Wedding Salads

Wedding Salads

An expensive banquet in a restaurant eliminates unnecessary worries about cooking, but does not contribute to cost savings. Such a wedding feast is not every family can afford. Increasingly, the newlyweds prefer to spend money on a romantic trip, buying the necessary items for the house, and set the table on their own with the help of close friends and relatives. In order to cook delicious and delicious salads for the wedding, you do not have to have a great culinary experience and to master the art of carving perfectly. A little effort and patience, a little bit of fantasy is enough for snacks to decorate the table and please the guests.

Cooking Features

There are many recipes for wedding salads, the preparation of which does not require great skill. Tips from experienced culinary specialists will help to cope with the task of an ordinary hostess

  • People with different taste preferences gather at the wedding table. We must try to make the salads in an assortment, for a different taste: sharp and tender, nourishing and light, with meat and fish, and vegetables.
  • Special attention should be paid to decorating the snacks for the wedding table, trying to do everything neatly. When decorating salads, preference is given to wedding symbolism. Flowers, swans, wedding rings will be appropriate.
  • At least one version of the salad make a portion and serve it at the beginning of the feast. You can decompose it on plates, salad bowls, creamers. Decorating a salad is not necessary, but if you stick skewers with hearts into it or decorate it in some other way, it definitely will not upset the guests.
  • Before the wedding, everyone has a lot of trouble, there is a temptation to prepare dishes for the wedding table in advance, a few days before the celebration. This is an erroneous decision. In salads seasoned with mayonnaise, the shelf life is 48 hours, they will have to stand on the table for a long time, so more than a day they can not do. If you do not need to lay the salad in layers, but rather fill and mix, it is better to postpone the sauce until the very last moment.
  • It is necessary to store cooked salads in the refrigerator, otherwise they will spoil, the holiday will be marred by poor health of guests and heroes of the occasion.

When choosing a salad recipe for a wedding, it makes sense to pay attention to snacks with wedding names: “Bride”, “Wedding General” and the like. Such names they received due to the fact that they are often chosen for the wedding table. Why not take advantage of the experience of people who often organize holiday feasts? You can supplement traditional snacks with one or two unusual salads to make the feast non-standard and memorable.

Flowers for the Bride Salad

Composition:

  • carrots - 0, 3 kg;
  • beets - 0, 3 kg;
  • potatoes - 0, 3 kg;
  • herring fillet - 0, 25 kg;
  • fresh cucumber - 150 g;
  • hard cheese - 100 g;
  • garlic - 2 cloves;
  • Armenian pita bread (thin) - 1 pc .;
  • leaf lettuce - 100 g;
  • mayonnaise - as required.

Method of preparation:

  • Boil vegetables separately. Cool, peel and chop on a grater, spreading it on different plates.
  • Fillet herring, cut into small cubes.
  • Wash the cucumber, pat dry, cut off the tips. Cut the cucumber into small cubes.
  • Pass the garlic through the press.
  • Finely rub the cheese.
  • Mix the cheese and garlic with the beets, adding a spoonful of mayonnaise to them.
  • Coat the pita with a thin layer of beetroot, roll it up and leave it to soak.
  • Put some salad leaves on the dish.
  • Place a culinary ring in the center.
  • Put a layer of herring inside the rings, put cucumber cubes on top, pour mayonnaise.
  • Put the carrots, brush with mayonnaise.
  • Lay out a layer of potatoes, brush with sauce.
  • Remove the ring, cover the salad from all sides with beetroot mass.
  • Cut the lavash roll into slices, lay them on the salad, giving them the shape of a rose. Complete the decoration with lettuce leaves.

Externally, the salad resembles a cake decorated with flowers. It tastes like herring under a fur coat, but more tender and fresh.

Swan Fidelity Salad of Crab Sticks

Composition:

  • chicken egg - 10 pcs .;
  • crab sticks - 0, 2 kg;
  • onions - 100 g;
  • apple - 0, 2 kg;
  • hard cheese - 100 g;
  • mayonnaise - 0, 2 l;
  • table vinegar (9 percent) - 20 ml;
  • water - 60 ml;
  • sugar, salt - to taste.

Method of preparation:

  • Chop the onion finely. Mix vinegar with water, salt and sugar. Pour onion with this mixture, leave for 20 minutes.
  • Finely chop the crab sticks with a knife or chop them with a grater. You can rub the surimi without defrosting.
  • Eggs boil hard boiled, cool, pour cold water. Clean up. Four most smooth eggs set aside to decorate the salad, the rest divided into yolks and whites. Rub them separately.
  • Cut out the core of the apple, release the fruit from the peel. Grind grated with large holes.
  • Mix egg yolks with mayonnaise, lay them all around using a cooking ring or stencil.
  • Squeeze the onion, place it on the eggs.
  • Grate the cheese, mix with mayonnaise, put on the onion.
  • Place a grated apple on the cheese.
  • Place the crab sticks mixed with mayonnaise on the apple.
  • With the remaining mayonnaise, mix egg whites, cover the salad with them from all sides.
  • Make swan eggs. Two eggs should become the bodies of birds. To make them more stable, cut the squirrels from below, make tails of these pieces, insert them into the slots. Cut the squirrel mugs from the edges of the remaining eggs, make wings from them. From the remaining protein make a neck with a head, attach with wooden toothpicks. Carrot slices will replace the beak, 4 peppercorns - eyes.

Salad prepared according to this recipe looks festive and elegant, it does not hurt to put it closer to the heroes of the day. Salad "Wedding General" is prepared according to the same recipe, but the lower layer spread proteins, and the top - the yolks. In this embodiment, the snack is not decorated with swans, it can be put on other tables.

Salad "Bride"

Composition:

  • smoked chicken meat - 0, 5 kg;
  • cheese - 150 g;
  • onions - 0, 25 kg;
  • potatoes - 1 kg;
  • chicken egg - 10 pcs .;
  • carrots - 0, 5 kg;
  • apple cider vinegar (6%) - 20 ml;
  • water - 100 ml;
  • mayonnaise - 0, 25 l.

Method of preparation:

  • Boil vegetables and eggs. Cool and clean.
  • Rub the vegetables by placing them in separate plates.
  • Separately, grind grated proteins and yolks.
  • Separate chicken meat from bones and skins, finely chop.
  • Free from onions peel, cut into thin half-rings, pickle in a mixture of vinegar and water. Marinate it needs at least 20 minutes.
  • Finely rub the cheese.
  • Start laying out on large or small salad bowls. You will need 2-3 large salad bowls, 6-7 times more portion salad bowls. You can lay out a snack and large glasses. Layers are arranged in the following sequence: potatoes, mayonnaise, chicken, pickled onions, carrots, mayonnaise, yolks, mayonnaise again, proteins. The top layer may not be smeared with mayonnaise.

Salad can be decorated with flowers cut from vegetables. Another decoration option is melted cheese plates rolled up in the shape of flowers.

Rustic Wedding Salad

Composition:

  • pork - 0, 5 kg;
  • onions - 0, 2 kg;
  • sugar - 40 g;
  • salt - 10 g;
  • table vinegar (9 percent) - 150 ml;
  • black ground pepper - 5 g;
  • vegetable oil - 100 ml;
  • water - 50 ml;
  • fresh greens - to taste.

Method of preparation:

  • Boil the meat until tender. Cool, cut into thin strips.
  • Peel and cut onion into thin half rings.
  • In a bowl, mix in salt, sugar, pepper, oil, and vinegar; add water.
  • Place the meat in a mixing bowl, and put onions on it. Pour sauce.
  • Put in a cool place for at least 8 hours.
  • Gently mix the salad, put in a salad bowl or on a large dish, sprinkle with chopped greens.

The men invited to the wedding will be delighted with such a simple snack. It is well suited for strong alcoholic beverages.

Red Fish Salad

Composition:

  • light-salted salmon - 0, 3 kg;
  • crab sticks - 0, 2 kg;
  • chicken eggs - 5 pcs .;
  • rice - 80 g;
  • carrots - 150 g;
  • curd cheese - 100 g;
  • sour cream - 100 ml;
  • mayonnaise - 100 ml.

Method of preparation:

  • Boil the eggs. After cooling, peel and rub.
  • Crab sticks chopped.
  • Boil rice in salted water, allow it to cool.
  • Boil carrots, peel. Grind on a coarse grater.
  • Place the cottage cheese cheese, sour cream and mayonnaise in a separate container, whisk until smooth.
  • Fish cut into thin plates. Put a few plates aside to decorate the finished salad.
  • In a salad bowl or in a rectangular baking dish, make a cling film. Cover the bottom and sides of the salad bowl with plates of red fish, brush with the sauce.
  • Divide the sauce into several parts and mix with it individually eggs, rice, crab sticks, carrots.
  • Put eggs in a salad bowl, carrots, crab sticks, rice. Cover with cling film and refrigerate for several hours.
  • Remove the top sheet, cover the form with a dish, turn it over. Remove the salad bowl and film.
  • From the fish set aside earlier make flowers by folding the plates with a roll. Decorate the salad.

Salad made according to this recipe looks unusual and elegant. There is a high probability that the guests will finish it first, especially since such a snack is well suited for champagne.

Do not be afraid to make salads for the wedding yourself. Having picked up suitable recipes and having studied technology of preparation of snack, any hostess will cope with a task.

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