"Turtle" - original and very beautiful salad

"Turtle" - the salad is original and very beautiful. Most often it is prepared for children's holidays, as this dish is made in the form of a fairy - tale character. It is also worth noting that this salad has a variety of cooking options. However, we will only consider a method with prunes and boiled chicken.

How to prepare a "turtle" salad in just a couple of hours

Necessary ingredients:

• Cheese of any kind - 110 g;
• Chicken breasts (you can take other meat) - 200 g;
• Chicken eggs large - 4 pcs .;
• Prunes without seeds - 90 g;
• Green apple sour - 1 pc .;
• Walnut - 110 g;
• Salt iodized - if necessary, add to the processed ingredients;
• High-calorie mayonnaise - 130 g.

How to make a salad "Turtle": meat processing

"Turtle" is a salad for the preparation of which any type of meat is suitable. But if such a dish is intended for a children's holiday, then it is best to purchase light and low-fat chicken breasts. So, the fillet should be freed from the skin, washed in cool water and boiled with salt for half an hour. During this time, the meat will become soft and tender. Further, the breasts are required to cool, clean of cartilage and bones, and then cut into small cubes.

Dry fruit processing

"Turtle" is a multi-layered salad, and each product introduces its own notes. But this dish is delicious and unusual due to the presence of prunes in it. Before you add the dried fruit, it must be properly prepared: thoroughly wash, knead and soak in boiling water for 20 minutes. After that, prunes must be thrown in a colander, washed well, freed from excess liquid and finely cut with a knife.

Processing of the remaining ingredients

Now we need to wash one sour green apple, release it from the peel and core, and then rub it on a large grater. Also need to process and hard cheese. Chicken eggs should be thoroughly washed, boiled, put into cold water and cooled, then cleaned, detached the proteins from the yolks and separately rub them on a small grater.

"Turtle" salad with prunes includes walnuts. However, they are necessary only for decoration. In this regard, nuts are recommended to be purchased in a holistic, purified form. They should be well washed and dried with a microwave oven.

Salad formation

Processed ingredients should be laid out on a flat large dish in the following order: chicken breasts, hard cheese, green sour apple, egg whites, prunes and yolks. Each layer of the product is required to be greased with greasy mayonnaise.

Salad decoration

To ensure that the dish is fully consistent with its name, its surface must be decorated with whole walnuts resembling a tortoise shell, and at the base it is recommended to lay out a boiled egg in the form of a head on which it follows to make eyes, nose and mouth out of improvised means.

It is also worth noting that this salad will be more beautiful and original if you put green leaves and other ingredients corresponding to the dish's image at the edges of the dish.