Bride salad classic

Light, gentle, airy, for a holiday and for every day! The classic Bride salad is simple in composition and method of preparation. The salad consists of white ingredients, for which it got its name. The products included in it are perfectly combined with each other, the salad turns out delicious and light.
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Composition / ingredients

servings:
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Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 43 % 12 g
Fats 32 % 9 g
Carbohydrates 25 % 7 g
149 kcal
GI: 100 / 0 / 0

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 50 min
  1. Step 1:

    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.

  2. Step 2:

    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.

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3.

    Grate the proteins separately.

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4.

    Separately — yolks.

  5. Step 5:

    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.

  6. Step 6:

    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.

  7. Step 7:

    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.

  8. Step 8:

    Step 8.

    Then comes the chopped boiled chicken fillet and mayonnaise again. Sprinkle this layer on top with chopped onions.

  9. Step 9:

    Step 9.

    Next, lay out the grated egg yolks of chicken eggs. Cover them with a thin layer of mayonnaise.

  10. Step 10:

    Step 10.

    The next layer is hard cheese, smear it with mayonnaise.

  11. Step 11:

    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

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