Chicken salad with mushrooms and walnuts

Layered, hearty, delicious - from available ingredients! Chicken salad with mushrooms and walnuts is suitable for both a festive table and a daily one. It perfectly satisfies hunger, looks great on the table, besides it is quite simple to prepare.

Natalia Tsybulskaya

Recipe author

Chicken salad with mushrooms and walnuts

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Composition / ingredients

servings:

Chicken fillet

200

Mayonnaise

Garlic

Eggs

Hard cheese

Champignons

150

Onion

Vegetable oil

Walnuts

Salt

to taste

Translation table of volumetric measures

Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe

By weight of the composition:

Proteins 39 % 12 g

Fats 52 % 16 g

Carbohydrates 10 % 3 g

197 kcal

GI: 100 / 0 / 0

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 30 min

Step 1:
How to make chicken salad with mushrooms and walnuts? Prepare the ingredients. You can take any part of the chicken. My mushrooms are universal - champignons, but they can also be any other seasonal mushrooms, you can also use frozen mushrooms after defrosting them. Any cheese will do, but preferably not very soft varieties, so that it can be grated.
Step 2:
Peel the onion, cut into small cubes.
Step 3:
Heat the vegetable oil in a frying pan. It can be any vegetable from sunflower to olive, but preferably refined, because only refined oils can be subjected to heat treatment. Put the chopped onion in a frying pan and fry it for about 5 minutes until golden brown.
Step 4:
Wash the mushrooms well, cut into cubes.
Step 5:
Add the mushrooms to the pan, add salt so that the mushrooms give off excess liquid, fry for about 15 minutes until crispy. Then cool well.
Step 6:
Mix mayonnaise with crushed garlic. I put it through the press, but you can chop it with a knife or grate it on a fine grater. I also strongly recommend using homemade mayonnaise of our own production, not that there is no benefit in the store, it is even harmful to the body. It is quite possible to replace mayonnaise with sour cream or natural yogurt.
Step 7:
Our salad is layered, let's proceed directly to its preparation. Chicken, if you have raw chicken, boil in salted water for 20 minutes, then cool and cut into small pieces.
Step 8:
Mix chopped chicken with 1 tbsp mayonnaise with garlic.
Step 9:
Prepare a salad dish. Put the chicken with mayonnaise in the first layer.
Step 10:
Boil hard-boiled eggs (usually 8 minutes after boiling water), cool the eggs in cold water, peel and chop.
Step 11:
Put a layer of eggs on the chicken, then a little mayonnaise.
Step 12:
Now a layer of fried mushrooms, - spread it over the surface. A little more mayonnaise.
Step 13:
Grate the cheese and put it on the mushrooms.
Step 14:
The final touch is walnuts. Chop them coarsely and put them on top of the salad. At your request, the nuts can be pre-fried in a frying pan.
Step 15:
Let the salad brew for 30 minutes and serve. Bon appetit!

Any oils are useful only until a certain temperature is reached - the point of smoking, at which the oil begins to burn and toxic substances, including carcinogens, are formed in it. How to determine the roasting temperature and choose the best oil for frying, and which is better not to use at all, read here .

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.