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Smoked chicken salads: simple recipes. Video
Salads with smoked chicken can hardly be called healthy food, but the spicy aromatic juicy chicken is so tempting that you should sometimes allow yourself to feast on it. Of course, violating the “laws of healthy eating”, you should do it on a grand scale and choose the most delicious and mouth-watering ingredients for smoked chicken.
Smoked chicken salad recipe
Italian salad with smoked chicken
The Italian-style smoked chicken salad recipe will appeal to all lovers of this hearty, aromatic, great cuisine. Take: – 200 g of dry paste (foam, rigatonny); – 16 cherry tomatoes; – 2 mozzarella balls, 100 g each; – 20 basil leaves; – 3 tablespoons of olive oil; – 2 smoked chicken breasts; – salt and pepper to taste.
Boil the pasta in 5 liters of boiling salted water until al dente. Meanwhile, cut the smoked chicken into cubes, cut the cherry tomatoes in half. Roll the basil leaves into a tube and cut into thin ribbons. Throw the prepared pasta in a colander and put in a salad bowl, seasoning with olive oil. Add chicken, cheese, herbs and tomatoes, stir and season with salt and pepper. You can add corn kernels or sliced bell peppers to this salad.
Smoked chicken summer salad
This salad harmoniously combines crispy lettuce with sweet carrots, hot red onion with fresh apple, creamy avocado and walnuts with thinly sliced smoked chicken breast. You will need: – 200 g of frisse salad; – 1 smoked chicken breast; – 1 Granny Smith apple; – 2 tablespoons of freshly squeezed lemon juice; – 1/1 cup dry pan-fried walnuts – 1 head of red onion; – 100 avocado; – 4 carrot; – 4 g of bacon; – 1 tablespoons of mayonnaise; – 1 tablespoons of thick yogurt; – 2 tablespoon of apple juice; – XNUMX clove of garlic; – XNUMX tablespoons of chopped parsley; – ½ lemon; – pepper and salt.
You can take a pear instead of an apple and enjoy the new flavors of this appetizer.
Pass a clove of garlic through a garlic press. Squeeze the juice out of half a lemon. Whisk mayonnaise with yogurt, garlic, freshly squeezed lemon and apple juice, season with salt and pepper, and fresh parsley. Rinse and dry lettuce leaves with paper towels or using a special “carousel”. Cut the bacon into thin slices and fry until crisp, place on a paper towel to absorb excess fat. Peel the carrots and grate on a coarse grater. Cut the red onion into thin half rings. Cut the avocado in half, remove the pit, skin and cut the flesh into slices. Remove the peel from the apple, remove the core and cut the fruit into small cubes. Sprinkle the avocado and apple slices with lemon juice to keep the flesh from darkening. Grind the walnut in a mortar with a pestle. Cut the smoked chicken into thin slices. In a salad bowl, combine all the ingredients and season with the sauce.
This salad is a symphony of taste and aroma. Crispy greens, juicy fruits and savory chicken, but the highlight is a thick exotic sauce. Prepare: – ½ cup of orange juice; – 1 egg yolk; – ½ cup of sherry; – ½ cup of olive oil; – freshly squeezed juice of 1 lemon; – 2 avocados; – ½ tablespoons of orange zest; – pulp of 2 red oranges; – 2 bunches of seedless red grapes; – 1 head of red onion; – 2 smoked chicken breasts; – 100 g each arugula and radicchio lettuce leaves.
In this salad, smoked chicken can be substituted for red smoked fish such as salmon or trout
In a small saucepan, combine orange juice, sherry, half lemon juice and a pinch of salt, and simmer in a thick syrup. Cool it and whisk with egg yolk, whisking, add olive oil drop by drop, wait until a stable emulsion forms. Cut the chicken breasts into thin slices, chop the red onion into thin half rings, peel the avocado, remove the bone and cut the flesh into cubes. Cut the grapes into halves. Place all ingredients, including orange pulp, in a salad bowl, season with sauce, and stir.
Vietnamese Smoked Chicken Salad
For this exotic salad you will need: – 125 g of dry rice vermicelli; – 2 smoked chicken breasts; – 2 carrots; – 1 red bell pepper; – 1 long red chili; 1 1/2 cups bean sprouts 1/2 cup chopped coriander and mint leaves 1/3 cup lime juice – 2 tablespoons of powdered sugar; – 2 tablespoons of Thai fish sauce.
Soak the noodles in a bowl of boiling water. Drain, then rinse the vermicelli with cold water and place in a bowl. Peel the carrots and cut them into strips, cut the bell pepper into half rings, cut the stalk of the chili pepper and free it from the seeds, cut it into thin rings. Cut the chicken breast into pieces no thicker and no longer than a match. Put carrots, chicken, bean sprouts, chopped peppers in a bowl with noodles, season with herbs. In a small bowl, whisk the Thai fish sauce, lime juice, powdered sugar, pour the dressing into the salad and mix thoroughly.