How to properly prepare pomegranate bracelet salad. Salad “Pomegranate bracelet” with chicken and walnuts

Wash the vegetables for the salad (potatoes, carrots and beets) thoroughly, put everything in separate pans, cover with cold water, add about half a teaspoon of salt to each vegetable and boil until tender.

Cooking time for vegetables will depend on their size. Potatoes after boiling water will be ready in 25-30 minutes, carrots - 20-25 minutes, and beets (and we will need large ones) in 50-55 minutes over low heat. Do not cut off the tail of the beets and immediately fill them with cold water after cooking. Beets need to be cooled immediately, so change the cold water more often to cool the vegetable faster.

For eggs, boil water, salt it and carefully lower the eggs. When the water boils again, cook for 9 minutes. After the designated time, drain the hot water and fill it with cold, or even better, ice. Cool the eggs well.

When all the vegetables have cooled, remove the skins from them and grate them on a coarse grater. Do the same with eggs - peel and grate.

Boil the chicken breast in salted water until tender (25-30 minutes), cool and cut into strips or cubes.

Grind the walnuts, but not into dust, but into coarse crumbs. You can wrap the nuts in a towel and beat them well with a rolling pin. Alternatively, you can chop it with a knife. If you are using a blender, a few short presses of the button will be enough.

Fry the onion (small cubes) for the salad in vegetable oil. The color should be golden and the onion itself should be soft. It is advisable to transfer the onions into a small sieve to remove any remaining vegetable oil and thus prevent excess fat from getting into the salad.

Place a glass in the center of a large plate. Place all ingredients around the glass. The larger the dish, the wider the glass should be. The height of the salad depends on the size of the plate and glass.

The first layer is pieces of chicken fillet, salt and pepper to taste, a mayonnaise mesh.

The second layer is carrots, salt, pepper, nuts and mayonnaise. Adjust the amount of mayonnaise and spices to your taste.

The third layer is potatoes, salt, pepper and mayonnaise.

The fourth layer is part of the beets, salt and pepper.

Fifth layer – onions, nuts, mayonnaise.

The sixth layer is eggs with salt, pepper and mayonnaise.

I invite you to prepare a salad with me that will decorate the table for any celebration. The Pomegranate Bracelet salad looks very impressive, is prepared very quickly and, most importantly, from simple and affordable ingredients. If you have chicken fillet and vegetables already boiled in advance, you can reduce the cooking time and prepare the salad an hour before guests arrive. An hour is enough for the salad to soak through.

I will prepare the Pomegranate Bracelet salad according to the classic recipe, without adding or removing anything from the recipe. The only deviation is that I coat each layer with mayonnaise. And also, if you want to lighten the salad a little in terms of calorie content, you can replace the mayonnaise with a mixture of mayonnaise and yogurt.

To prepare the classic Pomegranate Bracelet salad, we will prepare the ingredients according to the list. Boil all the vegetables and chicken breast, let the vegetables and meat cool completely.

While the vegetables are cooling, you can do the laborious task of extracting the pomegranate seeds. You may not always be lucky with the color of garnet, since we usually buy a pig in a poke. To my chagrin, the pomegranate was not quite ripe.

I usually prepare all the salad ingredients, and then “assemble” the whole salad on a platter. Peel the potatoes and grate them on a medium grater.

Finely chop the onion and fry it in a small amount of vegetable oil until soft. Cut the chicken fillet into very small cubes and mix it with the fried onions.

Grate the beets on a medium grater, grind the walnuts in a mortar. Mix beets and nuts.

Grate the carrots on a medium grater.

We do the same with eggs, clearing them of their shells.

Mix mayonnaise with garlic, passed through a press. If your mayonnaise is unsalted, then it would be appropriate to add salt and pepper to taste.

Since the traditional shape of the salad is a bracelet, it is best to create it using a glass, which will help us form the inner hole of the bracelet. Place the glass in the middle of the dish, greasing the outside with vegetable oil so that it can then easily come out of the hole in the finished salad.

Now lay out the prepared ingredients in layers around the glass, as shown in the photo below. Coat each layer with mayonnaise.

Layer order:

1st, bottom: potatoes

2nd layer: carrots

3rd layer: chicken

4th layer: egg

5th layer: beets

6th, top layer: pomegranate seeds

When the salad is ready, remove the glass from the middle.

Let the finished salad brew and soak for about an hour in the refrigerator. Serve the classic “Pomegranate Bracelet” salad at the table, garnished with herbs.

Bon appetit!

Writer Alexander Kuprin wrote his story “The Garnet Bracelet” back in 1910. It tells about unhappy unrequited love. The decorated salad resembles a wonderful decoration that the main character Vera Nikolaevna Sheina received as a gift from a secret admirer.

This original dish was especially popular in the 80s of the 20th century; now it is prepared less often. But if you want to surprise your family or guests, make a “Garnet Bracelet” and your loved ones will be delighted.

Today there are many variations of the recipe. First, we will describe in detail the classic recipe with a photo, then a more satisfying version of the salad, and then briefly possible “variations on the theme” and ideas on how else you can diversify the dish.

Traditional step-by-step recipe for Pomegranate Bracelet salad

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Ingredients	Quantity
Chicken (you can boil it yourself or buy smoked breast) -	300 g
3 pcs.
Carrot -	2 pcs.
Beet -	2 pcs.
Onion -	1 small
Chicken eggs -	3 pcs.
Peeled seeds of 2 pomegranates -	For decoration
Shelled walnuts -	1 tbsp.
Garlic -	1-2 cloves
Mayonnaise -	taste
Sunflower oil -	for frying meat and onions
Salt pepper -	taste
Cooking time: 180 minutes	Calorie content per 100 grams: 198 Kcal

Stages of preparing the Pomegranate Bracelet salad according to the recipe with photo:

Layer order:

Now we decorate our salad with the seeds of two pomegranates (we leave a few seeds for the inside of the ring). Next, carefully remove the glass and decorate our “Pomegranate Bracelet” with the remaining seeds.

You don’t have to decorate the inside with pomegranate. In the photo you can see how the dish will look with different designs. The choice is yours!

Place the finished salad in the refrigerator for at least 1 hour.

You can use dill sprigs for serving.

Once the layers are soaked, you can serve to your guests!

This salad really looks bright on the table, adding solemnity to the feast. Moreover, this is a good alternative to the traditional “Herring under a fur coat” (sometimes it is called “meat fur coat”).

The listed ingredients make 6-8 servings of salad.

You can watch all the stages of preparing this royal salad in the video:

Beef version of Pomegranate Bracelet

Ingredients:

• Beef or veal – 300 g;
• Potatoes – 3 pcs.;
• 2 carrots;
• Beets – 2 pcs.;
• 1 small onion;
• Peeled seeds of 2 pomegranates for decoration;
• Garlic – 1-2 cloves;
• We use mayonnaise as a dressing;
• Vegetable oil (to fry the onions);
• Salt, pepper - to taste.

Step by step stages of salad preparation:

1. The meat is boiled for 1.5 hours;
2. At the same time, boil the vegetables: potatoes, carrots and beets. Next, cut the salad ingredients into cubes;
3. Finely chop the onion and fry in oil;
4. The sequence of layers will be as follows: first potatoes, then a layer of beef, onions, then carrots and beets in turn;
5. All ingredients are coated with sauce - in this case mayonnaise;
6. As in the original recipe, the salad is decorated with pomegranate seeds.

The salad prepared in this way turns out to be more satisfying and “masculine”.

We present to you another video in which the salad is prepared with chicken, but without eggs and mushrooms. It will turn out very tasty and juicy!

Salad variations and little culinary tricks

1. Try preparing the meat differently: for example, you can salt and pepper the chicken and leave it to marinate for an hour, and then just fry it, and fry the onion in the same oil;
2. Instead of meat, you can boil and cut into cubes veal heart or liver;
3. If you are on a diet, mayonnaise can be replaced with natural yogurt or mixed halfway with sour cream;
4. If you don't like pomegranate seeds, you can try replacing the pomegranate with lingonberries;
5. There is a salad option with fish. In this case, the following ingredients are used: canned fish (for example, tuna) or lightly salted red fish; apples (preferably sour ones, such as Semerenki); chicken eggs, grated with cheese; onion; For dressing, mix mayonnaise and sour cream. The layers are laid in the following sequence: fish, half of the cheese-egg mixture, onions, apples, the rest of the cheese and egg. Each layer is also coated with dressing, and at the end the salad is decorated with pomegranate;
6. If you are a vegetarian, then the meat can be replaced with coarsely grated hard cheese. You can add a crushed clove of garlic to it and make a layer of pickled cucumbers;
7. The salad turns out to be very light if you use boiled beef tongue as a meat ingredient. Vegetables can be baked in the oven in foil. Peeled pine nuts are added to the beets. Finely chopped onion should be scalded in boiling water (after this procedure it becomes soft and not bitter). The layers in this version will be the following: potatoes, onions, carrots, tongue, egg, cheese, beets with nuts. Each layer is smeared with mayonnaise. The laid salad is traditionally decorated with pomegranate seeds and, if desired, fresh herbs.

For example, the seeds themselves perfectly cleanse the intestines. Pomegranate is useful for people suffering from high blood pressure; Due to its high iron content, it also normalizes hemoglobin levels in the blood.

Pomegranate contains a huge amount of vitamins, diabetics can eat it, and pomegranate juice cleanses blood vessels of atherosclerotic plaques.

The name of this dish brings back from our memory the touching story of Alexander Kuprin about the unrequited love of a man for a woman. The design of the “Pomegranate Bracelet” salad, the classic recipe of which we will look at step by step, resembles a woman’s jewelry - a sign of reverence for a Woman. This multi-component dish is often called meat “fur coat”, although this is fundamentally incorrect - it is more refined in both taste and appearance.

There are many recipes for making Pomegranate Bracelet salad. Many home cooks do not consider recipes as a dogma and often complement the ingredients of dishes, especially salads. Cooking is a flight of fancy, and what would we enjoy if chefs didn’t “hover” near the stove like angels and try new combinations of seemingly incompatible products?

However, each dish has its own classic version - either traditional national cuisine or created by famous chefs of the past or today. The Pomegranate Bracelet salad also has a classic version, in which the required ingredients are chicken, potatoes, beets and pomegranate seeds as decoration. Also, a prerequisite for “classicity” is its layered structure and laying out all the layers in the form of a “bracelet”.

The secrets of a delicious classic salad appetizer “Pomegranate Bracelet”

Let's look at how to prepare the Pomegranate Bracelet salad according to the classic recipe - with chicken and beets, and we will also share a few secrets on how to make it the “king of the table”.

• Cooking chicken breast for a long time will make it dry. To keep the breast tender and juicy, boil it in salted water with a bay leaf for 15-20 minutes.
• Boil the beets for an hour and then keep them in ice water for 20-30 minutes, which will allow you to quickly peel them.
• When preparing homemade mayonnaise, add a little garlic or mustard and finely chopped dill to the sauce for piquancy.
• If you don't like pomegranate seeds, replace them with corn, green peas or nuts. As a result, you will get a new salad - amber or emerald bracelet.
• Another way to reduce the amount of pomegranate seeds is to sprinkle the top of the salad mixed with pieces of walnuts.
• When the salad is ready and decorated, it should be allowed to soak. To do this, cover the salad dish with cling film so that it does not stick to the pomegranate seeds, and put it in the refrigerator for ten to twelve hours.

And now we invite you to repeat step by step all the stages of preparing the “Garnet Bracelet”.

Pomegranate bracelet salad, classic recipe

Ingredients

• - 3 tubers + -
• - 2 pcs. + -
• — 300 g + -
• - 3 pcs. + -
• Beets - 2 pcs. + -
• - 1 PC. + -
• Pomegranate - 2 pcs. + -
• Walnuts, kernels- 1 glass + -
• - 2 cloves + -
• - for refueling + -
• - 2 tbsp. l. + -
• - a couple of pinches + -
• — according to taste preferences + -

How to prepare a salad appetizer “pomegranate bracelet” step by step

We start preparing the salad by boiling beets, carrots, potatoes and eggs

In order for the boiled potatoes to turn out not falling apart, but with an intact structure, we suggest you boil them in accordance with the advice of our chef.

How to properly boil potatoes in their jackets (video lesson)

We peel and chop the boiled vegetables and eggs using a grater with large knives - each component in a separate plate.

We pay special attention to onions

• Peel the onion, cut into thin half rings, which are then divided in half. Cutting onions is also a skill, so we also offer a master class from the chef.

How to cut onions into half rings (video master class)

• Fry the chopped onion in a saucepan with 1 tbsp. vegetable oil.

Now let's get to the chicken

Boil a small piece of chicken (it can be a fillet or a thigh) in salted water, dry it, cut it into thin strips and also fry it in a saucepan.

Instead of boiled chicken, you can use smoked chicken in the recipe. Then disassemble it into strips, but do not fry it!

• Fry the walnuts a little in a dry frying pan and crush them with a rolling pin on the table to get large crumbs.

Preparing dressing for salad appetizer “Malachite Bracelet”

To do this, combine the garlic passed through a garlic press with a fine grid with mayonnaise, mix and place our garlic sauce in a food-grade plastic bag.

It’s good if you also make the mayonnaise sauce yourself.

How to make mayonnaise at home (video from the chef)

All ingredients are prepared, now we assemble them into a single salad composition

To do this, take a flat serving dish and place a glass in its center.
To enhance the appearance of this gorgeous salad, choose a large-diameter dish and place a half-liter jar in the center.

Grease the sides of the jar (or glass) with vegetable oil (for better glide when removing the glass from the center of the salad composition). We will lay out all the layers around the glass, placing them tightly against the walls of the glass.

Cut off a corner (5 mm) of the bag filled with dressing so that you can draw a mayonnaise mesh on each layer by squeezing.

Now we begin to form our multi-layer salad:

• The first layer (bottom) is potatoes (add some salt);
• The second is half the prepared volume of beets;
• The third is carrots;
• Fourth – chopped nuts;
• Fifth – half cut chicken;
• Sixth – fried onions;
• Seventh – grated eggs (add some salt);
• The eighth is the second half of cutting the chicken;
• The ninth (top) is beets (you can mix it with a small amount of mayonnaise), and draw a grid on top.

We select the seeds from two pomegranates and sprinkle them thickly on the surface and sides of our multi-layered miracle. We leave a little grain on the inner surface of the multilayer structure. Carefully remove the glass (or jar) and carefully lay out the layers of grains from the inside.

Place the finished dish in the refrigerator to soak for at least 1 hour. Bon appetit!

Benefits of the “Garnet Bracelet” for the body

The main feature of the Pomegranate Bracelet salad is its decoration with pomegranate seeds! Many people make a huge mistake by avoiding such topping, citing the fact that the dish is inconvenient to eat due to the fact that pomegranate seeds spoil the entire impression of the splendor of the dish. We want to convince you otherwise by briefly talking about the amazing healing properties of pomegranate seeds.

• Pomegranate seeds are pure fiber that can be compared to a “broom” for the intestines! This is a useful feature after a feast!
• They are a storehouse of antioxidants and essential oils that affect the central nervous system.
• Pomegranate seeds relieve headaches and can lower blood pressure.
• The seeds are rich in phytohormones - a kind of plant estrogens. Therefore, pomegranate seeds with seeds are useful for women with all kinds of hormonal imbalances or surges. And for men, juice and seeds will help them show their best qualities after the feast...

So, dear friends, the “Pomegranate Bracelet” salad, the recipe for which we so sincerely presented, is still a romantic dish, no matter how crowded and noisy the company you try it in! It’s not for nothing that in Ancient Greece the pomegranate was called “the fruit of passion and fertility”!

On the eve of the spring women's holiday, I wanted to pamper myself and you with not just a tasty, but a truly beautiful and unusual “Pomegranate Bracelet” salad. Without exaggeration, I can say that the Pomegranate Bracelet salad is the most delicious of all the salads I have ever tried.

I recently boasted about making another elegant salad. So today’s “Pomegranate Bracelet” along with a “Bouquet of Roses” can easily become a decoration for any holiday table. Both of these salads look like real gifts.

The Pomegranate Bracelet salad, among other things, has a very characteristic distinctive feature. It is prepared with a hole in the middle. That's why the bracelet. This culinary technique looks very impressive. Of course, you can prepare the “Pomegranate Bracelet” in a simple, less elegant form, like a regular salad, laid out in layers.

I admit, at the very beginning of preparing the “Pomegranate Bracelet” salad, I was tormented by the thought of how pomegranate seeds would taste in the salad. After all, they have bones. But after I tried the finished salad, my surprise knew no bounds. The pomegranate fit incredibly harmoniously into the overall taste of the “Pomegranate Bracelet”; the grains in the pomegranate did not interfere at all. Even now, when I write this text, I never cease to be amazed at how tasty and amazing this “Pomegranate Bracelet” salad is. I strongly recommend everyone to cook it at least once!

Cooking time: 60 minutes

Number of servings – 8

Ingredients:

• potatoes – 2 pcs. medium size
• carrots – 1 pc., large
• beets – 3 pcs. medium size
• onion – 1 pc. (I didn't use it)
• sunflower oil – 20 ml for frying onions
• chicken – 0.5 boiled or smoked fillet
• walnuts – 150 g
• eggs – 3 pcs.
• pomegranate – 1 pc.
• mayonnaise
• pepper

“Pomegranate bracelet”, salad step by step with photos

Boil beets, carrots and potatoes in their skins until fully cooked. Also boil 3 eggs.

To prepare the “Pomegranate Bracelet” salad, you can take either a boiled chicken breast (half a fillet is enough), or smoked or baked. I preferred smoked chicken and, as it turned out, I was never mistaken in my choice, since the “Pomegranate Bracelet” tasted amazing.

After all the vegetables have been boiled and peeled, as well as the eggs, we begin preparing the “Pomegranate Bracelet” salad.

Cut the chicken breast into small cubes or, if you are using boiled chicken, simply tear the meat into small pieces into fibers.

We immediately decide on the dish in which you will serve the salad. It should be of a fairly large diameter. A regular dinner plate won't work; it's too small for this.

Place a glass in the center of the dish. We begin to form the salad from the first layer - from the chicken. The first layer is half of the entire portion of chicken. Boiled chicken should be lightly salted and peppered.

Apply a little mayonnaise to each layer. To make this easy, I suggest this option. Cut off a small corner of the mayonnaise package. The diameter of the resulting hole will allow you to apply the so-called “mayonnaise mesh” quickly and easily. This way, each layer of salad will be evenly coated with a very moderate layer of mayonnaise. I do this even with those packages of mayonnaise that already have a neck.

The second layer of salad is all the prepared carrots. And then a mesh of mayonnaise.

The third layer is half of the total potatoes. And, of course, mayonnaise. I lightly salted and peppered the potatoes.

The original recipe for the Pomegranate Bracelet salad suggests using fried onions. I preferred to make the salad without it. If you want to make a “Pomegranate Bracelet” with fried onions, then place this layer next, on top of the potatoes.

Walnuts should be slightly dried in a frying pan (I did not do this), and then chopped. But don’t make it too small; the nuts should still be felt in the salad and have a crunch.

Place a layer of half the nuts. Mayonnaise.

Next, add a layer of half the boiled beets. And again mayonnaise.

Lay out the remaining chicken and a little mayonnaise. Salt and pepper for boiled chicken.

Again the nuts, now all the remaining ones. Mayonnaise.

A layer of eggs and the same mayonnaise.

Apply the remaining beets to the surface and sides of the salad, press with your hands, forming a flat surface.