Composition / ingredients
Step-by-step cooking
Step 1:
How to make a classic Brooklyn salad with chicken, cucumbers and broccoli? Very simple and fast! First, prepare the necessary ingredients according to the list. The vegetable part can be supplemented or replaced according to your taste. You can replace the chicken with any other meat.
Step 2:
Wash the chicken fillet and boil in boiling salted water until tender for about 20 minutes. Then cool the chicken and cut into small cubes. Instead of boiled chicken, you can fry the fillet in a frying pan or bake it in the oven in foil. Instead of fresh chicken, you can use smoked.
Step 3:
Wash the champignons, dry them and cut them into plates. Heat the vegetable oil in a frying pan and fry the mushrooms until golden brown.
Step 4:
Boil broccoli in boiling salted water for about 10 minutes until tender. The exact time depends on the size of the inflorescences and the degree of heating. Broccoli can be used fresh or frozen. If you use frozen cabbage, you do not need to defrost it beforehand.
Step 5:
Put the cabbage in a colander and pour ice water over it so that it retains its bright color. Let the water drain. If the inflorescences are large, disassemble them into smaller ones.
Step 6:
Shake the cucumbers from the brine and cut into small cubes. If you have cucumbers of small diameter, you can cut them into circles.
Step 7:
Drain the liquid from the canned corn, dry the grains.
Step 8:
In a salad bowl, combine chicken, broccoli, cucumbers, fried mushrooms and canned corn. Season the salad with sour cream and mayonnaise and mix.
Step 9:
Put the salad on a plate and serve it to the table. Bon appetit!
Buy fresh medium-sized mushrooms, snow-white color without spots, damage, rot smell. They should not be slippery to the touch. Thoroughly rinse the mushrooms from the ground under a stream of warm or cold water. Cut out the damaged places, if there are any. Miniature mushrooms up to 2 cm in size do not need to be cleaned at all, it is enough to rinse them well. Larger champignons are recommended to be cleaned from films.
Since the degree of salinity, sweetness, bitterness, sharpness, acid, burning is individual for everyone, always add spices, spices and seasonings, focusing on your taste! If you put some of the seasonings for the first time, then keep in mind that there are spices that it is especially important not to shift (for example, chili pepper).
How to buy canned corn correctly? Be sure to check the expiration date on the jar. If the container is glass, carefully consider the grains. They should be the same size and color, solid and spotless. The composition should not contain dyes, preservatives and flavor enhancers.
Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish
- Sour cream with 30% fat content - 340 kcal/100g
- Sour cream of 25% fat content - 284 kcal/100g
- Sour cream with 20% fat content - 210 kcal/100g
- Sour cream of 10% fat content - 115 kcal/100g
- Sour cream - 210 kcal/100g
- Champignons - 24 kcal/100g
- Broccoli - 33 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
- Vegetable oil - 873 kcal/100g
- Salt - 0 kcal/100g
- Pickled cucumbers - 16 kcal/100g
- Canned sweet corn - 79 kcal/100g
- Chicken breast (fillet) - 113 kcal/100g