On the eve of the holiday, any hostess thinks about what original dish will decorate her table and delight guests and loved ones. In our country, not a single feast is complete without a salad. And the number of these dishes is growing every year, as is the number of all kinds of creative ideas for their decoration.

Hedgehog salad is a very interesting, attractive and fairly simple solution that even a novice hostess can implement. The basis of the classic salad is boiled chicken, cheese, vegetables and mayonnaise. Simple and very inexpensive!

Olive lovers can also treat themselves, this will not spoil the dish at all, but, on the contrary, will decorate it. In addition, other tasty ingredients can be added to the basic recipe.

Making such a salad is also quite fast and does not require any special skills. Most importantly, choose a perfectly flat plate on which you will lay out the products.

For Hedgehog salads, all ingredients are laid out in layers, from which a funny and tasty hedgehog is eventually created, and then it all depends on a flight of fancy.

The muzzle can be decorated with raisins or olives, needles with seeds, Korean carrots or almonds. The main thing here is to take into account the taste preferences of those to whom it is intended.

Your guests will certainly enjoy such a beautiful and tasty surprise, and the children from Hedgehog salad are almost always delighted!

As practice shows, the classic recipe is far from the only option worthy of attention. Today, Hedgehog salads are prepared from a variety of product sets. "Hedgehogs" are meat and chicken, mushroom and fish, and even fruit. By the way, the Hedgehog dessert will perfectly decorate a sweet table at a children's party!

How to cook hedgehog salad - 15 varieties

Salad "Hedgehog" with chicken, ham and pineapple

Delicious salad "Hedgehog" with a rather unusual, bright presentation, of course, will not leave anyone indifferent. This recipe is simple and does not require any special or expensive ingredients. In addition to the usual chicken, there is also ham, which many men will appreciate. Pickled mushrooms add spiciness to the dish, and pineapples add some piquancy. What can I say, try it - you'll like it!

smoked brisket or 2 smoked legs;
100 g of ham;
3 boiled eggs;
a can of canned pineapples;
100 g of hard cheese;
250 g pickled champignons;
1 onion;
2 boiled carrots;
mayonnaise;
2 olives (for the "peephole")

Cooking method:

Grind the smoked brisket and mix with mayonnaise. Cut the ham into small pieces, canned pineapples into small squares. Grate cheese, eggs and boiled carrots. Mushrooms cut and fry with onions, after - put to cool.

We proceed to the formation of the "Hedgehog":

Spread the chopped brisket in the first layer,
the second - fried mushrooms.
Next, cover the products with slices of ham and mayonnaise,
top with pineapple and eggs.

Sprinkle the muzzle of the "Hedgehog" with cheese, the body with boiled carrots. We cut out the eyes, nose and cilia from olives.

In order for the “Hedgehog” to be “not lonely” on a plate, you can beat the dish with “grass” from dill sprigs and “fly agarics” from boiled eggs and tomatoes, draw dots on the hats with mayonnaise.

Salad "Hedgehog" with chicken, ham and carrots will not leave any of the guests indifferent, so be sure!

Hedgehog salad (Mimosa salad)

We all know Mimosa salad, it has already become traditional and favorite for many families. But for some reason, few of the housewives realize that it is also possible to create a variety of unusual compositions from Mimosa. The same "Hedgehog" will turn out just great!

For the salad we need:

1 can of canned fish (preferably red);
1 pack of mayonnaise;
1-2 bulbs;
4 boiled eggs;
3-4 boiled potatoes;
3-4 boiled carrots;
cracker (salty);
a few olives.

Cooking method:

Salad must be laid out on a flat plate, in several layers. The taste of the whole salad largely depends on the canned fish, therefore, if possible, it should be the most delicious.

Hard boil eggs. Vegetables - until fully cooked. We take the fish out of the jar and knead with a fork until smooth, clean the eggs and separate the whites from the yolks, finely chop the onion. The remaining products, rub on a grater and alternately lay out ball by ball on a plate. Don't forget that we're not just making a Mimosa, we're making a Hedgehog.

We spread the products and do not forget to smear each layer with mayonnaise:

potato
canned fish
squirrels
carrot
yolks
cracker (salty)

From olives we make a “hedgehog” - a nose, eyebrows and eyes.

If you wish, then the Hedgehog salad (based on the Mimosa salad) can be “beaten” with some greens. Or make a decor with bell pepper, cheese, garlic and parsley.

To make the salad even more tender, it must be placed in the refrigerator for several hours. Serve on the table - immediately before use.

A salad for true gourmets who prefer to combine two seemingly incompatible tastes in one dish - sweet and spicy. Thanks to the combination of products such as pineapple, hard cheese, chicken, the taste of the salad is fragrant and at the same time very delicate.

Ingredients for this salad:

boiled brisket;
1 can of canned pineapples;
250 g of hard cheese;
0.5 cups of walnuts;
a small jar of olives;
3 boiled eggs;
garlic;
1 pack of mayonnaise;
lemon juice.

Cooking method:

To begin with, we make a spicy sauce: peeled nuts, garlic cloves, mayonnaise and lemon juice - we interrupt well in a blender. Subsequently, it is with this sauce that we will soak each layer of the salad.

The boiled brisket must be divided into fibers and distributed on a flat dish in the first layer.
We express the juice from pineapples, we do not need it, and cut them into small pieces. This will be the second layer of the salad.
The third layer is grated cheese, then grated eggs.

Do not forget about the sauce, which must be applied after each new layer.

Decor:

Whole olives can be used for the spout and peephole, the rest must be cut in half. These halves will make very pretty needles. All that needs to be done is to insert them cut-side down into the impromptu torso of our “hedgehog”.

Salad "Hedgehog" with olives and pineapples can be supplemented with sprigs of dill or parsley, slices of fresh tomatoes or cucumbers.

Let the salad brew for 1-2 hours and you are ready to serve!

Salad "Hedgehog" with chicken and fried mushrooms

Ingredients needed for the salad:

2 legs;
100 g of cheese;
100 g mushrooms;
1 pack of mayonnaise;
200 g of Korean carrots;
a small jar of olives;
greens;
salt pepper.

Cooking method:

We immediately set aside a small amount of Korean carrots and hard cheese for decoration. Now you can start preparing the salad itself.

Boiled meat cut into pieces. We rub the cheese on a grater. We put all products: meat, cheese, carrots, fried mushrooms in a bowl, add salt, pepper to taste and mix thoroughly with mayonnaise.

Distribute the resulting mass on a hedgehog-shaped plate. Sprinkle the nose of an impromptu hedgehog with grated cheese, and the body with carrots.

We decorate the tip of the "spout" with a small olive. We do the same with the eyes. Instead of needles, you can also use olives, but not whole, but cut in two. You can decorate the salad with small sprigs of dill.

Salad "Hedgehog" with chicken and fried mushrooms can become your favorite family dish.

Salad "Hedgehog" with potatoes and pickled cucumbers will definitely find its admirers, because it is not only hearty, but also very tasty and fragrant. In addition, it is prepared very quickly, which is also important.

Ingredients for this salad:

4 cucumbers (pickled);
1 boiled brisket;
a small jar of canned champignons;
1 small onion;
2 potatoes;
4 boiled eggs;
greens, lettuce;
1 pack of mayonnaise;
peeled seeds, olives, lemon juice, carrots (decoration).

Let's start cooking:

Boil eggs and potatoes until tender, peel, grate. Cut the boiled brisket into small cubes. Greens and cucumbers - chop with a knife. Mushrooms are fried with onions and set to cool.

We lay out lettuce leaves on a flat dish and proceed to laying out our “hedgehog”. Do not forget at the same time, coat each layer with mayonnaise.

1 layer - boiled chicken
2 layer - fried mushrooms
3 layer - pickled cucumbers and eggs
4 layer - grated potatoes

Both large seeds and almond nuts can serve as needles for a hedgehog. The nose and eyes are made from olives.

If you add a little lemon juice to the mayonnaise when dressing the salad, then the dish will taste more tender and aromatic.

After the salad is ready and decorated, put it in the refrigerator for 2-3 hours. After it is soaked and infused, you can serve it on the table.

To prepare this "Hedgehog" we need:

3 boiled brisket;
200 g Korean carrots;
4 boiled eggs;
a couple of fresh cucumbers;
70 g french fries;
30 g of cheese;
salt, pepper (to taste);
1 pack of mayonnaise;
a few olives;
greens.

Cooking method:

Cut cucumbers and eggs into strips. Salt boiled breasts, cut into small pieces. Mix all the ingredients with mayonnaise and put on a flat dish in the shape of a hedgehog.

Arrange french fries on the body, spread Korean carrots on top. The nose should be sprinkled with cheese. We make eyes and needles for the “hedgehog” from olives.

To make the Hedgehog salad with Korean-style carrots and fresh cucumbers look even more creative, we put a small mushroom on the needles of the hedgehog. It is very simple to make it, you only need 2 halves of a boiled egg, one of which (a hat) must first be soaked for 10 minutes in tea leaves to get an even brown color.

Salad "Hedgehog" with croutons and green peas

This recipe is a must for every housewife. A tasty and rather tender salad that does not take much time and is very popular with children.

Products for "Hedgehog":

150-200 g of crackers;
150-200 g of chicken meat (preferably fillets);
some canned peas;
2 potatoes;
2 boiled eggs;
1 onion;
a few cucumbers (pickled);
1 pack of mayonnaise;
greens.

Let's start cooking:

Boil potatoes, meat and eggs until tender. Let it all cool down.

Grind chicken fillet, onion and cucumbers with a knife. We take potatoes and eggs and finely three them on a grater.

We form a "hedgehog" on a flat plate, adhering to the following sequence of layers:

chicken fillet,
pickles,
grated yolks,
green pea,
potato,
grated whites.

Lubricate each ball of lettuce with mayonnaise.

We make hedgehog needles from crackers, nose and eyes - from ground pepper or olives. A few sprigs of greens will help add bright colors to the salad.

You can use any croutons, it doesn't matter. You can even dry them at home.

It is also possible to make the Hedgehog salad with crackers and green peas a little differently. Do not lay it out in layers, but simply mix all the ingredients with mayonnaise and form a “body” of a hedgehog from this mixture, sprinkled with grated proteins.

Fish salad "Hedgehog"

Simple and hearty salad, quick to prepare.

Ingredients for fish salad:

1 can of sardines;
150 g of rice (boiled);
1 onion;
2 carrots;
mayonnaise;
salt;
a few olives.

Cooking method:

Bring rice to readiness. Grind the onion, peel and grate on a fine grater - carrots. Mash the sardines until smooth.

We begin to form a “hedgehog” with a layer of fish, which we carefully coat with mayonnaise. Next, sprinkle with chopped onions and lay out a layer of rice. Let's not forget the mayonnaise.

We make “hedgehog” needles from carrots, and a nose and eyes from olives.

To make the Hedgehog fish salad look even more colorful, you can add a few sprigs of greens to the dish.

And if something is not clear, look at the video step-by-step recipe:

This salad, of course, will not disregard either the children or their parents. Everything is here: healthy chicken, sweet corn, and even chips adored by many. Such a dish will not go unnoticed on any holiday table.

Salad Ingredients:

250 g canned corn;
200 g chips;
1 pack of crab sticks;
boiled chicken breast;
3-4 eggs;
2 potatoes;
1 onion;
150 g of cheese;
mayonnaise, garlic, ground pepper.

Cooking method:

Boil potatoes, chicken and eggs and chop. Carefully chop the crab sticks, as small as possible, rub the cheese or cut into small strips.

Mix mayonnaise with chopped garlic - this will be our salad dressing. Combine and mix all ingredients in a bowl. We spread the resulting mass on a beautiful flat dish, trying to depict the shape of a hedgehog. Be sure to cover everything with our sauce on top.

We make eyes and a nose for a hedgehog from improvised means, for example, from olives. Needles - from chips (inserting them with an edge on the surface of the "torso").

Salad "Hedgehog" with corn and chips is ready! If desired, you can add some more decorative elements, but, most importantly, do not overdo it.

Salad "Hedgehog" from chicken liver will not leave indifferent either an adult or a child.

Salad Ingredients:

400-450 g of chicken liver;
4 eggs;
100-150 g of cheese;
3 carrots;
2 large onions;
1 pack of mayonnaise;
a pair of olives;
greens;
salt;
vegetable oil.

Cooking method:

The liver must be left in water for a while so that it gets wet, then fry it a little and stew it until it is fully cooked.

Chop the onion and fry a little in vegetable oil, after which the unnecessary oil is carefully drained.

Put a little carrots aside for decoration, grate the rest on a fine grater and mix with mayonnaise. The same must be done with eggs and liver.

It is necessary to collect the salad on a flat plate, laying out in turn all the necessary components: fried liver, onions, grated carrots and eggs. At the end, you need to sprinkle everything with grated cheese.

Carrots, reserved at last, lay out in the form of needles. From olives we make eyes, cilia and a nose for a hedgehog. On the "needles" you can put a mushroom made from half an egg (leg) and a tomato (hat). Greens will help to add freshness and brightness to the dish.

Another way to make Hedgehog salad with liver can be seen in this video:

Salad "Hedgehog in the meadow"

For this salad you will need:

1-2 carrots;
slightly salted salmon or trout;
1 onion;
3 potatoes;
3 eggs;
1 pack of mayonnaise;
sunflower seeds, cranberries, pickled mushrooms, black currants (for decoration)

Cooking method:

Let's plunge a little into childhood, at a time when everyone loved to sculpt various interesting little animals from plasticine. But we have a slightly different work to do - to create a "masterpiece" from food.

To start, a little preparation. Boil and cool: potatoes, eggs and carrots.

Grate one potato, add salt to taste and mix with mayonnaise. We form a small hedgehog. Balls of black pepper can serve as eyes for it, we make a spout from cloves (seasoning), and needles from sunflower seeds.

For the clearing:

Grate the remaining potatoes, eggs and carrots from the “hedgehog”. Cut the fish into small cubes and finely chop the onion. Cooked products, lay out in thin layers:

carrot,
fish,
potato,
eggs.

Do not forget to smear them with mayonnaise.

The top of the "clearing" can be slightly crushed with greenery, but, most importantly, do not forget to put our hedgehog on it.

Salad "Hedgehog in the clearing" will undoubtedly amaze guests with its originality and extraordinary taste.

Salad "Hedgehog" with beets, carrots and chicken

This salad will appeal to adherents of proper nutrition, because it consists of many useful products. In addition, lovers of combining completely different tastes in one dish will appreciate it.

Ingredients for this salad:

500 g of chicken meat;
1 carrot;
1 small beet;
sour apple;
4 eggs;
1 onion;
a small jar of champignons;
50 g walnuts;
a small jar of olives;
1 pack of mayonnaise.

Cooking method:

Boil and cool the beets, chicken and eggs, then cut them into pieces. Rub the apple and raw carrot separately on a fine grater. Saute mushrooms with finely chopped onion. Grind walnuts in a blender.

It is necessary to lay out the prepared ingredients in layers, while not forgetting to coat each layer with mayonnaise for impregnation.

1 layer - fried mushrooms and onions
2 layer - boiled chicken and carrots
3 layer - beets, apple, nuts and eggs.

The last layer must be generously smeared with mayonnaise.

We will decorate the hedgehog with olives. We make eyes from whole fruits, and needles from cut into strips. The muzzle can be crushed with grated cheese or chopped yolk.

To make the Hedgehog salad with beets, carrots and chicken look even more colorful, you can decorate it with a small amount of greens.

The salad is ready, bon appetit!

Salad "Hedgehog" with Korean carrots can be very interesting, if you take mushrooms not pickled, but fried, and add all this with an apple, the taste will turn out to be very interesting.

Salad Ingredients:

2 chicken breasts to be boiled in salted broth;
400 - 500 g of champignons;
200 g of hard cheese;
1 sweet big apple;
400-500 g of Korean carrots (not too spicy);
5 chicken eggs, hard boiled;
1 onion;
fresh salad in leaves for decoration;
3 olives;
mayonnaise.

How to prepare salad:

Chicken boiled in salted broth, cut into small pieces. We clean the eggs and send them to the grater.

Mushrooms need to be washed, cut into pieces and fried in a pan along with finely chopped onions. You do not need to add much vegetable oil, 1 tablespoon is enough.

We clean the apple from the peel and grains and rub it on a coarse grater. Cheese is also sent to the grater, but it is better to choose small holes for it.

Now we take a flat dish and lay out the products. Let's do it in layers:

Put the washed lettuce leaves on a plate.
Salad - fried mushrooms.
Next is the chicken, it needs to be smeared with mayonnaise.
Next is a grated apple.
Then a layer of eggs, and again mayonnaise.

We lay out the products in the form of a “drop” to end up with a hedgehog. You can lightly pat each layer with a spoon to fit tighter.

Let's move on to decorating the hedgehog.

The muzzle needs to be sprinkled with cheese, the eyes are made from halves of olives, the nose too. We make needles from Korean carrots, simply laying it on the surface of the salad. You can put a few mushrooms or a piece of apple on top, it will be even more beautiful.

And now let's think about decorations and desserts...

At the very beginning, we already mentioned them, because "Hedgehogs" are not only salads, but also simple vegetable or fruit snacks, beautifully and brightly decorated.

Adults love such snacks, because they are very beautiful, and it’s convenient - olives or pieces of vegetables on toothpicks. It is especially funny that the coaster can also, in the end, be eaten.
And desserts for the children's table in the form of "Hedgehog" - simply out of competition! They are made from a variety of fruits and berries. The kids are just delighted!

Below are a couple of examples of how you can decorate your table. For adults and children.

Ingredients:

fresh tomatoes;
a jar of pitted black olives;
ground black pepper;
Toothpicks (for "needles")

My tomatoes, olives recline in a colander. And then, we strictly follow the instructions presented in the video and you will get the same beauty:

Dishes for children should be colorful, interesting and, of course, healthy. This is the "hedgehog" of pears and grapes. To prepare it, no special culinary skills are needed. This dessert is quite easy to prepare, but will certainly appeal to children. They will appreciate not only its taste, but also the creative presentation.

Ingredients:

conference pear;
1 olive;
seasoning cloves;
grape;
toothpicks (for decoration)

Such unusual "hedgehogs" can serve as a decoration for any cake or as a decor for a fruit vase. And you can try and cook for some event for each child, your own “hedgehog”. Rest assured, children will remember such a surprise for a long time.

Salad "Hedgehog" is an amazing appetizer that surprises not only with its original design, but also with unforgettable taste. In any version, the salad turns out to be very tasty and healthy. You can fill the culinary masterpiece with sour cream, unsweetened yogurt, as well as with ordinary mayonnaise.

Salad "Hedgehog" with chicken

Such an appetizing salad will undoubtedly attract the attention of guests and all household members. Especially like a delicious snack, decorated in the form of a funny animal, small children.

To prepare the Hedgehog salad, the following ingredients will come in handy:

fillet - 0.5 kg;
eggs - 5 pcs.;
tomato - 3 pcs.;
pepper - 3 pcs.
carrot - 2 pcs.;
olives - 6 pcs.

Practical part

The process of preparing snacks must begin with boiling fillets and eggs. Then the eggs should be grated with a grater, and the boiled fillet cut into small squares. Salad tomatoes are also cut into squares, and bell peppers (ideally, it is better to take multi-colored ones) should be cut into strips.

To prepare the sauce, you need to mix yogurt with sour cream in equal proportions, then salt and pepper the dressing. If there is no desire to make the sauce, you can replace it with homemade or regular mayonnaise.

Now you need to start decorating the appetizer, which needs to be shaped like a hedgehog. This should be done in the following sequence:

chopped fillet;
chopped tomatoes;
grated eggs;
Bell pepper.

All layers must be smeared with mayonnaise. For the body of a mammal, pre-boiled carrots should be grated. The muzzle of the hedgehog should be covered with grated egg whites. Make eyes and a nose from olives. If desired, a chicken egg is laid on the back of the hedgehog, resembling a mushroom with a hat made from a piece of tomato. You can also use mayonnaise to put dots on the mushroom, thus imitating fly agaric.

Salad "Hedgehog" with Korean carrots

Each ingredient in this appetizer adds its own unique zest to the salad. Thus, the taste of the dish is truly magnificent. It is quite easy to prepare it, even a young housewife can handle it.

For cooking, you will need the following components:

chicken breast - 200 g;
mushrooms - 200 g;
eggs - 3 pcs.;
cheese - 120 g;
Korean carrot - 350 g;
olives - 65 g;
greens - a branch.

You need to start cooking the Hedgehog salad by boiling the breast. Then it should be cooled and finely chopped. Mushrooms should be washed, cut into small plates and fried until tender. Prepared eggs must be boiled, peeled and cut into small cubes.

Cheese should be grated using a grater. Peel the onion, cut into small cubes and fry until golden brown. Rinse the sprig of greens and finely chop.

Now, from the prepared ingredients, you can begin to form the body of a mammal. This should be done in the following order:

fried mushrooms;
boiled breast;
a layer of mayonnaise;
fried onions;
chopped eggs;
mayonnaise layer.

Using grated cheese, you can make a muzzle for a hedgehog, olives will serve as eyes and nose. The body of a mammal is covered with Korean carrots, and an imitation of needles is made from chopped olives on top.

Mushroom Appetizer Option

Salad "Hedgehog" with mushrooms is very beautiful and festive. The name of the snack appeared due to its appearance. Preparing a salad is not difficult, but it is better to do it in advance so that all layers are saturated with mayonnaise. Then the Hedgehog salad will be even tastier.

The following ingredients will be useful for cooking:

pickled mushrooms - 1 b.;
carrots - 1 pc.;
eggs - 4 pcs.;
breast - 300 g;
olives - 12 pcs.

You need to start the process by preparing a salad bowl, on which the dish will be laid out. The first layer is canned mushrooms, they should be laid out in such a way that they resemble a hedgehog. The second layer will be boiled carrots, previously grated with a grater. After that, the future dish must be smeared with mayonnaise.

The next layer is the yolks of boiled eggs, chopped on a grater. Then comes a layer of mayonnaise. Next is the breast cut into squares. And more mayonnaise. The top of the appetizer must be covered with egg white, preheated on a grater. The eyes of a mammal can be made from peas, and the nose from olives. Prepared olives, if desired, are cut into four slices and from them they create needles for the hedgehog, which are laid out all over its body.

Salad "Hedgehog" with chicken has not only an original design, but also a very pleasant taste! All products included in the composition perfectly complement each other, making the dish tender and harmonious.

The salad is collected in alternate layers, and the top is made out with a plentiful layer of Korean carrots, which we recommend that you make yourself according to the recipe described. Preparing such a carrot is very simple, but it turns out no worse (and maybe even better) than a store-bought one!

Ingredients:

chicken (fillet) - 300 g;
bulb - 1 pc.;
vegetable oil (for frying onions) - 2-3 tbsp. spoons;
pickled mushrooms - about 200 g;
eggs - 3-4 pieces;
cheese - 200 g;
Korean carrots - about 300 g;
mayonnaise - to taste;
salt, pepper - to taste.

For registration:

olives - 2-3 pieces;
fresh parsley - 4-5 sprigs.

Salad "Hedgehog" recipe with photos with chicken and carrots

How to cook salad "Hedgehog" with chicken

Boil the fillet until cooked, not forgetting to salt the water. Allow the chicken to cool, then divide into thin fibers or finely chop.
Boil the eggs, peel and rub, using a coarse grater.
Cheese is also rubbed with large chips.
After removing the husk, chop the onion in half rings. Fry in refined oil until soft and golden brown.
After draining the excess oil, add the cooled onion to the chicken meat. In a separate bowl, mix with mayonnaise, and then spread the resulting mass on a large plate in the form of a drop (the base of the future “hedgehog”). You can adjust the portion of mayonnaise yourself, taking into account personal preferences, but it is advisable not to save much sauce so that the salad does not turn out dry.
After draining the marinade, lay the mushrooms on top of the chicken layer (we set aside a few mushrooms to decorate the salad). Leave this layer without mayonnaise.
Next, distribute the eggs, sprinkle lightly with salt / pepper if desired, and then apply a thin layer of mayonnaise.
We cover the egg layer with cheese, not forgetting to keep the shape of the salad. Lubricate all the cheese chips with mayonnaise, with the exception of the front part, which will serve as a “hedgehog muzzle”.
We spread Korean carrots on the surface of the salad, hiding all the previous layers under it. We leave only the “hedgehog face” open. It will take a couple of hours for the salad to be completely soaked, so after cooking we send it to the refrigerator shelf.
Before serving, we decorate the salad so that it becomes more like a “hedgehog”. We form “eyes” and “nose” from olives, put several pickled mushrooms on the “needles”, and put parsley leaves on the edges of the plate to simulate grass. Now the salad "Hedgehog" with chicken is completely ready!

Enjoy your meal!

For whom else, if not for our beloved kids, we are capable of miracles of culinary imagination not only in the composition of dishes, but also in intricate design. Children's hedgehog salad is a vivid example of tireless maternal love, being in which we try to make every day unforgettable, and even more so - a festive one. Today we will try to combine beneficial properties and creative design so that the appetizing look and juicy taste of the dish are combined with useful ingredients.

Blind a large hedgehog from a well-chosen food mass without large elements. Decorate with edible needles, a couple of olives for the eyes, and a salad for the kids - ready.

But what kind of salad to choose for the base of the hedgehog? So that at the children's birthday party all the invited kids could eat it. So that the recipe is not too mature, and dressing and powder are distinguished by versatility and benefits.

To begin with, let's deal with the basic conditions for a successful design.

How to choose a hedgehog salad for a child's birthday

Dense structure and product safety

All ingredients should be sufficiently dense in structure, hold the juice for a long time after cutting into small cubes or rubbing on a grater. This will make it possible to beautifully shape the hedgehog, and then elegantly arrange the salad on plates. At the same time, it will not lose its taste by the time it is served.

The recipe should not include the most common highly allergenic foods and hard-to-digest proteins.

A small amount of foods that are heavy for a child, akin to mushrooms, is permissible only if there are no babies under 5 years old among the guests who have come.

Refueling

As a dressing, it is best to use plastic and light formulations. “But what about mayonnaise?!” - you ask. In terms of consistency, it is the most convenient. If it is not in other dishes of the children's holiday table, then you can go on about the comfort of the hostess.

However, when choosing homemade mayonnaise in an effort to protect yourself from preservatives and stabilizers, remember that it is much worse stored than purchased. This means that the salad cannot be seasoned and formed in advance by keeping it in the refrigerator for several hours before the guests arrive.

Alternative dressing option: twist any raw soaked nuts in a blender to a homogeneous mass, add garlic and lemon juice to taste.

If you choose to use a sweet salad, use yogurt instead of exotic fruits. To improve the consistency, you can put boiled potatoes or rice. Such an unexpected fruit dessert in the form of a hedgehog salad can be a good find for a children's birthday in the summer.

hedgehog surface products

When forming a hedgehog for a children's birthday, we make sure that when forming its body, the surface of the salad is dense.

We can use several products:

Grated hard cheese. We sharply cool a bar of Dutch or Russian cheese in the freezer and immediately rub it on a fine grater. With the resulting shavings, evenly crush the formed hedgehog body using a cold tablespoon.
Boiled potatoes. Work in the same way - a fine grater, with a cold product.
Hard-boiled eggs, chopped on a coarse grater.
Heavily crushed nuts, if younger guests are over 4 years old. Choice of walnuts, almonds, cashews. Peanuts are for teens only. By the way, you can use raw nuts soaked overnight. This presentation facilitates their assimilation at any age.
Coconut shavings. A convenient option for fruit salad if the invited children are over 8 years old.
Korean carrot - lightly peppered, cut into short strips. This choice will give our hedgehog a bright orange color. It is possible for a student's birthday when the invited children are over 10 years old.

* Cook's advice
Only convenient, well-chopped products give us the opportunity to carefully stick needles into the hedgehog at the last stage of decorating a children's salad.

What can you make needles for a hedgehog

Olives

Remembering the already seen salads, elegantly decorated for a birthday, most of us think of olives. Yes, of course, their black shiny skin and convenient size fit perfectly into an interesting design.

We can stop at the simplest option - tightly stick rows of whole pitted olives on 2 thirds of the hedgehog's body.

Or we will make a more sophisticated version - with chopped olives. Then we need to cut each olive into quarters or eighths and stick skin up into the formed mass of lettuce.

cucumbers

A curious option for needles for a hedgehog for a summer and spring birthday can be cucumbers. The emerald green color of the rind and a bit of fiddling with carving the "needles" are worth the resulting effect of bright personality for the center of gravity of the festive table.

To prepare the needles, cut the cucumber into circles 5-7 mm thick, each circle in half. From the resulting halves we form rows of needles, sticking the slices vertically at an angle of 45-60 degrees.

boiled carrots

In this case, slicing into half rings and setting the edge up, as is the case with cucumbers, is suitable. We will make needles from halves that are close in size.

Or cut boiled carrots into cubes of the same length.

Apricots, raisins

A fruit hedgehog is suitable for needles made from dense apricots. The principle of cutting and decorating is the same as for olives.

Dark raisins, well washed and soaked, will also be a convenient material for fruit salad needles, since they do not require cutting.

Nut, seeds

You can use almonds. If you stick it with the edge up, we will get a finished shape for a needle without pre-cutting. Such a hedgehog is only suitable for a schoolchild's birthday. Salad can also be fruity.

But we need not the usual fried almonds, the hardness of which is great, but raw, soaked overnight. So it becomes the most useful, easily digestible and soft enough for a children's salad. For the colorfulness of the hedgehog, we will have two different colors at our disposal. Light yellow when peeled from almonds. And brown if used with skin.

Such needles can also be used to decorate any other children's dish. We have this - a banal oatmeal.

Similar to almonds, large shelled sunflower seeds can be used. Although in this case there will be more fuss with the neat design of the needle surface.

Treating a child's birthday is always an increased responsibility. It's one thing to be known as a careless hostess among adults who suffered a slight indigestion after a home holiday.

And it is quite another to seriously harm the child's friends with stale food or heavy recipes. This is usually much more difficult to forgive the parents of children, which threatens the comfort of our child in the established children's company.

Let's take a closer look at simple salad recipes, where there are no exotics, a turbulent mixture of ingredients and an excess of heavy dressing.

Boiled potatoes - 3 pcs. medium size;
Hard boiled eggs - 4 pcs.;
Boiled carrots - 3 pcs. medium size;
Nuts (walnuts or almonds) - generous harvest;
Pickled mushrooms (honey mushrooms, chanterelles, champignons) - 100-150 gr, to the taste of the hostess;
A couple of whole pickled porcini mushrooms;
Mayonnaise for dressing - 4 tablespoons, without a mountain;
Dark olives for decoration - 3 pcs.

Cooking

We cut 2 carrots, all the potatoes, mushrooms and eggs into a small cube.
Chop 2/3 of the nuts with a knife to the size of a wheat grain
Chop the remaining third as finely as possible.
We cut 1 carrot into sticks of the same length - these are future needles.
We combine salad ingredients and season with mayonnaise.
We form the mass on a dish into the body of a hedgehog, gently smoothing it.
Chop with the remaining nuts. We make needles from boiled carrots or olives. And as a trophy, we put white pickled mushrooms, cut into halves, on the hedgehog.
For the eyes and nose of any olive - whole or part.

* Cook's advice
In the process of mixing any salad, you should try it for sourness. The maximum number of ingredients in a children's salad is 5 pcs. Therefore, we can enhance the taste by adding sour apple or pickled cucumber.

Ingredients

Hard-boiled eggs - 2 pcs.;
Apple - 1 pc. medium size;
Boiled chicken fillet (thigh) - 300 gr;
Hard cheese without inclusions - 150 gr;
Fresh cucumbers - 4-5 pieces, not small;
Sour cream with a fat content of 20% or mayonnaise - 4-5 tbsp. l.;
Olives for decoration - 3 pcs.

How to make a salad

Put half of the cheese in the freezer for 5 minutes.
Separate the chicken meat from the bone and cut into small cubes.
Grind the eggs and apple in the same way.
The remaining cheese is three on a coarse grater.
Having set aside 1-2 cucumbers for decoration, chop the remaining vegetables into thin strips, for example, on a burner grater. We do the same with an apple, after which we sprinkle it with lemon juice so that it does not darken.
We lay the ingredients in layers, smearing each layer with dressing and at the same time forming a hemisphere for the hedgehog's body: meat, apple, cheese, cucumbers, eggs.
We grind the surfaces with cheese, for this we rub a piece on a fine grater that has been cooled in the freezer. We make needles from half slices of cucumber, eyes from olives.

Ingredients

Eggs - 3 pcs
Cauliflower - 3 medium sized florets
Pitted dark olives - about 150-200 gr
Hard cheese without inclusions - 150 gr.
Korean carrots, lightly peppered, freshly bought - 100 gr.
Greens (parsley, dill) - 2-3 sprigs
Light mayonnaise - 2 tbsp. l.

Cooking

We interrupt eggs, cauliflower, 4-5 olives and greens in a blender, add salt and prepare a steam omelette with a diameter on the plate where we put our hedgehog;
Three cheese on a coarse grater;
Having set aside 10-12 olives for decoration, we interrupt the remaining ones in a blender until smooth and add 1 tablespoon of mayonnaise;
Korean carrots are cut along the threads into segments 2-3 cm long;
We put the finished omelet on a plate. Lubricate 1 tbsp. a spoonful of mayonnaise;
Then a mass of olives, after - grated cheese.
We form a hemisphere and coat with 1 tablespoon of mayonnaise. Gently sprinkle chopped Korean carrots on the hedgehog's body (3/4 of the surface), leaving the muzzle uncovered.

Decorate with needles from whole or chopped olives. The eyes and nose are also olives.

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