It is customary to prepare salads for any holiday table. Moreover, it is not at all necessary to make them fatty and high in calories. One of the salad options that all women will definitely like is “Pretty Woman”.
You can find many options for preparing it on the Internet. But most recipes do not contain mayonnaise. This means you can safely eat such a salad and not be afraid for your waist. And in this article for my readers, I want to give several well-known versions of this tasty and healthy dish.
Chinese cabbage is usually used as the basis for its preparation. This vegetable can be found in any supermarket all year round. The list of ingredients also includes smoked chicken breast, which makes the salad not only tasty, but also nutritious.
Step-by-step cooking recipe
Remove the skin from the ham (or breast). Cut the meat off the bones.
Cut chicken, ham and cheese into thin strips. (The cheese can be grated on a very coarse grater.)
Separate the whites from the yolks of boiled eggs. Cut the whites into strips.
Place the yolks in a bowl and mash them. Add mayonnaise, sour cream, mustard, pepper and garlic pressed through a press. Mix well.
Wash the salad and let it drain. Line a deep salad bowl with lettuce leaves.
Place a layer of sliced tomatoes on the lettuce leaves.
Mix ham, chicken and cheese and place in a heap on the tomatoes.
Top the salad with sour cream and mayonnaise sauce.
Salad “Pretty Woman” from Chinese cabbage, corn, carrots without mayonnaise
This is another version of a holiday salad that can be safely prepared for any occasion. Unlike the first option, we will not use meat, only vegetables. But this will only make the taste brighter.
What you will need:
- Chinese cabbage – 1 piece,
- canned corn – 340 g,
- carrots – 100 g,
- garlic – 3 cloves,
- dill,
- lemon juice,
- olive oil,
- salt.
We will not use mayonnaise as a dressing. This is precisely the value of this dish.
How to cook
Chop the cabbage very finely, put it in a bowl, add salt, and mash it with your hands so that it releases juice.
Wash the carrots, peel them and grate them on a coarse grater. This vegetable should not be chopped.
Open the can of corn and drain all the liquid.
Finely chop the dill.
Place all prepared vegetables - corn, cabbage, carrots - in a salad bowl.
Now let's get to the refueling. Add lemon juice + garlic through a press to the olive oil and mix.
We dress our salad, mix everything, serve.
Salad with chicken, ham and cheese
For vinaigrette sauce: 6 tbsp. spoons of olive oil 2 tbsp. spoons of white wine vinegar 1 teaspoon of European mustard salt, ground black pepper - to taste.
Prepare the sauce: pour vinegar into a small jar, add salt and ground pepper to taste, close the lid, shake vigorously to dissolve the spices. Then pour in the olive oil, add the mustard, close the lid and shake well again until a homogeneous sauce is obtained. Pour into a gravy boat and refrigerate until serving.
Wash the chicken breast, dry it, rub it with garlic, salt and ground pepper, put it through a press, sprinkle with olive oil, wrap in foil and bake in an oven heated to 180°C until soft. Cool in foil, then unwrap and cut into thin slices.
Peel the cucumbers, cut into thin slices, cut the tomatoes into thin slices, cheese into slices, cut the eggs into quarters. Cut the ham into thin slices, then cut each into small squares, lightly fry if desired in a dry frying pan, and cool. Wash the lettuce leaves, dry them, tear the large ones into small leaves with your hands, and line the salad bowls with them.
In a bowl, combine chicken, ham, cucumbers, tomatoes and cheese, mix gently, and place in salad bowls. Garnish with egg quarters and serve, with sauce on the side.
"Festive" salad with amazing taste
Time: 40 min.
Calories: 151.
How to cook:
- First of all, you need to rinse the fillet thoroughly and remove fat from it.
- Next, place it in a saucepan and pour in the required amount of water.
- Place on the stove and let it boil. You can add spices to taste.
- Remove any foam from the surface of the water and cover the meat with a lid.
- Cook for half an hour, then let cool directly in the broth.
- Once cooled, cut into small cubes.
- Also boil the eggs in boiling water. But even a quarter of an hour will be enough for them.
- After that, pour cool water over them to cool quickly.
- Peel, cut into cubes or bars - to taste.
- Grate the cheese and mix it with chicken cubes.
- Cut the ham into strips and add it to the other ingredients.
- Cut the cucumbers into strips and add them there.
- Wash the tomatoes and chop them.
- Add them to the almost finished salad, mix everything.
- Rinse the greens, chop and mix with mayonnaise.
- Season the salad with the resulting sauce and serve.
Salad with chicken and ham - basic principles of preparation
Chicken and ham salad is prepared with vegetables. Moreover, for this snack you can use canned, raw or boiled vegetables. They are cleaned, cut into small cubes or grated. The marinade is drained from canned vegetables and chopped.
Mushrooms are added to the salad with chicken and ham. They can be pickled or fresh. They are also crushed, and raw ones are also fried until cooked.
Eggs, cheeses, canned pineapples and dried fruits go very well with chicken and ham.
Sauces based on vegetable oil, sour cream or mayonnaise are used as a dressing for salad with chicken and ham.
Recipe 2
A tasty and satisfying dish that can be served on its own or as a side dish. The salad is prepared simply and quickly, and many will certainly appreciate the result, since the dish combines classic ingredients.
Products:
- 100 grams of any ham;
- 70 grams of cheese (preferably not too salty);
- 100 grams of chicken meat;
- 150 grams of pickled mushrooms (any);
- 70 grams of pickled cucumbers (salted ones can also be used);
- mayonnaise.
Recipe 1. Salad with chicken, ham, pineapple and honey mushrooms
Ingredients
200 g chicken breast;
200 canned pineapple;
200 g pickled honey mushrooms;
two bell peppers.
Cooking method
1. Wash the chicken breast, place it in a saucepan, fill it with drinking water and boil until tender. Be sure to remove the foam. Remove the breast and cool. Chop the ham and breast into small cubes.
2. Open cans of canned pineapple and pickled honey mushrooms. Drain the marinade from them. Take out the pineapple rings and chop them into small pieces. Leave the mushrooms whole.
3. Rinse the bell pepper, wipe it with a napkin, remove the stem and seeds and chop it finely.
4. Transfer all the chopped products into a suitable bowl, season with a mixture of peppers and salt, add mayonnaise and mix well. Transfer the prepared salad with chicken and ham into a deep bowl and sprinkle with finely chopped herbs.
Spicy salad with chicken ham and pickled honey mushrooms
The main ingredient in this salad is poultry fillet ham. It is softer and more structured than pork, but less juicy, which means we will need more mayonnaise or its substitute - unsweetened yogurt.
If honey mushrooms are not found on the store shelf or in your own cellar, canned young champignons will also do.
Ingredients
- Honey mushrooms in marinade – 1 jar;
- Chicken ham – 300 g;
- Jacket potatoes - 3 medium tubers;
- Large chicken eggs – 3 pcs.;
- Fresh onion greens – 1 bunch;
- Mayonnaise “Provencal” - 4-5 tbsp.
How to make a quick and easy salad with chicken ham and mushrooms
- We remove the peel from the boiled potatoes, and in the meantime we have eggs boiling in a saucepan. To make them hard-boiled, they need to be cooked over high heat for 10-12 minutes. When the eggs have cooled, remove the shells.
- Place the mushrooms in a colander to drain the marinade and cut them into thin slices.
- Finely chop the washed and dried onion, and cut the remaining products into thin short strips.
- We line the salad bowl with plastic wrap and begin laying out the layers. At the very bottom we place a layer of mushrooms, followed by sliced green onions, then in layers - ham, potatoes, eggs.
- There is no need to add additional salt to the salad - it already turns out delicious thanks to the special taste of pickled mushrooms and ham meat.
- Before the next, each layer is thickly covered with a mayonnaise mesh.
Before serving, carefully cover the salad bowl with a flat dish and carefully turn it over onto it. As a result, we will have mushrooms on top. We remove the plastic, let the salad brew and, voila! – a delicious appetizer is ready. You can seat your guests at the table!
Recipe 3. Salad with chicken and ham “From the Chef”
Ingredients
a bunch of lettuce leaves;
one chicken breast;
150 g Dutch cheese.
Cooking method
1. Boil the washed chicken breast, remove and cool. Finely chop the meat.
2. Cut the ham into small strips.
3. Wash the tomatoes, dry with a paper towel and chop into cubes.
4. Rinse a bunch of lettuce leaves under running water and tear them with your hands.
5. Grind the cheese into small shavings.
6. Now start layering the salad:
- torn lettuce leaves;
- shredded chicken breast. Drizzle with mayonnaise;
- tomatoes, after draining the juice from them. Salt and cover with mayonnaise;
- a ham strip. Mayonnaise mesh;
- Sprinkle everything with cheese shavings.
Place in the refrigerator to soak for several hours.
Recipe 4. Salad with chicken and ham “Holiday”
Ingredients
small package of 67% mayonnaise;
chicken fillet – 300 g;
four pickled cucumbers;
Cooking method
1. Boil the chicken fillet, remove from the broth and cool. Cut the meat into pieces. Transfer to a deep plate.
2. Coarsely grate the cheese and add to the meat.
3. Cut the ham into strips and send after the cheese.
4. Boil the eggs, peel and cut into slices. Cut the cucumbers into strips. Transfer to a plate with salad.
5. Wash the tomatoes, dry with a napkin and chop into cubes. Drain the juice and add to the salad. Rinse the greens, dry and finely chop. Season the salad with mayonnaise, mix well and decorate.
How to deliciously prepare “Russian Beauty” salad with French fries: recipe in layers
A somewhat unusual option, as the dish contains French fries. This adds piquancy to the dish.
Ingredients:
- 300 g potatoes
- 1 onion
- 500 g chicken fillet
- 100 g cheese
- Mayonnaise
- 1 cucumber
- 2 tomatoes
Recipe:
- Fry the potatoes in oil in advance until golden brown.
- After this, boil the chicken and place it on a plate
- Crumble the pickled onions on top and place the prepared potatoes
- Place cucumbers and cheese on top of the potatoes; chop them and coat them in layers with mayonnaise.
- Next, lay out the tomatoes; there is no need to cover them with sauce.
How to deliciously prepare “Russian Beauty” salad with French fries: recipe in layers
Recipe 7. Salad with chicken and ham “Real Delight”
Ingredients
half a chicken breast;
a bunch of parsley, green onions and dill;
100 g Dutch cheese;
4 small pickled cucumbers.
Cooking method
1. Boil the chicken breast, remove from the broth and finely chop. Remove the cucumbers from the marinade, cut off both sides and chop into small pieces. Wash the tomatoes, wipe with a paper towel and cut into cubes. Cut the ham into short strips.
2. Grind the cheese into small chips. Boil hard-boiled eggs, cool and peel. Grind them into large chips. Rinse the greens under the tap, dry and chop finely.
3. Transfer the crushed products into a deep bowl, pour in sour cream, salt, season with pepper and mix. Place the finished appetizer in a beautiful, deep bowl and decorate with green leaves.
Russian beauty with chicken and mushrooms
Guests will certainly appreciate this recipe, as the salad turns out very tender, well-soaked and incredibly tasty. It is better to take mushrooms marinated, not salted, as the spices are better felt in them.
Products:
- 2 chicken breasts;
- 0.5 liters of mushrooms (you can use any);
- 2 onions;
- 300 grams of cheese;
- 2 large boiled potatoes;
- 2 boiled carrots;
- mayonnaise to taste.
