Composition / ingredients
Step-by-step cooking
Step 1:
How to make a traffic light salad with bell pepper and chicken? Prepare all the necessary ingredients. Take Bulgarian pepper in different colors to make the salad brighter. If necessary, defrost the chicken fillet on the bottom shelf of the refrigerator. Rinse, clean it of films and grease.
Step 2:
How to cook chicken breast properly? Pour about 1.5 liters of water into a saucepan. When it boils, add salt (about 0.5 tablespoons of salt) and send the meat there. For taste, you can add pepper peas (3-4 pieces) and bay leaf. Cook under the lid (about 20 minutes after boiling). If the fillet is easily pierced with a knife, then it's ready. In order for the meat to retain its juiciness, cool it in the broth. Then take it out, dry it with paper napkins. Cut into small cubes.
Step 3:
Wash the yellow, red and green bell peppers. Wash, dry with paper towels. Peel the seeds by removing the stalks. Cut the red pepper into small cubes and put it in a bowl.
Step 4:
Now chop the yellow pepper and put it in a separate bowl.
Step 5:
Also send the chopped green pepper to a separate container. You can cut peppers not only into squares, but also into thin strips, as you like.
Step 6:
Cut the hard cheese into small cubes. Any cheese will do, as long as it is delicious.
Step 7:
Choose a sweet and sour apple, preferably green. Rinse, dry, cut in half, cut out the core. Cut into cubes.
Step 8:
Wash, dry the parsley with napkins. Chop it with a knife. Leave a few twigs for decoration.
Step 9:
In a salad bowl, combine all the chopped ingredients (chicken, pepper, cheese, apple and herbs). Mix the contents. Important! Do not add all the pepper. Leave about a third of each color for decoration, without mixing them.
Step 10:
Prepare the sauce. In a separate container, mix mayonnaise and sour cream. Lightly whisk the mixture with a fork. Season the salad and mix again.
Step 11:
On a flat dish, you can spread out a washed and dried leaf salad with paper towels. Put the salad on it with a slide, give it an oval shape. Sprinkle with chopped herbs. Put green, yellow, and then red pepper on top in turn, as in a traffic light. Garnish with parsley leaves. Let the salad soak for 20 minutes and serve. Enjoy your meal!
You can add Korean carrots to the salad. It will not only add color to the dish, but also sharpness to the taste.
I recommend cooking mayonnaise yourself, it will be tastier and healthier. Options for homemade mayonnaise recipes you find it here
If for some reason you don't eat mayonnaise, season the salad only with sour cream or natural yogurt without additives.
Note that the quality and taste of the finished dish largely depends on the proper defrosting of the ingredients. How to avoid mistakes and choose the best way to defrost chicken read in article about proper defrosting of products .
Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish
- Sour cream with 30 % fat content - 340 kcal/100g
- Sour cream with 25% fat content - 284 kcal/100g
- Sour cream with 20% fat content - 210 kcal/100g
- Sour cream of 10% fat content - 115 kcal/100g
- Sour cream - 210 kcal/100g
- Apples - 47 kcal/100g
- Dried apples - 210 kcal/100g
- Canned apple mousse - 61 kcal/100g
- Sweet pepper - 27 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
- Cheese "uglichsky" - 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
- Parsley greens - 45 kcal/100g
- Dill greens - 38 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
- Salt - 0 kcal/100g
- Chicken breast (fillet) - 113 kcal/100g