Salad “Snow Maiden’s Hat” is an original dish that will undoubtedly become a real decoration of your festive table on New Year’s Eve. The recipe for making such a salad is quite simple and not expensive, the products that are needed for it are in the refrigerator of almost every housewife.
In fact, the Snegurochka’s Hat salad is two dishes in one: a chicken breast salad with canned pineapples and corn (the “cap” itself) and a delicious appetizer of processed cheese with garlic and eggs (a kind of “buboes”).
Ingredients:
- Chicken fillet – 300 g.
- Canned pineapples – 200 g.
- Canned corn – 100 g.
- Processed cheese – 2 pcs.
- Hard cheese – 150 g.
- Purple cabbage – 2 – 3 leaves.
- Garlic – 2 – 3 cloves.
- Salt – to taste.
- Black ground or allspice – to taste.
- Mayonnaise – 4 – 5 tbsp. l.
- Eggs – 3 pcs.
Cooking time: 25 minutes. Servings Per Container: 4.
Cooking:
1. Pre-boil the chicken fillet in salted water, cool it, and then cut it into small cubes.
2. Cut canned pineapples (in slices or slices) in the same way, and then squeeze lightly to remove excess liquid, otherwise the salad may turn out watery.
3. Put the chopped chicken fillet and pineapples in a deep bowl, add canned corn and mayonnaise to them. Try to add a little mayonnaise, otherwise it will be difficult for the salad to shape later. Salt and pepper to taste, and toss the salad thoroughly.
4. After the salad is ready, start preparing a cheese ball appetizer that will serve as a decoration for the New Year’s salad.
Peel the pre-boiled eggs, separate the whites, which are then grated on a fine grater. Add a small amount of purple cabbage juice to the proteins. To get it, chop purple cabbage leaves with a blender, put the resulting mass into a piece of gauze, rolled up in several layers, and squeeze the juice to the proteins (during the reaction, the purple juice will turn blue and color the proteins), mix thoroughly until smooth.
Keep in mind that purple cabbage stains the skin well, so to avoid trouble, it is better to work with rubber gloves.
5. Separately, grate the processed cheese (you can grate it on a coarse grater), then the yolks, squeeze the garlic to them and add a little mayonnaise. Mix thoroughly, roll small balls (kind of buboes) from the resulting mass with your hands, then roll each of which in a “blue” protein.
To make it possible to form “buboes”, before rolling the balls, be sure to moisten your hands with water, and add a small amount of cold boiled water to the protein (so it will be better to “stick”).
6. Put the finished salad in the shape of a hat on a plate or dish, brush with mayonnaise on top and sprinkle with grated cheese evenly on all sides.
7. In a circle of lettuce caps, lay out blue balls in a dense layer, place one on top of the lettuce (hat bubo). Put the finished salad in the refrigerator for 1 – 2 hours, then serve.
Happy New Year!
Enjoy your meal!