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Snowdrift salad with chicken, potatoes and bell peppers

Snowdrift Salad with Chicken, Potato, and Bell Pepper

A salad with a wintry name is sure to be a hit on the summer table — hearty and very tasty. Many people have noticed that a winter theme feels just right in summer; when it's hot, you crave something cool. The salad is built in several layers. I used chicken in my version, but you could make it with fish instead. If you can find a mushroom-flavored mayonnaise, use it — otherwise a few sautéed mushrooms won't go amiss in the salad.

Tatiana Maslova

Recipe author

Snowdrift salad with chicken, potatoes and bell peppers

Composition / ingredients

Servings:

Chicken (boiled chicken)

800

Chicken eggs

Potatoes (medium size)

Hard cheese

100

Bell pepper

Fresh herbs (parsley and dill)

Mayonnaise (I used mushroom-flavored mayonnaise)

300

Salt

Translation table of volumetric measures

Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe

By weight of the composition:

Proteins 29 % 10 g

Fats 54 % 19 g

Carbohydrates 17 % 6 g

230 kcal

GI: 100 / 0 / 0

Cooking method

Step 1:

The ingredients for the salad.
Step 2:

Prep the ingredients: pick the boiled chicken off the bones and chop it very finely.
Step 3:

Seed the bell pepper and chop it finely; wash and chop the herbs. Combine the herbs and pepper. You can add a little salt.
Step 4:

Hard-boil the eggs, peel them, and cut them in half. Set the whites aside — we'll need them as whole halves — and mash the yolks.
Step 5:

Grate the cheese, using whatever grater size you prefer.
Step 6:

Peel the boiled potatoes, chop them finely, and spread them as the bottom layer. You can add a little salt.
Step 7:

Spread the layer with mayonnaise.
Step 8:

Add a layer of chicken. Don't use all of it — set about a quarter aside in a separate bowl to make the filling for the egg whites.
Step 9:

Spread the herbs and pepper over the chicken. Coat this layer with mayonnaise.
Step 10:

Sprinkle on some of the cheese.
Step 11:

Scatter the mashed yolks on top. Divide the yolks too — add a third to the reserved chicken for the filling.
Step 12:

Mix the reserved chicken, egg yolks, and a tablespoon of mayonnaise.
Step 13:

Stuff the egg-white halves with this mixture.
Step 14:

Arrange the stuffed egg whites as the top layer.
Step 15:

Cover the salad with the remaining mayonnaise and sprinkle with cheese.
Step 16:

You end up with a wintry crust full of snowdrifts. Decorate with sprigs of dill, which look just like little spruce branches. It makes quite a winter scene — snow, fir branches, and a soft sun rising over the drifts.
Step 17:

The salad portions out very nicely.