Chicken salad is a dish intended mainly for the holiday table. However, it can make an ordinary dinner or lunch excellent. For this salad, boiled chicken is often used, which is mixed with other ingredients: cucumbers, mushrooms, eggs, cheese, and so on. But you can also make a salad from smoked or baked brisket. It is seasoned with mayonnaise, sour cream, vegetable oil or sauce. Salad with chicken and cucumber is especially good at any time of the year; there are countless recipe options. Here are some of them.
For one serving of this salad we will need:
Boil the chicken fillet until tender and cool. Then we split it into thin strips. Beat the egg thoroughly and fry it into a pancake. Cut the cucumbers into a crescent shape. Chop the onion. Combine cucumbers and chicken, add green onions, garlic and mustard to them. Pour in vinegar, vegetable oil and soy sauce. Sprinkle everything with salt, sugar and sesame seeds to taste. Mix everything well and place in the refrigerator for about an hour before serving. Remove from the refrigerator and sprinkle with finely chopped capsicum and very thinly sliced egg pancake. The dish is ready!
For this recipe for salad with chicken and cucumbers, we will also need mushrooms. It consists of the following ingredients:
Wash the mushrooms, cut into strips and boil in salted water. Peel the hard-boiled eggs and cut into small cubes. Peel and chop the onion. Wash the cucumber and cut into strips. Grind the chicken. Mix everything and season with mayonnaise.
This salad recipe includes:
Cut the chicken fillet into small pieces and fry in vegetable oil until cooked. Finely chop the mushrooms and fry them in oil separately from the chicken fillet. You should try to pour less oil, otherwise the salad will be greasy. Finely chop the hard-boiled chicken eggs. Cut the cucumbers into small cubes. Mix fillet, mushrooms, eggs, cucumbers. Salt everything, season with mayonnaise and mix again.
This salad includes:
Boil the chicken fillet and let it cool. Then finely chop. Wash the cucumbers, peel them if the skin is hard, and cut into strips. Boil the eggs hard and grate on a medium grater. Mix everything and season with mayonnaise.
For this salad recipe you will need:
Cut the bread into small cubes, place them on a baking sheet and toast in the oven until golden brown, stirring from time to time. Boil the chicken fillet in salted water until tender and let it cool. Thinly slice the Beijing cabbage into strips. We also cut the cucumbers into strips, and the olives into circles. Chop chicken fillet into cubes. We combine everything and mix. Season with mayonnaise and squeeze garlic into the salad. Salt and pepper to taste. Grate the cheese on a fine grater. Sprinkle the salad with grated cheese and croutons. Let it soak a little and serve.
A very tasty salad, to prepare which you will need:
Chicken breast and eggs are boiled until cooked. Cut the chicken into small pieces. We clean the eggs and also cut them into small cubes. Mix egg and chicken. Finely chop the onion. Add to eggs and chicken. (The salad can be made without onions). Finely chop the pickled cucumbers and mix with chicken, eggs and onions. Add (along with a small amount of liquid) canned mushrooms and green peas. Salt everything, season with mayonnaise and mix well. The salad is ready.
For one serving of this salad you will need:
Boil chicken breasts in salted water until tender. Then let them cool and, having first removed the skin, separate the meat from the bones. Cut the fillet into strips about half a centimeter thick. Three cheese on a fine grater. Press the garlic through a press. Wash the vegetables. Cut the cucumbers into thin strips, put them in a bowl, add salt and leave for about fifteen minutes. We cut the tomatoes into fairly large pieces, add salt and leave for about fifteen minutes, after which we mix the chopped chicken fillet with cucumbers and tomatoes. Add grated cheese and garlic. Mix everything thoroughly again. Combine mustard and mayonnaise, beat with a fork until a homogeneous mass is obtained, and season the salad. Salt, pepper and sprinkle with finely chopped parsley.
To prepare this salad you will need:
Wash the cucumbers, peel them and cut them into small cubes. Separate the flesh from the chicken leg and chop it finely. Crumble the cheese by hand. Finely chop the garlic. Mix garlic and cheese and add them to cucumbers with chicken pulp. Sprinkle with salt and pepper and pour over oil. The salad is served with croutons or toast.
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Salad prepared with fresh cucumber and chicken, - a simple, very tasty, appetizing dish. If you have already boiled chicken fillet, eggs and carrots, then this salad can be served to the table in literally 5 minutes. This delicious salad can be prepared on a weekday or for the unexpected arrival of guests, try it!
To prepare a salad with fresh cucumber and chicken you will need:
fresh cucumber - 1 pc.;
boiled chicken fillet - 100 g;
boiled egg - 2 pcs.;
boiled carrots - 0.5 pcs.;
mayonnaise - 1-2 tbsp. l.;
sour cream - 1-2 tbsp. l.;
salt - to taste.
Pour water over the eggs and boil for 10 minutes from the moment they boil, then cool, add cold water, and peel. Wash the carrots well, boil without peeling them for 30-35 minutes (boiled carrots will be easily pierced with a fork), then cool and peel. Boil the chicken fillet for 35-40 minutes in advance, cool and cut into small pieces. Place the chopped chicken meat on a plate, add fresh cucumber, cut into small cubes.
Add carrots and diced eggs to this.
Salt a salad of fresh cucumber, chicken, eggs and carrots, add mayonnaise and sour cream.
Mix all salad ingredients well.
Place a simple and tasty salad prepared with fresh cucumber and chicken in a salad bowl or on a plate using a cooking ring, decorate as you wish and serve.
Bon appetit!
The person who invented the salad should have a monument erected. Many women agree with this statement, because salads become both salvation and decoration for the holiday table, helping to make the diet complete, rich in vitamins and minerals. This article contains a selection of delicious recipes, where the main roles are played by two products - chicken meat and cucumbers, while a variety of tastes is guaranteed.
The salad according to this photo recipe turns out incredibly tasty, satisfying and, of course, very healthy. I cook it better in large quantities, because everything is eaten very quickly. The quantities of all ingredients can be adjusted as desired, but usually they should be approximately equal in volume.
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Cooking time: 45 minutes
Quantity: 4 servings
Interestingly, fresh, salted, and pickled cucumbers are actively used in chicken salads. This allows the housewife to prepare a dish from the same ingredients, but get three different tastes. Pickled cucumbers are most often used in salads in winter, when fresh vegetables are quite expensive and not very tasty, because they are grown in greenhouse conditions. But pickled cucumber, prepared using ancient technologies, retains most of the nutrients.
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Housewives who want to not only cook deliciously, but also serve beautifully, are advised to make the salad in layers, covering it with mayonnaise. This salad looks great in glass salad bowls!
Cucumbers and chicken fillet may play the main roles in a salad, but there is a third ingredient that will keep them in good company: mushrooms. Again, depending on whether the mushrooms are fresh or dried, wild mushrooms or champignons, the taste of the dish may vary.
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A couple of sprigs of green dill for decoration wouldn't hurt!
The following salad is intended for those gourmets who cannot imagine their life without cheese and try to add it to all dishes, even soups, not to mention salads. Cheese adds tenderness to the chicken mix, while a cucumber from the garden or market adds freshness.
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At first, guests and household members will be surprised by the stunning appearance, but they will be no less surprised by the taste of this original salad, in which meat is so harmoniously combined with delicate cheese and fresh crispy cucumber.
There is one drawback to preparing a salad with chicken fillet - the need to pre-prepare the meat. Of course, chicken cooks faster than pork or beef, but you still have to spend at least 1 hour on it (after all, it must also cool down). Smart housewives have found a wonderful solution - they use smoked chicken: there is no need to cook, and the taste is amazing.
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Since there is no need to cook the chicken, the dish is prepared immediately before eating. You can lay it in layers, or you can mix the ingredients in a salad bowl.
Add some of the greens directly to the salad, and decorate the culinary masterpiece with the remaining sprigs!
As an experiment, you can offer the following recipe, where chicken and cucumbers will be accompanied by prunes, which will add a piquant sweet and sour note to the usual taste. You can amaze your household even more if you throw in a handful of toasted and chopped walnuts.
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Greens - dill, parsley, cilantro - will not be superfluous in this salad!
Summer is the time for fresh vegetables, tasty and healthy vegetarian salads. But the next salad is intended for people who cannot imagine life without meat. To make it more dietary, you need to take chicken and fresh vegetables. You need to season the dish with either low-calorie mayonnaise or mayonnaise sauce, add a spoonful of ready-made mustard for spiciness.
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Season the salad, garnish with herbs. Beautiful, easy, delicious!
Some people are used to Olivier, while others continue to experiment with combinations of products. For example, instead of classic sausage, you can take boiled chicken, and replace canned peas with more tender corn. The culinary creativity can be continued further by adding a bell pepper or a stalk of celery (or both).
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You can put the lettuce leaves on a flat dish, and on them, in fact, the salad - a mixture of meat and vegetables.
The following salad has a very delicate taste and pleasant sourness, which is imparted by prunes. This dish is suitable for those on a diet, but dreaming of a spoonful of salad.
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The secret of this salad is that the meat and prunes, previously, of course, soaked and pitted, need to be cut into very small strips, and the cheese, cucumbers and hard-boiled eggs should be grated.
Lay in layers, spreading with mayonnaise. Top with nuts, roasted and finely chopped or crushed.
A fabulous quartet of delicious foods form the basis of the following salad. They are placed in layers in a transparent large salad bowl or in portions. And as a decoration you can use bell peppers of bright colors.
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Top the salad with small champignons and thinly sliced sweet pepper strips.
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For the salad we will use white chicken meat. You can take fresh chilled chicken fillet, frozen. Rinse the meat in running water. Place in a saucepan. Add a little salt, bay leaf and a mixture of peppers. Pour water to cover the meat and bring to the fire. Cook for 25-30 minutes over low heat. Then remove from the broth and cool.
In the meantime, let's prepare the rest of the products. Cut the red cabbage into thin strips. Place in a deep bowl. Add a pinch of salt and press lightly to soften the cabbage.
Wash and dry the green onions. Chop not very finely and add to the cabbage.
Wash fresh cucumbers and dry with a napkin. Cut into large slices. Add to the salad bowl with the rest of the ingredients.
Boil chicken eggs, cool, peel, cut into medium pieces. Place in a salad bowl.
Cut the cooled chicken into large pieces. Add to other products.
Pour in the canned peas, draining the liquid first.
Now let's prepare the dressing. Add grainy mustard, soy sauce to sour cream of any fat content and mix well.
Season the cucumber salad with chicken breast with the prepared sour cream sauce. Season with salt and ground black pepper. Stir.
Salad with chicken and fresh cucumber is ready. Can be served for a home-cooked meal.
For the holiday table, decorate the salad at your discretion and surprise your guests. In my version, I used fresh green peas (boiled), parsley leaves, fresh cucumber and a heart-shaped boiled egg for decoration.
Bon appetit!
The secret to successful salads lies in the correct proportion of nutritious and refreshing ingredients. Even if the appetizer consists only of greens, mayonnaise or fat will make the dish filling. And of course, it is simply impossible to put together a salad from meat or fish alone. Something else needs to be added. And ideal in terms of the ratio of satiating and refreshing components is a salad with chicken and cucumber. Skinless chicken breast is considered the most dietary type of meat. It contains little fat (about two percent), but a lot of protein. Some people don't like chicken fillet, considering it dry and too bland and unimpressive. But in combination with cucumber, the taste of meat will be transformed. It will acquire freshness, juiciness and aroma. There are a lot of recipes for salads with chicken and cucumber, and the most successful ones will be given in this article. In addition to the two main ingredients, you can add additional ones: boiled eggs, cheese, herbs, canned corn, etc. You can experiment with cucumber (fresh, salted or pickled), as well as chicken (boiled, smoked, fried). Every time you season the salad with a different sauce, you get a new dish. And in this regard, a truly wide choice opens up before us. Olive oil, mayonnaise, sour cream, soy sauce, vinegar and lemon juice, mustard and honey - all to your taste.
This dish is quite dietary. For it we need one greenhouse cucumber (or two ground cucumbers) and 150-200 grams of boiled chicken breast. How to cook meat? If you have at your disposal not a cut fillet, but a chicken, use the following instructions. First we remove the skin. Then we make a cut along the breast bone and cut off the white meat on both sides. The pieces come out uneven. They are thick on one end and thin on the other. We make a cut and turn the meat inside out to make one plate of approximately the same size. Place the fillet in a saucepan, add water, and place on medium heat. After boiling, add salt. If desired, you can add spices. After five minutes of boiling, turn the heat under the pan to minimum and cook under the lid for another quarter of an hour. Cool the breast. Meanwhile, peel the cucumber and cut it into thin strips. We disassemble the cooled fillet into fibers of approximately the same shape. Salad with chicken and fresh cucumbers can also be served on a regular dish. But let's get creative! Serve it on lettuce leaves or Chinese cabbage. Or we’ll bake a pancake and wrap a shawarma-like appetizer in it. What to dress the salad with? Below we will look at several ideas for sauces for two appetizer ingredients.
If you are watching your figure, add a few tablespoons of natural 0% fat yogurt to your salad with chicken and fresh cucumbers. This fermented milk product can also be mixed with finely chopped parsley or dill. The dish will become appetizing and aromatic if you grind a few cloves of garlic with salt and olive oil in a mortar. Here is the recipe for a complex dressing. Pour two tablespoons of olive oil and soy sauce into a jar with a screw-on lid, add a little more apple cider vinegar, a pinch of cane (brown) sugar, ground black pepper and chopped cilantro. Squeeze two cloves of garlic through a press. Screw on the lid and shake the jar like a cocktail shaker until the olive oil is combined with the other ingredients. Pour this sauce over the mixture of chicken fillet and cucumber. Place in the refrigerator for an hour. After this, the finished dish can be placed on lettuce leaves. The most high-calorie dressing option is mayonnaise mixed with grated cheese. But in this case, we put less meat in the dish and more cucumber.
Now we will have not two dominants in the taste of the dish, but three. These include, among others, a salad with chicken, cucumber and egg. Meat and vegetables for the dish should be taken in approximately equal proportions. Three hundred grams of chicken breast will require two eggs. There are several variations of this salad. The simplest one is to boil the eggs hard, peel and cut, like other main components, into small cubes. This salad can be dressed with mayonnaise. But it would be wrong to ignore such an original recipe. Cucumbers and boiled chicken fillet (300 grams each) cut into strips. Finely chop three cloves of garlic, chop a small bunch of green onions. If desired, you can also add a fourth dominant flavor to the salad with chicken, cucumber and egg - red or orange sweet bell pepper. We wash the pod, cut it in half, carefully clean out the seeds, rinse it again and chop it into strips. Mix the mass. Season with five tablespoons of soy sauce, a small amount of mustard, pinches of sugar and salt. Place the salad in the refrigerator for at least half an hour. Meanwhile, beat two eggs in a bowl. Heat a frying pan with a small amount of a mixture of vegetable and butter. Pour in the beaten eggs and bake the pancake. When it cools down, cut it into strips and add to the salad. You don't have to mix it.
In the absence of fresh vegetables, we turn to homemade preparations. This salad with chicken and pickles is called “Stolichny”. Although some consider it just a kind of Olivier. And there is a certain logic in such a comparison. Judge for yourself: the salad contains potatoes, eggs, carrots, canned green peas, and pickles. Unless we add green onions, not onions, and instead of sausage we use chicken fillet. If you add about three hundred grams of it, this salad will replace a full dinner. Aren't you afraid of extra calories? Season the salad with mayonnaise. For those losing weight, yogurt or sour cream is suitable as a sauce. How to prepare Stolichny salad? Anyone who has made Olivier at least once in their life can easily cope with this task. Boil the chicken breast until tender, as described above. We cook two potatoes and one carrot in “uniforms”. Hard boil three eggs. Peel the vegetables. Cut all ingredients into small cubes. Strain out a can of canned peas. For the Stolichny salad we need only one hundred grams. Chop a couple of green onions. Finely chop fresh dill. Mix all the ingredients. Salt, add ground black pepper. Season with sour cream, yogurt or mayonnaise.
The aroma of light smoke will give the whole dish a more expressive, bright taste. And our worries will be reduced. All you have to do is buy a prepared chicken thigh or leg, remove the meat from the bone and prepare a salad with smoked chicken and cucumber. And if you add hard cheese to the ingredients, then such a hearty dish can completely replace lunch or dinner. Peel three or four cucumbers, cut into cubes (you can use semicircles). We separate the smoked meat cut from the bone fiber by fiber into oblong pieces. One hundred grams of cheese, three large shavings. Squeeze through a press or finely chop two cloves of garlic. Mix them with cheese. Then add to the smoked chicken and cucumbers. Salt and pepper the salad. You can season it with regular olive oil. In this case, you need to serve toast or croutons with the dish. You can also dress the salad with mayonnaise. But then the dish may seem too heavy. It is best to dilute the mayonnaise with sour cream, or even season it with yogurt sauce with a small addition of ketchup or adjika.
At a time when the mushroom harvest is so large that you don’t know where to put them, remember this recipe. Not only boletus or boletus mushrooms are suitable for it, but also ordinary champignons. Salad with chicken, mushrooms and cucumbers is very easy to prepare. Cut the leek stalk into rings. Coarsely grate the carrots. Pour vegetable oil into the frying pan. First fry the leek, then add carrots to it and finally - peeled and cut mushrooms (200 grams). Salt and season with spices. Transfer from the frying pan to the salad bowl. For the dish, you can use either boiled breast or smoked chicken meat - 300 g. Two pickled or pickled cucumbers will add sourness to the salad. Like meat, we cut them into cubes. Hard boil three eggs. We clean and also cut into cubes. Mix the salad. Now let's get to the refueling. Beat 2 yolks into a jar with a lid. Mix them with two teaspoons of mustard. Add 50 milliliters of olive oil and the juice of one lemon. Screw on the lid and whisk the contents of the jar until a suspension is formed. At the end, salt the sauce and add two cloves of garlic squeezed through a press. Dressing the salad. Stir and let it soak a little.
Here we will prepare an appetizer with fresh cucumbers. The dominant flavors will be chicken and mushrooms. Cucumbers will only refresh a hearty snack. We put 300 grams of chicken meat (breasts are best), 400 grams of mushrooms and two eggs to cook in different saucepans. While these ingredients are being heat treated, peel and cut three cucumbers into strips and finely chop the onion. Mushrooms, if cut into slices raw, can be boiled in salted water for just five minutes. We strain them in a colander. Cut the cooked meat and hard-boiled eggs into equal cubes. Mix all the ingredients. Salad with chicken, cucumber and mushrooms, salt to taste, pepper and season with mayonnaise. Wash the lettuce leaves. We cover the dish with them. Place on this green mattress. Sprinkle with chopped dill.
Chicken meat goes perfectly with fruits, and especially citrus fruits. And in this recipe we will use not only a large grapefruit, but also a quarter of a lemon and a third of an orange. We start preparing a salad of chicken, cucumbers, grapefruit with cooking meat. You can boil the breast or rub it with curry and quickly fry it in vegetable oil until golden brown. Smoked or grilled chicken will also be delicious. Peel one small onion and finely chop it into half rings. Squeeze the juice from a piece of lemon. Next, the recipe recommends making the salad sauce so that it has time to brew. Pour three tablespoons of vegetable oil into a bowl. Squeeze a clove of garlic through a press and season with a pinch of ground black pepper. Now pour a teaspoon each of liquid honey, soy sauce and Worcestershire sauce. Whisk the mixture. Let's return to preparing the salad itself. Cut the cooled chicken into thin pieces. The greenhouse long cucumber does not need to be peeled. Let's chop it into semicircles. You'll have to tinker with pink grapefruit. We need to peel it not only from the peel, but also from the thin films that give the fruit bitterness. Cut the extracted pulp into large pieces. Let's start laying the salad. First, we tear several leaves of Chinese cabbage onto a flat dish with our hands. It can also be replaced with a green salad. Mix all other ingredients of the dish (chicken, onion, cucumber and grapefruit) and add salt to taste. Place on lettuce leaves. Sprinkle with sesame seeds and pour over the dressing. The dish should sit for a while before serving to soak in the sauce.
Along with the traditional Olivier salad, salad with prunes, chicken and cucumber is increasingly appearing on holiday tables. Dried fruits give the whole dish an original smoked taste and a sweet note, which sounds amazing when combined with the sourness of pickles. We traditionally start preparing the Prague salad by boiling the chicken fillet until cooked. We will need 250 grams of it. At the same time, hard-boil two eggs and a medium-sized carrot in its “uniform”. Wash prunes (150 grams) and soak for ten minutes in hot water. Peel carrots and eggs. We select the seeds from the swollen prunes. "Prague" - layered salad. Therefore, we do not mix the ingredients. First place half of the chicken fillet, cut into small cubes, on the bottom of the salad bowl. Lightly pepper the meat, add salt and apply mayonnaise. Grind a large pickled cucumber (or two small ones) in the same way as the breast. Cover the top with a layer of chopped onion half. Next, we complement the salad of chicken, cucumbers and prunes with eggs, grated with fine shavings. Place a layer of carrots on them. There are three big ones. Apply the mayonnaise mesh again. Add three to four tablespoons of canned green peas. We place the remaining meat on it, which we again grease with mayonnaise. Strain the swollen prunes and cut into strips. This is the topmost layer of the salad. Cover the dish with cling film and put it in the refrigerator for an hour. When serving, decorate with fresh herb leaves.
And this delicious appetizer completes our selection of recipes. All three main ingredients should be present in the salad in approximately equal proportions. Chicken meat can be grilled, boiled, fried or smoked. The cook has the same free choice regarding cucumbers. You can take fresh vegetables, salted or pickled. But hard cheese is most often used. Although the appetizer will be much fresher if you crumble cheese, feta or tender mozzarella into it. As for dressing, many people prefer to use mayonnaise. But the dish will only benefit if you use sour cream or natural yogurt instead. It should be said that the ingredients used for the chicken and cucumber salad (egg and cheese) still need additional refreshing elements. These could be: olives (black or green), sweet bell peppers, radishes, leeks, and other greens. Now for the eggs. They can be used not only traditionally - hard-boiled and cut. Let us remember how “Caesar”, which has gained worldwide fame, is being prepared. For this salad, eggs are dipped for a minute in boiling water removed from the stove, and then the half-raw mass is beaten into the rest of the ingredients.