Salads for the New Year

Each holiday is good in its own way, but none of them is associated with as many traditions and rituals as the New Year. For many, it is associated with a feast, because a richly laid table, according to signs, promises prosperity in the coming year. Salads for the New Year do in every home. Some of the types of these snacks so often decorate the New Year's table that people cannot imagine a holiday without them. Other salads are prepared according to new and unusual recipes, the hostess chooses such options to surprise the guests and attract good changes into her life. If culinary novelties on the New Year's table are a matter of everyone's choice, then traditional snacks should be made for the New Year: guests and households are unlikely to understand you if you leave them on this holiday day without Olivier or other salad that they used to see on New Year's table.

Cooking Features

Christmas salads do not have to be from expensive products. The most popular ones contain vegetables that are cheap and available all year round. Recipes for preparing snacks for the New Year are also different, you can find simple and easy, complex and satisfying options. Whichever one you choose, there are a few rules to follow.

Products for Christmas salads should be chosen quality. Snacks have to stand on the table for a long time, and if they are made from stale products, the risk of poisoning will increase greatly. The quality of the ingredients will also affect the taste of the salad.
Do not make salads in large quantities. The shelf life of such snacks is usually limited to 48 hours. If you do not have time to eat salad for two days, you will have to get rid of it or finish it, putting your body under serious test.
Salads seasoned with mayonnaise or another sauce spoil more quickly, so it is better to add a dressing just before serving a snack to the table. The exception is puff salads, which take time to soak in the sauce. Yes, and the time to collect such a salad, you need more than dressing the sauce with a mixture of sliced products.
For cooking vegetables such as beets, carrots, which are often added to boiled New Year's salads, you can use a microwave. This will not only speed up the process, but also allow you to maintain the beneficial properties of vegetables, their bright color and rich taste.

Many salads are made from the same set of ingredients, taking them in different proportions, changing the composition of the dressing, laying layers in different sequences. All this affects the taste and appearance of the dish. When cooking New Year's salads, you need to be attentive to the little things, otherwise as a result you will not get the appetizer, the recipe of which you chose, but some other one. However, do not be afraid to experiment: the canonical recipes of most popular dishes do not exist, a slight deviation from the recipe threatens the maximum with the fact that you will create a new version of the snack.

Salad “Olivier” with sausage

Composition:

carrots - 150 g;
chicken egg - 6 pcs .;
cooked sausage - 0, 3 kg;
pickles - 0, 3 kg;
green peas (canned) - 0, 25 kg;
onions - 50 g;
potatoes - 0, 4 kg;
mayonnaise - 0, 3 l.

Method of preparation:

Wash carrots and potatoes, boil them, without peeling, until done. Cool, removing from the water, clean. Cut into small cubes. Ideally, the size of the vegetable pieces should be about the same as green peas.
Remove the husks from the onion, finely chop it. To remove the bitterness, onions can be doused with boiling water or pickled. Many housewives replace onions with green, this gives the salad a fresh taste.
Cut cucumbers in the same slices as other vegetables.
Grind sausage and hard boiled eggs in the same way.
Mix all ingredients in a bowl. Before serving, season with mayonnaise, mix and put into a salad bowl.

Salad can be decorated with grated eggs, specially laying 2 eggs for this, fresh herbs. Especially good looks on the New Year's table salad, decorated with dill.

“Olivier” can be made from chicken breast meat, from beef, and even from salmon, but the recipe with sausage is most often used. This version of the salad is the easiest to prepare and economical.

Salad “Herring under a fur coat”

Composition:

light-salted herring (fillet) - 0, 3 kg;
potatoes - 0, 3 kg;
onions - 150 g;
carrots - 0, 3 kg;
beets - 0, 3 kg;
chicken egg - 4 pcs .;
greens - to taste;
mayonnaise - 0, 2 l.

Method of preparation:

Clean salted herring, separate the meat from the bones. Finely chop and place on the bottom of the salad bowl. It is better to choose a salad bowl to be transparent, so that through it layers can be seen, not high, not expanding upwards.
Finely chop the peeled onions, fill them with herring.
Cover with mayonnaise mesh.
Boil vegetables in uniform. Cool, clean. Separately, grind with a grater.
Grind hard-boiled eggs in the same way.
Put the potatoes on the herring with onions, brush them with mayonnaise.
In the next layer, place the carrot, cover it with a layer of sauce.
Sprinkle with eggs, put on top of a mesh of mayonnaise.
Put the beets in the upper layer and grease them with mayonnaise.
Decorate the salad with greens. With its help, it is possible to depict on its surface a spruce branch, a clock face.

Salad takes time to brew and soak in the sauce, then it will taste better. The above recipe can be considered a classic. There are variations of it, where the layers are laid in a different order, instead of eggs they use melted cheese. Decorate it all the hostess, too, in different ways.

Mimosa Salad

Composition:

canned fish (pink salmon in its own juice) - 0, 25 kg;
onions - 100 g;
chicken egg - 5 pcs .;
butter - 90 g;
hard cheese - 100 g;
mayonnaise - 100 ml.

Method of preparation:

Remove the pink salmon from the can. Mash fork, divided into two parts.
Boil eggs, cool, peel, cut in half.
Remove yolks, rub. Separately rub the proteins.
On a grater with fine holes, chop the cheese.
Butter lightly freeze.
Finely chop the onion. Pour with boiling water, drain the water in a minute.
Place crushed egg whites on the bottom of the salad bowl.
Put a layer of cheese on top.
Put the third layer of pink salmon in the third layer.
Cover with mayonnaise.
Sprinkle with onions.
Rub the butter on top.
Put the remaining pink salmon.
Smear the remaining sauce.
Sprinkle with grated yolks.

The above recipe is classic. Many housewives to improve the satiety of snacks make their own changes, complementing potatoes, carrots.

Vinaigrette

Composition:

beets - 0, 3 kg;
carrots - 0, 4 kg;
potatoes - 0, 4 kg;
pickles - 0, 3 kg;
onions - 100 g;
beans (boiled or canned) - 0, 25 kg;
vegetable oil - 50 ml.

Method of preparation:

Boil vegetables, cook beans.
Cool vegetables, peel.
Cut the beets into small cubes, pour a spoonful of butter into it, stir.
In another bowl, cut the remaining vegetables, place the beans in them. Mix with the remaining oil.
Combine beets with other vegetables, mix.

In the middle of the last century, this cheap salad was the same attribute of the New Year as “Olivier”. The recipe has several options. Sometimes, instead of cucumbers, sauerkraut is added, the beans are replaced with green peas.

Crab stick salad

Composition:

canned corn - 0, 38 kg;
crab sticks - 0, 24 kg;
white cabbage - 0, 2 kg;
chicken egg - 4 pcs .;
mayonnaise - 0, 2 l.

Method of preparation:

Chop the cabbage.
Boil eggs, cut into cubes.
Cut the crab sticks in small pieces.
Open a can of corn, drain the liquid from it.
In a bowl, fold the vegetables, eggs, surimi, season with mayonnaise.

Crab stick salad became a popular Christmas snack at the end of the last century, when crab sticks began to appear on the shelves of stores. The salad was tasty, inexpensive, and could be cooked quickly. Often instead of cabbage in the salad add green onions, fresh cucumber. Some housewives put in it boiled rice, making it even more satisfying and more economical.

Squid salad with green peas

Composition:

squid - 0, 5 kg;
chicken egg - 4 pcs .;
canned peas - 0, 24 kg;
onions - 100 g;
salt, ground black pepper, fresh dill to taste;
mayonnaise - 100 ml.

Method of preparation:

Wash squid, remove chords, tentacles.
Dip for 3 minutes in boiling water. Take out, rinse under running water.
Drain, cut into strips or slices.
Boil eggs, cool. Coarsely chop or chop finely.
Cut onion into thin half rings. Pour boiling water. Wait 2 minutes, drain the water.
Combine onion, squid and egg. Add green peas. Salt, pepper, season with mayonnaise.
Transfer to a salad bowl, garnish with dill sprigs.

Seafood appetizers always in price. Squids are among the most affordable seafood. Salad of them for the New Year do in many families. Housewives bring something special to the recipe: add apples, pickle onions, refuse green peas, replace them with beans, decorate the appetizer with red caviar. Taking the recipe as a basis, you can cook a dish, focusing on your taste.

Pineapple Salad with Walnuts and Smoked Chicken

Composition:

walnut kernels - 150 g;
smoked chicken legs meat - 150 g;
salted cucumber - 150 g;
onions - 75 g;
green onions - 50 g;
chicken egg - 3 pcs .;
potatoes - 0, 3 kg;
hard cheese - 150 g;
mayonnaise - as required.

Method of preparation:

Cook the eggs and potatoes in a uniform.
Cool potatoes, peel, coarsely rub. Put on a platter, giving the shape of an oval.
Leave a few feathers of green onions for decoration, chop the rest of the onions.
Smear potatoes with mayonnaise, sprinkle with green onions.
Separate chicken meat from bones, finely chop. Put half on the bow.
Cut the pickled cucumber into small cubes, put it on the chicken meat.
Place the remaining chicken on the cucumbers.
Brush with mayonnaise.
Chop grated cheese, put on top of chicken layer.
Next layer lay grated eggs, cover them with mayonnaise.
Put the halves of the nut kernels on top of the salad. Attach a bunch of green onion feathers to one side of the oval. The salad decorated in this way will resemble a pineapple.

It is not known who thought of decorating the salad with nuts and onions, giving it the appearance of a tropical fruit, but the idea appealed and got accustomed. Today, many people like to cook such a salad for a festive table, especially a New Year's one, as its attractive appearance hides an equally attractive taste.

Belochka Cream Cheese Salad with Garlic and Carrots

Composition:

processed cheese - 0, 25 kg;
chicken egg - 3 pcs .;
carrots - 100 g;
garlic - 5 cloves;
mayonnaise - 100 ml.

Method of preparation:

Peel raw carrots, chop them finely with a grater or with a blender.
On a grater with medium sized cells, chop the cheese. Make it easier if you cool it down before it.
Boil the eggs, chop them in the same way as the other ingredients.
Pass the garlic cloves through the press.
Mix the ingredients of the salad, at the same time combining them with mayonnaise.
Put the salad in a dish, giving it the shape of a squirrel. Spout, eyes make of olives. If desired, you can simply put the salad in a salad bowl, decorate with greens - it is popular thanks to its taste.

Salad is also used as a spread for sandwiches. This appetizer has another name - “Jewish” salad. Do it with raw carrots, and without it. Sometimes carrots are replaced or supplemented with radish. The savory and at the same time delicate taste of this salad won the hearts of many of our compatriots.

“Fox fur coat” salad with mushrooms

Composition:

fresh champignons - 0, 2 kg;
herring fillet, slightly salted - 150 g;
carrots - 0, 3 kg;
potatoes - 150 g;
onions - 100 g;
smoked processed cheese - 125 g;
vegetable oil - 20 ml;
mayonnaise - 100 ml.

Method of preparation:

Wash mushrooms, cut into thin plates.
Herring fillet. Cut into small cubes.
Cut the onion in small pieces.
Grind sausage cheese.
Boil carrots and potatoes in uniform, peel.
Chop grated vegetables without mixing.
Heat oil in a pan, put mushrooms and onions in it. Fry them until liquid evolved from the pan evaporates from the pan.
Place a hoop at the center of the dish.
Lay the food in layers. You need to lay out in the following sequence: herring, mushrooms, cheese, potatoes, carrots. The top three layers are coated with mayonnaise.
Remove the hoop - the salad will be shaped like a cake. It remains to decorate it, based on your own imagination.

Salad is a newer alternative to the slightly bored “Herring under a fur coat”, every year more and more people prepare it for the New Year's table.

Salad with avocado and shrimps

Composition:

avocados - 0, 2 kg;
cherry tomatoes - 0, 2 kg;
shrimps cooked and frozen (small, peeled) - 0, 2 kg;
red onion - 75 g;
leaf lettuce - 100 g;
Dijon mustard - 20 ml;
vegetable oil - 40 ml;
lemon juice - 20 ml;
salt, pepper - to taste.

Method of preparation:

Cut the avocado, remove the bone. Cut the flesh with a net, separate it from the skin.
Boil the shrimp in salted water.
Cut onion into thin half rings.
Cut tomatoes into 4 pieces.
Tear up half of the lettuce, lay the rest of the leaves on a platter or lay in a salad bowl.
In a bowl, mix onions, shrimps, avocados, torn lettuce leaves, and slices of tomatoes. Season with a mixture of mustard, butter, and lemon juice. Salt and pepper to taste.
Put the salad on the prepared dish.

Salad can be served in portions, spreading it on ice cream bowls or small salad bowls, plates. Its refined taste has already been appreciated by many. If you have not prepared such a New Year, it is time to update the menu.

Salads, which are considered attributes of the holiday, may differ in different families. Some do not represent the New Year without “Herring under a fur coat”, others - without “Mimosa”, others - without a vinaigrette. There are many variations of recipes for these snacks, because each time you want to pamper your loved ones and surprise your guests with something new, unusual. Even keeping the tradition, you will set the New Year's table differently than your friends or neighbors.

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