Salad "Squirrel": the best recipes

Among the many delicious festive dishes, the "Belochka" salad stands apart. Most similar snacks in preparation are troublesome, require a variety of ingredients - often quite rare or expensive. This same dish is done quickly, and by composition can be called primitive. At the same time, his taste is tender, velvety, and his appearance is smart.

Note that there are several ways to prepare a salad "Squirrel". And there are versions that are radically different from the most famous ones, but they bear the same name. In order not to offend any of the chefs, we tried to collect basic versions of all variations.

Classical performance

Most often, the housewives prepare a salad "Belochka" from the melted cheese. It is done very quickly, there are no subtleties. You can only advise the cheese to take semi-soft, so it was easier to rub it. However, if you categorically prefer a soft product, you can pre-freeze it in the freezer beforehand.

So, rub two melted cheese and four hard-boiled eggs. Three or four cloves of garlic are squeezed into the bowl with a base (its quantity is regulated according to family tastes). If necessary, the salad "Squirrel" can be salted, but first you need to try: the cheeses are well sucked. The dish is filled with low-fat mayonnaise, after which it is immediately put on the table.

Possible modifications

Often such a composition of the hostess is not limited. Yet in garlic, the smack and smell are sharp; To soften them, a small tomato is finely chopped into the mass (if desired, you can remove the peel) and a half of the Bulgarian pepper. At the same time, the vegetables will give the dish a brightness and brilliance.

Salad "Squirrel": a recipe with different cheeses

The main ingredients mentioned in the previous, basic recipe are supplemented with new ones - and a completely original taste is obtained. However, the process does not end there: a 200-gram bar of hard cheese is rubbed in the container (Russian is quite appropriate) and a similar piece of frozen oil. Next, in the salad "Squirrel" introduced squeezed garlic (roughly six lobules) and a spoon of chopped nuts. The easiest way is to add walnuts, but it will be more delicious with forest or cedar. After mixing, the dish is usually filled with mayonnaise.

Carrot variant

In this recipe, the salad "Squirrel" corresponds to its name, because it has a red "fur coat". Two carrots of medium size and bright coloring are cleaned and coarsely rubbed. A pair of melted cheeses are crushed in a similar way. Two or three garlic cloves are carried through the press. All ingredients are mixed and flavored with mayonnaise. For this version of salad it is better to take more fat mayonnaise, so that it absorbs root crops, and before serving, you need to wait half an hour in the refrigerator.

Variants of filing

What is good about the salad "Squirrel" is that it can be eaten in different ways, and served - beautifully and comfortably. Of course, putting on the table in a salad bowl has not been canceled, but it's boring. There are three alternatives.

1. Dry the slices of bread in the toaster or make them croutons, spread the salad and serve as a snack on a cute dish.
2. Mix in equal proportions crumbled dill, sesame seeds and chopped nuts (you can have walnuts, you can peanuts). From the mass roll balls and roll them in a sprinkle. For convenience of eating, one can stick a skewer in each.
3. Take thin lavash, spread it on the table, generously smudge any of the variants of "Squirrel" and roll up the roll. After holding ten minutes in the fridge, cut into rounded loaves and spread out with a fan or sticks on a platter.

Quite another "Squirrel"

It's hard to say why the dish got such a name. Maybe because it includes nuts? Nevertheless, before you - another salad "Squirrel". The recipe includes a third of a kilo of chicken breast. In most cases, it is prescribed to boil it with spices and herbs. However, some cooks prefer to take smoked or baked in the oven chicken. It should not be cut, but hand-sorted into fibers. With a 400-gram jar of marinated mushrooms, the brine is drained; If the mushrooms are small, they can be sent to the salad whole, if they are large - to crumble. Average onion finely chopped and gilded in lean oil. Nuts are crushed, but in the dust, so that their taste is clearly felt in the dish. All the prepared components are combined; As a dressing, again, mayonnaise is used.

Multilayered "Squirrel"

Many mothers prepare this salad for children's holidays. It is performed in the form of a corresponding animal, it turns out colorful, juicy, and is eaten off by the offspring in the first place. The cooking is in such a sequence.

1. Three large potatoes are cleaned, cooked and rubbed onto a dish in the form of a squirrel. You can not use a grater, but cut it finely. A mesh of mayonnaise is applied from above.
2. Half of chicken fillet (200 grams) is brewed and finely chopped over the potatoes. Again mayonnaise slip.
3. Champignons of the same weight are stewed with crumbled onions until cooked and distributed to meat. They should be sprinkled with the yolks of four eggs and only after that, apply mayonnaise.
4. Further rubs or cuts a large apple without a skin, poured abundantly with nuts and promazyvaetsya.

The last layer will be a boiled carrot, which depicts the fur coat of the animal. Grated protein denotes the tummy and cheeks, eyes, paws, nose spread out with olives. Before you give the salad "Squirrel" with walnuts, children to be torn, it needs an hour to stand in the cool.