Beans of any sort and condition of ripeness, as well as chicken meat (especially fillets) - an excellent harmonious gastronomic pair - using these products as basic, you can prepare a variety of delicious and healthy salads. Such salads can be considered dietary, while they will be very nourishing, which is very important and attractive for those who want to have a close dinner or dinner, while maintaining the harmony of the figure.
A recipe for a salad of red beans and chicken with mushrooms
Ingredients:
- kidney beans red ready, boiled (will go and canned) - about 200-300 g;
- chicken meat boiled, without skin and pips (from the breast and / or thighs, drumsticks) - about 300 g;
- mushrooms fresh: oyster mushrooms, mushrooms or white (can be pickled) - about 300 g;
- onion red or common - 1 pc., or young green;
- sweet red pepper - 2 pcs .;
- fresh fresh herbs (parsley, basil, coriander, etc.);
- garlic - 2 cloves;
- cold pressed vegetable oil;
- natural vinegar or lemon juice.
Preparation
If using canned beans, drain the preserving sauce-syrup and rinse it with boiled water, then pour into a colander. Of course, you can use colored beans or even white (the latter, however, is less useful than red and color).
If using pickled mushrooms, remove them from the marinade and rinse. If mushrooms are fresh, cook them for 20 minutes and drain. Oyster mushrooms can not be cooked, they are edible and useful in their raw form.
Boiled chicken meat cut into small pieces, onions - half rings or quarter rings, sweet peppers - short straws. Cut garlic and greens finely.
Combine all the ingredients in a salad bowl and pour a dressing from a mixture of oil and vinegar in a ratio of 3: 1, mix and serve on the table. Instead of oil-vinegar dressing, you can use natural unsweetened medium-fat yogurt or mayonnaise (preferably home-made).
To such a wonderful salad is good to serve a glass of another light table wine for better assimilation.
Chicken salad and green beans
A remarkably useful salad can be prepared from a string bean with a scoop, carrots, marinated mushrooms and cucumbers.
Ingredients:
- green beans - 1 standard package;
- chicken meat boiled, without skin and bones - about 300-400 g;
- onion - 1 pc .;
- carrots in Korean - about 200 g (you can buy ready-made in the enterprises of the house kitchen);
- mushrooms marinated any - about 200 g;
- pickled cucumbers not large - 4-5 pieces;
- fresh fresh herbs (parsley, dill, basil, coriander);
- garlic - 1-2 cloves;
- cold pressed vegetable oil;
- vinegar, natural apple or lemon juice.
Preparation
Take from the pack of frozen beans as much as necessary (for example, 1/2 or 2/3), and boil for the time indicated on the packaging, after which we throw it back to the colander.
Boiled chicken meat shall be cut into small pieces, cucumbers - circles or cubes, onion - half rings. If
We will combine in a salad bowl chicken, beans, mushrooms, cucumbers, carrots in Korean and greens with garlic. Plyad dressing from butter with vinegar or lemon juice (ratio 3: 1). Instead of butter and vinegar dressing, you can use unsweetened yogurt or mayonnaise. In this salad, too, young green olives without pits will be out-of-the-way - they can be cut into slices. You can also add 2-3 hard-boiled chopped chicken eggs.
To this salad you can serve table wine or bitter or berry tincture as an aperitif.