New Year's salads are undoubtedly ruled by a festive banquet. Their popularity is understandable and conditioned by an infinite number of variations and combinations of products among themselves, among which each of the consumers can prefer the option to taste. Hearty or light, vegetarian or meaty, seasonal or summer - choose to be from what.
Salads to the New Year's table
Recipes for salads for the New Year allow you to move away from the usual combinations and allow yourself to spend on fresh off-season vegetable salad. This original variation of the classic "Greek" will allow each of the guests to choose products to their taste and combine them in the desired proportions.
Ingredients:
- mix of salad - 150 g;
- cherry tomatoes - 15 pcs .;
- olives - 10 pieces;
- red onions - 1 pc .;
- feta cheese - 100 g;
- a large cucumber - 1 piece;
- mint leaves for filing;
- olive oil, lemon juice - to taste.
Preparation
- From one side of the plate, place a strip of washed and dried salad mix, followed by quarters of cherry, pieces of olives, half rings of red onion, crumbled cheese, strips of cucumber.
- Sprinkle the vegetables with citrus juice and pour oil. Supplement the New Year salad with mint leaves.
Decoration of New Year's salads
If you do not know what salads can be cooked for the New Year, then try to diversify the classic recipes:
- Prepare "Olivier" according to an old recipe , decorated with caviar and crayfish neck.
- Add the slightly salted salmon to the "Fur coat", and the usual "Crab" - natural crab meat or shrimp tails.
- You can experiment with refueling using sauces based on yogurt, cream cheese or whipped cream cheese.
- As for the decorations of New Year salads, you can give vent to fantasies by depicting on the surface of snacks the symbol of the year - a rooster or traditional attributes of the New Year: Santa Claus, Christmas trees and toys.
- Fans of minimalism can make simple applications from vegetables and greens.
New Year's salad "Cockerel"
Beautiful New Year salads are easy to decorate, putting them in the form of a symbol of the year - a cock, and the salad itself can be anything. The variation described below demonstrates how you can turn a Tbilisi salad into the main decor of a banquet table.
Ingredients:
- beef tenderloin - 300 g;
- sweet pepper (large) - 1 piece;
- canned beans - 450 g;
- a handful of walnuts;
- garlic - 2 teeth;
- pinch of hops-suneli;
- vegetable oil - 40 ml;
- vinegar of grape - 25 ml.
Preparation
- Boil the tenderloin and cut it into strips. By analogy, cut and sweet pepper.
- Mix the prepared ingredients with the rest of the ingredients from the list.
- Supplement the dish with a dressing of oil and vinegar with a pinch of hops-suneli and paste from garlic teeth.
Salad «New Year's clock»
Do you want to make more nourishing and original New Year salads? Try to stop at the appetizer in the form of a clock, the arrows of which are approaching until midnight. The dish itself is unlikely to survive to the battle of chimes - simple and tasty ingredients will make it a favorite of the feast.
Ingredients:
- chicken smoked - 300 g;
- cheese - 150 g;
- chicken eggs - 3 pieces;
- mayonnaise - 100 g;
- quail eggs - 6 pcs .;
- potatoes - 2 tubers;
- parsley, carrots, olives, ketchup - for decoration.
Preparation
- Combine the fibers of the smoked poultry with half grated cheese, boiled and finely chopped potatoes, chicken eggs and sauce.
- Distribute the salad in the form of a dial and sprinkle with the remains of cheese.
- Lay the halves of quail eggs in a circle and mark the figures with ketchup on them.
- From the pieces of carrots make arrows. Decorate the dish with herbs and olive.
- You can also make puffed salads for the New Year, placing all the ingredients of the dish layer by layer, promazyvaya sauce.
New Year Balls salad
Simple New Year salads can look very unusual and the proof is the following recipe. Small portions of the salad mixture, shaped in the form of balls, it is convenient to serve on a buffet table, in the form of a portioned appetizer.
Ingredients:
- smoked chicken - 300 g;
- processed cheese - 100 g;
- hard cheese - 100 g;
- kernels of walnuts - 1 item;
- olives, green onions - for decoration;
- mayonnaise - 40 g.
Preparation
- The first three of the list are combined together and season with sauce. The resulting mass of rolled into balls and roll in a nut crumb.
- Original salads for the new year, decorate with olive and "thread" onions, imitating the eyelets on the balls.
New Year's Serpentine salad
The best salads for the New Year do not require exotic or hard-to-reach products, the meat base, combined with seasonal vegetables, will become a nourishing option, which may well replace the main dish.
Ingredients:
- boiled tongue - 150 g;
- sweet peppers (red, yellow) - 2 pcs .;
- a stalk of celery - 1 piece;
- pickled cucumbers - 2 pcs .;
- lemon juice - 1 teaspoon;
- olive oil - 35 ml;
- mustard - 1 teaspoon;
- feathers of onions - for decoration.
Preparation
- Peppers can be cut out figuratively or simply - squares.
- Celery and tongue divide with thin straws.
- Beat the last four products for refueling.
- In layers, lay a salad with beef tongue for the New Year in a bowl, distributing meat and celery downstairs, and peppers on top. Pour the dressing.
New Year Wreath Salad
Delicious New Year salads do not take much time, but instantly attract the attention of guests, and then conquer and their taste buds. Such an original dish can be served in honor of other celebrations, simply by modifying the decor.
Ingredients:
- boiled shrimps - 500 g;
- pineapple - 250 g;
- a bunch of green dill;
- eggs - 4 pieces;
- a large fresh cucumber - 1 piece;
- mayonnaise - 80 g.
Preparation
- Slice boiled eggs, pineapple and cucumber. Add the shrimp tails to the mixture and season with the snack.
- Form the salad with a ring and cover with dill sprigs.
- New Year's salad with shrimps is ready, in addition it can be decorated with forms from vegetables, imitating Christmas toys.
Salad "Christmas tree" for the new year
New Year salads do not have to be salty. Try a fruit variation that will act as a good complement to dessert or an independent delicacy in completing a dense meal. Combine the components among themselves to taste and on the basis of the budget.
- Collect the fruits and berries used.
- Prepare them by rinsing well, if necessary, cleaning and cutting them into smaller pieces.
- Figured down by making an asterisk from an apple or pineapple.
- Carrots and apples make a frame.
- Plant fruit and berries on the toothpicks, and then fasten on the cone close to each other.
- Fruit salads for the New Year can be served just like that or sprinkled with citrus juice and honey.