"Inspiration" - a salad of chicken breasts and fragrant ham

"Inspiration" is a salad that can decorate not only a family, but also a festive table. As you know, there are two different ways of preparing this dish. One of them is more light, including smoked chicken breasts and fresh vegetables, and the other involves the use of fragrant ham and many other boiled ingredients, which makes it especially satisfying. It is worth noting that whichever dish you choose, in the process of preparing them, they will in any case give you a real culinary inspiration. Salad, made according to the recipes described below, should be served to the table only in the cooled form. But it is recommended to do this before the main hot lunch.

Salad "Inspiration": a recipe with a photo (option with chicken breasts)

Such an easy dish requires the use of only a small number of inexpensive and affordable components. By the way, it is filled not with fat mayonnaise, but with useful olive oil and wine vinegar. But first things first.

Necessary food for the dish

To prepare such a delicious and nutritious dish, you will need to purchase:

• Chicken breast smoked or grilled - 400 g;
• Peking cabbage is fresh - 200 g;
• Olives without pits - a standard jar;
• Fresh red tomatoes - 2 pcs .;
• Hard cheese - 80 g;
• Sesame seeds - a small spoon (for decorating a dish) ;
• Unrefined olive oil - 4 large spoons;
• Wine vinegar - a large spoon;
• Fine sea salt and black pepper ground - add to taste in the finished dish.

Preparing food before preparing a dish

Salad "Inspiration" with chicken is prepared literally in half an hour. After all, to create such an easy festive dish, you just need to grind all the previously purchased ingredients. Thus, it is required to take smoked chicken breasts, clean them from the skin and bones, and then finely chop into cubes. Next, you should cut the Peking cabbage and cut it lightly with your hands until soft. In addition, you need to separately chop fresh red tomatoes into thin slices and olives without pits on rings. It is also required to grate the hard cheese on a large or shallow grater.

The formation process and a beautiful feed to the table

"Inspiration" is a salad that uses white poultry meat, which will please absolutely all your guests. But before you submit it to the table, you should combine all previously shredded foods and mix them thoroughly. Also, the ingredients need to be sprinkled with salt and pepper, and then season with a mixture of olive oil and wine vinegar.

Ready-made salad should be placed in a deep bowl, the surface of which is desirable in advance to cover with large leaves of Peking cabbage. On top of the dish is recommended to sprinkle with chopped olives and sesame seeds.

How to prepare a salad with ham?

As mentioned above, this dish is more satisfying than the previous one. After all, it includes a huge number of various products that are filled with high-calorie mayonnaise.

So, to prepare such a tasty and juicy salad you will need:

• Average beet - 3 pcs .;
• 2 large carrots;
• Onion white sweet - 3 heads;
• Apple vinegar - 1/3 cup (for soaking onions);
• Ham fragrant - 150 g;
• Eggs large chicken - 4 pcs .;
• Pickled mushrooms (preferably champignons) - 180 g;
• Cheese hard - 120 g;
• Salt cooked - for boiling vegetables;
• Mayonnaise bold - 200 g.

Preparation of main components

In order to prepare such a hearty and delicate salad, you should boil the beets and carrots, and then grate them on a large grater, placing on individual plates. Similarly, you need to process hard cheese and chicken eggs, boiled hard boiled. But before that it is desirable to separate the proteins and yolks, because they will be added to the salad in the form of different layers. Next, chop the white sweet onion into semicircles and soak it in apple cider vinegar (about 50-70 minutes). After this, it is necessary to finely chop the aromatic ham and pickled mushrooms.

The process of forming a dish

"Inspiration" is a salad with a fragrant ham, to which not a single invited guest will remain indifferent. Spread such a beautiful and delicious dish should be on a large plate in the form of several layers, abundantly greased with fatty mayonnaise.

So, to form the presented salad, you need to alternately lay out the following ingredients:

1. Boiled grated beets (can be used not only as the first layer, but also the latter).
2. Boiled carrots.
3. Onions soaked in apple cider vinegar.
4. Chopped ham aromatic.
5. Chicken yolk.
6. Chopped mushrooms are pickled.
7. Grated hard cheese.
8. Chicken protein.

How to properly serve the salad to the table?

Formed and smeared with mayonnaise, the dish should be decorated with fresh herbs, a rosy beetroot and carrot petals, and then placed in a cold store for 2-4 hours. During this time, all layers are well saturated, making the salad more tender, juicy and tasty.