Women like to cook salads with chicken, because to create them you don't need to mess around in the kitchen for half a day, and as a result, the dish turns out to be very satisfying and tasty. True, poultry meat itself is often dry, so juicy ingredients, for example, pineapples, are added to the salad. Fruits add spice to the snack.
If you've never made a chicken and pineapple salad, then it's time to fix it. Consider 3 simple recipes for making poultry salads.
Chicken and pineapple salad - recipe number 1
Many women like this salad recipe, there are a minimum of ingredients in the dish, and the taste is simply amazing. To make a salad with chicken and pineapple, take the following foods:
- 0.5 kg of boiled chicken breast;
- 1 can of canned pineapples
- 100 g of walnuts;
- 150 g of prunes (you can take more, it all depends on personal preference);
- 2-3 st. l. mayonnaise.
To make a salad with chicken and pineapple, follow these steps:
- Take a flat plate and place the finely chopped chicken on top of it.
- Remove the walnuts from the shell, chop the kernels. Do not turn the nuts into "dust", let the pieces be small so that they can be felt in the salad.
- Place the chopped prunes, pre-soaked in hot water, on the nuts.
- Spread mayonnaise on the prunes with a thick layer.
- Spread canned pineapple in the last layer. It will look nice if you buy pineapple rings, but eating such a salad is not very convenient. Therefore, decide for yourself what is more important: the beauty of the dish or the convenience of the guests.
Before serving, the salad with chicken and pineapple is recommended to be kept in the refrigerator for 2-2.5 hours so that the dish is saturated with mayonnaise. If you do not have that much time, then the first layer of the appetizer is chicken, also grease with mayonnaise. With this approach, the salad will not be dry.
Chicken and pineapple salad - recipe number 2
The following recipe for salad with chicken and pineapple is liked by the hostesses for its juiciness. The dish is prepared quickly and looks bright.
To make a salad with chicken and pineapple, take:
- 350 g of boiled chicken fillet;
- 300 g pineapples. Both canned and fresh are suitable;
- 200 g of red bell pepper;
- 50 g walnuts;
- 150 g of hard cheese;
- 100 g sour cream for dressing;
- Salt and dry garlic to taste.
The stages of cooking are as follows:
- Cut the chicken into large cubes.
- Wash the pepper, remove the stalk, clean the grains, cut into cubes.
- If you bought canned diced pineapples, just remove them from the liquid, let the water drain a little, put the fruit in a deep plate. If you purchased pineapples in rings, then cut them into large cubes. Remove the peel from fresh fruit, cut into slices.
- Add chicken and pepper to a plate to pineapples, grate cheese on a coarse grater.
- Season the prepared salad with dry garlic and salt to taste, season with sour cream. Mayonnaise can be used if desired.
- Let the salad sit for 10 minutes.
Garnish the salad with pre-chopped nuts before serving.
Chicken and pineapple salad - recipe number 3
The recipe for chicken and pineapple salad, which will be discussed below, is the most satisfying and contains many ingredients. Many housewives believe that the dish is more suitable for daily family dinners than for a festive table, but this is a matter of taste.
To make a salad with chicken and pineapple, you need:
- 300 g boiled chicken breast;
- 0.5 cans of canned pineapple;
- 1 cup boiled rice
- 1 fresh carrot;
- 2 fresh cucumbers;
- 1 fresh apple;
- 1 cup canned corn
- 2 cloves of garlic;
- 10 olives;
- Mayonnaise (sour cream can be used) to taste.
Chicken and pineapple salad is prepared according to the following scheme:
- Cut the chicken into small cubes.
- Wash the cucumber, remove the inedible parts, cut into thin slices.
- Cut the pineapples into cubes.
- Wash the carrots, peel them, grate them on a fine grater.
- Wash the apple, peel it, chop it on the track.
- Cut the olives into 4 pieces or thin slices.
- Combine the prepared ingredients in a deep bowl: chicken, pineapple, carrot, cucumber, apple, olives. Add rice and corn to a bowl.
- Season the salad with mayonnaise (sour cream), add garlic passed through a press to the dish. Mix everything.
- Add salt and spices to taste if necessary.
The chicken and pineapple salad prepared according to this recipe has an unusual taste and satisfies hunger well.
