Composition / ingredients
Step-by-step cooking
Step 1:
How to make a Birch salad with prunes? Prepare the specified ingredients. Boiled breast fillet. Champignons are fresh, but can be replaced with canned ones. Boil the eggs until tender and cool.
Step 2:
Steam the prunes and chop them finely. Rinse the mushrooms well and fry with onions until tender, leaving and also frying two pieces whole (for decoration). Finely chop the breast fillet. Wash the cucumbers and grate them on a coarse grater. Peel the eggs, separate the whites from the yolks, cut the whites, and leave the yolks intact for now (they will go to the top layer).
Step 3:
Choose a suitable salad dish: it can be of different shapes of dishes, deep or flat - everything is optional. I took a rectangular shallow plate. The first layer is laid out sliced prunes. Lightly brush with mayonnaise.
Step 4:
The second layer is sliced chicken fillet. Smear a little mayonnaise.
Step 5:
On top of the fillet there is a layer with fried mushrooms and onions. Brush a little with mayonnaise.
Step 6:
The fourth layer is sliced egg whites mixed with mayonnaise.
Step 7:
Then layer with grated fresh cucumbers. Here it is already well smeared with mayonnaise.
Step 8:
Grate the egg yolks on a fine grater, evenly covering the entire surface of the salad.
Step 9:
Now the salad decoration. Make a tree trunk with mayonnaise. You can make two or more thinner branches - everything is optional. At the foot of the trunk, make a clearing with mushrooms - lay out parsley leaves, dill and fried halves of champignons.
Step 10:
Make lentils from prunes or olives (black stripes on the trunk of a birch tree), lay out the leaves with chopped green onions. Before serving, the salad should be kept in the refrigerator.
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.
Buy fresh medium-sized mushrooms, snow-white color without spots, damage, rot smell. They should not be slippery to the touch. Thoroughly rinse the mushrooms from the ground under a stream of warm or cold water. Cut out the damaged places, if there are any. Miniature mushrooms up to 2 cm in size do not need to be cleaned at all, it is enough to rinse them well. Larger champignons are recommended to be cleaned from films.
Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish
- Fresh cucumbers - 15 kcal/100g
- Chicken egg - 157 kcal/100g
- Egg white - 45 kcal/100g
- Egg powder - 542 kcal/100g
- Egg yolk - 352 kcal/100g
- Ostrich egg - 118 kcal/100g
- Champignons - 24 kcal/100g
- Parsley greens - 45 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
- Prunes - 227 kcal/100g
- Green onion - 19 kcal/100g
- Onion - 41 kcal/100g
- Chicken breast (fillet) - 113 kcal/100g