Birch salad with fresh cucumber and chicken

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   Prepare the ingredients for the salad. There are many different recipes for birch salad, the ingredients in them vary and overlap, the main thing is that one of them is green, the product that will decorate the salad. Boil the chicken fillet in salted water, drain the broth or leave it for cooking soup or other dishes. The meat is cooled and finely chopped with a knife.

2. Step 2:

   

   It is better to pickle onions so that they are not too bitter. Onions are cleaned, finely chopped with a knife, put in a bowl and pour water, add vinegar, sugar, leave for 15 minutes.

3. Step 3:

   

   Mushrooms can be used forest or champignons. Mushrooms are washed, cut into small cubes and fried in vegetable oil for 30 minutes. Cool it down.

4. Step 4:

   

   My fresh cucumber, grate a quarter, squeeze out the juice, put the pulp aside. The remaining part of the cucumber is cut into halves of circles or cubes.

6. Step 5:

   

   Chicken eggs are washed with soap to avoid the penetration of pathogenic microbes into the dish through the egg shell. We put it in a saucepan, fill it with water, put it on fire. Bring to a boil when the water boils, reduce the heat to medium and cook for 20 minutes. We cool the eggs, clean them, separate the whites from the yolks and grate them separately.

7. Step 6:

   

   We leave the protein of one egg for salad decoration.

8. Step 7:

   

   We spread the salad in layers, smearing each layer with mayonnaise. First we put the chicken meat, apply a thin layer of mayonnaise. Then sprinkle with pickled onions. Then mushrooms, mayonnaise and sprinkle with cubes of fresh cucumbers. Then lubricate with mayonnaise again. Sprinkle with grated egg whites, mayonnaise and yolks.

9. Step 8:

   

   We begin to arrange the salad. From the laid egg protein, we cut out the trunk of a birch tree. We spread it. From grated fresh cucumber, we make birch leaves and leaves at the trunk of the tree. You can cut strips from olives, these will be lentils on the trunk of a birch tree. Let the salad stand in the refrigerator, soak for a couple of hours and serve it to the table. Bon appetit!