Today we will prepare a delicious layered salad “Little Red Riding Hood” with tomatoes and chicken . There are a lot of salad options called “Little Red Riding Hood”, this is just one of them. From the very name of the salad it becomes clear that its top layer will be red. That same red cap on the salad is made from tomatoes or pomegranate seeds.
All Red Riding Hood salads are prepared in layers. Each layer is smeared with mayonnaise. Recipes for “Little Red Riding Hood” salads differ both in appearance, since they are prepared in heaped layers, like “shuba” salad, or formed using a culinary ring, and in the composition of the ingredients.
An integral component of the Little Red Riding Hood salad are chicken and mushrooms, although don’t be surprised if you come across recipes in which it was replaced with sausage or ham. They use not only boiled chicken breast, but also smoked one. Mushrooms are either boiled wild mushrooms, which are fried in bulk or fried fresh oyster mushrooms or champignons.
The salad may also include products such as hard cheese, processed cheese, sweet peppers, peas, crab sticks, onions, pomegranate seeds, eggs, carrots, potatoes, ham, sausage, Chinese cabbage, walnuts.
Today I offer you a simple step-by-step recipe for “Little Red Riding Hood” salad with tomatoes and chicken.
Ingredients:
- Mushrooms - 200 gr.,
- Onion – 1 pc.,
- Tomatoes - 3 pcs.,
- Eggs - 3 pcs.,
- Processed cheese - 2 pcs.,
- Chicken breast - 200 gr.,
- Mayonnaise
- Salt
Salad “Little Red Riding Hood” with tomatoes and chicken
A fairly common recipe for the classic “Little Red Riding Hood” salad, which will be a wonderful decoration for your holiday table.
Cooking time: 20 minutes Number of servings: 4
Ingredients:
- boiled chicken breast (300 g);
- sweet bell pepper (1 pc.);
- Chinese cabbage/lettuce/other lettuce to taste (300 g);
- boiled chicken egg (4 pcs.);
- canned peas (50-100 g);
- cherry tomato (200 g);
- dill/parsley/other herbs to taste (1-2 bunches);
- mayonnaise (7 tbsp.);
- salt, pepper (to taste).
Preparation:
- Finely chop the Chinese cabbage and place it in a bowl to mix the ingredients.
- Send finely chopped breast to the cabbage.
- Remove seeds and peel from sweet peppers, cut into small cubes and place in a bowl.
- Separate the canned peas from the liquid and add to a bowl.
- Chop the eggs and herbs and add to the rest of the ingredients.
- Season the salad with mayonnaise, pepper and salt to taste. Mix carefully.
- Place the salad in a mound on a platter/flat large plate. Flatten the top and press down a little.
- Cut cherry tomatoes into halves. Distribute them over the entire surface of the salad.
- If desired, garnish with herbs and thin slices of bell pepper.
We offer you to watch a video recipe for the “Little Red Riding Hood” salad with tomatoes and chicken:
How to prepare “Little Red Riding Hood Salad with Tomatoes”
Prepare your ingredients.
Rinse and dry the champignons, cut into small pieces. Fry the mushrooms for 4 minutes in vegetable oil.
Boil a hard-boiled chicken egg, peel and cut into cubes, place in a salad bowl.
Cut the meat into small cubes and add to the eggs.
Cut the hard cheese into small cubes and add to the salad.
Add fried mushrooms, salt and pepper to taste.
Add mayonnaise, mix everything and place the salad on a plate.
Garnish the salad with chopped tomatoes and serve.
Bon appetit!
Salad “Little Red Riding Hood” with olives
Olives add piquancy to the salad and provide an unusual aftertaste. This salad will be the highlight of the table.
Cooking time: 15 minutes Number of servings: 4
Ingredients:
- light/dark boiled boneless chicken meat (400 g);
- fresh tomato (2 pcs.);
- olives (100-200 g);
- bell pepper (2 pcs.);
- lettuce/iceberg/other to taste (300 g);
- boiled chicken egg (4 pcs.);
- onion (1 pc.);
- cherry tomato (for decoration, 250 g);
- dill/parsley/other herbs to taste (1 bunch);
- mayonnaise (5 tbsp.);
- salt, pepper (to taste).
Preparation:
- Cut the chicken meat into medium cubes.
- Coarsely tear or chop the lettuce leaves.
- Remove seeds from pepper and cut into small cubes.
- Grate the eggs on a coarse grater.
- Finely chop the onion.
- Cut the tomatoes into small cubes (remove excess juice).
- Drain the brine from the olives, cut them into two/four parts.
- Mix all ingredients (except lettuce), season with mayonnaise, salt and pepper to taste. Mix.
- Decorate the dish/salad bowl with lettuce leaves and place the salad on them.
- Cut cherry tomatoes into halves and decorate the salad with them.
We offer you to watch a video recipe for the “Little Red Riding Hood” salad with olives:
“Little Red Riding Hood” salad with tomatoes and chicken – recipe
After all the ingredients have been prepared, you can begin preparing the “Little Red Riding Hood” salad with chicken and mushrooms. Put the eggs and chicken breast to boil. Cooking time for chicken breast is 30 minutes, and hard-boiled eggs for 7-8 minutes. Clean the bulbs. Cut one onion into small cubes and the second into thin strips.
For this salad we need to fry the mushrooms. I use boiled wild mushrooms. If you use champignons, rinse them and cut them into thin slices.
Fry the mushrooms with finely chopped onion cubes for 5 minutes, lightly salting them. Place on a plate to cool.
Cut the cooled chicken breast into cubes.
Peel the cooled eggs from their shells. Grate on a coarse grater.
Grate the processed cheese on the same grater.
Wash and cut the tomatoes into cubes.
Let's start assembling the salad. Place chicken pieces on a flat plate.
Salt it. Top with mayonnaise.
Place chopped onion on top. If desired, you can pickle the onions.
Place fried mushrooms on the onion.
Lubricate them with mayonnaise.
Sprinkle with grated egg.
Add some salt. Lubricate with mayonnaise. Spread grated processed cheese in an even layer on the “Little Red Riding Hood” salad with mushrooms and chicken.
Place the tomato cubes on top of the salad.
Sprinkle the salad with dill or parsley. That's all, our layered “Little Red Riding Hood” salad with mushrooms and chicken is ready. To soak it, you can put it in the refrigerator for 1 hour. Enjoy your meal. I will be glad if you liked this recipe for the “Little Red Riding Hood” salad with tomatoes and chicken and find it useful. If you liked the recipe, share it with your friends through the social media buttons located below the recipe. I recommend making a salad with chicken, mushrooms and corn.
Salad “Beloved Husband” with chicken and tomatoes
A delicate layered salad that is suitable for both every day and special occasions.
Cooking time: 20 minutes Number of servings: 4
Ingredients:
- smoked chicken meat (300 g);
- fresh champignons (300 g);
- boiled chicken egg (4 pcs.);
- processed cheese/soft cream cheese (200 g);
- fresh tomato/cherry tomato (1 pc./8 pcs.);
- onions (2 pcs.);
- mayonnaise (store-bought or homemade, to taste);
- garlic (1-3 cloves);
- vegetable oil (for frying, 30 ml);
- salt, pepper (to taste).
Preparation:
- Cut the champignons into thin slices, pour into a preheated frying pan and fry for 5-7 minutes. Season with salt and pepper to taste (½ tsp each).
- When the mushrooms are almost ready, add vegetable oil and finely chopped onion. Fry everything until the onion is transparent.
- Cut smoked chicken into small cubes.
- Grate the eggs and melted cheese, crush the garlic, add mayonnaise. Mix the resulting mass.
- Lay out the salad in layers - mushrooms with onions, half the cheese-egg mixture, chicken, the other half of the cheese-egg mixture.
- Cut the tomato into slices (drain off excess juice) and decorate the salad with it.
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Salad with chicken and tomatoes
An easy to prepare but very tasty salad for every day. If you dress it with olive oil instead of mayonnaise, it becomes the perfect salad for a late dinner.
Cooking time: 10 minutes Number of servings: 2
Ingredients:
- chicken breast (fillet, 200 g);
- fresh cucumber (1 pc.);
- fresh small hard tomato (2 pcs.);
- fresh carrots (1 pc.);
- bell pepper (1 pc.);
- green onion (1 bunch);
- olive oil/light mayonnaise (for dressing, 2-3 tbsp.);
- dill/parsley/other herbs (for decoration, 1 bunch);
- vegetable oil (for frying, 30 ml);
- crackers (to taste);
- salt, pepper and other spices (to taste).
Preparation:
- Cut the chicken into small pieces/cubes. Place in a deep bowl. Add salt, pepper and other spices. Stir and leave to marinate for 10-20 minutes.
- Cut cucumbers, tomatoes, carrots and bell peppers into strips.
- Chop green onions and other herbs to taste.
- Heat a frying pan with oil. Fry the meat, stirring constantly, for 4-5 minutes. (If you wish, you can use fillets that are not fried, but pre-baked in the oven.)
- Mix all ingredients in a bowl, add salt and pepper to taste.
- Distribute the salad among plates. For dressing, you can use olive oil, light mayonnaise or the oil in which the meat was fried.
- Garnish the salad with fresh herbs and croutons - this will add piquancy to the dish.
The salad is ready, you can serve it!
Salad “Tenderness” with chicken
Easy and quick to prepare salad; thanks to garlic and melted cheese, it will be a piquant addition to any holiday menu. Although this salad does not have a red “cap,” it still includes tomatoes.
Cooking time: 15 minutes Number of servings: 2
Ingredients:
- boiled chicken breast (200 g);
- processed cheese/soft cream cheese (150 g);
- boiled chicken egg (3 pcs.);
- fresh tomato (2 pcs.);
- garlic (1-3 cloves);
- hard cheese (for decoration, 70-100 g);
- light mayonnaise/homemade mayonnaise (to taste);
- dill/parsley/other herbs to taste (for decoration, 1 bunch);
- salt, pepper (to taste).
Preparation:
- Cut the boiled chicken breast into small cubes.
- Finely chop the tomatoes, drain the excess juice (if desired, you can peel them).
- Grate the processed cheese (you can first keep it in the refrigerator for 30 minutes).
- Grind the eggs on a coarse grater.
- Crush the garlic or grate it on a fine grater.
- Add mayonnaise, pepper and salt to taste. Mix all ingredients.
- Garnish the salad with fresh herbs and grated hard cheese.
Bon appetit!
Recipe No. 3 for “Little Red Riding Hood” salad
To prepare you will need:
- Boiled chicken eggs – 4 pcs;
- Boiled carrots – 1 piece;
- Tomato – 3 pcs;
- Chicken meat, boneless – 300 g;
- Canned or peeled corn – 100 g;
- Mayonnaise -6 tbsp. l;
- Salt to taste.
Preparation:
First, you need to prepare all the ingredients: chop the chicken meat into small pieces, pour boiling water over the tomatoes for 2-3 minutes, then make a cut crosswise from the bottom, peel the tomato and cut out the green cores. Set the previously boiled eggs aside; they will serve us in decorating the salad. Grate the carrots on a coarse grater.
Now you can put the salad on a proportional plate:
- layer - canned corn mixed with mayonnaise;
- layer - chicken meat with mayonnaise;
- layer - boiled carrots, greased with mayonnaise.
- layer - tomato, chopped into small cubes.
And don't forget to salt each layer. Lay the last layer in the form of a slide or cone. Don't forget that we still have boiled eggs, divide them into yolks and whites. Mash the yolks with a fork with salt and mayonnaise and roll them into a ball, and as for the whites, grate them on a fine grater. Roll the resulting ball in grated egg whites and place on top of the resulting salad. Sprinkle the rest of the grated egg whites over the outline of the dish to create a edging. That's all, our culinary masterpiece is ready. Can be served.
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