Sunflower salad classic with chips and chicken

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to make a classic Sunflower salad? First, prepare the necessary ingredients. Canned champignons can be replaced with fresh ones and also fried. If the eggs are small, like mine, take 4 pieces. Chips are needed according to the type of Pringles or Lays in high tubes.

2. Step 2:

   

   Pre-boil chicken fillet in salted water until tender. Cut the boiled chicken into small pieces.

3. Step 3:

   

   Drain the liquid from the canned champignons and fry in a frying pan in vegetable oil until light golden brown. If the canned champignons were stored correctly, then you can use them without frying. But canned mushrooms are often stored in stores with a violation of temperatures above 25 degrees, which leads to the development of bacteria that cause severe poisoning and botulism. Therefore, it is better to be safe and additionally fry the mushrooms.

4. Step 4:

   

   Boil hard boiled eggs, cool and peel. Grate separately in different dishes: whites - on a large or medium grater, and yolks - on a small one.

5. Step 5:

   

   Grate cheese on a large grater.

6. Step 6:

   

   To decorate, remove the olives from the jar and dry them. Cut each olive into 4 pieces. You can also cut it in halves to reduce the time of laying olives on the salad.

7. Step 7:

   

   Put the chicken fillet on the dish in an even round layer. Pour mayonnaise over it. I apply mayonnaise from a pastry bag or a cellophane bag.

9. Step 8:

   

   Put the fried mushrooms on the chicken and also make a mesh of mayonnaise.

10. Step 9:

    

    The next layer is cheese, poured with mayonnaise.

11. Step 10:

    

    Spread the grated proteins with mayonnaise on the cheese.

12. Step 11:

    

    The last layer before decorating the salad with olives is grated yolks. It does not need to be watered with mayonnaise.

13. Step 12:

    

    Decorate the salad with quarters of olives on top, imitating sunflower seeds. The degree of coating of the surface of the salad with olives is determined according to your taste. Pieces of olives can be laid out in some places or, like me, cover the entire surface of the salad with them. The second option is still more like a ripe sunflower, whose seeds fit snugly together.

14. Step 13:

    

    Let the salad stand at room temperature for half an hour. If you plan to serve the salad later, then cover it with a film and put it in the refrigerator. Insert chips along the edges of the salad. For more similarity, you can insert chips in two rows to add volume. Decorate the salad with chips just before serving, otherwise they will get wet. If desired, you can sprinkle the joints between chips and olives with chopped chopped greens. Enjoy your meal!