Salad
Description
Minimum effort — excellent result. This unusual and delicious "Crystal" salad is very easy to prepare, using ingredients you always have at home. The salad presentation is simple: just mix chicken broth with gelatin, chill until set, then cut into cubes and place on top of the salad. Serve this salad at festive occasions. Can be served immediately.
Instructions
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Step 1
Prepare the ingredients for making the salad.
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Step 2
First of all, prepare the "aspic". Soak the gelatin in 2-3 tablespoons of cold chicken broth. Let it swell for 10 minutes. Then add it to hot, clear, salted chicken broth. Stir until the gelatin is completely dissolved. Pour the broth with gelatin into any flat dish so that the layer is 1.3–1.5 centimeters thick. Chill in the refrigerator.
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Step 3
While the "crystal" is setting, prepare the salad. Boil the potatoes in their skins, cool, peel, and grate. Line the salad bowl with plastic wrap, letting the edges hang over. Place the grated potato into the bowl.
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Step 4
Spread a layer of mayonnaise over the potato layer.
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Step 5
Peel, wash, and finely chop red onion or any salad onion. Place as the second layer of the salad.
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Step 6
Place a salted or pickled cucumber on a layer of onion.
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Step 7
Finely chop the boiled chicken and place it on top of the cucumbers. If you boiled the chicken in unsalted broth, season this layer with salt. Spread mayonnaise over it.
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Step 8
Boil the eggs hard, cool them, peel and finely chop. Place on top as the final layer of the salad.
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Step 9
Spread the layer of eggs with mayonnaise.
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Step 10
Carefully flip the salad onto a plate and remove the plastic wrap. Spread mayonnaise over the entire salad.
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Step 11
It's time for the "crystal." Take the chilled broth with gelatin out of the refrigerator. Cut the broth into cubes with sides of 1.5-2 centimeters. Place the broth cubes on the salad.
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Step 12
The "Crystal" salad is ready. Serve it at the festive table.