Layered salad with chicken and pineapples

Salad with chicken and pineapple is a delicious classic! Such salads can be prepared simply by mixing all the ingredients or slightly modified and cooked more festively - in layers. Beautifully decorate the top with pineapple slices and nuts, greens. Serve in a large salad bowl or in portions, but whichever way you choose, the salad will enjoy constant success both in the family and among guests, because it is a very tasty, satisfying and at the same time light dish.
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Composition / ingredients

Servings:
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Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 21 % 5 g
Fats 50 % 12 g
Carbohydrates 29 % 7 g
153 kcal
GI: 63 / 38 / 0

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 1 h 30 min
  1. Step 1:

    Step 1.

    How to make a layered salad with chicken and pineapples? Prepare the products. Wash the vegetables and herbs, dry them. Boil the potatoes in a convenient way in a uniform. Boil the eggs for 9 minutes from the beginning of boiling and immediately cool with cold water, they will be cleaned so well and there will be no gray rim around the yolk.

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2.

    Flip the pineapples into a colander, let the syrup drain well, then cut into medium segments. In jars with ready-made pieces, pieces with the core left fall, such hard places must be carefully removed so as not to deprive the salad of the necessary tenderness.

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3.

    Since the salad will be prepared in layers, it is convenient to grate and cut the necessary products in advance, spreading them into separate bowls. Release the ham from the skin and bones, cut the meat into small cubes. Also finely chop the bell pepper, cucumber, Peking cabbage and herbs. And grate the egg and cheese on a coarse grater, they can be mixed in one bowl, because they will be laid out in one layer. Separately grate the potatoes coarsely.

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4.

    If the nuts were bought peeled, be sure to wash it and dry it in advance. Or slightly dry in a dry frying pan, it's a matter of taste. Then cut with a knife, but not very finely. You can take a different nut to taste or availability, but it is desirable to add it to the salad, it will enrich the taste with a pleasant astringency. It will also serve as a decoration.

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5.

    Having prepared all the products, it remains only to lay them out in layers, greasing each with a mesh of mayonnaise. The order is as follows: 1st - Peking cabbage. 2nd - Potatoes, add a little salt to it. 3rd - Greens.

  6. Step 6:

    Step 6.

    Then the 4th layer of meat, if desired, sprinkle with a mixture of peppers. 5th - Cucumber, add salt to it too. 6th and 7th Egg and cheese / or mix or alternately/. This light layer can be left as the top, depending on how you plan to decorate the salad, it gives a flat surface, so there is a lot of room for imagination. In case of replacement, pineapples will take its place.

  7. Step 7:

    Step 7.

    Well, if there was no replacement, the 8th layer will be Bulgarian pepper. The 9th layer will be pineapples and nuts and sprigs of greenery between them.

  8. Step 8:

    Step 8.

    Everything, a delicious salad is ready to please you! For a special occasion and so, for every day. If the salad bowl is large, repeat the layers. It will look good like all puff salads in a transparent salad bowl or in the form of a circle with a ring in the center, so all layers are viewed.

Chicken can be used both smoked and boiled, or fried, baked. Cucumber can be taken pickled or lightly salted. Instead of mayonnaise, you can add sour cream.
There are a great many options for pineapple salad, maybe as a result of experiments you will get your own author. Well, if you are not ready for experiments, take the already proven proposed option as a basis, maybe you will like it!

It is better to prepare mayonnaise yourself. It will be tastier and healthier. See here interesting recipes for homemade mayonnaise.
Also, as a dressing, you can use not only mayonnaise, but also sour cream or natural yogurt. They can be taken separately or mixed with mayonnaise in any proportion to your taste - this will reduce the calorie content of the dish.

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

  • Ripe potatoes - 80   kcal/100g
  • Baked potatoes - 70   kcal/100g
  • Mashed potatoes - 380   kcal/100g
  • Boiled potatoes - 82   kcal/100g
  • Potatoes in uniform - 74   kcal/100g
  • Fried potatoes - 192   kcal/100g
  • Fresh cucumbers - 15   kcal/100g
  • Sweet pepper - 27   kcal/100g
  • Walnuts - 650   kcal/100g
  • Black Walnut English Walnut - 628   kcal/100g
  • Black Persian Walnut - 651   kcal/100g
  • Walnut oil - 925   kcal/100g
  • Dutch cheese - 352   kcal/100g
  • Swiss cheese - 335   kcal/100g
  • Russian cheese - 366   kcal/100g
  • Kostroma cheese - 345   kcal/100g
  • Yaroslavsky cheese - 361   kcal/100g
  • Altai cheese 50% fat content - 356   kcal/100g
  • Soviet cheese - 400   kcal/100g
  • Cheese "steppe" - 362   kcal/100g
  • Uglich cheese - 347   kcal/100g
  • Poshekhonsky cheese - 350   kcal/100g
  • Lambert cheese - 377   kcal/100g
  • Appnzeller cheese with 50% fat content - 400   kcal/100g
  • Chester cheese with 50% fat content - 363   kcal/100g
  • Edamer cheese with 40% fat content - 340   kcal/100g
  • Cheese with mushrooms of 50% fat content - 395   kcal/100g
  • Emmental cheese with 45% fat content - 420   kcal/100g
  • Gouda cheese with 45% fat content - 356   kcal/100g
  • Aiadeus cheese - 364   kcal/100g
  • Dom blanc cheese (semi-hard) - 360   kcal/100g
  • Lo spalmino cheese - 61   kcal/100g
  • Cheese "etorki" (sheep, hard) - 401   kcal/100g
  • White cheese - 100   kcal/100g
  • Fat yellow cheese - 260   kcal/100g
  • Altai cheese - 355   kcal/100g
  • Kaunas cheese - 355   kcal/100g
  • Latvian cheese - 316   kcal/100g
  • Limburger cheese - 327   kcal/100g
  • Lithuanian cheese - 250   kcal/100g
  • Lake cheese - 350   kcal/100g
  • Gruyere cheese - 396   kcal/100g
  • Pineapples - 49   kcal/100g
  • Canned pineapples - 57   kcal/100g
  • Salad mayonnaise of 50 % fat content - 502   kcal/100g
  • Light mayonnaise - 260   kcal/100g
  • Provencal Mayonnaise - 624   kcal/100g
  • Provencal mayonnaise - 627   kcal/100g
  • Table mayonnaise - 627   kcal/100g
  • Chinese cabbage - 16   kcal/100g
  • Salt - 0   kcal/100g
  • Fresh frozen soup greens in a package - 41   kcal/100g
  • Greenery - 41   kcal/100g
  • Chicken egg - 80   kcal/100g
  • A mixture of ground peppers - 255   kcal/100g
  • Smoked hams - 220   kcal/100g

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