Tortoise Salad Recipe: Decoration of the Holiday Table

This original vegetable salad can be prepared for both a festive table and everyday. The recipe for turtle salad contains cauliflower, which, if a daily dish, can be finely chopped with a knife, and if the dish is prepared for a festive table, put in a shell.

The head, paws and tail can be made in several ways: from a banana or from a boiled egg. But most natural these details are obtained from grated cheese, mixed with mayonnaise, grated garlic and sprinkled with ground nuts.

The recipe for turtle salad contains the following ingredients:

* Cabbage colored 1 kilogram
* Cheese 200 g
* Garlic 3 cloves
* Egg 4 pieces
* Nuts walnut 100 gr
*Mayonnaise

How to cook a turtle salad? First you need to boil the eggs and separate the yolks from the proteins. Finely chopped yolks spread on a flat plate and top covered with a layer of mayonnaise. On grater rubbed cheese and laid out from above. The cheese should be put crushed garlic cloves. This layer is also coated with mayonnaise. Now you need to grind the nuts and sprinkle them upstairs.

On top of the nuts laid out crushed egg whites, which are also coated with mayonnaise. The boiled cauliflower should be divided into inflorescences and laid out in the form of a shell. Make for the turtle paws, head and tail and sprinkle with finely chopped herbs from above.

And now we offer a recipe for a turtle salad with ham. It is necessary to take the following ingredients:

* Ham 200 g
* Loaf 4 pieces
* Eggs 4 pieces
* Onion 2 pieces
* Apples 2 pieces
* Cheese 100 g
* Nuts 0.5 cups
* Mayonnaise 400 gr

Cauliflower is not included in this salad. Before you prepare a turtle salad with ham, you need to carefully read the recipe so as not to confuse the order of the layers. There must be seven in total. The first layer is laid out finely chopped squirrels, on top of which the sliced ham is laid. The third layer is onions and thickly covered with mayonnaise.

Cheese is rubbed on a grater and sprinkled on mayonnaise. It is better to use hard cheese. Next, the apple is rubbed on the grater and again covered with mayonnaise. The loaf should be cut into cubes and fried in vegetable or olive oil.
The sixth layer is again covered with mayonnaise.

The last layer is shredded nuts, which are poured on top. The salad is given a rounded shape, and a mesh is applied to imitate the pattern on the shell with mayonnaise. Salad is decorated with chopped greens. Nearby you need to put boiled yolks in the form of tortoiseshell eggs.

Very tasty is a turtle salad with chicken. For this you need to take:

* Smoked chicken meat 150 gr
* Leek 1 piece
* Apples 2 pieces
* Eggs 4 pieces
* Cheese 100 g
* Walnuts 150 gr
* Green salad

Salad turtle with chicken is prepared as follows: the dish is laid out with lettuce leaves, and then with layers of all the ingredients. First go grated squirrels, then smoked meat, cut into small pieces.

From above put a layer of mayonnaise. Leeks should be cut into rings and poured into mayonnaise. Apples are also rubbed on a grater, stacked on a salad and covered with mayonnaise. Apples are best to take sour. Now there is a layer of grated cheese and yolks.

These layers are also covered with mayonnaise. The last layer is pounded walnuts. They cover with a mesh of mayonnaise, and in cells lay a chopped onion rings. The legs can be made from halves of a walnut, and the head from an egg. Salad can be served on the table!

The recipe for a turtle salad with chicken can be changed a little, for example, instead of smoked meat, take the boiled and add the cream cheese, and make the head, paws and tail out of prunes. The order of the layers will be the same as in the previous recipe, only the processed cheese is added, which must be rubbed on a large grater and put after apples. Ready salad should be cleaned in the refrigerator for several hours to impregnate. This salad is not only very tasty, but also beautiful, capable of decorating any, even the most refined table.