"Tiger" Layered Salad with Chicken
Striking, delicious, bright, and beautiful! This "Tiger" salad with chicken, mushrooms, and potato is simple yet incredibly appetizing — a showpiece for your holiday table. Surprise your family and friends with a beautiful, memorable dish! It's also great for a kids' party.
Cooking method
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Step 1:
How do you make a festive "Tiger" salad with chicken? Gather all the ingredients in the recipe. The button mushrooms can be fresh or canned.
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Step 2:
Prep the chicken breast too. I used turkey breast this time, which works just as well.
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Step 3:
Peel and finely chop the onion. Rinse and pat the mushrooms dry, then slice them thin.
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Step 4:
Heat 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil in a skillet. Sauté the mushrooms and onion over high heat, stirring constantly, until all the liquid cooks off and they turn golden.
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Step 5:
In a separate pot, boil the unpeeled carrots and potatoes along with the eggs. Cool the vegetables, then peel them and the eggs.
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Step 6:
In a skillet with vegetable oil, fry the chicken breast cut into small cubes until done. Don't forget a little salt and your favorite spices.
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Step 7:
Transfer the mushrooms and onion to a deep bowl, leaving the leftover oil in the skillet. Add the cooked chicken and mayonnaise. How much mayo? Entirely up to you — I don't like salads "swimming" in it, so I always use a minimum. Mix until evenly combined.
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Step 8:
Spread the mushroom-and-chicken mixture in the bottom of a serving ring. I used a 6 1/4-inch (16 cm) ring.
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Step 9:
Next, add a layer of finely chopped pickle.
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Step 10:
The next layer is potato grated on the coarse side of a grater. Spread on a little mayonnaise.
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Step 11:
Sprinkle evenly with grated cheese and add another thin layer of mayonnaise.
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Step 12:
For the ears, cheeks, and chin, grate one or two potatoes on the coarse side, mix in some cheese and mayonnaise, and stir.
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Step 13:
Shape the ears and the lower part of the tiger's muzzle from that mixture, like in the photo.
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Step 14:
Grate the carrot on the fine side of a grater.
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Step 15:
Cover the whole salad with the carrot.
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Step 16:
Halve the eggs and separate the yolks from the whites. Grate the yolks, whites, and black olives separately on the fine side.
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Step 17:
Use a toothpick to sketch the tiger's eyes, nose, and the lines of its face — it makes decorating easier.
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Step 18:
Fill in the lower part of the muzzle with grated egg white.
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Step 19:
Form the eyes the same way.
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Step 20:
Use olives to outline the nose and make the pupils and upper eyelids — a toothpick makes the thin olive lines easier.
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Step 21:
Make the mouth and the stripes on the tiger's forehead and cheeks. Place the grated yolks on the ears. Your tiger is done!
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Step 22:
Let the salad rest in the fridge for a while, then serve.
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Step 23:
Mix all the layers together on your plate and enjoy the wonderful flavor.
- To decorate the salad, I used the whites of three eggs but only one yolk. Alternatively, you can cut the olives into thin strips and use them to outline the nose, eyes, and forehead. The salad inside the tiger can be anything you like — the one essential is the boiled carrot, which here forms the top finishing layer. Be sure to make a salad shaped like this year's symbol — your guests will be delighted and surprised! Enjoy!
- To hard-boil eggs so they don't crack: put them in cold water and cook over low heat for 9 minutes after it boils, then cover with cold water and cool — the sudden temperature change makes them easier to peel.
- Homemade mayonnaise is best — tastier and better for you. You can also dress with sour cream or plain yogurt instead of mayonnaise, on their own or mixed with the mayo in any ratio, which lightens the dish.
- The salad looks neat and pretty if you cut all the ingredients into pieces of the same size and shape (cubes, for example).
Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish
- Onion - 41 kcal/100g
- 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
- Chicken egg - 157 kcal/100g
- Egg white - 45 kcal/100g
- Egg powder - 542 kcal/100g
- Egg yolk - 352 kcal/100g
- Ostrich egg - 118 kcal/100g
- Carrots - 33 kcal/100g
- Dried carrots - 275 kcal/100g
- Boiled carrots - 25 kcal/100g
- Champignons - 24 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
- Lo spalmino cheese - 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
- Vegetable oil - 873 kcal/100g
- Salt - 0 kcal/100g
- Pickled cucumbers - 16 kcal/100g
- Chicken breast (fillet) - 113 kcal/100g
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