Capital classic chicken salad

6 servings
20 min

Stolichny salad can be cooked with and without onions. Without onions, the taste is softer and softer, but a small amount of green onions will very successfully complement its taste.

How to make a classic Capital salad? Prepare the products. Pre-boil the potatoes, chicken, carrots and eggs and cool them. Cook vegetables in a uniform, wash them well with a brush before cooking. Cucumbers in this salad will be pickled, and mayonnaise, according to the classics, Provencal, which can be prepared yourself. Tip the peas into a colander to remove excess liquid.

How to boil chicken fillet? Boil the water in a saucepan. Send the washed fillet to boiling water. Add the salt, reduce the heat and cook the meat for about 30 minutes, removing the resulting foam with a spoon. Pierce the fillet with the tip of a knife. If it pierces freely, then it is ready. Remove the fillet from the pan and cool. Dice the boiled chicken fillet and pickled cucumbers. Wash the spring onions, dry and finely shave.

Tip the polka dots into a large bowl to make the salad. Sprinkle the chopped chicken fillet, onions and cucumbers into a bowl to the peas.

How to boil vegetables in your uniform? Put the clean vegetables in a pan of cold water and place them to cook on a high heat. After boiling, make the fire small. Cook the vegetables for about 30 minutes with a low simmer. Check your readiness with a sharp knife - he should freely pierce the tubers. Drain the water, cool the vegetables. Peel the cooked vegetables.

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 eggs from their shells, then chop them into small cubes with a knife. You can use a special net-vegetable cutter. Pour the eggs into a bowl of lettuce.

Cut the boiled carrots into cubes. You can, like me, use the same net-vegetable cutter. Pour the carrots into a bowl.

Dice the boiled potatoes and add to the other ingredients.

All that remains is to add mayonnaise and a pinch of salt to taste.

Stir all the ingredients in a bowl well with a spoon, and Capital's salad is ready!

To serve on the table, you can form portions of a neat form in the form of a slide. To do this, fill the salad with a small piquet, compress slightly and turn it onto a plate. Then raise the pialka, and a formed slide of lettuce will remain on the plate. You can lay out the salad using a culinary ring. Or just serve it in portions in creams.

The salad will look beautiful and neat if you cut all the ingredients into the same size and shape in pieces (for example, cubes).

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

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.