Watermelon slice is an incredibly beautiful and delicious salad. At the same time, it is prepared very easily, the products are the simplest, you can change the internal content to your taste. The main thing is a decoration of fresh vegetables and cheese.
Here are three step-by-step recipes for Watermelon Slice salad with the most popular filling.
Salad "Watermelon Slice" - general principles of preparation
The salad is layered, laid out on a flat dish, smeared with mayonnaise. The main ingredient is usually boiled chicken. It can be filet or other parts. With a smoked breast or ham, a slice can also be prepared, it will turn out to be a very interesting taste.
What else can be included in the "Watermelon slice":
• eggs;
• cheese;
• mushrooms;
• Korean carrots.
Internal content may vary. But tomatoes and cucumbers are always laid on top, which give not only taste, but also an imitation of pulp, watermelon crust. For greater realism, olives are laid on tomatoes, reminiscent of black seeds. Salad can be served immediately, but it is better to let it soak a little. It is not recommended to store the Watermelon Slice in the refrigerator for a long time, as fresh vegetables lose their appearance over time.
Salad "Watermelon Slice": a step by step recipe with chicken
A variant of a very beautiful, simply unusual salad. It is very tasty, original, prepared from simple products. The step-by-step recipe for Watermelon Slice salad uses regular chicken fillet. If there is already a boiled product, then it can be safely used.
Ingredients
• 400 g chicken;
• 1 large cucumber (fresh);
• 2-3 tomatoes;
• 3 boiled eggs;
• mayonnaise and spices;
• some olives;
• 140 grams of cheese.
Cooking
1. Rinse the fillets, put in a pan, pour water. You don’t need to add a lot of liquids, let him barely cover chicken. We put on the stove. To improve the taste, you can add a few spices: peas of peppers, lavrushka, herbs or pieces of onion. After boiling the fillet, boil for 20-25 minutes, no longer needed, otherwise the white meat will become dry and hard.
2. Take the chicken out of the broth, cool, cut into pieces, you can make small straws or cubes, tear the fibers with your hands. We choose any convenient option, but do it finely, so the salad is better saturated and it will be more convenient to collect, then pick from the dish.
3. Put the boiled chicken on a flat plate as the first layer. We make the shape of the lobule, that is, the crescent. You can pepper. From above, grease this layer with mayonnaise, let the chicken soak for a while.
4. Grate coarsely cucumbers, sprinkle with salt and set aside. Let them release juice for now. Then it will need to be removed so that the salad does not drip on a plate.
5. Peel the boiled eggs, rub on a coarse grater, slightly add, stir and spread on top of the chicken fillet, continuing to form a beautiful watermelon slice. We also grease the eggs with mayonnaise or draw a fine mesh, but you do not need to add a lot of sauce. Smooth the back of the spoon.
6. Rub hard cheese with small chips. First, we just lay out an even layer, then we form a small elevated roller on the side of the crust to give the salad the shape of a lobule and give a white layer, which is under the green crust of the watermelon.
7. Cut the tomatoes first into slices. We remove all seeds and liquid, only meaty parts will be used in this salad. Cut them together with the skin into small pieces, spread the watermelon pulp, continuing to form a slice.
8. Squeeze the cucumbers, on the other side of the cheese roll lay the watermelon crust. Press lightly with your hands so that the chips are not noticeable.
9. Olives are needed for decoration. Cut lengthwise into four or six parts, so that it looks like seeds. We lay out the red pulp of watermelon made from chopped tomatoes.
10. Let the slice soak for 30-40 minutes. It is undesirable to keep a vegetable salad for a long time, since the top of cucumbers and tomatoes will lose its attractive appearance.
Salad "Watermelon Slice": a step by step recipe with fried mushrooms
This option can be cooked with pickled mushrooms, as you like. In any case, very tasty. In this step-by-step recipe salad "Watermelon slice" we use simple mushrooms.
Ingredients
• 200 g of champignons;
• 1 onion head;
• 150 g of boiled chicken;
• 2 tomatoes;
• 150 grams of hard cheese;
• 1 cucumber;
• 5-7 branches of dill;
• 180-200 g of mayonnaise;
• spice oil, olives for decoration.
Cooking
1. Pour a couple of tablespoons of oil into the pan, do not need to add a lot so that the salad does not turn out to be greasy. Also, do not use butter, it is better to take vegetable olive or sunflower.
2. Rinse mushrooms, dry and cut into small pieces. Put in warmed oil, cook until all excess moisture has been removed from the fungi.
3. Cut the onions into small and thin cubes, pour over the mushrooms and bring to full readiness. Season with spices.
4. Transfer the filling from the pan to the bowl, let it cool.
5. Finely chop or grate the cucumber, season with salt. Leave to release excess fluid.
6. Cut the boiled chicken fillet into small pieces. It can be laid out in a separate layer, but it turns out better when mixed with fried champignons. Therefore, we combine them, immediately add a little mayonnaise, so that everything is well saturated and stir.
7. We spread the mushroom salad with chicken on a flat dish or on a plate, forming a watermelon slice.
8. Grate the cheese, sprinkle the first layer and also lightly grease with mayonnaise. From the residues we lay out a neat roller along the crust, that is, along the thickened edge of the watermelon slice.
9. Cut the tomatoes, remove all excess, use only the crusts with the skin. Cut them into neat cubes, spread them on one side of the cheese, level the layer with your hands, form the neat edge of the watermelon pulp.
10. Squeeze the cucumber, put in a bowl. Finely chop the dill and add to it. You can use parsley for salad, it will also turn out delicious. Stir, then lay on the other side of the watermelon slice, depicting a green crust.
11. Decorate a slice of watermelon with seeds cut from olives. We put a watermelon slice with mushrooms in the refrigerator, let the salad soak a little.
Watermelon Slice Salad: Step-by-Step Recipe with Korean Carrots
One of the most flavorful salad options. You can cook it with a spicy taste, but this is not for everybody. The step-by-step recipe for Watermelon Slice salad shows the weight of the finished Korean carrot, which you can buy or make yourself at home.
Ingredients
• 380 g of chicken;
• 220 g of Korean carrots;
• 1-2 tomatoes;
• 3 eggs;
• large cucumber;
• 180 g of mayonnaise;
• spices;
• 120 g of cheese;
• 4-5 olives.
Cooking
1. Place chicken fillet in a saucepan. If there is not much time for boiling, then you can previously cut into several parts. Boil in full readiness, cool well.
2. Chicken eggs also put in a saucepan, boil until cooked hard boiled. Pour with cold water, cool, cut into small cubes or grate.
3. Grate a large cucumber, season with salt, leave to release juice for fifteen minutes.
4. Squeeze Korean carrots from excess marinade. Put on the board, cut into pieces so that the strips are not too long. We crumble about a centimeter. If this is not done, when applying salad to the plate, the layers will stretch for a long straw, the appearance of the salad will suffer., And it will be inconvenient to eat it.
5. Immediately prepare the tomatoes. Dice the pulp, removing seeds with liquid.
6. Cheese can also be grated immediately so as not to be distracted by anything while assembling a watermelon slice.
7. Chilled chicken fillet cut into small pieces or just tear, sorted into fibers.
8. Take a large plate, lay on it a crescent layer of chicken fillet.
9. Season to taste with pepper, grease with mayonnaise, carefully stretch the sauce with a spoon, take pieces of fillet to make a slice smooth.
10. On top of the greased fillet, carefully lay a layer of prepared Korean carrots. Fans of spicy dishes can additionally flavor it with red pepper. This soda does not need to be lubricated.
11. Now lay the boiled eggs, grated or cut into small cubes. They immediately need to be pressed to the carrot layer, only after that grease with mayonnaise. Otherwise, the pieces will reach for the spoon.
12. Put the cheese roll along the outside of the watermelon slice, sprinkle the egg layer with the rest, but just a little.
13. Put the watermelon pulp from prepared fresh tomatoes.
14. We make a green crust on a slice of squeezed cucumber shavings, you can add a little parsley or dill to it.
15. Decorate the salad with chopped olives, imitating the seeds and you're done!
Salad "Watermelon Slice" - useful tips and tricks
• Watermelon slice is a salad that can be made low-calorie and healthy. To do this, instead of mayonnaise, just add sour cream. For taste, you can season it with mustard, spices.
• Instead of olives, black grapes can be used to simulate watermelon seeds. By the way, sometimes a slice with green grapes is prepared, which is laid out instead of cucumber.
• To thinly and evenly lubricate the layers with mayonnaise, you can make a mesh. To do this, the package is punctured, the sauce is squeezed out in a thin stream.
• To soak the bottom layer of chicken fillet, the bird can be mixed with mayonnaise and spices in a bowl, then spread on a dish.
