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Little Red Riding Hood salad with tomatoes

Little Red Riding Hood Salad with Tomatoes

Very tasty, bright, festive, made from simple ingredients! You can make Little Red Riding Hood salad with tomatoes from chicken, as I did, but also from any other meat, mushrooms, or crab sticks. It looks gorgeous on a holiday table and is the first thing to disappear!

Maria

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Little Red Riding Hood salad with tomatoes

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Composition / ingredients

Servings:

Chicken fillet

200

Potatoes

Carrots

Eggs

Mayonnaise

Cherry tomatoes

200

Hard cheese

Translation table of volumetric measures

Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe

By weight of the composition:

Proteins 43 % 10 g

Fats 35 % 8 g

Carbohydrates 22 % 5 g

134 kcal

GI: 100 / 0 / 0

Cooking method

Step 1:

How do you make Little Red Riding Hood salad with tomatoes? Gather the ingredients. Wash the vegetables and egg well and dry them. Boil them until done and cool. I recommend using homemade mayonnaise. Instead of chicken, you can use other meat, sausage, or mushrooms — fried, pickled, or salted, to your taste. If you use chicken, boil it ahead of time in salted water and cool it.
Step 2:

Cut the boiled chicken fillet into small cubes and put it in a roomy bowl.
Step 3:

Peel the boiled potato and carrot and cut them into small cubes. Add them to the bowl with the chicken.
Step 4:

Peel the boiled egg and cut it into small cubes. Add it to the bowl.
Step 5:

Add the mayonnaise to the salad. Instead of mayonnaise, you can use sour cream or plain unsweetened yogurt.
Step 6:

Gently mix all the ingredients with the mayonnaise (or whatever you've replaced it with).
Step 7:

Line a small dome-shaped bowl with plastic wrap. Pack the salad into it firmly.
Step 8:

Turn the bowl over onto a larger serving dish and peel the plastic wrap off the salad. You can also shape the salad with a ring mold, but then it won't be rounded on top and won't look like a "hood." If that doesn't matter to you, use a ring.
Step 9:

Now to the garnish — and it matters here, because it's what gives the salad its pretty name, Little Red Riding Hood. Get the ingredients ready. Try to pick cherry tomatoes of the same size so the garnish looks more striking.
Step 10:

Wash, dry, and halve the cherry tomatoes.
Step 11:

Grate the cheese on the medium or fine side of a grater.
Step 12:

Brush a thin layer of mayonnaise over the surface of the salad with a pastry brush. If it came out moist enough, like mine, you can skip this. Cover the whole surface of the salad with the cherry tomato halves. Sprinkle the base of the salad with grated cheese. Serve the salad. Enjoy!

To make the salad look as much like a hood as possible, give it a dome shape and top it with something red. That could be pomegranate seeds or tomatoes. You can arrange the tomatoes the way I did — in halves — or cut them into small pieces. To help the cut tomatoes stay on the surface, you can make the salad flat-topped instead of domed by packing it into a round mold so the top is level. This salad is very often made for the New Year holidays. Its pretty, festive look will dress up your table — and not only at New Year.
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.