Composition / ingredients
Step-by-step cooking
Step 1:
How to make a classic Bride salad? Prepare the ingredients. Pre-boil the chicken fillet in lightly salted water until tender, 20 minutes of cooking over medium heat is enough (use the resulting broth to prepare the first dishes). Let the chicken meat cool and cut into small cubes.
Step 2:
Boil potatoes in a uniform. To do this, wash it, fill it with cold water and put it on the stove over medium heat. After boiling, cook the potatoes for 25 minutes. Check readiness with a knife — the blade will easily pierce the tuber. Cool and then peel the potatoes. Grate it on a coarse grater. Boil hard-boiled chicken eggs, cool and peel. Separate the whites from the yolks.
Step 3:
Grate the proteins separately.
Step 4:
Separately — yolks.
Step 5:
Peel the onion from the husk and finely chop it with a knife. To remove the excess bitterness of the onion, pour boiling water over it and leave for 10 minutes, then drain the water.
Step 6:
Grate the hard cheese on a medium grater. Choose natural and, above all, delicious cheese with a mild taste, so that the salad remains tender.
Step 7:
Assemble the salad. As a rule, the Bride salad is decorated as a layered one, you can do this with the help of a culinary ring or lay out the ingredients in layers with a slide. Put the boiled potatoes in the first layer. Brush it with a thin layer of mayonnaise.
Step 8:
Then comes the chopped boiled chicken fillet and mayonnaise again. Sprinkle this layer on top with chopped onions.
Step 9:
Next, lay out the grated egg yolks of chicken eggs. Cover them with a thin layer of mayonnaise.
Step 10:
The next layer is hard cheese, smear it with mayonnaise.
Step 11:
And finish assembling the salad with grated egg whites, sprinkle them generously on top of the salad so that it turns out to be snow-white, and the other ingredients do not shine through. Let the salad soak in the refrigerator, then serve to the table. Enjoy your meal!
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.
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.
Prepare salads only from fully chilled foods. Cooked from warm, the salad can quickly deteriorate.
Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish
- Ripe potatoes - 80 kcal/100g
- Baked potatoes - 70 kcal/100g
- Mashed potatoes - 380 kcal/100g
- Boiled potatoes - 82 kcal/100g
- Potatoes in uniform - 74 kcal/100g
- Fried potatoes - 192 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
- Uglich cheese - 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
- Cheese "lo spalmino" - 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
- 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
- Onion - 41 kcal/100g
- Chicken egg - 80 kcal/100g
- Chicken breast (fillet) - 113 kcal/100g