Salad "the Nest of the wood grouse" or how to make fancy any holiday table

Birthday, New year or any other holiday this salad will be a great decoration for the holiday table and will delight all your fabulous taste. Learning to cook salad "the Nest of the wood grouse", you can make any meal a truly Grand!

Perhaps in the past, when the grouse was not one of the endangered species, it was his meat was used to prepare the salad - hence its name. In favor of this opinion by the fact that in tsarist Russia grouse was one of the most popular objects of hunting. Today, when the population of this bird is critically reduced, based salad "the Nest of the wood grouse" was the chicken, which is quite natural - grouse also belongs to the family of gallinaceous birds.

At least once this delicious salad tried it, probably, everyone. In the ranking of the 10 most popular in Russia festive salads he probably would have been close to the first places. And not just very elegant, vivid and extremely tasty with very simple cooking he always pleases the crowd for a festive meal. The harmonious combination of flavors of roasted potatoes, fresh cucumbers and tender chicken makes this salad a real gastronomic experience, and pleasant crunching potato this impression further enhances!

The salads "the Nest of the wood grouse" takes a little time, and special skills are not required. To do his will every woman. So, let's start.

Classic salad recipe "the Nest of the wood grouse"

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You will need: 500 g of boiled chicken fillet 500 g potatoes, 250 grams of fresh cucumber, 100 g onion, 5 eggs, parsley, mayonnaise, salt, butter, eggs, grouse" - 3 egg yolk cooked, 3 cloves of garlic, 1 processed cheese, 3 tbsp. mayonnaise, dill.

How to make salad "the Nest of the wood grouse" - step-by-step recipe.

1. Finely chop the chicken and onions, onions pour boiling water for 10 minutes to leave, drain, rinse with cold water.
2. Peel potatoes and cut into very small strips, put the potatoes in small portions in a pan with plenty of oil or deep fryer and fry until taromenane.
3. Strips, without peeling, cut the cucumbers.
4. Proteins boiled eggs separated from the yolks, proteins RUB on a small grater, finely chop the herbs.
5. Stir potatoes (half to wait for clearance) protein, chicken, onions, cucumbers, salt, add mayonnaise.
6. Put the lettuce in the salad bowl in the form of Gorecki with a slight indentation in the center, pending potatoes out in a circle, the greens put in the center, on top lay "eggs grouse" - cheese and egg yolks to RUB on a large grater, chop the dill, skip the garlic through a press, mix all, add the mayonnaise, molded eggs.

To simplify the preparation of salad, eggs, grouse" you can not do yourself, and replace them with boiled quail eggs, which are now easy to buy in any supermarket. The testicles can be prepared for another recipe, for example, to make them grated yolks with paste (3 egg yolks 150 g of paste), or replace cheese balls - dream, this item salad makes a great imagination, and using the original "testicles" you can make the taste of the salad memorable individual.

Variations of salad "the Nest of the wood grouse" over time, there was a lot to make it with veal or beef, mushrooms, ham and even sprats. A great variety of ingredients gave new names - "Nest of quail", "Kukushkina nest, bird's nest" and so on, But the essence remains the same - the main item of this salad make it whatever "Nest" is laid out in the form of a nest of fried potatoes. The more crispy and delicious it is, the more you will remember all tried the whole salad in General. So the potatoes turned out well, before roasting it should be dry, cut as thin as possible and fry portions, so that it does not stick together.

And finally, here is the recipe for one of the most popular variations of salad "the Nest of the wood grouse" - with mushrooms and ham.

Salad recipe "the Nest of the wood grouse" with mushrooms and ham

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You will need: 200 g of boiled chicken, 200 g of pickled mushrooms, 50 g ham, egg 3 egg whites, 3 potatoes, 3 tablespoons mayonnaise, pepper, salt, lettuce.

How to make salad "the Nest of the wood grouse" with mushrooms. Peel the potatoes, wash, cut into strips, fry the potatoes in a large amount of oil, stirring, until Browning, gently turn, not giving the "nest" to crumble and fry on the other hand, to get dry, put on a paper towel. Cubes chopped cooked chicken, thin strips - ham, mushrooms chopped too finely. Proteins boiled eggs to RUB on a grater, to combine with mushrooms, ham, chicken, add the mayonnaise and stir. The lettuce leaves, wash, dry, flat line a salad bowl, lettuce, shaping it in the form of a nest with a hollow in the middle, to put on top of potato nest, and potatoes are added boiled quail eggs, arrange the salad greens.

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