Greetings, hopeless romantics! A fireplace, flickering twilight and candle flames disintegrating into thousands of lights in glasses of crimson wine and ruby pomegranates. Surely even the most hardened pragmatist at least once in his life wanted to plunge into such an atmosphere with a loved one, let alone romantics. What does pomegranate have to do with it, you ask? For such a special occasion, I suggest preparing a pomegranate bracelet salad with beef, which will perfectly fit into the atmosphere and contribute to the romantic mood. Besides this, it is also very tasty.
There are many variations of this salad; the classic version uses chicken. I offer my version with beef. The only “exotic” thing in a simple set of products is the very garnet that will make the bracelet ruby.
The amount of ingredients in the recipe is approximate, as it depends on the desired size of the salad. I used a small plate with a diameter of 19 cm, for a larger dish increase the amount of ingredients. Separately, I note that I prepare the bracelet without beets, which are often used in this kind of puff salads.
Although the process of making a garnet bracelet is quite cumbersome, with my step-by-step photos you will create a culinary masterpiece without any problems.
Classic recipe for Pomegranate Bracelet salad with chicken (layers)
There is no one generally accepted classic recipe for this salad. But there is a recipe that is used most often. And I will give it below with a detailed description of the entire cooking process.
Most often, chicken goes into salads as a protein; it is more accessible and familiar to us. That’s why this meat is used in the most common recipe.
Ingredients:
- 0.3 kg boiled chicken fillet
- 1 pomegranate
- 1 boiled beet
- 1 onion
- 1 boiled carrot
- 2 potato tubers
- 2 eggs
- 50 g walnuts
- Mayonnaise
1. First, pour boiling water over the onion pieces to remove unnecessary bitterness.
2. In this recipe we do not boil the carrots, but fry them a little in vegetable oil, after chopping them on a medium grater. Next, place it on a sieve to drain off excess oil.
3. Boil the chicken fillet in boiling water, cool so as not to burn your fingers and finely chop against the grain.
4. We also finely chop the potatoes, eggs and beets and put them in different containers.
5. To give a symbolic shape to the bracelet, place a round object in the center of the dish: a glass, a glass, a jar. The diameter is not important here, the main thing is the shape.
6. Place the grated potatoes next to each other. If you boiled it in its jacket, add a little salt. I think it's better to salt it while cooking.
We soak each row with a mayonnaise mesh, then juiciness will appear.
7. Pour pieces of fillet onto the potatoes and add a little mayonnaise to it.
8. Now comes the row with onions. Drain the liquid and essential oils from it in advance.
9. Lay out the fourth row with fried carrots. Precisely, because it will still release a little oil and saturate the lower layers with it, we put quite a bit of mayonnaise on the chicken row.
10. Next, sprinkle walnuts on top of the carrots. They need to be ground in a coffee grinder or chopped. The smaller the pieces, the more pleasant it is to eat the salad.
11. You don’t have to grease the layer with nuts, but immediately lay the eggs on it.
We remember that eggs are a bit dry, so this layer needs to be well soaked.
12. Mix beets with mayonnaise and cover the sides and top of the “bracelet” with this mixture.
13. And finally, it was the turn of the pomegranate seeds. Try to lay them out so that there are no gaps.
14. Now carefully remove the glass.
And put the dish in the refrigerator to infuse and soak.
Making a salad without walnuts
Those who do not eat walnuts, or who are allergic to them, have no reason to refuse such a wonderful salad as “Pomegranate Bracelet”. You just don't have to put them inside, that's all! It will also be delicious, the appearance will remain just as appetizing and attractive.
If you cook vegetables in salted water, then the salad itself can no longer be salted. Or add salt and pepper to each layer as you wish.
We will need:
- chicken - 300 g;
- eggs - 2 pcs.;
- beets - 1 pc.;
- potatoes - 1 pc.;
- carrots - 1 pc.;
- onion - 1 pc.;
- pomegranate;
- mayonnaise;
- salt and pepper.
Preparation:
1. Clean and chop one onion. Fry it in oil in a frying pan until transparent.
Boil the chicken meat in salted water, cool, then cut it into cubes and add it to the onion.
2. Grate pre-boiled beets, carrots, potatoes and eggs on a coarse grater. We put everything in different containers.
3. Place a round pan or glass in the center on a flat dish. And first place the potatoes around it. Lubricate it with mayonnaise and make a layer of half a chicken on top.
The meat and onions should be cool.
Coat with mayonnaise, followed by a layer of carrots and another thin layer of sauce.
Then lay out the grated eggs, lightly tamping the salad with a fork or spoon. We also grease with mayonnaise. And then add the chicken and sauce.
We finish everything with beets. We leave the salad to soak at room temperature, and at this time we peel the pomegranate and sprinkle it with grains for our “bracelet”, having previously greased the surface of the beets both on top and on the sides with mayonnaise. It is advisable to let it brew in the refrigerator for a couple of hours.
Making a “Pomegranate Bracelet” with beef
But not only chicken fillet is used, but also pieces of beef. It is important that it is well cooked and easy to chew. During the cooking process, we salt the broth so as not to add salt to the meat in the salad itself.
Ingredients:
- 1 large boiled potato
- 2 medium boiled carrots
- 2 eggs
- 2 boiled beets
- Boiled beef – 0.25 kg
- Mayonnaise
- Pomegranate
- 2 tbsp. ground walnuts
- 1 onion
- Salt pepper
1.Grate all the vegetables and cut the beef into pieces.
On a dish, in the center of which there is already a selected round-shaped object, we begin to collect layers.
2. Fry the onion until golden brown and drain off excess oil.
3. The first row, as always, is potatoes.
It was boiled in salted water, so we didn’t add salt. Be sure to soak this layer, because the potatoes are dry without oil.
4. We carefully place the beef pieces on it. But we’re not in a hurry to soak them, because we’ll put onions on top.
5. The onion is fried, so we don’t put mayonnaise on it again.
6. Next comes carrots with a layer of mayonnaise.
7. Sprinkle crushed or ground nuts on top.
8. The next row is eggs.
9. And the final layer is beets with mayonnaise.
10. Decorate the entire surface with pomegranate.
With tongue
Some chefs also prepare pomegranate bracelets with offal. For example, with language. The following salad recipe from this article will tell you how to do this.
What ingredients will you need?
For the dish you need to take:
- onions, carrots, beets, pomegranate - 1 pc.;
- potatoes and eggs (large) - 2 pcs.;
- Dutch cheese - 60 g;
- sauce, spices, salt;
- tongue – 250-300 g.
Any other hard cheese is also suitable for treats. It is better to use beef tongue, but you can also use pork tongue.
Step-by-step cooking process
The cooking process includes several stages:
- The tongue needs to be thoroughly washed, the most contaminated areas cleaned, and then sent to cook for 90-100 minutes. The finished offal is cooled and the skin is peeled off.
- The peeled tongue needs to be chopped into small cubes of approximately equal size.
- Washed vegetables, except onions, are boiled or baked until cooked. Next, all of them need to be crushed using a coarse grater. And chop the onion into small cubes.
- The eggs are boiled until the center is firm and coarsely crushed. The selected cheese is crushed in the same way.
- All that remains is to peel the pomegranate seeds.
- On a plate with a glass in the center, food is laid out in layers in the following order: potato chips, tongue cubes, eggs, carrots, cheese, beets.
- Each ingredient is coated with sauce with salt and spices. The structure is covered with pomegranate seeds.
The finished treat should be refrigerated for 3-4 hours.
Rules for serving dishes, decoration
Before serving, carefully remove the glass from the middle of the dish, and optionally decorate it with herbs and whole halves of peeled walnuts.
How to make a delicious salad with smoked chicken and nuts
Smoked chicken is more tender and flavorful than boiled chicken. It is already salted and ready to eat. But in this recipe we will fry it a little more. So, let's add more nutritional value. If this is a bit greasy for you, then send the chicken pieces immediately without heat treatment.
Of course, with smoked meat the cost will be higher, but it’s possible that this recipe will be on your list of go-to recipes in any case. When you need to surprise guests or create a festive atmosphere at home.
Ingredients:
- Smoked chicken – 0.4 kg
- Boiled beets – 2 pcs.
- Potatoes – 2 pcs.
- 1 onion
- 0.5 cups walnuts
- 1 pomegranate
- Mayonnaise
If you don’t have a blender or coffee grinder, you can grind walnuts using improvised means, for example, a rolling pin. Just stroke the kernel several times and it will begin to separate into small pieces and grains.
Cut the pomegranate in half and start hitting them with a spoon. The grains will fall out on their own.
1. Grate vegetables on a medium grater.
2. Fry the onion and brisket in vegetable oil and cool.
3. Mix beets with nuts.
4. Lay out the layers, as always, in the shape of a ring.
First the potatoes, topped with a mixture of chicken, onions and mayonnaise.
Then the beetroot mixture with nuts. On top, according to tradition, are delicious pomegranate kernels. And take out the glass.
Recipe for layered salad with prunes and chicken
Pomegranate bracelet with prunes and chicken is quite unusual and original, but at the same time this recipe has found its fans. The sweetness from the dried fruit complements the rest of the salad perfectly. If you like to try new and interesting things, then this recipe should interest you!
We will need:
- boiled chicken fillet - 200 g;
- boiled beets - 1 pc.;
- boiled carrots - 1 pc.;
- boiled potatoes - 2 pcs.;
- prunes - 100 g;
- mayonnaise;
- pomegranate;
- salt pepper.
Preparation:
1. We clean and cut all the boiled vegetables into cubes; we do the same with the chicken fillet.
2. Place potatoes in the first layer around the glass, grease it with mayonnaise and sprinkle with carrots.
Salt and pepper each layer to taste.
We also coat it with mayonnaise and lay out a layer of chicken, again coated with sauce.
Next comes beet cubes and chopped prunes.
Apply a layer of mayonnaise and decorate everything with pomegranate. We take out the glass and put the salad in the refrigerator.
Recipe with walnuts and prunes
Oh, prunes have such a different combination of flavors that they go well with meat and stewed cabbage. It seems like a sweet product, but it gives the whole dish a kind of sourness. And the appearance of the finished dish becomes more elegant.
Ingredients:
- Chicken fillet – 200 g
- 1 carrot
- 1 potato
- 200 g prunes
- 50 g walnuts
- Mayonnaise
1. Boil all vegetables and chop finely.
2. Wash the prunes well and pour boiling water over them.
3. Cut the chicken fillet against the grain to make it easier to chew.
4. Lay out the first layer of potatoes with mayonnaise.
5. Then chicken with mayonnaise.
6. Mix pieces of prunes with nuts and mayonnaise.
7. On top of this mixture are carrots and mayonnaise.
8. And again we decorate with pomegranate.
Unusual “Bracelet” with cheese
We will assemble this recipe not in the usual circle shape, but in the shape of a heart. An option for those who haven’t found anything suitable to put in the middle. Or there is no large flat dish.
Ingredients:
- Chicken fillet – 0.2 kg
- Boiled beets – 2 pcs.
- 5 eggs
- 1 onion
- 0.5 cups walnuts
- Hard cheese – 100 g
- 1 pomegranate
- Mayonnaise
First chop the onion and pour boiling water over it.
Let's chop all the ingredients. Grate the eggs, but leave a little white for decoration.
1st row – chicken fillet with onions and mayonnaise. Shape it in the shape of a heart.
Row 2 – eggs with mayonnaise.
Row 3 – walnuts.
Row 4: beets with mayonnaise.
Sprinkle the sides with egg white and lay the surface with grains.
You can mix cheese with garlic and mayonnaise. Then you will have a very aromatic combination.
How to make a salad without beets
Of course, all ingredients are interchangeable. Therefore, for those who spent all their beets on “Shuba” or for those who simply don’t eat it, there is an option with a modified recipe.
Ingredients:
- Chicken fillet – 0.3 kg
- Boiled beets – 2 pcs.
- 2 eggs
- Potatoes – 3 pcs.
- Carrots – 2 pcs.
- Garlic – 2 cloves
- 0.5 cups walnuts
- 1 pomegranate
1. Finely grate the carrots and combine with chopped garlic cloves.
We start assembling the dish with a potato base. It needs to be salted and peppered.
2. Place carrot-garlic mixture on potatoes with mayonnaise.
3. Lubricate with mayonnaise.
4. The next row is walnuts.
5. Next comes a row with chicken meat and mayonnaise.
6. The final layer is eggs soaked in mayonnaise sauce.
7. Traditionally decorated with pomegranate.
By the way, you can use not mayonnaise, but a delicious spicy sauce:
1 onion is fried in oil, mixed with mayonnaise and one processed cheese. Mayonnaise is added and you get a tasty and nutritious sauce.
Festive recipe with beef tongue
We don’t eat beef tongue every day; many consider it a delicacy. What else do you need to create a holiday salad? Remember that the tongue must be salted during the cooking process.
Ingredients:
- Boiled tongue – 0.3 kg
- Boiled potatoes – 3 pcs.
- 1 onion
- 4 eggs
- Cheese – 0.3 kg
- Pomegranate
- Mayonnaise
1. Boil the tongue in salted water, cool and cut.
2. Peel the eggs and finely grate them. You can use an egg slicer.
3. Chop the potatoes and mix with a spoon of mayonnaise.
4. Fry the onion until it has a beautiful golden hue.
5. First lay out the soaked potatoes. We combined it with mayonnaise sauce in advance, because the potatoes are a little dry, and otherwise they would just melt on the tongue.
6. Next, lay out the tongue with mayonnaise.
7. Top it with eggs and cheese. We impregnate each layer.
8. The top can be decorated with alternating stripes of pomegranate and egg whites.
Since the vegetables are all boiled, you can also cut them with an egg slicer to save time.
Juicy apple salad recipe
Apple is often included in heavy and nutritious dishes. And “Bracelet” refers specifically to them. It gives them freshness and makes it easier for our stomachs to digest the delicious dish. And you need to choose the right apple: juicy, crispy and slightly sour.
Ingredients:
- Boiled meat – 0.3 kg
- 1 potato
- 1 large green apple
- 1 pomegranate
- 2 eggs
- 1 carrot
- Mayonnaise
1. Peel and grate the apple. To prevent it from turning black, you can mix a spoonful of lemon juice with it.
2. Boil the products and finely chop them.
3. Again the first layer consists of potatoes and mayonnaise.
4. Then chopped meat.
5. And now it’s time for the highlight of this recipe - the apple. Lubricate its surface with mayonnaise and create a carrot row.
6. The egg layer is the final layer here, so we completely coat the entire dish from the sides. and decorate.
Useful tips and tricks
The following recommendations will help the cook prepare a delicious “Pomegranate Bracelet”:
- In order for more vitamins to be preserved in vegetables, they should be baked in the oven in foil rather than boiled;
- boiled meat or poultry will turn out juicier if you leave it to cool directly in the broth;
- The glass should be placed upside down in the center of the plate and greased with oil or covered with cling film to make it easier to remove after preparing the snack.
Today, more than 10 versions of the Pomegranate Bracelet salad are popular. Among them there are recipes even with fish, offal, and sausage.
