Stefania salad with chicken and grapes. Tiffany salad with smoked chicken and grapes

Tiffany salad with chicken and grapes – recipe with photos step by step:

Rinse the chicken fillet, blot the moisture with a napkin, and cut into small pieces. At the same time, place a frying pan on the burner and pour in a small amount of oil. After heating to maximum, lower the fillet pieces inside and fry them over maximum heat until lightly golden, stirring occasionally. For aroma and piquancy, season the meat with curry, pepper, and salt to taste.

Rinse the lettuce leaves, dry them completely, and place them on a flat plate in one or two rows.

Cool the fried chicken completely, then place it in the middle of the plate on lettuce leaves.

Squeeze thin strips of mayonnaise onto the meat.

Grate the eggs on a fine grater, place in the next layer, and also cover with mayonnaise.

Grind hard cheese in the same way as eggs, form the next row from the shavings, brush with mayonnaise.

Grind the walnut kernels in a blender or mortar until they form fine crumbs, crush the cheese layer with it. There is no need to lubricate this row with mayonnaise.

Rinse the grapes, separate them from the main bunch, cut each grape into two parts, remove small seeds. Place the grape halves, cut side down, around the entire perimeter of the salad.

Place the finished dish in the refrigerator for several hours to soak. Amazing Tiffany salad with chicken and grapes is ready!

Grapes are one of the few products that can be combined with meat and dairy components of salad. Dried fruits are suitable as filling, for example, boiled carrots with raisins, dried apricots or prunes.

Hard and young cheeses, such as mozzarella and feta, are suitable for grapes. Use the nuts you have on hand. For an expressive taste, lightly fry and then crush the kernels.

To prepare a dish correctly, follow each step step by step, and use your culinary imagination when decorating.

Tiffany's salad with grapes, pineapple and smoked chicken

For the salad, use either smoked chicken breast or trim the flesh from smoked hams. If possible, use fresh fruit instead of canned pineapples.

Cooking time 30 minutes. Yield: 4 servings.

Ingredients:

• smoked chicken – 300 g;
• canned pineapples – 1 can 300 g;
• Russian cheese – 200 gr;
• seedless grapes – 200-250 g;
• mayonnaise 67% fat – 150-200 ml.

Cooking method:

1. Place the pineapples in a colander to drain excess liquid.
2. Grate the cheese, cut the washed grapes in half.
3. Cut the chicken and pineapples into strips.
4. On a flat dish, place the salad in layers in the shape of a triangle, pouring a mesh of mayonnaise over each one. Spread the fillet in the first layer, then the pineapples and cheese.
5. Place the grape halves on top, cut side down, giving the salad the appearance of a bunch of grapes.
6. If you have a few grape leaves, decorate the edges of the plate with them.

Tiffany salad cake with grapes, cheese and chicken

An original salad, shaped like a cake with stripes of multi-colored grapes, will decorate every holiday table.

To make chicken meat juicy and flavorful, place the breast in boiling water. Add bay leaf, 5-6 peppercorns, onion and half a carrot to the broth. Cooking time for chicken fillet is 1-1.5 hours. For the salad, you can fry the chicken flesh, but then the calorie content of the dish will increase.

Ingredients:

• chicken breast – 400 g;
• quiche-mish grapes of 3 colors – 15 pcs each;
• hard cheese – 150-200 g;
• boiled eggs – 4 pcs;
• pickled champignons – 10-15 pcs;
• mayonnaise – 200 ml;
• garlic - 1 clove;
• basil – 3 leaves;
• lettuce - 1 bunch.

Cooking method:

1. Cool the chicken breast, boiled until tender, and separate into fibers or cut into strips.
2. Remove the champignons from the marinade, dry, and cut into slices.
3. Grate the cheese and boiled eggs separately.
4. For dressing, mix mayonnaise with chopped garlic and basil leaves.
5. Distribute the washed lettuce leaves on a festive round dish.
6. Form the salad in layers, in the form of a round or square cake. Coat each layer with mayonnaise dressing.
7. Divide the chicken flesh in half. Place half on lettuce leaves, slices of champignons on top, then a layer of grated eggs and cheese. Cover the salad with the remaining fillet and pour over the mayonnaise.
8. Decorate the top of the dish with a strip of green grape halves. Place a strip of blue grapes closer to the center, and place slices of red berries in the middle. Decorate the sides of the cake with grapes if desired.

Delicate Tiffany salad with grapes and walnuts

For a piquant taste, add a clove of garlic to the salad dressing and ground paprika on the tip of a knife. Use fish fillets of your choice. It is better to boil the fish carcass whole, then separate the fillets and remove the bones.

Cooking time 30 minutes. Yield: 2 servings.

Ingredients:

• walnut kernels – 1/3 cup;
• seedless grapes – 150 g;
• canned olives – 1 can;
• processed cheese – 150 gr;
• boiled mackerel fillet – 150 g;
• mayonnaise – 50 ml;
• sour cream – 50 ml;

Cooking method:

1. Lightly fry the nuts and pound in a mortar.
2. Cut the fish fillet into cubes, grate the soft cheese into shavings, cut each olive into 3-4 rings, and cut the grapes in half lengthwise.
3. For each serving of salad, use a separate plate; place the prepared foods in a heap. Sprinkle each layer with mayonnaise mixed with sour cream and sprinkle with some chopped nuts.
4. Place olives on a mound of fish fillet cubes and spread melted cheese curls on top.
5. Completely cover the salad mound with grape slices, and decorate the edges of the serving plate with walnut crumbs.

2017-11-16

Hello my dear readers! Are there salads on your holiday menu that don’t get boring and “live” happily ever after? I have! I found him a decade and a half ago on the legendary Cooking forum. This is Tiffany salad with grapes and chicken.

When I started putting together a menu for my husband’s birthday (he had an anniversary on November 4), the first item in the appetizer section was boldly reserved for salad with grapes and chicken. It has taken root with us so much that without it a holiday is not a holiday.

There were many disputes, proposals and doubts regarding other points. And Tiffany’s salad did not raise any objections and was adopted unanimously. Over the years, its composition has undergone some changes. Therefore, I decided to present it to your judgment, my dear readers, after the “upgrade”.

How the salad with Tiffany grapes has changed over the many years of living in my kitchen

Tiffany salad is prepared with chicken and grapes. In the original version, fried chicken breast flavored with curry seasoning was used as “chicken”. Not a bad option if you know how to cook dry meat so that it is juicy.

Lately, instead of breast, I take boiled meat from drumsticks, thighs, or make chicken ham from the breast and use it to make a salad. The most economical and zealous option is to put chicken meat from the “backs” into the salad after preparing the broth. I recommend that everyone who cooks noodle broth for the holiday take a closer look at it.

Tiffany's recipes often include nuts - almonds, walnuts, hazelnuts. I don't put them in. But I have a completely “magic” ingredient that gives the salad an enchanting, incomparable taste. This ingredient is called “chaman”. It can only be replaced with “utskho-suneli”. Having cooked with chaman just once, you will love this spice for life, it makes the taste of many dishes so expressive.

I rarely prepare mayonnaise salads. It’s best to season them with homemade mayonnaise, but in a hurry I sometimes use a good store-bought mayonnaise (there are practically no good or excellent store-bought mayonnaises).

The authentic recipe contained exclusively emerald-colored grapes.
I made my first attempts exclusively using Arcadia or Laura grapes. But now I use any large, tasty, beautiful grapes. Sometimes you can’t get one and you have to choose the best one from what is available on the shelves.

The original called for layering lettuce on lettuce leaves. I do this very rarely. Salad leaves, as a rule, remain uneaten and are thrown away, which I absolutely do not like.

I present to you the recipe step by step. It is very simple to implement. Begin!

Tiffany salad with grapes and chicken - recipe with photo

Ingredients

• Boiled chicken meat (without skin) from two medium-sized legs.
• 250 g of hard quality cheese.
• 3-4 hard-boiled eggs.
• Large berries of tasty grapes with thin skin.
• Half a teaspoon of ground black pepper.
• One teaspoon of chaman (fenugreek) or utskho-suneli (blue fenugreek).
• Mayonnaise.

How to cook

My comments

• Some people prepare the dish with smoked chicken, but I didn’t really like this option.
• As an experiment, try adding some crushed walnuts or pine nuts to your salad.
• For juiciness, my friend puts in the middle a layer of thinly sliced ​​Chinese cabbage mixed with finely chopped pitted prunes. But this is a different chicken and grape salad, not Tiffany's.

Little by little I will tell you about all the festive dishes that I prepared for my husband’s anniversary. Many of them are familiar to you, but I have changed some recipes over time, like the recipe presented today.

26.12.2017

Dear readers, today a new section is opening on my blog. I called it “Culinary Study”. You all know that I am a musician by profession. Therefore, I associate interesting culinary sketches with a musical etude - a small but capacious musical work in which skill is honed using certain techniques.

In culinary sketches, we will not only learn interesting recipes and the best methods for bringing them to life, but we will also talk about how sharing family meals strengthens family ties. And sometimes a recipe will only be an excuse to talk about something very important. So I have some ideas. Let's take a soulful, creative approach to simple culinary homemade dishes!

I invited Irina Rybchanskaya, a wonderful person very close to me, to host this column. Irina is a food blog author, essayist, mother, wife and grandmother of two teenage grandchildren. For her, cooking is not just a technological process, but creativity, experiment, search and spiritual flight.

We are opening a new section on the eve of everyone's favorite holiday - the New Year. Tiffany's festive salad with chicken and grapes, the recipe for which Irina prepared for you today, is ideal for the New Year's menu.

Let's get started and have a good start! I give the floor to Irina.

Hello, dear readers of Irina Zaitseva’s blog! I sincerely thank Ira for the opportunity to share my knowledge, experience and proven home recipes on the pages of the “Culinary Etude” section.

The blog audience is unique, and I feel great responsibility and joy from the opportunity to communicate with them. Let's talk to you about delicious things!

The most favorite holiday is approaching - New Year. Every housewife thinks about what to cook deliciously for the New Year's table. Our women's special love is festive puff salads. Today we will prepare one of them - Tiffany salad with chicken and grapes. The recipe will be presented in two versions - classic and adapted to the tastes of my family.

A girl under the nickname “Tiffany” casually mentioned the recipe for her favorite salad on one of the popular culinary forums, and the real Tiffany boom began! The salad was prepared according to the classic recipe, many variations were created, replacing some components with others, and introducing new ingredients (mushrooms, prunes).

Only one ingredient remained unchanged - grapes. But, over time, instead of green, they began to use beautiful, tasty grapes of any color.

There were funny stories with the name itself - Tiffany. It is very pretentious, unusual, and for some, completely unacceptable. One Orthodox priest I know was incredibly proud of his “mother’s” culinary abilities. The special pride of the faithful friend of the clergyman was the signature salad “Feofaniya”!

Tiffany salad with chicken and grapes. Recipe with photo

First, let's look at the classic recipe. The girl who composed it didn’t even give clear proportions of how much to use. Chicken (breast), boiled eggs, cheese, almonds, mayonnaise, lettuce, green grapes for decoration. The following proportions have been crystallized experimentally.

Then I will offer you my signature Tiffany Grape Salad recipe. We will show you step by step how to prepare a popular salad so that its taste is the most harmonious and delicate.

In my version of the recipe, I refused to fry the chicken fillet, as in the classic Tiffany. Most often now I use boiled chicken legs, skinless drumsticks and even soup sets to prepare salads. Boiled meat is much juicier, especially if it is cooked at 80°C.

Instead of curry seasoning, I use ground fenugreek (utskho-suneli, chaman). I don’t add almonds or nuts at all. Fenugreek has a delicate taste, similar to nutty and mushroom at the same time. This is quite enough to make the taste of salad with chicken and grapes harmonious. According to reviews from my readers, this is the version of Tiffany that they liked best.

To salt or not to salt the salad depends on your preferences. I prefer not to add salt. After all, we use mayonnaise for dressing, and it is already quite salty. I rarely put lettuce leaves - usually no one eats them, and I feel sorry for throwing away the stuff.

Ingredients for the classic version

• Two chicken breasts.
• 100 g hard cheese.
• Four hard-boiled eggs.
• Homemade mayonnaise (highly desirable).
• Two teaspoons of refined olive oil.
• Large emerald green grapes
• A pinch of curry.
• 60-80 g almond petals or roasted crushed almonds.
• Salt.

How to cook

• Fry chicken breast. The best way to do this is to heat a frying pan, fry the fillet sprinkled with curry and salt in refined olive or melted butter for 5 minutes on each side.
• Turn over only when one side is completely cooked and golden brown. Leave until completely cooled.
• Line a nice flat dish with washed and dried lettuce leaves.
• Place half of the chicken. To do this, cut the fried fillet into small pieces or cut into larger pieces and disassemble into fibers.
• On top of the chicken, grate or pass half the boiled eggs through a salad rack.
• Then there is a layer of grated cheese, and on top of it you should sprinkle some almond petals or crushed almonds.
• Repeat layers. Lubricate each layer with a thin mesh of mayonnaise. Lubricate the topmost one with a fairly thick layer of mayonnaise (without fanaticism).
• Wash the grapes, dry them, cut them into halves lengthwise with a sharp knife, remove the seeds with the tip of a small thin knife (if desired).
• Very compactly, berry by berry, lay out the cut grapes. Tiffany's salad with grapes is ready!

My signature Tiffany salad with step-by-step photos

Ingredients for my signature version

• 3 chicken thighs (about 600 g).
• 200 g hard cheese.
• Four hard-boiled eggs.
• Three-quarters teaspoon ground black pepper (optional).
• Two teaspoons of fenugreek, pounded or ground in a mortar (very desirable, it determines the taste of the entire salad).
• Grapes (depending on the size of the dish on which the salad will be laid out).
• Mayonnaise (preferably homemade).

How to cook

Boil chicken legs in low boiling water. If you have a thermometer with instant temperature reading, you should cook at 80°C. Cool completely, remove chicken skin, disassemble into fibers or cut into small pieces.

Place the chicken on a beautiful plate or dish.

Using a salad rack, chop the eggs. If desired, three of them on a coarse grater.

Using a medium grater, grind the hard cheese, sprinkle with fenugreek and ground black pepper.

Lubricate with a continuous thin layer of mayonnaise.

We repeat everything from the beginning until the products run out, spread a layer of mayonnaise on top. We try to fold the ingredients so that we get a small dome.

We remove the berries from washed, dried grapes. Using a sharp knife, cut into longitudinal halves. Place the berries tightly over the entire surface of the salad. You can simply lay it out in rows, or you can lay it out in zigzags, segments and other patterns.

Let the salad soak in the refrigerator for several hours and serve on the holiday table. Here is a photo of the finished salad.

Tiffany salad can be stored in the refrigerator at +4°C for twenty-four hours.

My comments

• If you have enough grapes, you can make an additional grape layer. It is better if it is made from green or pink grapes. Blue grapes produce brightly colored juice and can ruin the appearance of your creation.
• If you prefer chicken breast, then feel free to use it, just boil or fry the fillet so that it does not become dry and tasteless
• I highly recommend flavoring the dish with ground fenugreek. If you haven’t met him yet, then it’s time to get acquainted. You will fall in love with this spice forever!
• Sometimes a salad with chicken and grapes includes fried mushrooms with onions, steamed prunes, mixed with crushed toasted walnuts. It also turns out delicious, but this is a very loose interpretation of Tiffany’s recipe.

If you, dear readers of Irina’s blog, have any questions about the preparation technology and ingredients of Tiffany salad, then I will be happy to answer them in the comments to this article.

Perhaps someone is already preparing this simple and delicious salad with grapes. Share your recipes and tricks. I will be extremely glad if my information was useful to you.

All the best and see you again!

With sincere wishes of health and good luck, Irina Rybchanskaya, author of the blog Essay of a Culinary Amateur

I thank Irina for the wonderful and simple recipe; I personally really like the lightness and elegant presentation of such a salad.

Dear readers, we will be glad to hear your thoughts about the opening of our section. Write what recipes you would like to find in our section.

I wanted today's musical gift to be somewhat in tune with the theme of our meeting. The wonderful melody of Henry Mancini, the lyrics of Johnny Mercer and the gentle performance of Audrey Hepburn - an incredible feeling of immersing yourself in a bygone era... Sounds Moon River - Breakfast at Tiffany's .

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The salad under the sonorous name Tiffany is a very tasty and well-known New Year's dish. Having appeared in the depths of modern cooking, the dish “wandered” around the world for a long time and found, as befits stars, many “heirs” and “relatives”. It is unknown who is the author of this unique masterpiece. This dish was presented by a girl whose nickname was “Tiffany”. Therefore, our connoisseurs of everything beautiful and exquisite called this culinary masterpiece the “Tiffany” salad. This salad appeared in the CIS around 2000 and gained incredible popularity. Now this dish is a welcome “guest” at every holiday table, especially New Year’s.




Tiffany Salad - preparing ingredients and utensils

In order to prepare this salad you need a deep salad bowl. It is in a deep bowl that all layers of salad will be properly soaked. If you don’t have such a salad bowl, then you can use a wide dish. To cook meat and eggs you need a deep pan. It is also worth preparing a grater, a board and a set of knives.

The ingredients must be thoroughly washed and dried. The meat with eggs is boiled and cut as stated in the recipe. Each grape needs to be cut in half and the seeds removed, or buy a boneless variety. The classic version of the snack uses fried meat, so in such cases you also need to prepare a frying pan.




Tiffany salad - classic recipe

If you are a little tired of the standard New Year's appetizer (meaning "Olivier") and want something new, then the classic Tiffany salad, the recipe for which is given below, is exactly what you need! What products do you need to buy to prepare the classic Tiffany salad? Firstly, Tiffany needs the main ingredient - chicken fillet, at least two pieces. You also need five eggs, two hundred to three hundred grams of hard cheese (radomer), half a kilogram of large white grapes and half a glass of walnuts.

Tiffany salad is mixed mainly with mayonnaise - you need a small pack, no more than 200 grams. It wouldn't hurt to add a little salt. You also need to prepare curry (maximum a teaspoon), three tablespoons of vegetable oil, and, of course, fresh parsley.




Tiffany salad, the recipe for which is very simple. It is prepared as follows:

• First of all, boil the chicken fillet in lightly salted water. Once fully cooked, the meat is separated into fibers.
• Next, lightly salted meat and curry need to be fried. Fry for no more than seven minutes.
• For the appetizer, you need to prepare hard-boiled eggs, so prepare them that way.
• While the eggs are cooling, grate the radomere on a large grater and chop the nuts with a knife.
• Grind the eggs using a large grater.
• Then we thoroughly wash the grapes and cut them as indicated above.

Now after preparing the ingredients, they need to be beautifully laid out in layers on a wide plate. To begin, draw a bunch of grapes on a plate using mayonnaise (outline only). The first layer is fried meat (half). Sprinkle the meat with nut shavings. The second layer is chicken eggs (half), and the same nut chips. Make a third layer of grated radomere (use half) and again walnut shavings. Then you need to repeat everything all over again, in the same sequence. Grease each layer with mayonnaise. And the final touch is the decor of grape slices. Garnish the salad with fresh herbs and serve.




The recipe for Tiffany's salad with grapes is the same classic version, but using black rather than white grapes.

Tiffany salad with prunes - recipe

For the Tiffany salad with prunes, the recipe for which is presented below, you need products such as almonds, no more than one hundred grams, prunes (5-6 pieces) and two hundred grams of cheese (radomer). You also need three chicken eggs, four hundred grams of meat (chicken fillet), white grapes (one hundred grams) and several sheets of lettuce plus a medium pack of mayonnaise.

So, preparing Tiffany salad with a step-by-step recipe will help you prepare the dish correctly and preserve all the original taste. First you need to wash and fry the meat, and then cut it into medium cubes. We leave the meat and start working with prunes. Place it in water for fifteen minutes. You can add cognac to the water, literally one dessert spoon. The water for prunes should be warm. After steeping, cut it into strips.

Now chop the nuts and grate the radomere and boiled eggs. After preparing the ingredients, arrange the lettuce leaves beautifully on a wide plate, and start layering the Tiffany lettuce on top. The first, and also the last, layer of salad is delicious prunes mixed with meat, sprinkled with grated radomere and eggs, as well as nut shavings and smeared with mayonnaise. There should be a minimum of three layers, although you can add more layers if you like. Grape berries, cut in half, are already a decoration for the salad.




You can also make Tiffany salad with pineapples. For the Tiffany salad, the recipe with pineapples is slightly different from the same Tiffany, but with prunes. Just instead of prunes, take pineapple and cut into cubes. In this version, the meat should be fried in butter and not in vegetable oil. You can add a little chopped garlic to the meat while frying, if desired. Otherwise, all actions are similar.

Culinary secrets of Tiffany salad

The unique Tiffany salad (recipe, video of which you can see below in this article) has a number of secrets offered by famous chefs. Like any other similar salad, Tiffany must be saturated with the flavors and aromas of its ingredients. Therefore, it must be placed in the refrigerator for at least an hour.

The ideal soaking time is 7-8 hours. Another tip for housewives: do not make the layers of mayonnaise thick. There are a couple more nuances that can be taken into account when preparing this salad. Tiffany's flavor mainly depends on the method of grinding the almonds. If you want to get a good rich and pronounced taste, then do not make the almonds too small. And if you chop the nuts using a blender or food processor, the salad will turn out tender and sophisticated. If you are preparing this salad for the first time, then prepare Tiffany’s salad according to the recipe (photo attached).





Tiffany salad recipe - video

An unusual and delicious recipe. This delicious dish will tempt even the most picky gourmet. In addition, Tiffany’s “ceremonial” salad is a great decoration for the holiday table. Tiffany salad recipe, video, which you can watch below.