Squirrel salad with melted cheese

Step-by-step preparation

Cooking time: 1 hr

1. STEP 1

   

   To prepare the Squirrel salad, we will prepare the following ingredients: carrots, processed cheese, eggs, butter, garlic, mayonnaise, salt, dill and walnuts.

2. STEP 2

   

   Cook carrots for 25 minutes. We check the readiness of the carrots with a fork: if it is easily pierced, then it is ready.

3. STEP 3

   

   Grate the boiled carrots on a fine grater.

4. STEP 4

   

   Grate the butter. Butter and cream cheese will grate better if you first chill them in the freezer for 5 minutes.

5. STEP 5

   

   Grate the melted cheese on a fine grater.

6. STEP 6

   

   Grate the garlic on a fine grater or squeeze it out.

7. STEP 7

   

   Boil and grate chicken eggs. We reserve the white of one egg to decorate the salad.

8. STEP 8

   

   For decoration, leave half a walnut and a small piece of walnut (for the squirrel's nose). Finely crush the remaining nuts using a rolling pin or blender, but not into dust.

9. STEP 9

   

   Grate the remaining egg white, leaving a little white for the squirrel's eye.

10. STEP 10

    

    Combine melted cheese, eggs, butter, garlic, mayonnaise and salt.

11. STEP 11

    

    Let's proceed to the most important stage of salad design, namely the formation of the squirrel. To do this, lay out the silhouette of a squirrel from the resulting mass.

12. STEP 12

    

    Sprinkle the squirrel with walnuts on top.

13. STEP 13

    

    Place a layer of grated carrots on top of the nuts. We put a walnut mat into the squirrel's paw and form a nose from a piece of the walnut. Sprinkle the ears, tip of the tail and belly with grated egg white. We form the eye from a small piece of egg. To decorate the dish we use dill.

Comments on the recipe

Eleno4ka

21.11.2023

4.9

Today I made Belochka salad with melted cheese. The products are simple and affordable. I was a little surprised by the addition of butter to the traditional set (cheese, eggs, mayonnaise, garlic), but I didn’t deviate from the recipe. I was even more surprised by how much the taste changed thanks to a small piece of butter!!! I liked this combination so much that I will definitely add this addition to similar recipes! To make it easier to form the squirrel figure, I drew the outline with mayonnaise using a pastry bag. The salad is wonderful, I’m happy to add it to my collection of recipes. Thank you, Alinka!

Irina

21.11.2023

5

What a cute little squirrel, it would be great to have a mold like that. But boiled carrots lose a lot; if you grated them fresh, it would be a real “Health” salad. Although I don’t know how this will affect the taste of the dish for which you presented the recipe. You'll have to try it yourself.

Alinka

21.11.2023

4.7

Interesting idea, I'll try it myself someday)

mother of a sweet tooth

21.11.2023

4.8

Very good presentation of this dish!

Maslova Tatyana

21.11.2023

5

What a cute squirrel!

Alinka

21.11.2023

4.6

It’s not at all difficult to make, but the appearance of the salad changes)

Yulena

21.11.2023

4.6

My husband’s favorite cheese salad, but I haven’t served it in such an original design yet