If you have doubts about what appetizer to prepare for the festive table, pay attention to the watermelon slice salad. It looks like a bright, juicy slice of watermelon in its appearance, and its taste will make your guests come again and again.

Watermelon Chicken Salad Salad - Step-by-Step Recipe

The main ingredients:

  • Chicken fillet - 0.3 kg;
  • Cheese - 0.1 kg;
  • Paul cans of olives;
  • One medium cucumber;
  • Mayonnaise to taste;
  • Two tomatoes.

Step by step cooking:

  1. Prepare the chicken fillet by boiling and cutting into small pieces. Put in a salad bowl.
  2. Grind the cheese and divide into two parts. One will go inside the salad, and the other will look good as a decoration.
  3. Cut the olives in the form of rings and also put in the dishes for other ingredients.
  4. Pour the mayonnaise on top and mix all the ingredients; you can add spices if you like.
  5. Put the mixture of ingredients on a flat plate in the form of a slice of watermelon.
  6. We process tomatoes - peel and cut into pieces. Spread on the bulk of the salad. Make sure that the tomatoes completely cover with themselves all the other components. This is our red watermelon pulp.
  7. Pour grated cheese next to slices of tomatoes, forming a semicircle.
  8. Peel the cucumber and grate. He will go the second semicircle after cheese. This is a green crust of watermelon.
  9. Cut the remaining olives from the jar into two slices. And put on the red pulp. They are watermelon seeds.

Smoked chicken

 

Appetizer can be prepared not only in the form of slices, but also in the form of a whole watermelon. Its filling can be any, for example, smoked chicken.

Component List:

  • Smoked chicken meat - 0.2 kg;
  • Two tomatoes;
  • Hard cheese 0.2 kg;
  • One cucumber;
  • Olives, greens, mayonnaise - to taste;
  • Nuts.

How to cook:

  1. Smoked chicken get rid of excess skin.
  2. Chop the meat into small strips, add part of the grated cheese to it.
  3. Walnuts are released from the shell and divided into small parts.
  4. They are added to the bulk of the salad along with olives and mayonnaise.
  5. Place the meat mixture in the center of the plate.
  6. Getting to the decoration. Sprinkle the outer edge of the salad with cheese.
  7. The second tier layer is grated small cucumbers.
  8. The flat surface of the appetizer - sliced ​​tomatoes pulp up. The picture is completed with black olives - depicting watermelon seeds.

With Korean carrots

Korean carrots add piquancy and special piquancy to the dish.

Necessary components:

  • Chicken fillet - 0.15 kg;
  • Korean carrots - 0.1 kg;
  • Three tomatoes
  • Five olives;
  • Two cucumbers;
  • Salt and spices to taste.

Watermelon Slice Salad Recipe:

  1. The basis of the dish is Korean carrots and meat. They must be prepared first. You can use chicken in any form - boiled or smoked.
  2. Cut the fillet into small squares. This is the first layer in a salad bowl.
  3. The second layer is carrots. If the carrots are made too long, they should be cut. Lay on top of the meat and coat with mayonnaise sauce.
  4. Lay slices of chopped and washed tomato on top of a layer of carrots. Pour a variety of seasonings on them to your taste.
  5. We cut the olives in half and place them on the tomato surface.
  6. The side wall of the appetizer is grated cucumbers mixed with fresh dill or parsley.
  7. You can put the finished salad in the refrigerator to fix the form.

Watermelon slice with grapes and pomegranate

Fruits and berries give the dish a sweetish taste on the one hand, and some acidity on the other. In this case, the balance will be fully respected. And the appearance of the salad will be completely different.

  • Smoked chicken meat - 0.15 kg;
  • One carrot;
  • Two boiled eggs;
  • Cheese - 0.1 kg;
  • One glass of pomegranate seeds;
  • One bunch of seedless grapes;
  • Two cloves of garlic;
  • Mayonnaise.

Cooking steps:

  1. Process boiled carrots on a grater.
  2. Do the same with chicken eggs and cheese.
  3. Crush the garlic and mix with mayonnaise.
  4. Cut the grapes in half. The salad should be in the shape of a crescent.
  5. We spread the layers on the plate: fried mushrooms, carrots, eggs, cheese.
  6. Pomegranate seeds - our watermelon pulp - will serve as the outer shell.
  7. Spread the grapes in the form of a green watermelon crust.
  8. Put the prepared salad in the refrigerator for 40 minutes so that all the ingredients are completely saturated.

Veal Watermelon Slice Salad

 

If you are fed up with chicken, you can replace it with tender young beef. So the snack will be more nutritious and rich in vitamins.

The composition of the recipe:

  • Veal - 0.3 kg;
  • Three tomatoes
  • Four chicken eggs;
  • One cucumber;
  • Olives - 0.1 kg;
  • Hard cheese - 0.15 kg;
  • Mayonnaise sauce - 0.2 kg.

What should be done:

  1. First you need to prepare the meat. Boil it in a pan until soft for 40 minutes.
  2. Boil eggs, process cheese with a coarse grater.
  3. Prepare tomatoes and cucumbers by cutting them into pieces.
  4. Make olives from olives.
  5. Cooked meat is recommended to chop in small pieces, but can simply be divided into fibers.
  6. In a separate bowl, put together and mix the eggs, veal, some tomatoes, cheese and mayonnaise.
  7. First put this mass on a wide dish in a semicircle.
  8. It remains to draw the surface of the appetizer using the squares of tomato, cucumbers and olives in the above manner. The perfect complement to the festive table is ready.

With bell pepper and herbs

Bell pepper with parsley and dill is an excellent substitute for tomatoes and cucumbers, if their taste is already tired.

Structure:

  • Boiled Chicken Breast - 0.4 kg;
  • Champignon mushrooms - 0.3 kg;
  • Onion - 0.1 kg;
  • Three eggs;
  • One red bell pepper;
  • Cheese - 0.05 kg;
  • One cucumber;
  • Mayonnaise, spices and salt to taste.

Cooking method:

  1. Onions cut into small pieces should be fried in a pan until a golden hue is obtained.
  2. Add the champignon straws to the onion.Sprinkle with spices.
  3. We cut the chicken breast into squares and mix with mayonnaise.
  4. We spread the prepared ingredients in a special dish, first meat, then mushrooms, followed by eggs and mayonnaise.
  5. Finely chopped bell pepper will serve as a beautiful decoration for the dish. We spread its pieces on top of the salad.
  6. The cucumber processed on a grater is laid out in the form of a green crust.
  7. We make olives as watermelon seeds in their usual place.
  8. The cheese will be between the crust and the pulp.

With fried mushrooms

Mushrooms will give the dish a completely different taste, and the salad will melt in your mouth.

Ingredients Required:

  • Chicken meat - 0.5 kg;
  • Mushrooms - 0.2 kg;
  • Cheese - 0.2 kg;
  • Five eggs
  • Two onions;
  • Two carrots;
  • Two tomatoes;
  • Mayonnaise - 0.4 kg;
  • Two cucumbers;
  • Six olives;
  • Greens for decoration.

Cooking recommendations:

  1. Let's take meat. It must be washed, cooked in a saucepan and cut into pieces.
  2. With vegetables, we carry out the standard procedure for this salad.
  3. Fry small slices of mushrooms in a pan with the addition of onions and vegetable oil.
  4. We build layers of our snack. First, meat, followed by mushrooms and onions, then in direct sequence cheese, eggs, carrots, fresh onions.
  5. We proceed to the formation of appearance. Spread the edge with grated cucumbers, the middle with cheese, and the flesh with tomatoes and black olives. You can sprinkle with greens on top.

It is not necessary to adhere to strict proportions and a list of ingredients. Adjust the quantitative indicator of the salad for yourself and choose any products that you and your guests will like.

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