When choosing cold appetizers for a festive feast, pay attention to the “Bride” salad. Look at the photo - white, airy, it really matches the name. However, it attracts not only its appearance. It turns out very tasty, tender, and the recipe is easy to prepare, prepared from familiar and affordable products. Some advantages.
Why did the salad get this name? Everything is simple, because of the abundance of white in it: potatoes, onions, white chicken meat, eggs, cheese.
These are the ingredients of the classic recipe, but every housewife likes to add something of her own. Therefore, under the “Bride” brand you can find a variety of options. Why not?
But one thing remains unchanged - its design. The dish is laid out in layers and the top layer is always egg whites grated on a coarse grater. Their snow-white color makes them stand out among other appetizers on the table, like a bride at a wedding.
If you don’t yet have such a recipe in your collection of holiday salads, then from the proposed options choose the one that appeals to you the most. And on the coming holiday you will delight your family with a new, delicious snack.
Also, delicious salads with shrimp and the beautiful “Sugrob” salad are perfect for the holiday menu, recipes for which are on the website.
Bride salad - classic recipe with chicken and potatoes
The dish turns out to be more delicate in taste if you replace mayonnaise with sour cream sauce.
The classic Bride usually uses mayonnaise for dressing. The decision is yours what to choose, sour cream sauce or mayonnaise.
Ingredients:
- potatoes - 250 gr.
- eggs - 3 pcs.
- chicken breast - 250 gr.
- hard cheese - 100 gr.
- onions - 1 pc. medium size
Ingredients for the sauce:
- sour cream - 200 gr.
- mustard - 1 tbsp. l.
- garlic - 3 cloves
- salt, pepper to taste
Step-by-step recipe with photos:
The snack looks beautiful if you make it using a removable ring. If you don’t have such a ring, you can adapt the sides of a springform baking pan.
- Let's prepare all the ingredients: you need to boil and cool the potatoes, eggs, chicken breast in advance.
- Using a coarse grater, grate cheese, potatoes, and yolks into different bowls. Finely chop the chicken breast and onion. There is no need to grate the whites in advance so that they do not stick together and form a beautiful, airy layer on the salad. Pour boiling water over the onion to soften its harsh taste.
- Prepare the sauce: add mustard, pressed garlic, pepper, salt to the sour cream. Mix well and place in a pastry bag. If you don’t have one, you can put the sauce in a thick plastic bag or make a bag out of baking paper.
- Place a ring on a dish, place potatoes as the first layer, and season with sauce.
- The next layer is the yolks and again the sauce.
- Next, add chicken fillet and season with sour cream sauce.
- Drain the water that was poured into the onion, squeeze it out a little to remove excess moisture, and place it on the chicken.
- Cover the onion with cheese and season with sauce.
- Grate the whites on top.
Let the dish sit in the refrigerator for a couple of hours. Before serving, remove the ring.
Airy salad “Bride”: recipe with smoked chicken and melted cheese
Fans of this salad claim that the right “Bride” is when it is prepared with smoked chicken.
We won’t argue with them, we’ll just try it and decide which option we like best. This recipe also differs from the previous one in that the ingredients include processed cheese. Smoked chicken with tender melted cheese gives amazing results.
Products for the recipe:
- smoked chicken breast – 300 gr
- boiled potatoes - 2 pcs
- boiled eggs - 3-4 pcs
- processed cheese - 2 pcs
- onion - 1 pc.
- mayonnaise to taste
Onion marinade:
- sugar - 1 tbsp
- vinegar 9% - 1 tbsp
- boiled water - 100 ml
How to cook:
- Preparatory stage: boil eggs and potatoes, cool. Pickle the onion - cut it into small cubes, put it in a bowl, add sugar, add vinegar and pour boiling water over it. After 10 minutes, drain the marinade.
- Cut the smoked chicken breast into small cubes, place on a dish, and make a mesh of mayonnaise.
- Place the next layer of pickled onions on the chicken, also making a mesh of mayonnaise.
- Next, we assemble the salad, observing the following sequence: potatoes, yolks, processed cheese. Grind all products on a coarse grater. Do not forget to separate each layer of products from each other with a mayonnaise mesh.
- The final layer is grated whites on a coarse grater. Place the appetizer in the refrigerator for soaking. After 1 - 1.5 you can try.
If you lightly freeze the processed cheese beforehand, it will be easier to grate it.
Step by step recipe
Boil potatoes and eggs until tender. Prepare all the ingredients: peel the potatoes, grate them on a fine grater. Divide the eggs into whites and yolks, and grate them on a fine grater. Finely chop the onion.
Place a layer of potatoes on a dish. Squeeze a mesh of mayonnaise onto the surface.
Remove bones from smoked chicken and chop the meat finely. Layer the chicken meat on the potatoes with mayonnaise.
Next... a mesh of mayonnaise, and finely chopped onion (chopped onions can be doused with boiling water).
A layer of grated chicken yolks. Layer of mayonnaise.
Grate processed cheese “Karat” or “Druzhba”. (It is better to grate the cheese directly on top of the salad, as it easily sticks together). Gently level it out. Apply a layer of mayonnaise mesh.
The final layer is grated chicken whites.
Well, the “Bride” salad with smoked chicken and processed cheese is ready! It is better to prepare puff salad in advance and let it sit and soak. Bon appetit!
Bride salad: recipe with chicken and Chinese cabbage
Chinese cabbage is another white product that will add freshness and airiness to the salad.
We will need:
- potatoes - 2-3 pcs.
- smoked chicken meat without skin - 300-400 gr.
- chicken egg - 6 pcs.
- Chinese cabbage - 4-5 leaves
- processed cheese - 2 pcs.
- onion - 1 pc.
- mayonnaise - for dressing
Onion marinade:
- vinegar 6-9% -1 tbsp
- sugar - 2 tsp.
- salt - 1 tsp.
- 100 ml boiling water
Step by step recipe:
This recipe uses smoked chicken. If suddenly there is no smoked product, you can replace it with fried breast, it also turns out delicious. To do this, quickly fry finely chopped raw chicken breast in vegetable oil and cool.
- Prepare the ingredients: marinate the onions in advance, boil the eggs, potatoes. Cut off the rough parts of the Chinese cabbage leaves.
- The salad can be decorated in the form of a wedding wreath. To decorate two or three eggs, cut the white into a thin strip.
- You will also need a ring from a removable pan and a small ring to place it in the center of the dish. The small ring can be replaced with a glass. Place the rings on a dish and lay out the salad in layers. Soak each layer with mayonnaise.
- Sequence of layers: potatoes, grated on a coarse grater, small cubes of chicken meat, pickled onions, grated yolks, finely chopped Chinese cabbage, grated processed cheese, protein.
- Twist the protein strips that we prepared in advance into a flower-shaped spiral and place them on the grated whites. The center of the flowers can be made from pieces of red or orange bell pepper. Add dill sprigs for decoration.
Remove the rings. It turned out to be a real wedding wreath. Let this beautiful salad brew for a couple of hours and you can surprise your guests.
White Bride salad with chicken and mushrooms
Mushrooms work great in salads, making the dish tasty and piquant. “Bride” is no exception; it can also be cooked with mushrooms.
Ingredients:
- chicken breast - 200 gr.
- eggs - 5 pcs.
- champignons - 200 gr.
- onions - 1 pc.
- hard cheese - 150 gr.
- mayonnaise
Cooking method:
- Boil chicken breast and eggs. Separate the whites from the yolks. Grate the yolks and cheese, cut the chicken into small pieces.
- Finely chop the onion and fry until golden brown.
- Cut the champignons into pieces and fry in vegetable oil.
- There is no need to fry for a long time, as long as the excess liquid is removed and they acquire an appetizing appearance. Mix mushrooms with onions.
- The ingredients are all ready, you can assemble the salad. Place in layers, soaking each layer with mayonnaise: chicken meat, cheese, mushrooms and onions, yolks, whites.
- Serve after letting it sit for a while in the refrigerator.
As you can see, the “Bride” salad can be prepared in different ways, each one deserves attention. Recipes with step-by-step descriptions and photos will help you choose the salad that you like best. The ingredients are available at any time of the year, so you can prepare it for any holiday - New Year, March 8, birthdays. Even children will like the delicate combination of products.
Try it! Bon appetit.
Cooking secrets and tips on how to decorate
There will be some subtleties regarding the preparation of the dish, I hope these notes in the margins will be useful to you and will be useful.
Look, I have some options for decoration that I can offer, and although this is an orchid salad, it’s not a delicate decoration and design in the form of a flower.
- To make things go faster, it is better to boil all the products and prepare them in advance, and then assemble the snack, this will save a lot of time, you understand, it is valuable now.
- It turns out more tender with chicken, fish and crabs, but I don’t recommend using pork or beef.
- Chicken can be boiled, fried, baked, or smoked.
- You can add hard or processed cheese, but I like processed cheese better, it’s tastier and more tender. To ensure it rubs well, place it in the freezer for an hour.
- In versions with beets, cook them separately from all vegetables, and do not cover them with water.
- Also, carrots and beets can be baked in the microwave, oven, or slow cooker.
- In the recipe you can mix mayonnaise with sour cream, or use only sour cream.
- If you flavor the sour cream with lemon juice and mustard beans, it will be even tastier.
- Layers, if desired, do not forget to add salt and pepper to taste and desire.
Another decoration option, very gentle and elegant, like a bride in a dress with the most delicate fragrant flowers underneath, which evoke pleasant feelings and emotions. Decoration made of eggs, carrots and greens.
This is an option with a rose of tomatoes in the center, and greenery also has a place to be. The appetizer itself is airy on top and prepared in the form of a skirt, at least my imagination says so.
I will be glad if the recipes presented in this issue are useful to you and you choose the one you like best. I adore this dish for its tenderness, lightness, and unsurpassed taste.
The appetizer will suitably decorate any holiday table, especially since we have so many holidays ahead, you can cook and try it. We go to visit, guests come to us, we always want to please and surprise them!
