Salad "Garnet Bracelet"

One of the most beautiful salads Russian cuisine can rightly be called "Garnet Bracelet". This tasty and tender salad will be a wonderful decoration festive table to the delight guests and home. So get ready, "Garnet Bracelet".

Together with the "nest of grouse" and other traditional salads, "Garnet Bracelet" belongs to the category of classic festive dishes. Beautiful, but simple design, amazing taste without abstruse ingredients - spectacular and convenient option is simply not to find if you want to surprise or to please the guests, without fear that inner beauty is not so impressed by them as foreign. Harmonious flavor of this salad is explained in more original and interesting combination of ingredients than in other classic salads.

By the way, the name - it is very easy to explain. "Pomegranate" because the top layer is laid pomegranate or a red color (as well as the top layer can spread cranberries, if you can not find a grenade with soft bones or without them), and the "bracelet" - because the salad in the traditional version has the shape of a circle with a hole in the center .

Basic salad ingredients "Garnet Bracelet" - is vegetables (beets, potatoes, carrots, onions), boiled or smoked chicken, eggs, walnuts, pomegranate, garlic, mayonnaise, pepper and salt. These can be added to pickles (he put the bottom of the salad) or cheese (they usually replace eggs).

Of course, like any other dish, this salad can have different versions.

Classic salad recipe "Garnet Bracelet"

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You will need: 300 g of chicken, 2 boiled beets, carrots, potatoes, 1 onion, 2 boiled eggs, walnuts, pomegranate 1 large, 2 cloves garlic, mayonnaise, pepper and salt.

How to prepare salad "Garnet Bracelet". Eggs and vegetables clean, rub alone on a coarse grater. Garlic is passed through the press, mix with mayonnaise. Chicken cut into strips or cubes. Finely chop the onion and fry until browned. Nuts chop. Put lettuce on platter in the form of a circle with a hole in the middle layers of potatoes, mayonnaise, half of the beet, mayonnaise, carrots, mayonnaise, nuts, half a chicken, mayonnaise, onion, eggs, mayonnaise, remaining fillets, mayonnaise, remaining beet, mayonnaise. Top issue salad with pomegranate seeds, tightly stacking them next to each other.

Recipe salad snack "Garnet Bracelet" with cheese and garlic

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You will need: 200 g of solid cheese, 1 cup walnuts, 1 large pomegranate, garlic, mayonnaise, salt.

How to prepare a cheese-garlic "Garnet Bracelet". Pomegranate disassembled into grains, cheese rub on a grater, nuts fry, garlic passed through the press and mix with mayonnaise. Mix the nuts with grated cheese and sauce, salted to taste, put in a salad bowl, to impose pomegranate seeds.

Salad recipe "Garnet Bracelet" with mushrooms

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You will need: 700 g of boiled beets, 300 grams mushrooms, 200 grams of boiled chicken fillet, 2 medium onions, 1 cup walnuts, 1 pack of mayonnaise, 1 pomegranate, garlic.

How to make "Garnet Bracelet" with mushrooms. Mushrooms and onions chopped, fry until browned. Grind nuts, garlic passed through the press. Disassemble the fillets on the fibers on a coarse grater rub beets. Mix mayonnaise with garlic. Put the salad layers: chicken, mayonnaise, mushrooms and onions, mayonnaise, nuts, beets, mayonnaise, pomegranate seeds.

From whatever ingredients you may have prepared "Garnet Bracelet", remember the following:

• To make the salad a desired shape using a glass wrapped in cling film: put it in the center of a flat dish and spread layers of lettuce around it. Remove the glass should be lubrication just before the last layer of mayonnaise, which also need to lubricate the inner surface of the hole.
• Salt and pepper ingredients should be during their upload layers.
• How close to each other will lie pomegranate seeds, so will look spectacular salad.
• For registration of lettuce, use grenades last year - from fresh bone too hard or grenades pitted, or you can use the berries cranberries.
• This salad should certainly present in the refrigerator at least 12 hours (food wrap film that lettuce does not absorb other odors).
• Onion salad or you can fry instead scalded with boiling water and rinse with cold water or pickle, purple onion, you can not handle - this will give the salad a special piquancy.
• To add new notok can be used not boiled and smoked chicken.
• You can also substitute chicken boiled beef or pork - so the salad will be more satisfying.