Salad Snowdrift

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to make a Snowdrift salad? Prepare the products. Boil the vegetables and eggs in advance. To do this, pour water into a saucepan, lightly salt it and let it boil. Dip the pre-washed vegetables into the water. And cook them until tender for about 15-25 minutes. Remove the finished vegetables from the pan step by step and let them cool down. Boil the eggs for 10 minutes after boiling and transfer them to cool down in a bowl of cold water.

2. Step 2:

   

   Boil the ham in salted water until tender - about 20-40 minutes. Remove the skin, if there is one, and separate the meat from the bones. Let it cool down. Instead of a ham, like mine, you can take any other meat part of the chicken.

3. Step 3:

   

   Peel potatoes and carrots and grate on a coarse grater.

4. Step 4:

   

   Chop chicken meat with a knife, slicing it across the fibers.

5. Step 5:

   

   Grate the cheese on a fine grater. For this recipe, it is better to use light cheese to get a more realistic imitation of snow. I didn't take this into account at first and bought a regular cheese, but next time I'll take a lighter one.

6. Step 6:

   

   Peel boiled eggs, cut lengthwise into 2 parts, carefully remove the yolks and transfer them to a small bowl.

7. Step 7:

   

   Add chopped garlic and mayonnaise (about 1 tablespoon) to the boiled yolks and mix everything thoroughly with a fork until mushy.

9. Step 8:

   

   Fill the cooked egg whites with the prepared mass.

10. Step 9:

    

    Start assembling the salad. A flat dish of medium diameter is suitable for this - too large a plate is not needed so that the salad does not turn out flat. Put the grated potatoes in the first layer. Tamp it a little with a fork and smear it with a thin layer of mayonnaise.

11. Step 10:

    

    Put the grated carrot in the second layer and also tamp it and smear it with mayonnaise.

12. Step 11:

    

    The third layer is chicken meat. It is better to mix it with mayonnaise in advance and put it like this. Sprinkle the chicken lightly and evenly with salt and pepper to taste. If you put dry meat and try to lubricate it, it will come out sloppy.

13. Step 12:

    

    Put the egg halves on top of the meat - these are future snowdrifts. Arrange 7 halves in a circle with the pointed side to the center, and place one in the very middle of the salad.

14. Step 13:

    

    Smear the whole salad structure with mayonnaise, including eggs on top.

15. Step 14:

    

    And sprinkle the salad with liberally grated cheese. In the finished form, the Snowdrift salad looks very impressive and actually looks like snowdrifts.