Composition / ingredients
Step-by-step cooking
Step 1:
How to make a salad with chicken, beans and crackers? Prepare all the products that are listed. Take canned beans, then the preparation of the salad will not take much time. Turkey can be used instead of chicken. Rinse and dry the lettuce leaves, bell peppers and peeled onions.
Step 2:
Cut white bread or loaf into small cubes.
Step 3:
Fry the bread in a preheated dry frying pan until the sides are ruddy, while making the flame slightly above average. Stir constantly, otherwise the breadcrumbs will burn. Remove the pan from the stove, add vegetable oil, garlic powder, a pinch of salt and dry oregano to the crackers. Stir so that all the spices and salt are evenly distributed over the bread. Leave the crackers in a hot frying pan for a while so that they dry out.
Step 4:
Separate the chicken meat from the bone and cut into cubes. I used chicken breast for the salad. Add a little vegetable oil to the pan and fry the pieces of meat on high heat, stirring for literally 5 minutes. In the frying process, add a pinch of your favorite spices if desired. Remove the pan from the heat and lightly salt the meat.
Step 5:
At the bottom of a wide flat plate, lay out lettuce leaves, pre-cut arbitrarily. Which leaves are better to use? Take a mix of green leaves, lettuce, romaine, field lettuce, iceberg or others. The above varieties are in perfect harmony with all the ingredients in the salad.
Step 6:
Put the fried chicken meat on the leaves in an even thin layer.
Step 7:
Flip the beans into a colander, rinse under running cold water, then shake the colander to get rid of excess water. Add the beans to the lettuce leaves and chicken.
Step 8:
Next comes the turn of the onion. I used red onion, it looks very nice in the finished dish, besides it has a mild taste, which is ideal for salads. Cut the onion into thin feathers or half rings. Send the next layer to the salad.
Step 9:
Cut the bell pepper into two pieces lengthwise. Remove the seeds and core. Cut the vegetable into thin strips or half rings, as you prefer.
Step 10:
After the pepper, make a layer with grated cheese and breadcrumbs.
Step 11:
Add portions of mayonnaise and mustard. Done, you can serve!
Step 12:
Mix the salad well before eating.
It is very easy to prepare, any hostess can handle it. The salad is rich in protein due to meat and beans. All components are perfectly combined with each other, making the taste of the finished dish unique.
I recommend mixing the salad just before serving, then the crackers will remain crispy.
Adjust the amount of mayonnaise and mustard to your liking. I usually use mayonnaise in such salads to a minimum, so this time it took me a little less than 2 tablespoons.
If you have homemade mayonnaise, then by all means use it.
The salad will not only taste better, but also many times healthier!
Bon appetit!
Wash the meat, be sure to dry it with a paper towel, otherwise excessive moisture will not let it fry - it will stew.
Chicken can be replaced with turkey or any other type of meat at your request. But keep in mind that in this case, the cooking time and calorie content of the dish will change.
It is better to prepare mayonnaise yourself. It will be tastier and healthier. See the interesting ones here
recipes for homemade mayonnaise.
Also, as a dressing, you can use not only mayonnaise, but also sour cream or natural yogurt. They can be taken separately or mixed with mayonnaise in any proportion to your taste - this will reduce the calorie content of the dish.
Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish
- Category I chicken - 238 kcal/100g
- Category II chicken - 159 kcal/100g
- Chicken, flesh without skin - 241 kcal/100g
- Chickens - 140 kcal/100g
- Onion - 41 kcal/100g
- Sweet pepper - 27 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
- Ground black pepper - 255 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
- Oregano dry - 306 kcal/100g
- White bread - 266 kcal/100g
- Garlic powder - 331 kcal/100g
- Canned beans - 99 kcal/100g
- Dijon mustard - 143 kcal/100g
- Lettuce leaves - 12 kcal/100g