Santa's Hat Salad

A tasty tuna salad for your holiday table! This Santa's Hat salad tastes even better when it's arranged in a fun, festive way. With its themed shape, it's a great choice for a New Year's or Christmas spread. The tuna salad is easy to put together, the layers pair beautifully, and it looks so bright and colorful on the table that it never goes unnoticed.

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Composition / ingredients

Servings:
Translation table of volumetric measures
Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 38 % 8 g
Fats 33 % 7 g
Carbohydrates 29 % 6 g
108 kcal
GI: 100 / 0 / 0

Cooking method

  1. Step 1:

    Step 1

    Prep the ingredients. Boil the potatoes and carrots in their skins, then cool and peel them. Hard-boil the eggs, cool them, separate the yolks from the whites, and grate each separately. Drain the tuna and mash it with a fork. Finely chop the onion, cover it with boiling water, let it sit for 3 minutes to draw out the sharpness, then drain.

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2

    Grate the potatoes on the coarse side of a box grater. Arrange them in the shape of a Santa hat.

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3

    Spread the potato layer with mayonnaise.

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4

    Top with a layer of the mashed tuna.

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5

    Spread with mayonnaise again, then add a layer of coarsely grated hard cheese.

  6. Step 6:

    Step 6

    Scatter over finely chopped pickle.

  7. Step 7:

    Step 7

    Sprinkle with grated yolk and the finely chopped onion, then spread with mayonnaise. If you love mayonnaise, feel free to spread a little over every layer.

  8. Step 8:

    Step 8

    Next, cover the body of the hat with a layer of coarsely grated boiled carrot.

  9. Step 9:

    Step 9

    Use the grated egg white for the brim and pompom of the hat. The salad is done — let it chill in the fridge for a couple of hours to soak, then serve it at your holiday table. Enjoy!

Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish

  • Ripe potatoes - 80  kcal/100g
  • Baked potatoes - 70  kcal/100g
  • Mashed potatoes - 380  kcal/100g
  • Boiled potatoes - 82  kcal/100g
  • Potatoes in uniform - 74  kcal/100g
  • Fried potatoes - 192  kcal/100g
  • Carrots - 33  kcal/100g
  • Dried carrots - 275  kcal/100g
  • Boiled carrots - 25  kcal/100g
  • Dutch cheese - 352  kcal/100g
  • Swiss cheese - 335  kcal/100g
  • Russian cheese - 366  kcal/100g
  • Kostroma cheese - 345  kcal/100g
  • Yaroslavsky cheese - 361  kcal/100g
  • Altai cheese 50% fat content - 356  kcal/100g
  • Soviet cheese - 400  kcal/100g
  • Cheese 'steppe' - 362  kcal/100g
  • Uglichsky cheese - 347  kcal/100g
  • Poshekhonsky cheese - 350  kcal/100g
  • Lambert cheese - 377  kcal/100g
  • Appnzeller cheese with 50% fat content - 400  kcal/100g
  • Chester cheese with 50% fat content - 363  kcal/100g
  • Edamer cheese with 40% fat content - 340  kcal/100g
  • Cheese with mushrooms of 50% fat content - 395  kcal/100g
  • Emmental cheese with 45% fat content - 420  kcal/100g
  • Gouda cheese with 45% fat content - 356  kcal/100g
  • Aiadeus cheese - 364  kcal/100g
  • Dom blanc cheese (semi-hard) - 360  kcal/100g
  • Lo spalmino cheese - 61  kcal/100g
  • Cheese 'etorki' (sheep, hard) - 401  kcal/100g
  • White cheese - 100  kcal/100g
  • Fat yellow 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
  • Gruyere cheese - 396  kcal/100g
  • Ground black pepper - 255  kcal/100g
  • Salad mayonnaise of 50% fat content - 502  kcal/100g
  • Light mayonnaise - 260  kcal/100g
  • Provencal Mayonnaise - 624  kcal/100g
  • Provencal mayonnaise - 627  kcal/100g
  • Table mayonnaise - 627  kcal/100g
  • Salt - 0  kcal/100g
  • Onion - 41  kcal/100g
  • Pickled cucumbers - 16  kcal/100g
  • Chicken egg - 80  kcal/100g
  • Canned tuna in its own juice - 96  kcal/100g

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