Hello to all my blog subscribers and guests! How do you make your table shine with charming and irresistible salads during the holidays? Remember the other day my note about and, there I hope you found for yourself a lot of ideas on how to decorate them and make them unique. And today again I will show you an incomparable and tender salad called Turtle.

Yes Yes! Usually, when you say these words, everyone thinks that this is such a cake and immediately licks their lips, because it really exists and gives us its chocolate-sour cream sweet taste.

Today, as you understand it, it's not about a cake, but about a salad. To prepare such a miracle will not be difficult even for an inexperienced and novice hostess. Because there are few ingredients and basic components in it, this is, of course, chicken meat, boiled or smoked. But, there are options without chicken.

The salad has a sweetish taste, as it includes products such as apples and prunes, but again there are many types of this salad and you can not use these fruits, but add your favorite delicacies, for example, add grapes or raisins.

This culinary masterpiece got its name because of its design, as you probably already guessed.

The simplest and incredibly tasty option, although without chicken, I decided to start with it. It also belongs to the traditional types. Prepare for two times and you're done. It looks very elegant and wonderful.

Only 4 products are used and the filling is in the role of mayonnaise. Yes, it's so easy that you won't even notice how this creation will be ready on your table. As they say everyone loves the classics, let's start to understand along with these step-by-step instructions from the photos that you see below.

We need:

• red apples - 3 pcs.
• hard cheese - 240 g
• eggs - 6-7 pcs.
• mayonnaise to taste
• salt to taste
• walnut for decoration

Cooking method:

1. This type of salad is laid out and decorated in layers. Take apples, they should be firm and also juicy and fresh in taste. Peel them, remove the seeds, and then chop them into strips with a sharp knife.

Important! Choose varieties of sweet and sour apples, then it will taste even better.

2. Transfer the chopped sticks to an empty, clean bowl and add a small spoonful of mayonnaise to keep them from darkening. Stir.

3. Cut the cheese into strips too, like the apples, try to make the strips the same length, width and height as the apple sticks.

Interesting! Note that in this form, the cheese is not grated, but cut by hand. And apples too, because they tend to give juice.

Then add a spoonful of mayonnaise to the sliced ​​cheese slices. Stir.

Important! By eye, the amount of apples and cheese should be the same.

5. Add a spoonful of mayonnaise to the protein and stir. Grate the yolks on a fine grater.

6. The first layer on a serving platter will be chopped apples (1/2 part), lay them out in the form of a sun, making them a little in the form of a slide.

7. Then add the cheese (1/2 part). Now repeat everything, the second layer of apples and the second layer of cheese. Further proteins, as in this picture. After all the manipulations, sprinkle with grated yolk.

8. You need to decorate with walnuts, and taking only the halves. Visually make the legs the largest nuts, laying them in four places in a circle.

9. Make a head from one egg, cut out the mouth with a knife and place the egg in a dish.

10. Then grease the part where the eyes will be with mayonnaise, put the peppercorns. Here's a funny turtle turned out. Cool and very appetizing! Yum!

Video on how to cook a turtle at home

Another option that you can watch through the eyes of this video, and also repeat and make such a hearty gourmet:

Turtle with chicken, walnuts and apple - step by step recipe

I borrowed this type in one cafe, it is there that such a salad is not laid out in the shape of a turtle, but a special mold is used. The ingredients are given for 1-2 servings, you can do more at your discretion.

We need:

• Boiled chicken meat - 1 pc.
• Boiled eggs 1 - pc.
• Onions - 0.5 pcs.
• Green apple - 0.5 pcs.
• Hard cheese - 50 g
• Walnuts 50 g
• Mayonnaise
• Salt and pepper to taste

Cooking method:

1. Chop the boiled chicken fillet with a kitchen knife, as fine as possible.

Interesting! You can replace the chicken with any other meat that you like the most, such as beef.

2. Separate the white and yolk from each other. Grate each component in a separate bowl on a fine grater.

3. Peel the apple and grate on a coarse grater. Grate the cheese too. Chop the walnuts finely with a knife.

Cut the onions into cubes, and then pour boiling water over it, let stand for a couple of minutes, so that all the bitterness goes away. Then drain all the liquid and discard it in a colander, shake.

4. Take a mold and lay out in layers: egg white - chicken pieces - onion - mayonnaise - green apple - cheese - egg yolk - mayonnaise - walnuts.

5. Then carefully remove the mold without haste.

6. Such a delicate and piquant version turned out, eat with pleasure and invite everyone to visit for a tasting!

Delicious salad with prunes

Dedicated to lovers sweeter, because it is in this version that prunes + apples are used, and of course chicken meat. Processed cheese will be used instead of regular cheese. Can you imagine what a gentle combination.

In addition, the appearance will be incomparable. We will put the turtle on the grass, as if it were lying on the lawn. In general, it will be delicious and beautiful.

We need:

• hard boiled eggs - 4 pcs.
• prunes or raisins - 60 g
• walnuts - 350 g
• onion - 1 pc.
• boiled chicken meat - 180 g
• apples - 1-2 pcs.
• processed cheese - 1 pc.
• mayonnaise - 180 g
• greens - a bunch

Cooking method:

1. First, separate the yolk from the protein. Grate the proteins on a fine grater and put it in the first layer on a plate in the form of an oval. The next layer - cut the chicken breast into small cubes.

3. Peel the apples with a vegetable peeler, and then grate it on a coarse grater. Lay on top of the onion.

The next layer - grate the processed cheese on a coarse grater. And finally, sprinkle the surface of the turtle with yolks, which can be crushed with a fork or grated on a fine grater.

4. Gently touch the sides with a spoon and season with mayonnaise. Lay the nuts on top in the sequence shown in this picture, one after the other. Looks like a real turtle shell.

5. Now chop any greenery with a knife and decorate it, arrange the lawn on the sides.

6. Place prunes instead of head and legs. Such a miracle will surely surprise and delight your relatives and not only. Imagine how children rejoice from such beauty! Wow! After all, it's just a children's design))) It looks elegant and captivating! Delicious discoveries to you!

Classic recipe for Turtle salad with nuts and mushrooms

Another traditional cooking option for this popular and quick easy salad. According to honored chefs, this option was originally invented, and then all other types were invented. Better to do it and try it anyway.

We need:

• boiled chicken breast - 1 pc.
• cheese - 140 g
• boiled egg - 6 pcs.
• apple - 1 pc.
• walnuts - 0.5 tbsp
• prunes - 0.5 tbsp.
• mushrooms (champignons or honey agarics) - 180 g
• onion - 1 pc.
• mayonnaise

Cooking method:

1. Chop finely onions, and then take a frying pan and pour vegetable oil into it. Add the onion and saute it over low heat until soft. After the mushrooms, cut into pieces and add to the onion, fry until tender. Next, cool the ingredients.

Chop the chicken into pieces with a knife. Separate the yolks from the proteins, leave one egg for decoration as a decoration. On a coarse grater, rub the yolks and whites in separate bowls. And also using a grater apples, peeled and seeds and cheese.

Start assembling. Since the salad will be multi-layered, use a shallow bowl. The first layer is egg whites, mayonnaise. The second is mushrooms with onions, mayonnaise. The third is chicken, mayonnaise. The fourth is chicken meat, mayonnaise. The fifth is cheese and mayonnaise.

2. Sixth - prunes, chopped randomly the way you like.

3. Seventh - grated yolks and mayonnaise again. Next, walnuts, which you grind in a coffee grinder, or if not, use available tools, such as a potato grinder.

4. From the remaining intact testicle, make a turtle head with eyes. Draw a net of mayonnaise around the entire diameter of the dish.

5. Lay out the head, use walnuts or prunes instead of legs.

6. You can not grind the walnut, but put whole nuts. This creation looks luxurious and elegant, just a feast for the eyes, and even lick your fingers when you try!

Turtle with pineapple and chicken fillet

But this option is not well known to anyone, which is a pity. After all, it is also very pleasant and delicate in taste. Although unusual ingredients are used. Read on and see for yourself.

We need:

• boiled egg - 1 pc.
• hard boiled potatoes - 1 pc.
• sausage cheese - 140 g
• boiled chicken fillet - 140 g
• pineapples - 250 g jar
• mayonnaise to taste
• bread crumbs - 1-2 tablespoons
• pickled cucumber - 1 pc.
• loaf - 2-3 pieces or store crackers

Cooking method:

1. First of all, take two slices of loaf or bread and cut them into small cubes, put on a baking sheet and make croutons. Or you can fry them in a dry frying pan until crisp.

Now grate boiled potatoes using a fine grater on the weight in the plate in which the salad will lie. Make a slightly oblong shape out of it. Draw a net of mayonnaise, do not press down or grease.

The next layer is finely diced chicken fillet and mayonnaise mesh. Cut pineapple pieces into small cubes + mayonnaise mesh.

Important! If desired, each layer can be salted.

3. Now it's time to create and decorate the turtle. The shell turned out to be quite high. Grind with bread crumbs, and lay out the shell from the pieces of fried breadcrumbs. Cut the legs out of the cucumber.

3. Make the head out of an egg. Here is such a mischievous and amusing turtle named Natasha! Bon Appetit!

Unusual decoration of salad with grapes for the New Year or another holiday

Let's move on and prepare this wonderful creation with grapes. But the chicken will have to be replaced in this type of salad with smoked one and add more canned corn. I know that many, having already read this, will say how lovely, yum-yum. That's right, the way it is))).

We need:

• Cold smoked chicken fillet (breast) - 350 g
• Boiled chicken eggs - 6 pcs.
• Hard cheese - 180 g
• Canned corn - 0.5 cans
• Fresh greens - bunch
• Grapes - red or green - 550 g
• Walnuts - for decoration
• Mayonnaise

Cooking method:

1. Chop the smoked chicken breast into cubes, put on a flat dish, brush with mayonnaise, then sprinkle with finely chopped green onions. It is not necessary to separate the yolks and whites from each other; rub them together on a coarse grater. Smooth with mayonnaise.

2. Cover with a layer of canned corn. Then comes the grated cheese and, of course, brush with mayonnaise. And then take the grapes and cut each slice in half, removing the seeds in it.

Make the head and legs from nuts.

3. Or you can use regular cheese for the head and paws. In any case, do as you see fit. To get an incomparable and gorgeous appearance. Teenage mutant ninja turtle, hihi))) Good luck!

Also, using this selection of recipes, you can easily make other decorations and designs for such funny Tortilla turtles, for example:

This concludes my post. I hope it was useful to many. Take this note to your bookmarks, because the holidays are just around the corner, and then once you quickly opened it, read it and went to do it.

Write your feedback and wishes. All the best and best! Bye! See you on the blog!

36 recipes for making salads for every taste

Turtle salad is a great decoration for any occasion. It is very light, satisfying and does not require expensive products for cooking. This salad is also good because it is flaky. You can prepare it in advance and not worry that you will not be in time for the arrival of guests.

Classic Turtle Salad Recipe

Kitchen tools:

Ingredients

Step by step cooking

1. We clean the apples and cut them first into thin slices, and then into medium-sized strips. Apples are best when taken large and firm. The taste of the salad will be very rich if they are sweet and sour.
2. Put the apples in a bowl, grease with one spoonful of mayonnaise and stir. This is to prevent the apples from darkening while we are preparing the salad.
   
   
3. Next, clean the eggs. We leave one egg for decoration, and divide the rest into white and yolk.
4. Cut the proteins into strips, about the size of apples.
5. Lubricate the proteins with a little mayonnaise.
   
   
6. Rub the yolks into a separate bowl.
   
   
7. Cut the cheese into strips, the slices should be the same size as the apple slices.
   
   
8. We take the dish on which you will shape the salad and lay out the ingredients in layers. When laying out food, try to give the salad an oval shape.
9. Put half the apples, then half the cheese and half the proteins in the first layer. Next, we alternate layers again: apples, cheese, proteins.
   
   
   
   
10. Sprinkle the salad with yolks on top and decorate with walnuts. We spread the legs and tail with the largest parts of the nuts.
    
    
11. From the egg that we left, we make a head for a turtle.
    
    

If you liked my salad, be sure to try the classic recipe, it is also very original and tasty, and x will not leave indifferent even the most fastidious guests in food.

Cooking video recipe

After watching this video, you will have no doubt that the Turtle salad is simple, beautiful and very tasty.

The following salad recipe is loved by everyone: both adults and children. It is just as light, and the chicken gives the salad a satiety and goes well with other foods.

Turtle salad recipe with chicken, apple and walnuts

• Cooking time: 35-40 minutes.
• Servings: 5-6.
• Kitchen tools: bowl, knife, tablespoon, grater, cutting board, salad bowl.

Ingredients

Step by step cooking

Prepare all ingredients in a separate bowl.

1. Cut the chicken into small cubes.
   
   
2. Finely chop the onion, transfer to a deep plate and pour boiling water for 3-5 minutes.
   
   
   
3. Peel the boiled eggs and rub the white and yolk separately. For decoration, leave one whole egg.
   
   
4. We grate cheese.
   
   
5. We peel the apples, remove the core and also grate them. Apples are best taken green and firm.
   
   
6. We take a dish or plate and collect the salad. I use a mold to make it look better when served. You can lay it out in the shape of a turtle. Get creative and decorate the salad of your choice.
7. Put the protein in the first layer, level it and put the chicken on top.
8. We spread the onion, level it in shape and grease it with mayonnaise.
   
   
9. Then an apple, followed by cheese, grease with mayonnaise and spread the yolk.
   
   
10. Lubricate the top with mayonnaise and spread the walnuts.
    
    

You can decorate the finished salad with a sprig of parsley.

Cooking video recipe

Watch the video on how you can make a Turtle salad. Perhaps you will like this option better.

Step by step cooking

1. Chop the chicken finely.
2. In separate containers we grate cheese, apples and separately whites and yolks. I choose sour apples for this salad.
3. Scald and chop the prunes, so it will be soft in the salad.
4. Take a flat dish or plate and lay out the finished ingredients in layers. We try to spread the salad in a slide.
5. First we spread the proteins, then the chicken meat and grease it well with mayonnaise.
6. Next, an apple and cheese, smeared with mayonnaise.
7. Put prunes on top and sprinkle with yolk.
8. Using the nuts, lay out the tortoise shell. The head can be made from half a protein or yolk.

The salad turns out to be very juicy and tasty.

For lovers of flaky salads, it is also perfect - it also looks very beautiful in finished form and will be an excellent decoration for any holiday.

Write in the comments which recipe you like the most. Perhaps you have your own secrets of making Turtle salad - be sure to share with us.

Currently, themed salads are popular and the "Turtle" salad with chicken is no exception. In addition to the intriguing appearance, the appetizer has an outstanding taste. The classic version has become so popular that over time it has acquired a mass of variations. And now every housewife prepares it in her own way.

The basis of the dish is dietary chicken, so the salad can already be called nutritious and healthy. And additional ingredients allow you to saturate and enrich the taste with new notes.

Such a classic recipe for Turtle salad will help you organize a memorable meal.

Ingredients:

• 500 g chicken breast;
• 1 onion;
• 4 eggs (boiled);
• 50 g of any cheese;
• 100 g of nuts;
• 0.25 kg of sour apples;
• 200 g of light mayonnaise;
• greens;
• some salt.

Rinse the brisket, send it to boiling water, cook for 20 minutes, cool.

Advice! Chicken will turn out to be much tastier if you chill it in the broth where it was cooked.

We clean the onion, chop it, scald it with boiling water to get rid of the characteristic bitterness. In 10 minutes. Drain the water, rinse and squeeze the onion.

Pounded nut grains. We clean the eggs, divide them into whites and yolks. Chop the whites, and rub the yolks with a grater.

Clean apples, free from seeds and three. Grind the cooled chicken into cubes. We begin to shape the appetizer in layers, smearing each new layer with sauce.

Cover the bottom of the serving plate with whites and salt. Then comes the chicken. Cover with an onion layer and lay a ball of apples.

Rub hard cheese. Sprinkle apples with shavings. Sprinkle the top with nut crumbs.

Walnut salad

It will quickly cheer you up and quickly saturate the snack with walnuts.

Ingredients:

• 0.6 kg brisket;
• 100 g semi-hard cheese;
• 100 g of nut kernels;
• 4 eggs (hard boiled);
• 1 bunch of green onion;
• 100 g prunes (peeled);
• 200 g salad mayonnaise;
• 1 large apple;
• 1 bunch of parsley.

Before you start cooking, cook the eggs and chicken in advance. Allow food to cool completely before slicing. Carefully clean the eggs, separate the squirrels and rub them finely.

Advice! We divide all products into 2 parts, because each layer will be repeated twice.

Put the squirrels on an oval-shaped dish, mark the mesh with mayonnaise and sprinkle with finely chopped onions. If there is no green one, then you can replace it with onions, finely crumbling it and pre-scalding it with boiling water.

We also cut the chicken into cubes, put half of it on the dish in an even ball. After the mayonnaise net, there are yolks, crushed into crumbs, and then grated apples. Spread the hard cheese evenly.

To prepare this salad, you can use several different bases - chicken, ham or red fish. All variations are delicious! You can replace mayonnaise with sour cream. Then the turtle salad will turn out to be more tender and will become useful and safe for the child's body.

Ingredients for Turtle Salad:

• Chicken egg (boiled) - 5 pcs
• Canned fish (pink salmon in its own juice) - 1 ban.
• Hard cheese - 150 g
• Apple (large green) - 1 piece
• Butter (frozen) - 50 g
• Onions (medium) - 1 pc
• Prunes (soak in advance for 2-3 hours) - 300 g
• Mayonnaise
• Greens (for decoration)
• Walnuts (peeled) - 1 handful

Recipe Salad "Turtle"

We take out the fish from the jar, free it from bones and skin and break it into small pieces with a fork. Put it on top of the proteins.

Three cheese on a coarse grater.

Now we take prunes soaked for a couple of hours, leave 5 berries for decoration - these will be the turtle's head and legs, and chop it finely. We spread it carefully on the yolks, grease it a little with mayonnaise and use a spoon to form and level the “shell” of the “turtle”.

And yet, if you eat the salad almost immediately, coat each layer with mayonnaise, so it will be juicier.

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The second option for laying out layers of salad:

The third option for laying out layers:

We put all the ingredients of our salad on a flat dish in layers. For boiled eggs, separate the yolks from the whites. Three proteins on a coarse grater - this is the first layer.

We take out the fish from the jar, free it from bones and skin and break it into small pieces with a fork. Put it on top of the proteins.

Finely chop the onion and pour over with boiling water to release the bitterness. Then rinse the onion with cold water, let it drain, and the onion is ready for the third layer of our salad, put it on the pink salmon and generously coat with mayonnaise.

Three cheese on a coarse grater.

We cut out the core of the apple and also rub it on a coarse grater.

Now rub well frozen butter on top of the apple.

Three yolks on a fine grater and spread over butter. We coat with mayonnaise.

Now we take prunes soaked for a couple of hours, leave 5 berries for decoration - these will be the turtle's head and legs, and chop it finely. Put it gently on the yolks, grease it a little with mayonnaise and form and level the tortoise shell with a spoon.

It will be ideal if the salad is put in the refrigerator overnight so that it is soaked, and then decorate the plate with herbs, put walnut kernels on top of the salad and do not forget about the legs and head.

Turtle salad with prunes

Ingredients:

• 4 eggs,
• 1 chicken breast or 400-500 gr. red fish,
• 100 g cheese
• Apple,
• Mayonnaise,
• Nuts,
• Greens,
• Prunes.

Step by step recipe

Turtle salad is made in layers, and all layers, except for nuts, are repeated 2 times. The first layer consists of egg whites. Therefore, first we need to boil the eggs, peel them, cut off one half lengthwise and put on an oval dish - this will be the turtle's head. Separate the white from the yolks in the rest of the eggs. Grate the protein and put on an oval-shaped plate. Spread over with mayonnaise.

The next layer is chopped green or onions. Previously, the onion can be poured with boiling water for a couple of minutes so that it does not taste bitter.

Dice the boiled chicken or red fish. Put the next layer on a plate and brush with mayonnaise.

Mash the yolk into crumbs and make a mayonnaise mesh.

Grate apples, lay out and brush with mayonnaise.

Grate the cheese on a fine grater, smear with mayonnaise mesh.

The next layer is to spread the prunes, cut into small pieces.

Now we repeat everything in the same order. We decorate the turtle salad: the shell is made of walnuts, we insert the prune eyes into the slots in the squirrel, the tongue and nostrils will be made of pieces of walnut. Place parsley sprigs around the turtle salad to create a green meadow.

Chicken salad option

Ingredients:

• Eggs 4 pcs.,
• Boiled chicken 250 g,
• Cheese 150 g,
• Bow 1 pc.,
• Walnuts 50 g,
• Apples 2pcs.,
• Mayonnaise 150 - 200 g,
• Salt.

Recipe

First you need to boil the eggs.

Cut the chicken into small pieces.

Place the sliced ​​chicken on a flat dish.

Spread over with mayonnaise.

Chop the onion.

Grate the apple.

Then grate the eggs on a coarse grater.

Also grate the cheese.

Crush or chop the nuts in a blender.

Put the onion on the chicken, grease.

Then we grease the apples.

Eggs, grease.

Cheese, while leaving 1 tablespoon of cheese for the head, grease.

Nuts. We make the tail and legs from the halves of the nuts.

We sculpt the head from the remaining cheese, the eyes can be made from olives or peppercorns.

Turtle salad is ready!

Mushroom salad option

Ingredients:

• 200 g of mushrooms
• 1 medium chicken breast (boiled),
• 3-4 pcs. eggs,
• 150-200 gr of cheese
• 200 g mayonnaise,
• 250 g walnuts
• 1 small onion

For decoration:

• olives
• lettuce leaves
• greens.

Let's start cooking

First, you need to peel and finely chop the onion.

Boil the chicken breast and cut into small pieces.

Rinse the mushrooms, cut into small pieces and fry a little in sunflower oil in a skillet.

Grate the cheese. Grate eggs on a fine grater. This will make the turtle salad more tender and soaked better. Grind walnuts (you can use a blender).

Now let's start assembling. We take a flat dish and spread lettuce leaves in a circle - this will be our herb. We spread the chicken breast in the form of an oval on the salad - this will be the first layer.

Then we spread half of the chopped walnuts. The rest will be needed for the shell. Spread over with mayonnaise.

The next layers are chopped onions, then mushrooms on top. To make the "Turtle" look more natural (to make the body oval), each layer needs to be slightly reduced in diameter.

We grease the next layer - finely grated cheese. Also, if desired, you can grease it so that the dish does not turn out to be dry.

Making a palm tree: to make the trunk of a palm tree, string the pitted olives on a skewer, make the leaves using 3 sprigs of parsley or dill.

We drive the resulting palm tree into boiled potatoes or an apple. We put the palm tree next to the turtle salad. We design our turtle: the head can be made from an egg. Eyes and nose from slices of olives or peppercorns, hair from dill, mouth from boiled carrots. Cover our turtle salad with a shell on top, for this we apply a mayonnaise mesh as shown in the image.

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Who exactly came up with the original Turtle salad - a culinary master or a housewife, is not known for certain. It is only clear that this dish is very popular due to its rich composition and beautiful appearance. There are several variations of an interesting snack with the addition of simple and exotic ingredients. It can be served for any meal or included in the daily diet, surprising the household with its rich taste and appetizing appearance.

Always beautifully served snacks on the tables attract the eyes of those around them, causing a strong desire to try an interesting dish. The classic recipe for "Turtle" salad contains products that are easy to find on store shelves at any time of the year.

A salad is prepared from:

• chicken fillet - 240 g;
• green apple;
• eggs - 3 pcs.;
• bulbs (small);
• cheese - 90 g;
• walnut kernels - 90 g;
• mayonnaise sauce, spices.

First, the poultry flesh is boiled in water, cooled and finely chopped. Boil the eggs, peel, grate the yolks and whites separately (one protein is left for decoration). Cut the onion as for frying, add water to eliminate the bitterness. Grind the cheese product with a grater.

On a flat dish, lay out the grated protein in layers with white dressing, then meat, sauce and onion slices. The next layer is a grated apple. It is not recommended to peel and rub the fruit in advance, in order to avoid darkening. Top with mayonnaise sauce and spread the cheese mass. Next are the yolks, after dressing and chopped nut kernels. The nut crumb should completely cover all the components.

The remaining squirrel needs to be beautifully laid, giving the shape of a turtle's head and legs. Draw a beautiful shell with mayonnaise, make a mouth and eyes from olives. After soaking for several hours, the snack can be served.

How to cook with chicken?

The ingredients in this appetizer are similar to those used in the traditional recipe. The difference between the appetizer is the different processing of some components.

Preparing a salad "Turtle" with chicken from:

• chicken pulp - 350 g;
• onions;
• eggs - a couple of pieces;
• walnuts;
• sour cream;
• soy sauce;
• vegetable fat, seasonings.

Cut poultry meat into small pieces, put in a bowl, add spices and soy sauce, leave to marinate for a couple of hours. If no soy sauce is available, a different marinade ingredient can be used. Then the product is fried in fat and then cut into small cubes.

Put grated boiled eggs on a plate - half of the product, chopped onion, cold cuts, the remaining egg and meat. Each layer of the snack is coated with dressing, salted to taste. On top, the dish is decorated with nut crumbs, mayonnaise net and other products to form a turtle.

With prunes and walnuts

The amazingly delicious Turtle salad with prunes and walnuts will delight even the most sophisticated gourmets.

To prepare it, you should stock up on:

• chicken breast;
• fresh onion;
• eggs - 3-5 pcs.;
• large apple;
• prunes - 90 g;
• hard cheese - 90 g;
• walnuts - 75 g;
• mayonnaise sauce.

The breast is boiled in salted water, cooled at room temperature and cut into small cubes. Boiled whites with yolks are rubbed separately, onions are pickled, the cheese product is crushed with a grater. Dry the kernels in a skillet and turn into crumbs using a blender. Steam dried fruits for a few minutes, peel the apple, grate.

Layer by layer, smearing each product, put protein, onion, cheese slices and apple, meat, dried fruits on a plate. The last layer consists of the yolks. From above, everything is sprinkled with nuts, the head is formed from the testicle, the shell is from the white dressing. Dill sprigs can be laid out on the sides for the brightness and aroma of the dish.

Cooking with the addition of grapes

It is good to diversify the children's menu by preparing a salad with grapes in the shape of a turtle for the holiday.

A dish is being prepared from:

• boiled chicken breast - 400 g;
• white grapes - 280 g;
• boiled eggs 3 pcs.;
• hard cheese - 130 g;
• apples;
• Luke;
• halves of lime;
• yogurt;
• lettuce leaves.

The boiled brisket is chopped, the onion is finely chopped, filled with water for a few minutes, and then sprinkled with lime juice. The yolks with proteins are grated, the peeled apples are cut into small cubes. All products are laid out on top of each other in such a way that the resulting figure has the shape of a turtle shell.

First, lettuce leaves are placed on the bottom of the plate. Meat, a little dressing, salt are laid out on them. Next comes the onion with apples, yogurt, eggs and cheese product, chopped with a grater. When the salad is soaked, you can start decorating it. To do this, the grapes are cut in half and laid out over the whole dish with a cut down. From them you need to form the head and legs of the turtle, the eyes can be made from dark grapes or olives.

With mushrooms

To prepare a snack, you should stock up on:

• poultry fillet - 270 g;
• cheese - 160 g;
• apples - a couple of pieces;
• testicles - 4 pcs.;
• onions;
• walnuts (whole kernels for decoration);
• mayonnaise sauce;
• champignons - 180 g.

Boiled meat with onions are cut into small cubes, finely chopped mushrooms, fried in a pan. Whites with yolks are rubbed and put into separate containers. Apples with cheese are chopped with a grater.

Protein cuts, mushrooms, meat, onions, an apple and a cheese product are laid out on a plate in the shape of a mound. Each layer is greased with sauce and seasoned as desired. The yolks are laid out in the last layer - they should completely cover the lower products. A grid is drawn from the dressing, the cells of which should be filled with nut kernels. The turtle's head is formed from protein.

With smoked chicken

The salad is prepared on the basis of:

• quail eggs - 6 pcs.;
• hard cheese - 160 g;
• walnuts - 160 g;
• smoked chicken meat - 180 g;
• sour apples - a couple of pieces;
• sauce - sour cream or mayonnaise.

The eggs are boiled, the meat is cut, fruits and cheese are chopped with a grater. The kernels are dried and finely chopped in a mortar. 1 egg and some nuts are left intact for decoration, the rest of the chicken product is rubbed separately.

Put on a plate the protein mass, smoked meats, sauce, apples, dressing, cheese product with yolks, a little sauce. Everything is sprinkled with chopped nuts and decorated with a mayonnaise mesh in the form of a shell. The head of the animal is laid out from the squirrel, the legs from the remaining nuts.

Turtle salad with beef

A healthy and beautiful appetizer is obtained from beef meat.

It is being prepared on the basis of:

• beef -320 g;
• onions - a couple of small vegetables;
• testicles - 4 pcs.;
• cheese - 170 g;
• apples;
• nuts - 8 pcs.;
• mayonnaise sauce.

Boil the beef with eggs, pour hot water on the chopped onion for a few minutes. The testicles are peeled, divided into whites and yolks, and then crushed with a grater. Cheese product with apples are rubbed, kernels are chopped in a blender.

First put the protein, sauce, beef, spices, onion, dressing, apple, all the cheese. Top with sauce and sprinkle with yolks. Form the shell from the nut mass, the head from the egg white.

Original appetizer with pineapple

It is good to lay out such a salad in a glass salad bowl - it is similar in shape to a turtle's body and all layers are perfectly visible in it.

• chicken brisket - 290 g;
• boiled eggs - 6 pcs.;
• hard cheese - 170 g;
• canned pineapples - 0.5 small jars;
• mayonnaise;
• greens.

Lightly salting the water, boil the brisket in it. To make the meat more juicy, it is recommended to let it cool just in the broth. The cold brisket is chopped with a knife.

Boiled yolks with whites are shredded separately, cheese is rubbed. Strain the canned pineapple rings and cut into small pieces. The kernels are carefully removed from the shell.

The bottom of the dish is covered with greens. On top is laid out meat cuts, canned food, protein, grated cheese and yolk mass. On each layer, except for the yolk, the sauce is poured abundantly. The last stage of preparation is the decoration of the dish. For this, a muzzle is formed from a half of the protein, a shell is formed from a dressing and nuclei.

With red fish

To prepare food, you should stock up on:

• testicles - 5 pcs.;
• fish fillets - 280 g;
• apple;
• cheese - 70 g;
• onion;
• prunes - 120 g;
• walnuts - 130 g;
• sour cream.

Eggs are boiled until tender, peeled. Everything, except fish and onions, is chopped with a grater, the rest of the products with a knife.

Put red fish, onion, protein mass, apple, yolks, cheese product on a plate. Everything is smeared with a dressing, at the end it is decorated with chopped nuts. The head is formed from cheese rolled into a ball, legs from nuts.

Festive salad "Turtle" with kiwi

A minimal set of products, combined with excellent decor, makes for an excellent festive snack.

It is prepared from:

• chicken pulp - 450 g;
• hard cheese - 180 g;
• Luke;
• apples;
• yolks - 3 pcs.;
• mayonnaise sauce;
• kiwi - a couple of fruits.

Marinate the meat and bake in the oven, chop. Scald the onion, grate the cheese and apple. Lay out the chicken, onion, apple, yolks and cheese in the last layer in the form of a slide. Everything should be thoroughly soaked in the sauce. From above, the entire impromptu body of the turtle is covered with kiwi rings, which will serve as a shell.