The recipe for the salad "Monomakh's Hat": we cook differently, but it's still delicious!

Among the various salads of vegetables and meat about the "Cap of Monomakh" there are legends. Each housewife has her own special recipe for such, and if you put them together, the composition of the ingredients and the sequence of their "packing" will not always coincide.

Duty option

Here, perhaps, is the simplest and most widely known salad recipe "Monomakh's Hat". It includes: 3-4 medium potatoes, 1-2 chicken legs or chicken breast, several cloves of garlic, 2 medium carrots, 3 eggs, a handful of walnuts, 50-60 g of hard cheese, grain from quartet of pomegranate. You can cut out a bowl-crown from an orange crust for decoration. Or from a large tomato, taking out the middle. The bulb is also suitable. All components of the recipe for salad "Monomakh's Hat" is recommended to be laid out in layers on a flat dish in the form of a dome (caps).

1. Vegetables are boiled in the peel, cleaned and rubed on a large grater into separate vessels; Separately rubbed cheese.
2. Meat is also boiled with salt and spices, finely cut into cubes (a separate plate).
3. Nuts are finely minced, eggs too.
4. Garlic chokes, mingles with meat.
5. The first layer is potatoes, on top is a grid of mayonnaise. The second layer - meat and also mayonnaise. Then alternately a layer of carrots, nuts, eggs. All smeared with mayonnaise, so that the salad turned juicy. Above, the "cap" is "hammered" with grated cheese and decorated with patterns of pomegranate seeds. At the crown of the head is a "crown" -makovka, also filled with grenades. However, the recipe for a salad "Monomakh's Hat" allows replacing them with a handful of green olives, olives or canned peas, corn. Naturally, if desired, you can add salt, pepper, other seasonings, focusing on your taste.

Option "Original"

Although the "Cap of Monomakh" is considered an assortment of meat and vegetables, many culinary specialists make the dish purely vegetarian. It turns out to be also very tasty and seemingly attractive, although it differs radically from the canonical version.

The recipe for the salad "Cap of Monomakh" is vegetarian: 300 g of ordinary white cabbage; 1-2 fresh cucumbers; 1 red large Bulgarian pepper and 1 same, only yellow; A bunch of fresh parsley; Vegetable oil for refueling; A pinch of salt, a teaspoon of sugar (you can 2), a spoonful of vinegar; Sour berries for decoration (cranberries, red currants, etc.). Preparing is this colorful vitamin multicolored so:

• Cabbage finely shredded or rubbed on a coarse grater, we put our hands together to let the juice, salt, and put it in a transparent salad bowl;
• Peppers cut into half-ropes and sent to cabbage;
• Slices cut cucumbers - and there;
• Shred the greens - and also in the salad bowl;
• Now dressing: mix salt, sugar, oil, vinegar (the number of ingredients can be combined to your liking) and this marinade water the salad. We decorate with berries. Let him work a little - and you can eat.

And again "Monomakh-assorted"

Let's consider one more salad "Cap of Monomakh", the recipe of which includes additional vegetable components. This is the head of a red bryachka and canned peas. Meat products are taken pork - 300-400 g. All boil, rub and sliced the same way as in the first recipe. Only the eggs in different plates separate the proteins and yolks. Proteins finely chop, yolks rub. And garlic is mixed with mayonnaise. For those who are looking for a "Monomakh's Hat" salad in the culinary books with a photo, we offer simply a detailed description of the preparation:

1. A layer of half a potato (only 3 pieces, large, which means that for the first layer there are one and a half pieces) to grease with garlic mayonnaise. You can podsolit.
2. Beetroot (for the whole salad - 1 piece) and mayonnaise. The lubricant is applied after each layer.
3. Half of the whole carrot (2 medium size for the whole salad). You can pour and pepper for spicy.
4. Half of the nuts (total gram 50-60 goes).
5. Half of the meat product, also a little salt and seasonings, spicy spices. And do not forget about mayonnaise.
6. The second part is potatoes.
7. Yolks.
8. Half of cheese (total goes to a salad of 150 g, hard).
9. The last layers are meat and carrots. From above to beat the resulting "hill", giving it the appearance of a hat, it is good to "run off" mayonnaise. Sprinkle with squirrels, make fur out of nuts. Crown - as in the first version of the salad. And from the beet you can still cut rhombic rubies, decorate the salad, as well as pomegranate, corn kernels, green peas.

That's it, "Cap of Monomakh"! Prepare a salad and surprise your loved ones with culinary talents!