Before you receive guests, you often have to think about how to please and surprise them. Traditionally, several salads are prepared. To impress with its original look and unusual taste, of course, the “Pomegranate Bracelet” salad can. It is easy to cook it according to simple recipes with the photo in the article.
Selection and preparation of ingredients
For the salad, you should select the meat of young chicken, because it is cooked for a short time and in boiled form remains juicy and tender. Before cooking, you need to wash it well. Pomegranate should be well ripe. It should be cleaned and grains separated.
Did you know? The Greeks call pomegranate juice a love potion, and the Turks sell it as a strong aphrodisiac.
Salad Recipes
Salad “Pomegranate Bracelet” is one of the five most beloved dishes served at the festive table. This is explained not only by its original refined taste, but also by its unusual, effective, eye-catching look. It contains several layers, is made in the form of a ring and decorated with pomegranate seeds.
There are a lot of cooking options for this dish. Below you can find the classic version - with the addition of chicken and beets.
You can also cook it from beef, smoked chicken, tongue, game, add prunes, cucumbers, walnuts to it. Every time you can get a practically new dish with an original taste.Did you know? In ancient Rome, pomegranate was called a granular apple, in medieval times - a seed apple. Italians believe that it was this fruit that became the subject of contention between the biblical characters Adam and Eve.
With chicken
6–84–5 hours
Nutritional value per 100 g:
Boil chicken, eggs and vegetables, except carrots and onions. Grind carrots by grinding on a grater.
Lightly fry it in a pan with the addition of vegetable oil.
Put it on a sieve and let the excess oil drain.
Pour boiled water over the chopped onion - this will remove the bitterness from it.
Dice the breast.
Grind eggs, beets and potatoes. Remove the kernels and finely chop.
Proceed to the collection of lettuce on a large-diameter dish: put a glass in the center of it (preferably upside down), lay the first layer of potatoes around the glass and lay mayonnaise on it.
Cover the potatoes with a second layer - chicken. In the future, mayonnaise should be poured on each layer.
Place the ingredients in the following order: onions, carrots, nuts, eggs, chicken, beets.
Align the edges.
Garnish the top of the salad with pomegranate.
Remove the glass. Leave the infusion dish for 3-4 hours in the refrigerator.
Boil chicken, eggs and vegetables, except carrots and onions. Grind carrots by grinding on a grater.
Lightly fry it in a pan with the addition of vegetable oil.
Put it on a sieve and let the excess oil drain.
Pour boiled water over the chopped onion - this will remove the bitterness from it.
Dice the breast.
Grind eggs, beets and potatoes. Remove the kernels and finely chop.
Proceed to the collection of lettuce on a large-diameter dish: put a glass in the center of it (preferably upside down), lay the first layer of potatoes around the glass and lay mayonnaise on it.
Cover the potatoes with a second layer - chicken. In the future, mayonnaise should be poured on each layer.
Align the edges.
Garnish the top of the salad with pomegranate.
Remove the glass. Leave the infusion dish for 3-4 hours in the refrigerator.Video recipe
Important! To make chicken meat juicy and tender after cooking, it should be boiled in salted water with bay leaf for about 15–20 minutes. If you cook the chicken longer, it will be a little dry.
With beets
6–82 h
Nutritional value per 100 g:
- Grind the boiled beets with a grater.
- Mix with pomegranate seeds.
- Introduce chopped nut kernels.
- Pour in sugar.
- Mix with mayonnaise.
Video recipe
Important! Beets must be boiled separately from all other ingredients so that it does not color them red.
So, despite the seeming complexity and intricacy at first glance, the Pomegranate Bracelet salad is made from simple ingredients, quite quickly and simply. To make it tasty, you should choose high-quality products, adhere to cooking tips and observe the recommended proportions of the components.
