Turtle Salad - 4 cooking recipes

The only mandatory ingredients in the Turtle salad recipe are walnuts and chicken eggs. Both products are involved in the main decoration. The nuts represent the turtle's shell, and the eggs represent the head and, if necessary, the legs of the turtle.

However, in the second case, eggs can be replaced with something else. For example, lay out the head and paws with a salad mixture, only cover it with something else on top - so that it stands out. So there are only nuts left. It is impossible to single out any specific salad recipe and call it traditional or classic. We can only say what the dish is most often prepared from in our country.

Minimum set of products: nuts, boiled chicken, eggs, cheese, onions, apples, salt and mayonnaise.

There are variations with prunes, grapes, chips, cucumbers, pomegranate seeds, smoked chicken, ham and so on.

Like most holiday salads, Turtle is laid out in layers in the form of a hemisphere - to resemble a turtle shell as much as possible. The top layer is boiled and chopped egg yolks, on top of which are walnuts. They, in turn, can either be minced in a meat grinder, simply chopped with a knife, or laid out in whole halves. This can be called a classic serve.

But there are also options: when the “shell” is laid out with light raisins, green grapes, canned corn, pomegranate seeds, and prunes. We also replace the mayonnaise with which the layers are coated. The choice is: sour cream, yogurt, any white sauce.