Various ingredients are used to prepare the Tank salad - fruits, vegetables, seafood, meat, fish. Timed to coincide with February 23, it is decorated with appropriate symbols.
Ingredients
For one of the options for a delicate and tasty Tank salad you will need:
- 250-300 g of chicken fillet;
- 150 g of any processed cheese;
- 300 g pickled gherkins;
- 5 hard boiled eggs;
- 200 g of pickled mushrooms;
- 1 onion;
- mayonnaise;
- black pepper and salt to taste;
- vegetable oil 100 g;
- 100 g of water;
- 2 tbsp. l. vinegar.
To decorate the salad you need:
- 1 boiled carrot;
- 1/2 small red sweet pepper;
- any greens.
Cooking method
All ingredients are stacked in layers in a specific sequence. It is better to cut the chicken fillet into thin oblong pieces and fry in vegetable oil. Put the fried fillet on a flat plate in the form of two ovals - the lower one is large, the top one is smaller. Next, finely chopped onions should be put in the marinade of water and vinegar for 15 minutes. Then squeeze it out and place on the first layer of chicken fillet.
Boiled eggs must first be divided into whites and yolks. Rub the proteins with a coarse grater over the onions, salt, pepper and grease with a thin layer of mayonnaise. Mix the yolks with mayonnaise. Blind the barrel of a tank from the resulting yolk mass. Distribute the remaining yolk over the salad.
Next, you need to cut the mushrooms into flat slices and spread them over the yolk mass. Rub the cheese on top on a fine grater. In principle, the salad is ready. Now it looks like a camouflaged tank. You can put the carrot stripe star on top and serve. But if you have time, it is better to bring the salad to perfection. To do this, a layer of cheese is abundantly greased with mayonnaise and finely crumbled gherkins, previously dried from brine, are laid out. The salad looks very voluminous, and due to the finely chopped gherkin - fluffy.
Star on the tank
To decorate the finished salad, a star is cut out of red pepper. To do this, it is first drawn on paper and transferred to a piece of sweet pepper. To make the star even, you need to carefully cut off the excess pulp from the pepper.
Vegetable letters
With the help of vegetables, you can make a congratulatory inscription. For this, for example, the carrots are boiled until half cooked - otherwise the letters will break - they are cut lengthwise into thin strips, then each strip must be cut again - long and very thin strips, 1 mm thick, will be obtained. The desired letters are cut from these strips. Round letters can be made from trimmed carrot walls. Letters can be made in different colors - from carrots, cucumbers, beets. For an ideal delicate taste, it is better to prepare the salad in advance so that it has time to soak overnight.
