Chicken salad
Description
Minimum effort — excellent result. If you enjoy decorating dishes for holidays and want to surprise your guests with an original salad presentation, then prepare the "Turtle" chicken salad. This is one of those salads you'll want to make for every festive occasion. The recipe for "Turtle" chicken salad is simple, yet the taste will please everyone without exception. Even those watching their figure will gladly enjoy it. This salad can be made with sour cream instead of mayonnaise, making it suitable for a "children's table" as well. Here's how to make it. You can serve it immediately.
Instructions
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Step 1
Boil the chicken fillet and eggs in advance, let them cool, and then start assembling the salad. Divide all the ingredients in half, as the salad layers will be duplicated. Set aside one half of a boiled egg for the turtle's head. Separate the remaining eggs: yolks in one bowl, whites in another. Grate the egg whites on a fine grater. The first salad layer is the egg whites, coated with mayonnaise. To save time on spreading the mayonnaise, make a small hole in a plastic bag and simply create a fine grid pattern over each layer.
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Step 2
The next layer is finely chopped green onion (or you can use onion). If using onion, pour boiling water over it and let it sit for about 10 minutes.
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Step 3
On top of the onion, evenly distribute the finely chopped chicken fillet and spread mayonnaise over it (or create a mayonnaise lattice pattern).
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Step 4
After the fillet, add a layer of egg yolks. It doesn't grate well on a grater, but you can crumble it with a fork. On top, make a mayonnaise lattice pattern.
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Step 5
Next comes a layer of apple, grated on a coarse grater, and then mayonnaise again.
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Step 6
Now — a layer of cheese and again a grid of mayonnaise. You can grate the cheese on a coarse or fine grater, whichever you prefer. It won't affect the taste of the salad.
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Step 7
After the cheese, add chopped prunes. Then repeat all the layers once again.
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Step 8
Toast the walnuts in a skillet. You can chop the nuts, but not too finely, as they will be used for decoration.
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Step 9
Now it's time to decorate the turtle: use nuts to make eyes, nose, and mouth. Use parsley or any other greens to create the grass on which the turtle is lying. Sprinkle nuts on top of the turtle to imitate its shell. You can use a mayonnaise drizzle in a net pattern to clearly outline the shell design. Let the salad chill in the refrigerator for several hours so that all the layers are well soaked.