Salad with chicken and nuts - how to cook deliciously from fillet, smoked or boiled meat

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09/23/2014 Cooking time: 40 min

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Chicken Salad with Walnuts is a super cute turtle salad that can brighten up any holiday table. The salad is very simple but tasty, which we will prepare easily and quickly.

How to make chicken and nut salad

There are several varieties of chicken and nut salad, most of which have a specific name. All options have common preparation nuances:

In addition to the main components, the set of products may include boiled potatoes, carrots, pickled cucumbers, fresh cucumbers, prunes, apples, pineapples, etc.
Chicken breast is often used as the meat component, but it can be replaced with chicken thighs, drumsticks, and fillets.
Walnuts are often used, but some salad recipes call for pine nuts, peanuts, pistachios, etc.
You can use any method of chopping the ingredients at your discretion (cubes, straws, on a grater).
To add lightness, you can replace mayonnaise with low-fat sour cream. There are also options for preparing sauces based on olive, sesame, and hemp oils.
Often all the ingredients are mixed, but a layered design of the treat is possible.
The delicacy is served on a common platter or in portions in bowls or tartlets.

Classic version with boiled chicken

The “Chicken with Nuts” salad turns out delicious with boiled meat. You will have to tinker a little longer, but if you boil the chicken fillet in advance, then the process of chopping the ingredients, just like in the previous cooking method, will not take much time.

Let's reveal a little secret. To make an ordinary dry chicken breast tender, the meat is lowered during cooking not into cold water, but into boiling water. First, put the pan on the fire, and when the water boils, lower the washed breast into it. After boiling again, remove the foam with a slotted spoon and cook over low heat until tender.

Before cutting the meat into the “Chicken with Nuts” salad, you need to remove it from the broth and put it in a cool place to cool. Only cold boiled meat is used, otherwise it will be difficult to cut it beautifully into cubes.

Hawaiian

Time: 1 hour.
Number of servings: 2-3 persons.
Calorie content of the dish: 94 kcal/100 g.
Purpose: cold appetizer.
Cuisine: Russian.
Difficulty: easy.

Hawaiian Style Chicken and Walnut Salad received its name due to the presence of pineapples in the list of ingredients. The dish turns out tasty, satisfying and at the same time delicate in taste, easily digestible. The list of ingredients is minimal, and the cooking process is quick and simple. You can add piquant notes to the salad with 1-2 cloves of garlic passed through a press.

Ingredients:

chicken white meat (breast) – 100 g;
pineapple (canned) – 1 b.;
mayonnaise – 3 tbsp. l.;
nuts (walnuts) – 4-5 pcs.;
fresh lettuce leaves – 2 pcs.;
spices - to taste.

Cooking method:

Boil the chicken meat and cool.
Cut the pineapple and meat into cubes.
Peel the nuts and chop the kernels. Cut or tear the lettuce leaves with your hands.
Combine all the products in a salad bowl, add salt, pepper, season with mayonnaise, and mix.

Salad with pineapple and mushrooms

The next version of the salad is more rich in composition and satisfying. It is prepared with the following products:

300 grams of boiled chicken breast.
So many champignons.
Potatoes – 4-5 pieces (depending on size).
Sweet corn - 1 can.
4 chicken eggs.
Walnuts - half a glass.
A bunch of green onions.
1 fresh pineapple or half a can of canned fruit pieces.
Mayonnaise.

Garnet bracelet

Time: 1.5-2 hours.
Number of servings: 9 persons.
Calorie content of the dish: 201 kcal/100 g.
Purpose: cold appetizer.
Cuisine: Russian.
Difficulty: easy.

A salad with chicken breast and walnuts called “Pomegranate Bracelet” is a very impressive treat that will not go unnoticed on the holiday table. In addition to its beautiful appearance, the dish is also very tasty and filling, as it includes many different ingredients. If this is your first time, follow the step-by-step recipe with photos.

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Ingredients:

white chicken meat (fillet) – 500 g;
potatoes, carrots, eggs, pomegranate - 2 pcs.;
nuts (walnuts) – 50 g;
beets (small), onions - 1 pc.;
mayonnaise – 350 g;
spices - to taste.

Cooking method:

Boil chicken, eggs, vegetables, cool, peel.
Tear the chicken fillet into fibers with your hands, grate the beets, carrots, potatoes, and eggs.
Peel the nuts and chop the kernels. Finely chop the onion and fry lightly.
Place a glass in the center of a flat dish, around which layer the ingredients, alternating with mayonnaise: potatoes, beets, nut crumbs, chicken, onions, eggs, chicken.
Remove the glass and cool the treat in the refrigerator. Before serving, place a thick layer of pomegranate seeds on top, then make a mayonnaise mesh and sprinkle with nut crumbs.

Cooking

In order to make the “Chicken with Pineapple and Walnut” salad, you need to boil the chicken fillet in advance. Many housewives use more tender chicken thighs. When the meat has cooled, cut it into cubes and add to a salad bowl. Potatoes are boiled in their skins, cooled and the skins removed. Then chop it finely and add it to the bowl. Wash the eggs, hard-boil them for 5 minutes and immediately fill the pan with cold waste water to make the shells easier to remove. After cleaning, mash them with a fork on a board and add them to the rest of the products. Drain can of corn before adding to bowl.

Most often, champignons are used for the “Chicken with Pineapples and Nuts” salad, and in different types. Some housewives buy pickled ones and rinse the excess vinegar under waste water. All that remains is to chop them finely, and you can throw them into the salad bowl. However, a dish with fresh mushrooms will be very tasty. Before using them for food, rinse thoroughly to remove any remaining soil and place them in boiling water for 3-5 minutes. After cooling, they are cut into small pieces. Let’s take a closer look at how to deal with pineapple separately.

Turtle with apples

Time: 45 minutes.
Number of servings: 5-6 persons.
Calorie content of the dish: 252 kcal/100 g.
Purpose: cold appetizer.
Cuisine: Russian.
Difficulty: easy.

Salad of walnuts and chicken with apples is called “Turtle” for a reason. The dish is laid out in the shape of the body of this reptile; this design looks very beautiful and original. Apples and cheese add piquancy, and smoked breast creates a unique flavor. If desired, you can add pitted prunes to the list of salad ingredients.

Ingredients:

smoked breast – 170 g;
eggs (boiled) – 4 pcs.;
apple – 2 pcs.;
onion – 1 pc.;
fresh lettuce leaves – 3 pcs.;
hard cheese – 120 g;
nuts – 130 g;
mayonnaise – 180 g.

Cooking method:

Cut the chicken into small pieces, finely chop the onion.
Leave 1 whole nut kernel and 1 egg for decoration, grind the rest in a blender.
Grate peeled apples, cheese, egg yolks and whites into different containers.
Cut the onion into 4 parts, chop into strips, scald with boiling water.
Place all the ingredients in a heap on a flat dish, brushing with mayonnaise: egg whites, chicken, onion, apples, cheese, yolks.
Grease the top with mayonnaise, sprinkle with nut crumbs, and make a mayonnaise pattern, like on a turtle shell.
Make an “egg” head with eyes from cloves and paws from walnut quarters.
Place lettuce leaves around the edges.

Little Red Riding Hood

Time: 1.5 hours.
Number of servings: 8 persons.
Calorie content of the dish: 285 kcal/100 g.
Purpose: cold appetizer.
Cuisine: Russian.
Difficulty: easy.

This salad also uses smoked chicken, but besides it there are many other products that make the dish more satisfying. One of them is tomatoes, thanks to which the name “Little Red Riding Hood” appeared. Culinary experts advise choosing a cherry variety to make the salad more colorful and the dish to look appetizing.

Ingredients:

smoked fillet – 200 g;
egg – 4 pcs.;
cheese (hard) – 150 g;
potatoes, carrots, tomatoes - 2 pcs.;
nuts – 1 tbsp.;
mayonnaise – 300 g;
spices, herbs - to taste.

Cooking method:

Boil potatoes, carrots and eggs, peel and cut into cubes along with the chicken.
Grate the cheese on the coarse side of a grater, grind the nut kernels in a blender.
Layer the ingredients in layers, lightly adding salt to the vegetables. The sequence is as follows: potatoes, chicken, mayonnaise, nut crumbs, cheese, mayonnaise, carrots, eggs, mayonnaise.
Cover the top of the salad with tomato slices, or halves if you used cherry tomatoes. Decorate the sides with sprigs of greenery.

Food preparation

Boil the chicken fillet in advance so that it is already cold by the time you cut it into cubes. Grind the nuts in a blender, leaving a few whole halves to decorate the top layer of the “cake”.

Prunes are too hard to cut straight into a salad. Pre-dried fruits are poured with boiling water and kept for at least 15 minutes. Then place the plums on a napkin to drain off excess moisture.

It is advisable to remove the skin from a fresh cucumber using a vegetable peeler to get rid of only a thin layer. Next, the vegetable is cut into thin strips. Boil the eggs hard, remove the shell and finely mash with a fork. Set one yolk aside in advance. We will use it for the top of the layered salad. The greens are chopped very finely.

A pineapple

Time: 1.5 hours.
Number of servings: 8 persons.
Calorie content of the dish: 276 kcal/100 g.
Purpose: cold appetizer.
Cuisine: Russian.
Difficulty: easy.

Hearing the name “Pineapple”, the thought immediately comes that this tropical fruit is present in the salad. In reality, only the shape of the dish has anything to do with it. This design looks very original and immediately attracts the attention of everyone present at the table . Pickled cucumbers and hard cheese add a piquant taste to the delicacy, and smoked meat provides an appetizing aroma.

Ingredients:

smoked ham – 1 pc.;
potatoes, eggs (boiled) - 3 pcs.;
nuts, cheese, cucumbers (pickled) – 150 g each;
mayonnaise – 300 g;
green onion feathers – 60 g;
spices - to taste.

Cooking method:

Boil the potato tubers in their skins, cool, and peel. Grate on the coarse side of a grater along with eggs and cheese.
Smoked chicken, finely chop the onion.
Cut the cucumbers into strips and divide the nut kernels in half.
Lay out the products in layers in the shape of a pineapple: potatoes, mayonnaise mesh, onion, ½ ham, mayonnaise mesh, cucumbers (squeeze out the liquid), ½ ham, mayonnaise mesh, cheese, eggs, mayonnaise.
Place the nut halves tightly together on top of the salad, and make stems from the green onions.

Dish decoration

Since the Chicken with Nuts salad includes pineapple, it is interesting to use fresh fruit. It is washed well and cut in half. Carefully remove all the pulp from the half and cut it into cubes, adding to the salad bowl. For this method of preparing the dish, walnuts are crushed and added to the rest of the products. Add mayonnaise, salt and pepper to taste and mix. The resulting mass is filled into the cavity of the pineapple and served as such. You can also use the other half of the fruit for a large company.

If canned pineapples were purchased for the salad, then the nuts are left to decorate the top layer and are not added to the salad itself. All products are mixed with mayonnaise and placed in a heap on an oval dish, as in the photo above. The feathers of green onions serve as the greens of the pineapple fruit, and the walnut halves cover the entire salad, giving it the appearance of an exotic fruit. The “Rock Chicken with Walnuts” salad looks very impressive. Surprise your loved ones with such a festive dish. It looks beautiful, very tasty and filling.

Delight with prunes

Time: 1 hour.
Number of servings: 5-6 persons.
Calorie content of the dish: 276 kcal/100 g.
Purpose: cold appetizer.
Cuisine: Russian.
Difficulty: easy.

This version of the salad really causes delight after tasting. In addition to the ideal combination of products that create an amazing aroma and taste composition, the eggs are prepared in an interesting way. Not boiled, as always, but fried in the form of pancakes. This technique changes not only the taste of the dish, but also its consistency. Garlic adds piquancy to the salad, but you can omit it if desired.

Ingredients:

chicken legs – 500 g;
eggs (chicken) – 6 pcs.;
prunes – 100 g;
nuts (walnuts) – 80 g;
garlic – 2 teeth;
mayonnaise, spices - to taste.

Cooking method:

Wash the chicken, cook, cool.
Scald the prunes with hot water, leave to swell for 10 minutes, remove, cut into strips.
Beat the eggs one at a time, fry each egg pancake for 1 tsp. vegetable oil. Cut into strips.
Lightly fry the nuts in a dry frying pan and grind with a blender.
Separate the chicken meat from the skin and bones, cut into medium pieces.
Combine with squeezed garlic and other ingredients, add salt, season with mayonnaise, mix thoroughly.

Tenderness with banana

Time: 1 hour.
Number of servings: 7-8 persons.
Calorie content of the dish: 203 kcal/100 g.
Purpose: cold appetizer.
Cuisine: Russian.
Difficulty: easy.

Pineapple in salads with chicken and other cold appetizers is no longer uncommon, but banana in the list of ingredients can be puzzling. Yes, such a treat exists and it turns out very tasty and tender. Dietary chicken meat is combined not only with apples and pineapples. The ingredients of the banana snack combine perfectly with each other, and the taste is very original and unusual.

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Ingredients:

chicken breast – 2 pcs.;
onion, banana - 1 pc.;
eggs (boiled) – 4 pcs.;
cheese (hard) – 50 g;
nuts – 60 g;
lemon juice – 1 tbsp. l.;
mayonnaise, spices - to taste.

Cooking method:

Boil the chicken, cool, cut into small pieces.
Finely chop the onion and fry in sunflower oil. Place in a sieve to drain the oil.
Mix the meat with onion, salt and a small amount of mayonnaise. Place on the bottom of the salad bowl.
The second layer is grated egg whites + mayonnaise sauce.
Next – banana puree + mayonnaise.
The fourth is grated cheese + mayonnaise, the fifth is grated egg yolks.
Cover the salad with mayonnaise and sprinkle with nut crumbs.

Ladies whim with cucumbers and prunes

Time: 1 hour.
Number of servings: 7-8 persons.
Calorie content of the dish: 217 kcal/100 g.
Purpose: cold appetizer.
Cuisine: Russian.
Difficulty: easy.

The “Lady's Caprice” salad is named this way for a reason; women really like it for its light, delicate taste. Fresh cucumbers add freshness to the dish, and prunes add piquancy. The calorie content of the treat is average, but this indicator can be reduced by replacing the mayonnaise dressing with low-fat sour cream or natural yogurt.

Ingredients:

chicken – 400 g;
cucumbers (fresh) – 0.5 kg;
chicken eggs (boiled) – 5 pcs. (or quail 8 pcs.);
prunes, mayonnaise – 200 g each;
nuts (walnuts) – 100 g;
spices - to taste.

Cooking method:

Boil the chicken and separate the meat into fibers.
Soak the prunes in boiling water, cut into strips along with the cucumber.
Grate the whites and yolks separately from each other.
On a dish decorated with lettuce leaves, layer the ingredients in the following order: cucumbers, chicken, spices, mayonnaise, whites, yolks, prunes, mayonnaise mesh..
Sprinkle the top with chopped nut kernels.

Making puff salad

Salad “Chicken with prunes and nuts” can be arranged in layers on one large dish or poured into portioned transparent glasses with a large diameter. Place a layer of chicken cubes on the bottom, salt everything and sprinkle with pepper if desired. After smearing with mayonnaise, lay out the prunes and immediately cover the layer with cucumber. Lightly salt and brush with mayonnaise again.

The next layer is chopped eggs plus mayonnaise. Top with all the nuts and remaining yolk. You can sprinkle the top with herbs in different ways: cover it completely, draw rays from the center point to the edges of the plate, or sprinkle it in a thin ring around the perimeter of the dish.

With orange

Time: 2 hours.
Number of servings: 6-7 persons.
Calorie content of the dish: 230 kcal/100 g.
Purpose: cold appetizer.
Cuisine: Russian.
Difficulty: easy.

This version of the salad with chicken and nuts is called “French Lover”. It combines and perfectly harmonizes three tastes at once - sweet, salty and spicy. The originality of the aroma and taste composition evokes delight and the desire to ask for more. Having prepared such a treat once, you will pamper your loved ones with it not only on holidays, but also on weekdays.

Ingredients:

chicken fillet (boiled) – 300 g;
cheese (hard) – 50 g;
raisins, nuts (walnuts) - 1 tbsp.;
onions, oranges, carrots - 2 pcs.;
spices, mayonnaise - to taste.

Cooking method:

Cut the chicken meat as finely as possible, grate the raw carrots and cheese on a coarse grater.
Chop the peeled onion into half rings, pour boiling water with 1 tsp. vinegar, leave for 15 minutes. Scald the raisins too.
Peel the nuts and chop with a rolling pin or blender.
Alternating each layer with mayonnaise, place the ingredients in the following order: chicken, onion, raisins, carrots, cheese, nut crumbs.
Place peeled and finely diced oranges in the top layer.
Let soak in the refrigerator for 1 hour.

With champignons and pineapples

Time: 1 hour.
Number of servings: 6 persons.
Calorie content of the dish: 236 kcal/100 g.
Purpose: cold appetizer.
Cuisine: Russian.
Difficulty: easy.

This version of the treat with white chicken meat and crushed nuts also combines many different ingredients. This dish can hardly be called light, but it can deliciously feed the whole family without much effort. According to the recipe, the mushrooms are used fresh and fried in oil, but canned ones are also quite suitable, although the taste of the finished delicacy will be somewhat different.

Ingredients:

chicken fillet (boiled) – 1 pc.;
egg (boiled) – 3 pcs.;
champignons (fresh) – 300 g;
carrot – 1 pc.;
cheese (hard), nuts (walnuts) - 100 g each;
pineapples (canned) – 1 b;
mayonnaise – 1 tbsp.

Cooking method:

Wash the champignons thoroughly, cut into thin layers, and simmer in a frying pan.
When all the liquid has evaporated, add the chopped onion and fry along with the mushrooms.
Boil carrots, grate vegetables and cheese.
Cut chicken, pineapples, eggs into small cubes. Chop the nuts with a rolling pin.
Coating with mayonnaise, lay out the food in layers: meat, pineapples, ½ cheese, mushrooms, carrots, eggs, ½ cheese, nut crumbs. Decorate as desired.

With prunes and apples

Time: 1.5 hours.
Number of servings: 4-5 persons.
Calorie content of the dish: 224 kcal/100 g.
Purpose: cold appetizer.
Cuisine: Russian.
Difficulty: easy.

This salad can rightfully be given the name “Original”, which is due to the replacement of the hard cheese familiar to most gourmets with mozzarella. The combination of products in this recipe is one of the most unusual. Give preference to sweet and sour apples, which will add a special flavor to a cold dish. You can omit the parsley or replace it with any other herbs.

Ingredients:

white chicken meat (fillet) – 1 pc.;
prunes – 120 g;
nuts, mozzarella – 80 g each;
apple – 1 pc.;
egg (boiled) – 4 pcs.;
mayonnaise – 90 g;
parsley - to taste.

Cooking method:

Soak dried fruits in boiling water for 15 minutes, then cut into small strips.
Set aside 3 egg yolks and grate the rest along with the whites. Do the same with mozzarella and apple.
Chop the nuts with a rolling pin.
Rub the chicken with your favorite spices and fry in a frying pan. Then cool, cut into small pieces.
Lay out the salad in layers: ½ meat, mozzarella, mayonnaise mesh, egg whites with yolks, apple, prunes, mayonnaise mesh, nuts, ½ meat, mayonnaise mesh, grated yolks. Garnish with parsley.

How to cook

Chicken fillet is cut into small cubes, like hard cheese. You can choose any favorite product for the salad. It is desirable that it has a dense structure for ease of cutting. Rinse dried apricots under water. You can soak it in hot water for a couple of minutes to soften it. Then cut in the same way - into cubes.

Walnuts can be ground by hand or using a blender, but not to a powder. There should be fine cutting. Mix everything with sour cream and sprinkle with finely chopped herbs on top.