Edelweiss salad with chicken

Light, appetizing, spicy, without mayonnaise! Edelweiss salad with chicken turns out very tasty. It is prepared easily and quickly, the main time is spent cooking fillets. The combination of vegetables, chicken and spicy dressing makes this salad memorable!
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Composition / ingredients

servings:
Translation table of volumetric measures
Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 28 % 7 g
Fats 36 % 9 g
Carbohydrates 36 % 9 g
150 kcal
GI: 30 / 10 / 60

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 35 min
  1. Step 1:

    Step 1.

    How to make an Edelweiss salad with chicken? Prepare the products. If the fillet has been frozen, then defrost it by transferring it from the freezer to the bottom shelf of the refrigerator. Wash the vegetables well and dry them. Put the corn on a sieve to drain the liquid.

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2.

    To start, prepare the fillet. How to fry fillets? Season it with salt and pepper, if desired, you can add a little dried herbs. Fry the fillets in olive oil in a well-heated frying pan for about 5 minutes on each side until golden brown. Determine readiness by piercing the meat with a knife — light juice should flow. Otherwise, increase the cooking time. Let the finished fillet cool down a little.

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3.

    While the fillet is frying, prepare the crackers. How to make crackers? Preheat the oven to 180 ° C. Cut the loaf into a small cube, season with a little salt and pepper, add 2 tablespoons of olive (or other vegetable) oil, mix.

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4.

    Place the crackers on a baking sheet lined with parchment. Bake them for 7-10 minutes until golden brown. During baking, stir 1-2 times. Crackers are cooked very quickly, so keep an eye on them.

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5.

    Prepare the vegetables. Cut the tomatoes into small slices. If the tomatoes are large, then in cubes or quarters.

  6. Step 6:

    Step 6.

    Cucumber and pepper also cut into thin slices. Onion in small cubes.

  7. Step 7:

    Step 7.

    Mix tomatoes, cucumbers, bell peppers, onions and corn in one bowl.

  8. Step 8:

    Step 8.

    Cut the finished and rested fillet into thin slices or cubes (at your discretion).

  9. Step 9:

    Step 9.

    Prepare the dressing. How to make a refueling? Prepare the products. In addition to olive oil, any vegetable oil is suitable — refined, unrefined, sunflower, mustard, sesame, corn, whatever you like. The main thing is that you like its taste. Mustard also choose according to your taste, both spicy and French, and with grains will do.

  10. Step 10:

    Step 10.

    Mix olive oil, vinegar, mustard, crushed garlic clove, salt and pepper if desired. Add the dressing to the vegetables.

  11. Step 11:

    Step 11.

    If desired, lay out the salad in portions. First, vegetables, seasoned with dressing, fillets and crackers on top, if desired, you can add a little grated cheese. Or you can mix all the ingredients in a salad bowl, except crackers, fill with dressing, and sprinkle with crackers before serving. Enjoy your meal!

Fillets you can not only fry, but also boil or bake. Crackers, by the way, can also be fried if there is suddenly no oven. The ingredients in the salad are so well combined that you don't want to change or add anything, except maybe a little cheese. The dressing turns out to be a little spicy, so if you want a softer taste, you can not add mustard or garlic. Help yourself!

The salad will look nice and neat if you cut all the ingredients into pieces of the same size and shape (for example, cubes).

Since the degree of salinity, sweetness, bitterness, sharpness, acid, burning is individual for everyone, always add spices, spices and seasonings, focusing on your taste! If you put some of the seasonings for the first time, then keep in mind that there are spices that it is especially important not to shift (for example, chili pepper). 

How to buy canned corn correctly? Be sure to check the expiration date on the jar. If the container is glass, carefully consider the grains. They should be the same size and color, solid and spotless. The composition should not contain dyes, preservatives and flavor enhancers.

Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish

  • Onion - 41   kcal/100g
  • Tomatoes - 23   kcal/100g
  • Fresh cucumbers - 15   kcal/100g
  • Sweet pepper - 27   kcal/100g
  • Garlic - 143   kcal/100g
  • Salt - 0   kcal/100g
  • Olive oil - 913   kcal/100g
  • Canned sweet corn - 79   kcal/100g
  • Ground hot pepper - 21   kcal/100g
  • White wine vinegar - 14   kcal/100g
  • Chicken breast (fillet) - 113   kcal/100g
  • Loaf - 273   kcal/100g
  • Mustard ready - 418   kcal/100g

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