Classic Sunflower Salad
In its original form, this beautiful culinary delight is prepared from simple ingredients that are accessible to everyone. To prepare a classic puff pastry we will need:
- one small chicken breast;
- can of canned corn;
- 3 eggs;
- one onion bulb;
- one large or two small carrots;
- 200 grams of pickled champignons;
- a pack of chips;
- a pack of mayonnaise or sour cream;
- 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil;
Recipe : Boil eggs and carrots, peel and grate.
Cut the chicken meat into small pieces and fry until golden brown. Finely chop the mushrooms and onions. Prepare a large flat dish. The salad is supposed to be layered, grease each layer with mayonnaise. First add the chicken fillet, then the carrots, mushrooms, onions and eggs. Let the salad sit, then stick oval chips in a circle before serving.
Sunflower salad with corn and vegetables
The presence of corn and other vegetables in this variation of salad allows you to make the dish lighter and more dietary. It is worth paying special attention to the appearance of such a salad: it can decorate any holiday table.
Cooking time: 50 minutes Number of servings: 8
Ingredients:
- fresh champignons (200 g);
- chicken meat, fillet (300 g);
- carrots (1 pc.);
- onion (1 pc.);
- canned corn (200-300 g);
- chicken egg (4 pcs.);
- olives (100-200 g);
- mayonnaise (200 g);
- chips (70-100 g);
- fresh cucumber (1 pc.);
- parsley/dill/coriander/other fresh herbs (1 bunch);
- tomato (for decoration, 1 pc.);
- vegetable oil (for frying, 50 ml);
- salt (to taste);
- pepper (to taste).
All ingredients that have undergone heat treatment must be stored in separate containers.
Preparation:
- Boil eggs in boiling water for 8-10 minutes. When ready, turn off and transfer to a container with cold water. We clear the shell.
- Finely chop the onion, fry it until tender in vegetable oil until it turns brown. Wash the champignons, cut into medium-sized pieces, add salt, pepper, spices and fry with onions until tender.
- Grate the carrots on a coarse grater and fry until tender in vegetable oil (in a separate frying pan).
- Cut the chicken fillet into small cubes and fry it for 10 minutes until cooked. You can add salt, pepper, spices or a little herbs to taste.
- Next, place the chicken on the bottom of the plate, add carrots on top and make a mayonnaise mesh.
- The next layer is fried champignons and onions, covered with mayonnaise mesh.
- Next is a layer of fresh cucumber. There is no need to put mayonnaise on it.
- We grate the boiled chicken eggs on a coarse grater, form them into another layer of salad and decorate the top with mayonnaise. You can leave one yolk for decoration.
- Next, add the canned corn. Distribute it over the salad so that the lower layers are not visible.
- Place the chips around the perimeter of the salad in the shape of sunflower petals.
- Cut the tomato into quarters, form two pieces into a ladybug and decorate its wings with pieces of olives. The rest of the dish can also be decorated this way.
It is advisable to leave the salad in the refrigerator for 30-60 minutes to soak it. But if you don't have enough time, you can serve it. Bon appetit!
We offer you to watch a video recipe for a similar salad:
Sunflower salad with cod liver
This salad tastes somewhat like mimosa, but has other flavor notes. To prepare six servings you need to take:
- 4 potatoes;
- 3-4 eggs;
- 3 pickled cucumbers;
- 1 can of pitted black olives;
- one pack of Pringles chips;
- 150 grams of low-fat mayonnaise;
- one bunch of green onion sprigs.
Boil and cool the eggs and jacket potatoes in advance. Clean them. Place grated potatoes in a large flat plate, brush with sauce, then follow with a layer of cod liver with green onions, followed by a layer of sauce. Grate the eggs, separated into yolks and whites, on a fine grater, first lay out the whites, then the yolks. Decorate with a mayonnaise mesh and place chips on the sides, forming a flower.
Sunflower salad without mushrooms
For those who for some reason do not eat mushrooms, a sunflower option without this product has been invented. This appetizer is no less tasty due to the addition of pickled onions, which add a piquant taste to the salad. Sunflower salad without mushrooms will whet the appetite of all guests present at the table.
Ingredients required (for 4 servings):
- Chicken fillet – 260 g;
- Onion – 70 g;
- 6 chicken eggs;
- Cheese – 110 g;
- Vinegar 9% - 25 ml;
- Salt – 9 g;
- Olives – 90 g;
- Chips – 60 g;
- Mayonnaise – 80 ml.
Sunflower salad step by step recipe:
- Wash the chicken fillet, peel off the films, boil in salted water with the addition of spices. then cool and tear into fibers.
- Peel the onion and chop finely. Pour the marinade of water and vinegar over the mixture for half an hour.
- Hard-boil the eggs, cool in ice water, then peel and grate the yolk and white separately.
- Grate the cheese.
- Remove the olives from the jar and cut each fruit in half.
- Squeeze the excess marinade from the onion with your hands.
- Assemble the salad in layers, coating each with mayonnaise: fillet, onion, protein, cheese, chicken yolk.
- Garnish with olive slices on top and let the dish sit for about an hour.
- Before serving, add chips.
Sunflower salad with crab sticks
A very delicate salad with light notes of sweet and sour apple will appeal to anyone regardless of age. Compound:
- 240 grams of chilled crab sticks;
- 200 grams of boiled potatoes;
- one leek;
- two medium carrots;
- 200 grams of pitted olives;
- one medium apple;
- 150 grams of mayonnaise;
- 50 grams of corrugated chips;
Cooking method:
First boil the carrots and potatoes in their skins, pickle the onions, cut into quarters. After an hour, you can start preparing the dish:
- Grate potatoes, carrots and apple.
- Chop the crab sticks.
- Cut each olive in half.
- Place on a plate in layers, grease each layer except the last with mayonnaise. First potatoes with onions, then apple, carrots and the last layer of crab sticks.
- Use olives to create the appearance of sunflower seeds, then stick corrugated chips on the sides - these will be the petals of our delicious sunflower.
Sunflower salad with ham and green peas
A simple and satisfying salad that guests will immediately fill up on. But they will still ask for more.
The components are:
- 300 g ham
- 200 g champignons
- 200 g hard cheese
- 100 g green peas
- 100 g canned beans
- salt and mayonnaise
- chips
This salad is notable for the fact that it does not contain a single vegetable, only legumes. But still the taste is very varied and rich. For spiciness, you can add a clove of garlic.
This salad is prepared like this:
- Cut the ham into small cubes.
- Grate the cheese on a coarse grater.
- Open the can of beans and drain the liquid. It is better to use white beans.
- Hard boil the eggs, chop finely.
- Place the layers in the following order: ham, beans, eggs, mushrooms, cheese.
- Grease each layer except the last with mayonnaise.
- Sprinkle peas on top of the salad and place chips on the sides.
Salad ready. For additional serving, you can use mushrooms and cherry tomatoes.
Sunflower salad with crab sticks and seeds
The seeds in this salad go well with crab sticks and other ingredients. To prepare you will need:
- 300 grams of frozen or chilled crab sticks;
- 200 grams of fried mushrooms;
- 300 grams of boiled chicken fillet;
- one onion;
- two boiled carrots;
- medium package of mayonnaise;
- packaging of high-quality identical chips;
Cooking method:
- Place crab sticks cut into small pieces on a dish and brush with mayonnaise.
- Add a second layer of finely chopped boiled chicken and coat with sauce.
- Third, fried mushrooms with onions, mayonnaise.
- Carefully lay out the peeled seeds, completely covering the previous layer.
- The final chord is the chips, which form a halo around the dish.
Sunflower salad with chips and hard cheese.
Ingredients: - chicken breast - 300 g - fried champignons - 200 g - eggs - 3 pcs. - black pitted olives - 1 can - oval chips - 1 package - hard cheese - 100 g - mayonnaise
Preparation: 1. Boil the chicken meat, cool, and chop. 2. Chop the champignons and fry. 3. Grate the cheese and boil the eggs. Separate a few yolks, grate and reserve for decoration. 4. Place the prepared products in layers on a wide dish. Season each layer with mayonnaise. Place shredded chicken breast on top of them, followed by fried champignons, grated eggs and cheese. On the last layer, which also needs to be greased with mayonnaise, carefully place grated yolks and olives, cut into quarters. 5. Place the finished salad in the refrigerator for 12 hours. Before serving, decorate the sides with oval chips.
Use the remaining cheese to make cheese appetizers.
Sunflower salad with seeds and crab sticks.
Ingredients: - crab sticks - 200 g - any mushrooms - 200 g - chicken fillet - 300 g - carrots and medium-sized onion - 1 pc. – peeled seeds – 1 package – chips – 70 g – mayonnaise
Preparation: 1. Boil the chicken meat, cut into small pieces. 2. Fry the carrots along with mushrooms and onions. 3. Place chopped crab sticks on a wide dish, brush with mayonnaise, the next layer is carrots with mushrooms and onions and again with mayonnaise. 4. Decorate the top of the salad with peeled seeds, insert chips on the sides, which will serve as a kind of petals.
Seed lovers will surely enjoy a green salad with kiwi and seeds.
Here is another sunflower salad with chips recipe .
Salad with sunflower chips and ham
A very healthy and tasty dish with corn and peas. The sunflower option consists of:
- 250 grams of ham;
- five chicken eggs;
- 1 can of canned corn;
- two fresh cucumbers;
- 1 can of canned brain peas;
- 200 grams of hard cheese;
- 40 grams of oval chips;
- a pack of mayonnaise;
- jar of olives;
- a teaspoon of ground black pepper.
Preparation:
This version of the salad is not layered; it needs to be kneaded well.
- Cut the ham into pieces, fry a little and let cool.
- We cut the cucumber, boil and cut the eggs.
- Add green peas and corn, season with mayonnaise and mix everything well.
- Transfer the mixture to a plate, give it a round shape, sprinkle grated cheese on top and garnish with olives
- Place chips on the sides, thus completing the preparation of the dish.
Sunflower salad with pickled cucumbers
This salad is a little reminiscent of Olivier in taste, since it also contains potatoes and cucumbers. But the remaining components add variety, the dish turns out to be both classic and original.
To prepare the salad, you need to take the following products:
- 300 g potatoes
- 250 g canned corn
- 30 g chips
- 3 eggs
- 1 onion
- 3 pickled cucumbers
- 1 can cod liver
- dill mayonnaise
The cooking process is described in more detail in the video.
Sunflower salad with chicken and mushrooms
The classic combination of chicken meat and champignons will not leave anyone indifferent, and the presence of cheese makes the salad look like cold julienne. Salad ingredients:
- To prepare this dish we need:
- 300 grams chicken fillet
- 200 grams of fresh champignons
- 200 grams of hard cheese
- 5 eggs
- mayonnaise, salt, spices to taste
Recipe: Fry finely chopped mushrooms in butter. add salt and spices.
We grate the cheese, cut and fry the chicken fillet, boil and grate the eggs
Lay out layers, coating each layer with mayonnaise of chicken, mushrooms, cheese and eggs. Decorate with chips in a circle.
Sunflower salad with eggplant and onion
This original variation of the usual salad will allow you to look differently at the combination of vegetables, mushrooms and meat. During heat treatment, onions, eggplant and other products whose taste may seem harsh will become more tender, which will be ideal for the concept of the dish.
Cooking time: 40 minutes. It is advisable to put the salad in the refrigerator for 2 hours so that it is well soaked. You can skip this step if you wish. Number of servings: 10
Ingredients:
- fresh eggplant (1 pc.);
- green onions (30-50 g);
- onion (1 pc.);
- carrots (1 pc.);
- marinated champignons (200 g);
- chicken meat, fillet (200 g);
- chicken egg (4 pcs.);
- pickled cucumber (3 pcs.);
- olives (100-150 g);
- cheese, hard variety (200 g);
- chips (100-150 g);
- mayonnaise (150-200 g;
- salt (to taste);
- pepper (to taste);
- vegetable oil (for frying, 30-50 ml).
Preparation:
- Boil the chicken fillet until cooked. To do this, heat the water, add meat, add salt to the water, and after boiling, reduce the heat to low. Cook for 20 minutes, leave to cool.
- Cook chicken eggs in boiling water for at least 8 minutes.
- Peel the fresh eggplant. Cut it into small cubes.
- Roughly chop a medium onion.
- Grate carrots, boiled eggs and pickled cucumbers on a medium grater into different bowls.
- Heat a frying pan, add vegetable oil to it.
- Place the chopped onion and carrots into the frying pan and fry the vegetables until fully cooked.
- After this, add the eggplant, add salt, pepper to taste and 1 tbsp. l. mayonnaise. Stir the mixture and turn off the heat.
- Finely chop the now cooled chicken fillet and form it into the first layer of salad on the dish.
- Place the second layer of cooked eggplant with onions and carrots.
- Next, lay out the grated chicken eggs and make a mayonnaise mesh on them.
- Slice the champignons, add them to the eggs and decorate with mayonnaise.
- We form the next layer from grated pickles, which we also decorate with a mayonnaise mesh.
- Next, place hard cheese on a plate and add mayonnaise on top.
- Take the olives, cut them lengthwise and decorate the top of the salad with them.
- Add green onions around the perimeter for flavor and brightness.
- We take the chips and stick them into the salad in a circle, imitating sunflower petals.
Now the salad is completely ready to serve and eat. And in the video below you can find a recipe for the same salad:
Sunflower salad with smoked chicken and pineapple
The slightly sweet combination of chicken and canned pineapple is complemented by pickled champignons, creating a harmonious taste of the salad. For preparation you will need:
- Smoked chicken breast;
- A can of pineapple slices;
- 200 grams of canned champignons;
- 5 hard-boiled chicken eggs;
- 100 grams of cheese;
- A pack of chips with cheese flavor;
- A jar of pitted olives;
- Salt, sour cream, spices to taste.
Cooking:
- Spread a layer of chicken, cut into small pieces, with sour cream.
- Egg whites, grated.
- Canned champignons are small, brush with sauce.
- Pineapples, finely chopped.
- The fifth layer is the most difficult; you need to carefully lay out the mixed yolks with hard cheese and decorate the entire salad with halves of olives.
- We finish our sunflower with chips, decorating the dish with them in a circle.
Sunflower salad with chips – recipe without mushrooms and pineapple
This dish contains smoked chicken and canned pineapple. A wonderful combination of products that will make any day festive. You can safely prepare this salad for the New Year, birthday, or just to pamper your family and loved ones on an ordinary day.
Ingredients needed to prepare 4 servings of salad:
- Smoked chicken breast – 290 g;
- Tomatoes – 140 g;
- Canned corn – 110 g;
- Pickled pineapple – 90 g;
- 4 eggs;
- Mayonnaise – 120 ml;
- Cherry – 3 pcs.
- Olives – 80 g;
- Chips, evenly shaped – 60 g.
Sunflower salad recipe step by step:
- When cutting the food step by step, place it immediately on the dish, coating the layers with sauce.
- Cut the chicken breast into small cubes, after removing the skin. Lay out the first layer.
- Tomatoes need to be blanched, that is, peeled. To do this, place the tomatoes in a bowl of boiling water for a minute, and then immerse them in cold water. The skin will peel off on its own. When cutting into cubes, remove all seeds and liquid. Place on fillet.
- Drain the marinade from the jar of corn and place the corn on top of the dish.
- You can take canned pineapple in rings or pieces; in any case, the pulp will need to be chopped into small cubes and distributed evenly over the entire surface of the salad.
- Hard-boil chicken eggs, cool and remove shells. Divide into whites and yolks, grate and sprinkle on the appetizer.
- Decorate the salad with olive slices, placing them in a circle, and place chips around the edges.
- If desired, you can make imitation ladybugs from cherry tomatoes.
Sunflower salad recipe from canned fish
A special salad with an unusual taste; we can recommend it to lovers of canned fish. To prepare the fish version of the salad you will need:
- One can of sprats;
- Half a can of canned corn;
- 4 potatoes;
- 150 grams of hard cheese;
- 30 black olives;
- half a dozen eggs;
- 1 pack of round chips;
- leek or onion;
- mayonnaise to taste;
- vinegar and sugar.
Cooking method:
- Pre-boil jacket potatoes, eggs, marinate onions, cut into half rings in vinegar and sugar.
- Grate the potatoes on a fine grater, also grate the yolks and whites of the eggs separately and the cheese.
- Place the first layer of egg whites on the prepared dish, grease with mayonnaise, followed by sprats mashed with a fork and pickled onions, then potatoes and a layer of mayonnaise.
- Then cheese and grated yolk.
- Before serving, decorate the salad with petals from round or oval chips. If you don’t want to buy expensive ones in a tin, you’ll have to choose identical ones from a pack so that the salad turns out beautiful for serving on the holiday table.
Recipe for sunflower salad without mushrooms with duck meat
Seeing duck meat in an appetizer is, of course, not uncommon today. As part of the Sunflower salad with corn, the fillet turns out tender and spicy, which is sure to please all your guests.
Ingredients for 4 servings:
- Duck fillet – 310 g;
- Carrots – 120 g;
- Shallots – 90 g;
- 4 eggs;
- Pickled cucumber – 110 g;
- Cheese – 120 g;
- Pickled corn (sweet) – 130 g;
- Olives – 70 g;
- Mayonnaise – 120 ml;
- Chips – 40 g.
How to make sunflower salad with chips:
- Rinse the duck breast, bake in the oven, coated with salt, spices, honey and garlic. After cooking, cut the fillet into cubes.
- Wash the carrots, boil them in their skins, then cool, peel and grate.
- Boil the eggs until the yolk is firm, cool, peel and grate.
- Cut the pickled cucumber into strips, then remove the excess marinade with your hands.
- Cut the entire white part of the onion into rings, after rinsing it first.
- Grate the cheese.
- Remove the olives from the jar and cut them in half.
- Drain the corn in a colander and wait until the excess liquid drains.
- Assemble the dish on a flat plate, coating each layer with mayonnaise.
- First put the duck, onion on it, then carrots, cucumber, eggs, cheese, corn.
- Spread a little sauce on the last layer and decorate with pieces of olives, marking the edges with chips.
Sunflower salad with olives and chips with gouda cheese
The type of cheese and mushrooms will make the prepared dish sparkle with completely different colors. To prepare six servings you need:
- 150 grams of Gouda cheese;
- A jar of pickled honey mushrooms;
- 200 grams of pickled cucumbers;
- 250 boiled chicken breast;
- 1 pack of quality chips;
- one onion;
- 5 chicken eggs, hard-boiled;
- mayonnaise to taste;
The salad, like other varieties of “Sunflower,” is layered and prepared as follows:
- Chop cucumbers, breast and mushrooms, three cheese and eggs.
- We lay out the layers, spreading each layer with a small amount of mayonnaise in this way: first the chicken, then the onions, mushrooms, eggs and cucumbers.
- Carefully sprinkle the resulting dish with grated cheese.
- Decorate with olives and chips.
All Sunflower salad recipes are good in their own way; for every holiday you can prepare a new form of a recognizable dish. Almost all of them are flaky and they are united by the presence of chips that serve as petals. This salad will decorate any table with its extraordinary sunny look.
It will be given a sophisticated look by chips sold in tins and differing in the same size and shape, but as in any cooking, you can experiment - try corrugated potato products, you can also play with different shapes, make petals in 2 rows or through one.
Description of preparation:
How to prepare Sunflower salad with corn?
1. Cut the chicken fillet into small pieces and fry in vegetable oil, add salt. Grind the finished fillet. 2. Wash the carrots and boil them together with the eggs. Select the eggs first, then the carrots. Peel the boiled carrots and cut into small cubes or grate on a medium grater. 3. Chop the eggs or grate them. 4. Chop the marinated champignons. 5. Peel the onion and cut into small cubes. 6. Prepare a large serving dish. Sunflower salad with corn should be placed in layers, each layer coated with mayonnaise. So, we put chicken on the bottom, grease it with mayonnaise, then carrots and again mayonnaise, mushrooms and mayonnaise, eggs and mayonnaise, onions and mayonnaise, and canned corn finishes everything off. By the way, you can use grated yellow cheese instead of corn. 7. Now let’s make a sunflower. We spread the black seeds - cut along the olive. And in a circle we place or stick chips in the form of petals into the bottom layer of the salad. You can plant a ladybug on our sunflower. It is “molded” from half a cherry tomato and several mayonnaise dots on the back. That's it, the Sunflower salad with corn is ready! Bon appetit! Purpose: For the holiday table Main ingredient: Vegetables / Poultry / Chicken / Corn / Chicken fillet / Canned corn Dish: Salads
Sunflower salad with mushrooms and ham
A very rich salad consisting of many components.
Compound:
- 500 g mushrooms
- 250 g ham
- 200 g olives
- 150 g mayonnaise
- 1 tomato
- 1 carrot
- 1 onion
- 4 eggs
- chips
Salad preparation algorithm:
- Chop the onion with a knife and the carrots on a grater. Fry the vegetables in a frying pan, cool, and place in the first layer.
- Cut the ham into cubes, this will be the second layer.
- Cut the tomatoes into cubes or thin slices and place on top of the ham.
- Grate the eggs, this is the fourth layer.
- Each layer, except the last one (corn), must be greased with mayonnaise.
- Cut the olives into 4 pieces each and decorate the surface with them.
The salad should sit in the refrigerator for a bit. Before serving, it is decorated with chips.