Chicken egg carrot salad

10 servings
50 min

How to make a salad with chicken, carrots and egg? Prepare the necessary products. You can take any part of the chicken: hips, shins, breast. I have chicken fillet. Pickled cucumber can be replaced with salted cucumber or, alternatively, take fresh cucumber. Mayonnaise can be used instead of sour cream.

Wash the chicken fillet, lower it into boiling salted water. Bring the chicken to the boil, remove the resulting foam with a spoon. Cook the chicken over a moderate heat for about 20 minutes until tender.

Remove the chicken from the stock, cool. Cut the chicken fillet into thin strips or simply disassemble into small fibers with your hands.

Hard-boiled 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. Peel the cooled eggs, cut into thin strips. You can grate eggs on a coarse or medium grater.

Remove the pickled cucumbers from the brine, dry. Cut the cucumbers into thin strips.

Wash the pre-peeled carrots, dry. Grate the carrots on a medium grater.

The salad can be placed in a cooking ring or in a suitable bowl or salad bowl. In the latter version, the salad will have a domed shape. Line the bowl with cling film. Place the grated carrots on the bottom. Press and flatten the carrot layer with a spoon and brush with sour cream. If desired, this layer can be slightly salted.

Then lay out the chopped eggs. Also press down the layer and brush with sour cream.

The next layer is pickled cucumbers. Flatten and lightly compress, brush with sour cream.

Cover a layer of cucumbers with crushed chicken fillet. Lightly compress and brush with sour cream. Cover the salad on top with cling film and place in the fridge to soak for 30-40 minutes.

Before serving, turn the salad onto a plate of the right diameter and remove the cling film. If you lay out a salad in a culinary ring, then the sequence of layers will be in the opposite order.

Grate the hard cheese on a medium grater.

Lightly brush the salad with sour cream on top and sprinkle evenly with grated cheese.

If desired, decorate the salad on top. I have cranberry berries and dill greens. Enjoy your meal!