Salad in a Cheese Basket
Make cheese tartlet shells in 20 minutes. A salad served in a cheese basket suits any holiday table — it always looks impressive. And you can switch up the filling to match your taste, the season, or a theme. Almost anything pairs with cheese: meat, fish, vegetables, eggs, herbs, mushrooms.
Cooking method
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Step 1:
How do you make a cheese basket for salad? Gather the ingredients — there are only three.
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Step 2:
Grate the cheese on the fine or medium holes of a grater.
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Step 3:
Add the flour to the cheese.
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Step 4:
Toss thoroughly so every shred of cheese is coated with flour.
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Step 5:
Lightly oil a heavy-bottomed nonstick skillet. It's best to brush the oil on so there isn't too much and it spreads evenly. Scatter a thin layer of the cheese mixture in the center of the skillet, forming a circle about 4–5 in. (10–12 cm) across, with no gaps. Fry the cheese rounds over medium heat until golden, then flip and fry until golden on the other side.
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Step 6:
Drape the hot cheese round over the bottom of an upturned glass and gently press it into a basket shape with your hands. Work fast, since the cheese cools and turns brittle quickly. Wear oven mitts — the rounds are hot and can burn you badly. Leave the baskets to cool while you cook the next cheese rounds.
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Step 7:
Lift the cooled baskets off the glasses.
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Step 8:
Prep the filling ingredients. You can fill the baskets with all kinds of salad, but here we'll go with a seafood salad.
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Step 9:
Boil the shrimp in salted water for about 3 minutes, then cool and peel them. If they're large, like mine, cut them into pieces.
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Step 10:
Boil the squid in salted water for 1–2 minutes (no longer, or it turns rubbery, tough, and bland), then cool it, peel off the membranes, and cut it into small cubes.
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Step 11:
Use lightly salted or smoked salmon. I baked a small trout steak in foil in the oven for 30 minutes. Cut the fish into small pieces, removing any bones.
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Step 12:
Hard-boil the eggs, cool and peel them, and cut them into small cubes.
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Step 13:
Dice the tomato small as well.
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Step 14:
In a bowl, combine the squid, shrimp, salmon, eggs, tomato, and croutons. You can leave out the croutons entirely or use rye ones instead of wheat. Use store-bought croutons or make your own from whatever bread you have. Mine were cheese-flavored. If you're not serving the appetizer right away, leave the croutons out — they'll go soggy.
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Step 15:
Dress the salad with mayonnaise. There's no need to add salt — the cheese baskets and mayonnaise already provide plenty.
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Step 16:
Toss everything well.
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Step 17:
Fill the cheese baskets with the salad and serve. Enjoy!
- All your guests will remember a snack this pretty, original, and delicious. All that's left for you is to soak up the endless compliments — and earn a lasting reputation as a skilled cook.
Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish
- Canned shrimp - 81 kcal/100g
- Boiled shrimp - 95 kcal/100g
- Peeled frozen shrimp - 60 kcal/100g
- Fresh shrimp - 97 kcal/100g
- Tomatoes - 23 kcal/100g
- Chicken egg - 157 kcal/100g
- Egg white - 45 kcal/100g
- Egg powder - 542 kcal/100g
- Egg yolk - 352 kcal/100g
- Ostrich egg - 118 kcal/100g
- Fried squid - 175 kcal/100g
- Boiled squid - 110 kcal/100g
- Fresh squid - 74 kcal/100g
- Gouda-style cheese - 352 kcal/100g
- Swiss cheese - 335 kcal/100g
- Russian cheese - 366 kcal/100g
- Kostroma cheese - 345 kcal/100g
- Yaroslavl cheese - 361 kcal/100g
- Altai cheese, 50% fat - 356 kcal/100g
- Sovetsky cheese - 400 kcal/100g
- Steppe cheese - 362 kcal/100g
- Uglich cheese - 347 kcal/100g
- Poshekhonsky cheese - 350 kcal/100g
- Lambert cheese - 377 kcal/100g
- Appenzeller cheese, 50% fat - 400 kcal/100g
- Cheshire cheese, 50% fat - 363 kcal/100g
- Edam cheese, 40% fat - 340 kcal/100g
- Cheese with mushrooms, 50% fat - 395 kcal/100g
- Emmental cheese, 45% fat - 420 kcal/100g
- Gouda cheese, 45% fat - 356 kcal/100g
- Amadeus cheese - 364 kcal/100g
- Dom Blanc cheese (semi-hard) - 360 kcal/100g
- Lo Spalmino cheese - 61 kcal/100g
- Etorki cheese (sheep, hard) - 401 kcal/100g
- White cheese - 100 kcal/100g
- Yellow full-fat cheese - 260 kcal/100g
- Altai cheese - 355 kcal/100g
- Kaunas cheese - 355 kcal/100g
- Latvian cheese - 316 kcal/100g
- Limburger cheese - 327 kcal/100g
- Lithuanian cheese - 250 kcal/100g
- Lake cheese - 350 kcal/100g
- Gruyère cheese - 396 kcal/100g
- Whole durum wheat flour, fortified - 333 kcal/100g
- Whole durum wheat flour, all-purpose - 364 kcal/100g
- Fine wheat flour - 348 kcal/100g
- Flour - 325 kcal/100g
- Cream crackers - 414 kcal/100g
- Wheat crackers - 331 kcal/100g
- Crackers - 331 kcal/100g
- Salad mayonnaise, 50% fat - 502 kcal/100g
- Light mayonnaise - 260 kcal/100g
- Provençal mayonnaise - 624 kcal/100g
- Provençal-style mayonnaise - 627 kcal/100g
- Table mayonnaise - 627 kcal/100g
- Vegetable oil - 873 kcal/100g
- Salmon (red fish) - 191 kcal/100g
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