In Russia you can find large variety of salads, especially with mayonnaise dressing. Such salads are little bit heavy and could nourish you easy, especially during winter time.
Despite the fact that they’re tasty, better to cut down mayo dressings and replace it with sour cream or yogurt.
The below wonderful salad could be served not only for a family dinner, but for any festive occasion. It consists of simple ingredients, tastes good and deserves to be in your cooking book 🙂
Ingredients
- 2 medium chicken fillet
- 12 prunes (dried plums)
- 200 g mushrooms (champignons)
- 1 onion
- 2 eggs
- 2 cucumbers
- 1 tbsp olive oil
Dressing
- 150 g sour cream
- 1 tsp plain mustard
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
- salt, pepper
Put the prunes in a cup and cover with hot water, let stand for 30 minutes. Remove stones and cut prunes into pieces.
Boil the chicken, let cool, then cut it into small cubes.
Boil the eggs for 10 minutes. Shred the cucumbers and cooled eggs.
Cut the onion and mushrooms, fry together with 1 tbsp olive oil until golden-brown; set to cool.
Mix ingredients for the dressing.
Layers
- Prunes
- Chicken fillets
- Spread 1/2 dressing
- Mushrooms with onion
- Spread 1/4 dressing
- Eggs
- Spread the remaining 1/4 dressing over eggs
- Cucumber
Done! Let the salad stand for 1 hour and you can enjoy! 🙂