Bull salad with chicken and pineapples

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to make a Bull salad for the New Year's table? The year 2021 will be held under the symbol of the white bull, so I'm making a light salad. For a beautiful design, I will need three different ones, but in harmony with each other to taste. To create a bull's head, a salad with chicken, pineapple and corn, with mayonnaise dressing, is well suited. The chicken can be boiled, smoked or fried - at your choice. Cheese may be your favorite, but I took Russian. Boil the eggs hard-boiled.

2. Step 2:

   

   I'm making a salad with fried chicken fillet. If you also want to, first wash the meat and dry it thoroughly with paper towels. Trim the fat and film as much as possible. Then cut the fillet into thin strips along the fibers. And then these strips across the fibers into squares, about 1.5 x 1.5 cm. Transfer the meat to a colander and add a little flour. Roll all the pieces well, and shake off the excess flour. The meat will fry quickly and be juicy.

3. Step 3:

   

   Heat a frying pan, then pour in a little refined oil and let it heat well over high heat. Only put all the meat in a well-heated oil at once. Do not rush to interfere with it, let the crust grab and lightly brown. Only then stir, then a couple more times. Thin pieces of fillet are fried for only 3-4 minutes. Remove the finished meat from the stove, add salt and pepper. Let it stand under the lid for a while, then cool completely.

4. Step 4:

   

   Put the cooled meat in a deep salad bowl. Add the decanted corn and finely chopped pineapple, as well as finely chopped nuts. Grate the eggs on a coarse grater, and the cheese on a fine one. At this stage, the salad bowl can be closed and put in the refrigerator overnight, and refilled and mixed already before serving or creating a thematic bull figure. For dressing, squeeze garlic into mayonnaise, but you can add it immediately into a bowl.

5. Step 5:

   

   To create horns and a forelock, you will need a cheese salad. For the horns, finely grate two types of cheese, squeeze garlic through a press and season with mayonnaise. Divide the salad and add finely grated fresh carrots in 1/3, we will make a forelock from this part.

7. Step 6:

   

   To turn previously prepared salads into a bull, start as close as possible to serving, so that the festive decoration does not lose its presentable appearance. Start by preparing the elements of the head. Cut out the nose and ears from boiled sausage or brighter ham. From the egg - the whites of the eyes. Nostrils, eyebrows and eyes, can be made from black grapes or olives. I drew a sketch beforehand so that the salad would go into the chosen dish. I checked all the cut-out elements with the sketch and adjusted the size.

8. Step 7:

   

   For serving, I chose a flat dish in the shape of an egg, 26x30 cm. Apply the extreme points of the contour of the figure to the dish with droplets of mayonnaise. I noted the location of the horns, ears and the general contour of the head.

9. Step 8:

   

   Mix the main salad with chicken and start laying out along the contour. Gradually add volume, form a higher zone of the forelock. Then, from the cheese salad, make horns with your hands and put them in their proper place. Hands of course should be clean.

10. Step 9:

    

    Then finely rub the remaining protein and some hard cheese on top of the main salad. This is an imitation of the wool of a bull and, as in nature, it can be heterogeneous. Fix the eyes, eyebrows, ears and nose, the lip of the bull. Last distribute the cheese salad with carrots, form a funny forelock. Do not forget to clean the plate from the fallen crumbs, everything should be neat.

11. Step 10:

    

    Before serving, add greens to the edges of the plate, creating a "clearing". Put a flower or greenery in the slightly open mouth. Apply a little grated cheese on the ears, imitating wool. Everyone, serve! And let the funny bull bring you everything you want in the New Year 2021!