Smoked Chicken and Crouton Salad

A simple, tasty, satisfying and festive salad! Salad with smoked chicken and croutons will take its rightful place on the holiday table, as well as as a snack or light lunch. Thanks to meat and crackers, the salad turns out to be satisfying and nutritious. In addition to the main ingredients: smoked chicken and crackers, you can add absolutely any products to taste, availability and desire. Smoked chicken meat and croutons are combined with many vegetables. In summer you can add fresh cucumbers, in winter — pickled cucumbers. You can dress the salad with mayonnaise or lighter and healthier olive oil.
cook time: 50 min
Liam Carson
Smoked Chicken and Crouton Salad

Nutrition Facts (per serving)

126
Calories
6g
Fat
13g
Carbs
7g
Protein

Ingredients (4 portions)

Basic:

Salt to taste
Potato 3 pc
Green onions 20 g
Parsley to taste
Carrot 150 g
Bulb onions 1 pc
Vegetable oil 1 tbsp
Mayonnaise 2 tbsp
Chicken eggs 2 pc
cucumbers 1 pc
Crackers 100 g
Smoked chicken 300 g

Recipe instructions

Step 1

Step 1
How to make a salad with smoked chicken and croutons?. The salad prepares quite quickly. Take ready-made smoked boneless chicken for meat, the main thing is that this product is fresh and tasty. All that remains is to cut the meat into small cubes.

Step 2

Step 2
Boil chicken eggs hard in salted water. Then fill them with cold water, they will be easier to clean and will cool faster. Peel and finely chop with a knife.

Step 3

Step 3
Peel the onions and carrots. Finely chop the onion and grate the carrots. Heat vegetable oil in a frying pan. There is no need to pour in a lot of vegetable oil, because we will season the salad with mayonnaise, and the oil can ruin the taste of the salad. And fry the onions and carrots until the onions are transparent and the carrots are soft, the main thing is not to overcook so that the vegetables do not burn, otherwise they will give the salad an unpleasant bitterness and spoil the taste. Cool the roasted vegetables.

Step 4

Step 4
Boil the potatoes in their skins, but it is better to bake them in the oven with olive oil, they will be more aromatic, tastier and healthier. Cool the potatoes, peel and cut into small cubes.

Step 5

Step 5
Wash fresh cucumbers and chop finely. In winter, fresh cucumbers can be replaced with pickled ones, it won’t be worse, they will give the salad a piquant flavor.

Step 6

Step 6
Wash a few green onions well and chop them finely, maybe diagonally, it will turn out more beautiful.

Step 7

Step 7
Mix all prepared ingredients in a large salad bowl. Add salt to taste and season with mayonnaise. It is better to serve this salad in small portioned salad bowls, sprinkling croutons on top and garnishing with a sprig of parsley, or place a bowl of croutons next to it so that each guest can take as many croutons and add them to the salad themselves as they see fit. Bon appetit!

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