One very good friend of mine recently watched 'Julie and Julia' (if you haven't seen it and you love good food and Meryl Streep you should do so) and inspired her mum to start a blog, which i think is absolutely amazing! We all know that there is nothing better than your mum's cooking - and these brave ladies decided to share their secret family recipes with the whole (Russian speaking) world. I will link it here in case you are interested to check out a mixture of Jewish and Eastern European cuisine recipes -
Inna's blog.
Recently I was doing some cooking and I decided why not to share this one with you too. This one is quite an easy salad (despite the fact that there is a lot of chopping to do) that my mum does sometimes when we have guests around or something like that. So here it is:
You will need following:
Smoked chicken - about 400g
Chinese leaf or sweet lettuce
Colorful peppers - you can choose one colour it just adds some brightness to the salad
Cucumber
Tomatoes
Sliced tinned mushrooms- or you can fry them yourself
Pineapple chunks
and
Mayo and sour cream for the sauce between the layers
To make it easier I prefer to chop all the ingredients first and then just create the layers of the salad. Also it looks nice if you have a glass form for the salad. However, it is all about the taste at the end of the day :)
For the first layer I chop the lettuce and put it in the glass form
next is chicken
after that we want to add some colour by adding
peppers and
coating it with mayo and sour cream. I usually mix 2 table spoons of sour cream and 2 tbs of mayo in a separate bowl.
after, a new section of our salad begins with pineapple chunks and mushrooms
add on your chopped tomatoes and cucumber
finally add on everything what is left from chicken and lettuce and coat it with the mayo layer.
Sorry, don't have the photo of the final result. But I promise it was tasty.
Try it out and let me know what you think.
Bon appetite!
