Salad tender with chicken and cheese

4 servings
30 min

The salad fully justifies its name: the delicate consistency of the ingredients, the absence of products with a bright specific taste. And thanks to the bright design (yolk on top and carrots in layers), such a salad will be an excellent decoration of the festive table.

How to make Tender salad with chicken and cheese? Prepare the products. Boil the chicken breast, eggs and carrots beforehand and cool. It is better to take cheese with a neutral taste, semi-soft or hard, natural, without vegetable additives.

To soak the layers, make a sauce: pass the peeled garlic cloves through the press and mix with mayonnaise, add salt, optionally you can add ground black pepper. Keep in mind that mayonnaise already contains salt, do not salt.

Boil the chicken fillet. How to cook chicken fillet? 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. Then remove the meat from the stock and cool. Chilled chicken fillet cut into small pieces. Put half of the chopped chicken fillet in the selected salad dish. Brush the layer with the chicken with a little mayonnaise and garlic sauce.

Peel the chilled chicken eggs from the shell. Divide one or two eggs into yolks and whites, put the yolks aside to garnish the salad. Rub the eggs on a coarse grater. Put half of the grated eggs in the next layer after the chicken. Rinse this layer with the sauce.

How to boil carrots? Wash the root vegetables well, fold into a saucepan and cover with clean cold water. Cook the carrots for 20-30 minutes after boiling over a low heat, depending on the size. Peel and grate the boiled chilled carrots on a coarse grater. Put half of the grated carrots on top of a layer of eggs. Rinse this layer with the sauce.

Grate the cheese on a coarse grater. Put the grated cheese in an even layer over the layer with carrots. Rinse this layer with a little sauce.

Repeat all the layers again - chicken, eggs, carrots, cheese, rinsing each layer with a small amount of sauce. Rinse the last layer generously with the sauce and garnish with eggs grated on a fine grater. In addition to yolks, the salad can be decorated with fresh herbs.

Be sure to cool the salad before serving: the layers are soaked in sauce, the salad will become juicier and there will be no pronounced vegetable taste in carrots. Then serve the salad to the table. Enjoy your meal!

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

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.

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.