Salad with smoked chicken, pear and cheese balls

Salad with smoked chicken, pear and cheese balls is a very tender and light salad with a mild but interesting taste. It will not be difficult to prepare such a salad, everything is as simple and fast as possible: you do not need to boil, bake or fry anything, you just need to cut the ingredients and form cheese-nut balls.
Beijing cabbage, pear, smoked chicken and cream cheese balls, almonds and parsley are perfectly combined with each other, uniting in a juicy, fresh, not heavy and at the same time quite satiating salad. Thanks to its cute appearance and interesting taste, a salad with smoked chicken, pear and cheese balls will be a wonderful dish for a festive table, diluting more hearty and heavy traditional salads. If you like the combination of meat and fruit, you will love this salad. I recommend to try.

Ingredients

• Beijing cabbage (13 sheets, 510 gr.)
• Smoked chicken breast (1 fillet, 390 gr.)
• Pears (one and a half large, 340 gr., sweet variety, for example, Conference)
• Olive oil (to taste)
• Salt (to taste)
• Black ground pepper (to taste)
• Curd cheese (140 gr.)
• Almonds (30 nuts)
• Parsley (1/3 large bunch)

Directions

1. Let's prepare all the ingredients. We remove the skin from the smoked chicken breast and separate the meat from the skeleton. Wash and dry the pears and parsley.
2. Curd cheese is better to choose with a thick, dense texture, so that it is easier to form balls from it in the future. Pears are better to choose sweetish varieties, not overripe, but soft, but dense.
3. Remove the required number of leaves from Beijing cabbage and cut them, smoked chicken fillet and pears into approximately the same small cubes. Finely chop parsley and almonds.
4. If desired, almonds can be peeled, roasted, or both. I used regular unroasted almonds and did not remove the skin from it, since for me this moment is not fundamental in this recipe.
5. Mix Chinese cabbage, chicken and pear in one bowl, add olive oil, salt and black pepper to taste. Stir gently until all ingredients are evenly distributed.
6. Combine chopped almonds and parsley with curd cheese and mix thoroughly until smooth.
7. Put the chopped and seasoned ingredients on portioned plates. With the help of two teaspoons (or hands), we form small balls from the cheese-nut mass and place them on top of the rest of the ingredients on the dish. If desired, lightly sprinkle the salad with freshly ground pink pepper. Done, you can serve.
8. Delicate salad with smoked chicken, pears and cheese balls can be both a wonderful dish of the festive menu and an excellent everyday dinner: light, unusual and tasty.
9. Bon appetit!