Festive Birch Chicken & Cucumber Salad

Simple, tasty, effective, perfect for the holiday table. Birch salad with fresh cucumber and chicken will not go unnoticed and will take its rightful place at any holiday. Decorating with a birch tree makes the salad bright and beautiful.
cook time: 1h
Ivy Ramsay
Festive Birch Chicken & Cucumber Salad

Nutrition Facts (per serving)

134
Calories
9g
Fat
3g
Carbs
10g
Protein

Ingredients (5 portions)

Basic:

Salt to taste
Bulb onions 1 pc
Mushrooms (Champignons or forest) 100 g
Mayonnaise 3 tbsp
Chicken eggs 3 pc
Olives 1 pc
cucumbers 1 pc
Chicken fillet 200 g

Recipe instructions

Step 1

Step 1
How to make Berezka salad with fresh cucumber and chicken. Prepare all the necessary ingredients. There are many different recipes for birch salad, the ingredients in them vary and overlap; the main thing is that one of them is green. They decorate the salad. Boil chicken fillet in salted water. To make the meat juicy, place it in boiling water. When the fillet is ready, remove it from the broth, cool and chop finely.

Step 2

Step 2
It is better to marinate onions so that they are not very bitter. To do this, peel the onion, finely chop and place in a bowl. Fill the onion with water at room temperature, add vinegar, sugar and leave for 15 minutes.

Step 3

Step 3
Wash the mushrooms, cut into small cubes and fry in vegetable oil for 30 minutes. If you use fresh wild mushrooms, it is better to pre-boil them for 10-15 minutes to get rid of possible harmful substances contained in them.

Step 4

Step 4
Wash the fresh cucumber. Grate one fourth of the cucumber and squeeze out the juice. Cut the remaining part of the cucumber into semicircles or cubes.

Step 5

Step 5
Wash chicken eggs with soap to avoid pathogenic microbes from entering the dish through the egg shell. Place the eggs in a saucepan, add water and put on fire. When the water boils, reduce the heat to medium and simmer for 12-15 minutes. Cool the eggs in cold water, peel, separate the whites from the yolks and grate them separately.

Step 6

Step 6
Save the white of one egg for garnishing the salad.

Step 7

Step 7
The salad is laid out in layers. First, lay out the chicken meat, apply a thin layer of mayonnaise. Then add pickled onions and mushrooms, brush with mayonnaise and sprinkle with fresh cucumber cubes. Apply a layer of mayonnaise again. Sprinkle with grated whites, brush with mayonnaise and lay out a layer of yolks.

Step 8

Step 8
Start preparing the salad. Cut a birch tree trunk from the reserved protein. Letʼs post it. From grated fresh cucumber, make birch foliage and leaves at the tree trunk. Cut strips from the olive; these will be lentils on the birch trunk. Leave the salad in the refrigerator for a couple of hours to soak and serve. Bon appetit!

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