Original salad "Turtle" - a fun holiday snack for the children's table

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

Children's celebrations are no different from adult celebrations, the only difference is that all dishes must be carefully thought out and prepared only from fresh products, the table should be decorated colorfully and cheerfully. You should also take care of salads. It is best to arrange them in the form of funny cartoon characters or animals.

Don't overdo it with fatty ingredients - give preference to chicken or turkey meat. We will present to your attention the original, light and he althy salad "Turtle". He will charm the kids with an unusual presentation and taste. It can be cooked in several versions: from boiled meat or lightly s alted red fish. The dish is assembled in layers, and sour cream or light mayonnaise can be used for smearing.

Choose an oval-shaped salad bowl for a snack so that the resemblance to a turtle is more complete. Be sure to cover the bottom of the dishes with green Chinese lettuce leaves. Salad "Turtle" - a real festive dish that will decorate the table andwill be the focus of your children. An unusually delicate taste is obtained due to the harmonious combination of ingredients - cheese, chicken, apple, nuts. Although there are many options for its preparation: with prunes, mushrooms, pineapples, grapes.

We offer the classic Turtle salad with chicken

Snack Ingredients:

- chicken fillet (200g);

- cheese (100 g);

- sweet and sour apples (2 pcs.);

- onion - to taste;

- walnuts (100 g);

- four eggs;

- sour cream or mayonnaise;

- lettuce for decoration and olives.

Boiled meat cut into thin slices. Finely chop the onion. We rub the boiled yolk and protein in different containers. Grind part of the nuts, leave the second part for the top. Grate cheese and apples on a medium grater.

Assembly

Put prepared products on lettuce leaves in the following sequence: proteins, fillet, onion, apple, ½ part of cheese, yolks, again cheese, nuts. Coat each layer with mayonnaise. Nut slices will imitate a turtle shell, and put a boiled egg instead of a head. Let's make the eyes out of olives. Salad "Turtle" should soak for several hours. Children will be delighted! As a decoration, you can use pickled cucumber, greens - it all depends on your imagination and taste preferences.

Turtle salad with prunes

We will need:

- cheese (100 g);

- four eggs;

- boiled chicken (100 g);

- walnuts (100 g);

- prunes (100 g);

- apples (2 pieces);

- mayonnaise.

The first layer will be chopped meat, then grated cheese, apples, grated proteins, chopped prunes, yolks and nuts. Soak with mayonnaise, decorate on top by analogy with the above recipe. To give the dish brightness and color saturation, make flowers out of carrots and greens and "land" them on the sides of the snack.

Turtle salad (photo attached) is easy to prepare and quickly eaten. If you wish, you can experiment with products, for example, add grapes or mushrooms. Make sure that the kids want to try it, and for this, due attention must be paid to appearance. An interesting and bright shape will certainly intrigue the little ones.