On New Year's, birthday or any other holiday, the salad "Capercaillie's Nest" will be a great decoration for a solemn feast. He will delight everyone with his appearance and fabulous taste. We are learning to cook it.
Recipe content:
- Ingredients
- Step by step cooking
- Video recipe
The Capercaillie's Nest salad is a beautiful and festive salad that looks interesting and unusual. It cannot be called simple, but every housewife will be able to make it. It includes many different products, and there are many variations of its embodiment. For example, this culinary masterpiece is prepared with veal, beef, chicken, mushrooms, sausage, ham, etc. At the same time, eggs and potatoes are necessarily present in all variations.
Such a wide variety of the composition of products gave rise to new names for the dish: "Kukushkino's Nest", "Quail's Nest", "Bird's Nest", etc. At the same time, the essence remains the same, the main detail of the salad is to make it a "nest" in which bird eggs lie. The nest is made with chips, but most often from fried potatoes. The crisp and tastier it is, the tastier the food will be. However, don't be afraid to experiment and mix up all sorts of ideas and different products. Then you will have your own recipe for a signature and delicious holiday salad.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 118 kcal.
- Servings - 1 salad
- Cooking time - 1 hour 30 minutes
Ingredients:
- Chicken legs or breast - 250 g
- Potatoes - 2 pcs.
- Eggs - 4 pcs.
- Processed cheese - 100 g
- Garlic - 2 cloves
- Lettuce leaves - 3-4 leaves
- Mayonnaise - for dressing
- Dill - bunch
- Vegetable oil - for frying
- Salt to taste
- Pickled mushrooms - 250 g
Step-by-step preparation of the Capercaillie's Nest salad
1. Wash the chicken meat and place it in the cooking pot. Pour in drinking water and boil for half an hour until tender. Season with salt 10 minutes before the end of cooking.
2. Remove the cooked meat from the pan and leave to cool.
3. Peel and cut potatoes into thin strips. It is very convenient to use a Korean carrot grater for this purpose.
4. In a frying pan in vegetable oil, fry the potatoes until golden brown. Season with salt at the very end of cooking. Because it should be crispy, and the salt will soften it.
5. Place the fried potatoes on a paper towel to absorb excess fat.
6. Boil eggs until steep. Separate the whites from the yolks. Set aside the whites, place in the yolks in a deep container. Add grated processed cheese, pressed garlic, chopped dill and mayonnaise.
7. Stir the curd.
8. Deal with proteins. Cut them into strips. Add chopped chicken and pickled mushrooms, which are also cut into strips. Add mayonnaise to the food and mix well.
9. Next, start shaping the salad. To do this, put lettuce leaves on a dish, and place a mass of mushrooms and chicken on top with a slide.
10. Cover the salad with fried potatoes to create a visual nest. Place chopped dill in the center of the salad.
11. Form the curd into small balls that look like "testicles" and place them in a heap on top of the salad. To simplify your work, you can not cook the eggs, but use boiled quail. Soak the salad in the refrigerator for 1 hour and serve it to the table.
See also the video recipe on how to make the Capercaillie's Nest salad.
