New Year's salads: the best recipes
1. Salad "Christmas toys"
Ingredients:
Chicken fillet - 1 piece
Large potatoes - 3 pieces
Champignons (pickled) - 200 grams
Processed cheese - 1 piece
Canned corn - 1 can
Chicken egg - 2 pieces
Carrots - 1 piece
Garlic, salt, dill, pepper - to taste
Red bell pepper - 1 piece
Olive oil - 2 tablespoons
Red cabbage juice - 6 tablespoons
Mayonnaise
Preparation:
Boil the eggs and separate the yolks from the whites. Grind the proteins on a coarse grater and soak in red cabbage juice for 30 minutes. Then it will turn into a nice blue color. The bell peppers need to be grated on a fine grater, or if there is a blender, it is better to grind it there. Add spices to taste and olive oil to it. Mix thoroughly. Boil the potatoes in their skins and cool. Peel it and rub on a coarse grater. Boil the mushrooms and chop finely. If you are using pickled produce, simply slice it up.
Cut the boiled file into small pieces. Now you can start forming "toys" from grated potatoes. You can use the photo as an example. Potato toys should be greased with mayonnaise and put on top with multi-colored proteins, yolks, carrots, bell peppers. Use strips of mayonnaise to make snowflakes on these toys. The plate on which you put this original salad can be decorated with sprigs of parsley or dill.
2. "New Year's cone" salad
Ingredients:
Cream cheese - 300 grams
Ham - 200 grams
Pine nuts - 50 grams
Dill - 20 grams
Mayonnaise - 50 grams
Almonds - for decoration
Salt, garlic - to taste
Bacon-flavored crackers
Preparation:
Cut the ham into very small cubes. Beat the cream cheese with a blender with pre-chopped dill (leave a sprig of dill for decoration), garlic (you can skip it), mayonnaise and salt. Put the whipped cheese in another bowl and add the ham cubes and pine nuts, salt the mass and mix well with a spoon. We put the salad in the refrigerator for 20 minutes.
Dry the almonds in the oven or in a pan, stirring occasionally for 15-20 minutes. Put the chilled salad on a dish in which it will be served in the shape of a cone and decorate with almonds with the sharp end towards you (see photo), and decorate the thick end of the cone with a sprig of dill. When serving, garnish such a salad with bacon-flavored crackers.
3. "Christmas toy" salad
Ingredients:
Crab sticks (snow crab)
4-5 eggs
onion
corn (for decoration)
peas
red caviar (for decoration)
olives (for decoration)
mayonnaise
carrots, cut into strips (for decoration)
Preparation:
Cut everything, season with mayonnaise. Shape, coat with mayonnaise + ketchup mixture (to give a pinkish tint) and decorate. For decoration - olives, carrots, peas, corn, red caviar and mayonnaise, instead of red caviar, you can use pomegranate seeds. In principle, you can use our favorite salad recipe for salad, which will only have to be decorated in an original way.
4. "Carnival tree" salad
Ingredients:
150 grams of salted herring
150 grams of Korean carrots
3 medium potatoes
3 pieces of chicken eggs
3 small beets
1 can of canned peas
A bunch of green onions and dill
Pomegranate seeds
Canned corn
Preparation:
This salad must be laid out in layers, each of which is well greased with mayonnaise. The first layer is Korean carrots. The second layer is eggs, grated on a coarse grater. The third layer is potatoes grated on a coarse grater. The fourth layer is finely chopped herring fillets. The fifth layer is boiled beets, chopped on a coarse grater. The sixth layer is canned peas. The last layer of peas does not need to be greased with mayonnaise. Sprinkle finely chopped greens on it. Now you can start decorating our herringbone. Make garlands from corn and pomegranate seeds, as shown in the photo.
5. "Christmas candles" salad
Ingredients:
3 medium potatoes, boiled in their skins
2 boiled chicken eggs
2 medium carrots
500 grams of boiled broccoli
2 small pickled cucumbers
200 grams of cooked meat or ham
1 medium onion
A bunch of dill or parsley
Pepper, salt to taste
red paprika for decoration
4 pieces of cheese slices
Pomegranate seeds
Preparation:
First, prepare the sauce with which you will grease the layers. Take meat or ham, cut into small cubes. Do the same with cucumbers and onions. Season all these products with mayonnaise, salt and pepper. Stir the sauce. Now take a large dish and lay out the food in layers, greasing them with sauce: potatoes, carrots, eggs, broccoli. Only pre-grind all this on a coarse grater. When all the layers are laid out, pick 4 holes in the salad - it is best to do this with a teaspoon. Roll up the cheese slices and insert them into these holes. Lightly grease the plates with mayonnaise, sprinkle with cheese. Candle fire can be made from red bell pepper. Decorate the salad with herbs and pomegranate beads.
