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Salad with potato pie and chicken

Salad with Shoestring Potatoes and Chicken

A tasty, hearty salad topped with crispy shoestring potatoes. Give this original salad a try — it's finished with finely julienned potatoes fried until crisp, so they come out like chips: crunchy and delicious. It all looks impressive together. I build the salad in layers, but that's optional; the main thing is not to add the potatoes unless you're serving right away. The salad is very filling and well balanced, and it holds its own as a main dish.

Anna

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Composition / ingredients

Servings:

Potatoes

Pickles

Smoked chicken

300

Eggs

Mayonnaise

Salt

Vegetable oil (for frying)

100

Translation table of volumetric measures

Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe

By weight of the composition:

Proteins 27 % 7 g

Fats 54 % 14 g

Carbohydrates 19 % 5 g

172 kcal

GI: 100 / 0 / 0

Cooking method

Cooking time: 20 min

Step 1:

Gather the ingredients for the salad with shoestring potatoes and chicken. We'll use smoked chicken — breast, drumstick, or thigh all work. You'll also need pickles, hard-boiled eggs, raw potatoes, mayonnaise, and salt to taste. Have a deep salad bowl ready.
Step 2:

Hard-boil the eggs, cool them, peel, and chop. Put them in the salad bowl.
Step 3:

Take the pickles out of the jar and chop them small, like the eggs. Add them to the bowl with the eggs.
Step 4:

Pull the smoked chicken (I use thighs) off the bones, remove the skin, and chop it. Add the chicken to the eggs and pickles.
Step 5:

Wash the potatoes well under running water and peel them. Cut them into thin matchsticks (a julienne peeler makes quick work of this), then rinse them in a colander under running water to wash off the excess starch.
Step 6:

Heat the vegetable oil in a deep fryer or a deep skillet. Add the prepared potatoes to the hot oil and fry until crisp. Transfer the shoestring potatoes to paper towels to blot off excess oil.
Step 7:

If you're serving right away, scatter the fried potatoes over the chopped ingredients and serve immediately. If the salad has to sit, hold off on the potatoes — otherwise they'll go soft and lose all their appeal.

Shoestring potatoes are peeled potatoes cut into very thin matchsticks and fried in plenty of oil. French fries are deep-fried too; the only difference is the cut — shoestring potatoes are sliced much thinner. Granted, this cooking method isn't exactly health food, but every now and then it's worth treating yourself to those crispy potatoes.