How to cook "Nest of wood grouses" - lettuce

It is quite difficult to imagine a festive table without salads and snacks. In addition to the traditional Olivier, the hostesses want to surprise their guests with unusual dishes that are not only delicious, but also have an original look. This can be said about the "Nest of wood grouse", a salad that has an interesting design, corresponding to its name. At the same time, it is possible to prepare and decorate it for experienced chefs and beginners.

As with other dishes, there are several options for recipes, according to which you can prepare "Nest of wood grouse", salad is delicious and hearty. So, you need 5 eggs, a few potato tubers, a half kilo of chicken fillet, 2 carrots, onions, several cloves of garlic, greens, mayonnaise and vegetable oil. Carrots and potatoes are cut into thin strips, fried in a frying pan until golden brown. In the case of potatoes, you can use a deep fryer. Fried vegetables are divided into two parts: one will go into the salad, and the other will be used for decoration. The boiled chicken fillet is sorted into fibers. Fresh cucumber is cut into thin strips. In boiled eggs, the yolks are separated from the proteins, the latter are cut into pieces. In the prepared dishes mixed meat, cucumber, squirrels, vegetables, dresses all with mayonnaise. A salad is laid out on a flat plate, leveled, in the middle a small indentation is made, in which "eggs" will be placed. For them, the yolk mixes with mayonnaise, chopped herbs, passed through the garlic press. From the mixture small balls are shaped, similar in shape to the eggs. Around them they are surrounded by fried potatoes and carrots, imitating twigs.

Talking about how to prepare a salad "Nest of wood grouses", one can not help recalling the following recipe. All the ingredients of this dish should preferably be cut into the same size straw, in which case it will have a more attractive appearance. Chicken meat, ham, egg whites, fresh cucumber are sliced. Champignons are fried for a few minutes in a frying pan. Potatoes are cleaned, cut in the same way as the rest of the ingredients, laid out in a hot frying pan, where it is cooked until the crusty crust is formed. To do this, it is recommended to less often interfere with it, do not cover it with a lid, and add salt only at the end of the frying.

Half of the potatoes are put aside for decoration, while the other is mixed with all the other ingredients, dressed with mayonnaise and laid out on a dish. To "Nest of wood grouses" salad had its original appearance, in the middle a small depression is made. Now a bookmark is prepared in the form of eggs. For her, yolks are mixed with soft mashed cheese (you can use fused), chopped herbs and garlic. A little mayonnaise is added, so that the mass is viscous. From it a few small "testicles" of elongated shape are molded, put on a salad. On the edges of the dish is laid out straws of fried potatoes.

It should be noted that the recipe "Glukharina nest" can assume different ingredients, while some supplement the dish with new original tastes. So, instead of fried mushrooms, pickled, not only mushrooms, but also honey-mushrooms, mushrooms and others will come here. Looks interesting "Glukharinoe nest", laid out on the leaves of a green salad.

You can also make a "nest of wood grouses" salad, without mixing the ingredients, and laying them in layers. Thus, chopped chicken meat is placed on the salad leaves, smeared with mayonnaise, then mushrooms, egg white, fresh cucumber, browned onions, ham. On top put balls of egg yolk, mixed with mayonnaise and garlic, and on the sides fried potatoes straws. It can also be replaced with rye croutons. In any case, whichever recipe is used, the dish turns out to be full and original.