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Chicken, Bean, and Carrot Salad

Simple in both ingredients and method, and very tasty! This salad of beans, Korean-style carrots, and boiled chicken will dress up a holiday table and can just as easily liven up an everyday weeknight menu. It comes together fairly quickly if you have all the ingredients on hand. The process is easy too, so even a beginner cook can manage it. Beyond the main ingredients, you can add or swap in other items to taste.

Snezhana

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Composition / ingredients

Servings:

Chicken fillet

300

Beans (dried)

100

Korean-style carrots

100

Hard cheese

Mayonnaise

Salt

Translation table of volumetric measures

Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe

By weight of the composition:

Proteins 43 % 17 g

Fats 33 % 13 g

Carbohydrates 25 % 10 g

232 kcal

GI: 100 / 0 / 0

Cooking method

Cooking time: 30 min

Step 1:

How do you make chicken, bean, and carrot salad? Gather the ingredients for the salad. Boil the chicken fillet in salted water until done, cool it, and chop it finely. You can use white chicken meat you've boiled ahead of time or have left over from other dishes.
Step 2:

Rinse the beans thoroughly, cover with cold water, and leave overnight. You can use beans of any color — white or red — just don't mix the two varieties, since they have different cooking times: in the same span of time one type will turn mushy while the other stays firm.
Step 3:

In the morning, rinse the beans again (they should have swelled well overnight), cover with a fresh batch of water, and set over the heat. Bring to a boil, lower the heat, and cook the beans until done, about 1 hour. But don't overcook them — for the salad they need to stay whole. Salt the beans lightly toward the end of cooking. You can replace the boiled beans with canned ones, which speeds up and simplifies the process, though the salad's flavor will be different.
Step 4:

Korean-style carrots add their wonderful flavor and zing to this salad. You can buy them ready-made at the store or make them yourself at home. It's not hard at all — the only thing is that it takes time to prepare and marinate them. On the upside, a homemade version lets you season it to suit everyone in the household.
Step 5:

You can use any hard cheese you like and have on hand — the main thing is that it not have a strong, distinctive flavor that would drown out the other ingredients. Grate the hard cheese on the medium side of a grater.
Step 6:

Put all the prepared ingredients in a deep bowl.
Step 7:

Dress with mayonnaise or sour cream to taste. With sour cream, you may want to add salt. Stir, and let the salad sit in the fridge to soak up the flavors. Turn it out into a salad bowl and serve. Enjoy!

It's better to make the mayonnaise yourself — it'll be tastier and healthier. See some interesting homemade mayonnaise recipes here. You can also use not just mayonnaise as a dressing but sour cream or plain yogurt. Use them on their own or mixed with mayonnaise in any proportion you like — this lowers the dish's calorie count.