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Snowdrift Salad
Delicate, hearty, and nutritious Snowdrift Salad is made from a simple set of ingredients but stands out with its fairytale-like, "snow-covered" appearance. Boiled vegetables and meat are interspersed with a mayonnaise layer that ensures the juiciness and binding of each level. A little pickled onion adds a mild tartness to the salad's neutral flavor, while halved eggs, dusted with grated cheese, create the illusion of winter snowdrifts. This is the perfect dish for all New Year's celebrations.
Preparation time: 1 hour.
Caloric content: 198 kcal per 100 grams of the dish.
Ingredients
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- chicken drumsticks – 3 pcs. (400 g),
- eggs C 1 – 5 pcs.,
- garlic – 1 clove,
- freshly ground pepper – to taste,
- white onion – small head (approximately 40 g),
- 9% vinegar – 10 ml,
- white sugar – 15 g,
- drinking water – 100 ml,
- hard cheese – 100 g,
- thick mayonnaise – approximately 120 g,
- large carrot – 1 pc. (90 g),
- potatoes – 2 pcs. (110 g).
Preparation
- Prepare the ingredients for the Snowdrift Salad. The chicken drumsticks can be replaced with any part of the chicken or another meat-containing product. Boil the drumsticks in salted water until cooked (approximately half an hour), boil the eggs for 10 minutes, and cook the potatoes and carrots for about 20 minutes (until soft).
- Cool the chicken meat, then remove the skin and separate it from the bone. Finely chop the flesh.
- Grate the potatoes on a coarse grater (it will be more crumbly and non-sticky if well chilled).
- Grate the carrot coarsely.
- Cut the onion in half, and then cut each half crosswise. Then julienne the onion.
- Place the chopped onion in a bowl and add sugar. Crush and rub the ingredients with your hand.
- Add the vinegar and water. Mix and set aside – let the onions marinate.
- Peel the eggs and cut them in half lengthwise. Carefully remove the yolks and place them in a separate bowl.
- Mash the yolks with a fork.
- Squeeze the garlic into the yolks.
- Gradually start adding mayonnaise to the yolks, achieving a creamy consistency.
- Fill the empty white halves of the eggs with the resulting mixture.
- Now you can start forming the Snowdrift Salad. A large flat dish without edges will work well for this. Before assembling, cover the bottom with a mayonnaise net.
- Lay down the first layer of potatoes with mayonnaise.
- Next, spread the grated carrots and also cover them with a mayonnaise net.
- Now it's time to add some acidity to the layers with the pickled onions. Before adding them to the salad, they should be well wrung out from moisture.
- Then evenly distribute the meat.
- Apply a layer of mayonnaise on top.
- Lay half eggs cut side down on top.
- Using a spoon, lightly spread the convex tops so that the cheese sticks well to them.
- Grate cheese directly on the eggs. The cheese shavings should fall freely into all the dips and bumps, mimicking snowdrifts.
Next, let the Snowdrift Salad sit on the table for about 20 minutes so that all layers soak up the flavors – this will make them even more tender and juicy. When plating into serving plates, separate the portion where the egg half is located (one snowdrift). Thus, this layered salad is divided into 10 equal servings with its dusted elevation.
