Birthday Salads

Not only hot but also cold snacks are served for the holiday table. The leading place is occupied by salads. With just a few products, you can create a variety of combinations that will make a dish with a unique taste. There can be a lot of products at the disposal of the hostess, you can create an infinite number of options for salads. Each of them is fraught with a certain secret that you want to unravel, it attracts you with the desire to experience new taste sensations, because each combination of products is unique. These snacks are always in demand among the guests. Birthday salads do not have to be made from expensive and inaccessible ingredients, their value is measured not by the time spent on cooking, but by their organoleptic qualities and appearance. You can use simple and tasty recipes, according to which even an inexperienced cook will be able to prepare a snack for a birthday party for a birthday man or hero of the day.

Cooking Features

Knowing a few moments will allow the hostess to make simple and tasty birthday salads, which will decorate the festive table.

Use only high-quality products for salads. Simple, but fresh ingredients will be more tasty than expensive, but spoiled delicacies.
To avoid spoiling food while waiting for a holiday, it is better to cut salads shortly before serving. But the ingredients for them make sense to prepare in advance: boil vegetables, eggs, meat, cook homemade sauce.
If you do not have much time for cutting salads before your birthday, it is allowed to do it the day before. The main thing is not to fill them with sauce in advance, as with it the products will spoil faster. In order to add the sauce, mix the ingredients and put the snack in a salad bowl, a lot of time is required.
For salads that are prepared for a birthday, design and presentation are important. It is a good idea to put the salad on a large white dish, decorating it like a cake. Snacks can be served at the table not only in a large salad bowl, but also in portions: on plates, in small bowls, even in creamer dishes and glasses. If a buffet table is served with a birthday party, tartlets, tubules, profiteroles can be stuffed with salads. Decorate snacks most often with products that are part of them, choosing the most bright and noticeable. Allowed to use for their decoration ingredients that are not included in the recipe, but are in harmony with them to taste. Green is a win-win.
Puff salads are collected immediately in the dishes in which they intend to serve them to the table.

Prepare salads for a birthday party with a soul - in some unknown way the attitude of the hostess to the hero of the occasion affects the result of her culinary creativity. Do not be afraid to show imagination and add something of your own to the recipes - the birthday boy and guests will certainly appreciate the uniqueness of taste and the originality of serving the dish to the table.

Layered salad “Male Caprice” with chicken and chili

Composition:

chicken fillet - 0, 3 kg;
chicken egg - 2 pcs .;
carrots - 80 g;
onions - 120 g;
green onions - 40 g;
chilli - 20 g;
cheddar cheese - 60 g;
vegetable oil - 20 ml;
butter - 20 g;
fresh parsley - 20 g;
salt, sugar - to taste;
mayonnaise - 40 ml;
paprika - 5 g.

Method of preparation:

Wash chicken fillet, pat dry. Do not boil, cut into thin strips. Some versions of the recipe suggest to use instead of chicken boiled veal or beef tongue. From such a replacement, the salad will only benefit, but its preparation will take a little longer.
Rub the cheese on a coarse grater.
Peel small onions, cut into thin slices. Do not disassemble the rings.
Scrape carrots with a knife, wash, blot with a napkin. Cut into thin strips or coarsely grate.
Chop parsley finely.
Cut green onions into small rings.
Cut off the “tail” of the pepper. Cut it with the thinnest rings. Remove seeds from ringlets.
Cook hard boiled eggs, cool them in cold water, peel them. Cut in half, separate the yolks from the proteins, finely rub separately.
Heat the pan, melt the butter in it, add the vegetable oil.
Carefully lay out the onion rings. Cook over low heat until soft, remove them from the pan.
In place of the onion, place the carrot, salt it, add a pinch of sugar, paprika. Cook, stirring, until the carrots are soft. Remove it from the pan.
Put the chicken fillet into the frying pan, add the greens, including spring onions, and the pepper rings to them, add some salt. Fry for about 7 minutes until cooked. A piece of onion and pepper can be left for decoration.
On the dish in which you will serve the salad to the table, put the cooking hoop.
Lay out the first layer of lettuce - it forms chicken fillet.
Put onions on it, cover it with carrots on top.
Smear the carrot layer with mayonnaise, using all the amount of sauce indicated in the recipe.
Sprinkle with grated cheese.
Decorate with eggs. You can make a bezel in white, in the center fall asleep yolks. It is possible on a white background with the help of the yolk to depict the numbers corresponding to the age of the hero of the day. For decoration, you can use rings of pepper, onions.
Remove the culinary ring.

Salad “Male Caprice” is made from available ingredients. The recipe is so simple that even an inexperienced cook will cope with cooking. The name of the snack shows that it is to the taste of many representatives of the strong half of humanity. If the birthday man is a man, then you almost certainly please him with this salad.

Salad "Ladies Caprice" in bowl bowls

Composition:

chicken fillet - 0, 3 kg;
prunes - 150 g;
fresh cucumber - 150 g;
chicken eggs - 2 pcs .;
onions - 75 g;
walnuts - 100 g;
mayonnaise - 50 ml;
vegetable oil - 10 ml;
salt, paprika - to taste.

Method of preparation:

Boil chicken fillet in salted water. Cool it, cut into cubes, sprinkle with paprika powder.
Cook hard-boiled and cool eggs. Cut them into cubes.
Peel onions, cut into thin half rings.
Fry onion until golden brown in a little oil. Brown onions should be as follows.
Wash the cucumber, cut off the tips. Cut into cubes. If you want to get a more delicate taste, the cucumber can be cleaned.
Break the kernels of walnuts, put them in a mortar and rub them.
Soak prunes in warm water, dry and cut into thin strips.
You need to collect the salad in portioned bowls. From the specified amount of ingredients you get 6 servings. If you expect more guests for a birthday, it is advisable to increase the number of ingredients, keeping the proportions.
Place the chicken on the bottom of the ice-creams, pour mayonnaise.
Place onions and prunes on top. Pour some sauce over it.
Put the cucumbers, then the eggs. Mayonnaise again.
Sprinkle the salad with crushed nuts.

The combination of nuts, chicken and prunes allows you to get a unique and very harmonious taste that ladies especially like, although men like it. The use of ice cream bowls is an easy way to serve a snack to the table beautifully, emphasizing the solemnity of the occasion. Preparing a salad for this recipe would be a good idea if a woman marks her birthday.

Mushroom Glade Salad

Composition:

pickled champignons (whole, selected) - 0, 2 kg;
Korean carrots - 0, 2 kg;
boiled chicken meat - 0, 2 kg;
chicken egg - 2 pcs .;
potatoes - 0, 2 kg;
mayonnaise - 40 ml;
greens - 20 g.

Method of preparation:

Wash the potatoes, boil them in uniform. Dry, cool and clean. Cut into small cubes.
Clean the boiled chicken from the skin, separate the meat from the bones. Finely chop.
Boil the eggs. Cool and clean, coarsely rub them.
In a salad bowl, lay a plastic wrap. Put the pickled mushrooms hats down. Sprinkle with chopped greens. It is desirable that it is distributed among the mushrooms.
Pour with mayonnaise to fix the layer.
Lay out the chicken meat, brush it with the sauce.
Place Korean carrot on top, draw a net with mayonnaise on it.
Put the potatoes in the next layer. If you wish, you can slightly pepper and salt it. Cover with mayonnaise mesh and this layer.
Sprinkle with eggs, brush with the remaining mayonnaise.
Cover the salad bowl with a dish, turn it over. Carefully remove the plastic wrap. Salad resembles a small hill covered with greens, on which mushrooms grow.

The salad recipe is so simple that its preparation takes a minimum of time and effort. Appetizer looks festive and appetizing. It is especially good to cook it in cases where the birthday falls on the winter months: fresh vegetables at this time are expensive, and their taste is far from perfect.

Greek Salad

Composition:

tomatoes - 0, 3 kg;
cucumbers - 0, 3 kg;
Bulgarian pepper - 0, 2 kg;
red onion - 100 g;
pitted olives - 150 g;
feta or white cheese - 0, 2 kg;
leaf lettuce - 100 g;
lemon juice - 20 ml;
olive oil - 80 ml;
sea salt, oregano, black pepper - to taste;
fresh basil - 10-20 g (for decoration).

Method of preparation:

Wash vegetables, pat dry. In tomatoes, cut seals from the stem. Cucumber chop off the tips. Remove seeds from pepper.
Cucumbers and tomatoes cut into cubes of medium size. Pepper cut into wide quarters of rings or squares of approximately the same size as the other vegetables.
Peel onions, cut them into thin halves or quarters of rings.
Put the chopped vegetables into a mixing container. Add whole olives to them.
In a separate bowl, prepare the sauce by mixing lemon juice with olive oil, adding pepper and oregano. Salting is not necessary, but if you have unsalted cheese, then a little sea salt put will not hurt.
Beat the sauce with a whisk, season the vegetable mixture with it.
Cut cheese into thin cubes.
Wash and dry lettuce leaves with napkins.
Put lettuce leaves in salad bowls or on plates where you plan to serve the salad to the table.
Put vegetables and olives on them.
Top with cheese cubes.
Decorate with basil leaves.

You do not show originality by preparing Greek salad for your birthday, but following traditions is not always bad. A bright, tasty and light snack is a win-win option if you want to offer guests a delicious, but simple dish to prepare.

Salad “Pomegranate Bracelet”

Composition:

boiled chicken breast - 0, 4 kg;
beets - 150 g;
potatoes - 0, 3 kg;
carrots - 150 g;
onions - 100 g;
pomegranate - 0, 2 kg;
chicken egg - 2 pcs .;
salt - a pinch;
mayonnaise - 80 ml;
walnuts - 20 g;
table vinegar (9 percent) - 20 ml;
seasonings to taste.

Method of preparation:

Wash vegetables. Boil beets, carrots and potatoes separately, without peeling. Remove from the water, cool. Clean up.
Separately, cooked vegetables, grate on a coarse grater.
Peel onions, cut into thin half rings. Mix a spoonful of vinegar with the same amount of pure water, pickle onion half rings in this mixture.
Boil the breast in salted water. Separate the meat from the bone, cool and chop finely. Season to taste.
Cook the eggs. Cool them with cold water. Clean up. Grind grated with large holes.
Remove the grain from the pomegranate. To do this, cut off the tip of the fruit. Along the white lines that you can see, cut the peel. Invert the fruit, gently pushing it apart, and tap the skin with a spoon. If you do this by immersing the pomegranate in a bowl of water, you will not damage the grain and do not get dirty. It remains to drain the water and wait until the pomegranate grains dry out.
Place a glass or tall wine glass in the center of the dish. The second option is preferable - the glass will later have to be removed from the salad, make it convenient by pulling the leg.
Place the potatoes around the glass and cover it with mayonnaise.
In the next layer, place the carrots, brush them with the sauce.
Put the onion, removing it from the marinade, on the carrot. Place the meat on top of the onion. Grease it with sauce.
Walnuts ceiling in a mortar, mix with eggs, put on meat, cover with a mesh of mayonnaise.
Coat everything with a layer of beetroot, brush it with the remaining mayonnaise.
Sprinkle the salad with pomegranate seeds.
Be careful not to damage the structure, remove the glass.

Salad “Pomegranate Bracelet” looks really festive. It can be prepared for the anniversary. If you know the technology of cooking this snack, even an inexperienced cook can make it. The salad recipe given above is not canonical. There are options without carrots or without beets, with the addition of prunes, with the replacement of chicken breast boiled meat. Knowing the principles of cooking, you can choose a combination of products to your liking.

Sunflower Salad

Composition:

chicken breast fillet - 0, 25 kg;
fresh champignons - 0, 3 kg;
onions - 75 g;
chicken egg - 3 pcs .;
cheese - 150 g;
pitted olives - 100 g;
garlic - 1 clove;
mayonnaise - 80 ml;
potato chips - 40 g;
olive oil - how much will leave;
salt, seasonings - to taste.

Method of preparation:

Wash chicken breast fillet, blot with a towel, cut into strips. Fry in hot vegetable oil, sprinkle with salt and spices.
Wash mushrooms, blot with a towel, cut into cubes or straws.
Onion cut into small pieces.
Heat a new batch of butter in a clean pan, fry the onion with the mushrooms in it. You can remove the pan from the heat when the liquid evolved from the mushrooms evaporates from it.
Boil the eggs. Clean, cool, and coarsely rub.
Cut the olives in half across.
Chop cheese on a coarse grater.
Pass the garlic clove through a press, mix with mayonnaise.
Put the food in thin layers on a beautiful dish, smearing each layer with mayonnaise sauce. You need to lay out the ingredients in the following sequence: chicken breast, mushrooms, eggs, cheese.
On top of the convex sides, spread out the olives, which will play the role of sunflower seeds. Petals of "sunflower" will be chips, which need to stick into the salad along its contour.

Easy-to-make Sunflower Salad looks festive, sunny, optimistic. It turns out gentle, tasty, nourishing. You can make this snack on the birthday of an adult or teenager. Despite the cheerful appearance, it is not suitable for a children's holiday, as mushrooms are contraindicated for young gourmets.

Hedgehog Salad

Composition:

boiled beef - 0, 3 kg;
carrots - 0, 2 kg;
potatoes - 0, 4 kg;
chicken egg - 4 pcs .;
fresh spinach - 50 g;
processed cheese - 100 g;
crackers - 100 g;
mayonnaise or sour cream - 100 ml;
olive - 1 pc. (for decoration).

Method of preparation:

Boil and peel the vegetables. Finely rub them separately.
Grind grated melted cheese.
Cut the hard-boiled eggs, remove the yolks. Grate the whites and yolks into separate plates.
Finely chop the spinach.
Put the potatoes on a flat plate, giving the shape of a hedgehog.
Smear potatoes with mayonnaise or sour cream. To improve the taste of sour cream you can add a little salt and garlic passed through a press.
Finely chop the beef and place it on the potatoes, brush with the sauce.
Next lay out the cheese, then the spinach, after the carrots. Spread each layer of sauce.
Sprinkle with yolks, then squirrels. Cover with sauce.
Stick the croutons in the salad. From the olives make a “hedgehog” nose and eyes.

Such an unusual salad can be prepared for the child's birthday. Instead of one big “hedgehog” you can make several small “hedgehogs”, according to the number of invited guests.

Prawn Shrimp Salad

Composition:

pineapple - 1 kg;
peeled shrimps - 0, 25 kg;
arugula - 50 g;
green onions - 50 g;
cherry tomatoes - 0, 2 kg;
olive oil - 40 ml;
balsamic vinegar - 20 ml;
salt, pepper - to taste.

Method of preparation:

Cut the pineapple in half lengthwise. Cut the flesh to make two hollow containers.
Chop arugula and scallions with a knife.
Pineapple pulp cut into small cubes, put in a salad bowl.
Tomatoes, washed and dried, cut into quarters.
Boil the shrimp in salted water with pepper, remove with a slotted spoon, let dry.
Fold the shrimp and tomato slices into a salad bowl.
In a small container, combine balsamic vinegar and olive oil.
Fill the salad with the resulting sauce, mix.
Spread the pineapple in half, garnish with arugula and green onions.

This snack is distinguished not only by the exquisite taste, but also by the originality of the serving. You can cook it quickly, with an inexperienced hostess.

Fruit Salad

Composition:

bananas - 0.5 kg;
orange - 0, 2 kg;
grapefruit - 0, 25 kg;
lemon - 0, 5 pcs .;
Kiwi - 0, 2 kg;
canned pineapples in syrup - 0, 2 kg.

Method of preparation:

Cut bananas into circles, pour freshly squeezed lemon juice so that they do not darken.
Peel an orange, disassemble into slices, cut each lobule in half.
Peel the grapefruit, cut it into slices, remove the foil covering them from the slices, break each lobule into two parts.
Peel kiwi, cut into cubes of medium size.
Fold the fruit pieces into a bowl. Add canned pineapple and syrup from the jar to them. Stir gently.

Serve a fruit salad preferably in portions, spreading it on ice-creamers or wine glasses. You can decorate with whipped cream - this will make the dessert even tastier.

Simple recipes that allow you to cook delicious birthday salads quickly and without much hassle, there are countless. Great culinary skills in order to pleasantly surprise guests, is not required. Any snack you can make a festive, if you show imagination, to figure out how to arrange it beautifully and serve to the table. These recipes can be used as basic, preparing salads on the same principle, but from a different set of ingredients.