Chicken breast walnut salad

3 servings
2 hours

It will be very beautiful and unusual if you cook and serve such a salad in small creams. Such a service is more for a solemn occasion than for a regular dinner. Although you can turn a regular table into a festive one. For juiciness, apples or pineapples can be added to such a salad. Fruits perfectly shade such a salad and give it lightness.

How to make a salad with chicken breast and walnuts? Prepare the products. Walnuts will be needed to make this salad. Chop them a little with a knife to make them smaller, but not into flour. Then fry the nuts in a hot, dry pan. Don't miss this step. When roasted, the nuts will become more fragrant and crispy.

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. Cool the boiled chicken fillet and cut into cubes.

Such a salad will look great in a serving. Therefore, use a serving ring to do this. Place the ring on a prepared plate that will serve this salad to the table. Place the chicken meat in a salad ring. Press a little with a spoon so that the pieces do not disintegrate when you remove the ring. Grease the meat with a layer of mayonnaise.

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. Clean the cooled eggs from the shell and grate on a medium grater. Lay the grated eggs in the next layer. And also brush them with mayonnaise.

Grate the cheese separately on a medium grater. Spoon the cheese into the ring in the next layer. Brush with mayonnaise. Press all layers of lettuce slightly and remove the serving ring.

Top with the roasted walnuts. The salad is ready. Cool it down a little in the fridge and serve it to the table. Enjoy your meal!

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

The cheese for this dish will be solid or semi-solid. The main thing is that it is tasty, high-quality, without milk fat substitutes.

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.