New Year's holidays are just around the corner, so you need to think through the menu in advance. As an original and festive dish, we suggest you prepare an unusual and very tasty salad called “Rotten Stump”. Believe me, all your guests will be simply amazed by your culinary skills and will definitely ask you for the recipe for this dish.

Recipe for Rotten Stump Salad with Potatoes

Ingredients:

For pancakes:

• flour – 1 tbsp.;
• milk – 250 ml;
• egg – 2 pcs.;
• ground paprika – 2 teaspoons;
• onion – 1 pc.;
• greens - optional.

For filling:

• potatoes – 2 pcs.;
• carrots – 2 pcs.;
• egg – 3 pcs.;
• pickled honey mushrooms;
• ham – 200 g;
• dill, parsley.

For decoration:

• processed cheese – 1 pc.;
• egg – 2 pcs.;
• pickled honey mushrooms;
• dill, parsley - optional.

Preparation

Now we’ll tell you how to make the “Rotten Stump” salad. Mix the liquid pancake dough from milk, eggs and flour. Add ground paprika, finely chopped herbs and chopped onion to it. Pour a little oil into the frying pan, heat it up and bake 6 pancakes. Place them in a pile on the table and leave to cool.

Meanwhile, we are preparing the filling. We wash the vegetables and eggs, add water and boil until tender. Then we clean everything from peels, shells and cool. Grate the boiled potatoes on a coarse grater, add chopped dill and mayonnaise. Three carrots and also mixed with mayonnaise. Finely chop the eggs and combine separately with mayonnaise. Chop the mushrooms into strips and combine with herbs. Cut the ham into cubes, add mayonnaise.

Next we begin to form and fill our “stump”. We spread cling film or foil along the table. Cut the pancakes in half and overlap each other. We coat each pancake with soft cheese and lay out the filling in rows along the “pancake path” in any order.

After all the filling has been distributed, roll the pancakes into a roll, carefully pulling and bending the film or foil. We place the resulting “stump” on a plate, cut off the protruding ends of the pancakes, but do not throw them away, they will be useful to us for decoration. We form “roots” from the leftover filling and decorate them with the leftover pancakes. To prevent the seams from being visible, coat the entire surface of the “hemp” with soft cheese. We decorate the “stump” with herbs and mushrooms. If you wish, you can also decorate the dish with a “fly agaric” made from cherry tomatoes.

Recipe for cheese salad “Rotten stump”

Ingredients:

For pancakes:

• chicken egg – 2 pcs.;
• vegetable oil – 2 tbsp. spoons;
• milk – 200 ml;
• flour – 130 g;
• salt - a pinch.

For filling:

• cheese – 50 g;
• mayonnaise – 2 tbsp. spoons;
• processed cheese – 1 pc.;
• dill greens – 1 bunch;
• ham – 100 g;
• egg – 3 pcs.;
• pickled honey mushrooms - for decoration.

Preparation

So, to prepare the Rotten Stump salad, first let's prepare the pancakes. To do this, beat the eggs in a bowl, pour milk into them, add butter, salt to taste and slowly add flour. Mix the liquid batter for pancakes and let it stand for about 20 minutes. After that, bake 8 pancakes in a heated frying pan. Then cool them and cut them into equal halves.

Boil the eggs, peel and grate. Cut the ham into cubes, and mix the processed cheese with homemade mayonnaise and chopped dill. Cover the table with foil and lay out the pancakes, slightly overlapping them on top of each other. Next, grease the pancakes thoroughly with soft melted cheese. Sprinkle generously with grated cheese and place a layer of ham and grated eggs on top. Now carefully roll the pancakes into a tight roll and place them on a plate. Cut out roots or driftwood from the leftover pancakes. Decorate the salad with pickled honey mushrooms and let it soak for several hours.

Step-by-step recipe for preparing “Penek” salad from pancakes with honey mushrooms, chicken and cheese. Guests will be delighted with such an original presentation of the dish!

Surprise everyone with a gorgeous salad at your holiday feast! The “Stump” salad is called so for good reason: after all, in appearance it really resembles a stump from a tree from a fairy-tale forest, and you can add fabulousness to it with the help of decorations in the form of ready-made pickled honey mushrooms or homemade fly agaric mushrooms, dill herbs, curly parsley moss or spruce branches , which can be depicted using rosemary.

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“Penek” salad is prepared on the basis of ordinary pancakes, which are cut and folded in a certain way. And the filling for it can be absolutely anything. As a filling, you can choose any mixed salad with mayonnaise, but it should be a little viscous so that it is convenient to form the dish. if the salad is crumbly, then the “Stump” may not retain its original shape after you cut it on a common dish. By the way, you can make sweet pancakes and make the same sweet filling - in this case you will get a good dessert for a children's feast.

Our recommendations on what filling, besides that indicated in the recipe, can be used for “Hemp”: Jewish cheese salad, “Starfish”, “New Year’s ball”, “Russian” salad. An interesting option is described in the step-by-step photo recipe for the Wood Grouse Nest salad. And another great idea - salad with smoked mackerel “Snowman”!

As for the pancakes. If you want to try a sweet option, then take note: custard with yolks and white cream. At the stage of assembling the Stump salad, it is described how to prepare the sweet filling.

It’s enough to simply prepare the Stump salad; the recipe with photos will help you reproduce the process step by step. All you have to do is be a little patient and use all your imagination.

Ingredients:

for pancakes:

• milk – 250 ml;
• eggs – 2 pcs.;
• flour – 120 g;
• salt – 0.5 teaspoon spoons;
• sugar – 1 teaspoon spoon;
• soda – 0.5 teaspoon. spoons;
• spices;

For filling:

• carrots – 2 pcs.;
• chicken fillet – 250 g;
• fresh mushrooms – 300 g;
• onion – 120 g;
• hard cheese – 100 g;
• bay leaf – 1 pc.;
• sunflower oil - 2 tablespoons. spoons;
• liquid processed cheese – 70 g;
• mayonnaise – 150 g;
• salt, spices;

For decoration:

• pickled honey mushrooms – 50 g;
• fresh herbs (peach, dill, basil, rosemary, etc.);
• quail eggs (optional) – 2 pcs.;
• Cherry tomato (optional) – 1 pc.

Detailed step-by-step recipe with photos of preparing Stump salad with honey mushrooms

First you need to boil the chicken fillet, adding salt and bay leaf to the water, and also wash and boil the carrots until tender.

If to prepare the Stump salad you decide to use not a breast, but, for example, a leg, then we recommend that you at the same time properly cook a clear chicken broth, on which you can then prepare some of the first courses.

Then you need to prepare the pancake dough: mix eggs with milk and sunflower oil. Add salt, sugar and mix everything into a homogeneous dough, beating with a whisk or immersion blender.

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Gradually add pre-sifted flour and soda dissolved in vinegar and stir everything well. In addition to soda and vinegar, you can use the usual baking powder for dough.

Add some spices to the dough to taste. For example, curry, saffron or turmeric are good seasonings that will give the pancakes a brighter color. The consistency of the dough should be like that of liquid sour cream or kefir.

Pour a little oil into a large-diameter frying pan (this should be done only before frying the first pancake). When the oil is hot, pour in a portion of the batter and fry the pancake on both sides.

You need to keep in mind that the larger the diameter of the pan, the higher the stump will be.

Place the finished pancakes in a heap on a flat plate. Their edges can be greased with a piece of butter to make them softer. You should get at least 5 pancakes.

Now you can start preparing the filling for the Stump salad

Mushrooms must be peeled, washed and finely chopped.

Fresh champignons are great for hemp, but if you don’t have them on hand, feel free to use pickled mushrooms. The best option is to pick them yourself in the forest - these mushrooms are the most fragrant.

Peel the onion and cut into small pieces. We will fry these ingredients for the hemp, but you can also use another cooking option - pickled onions, it is very tasty. In this case, it is better to take red salad onions.

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Pour some oil into a frying pan and fry the onion. Then add the mushrooms to the onions and fry them until tender. During the cooking process, you need to salt the mushrooms a little, you can add spices.

Instead of fried champignons, you can use, for example, pickled boletus or pickled honey mushrooms, which also need to be finely chopped.

Peel the carrots and grate them. Add a little mayonnaise and mix. You can add chopped garlic to taste.

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Finely chop the chicken fillet and also mix with mayonnaise.

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Grate the hard cheese onto a fine grater, add mayonnaise and mix. You can also add garlic to the cheese to taste.

Forming the Stump Salad

When the pancakes and filling are ready, you can start assembling the stump. To do this, cut the first pancake in half. Cut the second one, shifting the cutting line 1 cm from the middle. Cut the third and fourth pancakes, 2 cm from the middle.

Leave one pancake for making “roots”.

Cover a table or other suitable surface with cling film. On it you need to lay out a strip of pancakes, starting with smaller ones and ending with larger ones. The pancakes need to be overlapped. Grease the edge of the bottom pancake with melted cheese and glue the next pancake to it.

Cream cheese - what is it?

Apply the filling in stripes: on top (at the cut - this is the top of the hemp) - carrots, then mushrooms, chicken, cheese. Leave a little filling for the “roots” (3-5 tablespoons - depending on the situation).

The filling in “Penek” can be placed not only in layers, as in the photo, but also mixed. In this case, first we lay out the carrots, which here mainly play the role of decorating the stump, making it brighter, then - the mixed filling.

If your filling is sweet, then grease the pancakes with the cream recommended in the introduction, place fruit cut into thin slices on top and roll into a roll. You can decorate this version of hemp with mint and tarragon.

Roll the pancakes into a roll. Hold the filling so that the stump comes out neat. If the carrots stick out slightly at the top, trim them with a spatula. When rolling the roll, do not squeeze it too hard with your hands.

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Cut the fifth pancake in half. After mixing the remaining filling, fill these halves with it and roll the “roots” of the hemp out of them.

Many thanks to Tanyusha Kalinichenko for the tip. I saw an interesting recipe in her diary and decided to see what it looked like “in real life.” And here’s the result: two completely different recipes for a wonderful and tasty salad. So..

Salad "Mushroom stump" No. 1

Ingredients
-4 carrots (boil)
-3 potatoes (boil)
-3 green apples (sour)
-4 hard-boiled eggs
-150g boiled mushrooms (I used champignons in their own juice)
-300g boiled chicken fillet
-10 walnuts
- mayonnaise to taste
-salt to taste
-lettuce leaves and olives (optional for decoration)
Preparation:
Peel the carrots, eggs and potatoes and grate them on a coarse grater. Salt the vegetables and eggs to taste.
Cut the chicken fillet into cubes and add salt.
Cut the apple into slices and place in salted water (this will prevent them from darkening).
Chop the nut kernels with a knife.
Place lettuce leaves on a serving plate, install a cooking ring (if you don’t have one, you can use a cut-off tin can or a cut-off liter plastic bottle).
Lay out the salad in layers (their order can be disturbed):

carrot,

mayonnaise,

eggs,

potato,

mayonnaise,

chicken,

apple,

sliced ​​mushrooms

and chopped nuts.
Remove the cooking ring and decorate the salad
Before serving, place the salad in the refrigerator for a couple of hours.
Salad "Mushroom stump" No. 2

Ingredients:

For pancakes:
Milk - 250 ml.
Eggs - 2 pcs.
Flour.
Salt.
Paprika - 1 - 2 tsp.
Onion - 1 medium onion.
Greens (parsley) - to taste.
For the salad:
Boiled potatoes - 2 tubers.
Boiled carrots - 2 -3 pcs.
Eggs - 3 pcs.
Pickled mushrooms (honey mushrooms)
Ham - 200 - 300 gr.
Mayonnaise.
Greens (dill, parsley)
For registration:
Soft processed cheese.
Egg - 2 pcs.
Pickled honey mushrooms.
Greens (dill, parsley).
Preparation:

First, let's bake the pancakes:
Mix pancake dough from eggs, milk and flour. Add paprika, finely chopped herbs (to taste, they were not added here) and onions. Let's bake. Oil each pancake. The resulting dough makes about 6 pancakes.
Preparing the filling:
- Grate the boiled potatoes on a coarse grater, add chopped dill and mayonnaise;
- Grate the boiled carrots and mix with mayonnaise;
- Finely chop the eggs (or grate them) and also mix them with mayonnaise;
- Finely chop the mushrooms and mix with herbs. You can add a little mayonnaise;
- Cut the ham into cubes or strips. Add mayonnaise.
Let's start forming the "stump":
- We spread cling film or bags along the table. We cut the pancakes in half and place them on the film overlapping (we arrange the pancakes face down and overlap so that the larger ones end up at the end; if you twist the stump from right to left, then the end is to the left)). Coat each pancake with soft cheese;
- Place the filling along the “pancake path” in rows in random order;
- After all the filling has been laid out, we begin to roll everything into a roll (each filling must be pressed more tightly onto the pancake). The easiest way to roll a roll is according to the principle of a sushi mat - carefully pulling and bending the bag;
- Place the resulting “stump” on a plate. We cut off the protruding ends of the pancakes - they will be useful to us for the roots.
Now let's start with the design:
We form “roots” from the remaining filling. We decorate them with leftover pancakes. To prevent joints and “seams” from being visible, coat the surface of the “hemp” with soft cheese. Not much!!! It functions as a fastener. A kind of putty. We decorate the “stump” with mushrooms and herbs. If you wish, you can also make a fly agaric with pomodoro))
Bon appetit!!!