"Hemp" - salad is delicious and simple

"Penki" is a salad that will not leave indifferent any member of your family or guest guest. This appetizer will decorate the festive table and make it unusual.

"Penka" salad: a recipe for cooking

You can prepare this dish in many ways. We will consider both the simplest and the most complex recipe.

So, to make a salad "Penki" with mushrooms, we will need:

• Carrots are not very large - 3 pcs .;
• Medium potatoes - 3 pcs .;
• Apples are green with sourish - 3 pcs .;
• Eggs large chicken - 4 pcs .;
• Mushrooms-champignons marinated or boiled - about 150 g;
• Chicken breasts chilled - about 300 g;
• Walnuts peeled - about 10 pieces;
• Salt and mayonnaise high-calorie - according to your taste;
• Leaves of green salad and olives - for decorating snacks.

Processing of ingredients

How quickly and simply to make a snack "Penki"? Salad should be prepared from the processing of components. Products such as carrots, chicken eggs and potatoes must be boiled, cooled and cleaned. After that they need to be rubbed on a large grater and spread out on different plates.

Also should separately boil the chicken fillet. It is cleaned of skin and bones, and then cut into cubes. Similarly, shred the green apples (you can just cut into circles).

As for walnuts, they are washed, fried in a pan, and then crushed with a mortar (part is left to decorate the dish).

Correct formation

"Penki" is a salad that does not take long to prepare. Once all the products have been processed, take a flat dish, and then install a molding ring on it. In it, alternately lay out the components. They go as follows: carrots, eggs, boiled potatoes, chicken breasts, apples, chopped mushrooms and chopped nuts. All these layers are carefully lubricated with mayonnaise. After this, the ring is carefully cleaned, and the salad is decorated with herbs, whole mushrooms, nuts and olives.

Before serving, such a snack must be kept in the refrigerator.

Make a beautiful salad "Hemp under the snow"

The simplest version of the preparation of such a snack was presented above. If you want to get a real "stump", then we suggest using a more complicated recipe. To implement it we will need:

• Carrots are not very large - 3 pcs .;
• Medium potatoes - 3 pcs .;
• Eggs large chicken - 4 pcs .;
• Mushrooms (honey mushrooms) - about 250 g;
• Ham fragrant - about 150 g;
• Fresh greens - to decorate snacks;
• Salt and mayonnaise - according to your taste;
• Cheese is hard - about 100 g;
• Pancakes ready thin - at own discretion.

Processing Products

Lettuce "Penki" with mushrooms is very beautiful and unusual. Before it is formed, you should prepare all the ingredients.

As in the previous recipe, vegetables for such snacks are boiled in salt water, and then cooled, cleaned and rubbed on a large grater. The same applies to chicken eggs.

The aromatic ham is also processed separately. It is released from the shell and shredded with a very thin straw.

As for pickled furs, some of them are finely chopped with a knife, and some are left for decoration.

How to form correctly?

Salad "Penki" with honey mushrooms should be formed without a culinary ring. For this they use only their imagination. Unlike the previous snack, this dish is done not in layers, but in a mixed form. To do this, put the grated boiled carrots and potatoes in a deep bowl, and add aromatic ham, eggs and pickled honey agarics to them. Having flavored the ingredients with sufficient amount of mayonnaise, they are carefully mixed until a thick and viscous mass forms. It is neatly laid out on a flat plate and shaped like a hemp.

First of the salad mass make a kind of cylinder, and then attach to it "roots".

After the image of "hemp" will be created, they begin to decorate it.

Decoration process

As a bark for "hemp", we decided to use thin pancakes. By simple circumcisions they are laid over the salad mass, tightly pressing to it. The upper part of the "hemp" is left open. Marinated mushrooms are laid on it, sprinkled with chopped dill.

Also mushrooms can be stuck in other places "hemp", including its "roots". The same applies to leaves of parsley and sprigs of dill. On the edges of the dish you can lay salad leaves.

To make this snack more original, it is recommended to sprinkle with grated cheese. It will serve as a kind of snow, making the dish beautiful and gentle.

How to serve to the dinner table?

Before presenting such a salad to guests, it should be kept in the refrigerator for some time. However, it is not worthwhile to store a snack in the cold for too long. Otherwise, it will lose its attractive appearance.

Let's sum up the results

"Penki" is a salad that is ideal for a festive table. Such an unusual and very tasty dish will surely surprise and please your guests.

It should be noted that you can use not only the above components to create it. For example, some housewives add to it beef, marinated cucumbers, processed cheese and other ingredients. However, the invariable component of this dish is mushrooms. They can be used in boiled and fried form. But it's better to decorate a snack with pickled mushrooms. They keep their shape well, which will definitely give the salad a special beauty and originality.

As for pancakes, it is not necessary to use them. Although with them such a snack will become unusual and very beautiful.