Turtle Salad with Chicken

Turtle Salad with Chicken – a layered festive dish. The walnuts present in its composition give the salad a special taste. Traditionally, walnuts are used crushed, as in our recipe, but you can layer them in small pieces. The taste will not be worse for it. If the dish is prepared in advance and stored in the refrigerator for some time, mayonnaise is applied in a grid pattern on the top layer. If it is prepared just before serving, you can mix each layer with small portions of mayonnaise. The basic ingredient is boiled chicken.in some recipes it is replaced with smoked chicken or red fish. The choice is yours, and we offer to prepare Turtle Salad according to our step-by-step recipe with photos.

Serves: 4.

Preparation time: 30 minutes.

Caloric content: 298 kcal per 100 grams of the dish.

Ingredients

• boiled chicken thighs - 2 pcs. (large);
• apple - 1 pc;
• onion - 1 pc;
• walnuts - 80-100 g;
• boiled chicken eggs - 3 pcs;
• cheese - 80 g;
• mayonnaise - 100 g;
• green onions - 10-15 g. (for decoration).

Preparation

1. Prepare the necessary products for making Turtle salad with chicken. Peel the apple, cut it in half and remove the core. Remove the shells from the eggs and the skins from the onions. Also, remove the skin from the chicken thighs. Mayonnaise can be store-bought or homemade.

2. Separate the yolks from the whites. Leave one half of the white for decoration, and grate the remaining whites on a vegetable grater.

3. Grate the yolks on the same grater.

4. Pass the cheese through this grater.

5. Grate the apples.

6. Chop the walnuts in any convenient way. We chopped them using a fine grater.

7. Cut the onion into half-rings, place it in a bowl, and pour boiling water over it for about 10 minutes to get rid of the bitterness.

8. Separate the meat from the bone. Cut the meat into small pieces.

9. Chop the green onions.

10. Drain the water from the soaked onion.

11. Start assembling the salad. The first layer is the grated whites, covered with a lattice of mayonnaise.

12. The next layer is the chopped meat, also covered with mayonnaise.

13. Next, layer the apples. Place the onions on top and cover everything with mayonnaise.

14. Then comes a layer of grated cheese, followed by the grated chicken yolks. Spread mayonnaise on top.

15. Sprinkle the salad with the prepared walnuts.

16. Decorate the dish in the shape of a turtle just before serving.

17. The Turtle salad with chicken is ready. Invite guests to the table. Enjoy your meal.

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