Turtle salad is a great snack option for any occasion. The original hearty appetizer impresses with its wonderful taste and unusual appearance.

Classic salad

List of recipe components:

  • six chicken eggs;
  • three red apples;
  • mayonnaise - 50 g;
  • cheese - 240 g;
  • salt - 1 pinch.

Step-by-step preparation:

  1. Peel a thin skin from apples, cut out a core with seeds. The remaining apple flesh is cut into thin strips. It is best to take sweet and sour apple varieties for this purpose.
  2. We shift the straws into a bowl and pour a small amount of mayonnaise, mix.
  3. Chop the cheese in exactly the same straw as the apples. Pour it into another bowl and also add mayonnaise.
  4. Cook chicken eggs for 12 minutes, wait until they cool, and cut 4 protein into strips. Put the mayonnaise.
  5. We remove the yolks in a separate container and grind with a grater.
  6. It remains to form a salad, laying out all the products in layers.
  7. At the bottom of a flat dish, distribute half the total number of apples in mayonnaise.
  8. We spread half the cheese on them. Then again come the apples and cheese.
  9. After them we distribute the proteins and sprinkle this splendor with chopped yolks.
  10. We leave one boiled egg intact. From it we will make the head of a turtle. Cut a mouth on it and put it to the salad.
  11. Determine where the eyes will be located, grease this part with mayonnaise and attach peppercorns.
  12. Paws of the animal can be represented by halves of boiled eggs. It remains to bring this beauty to the table.

With prunes and walnuts

You will need:

  • four eggs
  • cheese - 0.1 kg;
  • prunes - 60 g;
  • poultry fillet - 0.2 kg;
  • salt - 5 g;
  • nuts - 45 g;
  • onions - 0.15 kg;
  • apples - 0.25 kg;
  • mayonnaise sauce - 80 g.

How to prepare a turtle salad:

  1. Cook the chicken until tender. Do not forget to add salt. Grind the cooled meat with a knife.
  2. Finely chop the onion, pour into a cup and pour boiling water there. After 10 minutes, remove the hot water, rinse the onion pieces in cold water. Thus, in the salad you will not feel a taste of bitterness.
  3. Separately, rub the boiled proteins with the yolks using a grater
  4. Crack nuts into pieces. Several pieces must be left intact.
  5. Grind the prune with a knife. Pour apples and cheese through a grater with small links.
  6. We spread the squirrels in an oval on a flat salad bowl, salt them and pour them with mayonnaise.
  7. The next step will be chicken, sprinkled with mayonnaise and sprinkled with onions.
  8. Next is a layer of apples, poured with mayonnaise. Then grated cheese processed with mayonnaise. 20 grams of cheese should be left to decorate the appetizer.
  9. We complete the salad with grated yolks with mayonnaise.
  10. Sprinkle all with walnuts. We put the tortoise shell with prunes.
  11. We divide the remaining nuts into halves and form the legs of the salad, spread the head with the grated cheese, and form the eyes from two peas of pepper.

Cooking with the addition of grapes

Adding new ingredients, for example, grapes instead of nuts, we get different versions of the turtle salad, which look completely different.

Required Products:

  • one apple;
  • one chicken breast;
  • the floor of the lemon;
  • white grapes - 0.2 kg;
  • mayonnaise - 140 g;
  • four eggs;
  • one onion;
  • cheese - 110 g;
  • two lettuce leaves.

Step-by-step instruction:

  1. Cooked chicken in small pieces.
  2. Cut the onion into cubes. For 5 minutes, pour them with boiling water, then pour out the hot water and pour the juice of half a lemon into the onion.
  3. We cook the boiled eggs through a grater with small links. So do with a piece of cheese.
  4. Sour apples, peeled from thin skin, shred into small cubes.
  5. We spread the dish in the shape of an oval, imitating a turtle shell. Do not forget to pour each layer of salad with mayonnaise sauce. First, spread the pieces of chicken, then alternately onion slices, apple slices, chicken eggs and milk cheese.
  6. In this form, put the salad in a cold place for 2 hours.
  7. During this time, you can cut each grape into two slices.
  8. We take out the salad, cover its top with grapes, create a head from cheese and put salad leaves nearby.

Turtle Salad with Mushrooms

You will need:

  • salt to taste;
  • two apples;
  • chicken fillet - 250 g;
  • mushrooms - 0.2 kg;
  • bulb;
  • hard cheese - 140 g;
  • three chicken eggs;
  • a handful of walnuts;
  • mayonnaise sauce - 55 g.

Algorithm of actions:

  1. We chop the peeled onion and boiled poultry with a knife.
  2. Mushrooms cut into cubes are fried in a pan in oil until soft.
  3. Separate the cooked proteins and yolks and process on a grater.
  4. We carry out the same procedure with apples and cheese.
  5. With an oval slide, we spread the prepared components of the recipe on a flat salad bowl: egg whites, mushroom slices, onion, chicken, grated apples and milk cheese. Each layer should be treated with mayonnaise.
  6. The top of the salad consists of grated yolks, on top of which a mesh of mayonnaise is extruded and all this is decorated with halves of walnuts.
  7. We form the head of the turtle from egg white. The role of the eyes is performed by two peas of pepper.
  8. We leave the dish to be consumed in the refrigerator for a couple of hours, and serve the treat on the table.

Smoked chicken

What you need to take:

  • lemon juice - 15 ml;
  • cheese - 0.1 kg;
  • mayonnaise sauce - 200 g;
  • one apple;
  • smoked chicken - 0.2 kg;
  • one lettuce;
  • four eggs;
  • one onion;
  • walnuts - 0.1 kg.

How to make a turtle salad with chicken and walnuts:

  1. Remove the shells from the boiled eggs, lay the squirrels and yolks in different cups and grind on different graters.
  2. Remove the skin from the smoked chicken, cut the meat into cubes.
  3. Dip onion chopped into crumbs for two minutes in a container with steep boiling water, then sprinkle the vegetable with cold water. Sprinkle lemon juice on the washed onion.
  4. From the apple we remove its central part and peel and pass the pulp through the grater.
  5. We begin to collect the salad in layers. Proteins, chicken fibers, sliced ​​onions, mashed apple, yolks and a lot of cheese.
  6. The top of the dish is decorated with nuts. We make a turtle head.

Pineapple Recipe

You will need:

  • 10 walnuts;
  • poultry fillet - 250 g;
  • can of pineapples;
  • four eggs;
  • sour cream - 65 g;
  • onion - 1 pc.;
  • a handful of fresh herbs;
  • cheese - 90 g;
  • salt and spices to taste.

Cooking Algorithm:

  1. Cook the washed chicken fillet in water, pre-salt it, salt and add spices for 20 minutes.
  2. Scald onion slices with boiling water and place for a minute in a bowl of cool water.
  3. Pineapple rings cut into small cubes. Do the same with a cooled chicken.
  4. Three boiled eggs divided into yolks and squirrels. The fourth boiled egg will be left aside.
  5. Salad consists of layers that are repeated twice. Therefore, it is worth pre-dividing each ingredient in half.
  6. We begin to assemble the dishes with proteins, then go chicken, onion slices, yolks, cheese, pineapples. The following layers are repeated in the same sequence.
  7. It remains to form paws and a head from halves of nuts - in the shape of a whole egg.
  8. The remaining nuts decorate the top of the dish.
  9. Around the salad we spread the greens and serve the guests on the table.

Turtle Salad with Beef

The composition of the recipe:

  • mayonnaise sauce - 70 g
  • apple - 1 pc.;
  • beef - 0.2 kg;
  • prunes - 0.1 kg;
  • bulb;
  • nuts - 0.1 kg;
  • four eggs;
  • a piece of cheese - 40 g.

Cooking step by step:

  1. Cook the veal until soft. We pour salt in the water in which it is boiled.
  2. Finely chop the onion and put it in boiling water for a couple of seconds.
  3. Boiled eggs are peeled, divided into yolks and proteins and separately chopped into crumbs.
  4. Finely chop the washed prunes and nuts.
  5. An apple is passed through a large grater, and cheese through a shallow one.
  6. Food is formed in layers: meat fibers, onion, protein, grated apple, pieces of chicken yolk, cheese. Each product is greased with mayonnaise sauce.
  7. We decorate the dish, making it look like a turtle, nuts and cheese, processed on a grater. Bon Appetit!