Salads for the New 2018

Many traditions are connected with the organization of the New Year's feast. Many dishes are prepared from year to year, but each time something new appears on the table. Attractive themed appetizers, decorated with the symbolism associated with the upcoming calendar period. Salads for the New Year of 2018 should please the patron of the coming year, the Yellow Earth Dog, however, you should not forget about other attributes of the holiday. Covering the New Year's table, the hostess can fully show imagination and artistic abilities, creating culinary masterpieces on a relevant topic.

Cooking Features

When preparing salads for the New 2018, it is worth considering the preferences of the patron of the year according to the eastern calendar, to think over the composition and design of cold appetizers. They should not only look attractive, but also have a harmonious taste. The prudent hostess will take care that the snacks do not spoil too early. The advice of experienced cooks will help solve all the tasks facing the hostess.

Use quality products for salads. Do not cook snacks long before the holiday, otherwise you will endanger the health of guests and households. You doubt that you will have time to make everything on December 31 - review the menu, reducing the number of dishes, replacing complex snacks with more simple ones.
Try to fill salads shortly before serving to the table, but leaving time to decorate the dish. This rule does not apply to flaky salads. So that they have time to soak in the sauce, they need to cook a few hours before the feast. Wait for the filing to the table, they should be in the refrigerator.
In order to give the salad the desired shape, use several techniques. If you first lay out the outline of the figure on a dish, then it will be easier to give the desired shape to the salad. It will also help the use of a culinary ring designed for baking cakes, if you want to give the salad the shape of a cake. To give a snack a Christmas tree shape, you can make a paper cone covered with cling film, fill it with a mixture of ingredients, and then put a salad out of it onto a dish like a shortcake that almost every child made in childhood.
For decorating salads, use pieces of vegetables, olives, pomegranate seeds, and greens. To give it a yellow color, grated grated egg yolks are used. Orange hue appetizer give carrots, red - beets.
When preparing salads for the New 2018, you need to remember that the Dog will be its patron. Give preference to snacks, which include meat, meat offal, chicken, turkey. You can include in the menu seafood, but not from river fish, in which there are a lot of bones.

When choosing a suitable recipe, do not forget that it can be taken as a basis by adjusting the composition to your liking. Creative imagination when decorating dishes is welcome.

Salad “Doggie” with sausage and fresh mushrooms

Composition:

fresh champignons - 0, 5 kg;
boiled sausage - 0, 2 kg;
chicken egg - 2 pcs .;
carrots - 0, 2 kg;
canned corn - 130 g;
potatoes - 0.5 kg;
onions - 100 g;
mayonnaise - 150 ml;
pitted olives - 2 pcs .;
vegetable oil - 40 ml.

Method of preparation:

Wash and boil carrots and potatoes without peeling. After cooling, peel and cut into small cubes.
Cook, peel the eggs, remove the yolks. Cut the yolks and send to the vegetables. Protein rub and put separately.
Grate or grind sausage with a meat grinder.
Wash mushrooms, dry with a towel, cut into small pieces.
Peel and chop the onion in small pieces.
Fry onions with mushrooms in vegetable oil.
When the liquid released from the mushrooms evaporates from the pan, transfer them to the potatoes and carrots. Add to them canned corn, pre-drain juice from the jar.
Season salad with mayonnaise. Stir.
Put the salad on a dish, giving the shape of a dog. In the center should be a large oval - the body of the animal, on the sides you need to put a little lettuce, giving it the form of wieners - it will be paws.
Sprinkle the body with shredded proteins.
Make ears and tail of sausage. Make the eyes and nose of olives.

The salad in the shape of a puppy will become a real decoration of the New Year's table, and the 2018 symbol will surely please the children.

Salad “Yellow Dog” from smoked chicken and pickled mushrooms

Composition:

smoked chicken meat - 0, 3 kg;
pickled mushrooms - 150 g;
potatoes - 0, 7 kg;
carrots - 0, 4 kg;
processed cheese - 100 g;
chicken egg - 5 pcs .;
carnation - 6 pcs .;
olives - 2 pcs .;
sausage - a small slice;
salt, pepper - to taste;
mayonnaise - 0, 2 l.

Method of preparation:

Cook the carrots and potatoes, cool and peel.
Cut vegetables into small cubes.
Grate the processed cheese.
Finely chop the onion, freeing it from the husk. Leave a few half-rings to decorate the snack.
Grind smoked chicken meat with a knife.
Add mushrooms, chicken, cheese to vegetables. Salt, pepper, mix with mayonnaise.
Put the salad on a dish, giving it the shape of a dog muzzle.
Cook the eggs. Separately, rub the whites and yolks.
Sprinkle with the yolks the central part of the figure, with the whites - those areas where the ears should be. Grated squirrels and place in the center of the figure, depicting the central part of the face.
Make one eye from one olive and a nose from the other. Carnation stick where the dog grows mustache. Make eyebrows from onion half rings, tongue from sausage.

Such a salad will delight the patron of the year, as well as your guests and members of the household. The preparation of this themed snack does not require expensive products, the cooking process does not take much time and effort.

Salad “Green Beauty” of beef tongue

Composition:

boiled beef tongue - 0, 25 kg;
carrots - 150 g;
potatoes - 0.5 kg;
onions - 100 g;
canned corn - 0, 24 kg;
pickled cucumbers - 0, 3 kg;
vegetable oil - 30 ml;
mayonnaise - 150 ml;
dill - 200 g;
pomegranate grains - 20 g.

Method of preparation:

Boil beef tongue. Cool, remove the skin. Cut the by-product into small cubes.
Cook carrots and potatoes. Cool, peel and chop with a knife.
Free the onions from the husk. Cut into thin half rings.
Fry onion in oil until golden brown.
Open a jar of corn, fold the contents to a colander. Set aside a piece of grains for decoration, pour the rest into a bowl. Add chopped vegetables, tongue, fried onions.
Finely chop the cucumbers, put them in a bowl with the rest of the ingredients.
Season salad with mayonnaise.
Put on a dish, giving the shape of a Christmas tree.
Finely chop the dill and cover the salad with a thick layer of greens.
Make a “garland” from pomegranate and corn kernels by putting chains out of them on the surface of the lettuce.

An appetizer according to the above recipe can be prepared not only for a holiday dedicated to the 2018 meeting, but also for other New Year's celebrations. To taste, it resembles the salad “Olivier”, which is customarily cooked for the New Year.

Salad “Bone” of shrimp and avocado

Composition:

avocados - 0, 2 kg;
boiled shrimps (chishchennye) - 150 g;
chicken eggs - 2 pcs .;
hard cheese - 150 g;
mayonnaise - 80 ml;
salt, pepper - to taste.

Method of preparation:

Boil the shrimps in salted water with the addition of black pepper. Clean them from the shell.
Cook hard boiled eggs. Cool, clean.
Cut the avocado, remove the bone. Separate the flesh from the peel, cut into cubes.
Chop cheese and eggs on a coarse grater, chop the shrimp with a knife.
Combine the ingredients, leaving half the cheese to decorate the dish.
Salt, pepper, season with mayonnaise and place on a plate, giving the shape of a bone.
Sprinkle with grated cheese.

It is usually considered that serving bones to a table is more than impolite, but this time your guests will be happy with this treat.

Salad “First Snow” with apple and cheese

Composition:

green apple - 0, 25 kg;
hard cheese - 100 g;
onions - 75 g;
chicken eggs - 2 pcs .;
mayonnaise - 100 ml.

Method of preparation:

Boil the eggs. Peel and cut into slices. Do not throw away the tips: they are useful for decoration.
Wash the apple, remove the core. About half of the fruit cut into thin semicircles, coarsely rub the rest.
Grind grated cheese. Choose a better variety that is not too yellow.
Cut onion into thin half-rings, pour boiling water for 5 minutes to remove bitterness. Drain water.
Leave a few apple slices to decorate the dish, put the rest on the bottom of the plate. Place grated apples on top, add mayonnaise.
Put eggs on the apple, without touching only the bulging egg tips. Mayonnaise again.
Top with onion, spread the remaining eggs with the convex side up. Place the apple slices around the salad, setting them vertically. Pour the remaining mayonnaise, pour the cheese.

The salad will look like a small snowdrift. It is suitable as a snack to champagne. If you replace mayonnaise with unsweetened yogurt, the salad will acquire a more delicate flavor, its calorie content will decrease. Such a snack will not refuse people on a diet.

Salad “Horn of plenty” of turkey and Korean carrot

Composition:

boiled turkey meat - 0, 2 kg;
potatoes - 0, 4 kg;
green apple - 0, 2 kg;
Korean style carrots - 100 g;
hard cheese - 0, 2 kg;
onions - 100 g;
table vinegar (9 percent) - 40 ml;
sugar - 5 g;
vegetable oil - as required;
mayonnaise, salt - to taste.

Method of preparation:

Cut the meat in small pieces, fry until done, salt and pepper to taste.
Cook potatoes and eggs. Clean, coarsely rub.
Grind grated apples and cheese by placing them in separate containers.
Cut onion into thin half rings.
Mix vinegar and sugar with half a glass of water and a little salt. Marinate in the resulting composition of onions. Marinate it needs at least 40 minutes.
With the help of turkey meat, lay out a horn contour on a plate, fill the space inside with meat, pour mayonnaise.
Put onions on meat, put apples on it. Make a mesh of mayonnaise.
Lay out a layer of eggs, spread the sauce. In the next layers, place the potatoes and carrots, smearing each layer with mayonnaise.
Sprinkle with grated cheese, garnish.

To decorate the horn itself, you can use red caviar, pomegranate seeds. Grapes, shrimps, pieces of fresh fruits and vegetables are suitable for the image of its contents. Which composition will be able to create, depends entirely on the imagination of the hostess.

Thematic salads for the New 2018 may be very different. The basis is better to take meat products. Snacks can be shaped like dogs, Christmas trees, bones, cornucopias, horseshoes, clock faces or other holiday symbols.