1. First we will need to make cheese baskets. Before spreading the salad, they will need to harden. You will need a flat plate. Spread its bottom with butter. Grate a small portion of the cheese on a fine grater onto a plate. Lay out a circle with a diameter of about 12 cm. Place the plate in the microwave or preheated oven until the cheese is melted.

2. We take out a plate with melted cheese and leave it to cool down a little. Prepare glasses of the desired shape for the basket. Carefully remove the cheese circle from the plate. We put the circle on the glass and give it the desired shape.

3. Put a glass of cheese in the refrigerator so that the cheese finally hardens and takes the desired shape. Thus, we prepare all the baskets and send them to the refrigerator. Cheese baskets will look like in the photo.

4. Now we are preparing a salad for our basket. I have already said that you can put any salad in the basket. It can be vegetable or meat. Chicken or seafood salads go well with cheese. I give you an example of a simple salad. Clean the squid carcass, rinse it and put it in a bowl. Pour boiling water for 3-5 minutes. Pour out the water and pour boiling water again. After that, cut the carcass into strips. Cucumbers also cut into strips. Boil the eggs, peel and finely chop. Mix everything, salt to taste, season with mayonnaise and put in the refrigerator for 15 minutes. Before serving, arrange the salad in baskets and decorate as you like. They eat salad along with the "tare".

First of all, you need to make a salad basket. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Get a flavored cheese like Parmesan or use a similar variety. Grate it with a fine mesh grater.

Line a baking sheet with parchment or foil and spread the grated cheese into a 10-15 cm diameter circle in a thin layer. Make a test basket base to see how the cheese fries. The cheese should melt quickly and not spread, the workpiece should not be too thin and transparent, just do not make the workpiece too thick.

Put the blanks for the baskets in the oven. Wait until the edges start to brown a little. The cheese should melt, but not burn, after which the blanks can be removed from the oven.

Leave the cakes to cool for a couple of minutes, wait until the cheese stops burning your hands and you can carefully remove the cheese cake from the parchment.

Start forming baskets using narrow glasses or tall glasses. Turn the container upside down and cover with a cake, pinch its edges, giving a wavy shape. Put in the refrigerator for 10-15 minutes to cool, after cooling, their shape should be fixed, the baskets should become solid.

Salad in cheese baskets with crab sticks will require the preparation of the rest of the ingredients.

Cut boiled chicken eggs into small cubes or chop them on a grater. In this recipe, quail eggs cut into quarters will look beautiful.

Boiled-frozen octopuses are easy enough to defrost. With prolonged cooking, they will become very hard and "rubber". But to add flavor, it is better to blanch them in boiling water with the addition of a sprig of dill and lemon zest.

Cut crab sticks and octopus into thin strips.

Place shredded seafood and boiled chopped eggs in a deep bowl. For a brighter taste, grate some cheese into the salad.

Fill with mayonnaise. Purchased is fine, but if you have time, make mayonnaise sauce at home.

Remove cooled baskets from molds.

Gently place a couple of tablespoons of lettuce into each cheese basket. Decorate the dish with herbs and serve.

• To prepare this salad, choose high-quality cheese, it should not break, bubble and spread during the melting process.
• As a filling, shrimp with cucumber, boiled beef tongue with cherry tomatoes, salmon with soft cheese are perfect.
• Do not overheat the oven, the base for the baskets should become soft, but not burnt.
• For decoration, use fragrant seasonal herbs or vegetable slices. Parsley leaves, green onion feathers cut diagonally will look great.

Also garlic if you like.

Any hard cheese can be used, but Parmesan is the most suitable, and cooked without starch.

Technique: stove or oven or microwave.

Grate the cheese on a fine or coarse grater (for openwork baskets).

Pass the garlic through a press.

Mix cheese with starch and garlic.

Baskets can be prepared in several ways:

If cooking on the stove, then the pan must be well heated and lightly greased with vegetable oil.

Pour evenly into a small pan (about 16 cm in diameter) cheese in the form of a pancake (you can make the edges in the form of a wave).

As soon as the cheese is melted, place a cylindrical vessel (glass, cup, etc.) over the center of the pan and turn the pan over or remove the pancake with a spatula, put it on the container and form a basket with your hands.

You can cook blanks in the oven. To do this, cover a baking sheet with baking paper (parchment) and decorate the same pancakes from cheese. Place the baking sheet in the oven and keep at 200 degrees for 4-5 minutes until the cheese is melted. Then carefully transfer the blanks to a cylindrical vessel (glass, cup, etc.).

You can cook the blanks in the microwave. Grease a plate with oil and pour cheese into a pan. Place in the microwave for about 1 minute on high power. Put the workpiece on the prepared container.

Step by step photo instruction

Preparation of ingredients

Preparing a workpiece

	If you cook blanks on the stove, then the pan must be well heated and lightly greased with vegetable oil. Spread the pancake-shaped cheese evenly over a frying pan (about 16 cm in diameter).
	You can make the edges in the form of a wave.
	As soon as the cheese is melted (this is a melting mixture of cheese and starch)
	place a cylindrical vessel (glass, cup, etc.) over the center of the pan and turn the pan over or remove the pancake with a spatula. (Here's a one-cheese pancake)
	Put the workpiece on the container.
	You can cook blanks in the oven. To do this, cover a baking sheet with baking paper (parchment) and decorate the same pancakes from cheese. Place the baking sheet in the oven and keep at 200 degrees for 4-5 minutes until the cheese is melted.
	Then carefully transfer the blanks to a cylindrical vessel (glass, cup, etc.). With your hands, lower the free edges and form a basket.
	You can cook the blanks in the microwave. Grease a plate with oil and pour cheese into a pan. Place in the microwave for about 1 minute on high power.
	Put the workpiece on the prepared container. With your hands, lower the free edges and form a basket.
	With any method of preparation, it is important not to fry the pancakes and form a basket with your hands while the cheese is still hot. You can even put a thin rubber band on the finished basket so that the shape does not get lost when it cools. Ready-cooled baskets can be stored in a closed plastic container in the refrigerator. Baskets should be filled with chilled salad just before serving. It should be remembered that the juicier the salad, the faster the basket can lose shape.

If you're going to be preparing holiday appetizers for the table, then consider how to serve them. Typically, for such fillings, small shortcrust pastry tartlets, glass bowls, crackers, and skewers are used.
Alternatively, you can prepare cheese baskets for serving the filling. Such an appetizer will look original at any feast. It is not at all difficult to make cheese baskets with filling, the main thing is to practice the technique. It is important to remember that different types of cheese behave differently when melted, so you will have to experiment. In any case, it is necessary to buy high-quality hard cheese of aged varieties.
Today I present to your attention cheese baskets stuffed with shrimp.

Ingredients for 3-4 baskets:

• hard cheese 120 g;
• boiled egg 1 pc.;
• tangerine or orange to taste;
• boiled shrimp 100 g;
• mayonnaise to taste;
• fresh herbs optional;
• ground walnuts, optional

Cooking

Cooking baskets is easiest in the oven, so we will use it. Turn on the oven heat to 190 degrees. Grate a piece of cheese on a fine grater. Leave a handful of cheese for the filling, the rest will go for baskets.


Spread grated cheese on parchment paper. Determine the size of the future basket yourself, based on the dishes on which you will then lay out the cakes. This time I will have stacks of glasses to form baskets.


Transfer the parchment to a baking sheet and then into the oven. Don't go far and watch the cheese melt. It is necessary to take out the cheese cakes at the moment when the edges become golden. Place the parchment with the cakes on the work surface, wait a couple of minutes. By the way, if desired, grated nuts can be sprinkled on the cheese for additional flavor (just a little bit).


With a knife, lift the edge of the cheese cake and remove it immediately on an inverted glass. Lightly press the basket on the glass to give the desired shape. Leave the baskets to dry in a cool place.


To prepare the filling, grate a finely boiled egg, mix with the reserved cheese and pour into a bowl.

Peel the tangerine, cut into pieces and also send to a bowl.


Fill the filling with mayonnaise and mix.


Peel the boiled shrimp and chop finely. A few whole shrimp can be left to decorate the baskets.


Stir the filling with shrimp and fresh herbs (dill or parsley) to taste. For spice, you can add garlic or chili peppers to the filling.


Scrolling the baskets on the glasses, remove them on the table.


Put the stuffing in baskets.


It remains to think over a beautiful presentation of baskets and decorate them on top, then show your imagination and everything will work out.


Cheese baskets stuffed with shrimp can be an excellent option for a buffet table, they can be filled with any other fillings. One option is fried mushrooms with onions and mayonnaise. Take 200 grams of fresh or frozen champignons and finely chop them. Finely chop a small head of onion. Heat a frying pan with vegetable oil and put the ingredients on it. Stirring, fry over high heat for 10 minutes. After that, add salt and mayonnaise, reduce heat and simmer for another 10 minutes. Sprinkle the prepared champignons with onions with cheese and let cool. After that, fill the baskets so that the cheese remains on top. The finished dish will be not only tasty, but also very satisfying.

Cheese baskets are an original appetizer that will decorate any holiday table. You can put salad, pate in cheese baskets, and it will always look appropriate and elegant.

I will show you how to cook two baskets, so you only need 30-40 grams of cheese. In addition to the oven, such baskets can also be prepared using a frying pan, melting cheese on parchment or without it in the same way. I liked melting cheese in the oven the most. Try it yourself!

For the preparation of cheese baskets, we take only cheese and parchment.

Cheese grate on a medium grater. Cut out equal squares from parchment paper. Spread the grated cheese on the parchment in a circle.

It is convenient to spread cheese on parchment sheets on a baking sheet. When baking, the baking sheet remains clean, and the cheese cakes are easily removed from the parchment. Just be sure to use good quality parchment. Spread the sheets with grated cheese on a baking sheet and put in a preheated oven until the cheese is completely melted.

Remove melted cheese from oven. It will look like this.

Put parchment with cheese on a glass, press lightly while the cheese is still hot, but not fiery.

Leave in this form until completely cooled.

Then carefully remove the parchment from the glass and free the basket from the paper.

Baskets, depending on the type of cheese, can be quite fatty. They need to be put on a napkin. Baskets of their parmesan and this type of cheese are best obtained. The fat from them does not melt at all, and the edges look lacy. I had regular cheese, so I used a fine grater to make the edges look lacy.

Cheese baskets can be stuffed with any salad of your choice, or you can simply arrange colorful pieces of vegetables there. But you need to do this immediately before serving, so that the baskets do not get wet.