Grouse nest salad

Very often at the festive table you can see an unusual salad Grouse's Nest. Its other names are the swallows or cuckoos nest.

In the original composition of the salad. The capercaillie's nest is the main ingredient - fried potatoes. But because of its high calorie content in other types of salad, it is replaced by less high-calorie foods. The preparation of this dish itself takes a lot of time, but it is worth it, because its unusual appearance can decorate any table.

Thanks to a lot of recipes Each housewife will be able to choose exactly that salad recipe Grouse Nest, which is right for her.

Salad Grouse Nest: a classic recipe

Composition:

1. Chicken meat - 300 g
2. Eggs - 5 pcs.
3. Ham - 70 g
4. Potatoes - 5 pcs.
5. Marinated mushrooms - 300 g
6. Garlic - 4 teeth
7. Mayonnaise - 8 tbsp. l
8. Processed cheese - 1 pc.
9. Lettuce, dill, pepper, salt - to taste

Cooking:

Wash and peel the potatoes, cut them into strips. Heat sunflower oil in a frying pan. Put the potatoes, fry it on one side until golden brown, then turn it over to the other side.

Boil the chicken and dice it. Chop the ham into thin strips and the mushrooms into large circles.

Boil eggs, cool and separate the yolks from the proteins. Grate them on a coarse grater.

Now proceed to the preparation of "bird eggs". Take a large grater and rub the melted cheese. Wash and dry the herbs, then chop them finely. Crush the garlic.

Combine the finished yolks with garlic, herbs, cheese and mayonnaise. Mix well and form from the finished mass "eggs".

Separately, in a salad bowl, mix ham, egg whites, chicken and champignons. Season everything with mayonnaise and mix.

Lettuce leaves wash and dry. Cover lettuce with the bottom of a flat dish..

Put the prepared salad on them and form a nest shape from it, making a recess in the middle. Then lay out the fried potatoes, with which you create a semblance of a bird's nest.

Put there eggs made from cheese. Decorate them with greens on top. Salad The grouse's nest is ready.

Salad Nest wood grouse of fruits and vegetables

This salad recipe is suitable for those who do not like meat. But it should be prepared immediately before serving.

Composition:

1. Asparagus shoots - 15 pcs.
2. Mango - 1 pc.
3. White cabbage - 200 g
4. Carrots - optional
5. Cucumbers - 2 pcs.
6. Badian - 1 star
7. Green salad - 8 leaves
8. Prunes - 8 pcs. seedless
9. Soy sauce - 1 tbsp. l
10. Lemon juice - 1 pc.
11. Salt - to taste
12. Vegetable oil - 50 g

Cooking:

• Wash and cook hard boiled eggs. Clean them and chop with a fork in several places.
• Take 2 cups boiling water, add there 3 tsp. tea, salt, star anise and soy sauce. Thoroughly stir everything and drop eggs there for an hour.
• Cabbage and cucumbers shred.
• Scald prunes with boiling water, then cool and dry. Cut it into pieces. Mix cucumbers and cabbage with prunes.
• Remove the bones from the mango and cut it into thin slices. 4 lettuce leaves cut into straws.
• Prepare for dressing salad dressing. To do this, add lemon juice, sugar, salt, pepper in vegetable oil and whisk.
• Line the bottom of the dish with the second part of the lettuce leaves. Along the edges, place the mango slices. On the leaves, lay a mixture of vegetables with prunes and shape the nest with a recess in the center. Place the remaining mango slices into the groove. Decorate with asparagus sprouts and cover with prepared sauce.

Grouse Nest Salad with Carrots

Composition:

1. Ham - 200 g
2. Marinated champignons - 400 g
3. Eggs - 4 pcs.
4. Chicken fillet - 200 g
5. Carrots - 300 g
6. Melted cheese - 100 g
7. Garlic - 2 cloves
8. Potatoes - 400 g
9. Onions - 100 g
10. Ground black pepper, salt - to taste
11. Mayonnaise, vegetable oil, dill

Cooking:

• Boil the chicken fillet, cool and divide it into fibers.
• Cook the eggs, cool them, separate the yolks and proteins. Egg whites cut into strips.
• Peel and wash the potatoes. Chop it into thin straws.
• Grate carrots on a coarse grater.
• Heat the oil in a frying pan and fry the potatoes until golden brown. When the potatoes cool, place it on a paper napkin so that excess oil is absorbed.
• In the vegetable oil for 3 minutes, fry the carrots and also fold it on a napkin.
• Onions cut into thin half-rings.
• Shred the champignons and ham.
• Place half of the potatoes, ham, carrots, chicken, protein, onions, and mushrooms. Add mayonnaise, mix everything, pepper and salt.
• Now proceed to the preparation of balls. Wash and finely chop the dill. Grate the cheese on a fine grater. Squeeze the garlic. Fold everything in one container, except dill, add the same egg yolks and 1 tbsp. l mayonnaise. Stir and form small balls in the shape of eggs.
• Put the prepared mixture on the lettuce leaves, making a depression in the center. Decorate the edges with fried potatoes. In the center, lay the eggs and sprinkle them with dill.

Salad Nest Glukharyas sausage

Composition:

1. Pickled cucumbers - 2 pcs.
2. Carrots - 1 pc.
3. Garlic - 1 clove
4. Potatoes - 2 pcs.
5. Cheese - 100 g
6. Eggs - 4 pcs.
7. Sunflower oil - 150 ml
8. Smoked sausage - 200 g
9. Mayonnaise - 250 g

Cooking:

• Boil the eggs and separate the yolks from the whites. Then rub them on a fine grater separately.
• In salted water, boil carrots, cool it and cut into thin strips.
• Then chop the cucumbers and sausage.
• Cut the potatoes into straws, dry them on a paper towel and then fry the oil in sunflower oil so that it becomes crispy.
• Mix cucumbers, carrots, potatoes, sausage, pepper, salt and season with mayonnaise. Make a “nest” shape with a dimple in the center of the prepared mixture.
• Then rub the cheese on a fine grater, combine with egg white, garlic and mayonnaise. Mix everything thoroughly and form balls in the form of eggs, then roll them in yolks. Then put them in the center of the salad.

If you decide to cook an unusual salad Grouse Nest in anticipation of guests, then do not forget that the number of "eggs" in the salad should be no less than the participants of the feast.

Enjoy your meal!