Salad "King of the Table"

All the ingredients of the layered salad "King of the Table" blend beautifully, creating a simply delightful taste. Fried chicken, mushrooms, cheese, vegetables, eggs with a faint hint of garlic, pickled cucumbers - all layers hold their shape firmly, rising alternately in a rectangle. And, although this is not the simplest recipe, in this case, the game is worth the candle.

As a base, you can use a household basket of suitable size, which should be very carefully lined with food wrap.

Caloric content: 142 kcal per 100 grams of the dish.

Preparation time: 30 minutes + 3 hours for the salad to stabilize.

Yield: 10 servings.

Ingredients

The proportions of the ingredients are indicated with maximum accuracy for a shape measuring 232 mm x 162 mm x 74 mm.

• boiled butter mushrooms (they can successfully be replaced with champignons, which do not need to be pre-boiled) - 400 g;
• onion - 130 g;
• gelatin - 14 g + 150 ml of water;
• thick mayonnaise - 250 g;
• boiled eggs - 5 pcs;
• cheese - 150 g;
• carrot - 300 g;
• pickled cucumbers - 140 g;
• garlic - 2-3 cloves;
• chicken fillet - 360 g;
• potato - 260 g.

Preparation

For decoration - 3 cherry tomatoes, a bit of dill, green onion.

If the vegetables and eggs are pre-boiled, the preparation will take half an hour + another 3 hours for the salad to stabilize.

1. For faster frying, cut the fillet into slices of 1-1.5 cm.

2. Salt them and, dipping in flour, fry.

3. Lightly sauté the onion cubes in a skillet.

4. Then fry it together with the mushrooms until all the moisture evaporates. Salt.

5. Dissolve all the gelatin in the water. When it swells after a few minutes, heat it to a warm state and stir again to avoid residues. Pour this liquid into the mayonnaise and mix until homogeneous.

6. Grate the whites and yolks, dividing them into 2 plates.

7. Finely grate the cheese.

8. Combine it with the yolks, thinning with 2 spoons of the mayonnaise mixture.

9. Then fill the bottom of the mold. Compact it.

10. Add 2 spoons of the same mayonnaise to the mushrooms. Place them as the second layer.

11. In the grated carrot, add a couple of spoons of the mayonnaise mixture and garlic. Salt if necessary.

12. Lay the 3rd layer evenly.

13. Form the 4th layer from the whites, diluted with the same mixture.

14. Place the cucumber cubes on top.

15. Drizzle them with the mayonnaise mixture.

16. Cut the cooled fillet arbitrarily.

17. Place it as the 6th layer and pour with the jelly-mayonnaise.

18. Grate the potato coarsely.

19. Mix it with the remaining mayonnaise and place it as the final layer. Send the "King of the Table" salad preparation to the refrigerator for about 3 hours.

20. Then turn the mold onto a dish and remove the wrap.

For decoration, use the halved cherry tomatoes cut on a diagonal, dill, and green onions. Portion bars are easy to slice and hold their shape. The "King of the Table" salad will undoubtedly be the center of attention at the festive table, justifying its name.