The list of holiday snacks is perfectly complemented by a birch salad with chicken and cucumbers. There are many cooking options. All types are united by simplicity and a set of products that are in every refrigerator.

Classic Chicken and Cucumber Salad

To prepare an appetizer, you need to take 300 grams of pre-cooked chicken fillet. It can be a breast or legs. Mushrooms, not more than 200 grams, will also be required. A couple of fresh cucumbers. About 150 grams of chopped onions. Three boiled eggs are added to the dish. Its taste is decorated with prunes. Appetizer seasoned with mayonnaise, about 100 grams.

In what order is the salad executed:

  1. Prunes are pre-steamed with boiling water.
  2. Next, the berries and cucumber are chopped with a thin straw. Fillet is divided into small pieces. Eggs are rubbed with a fine grater. Onions and mushrooms are fried.
  3. All components are laid alternately in layers. The first of these is a mixture of mushrooms, onions, prunes and mayonnaise. The next is the filet. The layer is watered with mayonnaise, covered with grated eggs mixed with mayonnaise. The top is made of cucumbers, which are also covered with sauce.

For decoration, use prunes and greens. The dish needs to be soaked in juices, after standing for a couple of hours in a cold room.

With prunes and chicken

 

To make the appetizer especially piquant, the amount of prune increases during cooking. It takes about 100 grams. Steam and cut into thin strips. Two cucumbers are added to it, also cut as finely as possible by straws. The mixture is mixed with a small amount of mayonnaise, laying out the first layer of the pillow.

Next, the dish is collected in a certain order:

  1. It is placed torn into fibers or cut into pieces of boiled chicken fillet, 300 grams. No salt required.
  2. On top rub three boiled eggs, bay sauce.
  3. At the end, cucumbers mixed with sauce are stacked, chopped greens crumble for decoration.

The dish will be ready in two hours, standing in the refrigerator chamber.

Cooking with Beijing cabbage

The combination of mayonnaise and eggs is quite high in calories. For this reason, many housewives in the classic recipe add not only cucumbers, but also Beijing cabbage.

  1. When choosing this option, the first layer again becomes cucumbers (2 pieces). Prunes can be omitted, but Beijing cabbage is placed on top, about 300 grams for the whole salad. The layer is slightly salted and covered with a layer of mayonnaise.
  2. The second layer is mushrooms fried with onions. You need 300 grams of mushrooms and one head of onion.
  3. Next, put the chicken fillet. 300 grams will be enough. It is better to cook with salt and spices. The meat is coated with mayonnaise. Three eggs crushed on a grater are scattered on it.
  4. Another layer of Beijing cabbage and cucumbers. Top covered with mayonnaise is decorated with sprigs of dill and halves of cherry tomatoes.

Salad "Birch" with crab sticks

 

In this case, when preparing a snack, a combination of three boiled eggs, a package of crab sticks, a finely chopped head of onion, a can of canned mushrooms is used. The most commonly used mushrooms. A layer of cheese and greens is added to the appetizer. You can use fresh or pickled cucumbers. Spread with mayonnaise to taste. Ideally, 100 grams is enough.

  1. In this case, the onion rings become fried with mushrooms.
  2. Sauce is applied on them.
  3. Next, finely chopped crab sticks are placed.
  4. On top of them are chopped cucumbers under a layer of mayonnaise.
  5. The next tier is grated cheese.

Top with sauce and dress with greens and prunes.

Fried Mushroom Recipe

The feature that distinguishes the salad, it becomes possible to change the taste by changing the composition of the components. Salad "Birch" with fried mushrooms can include a variety of species, including gourmet white.

Order of preparation:

  1. To make a luxurious meal, you need to take two cucumbers, 300 grams of boiled chicken and mushrooms. An important component of the dish are three boiled eggs. They are ground on a fine grater. It will take onions.
  2. Mushrooms and onions are fried. Cucumbers are cut into small strips. These components are mixed and seasoned with mayonnaise. The mixture will be the first layer.
  3. A layer of chopped boiled chicken is placed on top and covered with grated eggs.
  4. Each tier is smeared with mayonnaise.
  5. Decorate with prunes and green sprigs.

Appetizer with Apples and Cheese

Hearty salad can be diluted with apple slices. In such a situation, the first layer will be two cucumbers cut into strips, to which 300 grams of mushrooms fried with onions are added. The mixture is seasoned with mayonnaise.

The following cooking steps:

  1. Three hundred grams of boiled chicken breast is finely cut and placed on top.
  2. The layer is smeared with mayonnaise.
  3. At this stage, it is time to lay apples. Better take two sour and cut into slices or strips.
  4. Three boiled eggs are rubbed on apples and covered with a layer of mayonnaise.

Salad "Birch" with walnuts

A variant of this appetizer is the preparation of dishes with the addition of walnuts.

  1. Traditionally, onions are the first layer. They are fried with 300 grams of mushrooms and mixed with finely chopped cucumbers. The layer is seasoned with mayonnaise.
  2. The next tier is boiled chicken breast, about 300 g. The crushed kernels of five walnuts are added to it, smearing the tier with sauce. Sprinkle the top with three grated eggs.

With pickled cucumbers

 

Salad birch will be piquant when replacing fresh cucumbers with pickled fruits. This option can be used in the colder months of the year.

  1. Here, the first layer is 300 g of mushrooms fried with one onion. 3-4 cucumbers, cut into strips, are added to this mixture. All elements are mixed with mayonnaise.
  2. Next put a layer of boiled chicken. About 300 grams. You can add grated cheese. Grease the sauce again.
  3. Three eggs are grated and laid on filet. Top smeared with mayonnaise.
  4. Garnish with mushrooms and prunes.

Important! All variants of the cooked salad are placed on the dish, forming in the form of logs.

White "mayonnaise" top is decorated with thin strips of prunes, making it look like a tree bark.

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