Layered salad "Hedgehog" with croutons

There are a variety of salads with croutons, some of them are even hard to imagine without crunchy croutons.

Ingredients

• Boiled beef - 150 g
• Boiled carrots - 1 pc.
• Boiled potatoes - 3 pcs.
• Processed smoked cheese - 50 g
• Chicken eggs - 2 pcs.
• Fresh spinach - 1/2 bunch
• Mayonnaise - 150 g
• Croutons - 100 g

Directions

1. For the salad, you will need to pre-boil the potatoes in the skin, carrots. Hard boil chicken eggs. It is also necessary to boil the meat in salted water. The process of preparing products for salad will take 1.5 hours. If you want to cook the salad much faster, then the beef must be cut into small pieces, fried in a pan. Then simmer for another 25 minutes over medium heat.
2. Start shaping the salad.
3. Peel boiled potatoes and grate on a coarse grater. Lay the first layer in the form of a hedgehog. You can salt if you wish.
4. Lubricate with mayonnaise.
5. Cut the beef into small cubes.
6. Lay out the next layer.
7. Then peel and squeeze a couple of cloves of garlic on top. If you don't like garlic, you can skip this step.
8. Grease this layer with mayonnaise too.
9. Grate smoked cheese on a coarse grater. This will be the next layer of lettuce.
10. Do not forget to grease with mayonnaise.
11. Wash spinach with cold water and cut into pieces. Spinach can be replaced with other herbs (parsley, dill, cilantro, basil, green onions, etc.).
12. Lay the spinach leaves on top of the cheese layer. Do not grease this layer with mayonnaise.
13. Peel the carrots and grate on a coarse grater. Put on top of spinach and brush with mayonnaise.
14. Then peel the chicken eggs and separate the whites from the yolks. Grate the yolks on a fine or coarse grater and lay out the next layer.
15. Now it is good to coat the salad with mayonnaise on all sides.
16. Then grate the egg whites on a fine grater and sprinkle over the salad.
17. Now you need to cover the hedgehog with "needles" and make the eyes and nose of the hedgehog out of cucumber and carrots. It will look much more beautiful if the nose and eyes are made of black olives. In general, experiment with the design and be sure to connect the children to the cooking process, they will definitely like it!
18. Layered salad with croutons is ready! Put it in the refrigerator for a few hours so that it is well soaked.
19. Bon appetit!