Cocktail salad with chicken and cucumber

Step-by-step preparation

Cooking time: 1 hr 30 mins

1. STEP 1

   

   How to make a cocktail salad with chicken and cucumber? As easy as pie! To begin, prepare the necessary ingredients according to the list. You can increase or decrease the quantity of any ingredient according to your taste.

2. STEP 2

   

   Boil the chicken fillet in boiling salted water until tender, about 25 minutes. The exact cooking time depends on the size of the fillet. But keep in mind that long cooking makes the meat rubbery and less juicy. Cool the fillet and cut into small cubes.

3. STEP 3

   

   Hard boil the eggs, cool and peel. Separate the whites from the yolks. Cut the whites into small cubes. Set the yolks aside.

4. STEP 4

   

   Wash the cucumber and cut into small cubes. The peel, if it is not rough, damaged or bitter, does not need to be cut off.

5. STEP 5

   

   Wash the prunes, dry and cut into pieces. If the prunes are too hard and dry, you can pour boiling water over them and leave for 10 minutes.

6. STEP 6

   

   Chop the walnuts with a knife or crush them with a rolling pin

7. STEP 7

   

   I first transferred the mayonnaise into a cooking bag to make it easier to apply it to the ingredients.

8. STEP 8

   

   Cocktail salad is usually served in portioned glasses or bowls so that all the layers are visible. Place layers of chicken, prunes, cucumber, egg white, and walnuts in the selected serving dish, coating each with mayonnaise. If you wish, you can salt and pepper the layers, but I do not add spices to salads with mayonnaise. Sprinkle finely chopped yolks on top of the salad. It is better to rub the yolks directly onto the salad so that they do not wrinkle.

9. STEP 9

   

   Place the glasses with the salad in the refrigerator for 30 minutes, covering with cling film to prevent the yolks from scorching. Before serving, decorate the salad to your liking. Bon appetit!

Comments on the recipe

Alexei

12.10.2023

4.9

What’s simpler and what’s more interesting can you come up with instead of a salad, just a different salad! It’s not even that important to follow the exact composition of the ingredients of the salad taken as a sample. The most important thing is how well the form of serving the salad has been chosen. Salad in a glass, it's great! Everything is visible and the whole rainbow of colors of each layer is very pleasing to the eye and how this range whets the appetite! And how much imagination there is to develop recipes for new salads. This portioned serving is very convenient for starting any meal; it eliminates the need to add salads from common salad bowls. A serving in a glass is quite enough before serving a hot dish. Thanks to the author for the idea, I really liked it!

NadezhdaShulgina

12.10.2023

4.5

It was a good salad, and the presentation was unusual 👍