This dish will be the decoration of the festive table. Guests will remember not only its chic original look, but also taste. So, we present the White Swan salad. Cooking it is simple and fun. Choose the best option for yourself.

Classic salad "White Swan"

You will need:

  • chicken fillet - 200 g;
  • potatoes - 2 pcs.;
  • turnip onions - 1 pc.;
  • chicken eggs - 3 pcs.;
  • pickles - 2 pcs.;
  • mayonnaise - 200 g;
  • salt (to taste).

Preparation of ingredients:

  1. Boil chicken breast. Let it cool. Then cut into small cubes.
  2. Cook potatoes in their skins. You can boil it in a peeled form, someone like that. Let cool, peel and cut into cubes the same size as the breast, or rub on a coarse grater.
  3. Three on a coarse grater or manually chop pickles.
  4. Cook the eggs, cool, clean and grate the whites and yolks in separate bowls.
  5. Cut the onion into very thin half rings.

Attention! For the White Swan salad, a dish with a flat bottom and vertical sides, 2-4 cm high, is more suitable.

We collect the salad:

  1. First spread the potatoes, slightly add, squeeze, grease on top with a layer of mayonnaise.
  2. Next is the turn of the chicken breast. Distribute in a uniform layer, add, pepper and also cover with sauce on top.
  3. The next layer is onion and mayonnaise again.
  4. Next, put the pickles.
  5. We coat with mayonnaise and proceed to the final part.
  6. Grated yolks are poured mainly along the edge, with a strip with a diameter of about 4-5 cm. Then in the central part we lay out the egg whites in the shape of a swan, highlighting the wings with a double layer. From pieces of tomato or carrot, we cut out the beak. Eyes - from a piece of cucumber (a gherkin’s nose is suitable), or a seed of ground black pepper.At the base, lay out something like weed from the shortened feathers of a green onion. In general, show your imagination and use the products at your disposal for decoration.
  7. Let the salad brew for at least one hour.

It is allowed not to coat mayonnaise between layers of onions and pickles.

Smoked chicken

This is another no less tasty and original option. Cook the White Swan, a smoked chicken salad. So let's get started.

Ingredients Composition:

  • smoked chicken fillet - 350-400 g;
  • chicken eggs - 4-5 pcs.;
  • onions - 1 pc.;
  • pickled champignons - 300 g;
  • potatoes - 2-3 pcs.;
  • mayonnaise - 250 g.

Cooking method:

  1. Boil potatoes and eggs in different containers.
  2. Smoked chicken fillet cut into pieces.
  3. We clean the onion and cut into half rings.
  4. Chilled potatoes and half the eggs are cut into small cubes.
  5. Mushrooms cut into strips.
  6. Spread prepared foods in layers, spreading them with mayonnaise.
  7. Spread the potatoes, then smoked fillet. Next, champignons, onions, chopped eggs and proceed to decorate the salad.
  8. From the remaining eggs we collect a figure of swans. We cut one egg in half lengthwise. Put the flat sides on top of the lettuce. This is the body of a bird.
  9. From the remaining remaining eggs, we cut out the wings, tail and neck. The edges of the tail and wings are carefully trimmed with a zigzag knife.
  10. We fasten the figures with toothpicks or matches with cut sulfur.
  11. Sprinkle the remaining space around the swans with chopped greens of dill or parsley.

Let the salad stand for 1-2 hours in the refrigerator and the dish is ready to eat.

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Cooking with apples

Any housewife wants to prepare a beautiful and tasty salad for the festive table. And so I want something new and original, because the dishes of "Olivier" and salad with crab meat will not surprise anyone. An excellent solution would be to prepare such a salad option as White Swan with Apples and Cheese.

 

A set of ingredients:

  • chicken eggs (one for decoration and three for a layer in a salad) - 4 pcs.;
  • potatoes (medium size) - 2 pcs.;
  • onion - 2 pcs.;
  • cheese (hard varieties) - 200 g;
  • mayonnaise - 250-270 g;
  • apple (number depends on size) - 1-2 pcs.;
  • walnuts - 4-5 pcs.

An important point! For a recipe with apples, onions before cooking, get rid of bitterness, that is, pickle, or pour over boiling water.

Working process:

  1. While boiling potatoes and eggs, peel the onion, cut into half rings and pour boiling water in a separate bowl for 8-9 minutes. Those who prefer pickled onions, pour water into a bowl, add vinegar, salt and sugar in advance, focusing on your taste.
  2. Pick up a wide dish with small sides and lay out the already prepared onion with the first layer. Attention! All layers are immediately laid in the shape of a swan.
  3. Smear with mayonnaise and lay the next layer of cooled, peeled and grated potatoes on a coarse grater. Salt it. A thin layer of mayonnaise is again on top.
  4. Next, lay the peeled and chopped chicken eggs. Plus mayonnaise. Align the layers with a spoon so that they fit not in the shape of a plate, but in the shape of a swan.
  5. Then lay out a layer of grated apple. Do not forget to peel it first.
  6. Finely chopped walnuts follow the apple. Top with mayonnaise.
  7. And now the silhouette of the swan that has grown in height is sprinkled on top as if down, cheese, grated on a fine grater.

Chop the yolk of the remaining egg and sprinkle on the beak to highlight it by color and on the legs of the swan. Protein is also finely chopped and a bird wing is allocated to them. Make a peppercorn eye. Align the figure of the swan again and put the salad in the refrigerator for one hour.

White Swan with Chips

This is the most unusual and new version of the salad. It is prepared just as easily, you just need to purchase in advance and prepare the products.

We will need:

  • chicken breast - 200 g;
  • Kirieshki crackers - 1 packet;
  • Pie chips - 1 pack;
  • potatoes - 2 pcs.;
  • carrots - 1 pc.;
  • clove of garlic - 1 pc.;
  • eggs - 4 pcs.;
  • ham - 100 g;
  • mayonnaise - 250 g;
  • cheese - 100 g.

Cooking process:

  1. Boil and finely chop the chicken breast.
  2. Boil, cool and peel potatoes, carrots and eggs.
  3. Cut the ham into thin strips.
  4. Put a layer of grated potatoes in a salad bowl, lightly salt, pepper and coat with mayonnaise.
  5. We put the chicken breast in the second layer, add it a little, pepper and cover it with a layer of mayonnaise.
  6. The third layer is grated carrots. Sprinkle it with finely chopped garlic. We coat with mayonnaise and sprinkle with crackers.
  7. Once again, apply the sauce and lay out a layer of chopped eggs (one is left to decorate the top).
  8. The next layers are ham, mayonnaise, grated cheese and again the sauce.
  9. We arrange the top in the center with a swan figure. Sprinkle with chips around it and on the sides of the salad right down to the bottom. Due to their color and shape, the dish will look like a nest, in the middle of which is a swan. If it was not possible to buy chips of this kind, the nest for the bird can be made from sliced ​​thin straws of ham and carrots.

Festive appetizer with cheese

This dish will be very handy for any celebration. Guests will remember the festive table not only as original, but also as tasty and satisfying. And all because this dish will dominate it. Another recipe with cheese.

 

Ingredients:

  • potatoes - 3 pcs.;
  • chicken fillet - 300 g;
  • cheese - 200 g;
  • fresh champignons - 400 g;
  • chicken eggs - 5 pcs.;
  • pickles - 2-3 pcs.;
  • salt, black pepper to taste.

This option will especially appeal to men who like a tasty and satisfying meal.

Step by step recipe:

  1. First of all, you should cook something that requires additional time for heat treatment. Boil eggs and potatoes and when cool, peel.
  2. Wash champignon mushrooms, chop with straws and fry until golden brown. About a minute before being ready to salt and pepper.
  3. Let the boiled chicken fillet cool, without removing it from the broth.
  4. Cut onion and pour over boiling water.
  5. Cut pickles into strips.
  6. Grate potatoes on the largest grater.
  7. In boiled eggs, we separate the proteins from the yolks and grind separately.
  8. We cut the chicken meat into cubes.
  9. We proceed to layering the layers, not forgetting to coat each with mayonnaise. Assembly procedure: potatoes, onions, fillets, mushrooms, pickles, cheese, eggs.

From the ground egg whites we lay out the swan pattern. From the yolks we make a yellow background around. We insert twigs of greenery, after which we let the salad brew for 2 hours in a cool place. Salad "White Swan" with fried mushrooms, as well as cheese and boiled chicken, is very nutritious. Pickled cucumbers make its taste spicy, and the dish is easily digested.

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Original Design Ideas

The top of the salad must be decorated with a swan lined with products. This is a distinctive sign in whose honor the dish is named. It can be a flat drawing, or a figure in 3D format, but it is necessary a swan, and sometimes not one. The upper part of the salad surrounding the feathered friend can be designed as a real masterpiece. Imagine, and enjoy it.

Here are some ideas to create an original look:

  1. Cover the side of the salad, the so-called sides, as well as the space around the swan legs with parsley leaves. It looks like a swan is walking on the lawn.
  2. Put the carrots boiled and grated on a large grater in the form of a basket so that the rim of the handle passes over the swan, and he sat half in it, sticking out its wing.
  3. Cut the peeled eggs from the eggs into thin half rings, and then put the wings nicely with them, simulating feathers.
  4. Hard yellow cheese, such as Lithuanian Rokiskio, rub with straws on a grater, which is used to make Korean carrots. Sprinkle salad on the sides and around the swan, pretending that the bird is sitting in a nest.

You can also form the whole salad in the form of a back and swan wings, and on top, closer to the edge, use a peeled chicken egg with a little cut off base as the head of a bird, inserting a carrot beak and eyes.

The creative process is always fun. Show your imagination, and even if the swan will resemble the ugly duckling, remember how well this fairy tale ended.

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