Like many Ant hill salads has several options of preparation, do it of beef, chicken fillet, ham and even squids. Invariable is only a salad form. It can be spread the hill that gives to a dish similarity to an ant hill. Besides, salad is strewed sometimes from above with poppy which imitates small ants.
Beef Ant hill salad
For preparation of this option of Ant hill salad it is required:
- 700 g of beef; - 3 heads of onions;
- 2 carrots of average size; - 500 g of fresh mushrooms; - 4 pickles; - bunch of green onions; - 4 eggs; - 1 tablespoons of wheat flour; - vegetable oil;
- mayonnaise; - salt; - poppy. Wash beef under flowing water, put in a pan and fill in with hot boiled water so that it hardly covered meat. Cover a pan and put on weak fire. When water begins to boil, scum a skimmer and you cook meat to full readiness. Minutes for 15 before the end of cooking, salt meat and if desired put in spice broth (bay leaf, pepper a pot). Cool ready beef and overwind via the meat grinder.
Clean onions and carrots, wash, small chop and fry in a frying pan on vegetable oil. Crush a cucumber pickles a knife. Rub off mushrooms a damp towel or wash, slice and too fry. Small chop the washed-up and dried green onions. Mix crude eggs with wheat flour, properly shake up and bake omletny pancakes from the prepared mix. Then cut them in the form of noodles or straws.
Despite simplicity of preparation, Ant hill salad it is quite labor-consuming. That to make it, about 2 hours will be required.
Carefully mix all prepared salad components. Dress "Ant hill" with mayonnaise and lay out in a deep salad bowl or on a dish the hill. From above strew salad with poppy.
Chicken Ant hill salad
To make chicken fillet Ant hill salad, it is necessary to take: - 700 g of chicken fillet; - 3 hard-boiled eggs; - 1 crude egg; - 1-2 fresh cucumbers of average size; - 1-2 carrots; - lettuce leaves; - 200 g of cherry tomatoes; - 1 grapefruit; - 200 g of a soft cheese; - soy-bean sauce; - mayonnaise; - vegetable oil; - bread crumbs; - salt; - spices to taste. First of all, make chicken. For this purpose wash up fillet, dry, cut it on strips and pickle in a soy-bean sauce for about 20 minutes. Properly shake up crude egg a nimbus. Dip marinated chicken fillet in egg, then bread in crackers and fry until ready on vegetable oil. Peel grapefruit and cut or break pulp on small pieces. Then mix grapefruit with the fried chicken straws and set aside for about 15 minutes. During this time meat has to become impregnated with a fruit juice.
For preparation of Ant hill salad according to this recipe it is recommended to use feta cheese.
Wash cherry tomatoes and cut them in half, and hard-boiled eggs – on quarters. Grate a soft cheese. Cut fresh cucumbers with thin straws. Wash up carrots, clean and grate. Connect all prepared salad components, fill it I will merge, spices, mayonnaise and well mix. Then lay out the hill in a salad bowl and give on a table.