“Turtle” - the salad is original and very beautiful. Most often it is prepared for children's parties, as this dish is made out in the form of a fairy - tale character. It is also worth noting that this salad has many cooking options. However, we will only consider a method with prunes and boiled chicken.
How to make a “Turtle” salad in just a couple of hours
Essential Ingredients:
- hard cheese of any grade - 110 g;
- chicken breasts (you can take other meat) - 200 g;
- large eggs - 4 pcs.;
- pitted prunes - 90 g;
- sour green apple - 1 pc.;
- walnut - 110 g;
- iodized salt - if necessary, add to the processed ingredients;
- high-calorie mayonnaise - 130 g.
How to Make Turtle Salad: Meat Processing
“Turtle” is a salad, for the preparation of which any kind 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. Next, the breasts need to be cooled, cleaned of cartilage and bones, and then cut into small cubes.
Dried fruit processing
“Turtle” is a multi-layered salad, and each product brings its own touch. But delicious and unusual, this dish is obtained precisely due to the presence of prunes in it. Before adding dried fruit, it must be properly prepared: wash thoroughly, sort and soak in boiling water for 20 minutes. After this, the prunes must be thrown into a colander, washed well, freed from excess fluid and finely chopped with a knife.
Processing the rest of the ingredients
Now we need to wash one sour green apple, free it from the skin and core, and then grate it on a large grater. Hard cheese must also be processed. Chicken eggs must be thoroughly washed, boiled hard-boiled, put in cold water and cooled, then peeled, separate the whites from the yolks and individually 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 hollow, peeled form. It is advisable to wash and dry them well with a microwave.
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 must be coated with greasy mayonnaise.
Salad dressing
To make the dish fully consistent with its name, it is necessary to decorate its surface with whole walnuts, reminiscent of a tortoise shell, and at the base it is recommended to lay a boiled egg in the form of a head on which to make eyes, nose and mouth from improvised means.
It is also worth noting that such a salad will be more beautiful and original if you put green leaves and other ingredients corresponding to the image of the dish on the edges of the plate.