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 Happy New Years Eve Everyone!!!! My family and I are ringing in the New Year with this absolutely delicious Russian appetizer, Pomegranate Bracelet! It has yummy layers of boiled shredded potatoes, carrots, beets, eggs,sautéed onions & garlic, and poached shredded chicken breast. Sealed with mayonnaise and jeweled with beautiful ruby-like pomegranate seeds! It is a little time consuming but this appetizer is usually made only for the special occasion of starting a new year! It’s totally worth it! ~Makes one large bracelet, enough for 8-10 people depending how large you cut each piece. 

Note: To save on calories, use light or Vegan Mayonnaise. Otherwise you may use Original Mayonnaise. 

INGREDIENTS: All of the following vegetables must be boiled or steamed until tender, peeled and shredded on the coarse side of a box grater or food processor and set aside before starting your layering process. 

3 medium carrots

3 medium potatoes

2 medium beets (boil these separately otherwise you will color all your other veggies)

3 eggs (hard boiled, shelled and shredded on a small side of the box grater)

1 cup walnuts, coarsely ground

2 medium chicken breast halves, poached in salted water, bay leaf and some thyme or sage, drained and shredded 

1 large sweet onion and 3 cloves of minced garlic, sautéed 

Finely ground Black Pepper

About a cup of Mayonnaise of choice (more or less depending how much you use to dress each later )

1 Large Pomegranate, seeded

DIRECTIONS:

Put a tall drinking glass in the middle of a large flat serving plate. You will arrange the ingredients in layers on the plate around that glass, and remove the class once the appetizer has been assembled. Begin evenly layering the ingredients on the plate in the following order. Sprinkle the layers with some black pepper and salt if you boiled your veggies without salt, but be VERY careful since it’s easy to over salt your layers since mayonnaise also contains salt. 

1. Potatoes

2. Mayonnaise (about 2 Tbsps)

3. Half of the Chicken

4. Half of the sautéed onions and garlic

5. Mayo

6. Half of the beets

7. Mayo

8. Carrots

9. Mayo

10. Walnuts

11. Remaining chicken

12. Remaining sautéed onions and garlic

13. Mayo

14. Eggs

15. Mayo

16. Remaining beets

17. Mayo

18. Pomegranate seeds, press a little to adhere

Now you can carefully slide out your glass and cover with plastic wrap and let it set in the refrigerator  for at least 1 hour before serving, to allow the flavors for a chance to mingle. ENJOY!

Original recipe was adapted from AZ Cookbook.