Turtle salad with mushrooms

Step-by-step preparation

Cooking time: 40 mins

1. STEP 1

   

   How to make turtle salad with mushrooms? Prepare all the necessary ingredients. You can use any mushrooms, I used marinated champignons. If you take fresh mushrooms, first fry them with onions in a frying pan. It is better to take apples for salad sour or sweet and sour. Instead of mayonnaise, you can use sour cream.

2. STEP 2

   

   Peel and rinse the onion, then finely chop and soak in cold water for about 10-15 minutes to remove excess bitterness.

3. STEP 3

   

   Drain the onions using a colander. Let it dry.

4. STEP 4

   

   Wash and hard-boil the eggs, then cool, peel and separate the whites from the yolks. Leave one whole egg and half a white for decoration.

5. STEP 5

   

   Wash the apples well, leave one for decoration, peel the other, remove the seeds and grate on a coarse grater, place on a dish as the bottom layer. To make the grated apples darken less, you can sprinkle them with lemon juice.

6. STEP 6

   

   Grate the egg whites on a coarse grater and place on top of the apples, you can add a little salt to them.

7. STEP 7

   

   Spread mayonnaise over egg whites.

8. STEP 8

   

   Place the next layer of chopped onion and brush with mayonnaise. The onion will highlight and enhance the taste of the pickled mushrooms, but if you want, you can omit it altogether.

9. STEP 9

   

   Cut the mushrooms into small pieces.

10. STEP 10

    

    Place the mushrooms on top of the onions, spread with mayonnaise, you can also apply the mayonnaise in the form of a mesh, rather than spreading it with a spoon.

11. STEP 11

    

    Grate the cheese on a coarse grater and spread in the next layer. You can take any cheese you like, the main thing is that it is tasty, fresh and without vegetable fats.

12. STEP 12

    

    Now thoroughly coat the entire salad on top with mayonnaise, using a spoon and forming a mound - the shell of the future turtle.

13. STEP 13

    

    Grate the egg yolks on a fine grater and sprinkle them over the salad.

14. STEP 14

    

    Take the second apple, cut it in half, remove the seeds and cut into thin slices. Decorate the salad with them in the form of a pattern on the back of the turtle.

15. STEP 15

    

    From the reserved half of the egg white, make the head of a turtle, inserting corn and dill into it (eyes), a piece of red apple (tongue), and make paws from a whole egg, decorating them with dill. Turtle salad with mushrooms is ready. You can let it sit in the refrigerator for a while so that it soaks in better. Bon appetit!