Learning to make cheese baskets for salads

When preparing to host guests, each hostess is concerned not only with making up the menu and preparing dishes, but also how to decorate them most effectively. After all, a beautiful serving and festive decoration of the table is one of the ways to express your respect for the guests.

Traditionally, salads are served to the festive table . Of course, this snack can also be put in one large salad bowl, but one of the spectacular ways of serving is a la carte. Salad can be decomposed into small glass, porcelain or ceramic salad bowls or served in tartlets, which are now sold in many stores. And there is another rather spectacular and non-beaten option - to serve salad in a cheese basket. In addition to the fact that such a serving of appetizers will very much decorate the table, there is another advantage - the taste of the salad is complemented by the taste of toasted cheese.

A question may arise, and what kind of salad can be served in cheese baskets? Yes, almost anyone! In addition, other snacks can also be served, for example, a mix of seafood or julienne. The main thing is that what you are going to put in a basket of cheese, was not too liquid.

It should be noted that making beautiful cheese baskets is not so easy. Therefore, you need to practice a little before you start preparing a festive salad frame. But you can prepare such baskets for salad from cheese the day before. Then gently fold them into a container with a lid and put in the refrigerator. And fill the cheese baskets with salad right before serving.

So, let's try to cook this delicious piece of jewelry. We need hard cheese, like parmesan. But you can use ordinary cheese, but it needs to be given a little airy and dried in the refrigerator. Cheese should be grated, and it is desirable that it does not crumble in the process, and form thin, translucent slices. In this case, our cheese baskets will be more beautiful.

It is most convenient to use for preparation of baskets by a frying pan, which has non-stick coating. It should be lubricated with a thin layer of vegetable oil and heated on fire. On the heated frying pan pour grated cheese (on one basket it takes about two tablespoons). It is desirable that in the middle of the resulting cake cheese was more than the edges, then our basket will have a thick bottom and openwork edges.

Fry the cheese "pancake" for five to seven seconds, until it at the edges begins to brown. Then remove the frying pan from the fire and put it on a towel, slightly moistened in cold water (so we lightly cool the cake). Now we very carefully pancake the pancake with the help of a spatula and lay it on an inverted glass or a cup. The edges of the tortillas are pressed against the walls of the vessel with a paper towel. So we will give the basket shape and at the same time remove excess fat. Let the cheese cool down, without removing it from the mold. Everything - a cheese basket is ready.

As you can see, preparing it is a bit difficult, and it may take a lot of time, especially if the guests expect a lot.

It must be said that cheese baskets can be prepared with different additives. For example, if you mix cheese with finely chopped dill, the baskets will turn out to be colorful, with green patches. You can add roasted sesame seeds to it, then the baskets turn out to be crispy. And lovers of piquant taste can use as an additional ingredient crushed garlic.

If you want to make more dense baskets, then you can add a little starch to the cheese. For two hundred grams, you need to take a full tablespoon with a potato or cornstarch slide.

In short, a little practice - and you can pleasantly surprise your guests by serving a salad in a basket of cheese. For sure, this dish will make a splash, and the landlady will listen to many compliments about his culinary skills.