Classic sunflower salad with chips and chicken

Step-by-step preparation

Cooking time: 30 mins

1. STEP 1

   

   How to make a classic Sunflower salad? First, prepare the necessary ingredients. You can replace canned champignons with fresh ones and also fry them. If the eggs are small, like mine, take 4 pieces. Chips are needed like Pringles or Lays in tall tubes.

2. STEP 2

   

   First boil the chicken fillet in salted water until cooked. Cut the boiled chicken into small pieces.

3. STEP 3

   

   Drain the liquid from the canned champignons and fry in a frying pan in vegetable oil until light golden brown. If the canned champignons have been stored correctly, you can use them without frying. But in stores, canned mushrooms are often stored at temperatures above 25 degrees, which leads to the development of bacteria that cause severe poisoning and botulism. Therefore, it is better to play it safe and fry the mushrooms additionally.

4. STEP 4

   

   Boil the eggs hard, cool and peel. Grate separately into different dishes: whites on a coarse or medium grater, and yolks on a fine grater.

5. STEP 5

   

   Grate the cheese on a coarse grater.

6. STEP 6

   

   To decorate, remove the olives from the jar and dry. Cut each olive into 4 pieces. You can also cut it into halves to reduce the time it takes to place the olives on the salad.

7. STEP 7

   

   Place chicken fillet on a plate in an even round layer. Pour mayonnaise over it. I apply mayonnaise from a piping bag or plastic bag.

8. STEP 8

   

   Place fried mushrooms on the chicken and also make a mesh of mayonnaise.

9. STEP 9

   

   The next layer is cheese sprinkled with mayonnaise.

10. STEP 10

    

    Spread grated whites with mayonnaise over the cheese.

11. STEP 11

    

    The last layer before decorating the salad with olives is grated yolks. There is no need to pour mayonnaise on it.

12. STEP 12

    

    Top the salad with quartered olives, imitating sunflower seeds. Determine the degree of coverage of the surface of the salad with olives according to your taste. Pieces of olives can be placed here and there or, as I did, cover the entire surface of the salad with them. The second option is still more like a ripe sunflower, in which the grains fit tightly to each other.

13. STEP 13

    

    Let the salad stand at room temperature for half an hour. If you plan to serve the salad later, cover it with film and place it in the refrigerator. Insert chips along the edges of the salad. To make it more similar, you can insert the chips in two rows to add bulk. Garnish the salad with chips just before serving, otherwise they will get soggy. If you wish, you can sprinkle the joints between the chips and olives with chopped chopped herbs. Bon appetit!

Comments on the recipe

Natalia M

15.11.2023

4.5

I prepared Sunflower salad for my mother-in-law for her anniversary. It became a real decoration for the table, people were even afraid to eat it so as not to ruin its beauty) I prepared the salad itself at home, but I inserted petals from chips just before serving. For the salad, I also used chicken breast and tried to cut it very finely. I had forest champignons (more precisely, steppe ones), they are darker and have a pronounced taste and smell. I took four eggs, for some reason I always don’t have enough of them. Even though I took a wide plate, I managed to repeat the layers twice, I think it’s even tastier this way. Thanks for the idea of ​​distributing mayonnaise using a piping bag. It’s very convenient and you don’t need to spread it with a spoon, to which the filling sticks. In addition, the layers are more airy. I decorated the top a little differently: with a grid of mayonnaise, and placed halves of olives in the cells. I prepared a similar salad a long time ago and inserted the chips in one row, in two rows it turned out more voluminous and beautiful, and the guests enjoyed it more) Thank you for the wonderful recipe for the holiday salad, it is very successful, beautiful and tastes great!

Annelly

15.11.2023

4.8

What a beauty. Even the chips are spot on.

Arina Koten

15.11.2023

5

I made this salad for my daughter’s birthday, thank you, as you wrote, the salad was a hit. For some time they were even afraid to spoil it - to put it on plates. :)))

JuliaB

15.11.2023

4.5

And to this salad I add a layer of smoked sausage, cut into strips, with mayonnaise - it turns out even tastier! I spread it in a 4th layer, on top of chopped eggs, and then top it with cheese and maonnaise.

bobonya

15.11.2023

5

Great salad! It’s very tasty and a decoration for the table, and it doesn’t require any incredible products. I made it for New Year's

Guest

15.11.2023

4.8

I made this salad, it looks beautiful! But I took some pickled onions! My family likes it better this way!

Margot

15.11.2023

4.9

Yes, you got a whole chamomile, you could not decorate with olives at all, it looks incredibly elegant, WELL DONE