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Salad with prunes and chicken layers

Layered Salad with Prunes and Smoked Chicken

Delicious, colorful, and hearty — a celebration any day of the week! This layered salad with prunes and chicken brings together ingredients that complement each other beautifully. Smoked chicken, eggs, and cheese make it filling, prunes add a gentle sweetness, and cucumbers bring freshness. It's the kind of salad your guests will remember!

Maria

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Composition / ingredients

Servings:

Smoked chicken

400

Pickles

250

Prunes

150

Walnuts

100

Hard cheese

Eggs

Mayonnaise

Translation table of volumetric measures

Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe

By weight of the composition:

Proteins 33 % 11 g

Fats 42 % 14 g

Carbohydrates 24 % 8 g

205 kcal

GI: 100 / 0 / 0

Cooking method

Step 1:

How do you make a layered salad with prunes and smoked chicken? It's easy! First, gather the ingredients from the list. Feel free to add to or swap them to suit your taste, and use store-bought or homemade mayonnaise.
Step 2:

Remove the skin and bones from the smoked breast and cut the meat into small cubes. You can use meat from smoked thighs instead.
Step 3:

Hard-boil the eggs, cool, and peel them. Cut the eggs into small cubes.
Step 4:

Shake the brine off the pickles and cut them into small cubes as well.
Step 5:

Wash the prunes, pat them dry, and cut them into pieces. If they're too hard and dried out, cover them with boiling water and let them sit for 10 minutes.
Step 6:

Toast the walnuts in a dry skillet and chop them with a knife.
Step 7:

Grate the cheese on the coarse or medium side of a grater. Use any cheese you enjoy — I used Tilsiter.
Step 8:

Set a 6–7 inch (16–18 cm) cooking ring on a serving plate. Spread the smoked chicken as the first layer and pipe mayonnaise over it. (I transferred the mayonnaise to a piping bag to make it easier to apply evenly.)
Step 9:

Next, spread the pickles and add another layer of mayonnaise.
Step 10:

Sprinkle the cucumber layer with chopped walnuts and add a little mayonnaise.
Step 11:

Add the chopped eggs on top and mayonnaise over them as well.
Step 12:

Next, add the prunes and a layer of mayonnaise.
Step 13:

Finish with a final layer of grated cheese — there's no need to add mayonnaise on top. Refrigerate the salad to let it soak for 3–4 hours, ideally overnight. It's a good idea to cover the ring with plastic wrap so the top cheese layer doesn't dry out.
Step 14:

Remove the cooking ring before serving. Garnish the salad with walnut halves, cucumber slices, and fresh herbs. Enjoy!

The salad looks neat and attractive if you cut all the ingredients to a similar size and shape (cubes, for example).
It's better to make the mayonnaise yourself — it'll taste better and be healthier. You can also use sour cream or plain yogurt as a dressing instead of, or mixed with, mayonnaise in any ratio you like; this lightens up the dish.
You can swap the smoked chicken for boiled or baked chicken.