Salad "Hedgehog" is an amazing appetizer that surprises not only with its original design, but also with unforgettable taste. In any performance, the salad is very tasty and healthy. You can fill in the culinary masterpiece with sour cream, unsweetened yogurt, as well as using ordinary mayonnaise.
Hedgehog Salad with Chicken
Such an appetizing salad will undoubtedly attract the attention of guests and all household members. I especially like the delicious snack, designed as a funny animal, for little children.
The following ingredients come in handy for preparing Hedgehog Salad:
- fillet - 0.5 kg;
- eggs - 5 pcs.;
- tomato - 3 pcs.;
- pepper - 3 pcs.
- carrot - 2 pcs.;
- olives - 6 pcs.
Practical part
The process of preparing snacks must begin with boiling the fillets and eggs. Then the eggs should be grated with a grater, and the boiled fillet cut into small squares. Tomatoes for salad are also cut into squares, and bell pepper (ideally, it is better to take multi-colored) should be cut in the form of straws.
To prepare the sauce, you need to mix yogurt with sour cream in equal proportions, then salt and pepper the dressing. If there is no desire to make the sauce, you can replace it with homemade or regular mayonnaise.
Now you need to start decorating the appetizer, which must be shaped like a hedgehog. This should be done in the following sequence:
- chopped fillet;
- chopped tomatoes;
- grated eggs;
- Bell pepper.
All layers must be smeared with mayonnaise. For the body of a mammal, grate a pre-cooked carrot. The face of the hedgehog should be covered with grated egg whites. Eyes and nose made from olives. If desired, lay on the back of the hedgehog a chicken egg resembling a mushroom with a hat from a piece of tomato. It is also possible to put dots on the mushroom with mayonnaise, thus imitating the fly agaric.
Hedgehog Salad with Korean Carrot
Each ingredient in this appetizer adds a unique touch to the salad. Thus, the taste of the dish is truly magnificent. Preparing it is quite simple, even a young housewife can handle it.
For cooking, you will need the following components:
- chicken breast - 200 g;
- mushrooms - 200 g;
- eggs - 3 pcs.;
- cheese - 120 g;
- Korean carrot - 350 g;
- olives - 65 g;
- greens - a twig.
You need to start cooking “Hedgehog” salad with boiling the breast. Then it should be cooled and finely chopped. Rinse mushrooms, cut into small plates and fry until cooked. Prepared eggs must be boiled, peeled and cut into small cubes.
Cheese should be grated using a grater. Peel the onion, cut into small cubes and fry until golden brown. Rinse a sprig of greens and chop finely.
Now, from the prepared ingredients, you can begin to form the body of a mammal. This should be done in the following order:
- fried mushrooms;
- boiled breast;
- a layer of mayonnaise;
- fried onions;
- chopped eggs;
- layer of mayonnaise.
Using grated hedgehog cheese, you can make a muzzle, olives will serve as eyes and a nose. The body of the mammal is covered with Korean carrots, and on top of the cut olives an imitation of needles is made.
Mushroom appetizer option
Salad “Hedgehog” with mushrooms is very beautiful and festive. The name of the appetizer appeared due to its appearance. Preparing a salad is not difficult, but it is better to do it in advance so that all layers are saturated with mayonnaise. Then the hedgehog salad will be even tastier.
The following ingredients are useful for cooking:
- pickled mushrooms - 1 b.;
- carrots - 1 pc.;
- eggs - 4 pcs.;
- breast - 300 g;
- olives - 12 pcs.
It is necessary to begin the process with the preparation of a salad bowl, on which the dish will be laid out. The first layer is canned mushrooms, they should be laid out in such a way that they resemble a hedgehog. The second layer will be boiled carrots, previously grated with a grater. After that, the future dish needs to be smeared with mayonnaise.
The next layer is the yolks of boiled eggs crushed on a grater. Then comes a layer of mayonnaise. Next, cut into squares breast. Mayonnaise again. The top of the appetizer must be covered with egg white, pre-heated on a grater. The eyes of a mammal can be made from peas, and the nose can be made from olives. Prepared olives, if desired, are cut into four slices and from them create needles for a hedgehog, which are laid out all over his body.