Salad with boiled chicken, prunes, mushrooms and cucumber

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   Preparing salad products.

2. Step 2:

   

   Fresh champignons are washed and cut into strips. Peel and chop the onion. Fry mushrooms with onions in a preheated frying pan with the addition of vegetable oil. Fry for about 5 minutes with stirring. Such mushrooms will quickly reach readiness, and the onion will have time to tire well and become transparent.

3. Step 3:

   

   For the recipe, take one large or two small fresh cucumbers. Cucumbers are washed and cut into thin strips, lightly salted.

4. Step 4:

   

   Pour the prunes into a small deep container and pour boiling water. We leave it to soak for 10-20 minutes so that it swells and becomes soft. Next, we take it out of the water, throw it into a colander to drain the excess liquid, and cut it into strips.

5. Step 5:

   

   Hard-boiled eggs. To do this, put them in boiling water with salt and cook after boiling for 10 minutes over moderate heat. Cool in cold water, then clean and divide into whites and yolks. Rub the yolks with a fork and set aside for now. We rub the proteins on a coarse grater, divide them into two parts and boil one half in strong black tea so that they change color to brown.

6. Step 6:

   

   In this recipe, I have boiled shanks, but you can also take other fleshy parts of chicken in boiled or smoked form (chicken fillet, hams, thighs). I boiled the shins in salted water for about 40 minutes, cooled them, skinned them, separated the meat from the bone and crushed them.

8. Step 7:

   

   From the following steps, it will become clear how to make a layered chicken salad with prunes, as we begin to assemble it. We lay out the layers in turn. The first layer is sliced chicken meat - we take half of the total amount.

9. Step 8:

   

   Spread the egg yolks with the second layer, apply mayonnaise on top.

10. Step 9:

    

    Spread the prunes with the third layer and apply mayonnaise again.

11. Step 10:

    

    The fourth layer consists of mushrooms fried with onions - this layer is salted and peppered to taste. Spread the cucumber with the fifth layer. The sixth layer is the remaining smoked breast, which we lubricate with mayonnaise.

12. Step 11:

    

    The top layer is decorated as in the photo. The light part is ordinary proteins, the dark part is colored proteins.

13. Step 12:

    

    The dividing strip is chopped or whole olives.