Then, there will be, of course, Salade de boeuf, which is made with cooked chicken meat, despite its name. It's Mum's speciality; she cooks a whole chicken breast with carrots, parsley roots, onions, a piece of celery, seasoned with parsley and salt - regular chicken soup, actually, at least how whe make it.
Then she dices all ingredients, together with boiled potatoes (boiled in the peel, to keep their aroma), boiled eggs and some sour cucumbers. Then she makes mayonnaise (always home-made, never what you get in the supermarket), mixes it with the diced chicken meat, vegetables, etc., and lets it ripe in the fridge overnight.
On the next day, the salad is filled into small, hollowed tomatoes, and the slice removed from the top of the tomato is put back like a little hat. It looks fantastic, and it's absolutely delicious.
French salad, as it is also called, is quite popular in Hungary, but most people put boiled green peas and raw apples into it, which makes it way too sweet. Peas have the tendency to dominate every other taste anyway, so we never use them for the French salad.
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Date: 2014-10-01 06:53 pm (UTC)It's Mum's speciality; she cooks a whole chicken breast with carrots, parsley roots, onions, a piece of celery, seasoned with parsley and salt - regular chicken soup, actually, at least how whe make it.
Then she dices all ingredients, together with boiled potatoes (boiled in the peel, to keep their aroma), boiled eggs and some sour cucumbers. Then she makes mayonnaise (always home-made, never what you get in the supermarket), mixes it with the diced chicken meat, vegetables, etc., and lets it ripe in the fridge overnight.
On the next day, the salad is filled into small, hollowed tomatoes, and the slice removed from the top of the tomato is put back like a little hat. It looks fantastic, and it's absolutely delicious.
French salad, as it is also called, is quite popular in Hungary, but most people put boiled green peas and raw apples into it, which makes it way too sweet. Peas have the tendency to dominate every other taste anyway, so we never use them for the French salad.