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Russian beauty salad: recipe
The “Russian Beauty” salad is prepared from generally available products, but at the same time it is very tasty and looks spectacular on the festive table. This is a real lifesaver in case of an unexpected arrival of guests or when you want to please loved ones with a hearty fantasy dish.
Russian beauty salad: recipe
Classic salad recipe “Russian beauty”
To prepare this salad of Russian cuisine, you will need the following products:
– 400 grams of ham; – 400 grams of chicken fillet; – 2-3 cucumbers; – 2 tomatoes; – 200 grams of hard cheese; – 1 large onion head; – 2 tablespoons of apple cider vinegar; – 1 teaspoon of granulated sugar; – 200 grams of mayonnaise; – 25 grams of pitted olives; – dill or parsley.
Wash the chicken fillet and boil until tender. This will take 20-25 minutes. Then cool and cut into small cubes or small strips. You can also divide the boiled fillet into fibers approximately 1-1,5 centimeters thick.
Hard boil the eggs, peel and chop with a knife or grate. Cut the ham into small pieces. Peel fresh cucumbers and cut into thin strips. Remove the seeds and juice from the tomatoes, and cut the pulp into small cubes.
Peel the onions and chop. Prepare a marinade from a mixture of apple cider vinegar and granulated sugar, pour the prepared onion with this marinade and keep it at room temperature for half an hour. Then drain the marinade.
The “Russian Beauty” salad can be laid out in the form of a kokoshnik or a flower, using detachable baking dishes or stencils made of parchment paper. For a romantic dinner, salad can be served in portioned bowls
Then put the prepared ingredients in layers in a transparent salad bowl or deep dish: 1st – a mixture of ham with pickled onions, 2nd – chicken fillet, 3rd – cucumbers with the remaining onions, 4th – tomatoes, 5th – eggs, 6th – finely grated cheese. Don’t forget to coat each layer with mayonnaise.
Garnish the salad with pickled berries (cranberries, lingonberries, cherries), pitted olives, and sprigs of dill and parsley. Place the prepared salad in a cool place for two hours to soak.
Diet version of the salad “Russian beauty”
The “Russian Beauty” salad is quite high-calorie, so those watching their figure can prepare a lighter, but no less tasty version of the salad.
In this case, replace the ham with boiled or pickled mushrooms, and the chicken fillet with steamed turkey breast.
Use suluguni instead of hard cheese. It is less high in calories, but quite dense in consistency and grates well.
Season the Russian Beauty salad with specially prepared sauce. For him you will need:
– 125 grams of fat-free sour cream; – 125 grams of natural yogurt; – ½ teaspoon of grated horseradish; – ½ teaspoon of lemon juice; – salt.
To prepare the sauce, take sour cream no more than 10% fat
Mix natural yogurt with sour cream. Add a little salt, beat with a mixer and refrigerate.
Add grated horseradish and lemon juice to the sauce just before preparing the salad. Mix everything thoroughly.