Classic salads with chicken - 18 cooking recipes

Tender chicken meat can be considered universal, since it goes perfectly with most products, both in texture, taste and appearance. It can be supplemented with mushrooms, berries, fruits, vegetables, legumes, boiled cereals, and canned foods of various types. People often like to add pineapples, grapes, pickles, and cheese to classic chicken salads. Moreover, chicken can be boiled, fried, baked or smoked for this purpose - it will give the dish a different taste in different cases.

Due to the fact that salads are generally the most common dish in the world (let us at least remember the saying that any woman can make three things out of nothing: a hat, a scandal and a salad), identifying the classics among them is a difficult but doable task. It is enough to pay attention to the sonorous names that everyone knows and remember the composition of the products. The names are written above, we won’t repeat them. As for the composition...

All “salad” vegetables that are available in any season can accompany chicken: potatoes, carrots, onions, beets. Some of them can be easily pickled, added raw or boiled. Canned corn, peas, and beans are suitable ingredients for classics, like cooked rice. Mushrooms, salted, pickled, fried. Cheese, soft, hard, semi-hard, salty and not very salty, grated and diced. A fresh apple complements the taste of chicken in a salad just as well as pineapple and grapes. For the latter, a good example is the Tiffany salad, which is becoming increasingly famous.

There are recipes for classic chicken salads with the addition of all kinds of nuts and other types of meat products: sausages, ham, even other meats.

Sauces and dressings for them can also be different, not just mayonnaise. Especially if you have a blender in the kitchen that can grind any food in seconds.