Chicken salad with mushrooms and walnuts

Layered, hearty, delicious - from available ingredients! Chicken salad with mushrooms and walnuts is suitable for both a festive table and a daily one. It perfectly satisfies hunger, looks great on the table, besides it is quite simple to prepare.
Natalia TsybulskayaAuthor avatar
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Composition / ingredients

servings:
Translation table of volumetric measures
Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 39 % 12 g
Fats 52 % 16 g
Carbohydrates 10 % 3 g
197 kcal
GI: 100 / 0 / 0

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 30 min
  1. Step 1:

    Step 1.

    How to make chicken salad with mushrooms and walnuts? Prepare the ingredients. You can take any part of the chicken. My mushrooms are universal - champignons, but they can also be any other seasonal mushrooms, you can also use frozen mushrooms after defrosting them. Any cheese will do, but preferably not very soft varieties, so that it can be grated.

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2.

    Peel the onion, cut into small cubes.

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3.

    Heat the vegetable oil in a frying pan. It can be any vegetable from sunflower to olive, but preferably refined, because only refined oils can be subjected to heat treatment. Put the chopped onion in a frying pan and fry it for about 5 minutes until golden brown.

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4.

    Wash the mushrooms well, cut into cubes.

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5.

    Add the mushrooms to the pan, add salt so that the mushrooms give off excess liquid, fry for about 15 minutes until crispy. Then cool well.

  6. Step 6:

    Step 6.

    Mix mayonnaise with crushed garlic. I put it through the press, but you can chop it with a knife or grate it on a fine grater. I also strongly recommend using homemade mayonnaise of our own production, not that there is no benefit in the store, it is even harmful to the body. It is quite possible to replace mayonnaise with sour cream or natural yogurt.

  7. Step 7:

    Step 7.

    Our salad is layered, let's proceed directly to its preparation. Chicken, if you have raw chicken, boil in salted water for 20 minutes, then cool and cut into small pieces.

  8. Step 8:

    Step 8.

    Mix chopped chicken with 1 tbsp mayonnaise with garlic.

  9. Step 9:

    Step 9.

    Prepare a salad dish. Put the chicken with mayonnaise in the first layer.

  10. Step 10:

    Step 10.

    Boil hard-boiled eggs (usually 8 minutes after boiling water), cool the eggs in cold water, peel and chop.

  11. Step 11:

    Step 11.

    Put a layer of eggs on the chicken, then a little mayonnaise.

  12. Step 12:

    Step 12.

    Now a layer of fried mushrooms, - spread it over the surface. A little more mayonnaise.

  13. Step 13:

    Step 13.

    Grate the cheese and put it on the mushrooms.

  14. Step 14:

    Step 14.

    The final touch is walnuts. Chop them coarsely and put them on top of the salad. At your request, the nuts can be pre-fried in a frying pan.

  15. Step 15:

    Step 15.

    Let the salad brew for 30 minutes and serve. Bon appetit!

Any oils are useful only until a certain temperature is reached - the point of smoking, at which the oil begins to burn and toxic substances, including carcinogens, are formed in it. How to determine the roasting temperature and choose the best oil for frying, and which is better not to use at all, read here .

It is better to prepare mayonnaise yourself. It will be tastier and healthier. See here interesting recipes for homemade mayonnaise.
Also, as a dressing, you can use not only mayonnaise, but also sour cream or natural yogurt. They can be taken separately or mixed with mayonnaise in any proportion to your taste - this will reduce the calorie content of the dish.

Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish

  • Chicken egg - 157   kcal/100g
  • Egg white - 45   kcal/100g
  • Egg powder - 542   kcal/100g
  • Egg yolk - 352   kcal/100g
  • Ostrich egg - 118   kcal/100g
  • Champignons - 24   kcal/100g
  • Walnuts - 650   kcal/100g
  • Black Walnut English Walnut - 628   kcal/100g
  • Black Persian Walnut - 651   kcal/100g
  • Walnut oil - 925   kcal/100g
  • Dutch cheese - 352   kcal/100g
  • Swiss cheese - 335   kcal/100g
  • Russian cheese - 366   kcal/100g
  • Kostroma cheese - 345   kcal/100g
  • Yaroslavsky cheese - 361   kcal/100g
  • Altai cheese 50% fat content - 356   kcal/100g
  • Soviet cheese - 400   kcal/100g
  • Cheese "steppe" - 362   kcal/100g
  • Uglich cheese - 347   kcal/100g
  • Poshekhonsky cheese - 350   kcal/100g
  • Lambert cheese - 377   kcal/100g
  • Appnzeller cheese with 50% fat content - 400   kcal/100g
  • Chester cheese with 50% fat content - 363   kcal/100g
  • Edamer cheese with 40% fat content - 340   kcal/100g
  • Cheese with mushrooms of 50% fat content - 395   kcal/100g
  • Emmental cheese with 45% fat content - 420   kcal/100g
  • Gouda cheese with 45% fat content - 356   kcal/100g
  • Aiadeus cheese - 364   kcal/100g
  • Dom blanc cheese (semi-hard) - 360   kcal/100g
  • Cheese "lo spalmino" - 61   kcal/100g
  • Cheese "etorki" (sheep, hard) - 401   kcal/100g
  • White cheese - 100   kcal/100g
  • Fat yellow cheese - 260   kcal/100g
  • Altai cheese - 355   kcal/100g
  • Kaunas cheese - 355   kcal/100g
  • Latvian cheese - 316   kcal/100g
  • Limburger cheese - 327   kcal/100g
  • Lithuanian cheese - 250   kcal/100g
  • Lake cheese - 350   kcal/100g
  • Gruyere cheese - 396   kcal/100g
  • Garlic - 143   kcal/100g
  • Salad mayonnaise of 50 % fat content - 502   kcal/100g
  • Light mayonnaise - 260   kcal/100g
  • Provencal Mayonnaise - 624   kcal/100g
  • Provencal mayonnaise - 627   kcal/100g
  • Table mayonnaise - 627   kcal/100g
  • Vegetable oil - 873   kcal/100g
  • Salt - 0   kcal/100g
  • Onion - 41   kcal/100g
  • Chicken breast (fillet) - 113   kcal/100g

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