrooms, lubricate the layer with mayonnaise.
- Next, put chopped eggs and pineapples - also grease with sauce.
Council You can lubricate each layer separately, or you can mix each ingredient with mayonnaise separately in small containers. This salad will be more juicy and tasty.
Sala with canned champignons, chicken and pineapple is ready, you can serve to the table!
Salad with fried champignons and chicken
Very light and nourishing salad in case guests are about to come. You can use sour cream as a dressing, and not mayonnaise is a matter of taste.
Required Products:
- 1 small chicken fillet;
- 400 grams of champignons;
- 1 large onion;
- 3 eggs;
- 50 grams of green leek;
- 150-200 grams of mayonnaise or sour cream;
- some vegetable oil for roasting mushrooms;
- salt, spices to taste.
Cooking time: 45 minutes.
Calories: 268 Kcal / 100 grams.
- To begin, prepare all the components. Rinse the chicken fillet under running water and send to boil in boiling salted water. Boil the chicken for 20 minutes. Finished chicken meat is cut into fibers with a fork.
- Rub the champignons with a damp cloth and cut into slices or straws.
- Fry the mushrooms in a pan with a small amount of any vegetable oil until golden brown. Spread on a paper towel to drain excess fat.
- Peel the onion and cut into small half rings. Fry onions in the same pan where the mushrooms were fried.
- Boil the eggs in boiling water, cool and chop finely with a knife.
- In a salad bowl or any other deep container, we mix all the ingredients of the salad: chicken, eggs, fried mushrooms, onions. Dress the salad with mayonnaise and season with salt and spices to taste.
Conclusion
Salads with champignons and chicken have already become familiar on our tables. They can be considered as an excellent field for culinary fantasy and add any ingredients, such as: corn, pineapples, change the types of cheese. In order for the result to be excellent, the following factors should be taken into account:
- Chicken in a salad should not be tough, but for this it needs to be boiled properly.
- From the method of cooking products (mushrooms, chicken) significantly depends on the taste of the dish.
- Mayonnaise makes the salad more nutritious and high-calorie, and sour cream (with mustard or spices, greens) makes it more dietary.
Enjoy your meal!
And in the next video - another version of cooking salad.
