Salads with walnuts

Walnut salad is a delicious and healthy snack that can be prepared in many ways. This dish can become a festive table decoration. It does not require a lot of time spent on cooking or a huge list of expensive products. Everything is extremely simple and delicious.

Salad with walnuts, prunes

It includes:

• prunes - a glass with a slide;
• walnuts - 0.5 cups;
• processed cheese - 2 packs;
• boiled eggs - 5 pieces;
• garlic - 2 cloves;
• mayonnaise (sour cream).

In order for the salad with prunes and walnuts to have a delicate taste, it is better to use creamy processed cheese.

All the ingredients of the future dish must be laid out in layers and each of them well greased with mayonnaise. You need to spread the salad like this:

1. Grated cheese.
2. Chopped garlic.
3. Finely chopped eggs.
4. Chopped prunes.

The last layer is generously greased with mayonnaise (sour cream). Sprinkle with nuts before serving.

Salad with prunes, beets and walnuts

The combination of beets with prunes and walnuts has long been a classic. The dish is perfect as a cold snack. The salad "Beetroot with prunes and walnuts" includes:

• boiled beets - 200 grams;
• chopped walnuts - 30 grams;
• prunes - 50 grams;
• garlic - 2 cloves;
• mayonnaise - 2 tablespoons.

How the salad is prepared:

1. Beets are rubbed on a coarse grater.
2. The prunes are finely chopped.
3. Chop the nuts.
4. Garlic is crushed.
5. Then all this is transferred to a container, brought to taste with salt, pepper, if necessary, and seasoned with mayonnaise.

Turtle salad

Delicious and delicate dish with interesting decoration. It will certainly become a decoration of the festive table. The turtle salad with chicken and walnuts contains:

• medium-sized chicken fillet;
• boiled eggs - 3 pieces;
• hard cheese - 150 grams;
• bow - 1 piece;
• a handful of nuts;
• mayonnaise.

Chicken and Walnut Salad is one of the popular flaky salads. It is better to use a round plate for presentation. Each layer must be well greased with mayonnaise. The sequence of laying out the layers is as follows:

1. Coarsely grated egg yolks.
2. Chicken fillet, finely chopped.
3. Chopped onions.
4. Grated cheese.
5. Grated egg whites (the last layer is not greased with mayonnaise).

If desired, you can add an apple to the salad. This will give its taste notes of piquancy and astringency. In this case, the layer of grated apple should come after the onion. When all the products for the salad with walnuts are laid out on a plate, you can start decorating it. To do this, using mayonnaise, cells are drawn on the surface of the salad, resembling a turtle shell. Each cell is decorated with a half nut kernel.

Salad "Tenderness"

The recipe for this salad, like most others, is extremely simple. But the successful combination of products makes it very tender and satisfying. For salad "Tenderness" with prunes and walnuts, you will need the following ingredients:

• chicken fillet - 1 piece;
• fresh cucumber - 1 piece;
• prunes - 150 grams;
• walnuts - 80 grams;
• eggs - 5 pieces;
• mayonnaise.

You will need a transparent deep plate. The salad will be laid out in layers in the following sequence (each layer is smeared with mayonnaise):

1. Chicken fillet, boiled and cut into strips.
2. Steamed and chopped prunes.
3. Walnuts (chopped).
4. Egg whites, grated on a coarse grater.
5. Cucumbers cut into strips.
6. Finely grated egg yolk.

Let the salad sit for at least 2 hours in the refrigerator to soak well. You can decorate the dish with chopped nuts.

Georgian salad (with walnuts)

This dish will be highly appreciated. It will appeal to lovers of spicy and savory. To prepare a classic Georgian salad with walnuts, you need the following products:

• 1 pod of hot chili;
• 2 cloves of garlic;
• 50 grams of nuts (walnuts);
• 1 medium onion;
• 3 ripe tomato;
• 3 cucumbers;
• herbs - mint, basil;
• wine vinegar - 2 tablespoons;
• salt - a teaspoon;
• water.

How to make a salad:

1. Cut tomatoes and cucumbers into small slices, chop the herbs as well.
2. For salad dressing, make peanut sauce: chop and mix pre-peeled garlic, salt, a little pepper, nuts in a blender. The resulting mass is transferred into a deep container and combined with wine vinegar.
3. Chopped vegetables and herbs are transferred to a dish and poured with nut sauce.

Celery, Apple, Walnuts Salad

This dish differs from the previous ones in its lightness, freshness and piquancy. It's also incredibly useful. To prepare the salad "Celery, apple, walnuts" you will need:

• celery (petioles);
• 1 medium green apple;
• a handful of nuts (walnuts);
• parsley;
• 50 milliliters of olive oil;
• 20 milliliters of soy sauce;
• a pinch of ground red pepper;
• 20 milliliters of freshly squeezed lemon juice.

Cooking method:

1. The dressing is done by combining olive oil, soy sauce, pepper and lemon juice (at this stage, you only need 3 parts). All components are thoroughly mixed.
2. Celery stalks are cut into medium-sized cubes or strips.
3. The apples are also crushed. In order for them not to darken, they need to be sprinkled with lemon juice, which remained after the preparation of the dressing.
4. The greens are crushed.
5. Celery, apple, herbs, nuts (halves or quarters of kernels) are laid out on the dish and all this is poured over with dressing.

Since most walnut salads require mayonnaise to prepare, it is recommended to make it at home.

To do this, beat in a blender until the required consistency is formed, half a teaspoon of sugar, a pinch of salt, a tablespoon of lemon juice, half a glass of vegetable oil, a teaspoon of mustard and one egg.