"Lady's Whim" Layered Salad with Chicken and Prunes
A layered salad for the holiday table with a subtle smoky note. It's a great fit for a New Year's spread and easily rivals the usual Olivier. This lineup of ingredients all but guarantees success, and thanks to the fresh cucumber the salad comes out refreshing and fragrant. Delicious!
Cooking method
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Step 1:
How do you make "Lady's Whim" salad with chicken and prunes? Gather your ingredients. Cook the chicken breast: rinse it and trim off any membranes and excess fat. Pour about 1.5 liters of water into a pot; when it boils, add salt and the chicken. You can add a few peppercorns and a bay leaf. Cook, covered, for about 20 minutes after the water returns to a boil — if a knife slides in easily, it's done. Let it cool right in the broth so it doesn't dry out.
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Step 2:
Rinse the pitted prunes in cold water. Put them in a bowl, cover with boiling water, and let them sit about 10 minutes, then drain in a colander.
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Step 3:
If the cucumber skin is intact and not bitter, leave it on. Wash the cucumbers and cut them into small pieces or grate them into thick strips on a mandoline.
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Step 4:
Grate a good hard cheese — finely is best, so the cheese layer on the salad stays light and airy.
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Step 5:
Cut the cooled chicken into small cubes.
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Step 6:
Cook the eggs: cover them with cold water, add salt (about 1 teaspoon), bring to a boil, and cook for about 8-10 minutes. Drain the hot water and cover with cold. Once cool, peel the eggs and dice them with a knife or push them through an egg slicer — or grate them coarsely.
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Step 7:
Pat the softened prunes dry with paper towels and cut them into small pieces.
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Step 8:
Set a plating ring or the springform side of a cake pan on a flat platter.
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Step 9:
First, lay down a layer of the chopped chicken.
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Step 10:
Spread mayonnaise over the chicken.
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Step 11:
Next, add a layer of cucumbers.
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Step 12:
Spread mayonnaise over them too.
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Step 13:
Spread the chopped eggs evenly over the cucumber layer.
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Step 14:
Coat the egg layer with the remaining mayonnaise.
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Step 15:
Lay the chopped prunes over the eggs, holding a few back to decorate the top.
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Step 16:
Cover the prune layer with the grated cheese.
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Step 17:
Decorate the top with the reserved prune pieces.
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Step 18:
Carefully lift off the ring, and your "Lady's Whim" salad with chicken and prunes is ready.
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Step 19:
Serve it up and take the compliments from your guests!
- For this salad, dried pitted prunes are best, and the cucumbers should be fresh, not pickled.
- I recommend making your own mayonnaise — tastier and better for you. You'll find recipes for it elsewhere on the site.
- You can replace the mayonnaise with sour cream, a sour cream–mayonnaise mix, or plain unsweetened yogurt.
- If you like, toast some walnuts in a dry skillet, grind them in a blender, and sprinkle them over the top.
- You can also build this in clear individual glasses in layers, or simply toss all the ingredients together with the dressing.
Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish
- Fresh cucumbers - 15 kcal/100g
- Dutch cheese - 352 kcal/100g
- Swiss cheese - 335 kcal/100g
- Russian cheese - 366 kcal/100g
- Kostroma cheese - 345 kcal/100g
- Yaroslavl cheese - 361 kcal/100g
- Altai cheese 50% fat - 356 kcal/100g
- Sovetsky cheese - 400 kcal/100g
- Stepnoy cheese - 362 kcal/100g
- Uglich cheese - 347 kcal/100g
- Poshekhonsky cheese - 350 kcal/100g
- Lambert cheese - 377 kcal/100g
- Appenzeller cheese 50% fat - 400 kcal/100g
- Chester cheese 50% fat - 363 kcal/100g
- Edam cheese 40% fat - 340 kcal/100g
- Cheese with mushrooms 50% fat - 395 kcal/100g
- Emmental cheese 45% fat - 420 kcal/100g
- Gouda cheese 45% fat - 356 kcal/100g
- Amadeus cheese - 364 kcal/100g
- Dom Blanc cheese (semi-hard) - 360 kcal/100g
- Lo Spalmino cheese - 61 kcal/100g
- Etorki cheese (sheep, hard) - 401 kcal/100g
- White cheese - 100 kcal/100g
- Yellow full-fat 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
- Salad mayonnaise 50% fat - 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
- Chicken egg - 80 kcal/100g
- Salt - 0 kcal/100g
- Chicken breast (fillet) - 113 kcal/100g
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