Boiled and smoked chicken is often found in recipes for various salads. Often it is combined with sweet pepper. But in addition to the main components in such snacks, it is permissible to add a variety of ingredients. For example, potatoes, carrots, cabbage, apples, cheese, eggs, greens, pineapples, beans, cucumbers or corn. In any case, the salad with chicken and bell pepper will be very tasty.

A simple salad with chicken and bell pepper

The first snack is proposed to be made on the basis of boiled chicken with sweet pepper and chicken eggs with parsley and mayonnaise.

Required Products:

  • chicken breast - 320-330 g;
  • fresh pepper (red) - 150 g;
  • boiled eggs - 4 pcs.;
  • water, salt and laurel for cooking poultry;
  • dressing mayonnaise;
  • parsley leaves to taste.

The recipe for the steps:

  1. Pour water into the stewpan, add to the bay leaf and rock salt. Boil and then put chicken breast.
  2. While the bird is cooking, boil medium-sized hard-boiled eggs. Cool and peel.
  3. Cut off the top with red pepper, remove the pulp with seeds. Wash the fruits, and then cut into thin, relatively short cubes.
  4. Get the chicken out of the stewpan. Cut into pieces of arbitrary shape. Chop the eggs into small slices.
  5. Mix the ingredients in a wide bowl. Pour chopped parsley. Introduce mayonnaise. Mix.

Since the fillet is boiled in salted boiling water, and mayonnaise contains the same spice, you should not add salt separately. If desired, it is permissible to slightly pepper a simple salad with chicken and bell pepper.

For those on a diet - with apples

Want to reduce calories in your diet? Then it is better to add green apples, steamed chicken and some fresh vegetables to the dish.

To make a salad, you need:

  • green apples - 130-140 g;
  • chicken breast - 350 g;
  • bell pepper - 130 g;
  • parsley branches - 7-8 pcs.;
  • fresh carrot - 100 g;
  • Chinese cabbage - 200 g;
  • salt;
  • olive oil and lemon juice for seasoning.

Step by Step Instructions:

  1. Grind the washed breast on a dry board with cubes. Sprinkle with salt, and then mix until the spices are evenly distributed.
  2. Place in one layer on the bottom of the double boiler. Stew until tender for 20 minutes, after which put the bird in a bowl.
  3. There also send sliced ​​parsley, sweet pepper wedges, coarsely grated carrots, thin slices of green apple, shavings of Beijing cabbage and table salt.
  4. While stirring the salad, pour in lemon juice and olive oil. Insist briefly in a cold place before serving.

If it is not possible to steam the chicken, it is recommended to simply boil it in slightly salted water with the addition of onions and laurel. The remaining broth can be used to make soup or other dishes of your choice.

Spicy Korean Carrot Recipe

For lovers of savory snacks, you can include spicy Korean carrots, pickled white onions, boiled fillet, soft rice and bell pepper in the salad recipe.

 

For snacks you will need:

  • Korean spicy carrot - 110 g;
  • white onion - 65-70 g;
  • green bell pepper - 110 g;
  • chicken fillet - 220-240 g;
  • white boiled rice - 1/2 cup;
  • fresh dill - 3-4 g;
  • light mayonnaise - 2-3 tbsp. l .;
  • salt, lemon juice and pepper for marinade.

Step by step recipe:

  1. Chop the white onion finely. Pour into a bowl, where pickle in lemon juice with black pepper and table salt.
  2. At this time, cook the breast and rice, cut the pepper and herbs.
  3. At the next stage, combine the onion, strained from the marinade, with Korean carrots, Bulgarian pepper, chicken, rice, chopped dill and mayonnaise.
  4. With a few movements of the two shoulder blades, mix the salad with chicken and bell pepper, then cool.

Onions do not have to be pickled. However, this culinary procedure will remove excessive pungency, because of which it is not added to such snacks. By the way, since a savory recipe with Korean carrots is considered, it is worth considering that it is not suitable for a diet or children's menu.

Light and tender pineapple salad

The use of canned pineapples gives appetizers a pleasant sweetness and a unique exotic flavor. It is worth a try!

Essential Ingredients:

  • canned pineapples - 4 rings;
  • yellow bell pepper - 130 g;
  • chicken breast - 290-300 g;
  • butter - 20-25 g;
  • eggs - 3 pcs.;
  • salt (table) to taste;
  • greens and light mayonnaise.

Recipe step by step:

  1. Cut the breast and fry in butter until tender and golden crust forms.
  2. Simultaneously boil and chop the chicken into pieces. Mix them with chopped pineapples, pieces of chicken, yellow pepper sticks and rock salt.
  3. At the very end, immediately before serving, season with any (preferably low-calorie) mayonnaise and fresh dill. Easy and delicate salad with pineapples is ready!

If you can use fresh pineapple, it is better to do it. You will need to peel and cut the fruit in neat pieces. In addition, it is not necessary to marinate or boil it in sugar syrup.

With cheese

Both chicken and bell peppers are often used in South American cuisine. The next version of the dish will be with the addition of beans, corn, tomato sauce, garlic and hot pepper.

Products that you will need:

  • red bell pepper - 150 g;
  • boiled fillet - 300 g;
  • canned beans - 100 g;
  • pickled corn - 3 tbsp. l .;
  • butter - 15-20 g;
  • a third of a bunch of parsley;
  • Dutch cheese - 100-105 g;
  • garlic - 2 prongs;
  • hot pepper / rock salt;
  • tomato sauce - 2 tbsp. l

Step-by-step instruction:

  1. Grind poultry and pepper and fry in hot butter. After 5-6 minutes, pour canned red beans with dressing and a few tablespoons of corn without marinade from the can.
  2. Mix all the ingredients. Under a closed lid at low temperature, simmer the components of Mexican salad for about 7 minutes.
  3. Now add crushed garlic, hot pepper, chopped parsley, tomato sauce and rock salt, mix.
  4. Put the contents of the pan in a bowl. When the ingredients have cooled slightly, add the cheese cubes. Serve warm.

Is a cheese salad served after some time? Then the indicated ingredient is better not to enter immediately, but to do it before serving.

Smoked Chicken Puff Appetizer

Are you planning to serve salad on the festive table? In this case, it is better to lay potatoes, eggs, cucumbers, greens in layers, using a special metal ring.

To make a salad, you need:

  • smoked chicken - 145-150 g;
  • pickled sweet peppers - 100-105 g;
  • potatoes - 150-155 g;
  • impregnated mayonnaise;
  • canned cucumbers - 120-125 g;
  • eggs - 3 pcs.;
  • greenery.

The recipe for the steps:

  1. Coarsely pre-boiled potatoes and eggs in different plates.
  2. Then finely chop pickled peppers and canned cucumbers. And also chop any washed and dried greens.
  3. At the last preparatory stage, chop the smoked chicken meat with thin short sticks.
  4. Now install the metal ring on the mashed flat dish. Put the potatoes inside with the first layer, which is covered with mayonnaise and pickles.
  5. Then pour chicken and pickled peppers. Lay the boiled eggs with the top layer, grease with a sufficient volume of mayonnaise sauce. Cover everything with fresh herbs. Cool.
  6. Just before serving the puff appetizer with smoked chicken on the festive table, you must carefully remove the ring.

Keeping such a salad with smoked chicken is not recommended for a long time, so it is better to make it a maximum of a couple of hours before the start of the feast.

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