Salads may well have disappeared from world cooking in the Middle Ages. This statement is adhered to by historians because of the strong unsanitary conditions at that time. Salads were then prepared very rarely and only for noble persons.
Raw vegetables can be a source of many diseases. Therefore, ordinary people ate vegetables only boiled, baked or fried. Salads then were not made of boiled vegetables or heat-treated in any other way.
However, the dish managed to survive the Middle Ages
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Later came the time of flourishing for salads. Let’s tell you how to prepare a delicious salad for the New Year’s table.
Ingredients for the salad:
- Smoked chicken – 200 g;
- Hard cheese – 200 g;
- Cucumber – 4 pcs;
- Korean carrot – 200 g;
- Mayonnaise – 200 g;
- Boiled eggs – 5 pcs;
- Tomato – 1 pc;
- Parsley – a couple of sprigs.
Preparation of the salad:
Cut small pieces of smoked chicken and lay out in a cooking ring as the first layer. Form a mesh of mayonnaise on the chicken layer.
Shinkuem Korean carrots, lay out the second layer in the salad. Smear mayonnaise on the carrot layer. Grate cheese on a coarse grater, pour it on the layer of carrots, tamp it down and form a net.
Cut cucumbers into small cubes, put them on the layer of cheese
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Lightly smear the cucumber layer with mayonnaise.
Peel eggs, divide into yolks and whites. Grate the whites on a coarse grater, put them on the cucumber layer. Knead the yolks with your hands and crumble them on the protein layer.
Leave the salad in the refrigerator for 1.5 hours.
As a decoration cut tomato into thin half-rings and put it on the top of the salad.
Also decorate the salad with parsley and other favorite greens.
It turns out to be a multi-layered festive salad.
