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Salad with apples, hard cheese, egg and mayonnaise

Layered Apple, Cheese, and Egg Salad

The bright flavor of this salad will win anyone over. I love it for how fresh and light it is — light not just in how quick and easy it is to make, but in taste too. Salads with fruit always turn out juicy, and here all the ingredients complement each other perfectly.

Julia M.

Recipe author

Salad with apples, hard cheese, egg and mayonnaise

Composition / ingredients

Servings:

Eggs

Hard cheese

Apple

Onion

Vinegar

Mayonnaise

Translation table of volumetric measures

Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe

By weight of the composition:

Proteins 31 % 8 g

Fats 50 % 13 g

Carbohydrates 19 % 5 g

165 kcal

GI: 100 / 0 / 0

Cooking method

Cooking time: 20 min

Step 1:

First, pickle the onion. Peel it and rinse it in cold water. Slice it and put it in a small bowl. Cover it with vinegar and let it sit for 10 minutes, then drain the vinegar and rinse the onion under running water. By then the harshness will be gone and the onion will taste better.
Step 2:

Boil the eggs for 5–7 minutes. Drain the hot water and cool them under cold water, then peel them. Peel the apple.
Step 3:

In a small serving bowl, grate the boiled eggs on the coarse side of a grater. Spread on a little mayonnaise and sprinkle with the pickled onion.
Step 4:

For the next layer, grate the apple on the coarse side of the grater and spread on a thin layer of mayonnaise.
Step 5:

Grate the hard cheese on the medium side and add it as the final layer. Refrigerate the finished salad so it chills and soaks up the flavors. Garnish with herbs before serving. Enjoy!

This salad looks its best built in layers. If you just mix everything together, it turns into one uniform mass and you can't tell what's in it. Layered, you can make it in a single serving bowl or as individual portions — either way, the layers soak up the mayonnaise nicely. To serve, garnish with a sprig of fresh parsley or some chopped scallion. It's one of the most winning ingredient combos for a salad. I especially like the onion pickled — you could just blanch it in boiling water to take out the harshness, but marinating it in vinegar gives the onion (and the whole salad) a tangy kick that really shines against the apple. The cheese and eggs round out the apple-and-onion pairing beautifully. By the way, this salad disappears fast, so you may want to make a double batch.