A generous layer of golden, drained pineapple chunks.
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She began by boiling the chicken breast until tender, letting it cool in its own broth to stay juicy. As she diced the meat into small cubes, she remembered her own mother making this same salad. Back then, finding canned pineapple in the winter felt like a small miracle, a bright, tropical spark against the Russian snow. A generous layer of golden, drained pineapple chunks
Between every other layer, she spread a thin, creamy veil of mayonnaise mixed with a single pressed clove of garlic for that essential "kick". Back then, finding canned pineapple in the winter
A scattering of grated hard cheese and hard-boiled eggs.
In a small, sunlit kitchen in a high-rise outside Moscow, the air smelled of roasted walnuts and the sharp tang of garlic mayonnaise. Elena was preparing for her daughter’s birthday, and in her family, a celebration without (Chicken and Pineapple Salad) was simply unthinkable.
Elena worked in layers, the hallmark of many festive Russian salads: A solid foundation of the finely chopped chicken.