Salad in a cheese basket

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to make a cheese basket for salad? Prepare the necessary ingredients - there are only three of them.

2. Step 2:

   

   Grate the cheese on a fine or medium grater.

3. Step 3:

   

   Pour flour into the cheese.

4. Step 4:

   

   And mix thoroughly so that all the cheese is covered with flour on all sides.

5. Step 5:

   

   Grease a frying pan with a thick bottom and non-stick coating with vegetable oil. It is better to do this with the help of a bone, so that the oil is not very much and it is distributed evenly. Pour a thin layer of cheese mixture into the center of the pan and form a circle with a diameter of 10-12 cm, trying to completely cover the circle with cheese without empty areas. Fry the cheese blanks over medium heat until golden brown, then turn over and fry until golden brown.

6. Step 6:

   

   Put a hot cheese pancake on the bottom of an inverted glass and press it lightly with your hands to form a basket. This should be done quickly, as the cheese cools down quickly and the basket becomes brittle. It is better to form a basket in kitchen mittens, since the blanks are hot and you can get badly burned. Leave the baskets to cool, and in the meantime, you can bake the following cheese blanks.

7. Step 7:

   

   Remove the cooled baskets from the glass.

8. Step 8:

   

   Prepare the ingredients for the filling. You can stuff baskets with a variety of salads, but we will focus on seafood salad.

9. Step 9:

   

   Boil the shrimp in salted water for about 3 minutes, cool and peel. If the shrimp are large, like mine, cut them into pieces.

11. Step 10:

    

    Boil the squid in salted water for 1-2 minutes (no more, otherwise the squid will become rubbery, hard and tasteless), then cool, peel off the films and cut into small cubes.

12. Step 11:

    

    You can use lightly salted or smoked red fish. I baked a small trout steak in foil in the oven for 30 minutes. Cut the fish into small pieces, removing the bones.

13. Step 12:

    

    Boil hard-boiled eggs, cool, peel and cut into small cubes.

14. Step 13:

    

    Tomatoes also cut into small cubes.

15. Step 14:

    

    In a salad bowl, combine squid, shrimp, red fish, eggs, tomato and crackers. You can not add crackers at all or replace wheat with rye. You can take store-bought crackers or cook them yourself from the bread that is in the house. I had cheese-flavored crackers. If you are not going to serve an appetizer to the table immediately, then it is better not to add crackers to the salad - they will get wet.

16. Step 15:

    

    Season the salad with mayonnaise. Additionally, you do not need to salt the salad, because the baskets and mayonnaise already contain the right amount of salt.

17. Step 16:

    

    Mix everything well.

18. Step 17:

    

    Fill the cheese baskets with the prepared mass and serve to the table. Bon appetit!