Chicken fantasia salad

8 servings
1 hour

Options are possible in the recipe of this salad: someone adds boiled potatoes or pickled cucumbers to it, someone - corn or green peas and even prunes.

How to make Fantasia salad with chicken? Prepare the products. Pre-boil the chicken fillet and cool, as well as the eggs - clean them from the shell. Mushrooms can take any. I have champignons, but oyster mushrooms or forest mushrooms are also suitable. Take cheese primarily tasty, natural, without milk fat substitutes. Mayonnaise can take ready-made or cook it yourself.

Peel the onions and cut them into half rings.

Clean the mushrooms from dirt, wash and dry. Cut them into large pieces of freeform. Boil and cool the wild mushrooms beforehand.

Put the mushrooms on a dry, preheated frying pan and fry them over a low heat until the excess water evaporates. Transfer the mushrooms to some kind of container.

Then, in the same pan over a medium heat, heat the vegetable oil, then fry the onions on it until transparent.

Add the already dry mushrooms to the onions and fry them together over a medium heat, stirring occasionally, for about 10 minutes. At the end, salt the mushrooms to taste. Remove the ready-made mushrooms from the pan as well, so they cool down faster.

Boil the eggs. How to boil hard-boiled eggs? To prevent the eggs from cracking when cooking, put them in cold water and set them to cook on a small heat. Cook the eggs for 9 minutes after boiling, then cover with cold water and cool. It is better to clean the shell from a sharp temperature difference. Cool and peel the eggs. While the mushrooms and onions cool, grate the eggs and cheese on a coarse grater.

Boil chicken fillet. How to cook chicken breast? Bring the water to the boil in a saucepan, lower the meat into it. Add the salt. Cook the chicken for 30 minutes with a low simmer over a low heat. Cut the cooled chicken fillet into medium cubes.

Now you can either mix all the ingredients of the salad together, or put it in layers: half the fillet - mayonnaise - half the eggs - mayonnaise - half the cheese - all the mushrooms - mayonnaise. Then repeat the layers, laying out the remaining products: fillet - mayonnaise - eggs - mayonnaise. Gently sprinkle the remaining cheese over the top of the salad.

Decorate the salad with dill sprigs and flowers cut from egg white (I made the core from grated cheese). Of course, you can decorate it to your liking or not decorate it at all. Put the salad in the fridge for a few hours to soak well. Then serve to the table. Enjoy your meal!

Make salads only from fully chilled foods. Made with warm ones, the salad can quickly deteriorate.

Buy fresh medium-sized champignons, snow-white without stains, damage, smell of rot. To the touch, they should not be slippery. Rinse the mushrooms thoroughly from the soil under a stream of warm or cold water. Cut out the spoiled spots, if any. It is not necessary to clean miniature fungi up to 2 cm in size, it is enough to rinse them well. Larger champignons are recommended to be cleaned from films.

Mayonnaise is better to cook on its own. It will be tastier and healthier. See here interesting recipes for homemade mayonnaise. Also, not only mayonnaise, but also sour cream or natural yogurt can be used as a dressing. They can be taken separately or mixed with mayonnaise in any proportion to your taste - this will reduce the calorie content of the dish.