Cheese Salad Baskets

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   For our baskets we need a good piece of hard cheese. The harder the cheese you choose, the better your basket will subsequently hold its shape. I tried with Dutch and Poshekhonsky cheeses - poshekhonsky kept the shape much better. I don't know if it depends on the variety, or on the quality of the cheese itself, but in my case it was like this ...

2. Step 2:

   

   Three cheese on a fine grater, but you can cook the basket itself in two ways - I'll show both

3. Step 3:

   

   The first way is in a frying pan, I wanted to make this basket openwork, so I didn't put a lot of cheese. But keep in mind, the thinner the layer of cheese, the more tender the basket will be and the salad should be some very light, preferably without mayonnaise

4. Step 4:

   

   Put the pan on the weakest fire and wait for the cheese to start melting and small bubbles to appear (it took me about 4 minutes)

5. Step 5:

   

   Then turn the pan over for a few seconds under a stream of cold water, or put it on a wet towel, leave it for a couple of minutes

6. Step 6:

   

   For the second method, we will need a plate and a microwave - we lubricate the plate

7. Step 7:

   

   Sprinkle the plate with cheese

8. Step 8:

   

   Put in the microwave for 1 minute at maximum power (I have 700 watts)

9. Step 9:

   

   Put a plate as well as a wet towel

11. Step 10:

    

    Gently pry with a spatula (it is very convenient to use silicone) and turn the cake onto the glass - it is warm now and has not completely cooled down yet, so you can give it the desired shape. In this form, you can send it to the refrigerator for freezing (30 minutes will be enough)

12. Step 11:

    

    And you can put a basket in a deep bowl or salad bowl to give shape and send it to the refrigerator so - I can say that in both cases it turned out very well

13. Step 12:

    

    This is what the basket looks like just from the refrigerator

14. Step 13:

    

    We fill the baskets with our favorite salad, the recipe of which, I'm sure, was found on the Crumb (I'll be glad if you share the recipe in the comments)

15. Step 14:

    

    Sliced fruit or fruit salad will look very nice in such a basket

16. Step 15:

    

    From the specified amount of cheese I got 3 baskets. It is very convenient to prepare such baskets on the eve of the holiday, put them in the refrigerator with a stack, and fill them with salad the next day before serving

17. Step 16:

    

    Fried sesame or garlic clove can be added to the cheese and then the dish will play in a new way

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    Good luck in your culinary experiments! And bon appetit!