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Chicken salad with mushrooms and cheese layers

Layered Chicken Salad with Mushrooms and Cheese

A very tender, delicious, festive salad! Salad with chicken and mushrooms is familiar to many. In our family it's a frequent guest at holiday tables. It's very tasty and one of the first dishes to disappear. All the salad's ingredients complement each other beautifully. Give it a try!

Julia M.

Recipe author

Chicken salad with mushrooms and cheese layers

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Composition / ingredients

Servings:

Chicken fillet

300

Eggs

Champignons

200

Hard cheese

Mayonnaise

150

Translation table of volumetric measures

Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe

By weight of the composition:

Proteins 43 % 13 g

Fats 53 % 16 g

Carbohydrates 3 % 1 g

200 kcal

GI: 0 / 0 / 0

Cooking method

Step 1:

How do you make a layered chicken salad with mushrooms and cheese? You'll need to boil the eggs and chicken ahead of time. Cover the chicken with water, bring to a boil, and cook in boiling water for 30 minutes. Then lift out the meat and let it cool for the salad. Cover the eggs with cold water, bring to a boil, and cook in boiling water for 7 to 9 minutes. Then pour off the hot water and cover the eggs with cold water so they cool faster.
Step 2:

Finely chop the cooled chicken and spread it as the first layer on the bottom of the salad bowl. Brush with a little mayonnaise.
Step 3:

Peel the eggs, grate them on the coarse side, and add them as the next layer over the meat. Brush the egg layer with mayonnaise too.
Step 4:

Open the jar of canned champignons and drain off the liquid. Cut the champignons into small pieces.
Step 5:

Add the chopped champignons as the next layer and brush lightly with mayonnaise.
Step 6:

Sprinkle the top of the salad with cheese grated on the medium side. If you like, scatter some chopped herbs over the top too. Put the finished salad in the refrigerator for an hour to chill a little.
Step 7:

You can also make this salad as individual portions. It looks very elegant and festive that way! Enjoy!

You can simply toss the salad together in a shared bowl. But no one will argue that ingredients laid out in layers always look very elegant and festive — just the thing for any celebration. If you like, serve the salad in individual portions on plates or in dessert dishes. For an unusual touch, you can add a little grated pickled cucumber. This salad is in demand not just on holidays but on weekdays too. If you boil the eggs and chicken ahead of time, putting the salad together before lunch or dinner is no trouble at all. You don't have to use champignons for the mushroom layer — wild mushrooms work too. For a richer aroma, you can fry the mushrooms a little with onion. Chicken-based salads always have been and always will be very popular, because they're so filling and tasty.
It's better to make mayonnaise yourself — it'll be tastier and healthier. See the interesting homemade mayonnaise recipes here. You can also use not just mayonnaise as a dressing, but sour cream or plain yogurt — on their own or mixed with mayonnaise in any proportion you like; that cuts the dish's calories.
The salad looks neat and pretty if you cut all the ingredients into pieces of the same size and shape (cubes, for example).