Chicken salad with mushrooms and walnuts

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to make a chicken salad with mushrooms and walnuts? Prepare the products. Pre-boil the breasts and eggs and cool them. Wipe the mushrooms from dirt with a damp cloth, peel the onion, carrot and garlic.

2. Step 2:

   

   Cut the mushrooms not too finely so that they are felt in the salad. Pour 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil into a hot frying pan and put the mushrooms on it.

3. Step 3:

   

   Mushrooms will immediately release juice. When all the liquid has evaporated, add finely chopped onion to the mushrooms. Right now, not at the beginning. The fact is that then the onion will be like boiled, because all mushrooms secrete a lot of liquid. And in our case, the onion will be fried. Fry the mushrooms with onions, stirring, over medium heat. When they turn golden, add a little salt.

4. Step 4:

   

   Grate carrots on a coarse grater or on a grater for Korean carrots and fry on the remaining 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil. Add a little salt to it.

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   Boil the chicken breasts. How to cook chicken breasts? Wash the meat and put it in boiling salted water. Cook the fillets over medium heat until tender, 30-40 minutes, depending on the size. Leave the boiled breasts to cool in the water in which they were cooked. So the meat will turn out more tender and juicy. And then you can strain the broth and use it for soup. When the breasts cool down, disassemble them into fibers and finely chop them.

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   Boil the eggs. How to cook hard-boiled eggs? So that the eggs do not crack when cooking, put them in cold water and put them to cook on a small fire. Boil the eggs for 9 minutes after boiling, then pour cold water and cool. From a sharp temperature drop, the shell will be better cleaned. Separate the whites from the yolks and grate separately on a fine grater.

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   For salad dressing, mix mayonnaise, ground black pepper and crushed garlic.

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   Assemble the salad. The salad will be laid out in layers in a serving ring. If there is no ring, then a deep plate will do. Put the chicken meat in the first layer.

9. Step 9:

   

   Lubricate the chicken layer well with garlic mayonnaise, as we will not lubricate all layers.

11. Step 10:

    

    Put the fried mushrooms with onions in the next layer.

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    Then a layer of grated proteins.

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    Brush a layer of proteins with garlic mayonnaise.

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    Next, put the fried carrots in the ring.

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    The next layer will be of egg yolks, grated on a fine grater.

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    Brush them thickly with mayonnaise and garlic.

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    For the next layer, grind the walnuts in a mortar. You can also use a coffee grinder or blender.

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    Finish the salad with a layer of walnuts.

19. Step 18:

    

    Lightly tamp the salad and carefully remove the serving ring. Decorate the top with walnut halves. Put it in the refrigerator for a couple of hours for impregnation. Then serve to the table. Enjoy your meal!