Despite the ease of preparation, it is not a shame to put a snack on the festive table. Depending on your taste preferences, you can choose your own version of Ladies' Whim.
Traditional version
What to cook from:
- pickled pineapples - 200 g;
- chicken breast - 250 g;
- cheese (Kostroma, Gouda) - 130 g;
- garlic - one clove;
- mayonnaise, bay leaf, a pinch of pepper and salt;
Step-by-step instruction
- Boil the breast in a little salt water. Add laurel and pepper to the broth.
- While the chicken cools in the broth, finely grate the cheese, cut into cubes pineapples.
- Season the mayonnaise with garlic, salt and pepper.
- Combine all the products in the salad bowl.
With nuts
What to cook from:
- chicken eggs - five pieces;
- chicken breast - 500 g;
- green cucumbers - 150 g;
- prunes - 250 g;
- walnut - 100 g;
- greens (celery, parsley, feather onions);
- pepper, salt, mayonnaise.
Step-by-step instruction
- Cook the chicken breast with spices and cool.
- Grind boiled and peeled eggs on a coarse grater.
- Cucumbers cut into strips.
- Soak prunes, remove seeds from it.
- Chop the breast and prunes in small pieces.
- Fry the kernels a little in a pan, and then chop using a rolling pin.
- Lay out the appetizer in layers: cucumbers; chicken and mayonnaise; half prunes and mayonnaise; eggs the second half of prunes.
- Sprinkle salad with fried nuts, garnish with greens.
With prunes and hard cheese
What to cook from:
- pickled pineapples - 300 g;
- chicken breast - 450 g;
- eggs - four pieces;
- Dutch cheese - 130 g;
- prunes - 130 g;
- mayonnaise, sour cream, salt, garlic, a pinch of pepper, rosemary.
Step-by-step instruction
- Boil the breast with seasonings and salt, and then leave to cool in water. (So the fillet will turn out juicy and tender).
- Boil eggs.
- Drain the pineapple syrup.
- Dip prunes in a container with boiling water.
- Cut the breast, eggs, prunes and pineapples into strips.
- Mix mayonnaise 1: 1 with sour cream, and then add two minced garlic cloves for spice.
- Combine all the components of the snack in a common container, season with sauce.
- Sprinkle with grated cheese on top.
With champignons and tongue
What to cook from:
- champignons - 300 g;
- beef or pork tongue - 450 g;
- ham or beef - 150 g;
- canned cucumber - four pieces;
- red bell pepper - two pieces;
- onions - one head;
- vegetable oil - four tablespoons;
- mayonnaise, laurel, salt, mustard, pepper.
Step-by-step instruction
- Boil the tongue in salted water for two hours. Before removing it from the heat, add laurel and pepper to the saucepan to taste.
- Tongue cool, peel, cut into strips.
- Red peppers, cucumbers and ham are also cut into strips. Throw the chopped cucumbers into a colander so that excess fluid leaves them.
- Fry in oil until caramel color chopped onion rings.
- Send sliced mushrooms in a pan with onions. Fry for another 10-12 minutes.
- Cool the mushrooms and combine all the components of the salad, seasoning with mayonnaise with mustard and spices.
With pomegranate and crab sticks
What to cook from:
- crab sticks - 300 g;
- sweet corn - one can;
- pomegranate - one piece;
- apples are one thing;
- eggs - three pieces;
- onions - two heads;
- Russian cheese - 180 g;
- salt, mayonnaise.
Step-by-step instruction
- Grind the onion and marinate it with vinegar and boiling water (50:50).
- Boil eggs, cool and separate the protein from the yolk.
- Pour the corn into a colander, and grate the cheese, protein, yolk, crab sticks and apple coarsely.
- Disassemble pomegranate into grains.
- Lay out: protein with mayonnaise; crab sticks; bow; corn; mayonnaise; yolk with mayonnaise; cheese and mayonnaise; crab sticks and mayonnaise; an Apple; corn and mayonnaise; cheese, pomegranate seeds (in a dense layer).
- Be sure to withstand one to two hours in a cold place for impregnation.
Instead of crab sticks, you can take squid or shrimp, and replace the corn with peas or beans. The result is an unusual author's version of the snack. A dish can be on the menu of losing weight if you use yogurt for dressing.
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