Salad Yin-Yang
Description
The recipe won't take much time. I'm sure you've probably seen other versions of this salad. The point is, the key element of this salad isn't a specific combination of ingredients (unlike, for example, Olivier salad), but rather the way it's decorated. Essentially, you can prepare any salad you like, but by arranging it in the shape of the yin-yang symbol (for reference, this is an Eastern symbol representing the duality of human existence—the symbol of opposing aspects of a single reality, such as black and white, good and evil, male and female, birth and death, and so on, meaning all things opposite), you get exactly the "Yin-Yang" salad (the correct term for this Eastern concept is "Yin and Yang," but the salad has popularly become known as "Yin-Yang"). So, here's a very simple recipe for "Yin-Yang" salad. Serve at the table.
Instructions
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Step 1
Finely chop the cooked chicken breast and place it in a round salad bowl, forming an even circle. Spread mayonnaise on top.
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Step 2
Cut the fresh cucumber into small cubes (if the cucumber is old, peel it first; if it's young, you can chop it with the skin, as it's soft).
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Step 3
Place an even layer of cucumbers on the chicken and spread mayonnaise on top.
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Step 4
Boil the eggs until cooked, separate the whites from the yolks. Crumble the yolks.
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Step 5
On the cucumber layer, place a layer of crushed yolk and spread with mayonnaise. Then add a layer of grated cheese and again apply mayonnaise.
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Step 6
Actually, we have a tasty ready-made salad in the shape of a circle. Now, using a toothpick, we need to mark all the lines present on the "Yin and Yang" symbol.
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Step 7
Soak the prunes in boiling water for 10 minutes, then finely chop and use them to fill in the black areas on the salad.
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Step 8
Place the white parts of the salad with crushed egg whites. Smooth out the layers of prunes and egg whites, then refrigerate the salad. After one to two hours, the "Yin-Yang" salad will be ready to serve.