Cheese snack with garlic and mayonnaise

This cheese appetizer can be served both as an independent salad, on sandwiches, or as a complement to vegetables.

Ingredients:
100 g of hard cheese,
1 egg,
4 cloves of garlic,
1.5 - 2 tablespoons of mayonnaise
Depending on the other ingredients, completely different snacks can be made. It's delicious to add: fresh tomato or pineapple or shrimp or baked beetroot or carrot to the cheese with garlic.

Preparation:

It’s very simple to prepare. Slightly freeze the cheese and grate it, whether fine, medium, or coarse - it depends on what pieces you like. If you plan to spread the snack on bread, it's better to use a fine grater, for a salad - a coarse one. A note about the cheese: the sharpness and taste of the salad depend heavily on the type of cheese you choose, so don't be stingy, buy tasty, spicy, and aromatic cheese, although processed cheese can also be used if there are no other options, just add a little salt to it. Russian cheese grates well and does not stick to the grater. Use the same grater to grate hard-boiled eggs.
Crush the garlic with a press, or you can finely chop it and crush it with the back of a knife; it somehow tastes better this way. 4 cloves for 100 g of cheese is quite conditional; if you like it spicier, add more garlic.
It's also better not to skimp on the mayonnaise; it should not overpower the smell and taste of the cheese. Mix everything thoroughly and let it sit under plastic wrap for a couple of hours.
Now about decorating this cheese appetizer. On its own, the salad looks quite ordinary. The simplest decoration option is to place the cheese mixture on slices of tomato, croutons, or chips. If you choose the option with chips, it's better to take chips with a minimal amount of flavoring additives.
Alternatively, you can shape the salad into a snowman or round snowballs; this decoration will be very fitting for a New Year's table. If you decide on snowmen, use minimal mayonnaise so that the figures hold their shape.