We offer you a selection of salads for the festive table.
Choose and add to your holiday menu!
Salad "Royal"
Ingredients:
- Boiled pork - 250 gr.
- Boiled potatoes - 2 - 3 pcs.
- Bulb - 1 pc.
- Handful of shelled nuts
- Prunes - 100 gr.
- Boiled beets - 1 pc.
- Boiled carrots - 1 pc.
- Boiled egg - 2 pcs.
- Hard cheese - 150 gr.
- Mayonnaise
How to make a salad "Royal"
Pour boiling water over the prunes and let it stand for 20 minutes. Drain the water and cut the prunes. Peel the boiled potatoes and cut into cubes. Also cut the meat into cubes. Finely chop the onion, grate the carrots and beets on a coarse grater. Cut the eggs into strips. Grind the nuts in a blender, grate the cheese on a fine grater.
Arrange all prepared salad ingredients on a serving platter.
- potatoes, mayonnaise;
- onions, meat, mayonnaise;
- carrots, mayonnaise;
- prunes, nuts, mayonnaise;
- beets, mayonnaise;
- eggs mayonnaise;
Let the salad rest in the refrigerator for at least 2 hours before serving.
Salad on New Year"Royal"
Even the king will not refuse such a salad. The rich and wonderful taste of the Tsarsky salad with seafood will seem magical to you. If you do not know what to cook for the New Year, then take this recipe into service.
Ingredients:
- Freshly frozen squids - 1 kg.
- Hard cheese - 200 gr.
- Red caviar - 200 gr.
- Eggs - 5 pcs.
- Potatoes - 4 pcs.
- Mayonnaise - 300 gr.
How to cook salad "Royal"
- Boil the squid until tender (2-3 minutes), peel and cut into strips.
- Peel the boiled potatoes and grate on a coarse grater. Boil hard-boiled eggs, grate on the middle track. Grate the cheese on a coarse grater.
- Spread the salad in layers in the following sequence: squid, mayonnaise, caviar, potatoes, mayonnaise, caviar, cheese, mayonnaise, caviar, squid. Cover the salad with grated egg and garnish with caviar.
- Leave the finished salad in the refrigerator for half an hour, after which you can serve it to the table.
Salad "Curly"
Surely you are tired of the usual fatty salads, but you want something with a new taste. We offer you salad "Curly" - a light and tender dish.
Ingredients:
- Raw carrots - 1 pc.
- Big sweet and sour apple - 1 pc.
- Crab sticks - 200 gr.
- Boiled eggs - 4 pcs.
- Canned corn - 1 can
- Mayonnaise
How to make Curly Salad
- Clean the carrot and apple. Grate them individually on a fine grater. Cool the boiled hard-boiled eggs and also grate them on a fine grater. Grate crab sticks on a coarse grater or chop with a knife.
- On the dish on which you will serve the salad, make a mesh of mayonnaise, put a layer of carrots on top. Lubricate with mayonnaise and lay out a layer of grated eggs. Repeat the mayonnaise mesh, put the apple, mayonnaise again, crab sticks, mayonnaise and corn.
- Corn will be a decoration for the salad, so you do not need to cover it with mayonnaise on top. Leave the salad for a couple of hours in the refrigerator to infuse, and you can serve it to the table.
As you may have noticed, the salad is prepared without salt, which does not affect its bright and original taste. You can add some salt to the salad if you like.
Salad "Isabella" with carrots in Korean
Korean-style carrots make incredibly tasty and spicy salads. Indeed, once you have tried such a salad, you can’t resist the addition.
Ingredients:
- Smoked leg - 2 pcs.
- Eggs - 5 pcs.
- Champignons - 500 gr.
- Onion - 2 pcs.
- Pickled cucumber - 3 pcs.
- Carrot in Korean
How to cook Isabella salad with Korean carrots
Boil the eggs, peel and finely chop. Chop the mushrooms with the onion and fry separately for vegetable oil.
Lay out all prepared salad ingredients in layers. Lubricate each layer with mayonnaise.
- 1 layer: chopped leg.
- 2 layer: mushrooms.
- 3rd layer: bow.
- 4th layer: eggs.
- 5 layer: diced pickles.
- 6th layer: Korean carrots.
You can decorate the salad with a radish flower and herbs.
Salad "Mongolian Hill"
Delicious and original salad based on beets and chicken. It looks very interesting, and the taste is such that you can’t pull it by the ears!
Ingredients:
- Boiled beets - 4 pcs.
- Boiled carrots - 2 pcs.
- Prunes - 1 handful
- Hard cheese - 150 gr.
- Chicken meat - 400 gr.
- Garlic - 3 cloves
- Walnuts - 2/3 cup
- Bunch of fresh dill
- Mayonnaise
How to cook salad "Mongolian hill"
- Grate beets on a medium grater, mix with garlic passed through a press. Salt and season with mayonnaise.
- Grate carrots, mix with grated cheese.
- Grind the fried chicken and mix with chopped walnuts. Add a couple of tablespoons of mayonnaise and mix well.
- Slice prunes.
- Lay the salad in layers: half the beets, chicken, a little mayonnaise, carrots with cheese, mayonnaise, prunes, mayonnaise. Lay the remaining beets on top. Garnish the salad with chopped dill, mayonnaise and walnuts.
New Year's salad "Pineapple bouquet"
Pineapple and chicken go great together. If you plan to cook for the New Year a charming and very delicious salad then use this recipe.
Ingredients:
- Chicken breast- 500 gr.
- Onions - 3 - 4 pcs.
- Eggs - 4 - 5 pcs.
- Pickled champignons - 400 gr.
- Potato - 2 pcs.
- Cheese - 200 gr.
- Canned pineapples - 1 can
- Mayonnaise
How to cook New Year's salad "Pineapple Bouquet"
- Boil the meat with the addition of bay leaf, garlic, allspice and black pepper. Judge, cut into cubes.
- Cut the onion into half rings, pour boiling water over it and leave for 10-15 minutes. Rinse the onion and marinate it in cold water with vinegar, salt and sugar.
- Cheese grate on a coarse grater. Boil the eggs, cool, peel and grate on a coarse grater.
- Lay out all the salad ingredients in layers in the following sequence: onion, mayonnaise, meat, potatoes, mushrooms, eggs, mayonnaise, cheese, mayonnaise.
Garnish the salad with pineapple slices and pomegranate seeds.
New Year's salad with carrots and chicken
This tender, but very easy-to-prepare salad is sure to please. The salad is decorated with corn, which gives it a delicate touch. True, decorating the salad with corn is optional.
Ingredients:
- Chicken fillet - 400 gr.
- Carrots in Korean - 100 gr.
- Eggs - 5 pcs.
- Hard cheese - 100 gr.
- Mayonnaise - 100 gr.
- Salt, pepper to taste
- Bulgarian pepper, herbs and corn for decoration
How to cook New Year's salad with carrots and chicken
Cut the boiled fillet into cubes. Peel the eggs, separate the whites from the yolks. Chop Korean carrots. Grate the whites, cheese and yolks on a fine grater.
Spread the salad on a dish in layers, lubricating each with mayonnaise: chicken, half a Korean carrot, yolks, cheese, Korean carrot, squirrels. Garnish the salad with corn, herbs and bell peppers, or to your liking.
Salad in a cheese basket
When ordinary people get bored puff salads I want to cook something new and unusual. A good option is a portioned salad in a basket of cheese.
Ingredients:
- Chicken fillet - 300 gr.
- Potatoes - 3 pcs.
- Eggs - 4 pcs.
- Carrot -1 pc.
- Kiwi -2 pcs.
- Medium sweet and sour apple - 1 pc.
- Canned peas - 1 can
- Cheese - 70 gr.
How to make salad in a cheese basket
Boil the breast, cool and cut into small cubes. Boil carrots, eggs, potatoes, cool and cut into cubes. Peel apples and kiwi, cut into cubes. Mix all ingredients and add peas. Salt to taste, season with mayonnaise. Transfer the salad to the cheese basket.
For cooking cheese basket grate the cheese on a coarse grater and place a thin layer on a hot frying pan. When the cheese is melted, carefully transfer it to an upside down jar. Place in the refrigerator for 10 minutes to firm up the cheese.
Decorate the salad as you wish.
Salad "Little Red Riding Hood"
This Red Riding Hood salad recipe will appeal to all pomegranate lovers. If you are already tired of the salad " Garnet bracelet”, then why not try something new, but no less tasty and unusual?
Ingredients:
- Chicken fillet - 500 gr.
- Bulb - 1 pc.
- lettuce leaves for garnish
- Carrot - 1 pc.
- Pomegranate
- Mayonnaise
- peeled walnuts- 100 gr.
- Potato
How to make Little Red Riding Hood salad
Boil chicken fillet until tender (30 minutes), then pat dry. Boil potatoes and carrots in their skins, let cool. Chop the nuts, save a few for garnish. Wash lettuce leaves and pat dry. Peel the pomegranate, disassemble into grains.
Cover a flat and wide dish with lettuce leaves. Put onions, potatoes, chicken, nuts, eggs, carrots, cheese in layers. Lubricate each layer with mayonnaise. Do not grease the cheese with mayonnaise, but immediately decorate with pomegranate seeds and walnuts.
Salad for the New Year "Snowdrifts"
Snow-covered snowdrifts are the same symbol of the New Year as the Christmas tree. So why not cook for New Year's table handsome and unusual salad"Snowdrifts"? The dish looks very light and tender.
Ingredients:
- Potatoes - 2 pcs.
- Carrots - 2 pcs.
- Onion - 1 pc.
- Red bell pepper- 1/2 pc.
- Canned fish - 1 pc.
- Eggs - 5 pcs.
- Garlic - 2 cloves
- Mayonnaise
How to cook salad "Snowdrifts"
Boil potatoes, carrots, eggs in their skins. Cool and clean all ingredients. Grind the onion in a blender along with canned fish.
Now let's assemble the salad. Place a layer of grated potatoes on a dish. Lubricate with mayonnaise. Put grated carrots on top and brush with mayonnaise. The third layer of salad is canned onions (if you don't like fish salads, then replace the canned food with boiled chicken) and grease with mayonnaise. Lay out a layer of finely chopped bell pepper.
Peel the boiled eggs and cut them into halves lengthwise. Remove the yolks, mash them with a fork, mix with the garlic passed through the press. Season with mayonnaise. Stuff the squirrels with this mixture and lay the eggs on the salad. Grease the eggs with mayonnaise on top (it is very convenient to do this with a silicone brush) and sprinkle with cheese grated on a fine grater.
Salad for the New Year with red fish and orange
This salad with salted salmon or trout can rightfully be considered an exotic version of herring under a fur coat. And exotic for the reason that fruits are used instead of vegetables, or rather, an orange.
Ingredients:
- Salted red fish - 200 gr.
- Boiled eggs - 3 pcs.
- Large orange - 1 pc.
- Pitted olives
- Cheese - 40 gr.
- Mayonnaise
- Freshly ground pepper
- Red caviar - 1 - 2 tbsp. spoons
How to cook a salad for the New Year with red fish and orange
Separate the whites from the yolks. Grate the whites on a fine grater, chop the yolks with a knife. Wash the orange, cut the peel and peel the pulp from the films, cut into cubes. Grate the cheese on a fine grater. Cut the olives into strips. Gather all the salad ingredients in layers.
- 1 layer: half the proteins, mayonnaise, salt and pepper to taste
- 2 layer: yolks, mayonnaise, salt and pepper to taste
- 3 layer: half red fish
- 4 layer: olives
- 5 layer: the remaining fish
- 6 layer: cheese, mayonnaise
- 7 layer: orange
- 8 layer: remaining proteins, mayonnaise, salt and pepper to taste
Garnish the salad with caviar and olives on top.
Salad "Leshy"
Salad "Leshiy" is a great option for a festive salad. At the same time, no overseas ingredients are used. Everything is very simple and affordable.
Ingredients:
- Chicken fillet - 1 pc.
- Onion - 2 pcs.
- Champignons - 400 gr.
- Eggs - 2 pcs.
- Hard cheese - 100 gr.
- Peeled walnuts - 1/2 cup
- Mayonnaise
- Olives
How to cook Leshiy salad
Boil the breast and cut into pieces. Cut the onion and mushrooms, fry separately in a pan. Grate boiled eggs and cheese on a coarse grater. Mix all ingredients, add nuts, season with mayonnaise, salt to taste. Place a glass or bottle in the center of a flat dish. Lay the lettuce around, pressing it down a little with a spoon. Remove the bottle, decorate the salad with herbs and olives.
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To diversify your daily menu, it is not necessary to make Peking duck or some foie gras. Instead of the usual so-called clear soup, you can cook cream soup or cream soup. In our diet, this dish is still a rarity, but meanwhile it has a lot of variations.
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Creamy white bean soup
It will take:
white beans - 500 g
onion - 100 g
olive oil - 50 g
water - 500 ml
salt, spices
greens
Soak beans in advance in boiled cold water, then boil until tender for 30-40 minutes.
Heat olive oil in a frying pan, add chopped onion and fry until browned.
Add onion, salt and seasonings to the beans, boil for 5 minutes, beat with a blender until smooth.
Bring the finished soup to a boil, pour into a deep plate and garnish with herbs.
Broccoli cream soup
It will take:
vegetable or chicken bouillon- 1 l
broccoli - 500 g
trout fillet - 800 g
carrots - 1 pc.
flour - 1 tbsp. l.
cream 10% - 400 ml
butter- 1 tbsp. l.
sesame - 1 tbsp. l.
cinnamon
a pinch of nutmeg
a pinch of paprika
a pinch of marjoram
parsley
salt, pepper to taste
While the vegetable or chicken broth is cooking, cook the trout. Put the fillet in foil, season with cinnamon, paprika, marjoram, salt, pepper and bake in the oven for 30 minutes at 200°C.
In water, boil carrots, cut into pieces, for 4 minutes, then add broccoli and cook for another 6 minutes. Throw the vegetables in a colander, transfer to a saucepan, add the broth, mash with a blender until smooth. add cinnamon, nutmeg, salt pepper.
To prepare the sauce, melt a piece of butter in a frying pan, pour a tablespoon of flour, mix and fry. Pour in cold cream and bring to a boil. Pour the prepared sauce into a saucepan with soup and bring the blender to a homogeneous mass. Then put the soup on the fire, heat strongly, but do not boil.
Serve with roasted trout, garnish with parsley and sprinkle with sesame seeds.
Mushroom cream soup
It will take:
vegetable broth- 500 ml
champignons - 400 g
large onions - 2 pcs.
carrots - 1 pc.
stalk of celery - 1 pc.
garlic - 3 cloves
thyme - 5 sprigs
white wine - 250 ml
cream 35% - 3/4 cup
chives - 4 feathers
olive oil
salt pepper
Peel the onion, cut into half rings and fry in olive oil over medium heat for 25-30 minutes.
Chop the garlic, cut the carrots into slices, celery into slices. Set aside one mushroom for decoration, cut the rest into 4-8 pieces.
Heat a heavy bottomed saucepan over medium heat, sauté the carrots and celery in it until soft, then add the garlic and mushrooms and simmer for 5 minutes, stirring often.
Pour wine into a saucepan, add thyme and bring to a boil. Boil for 5 minutes, then pour in the vegetable broth, add the fried onions and continue to cook the soup until the liquid has reduced by half. Salt and pepper.
Then remove the pan from the heat and grind the soup with a blender, heat the soup over the fire, pour in the cream and heat again, without boiling.
Serve with mushroom slices, parmesan and chives.
Creamy Asparagus Soup by Le Cordon Bleu
It will take:
Bay leaf
parsley - 5 sprigs
cream 35% - 50 ml
butter - 40 g
potatoes - 1 pc.
white asparagus - 250 gr
chicken broth - 400 ml
leek - 1 stalk
thyme - 3 sprigs
Peel asparagus from thin skin, cut off the lower rough tips, tie the stems. Drop the bunch into boiling, lightly salted water and cook, turning occasionally, for 7 minutes. Then transfer the asparagus to a bowl of ice water.
Tie with cotton thread in a bunch (bouquet garni) a few green leek leaves, parsley stalks, dry thyme and bay leaf.
Cut the white part of the leek into thin rings. Peel potatoes, chop coarsely. Cut off the tops of the asparagus and set aside, and cut the stems into small pieces.
Melt the butter in a saucepan, fry, stirring, leeks, 3 minutes. Add pieces of asparagus stalks, pour in hot broth. Boil.
Put the potatoes and bouquet garni into the pan. Salt, pepper and cook for 45 minutes.
Remove the bouquet garni from the pan. Pour the soup into a blender and puree until smooth. Pass through a sieve into a clean bowl.
Pour the cream into the soup, stir. Put the pot on high heat, let it boil. Place the reserved asparagus tops into the soup. Warm everything together for 1-2 minutes.
Cauliflower velouté with chicken
It will take:
cauliflower - 500 g
chicken fillet - 200 g
cream 20% - 100 ml
raw smoked bacon - 50 g
green pea- 80 g
garlic - 1-2 cloves
salt, black pepper
olive oil - 2 tbsp. l.
Boil the chicken fillet until cooked, drain the broth, finely chop the fillet. Then boil cauliflower. Leave a little broth (about 100 ml).
Put the cabbage, chicken fillet into the blender bowl, pour in the broth, add salt to taste, grind until smooth.
Heat the cream, not bringing to a boil, pour into a blender and chop again.
Chop the garlic, cut the bacon into small cubes or strips. Heat a saucepan, pour in olive oil, add bacon, brown. After 3 minutes, add garlic, cook, stirring, 2 minutes.
Add green peas to the saucepan and cook for another 2 minutes, stirring.
Divide the velouté among bowls and garnish with toasted bacon and peas.
Gazpacho
It will take:
tomatoes - 450 g
onion - 1 head
cucumbers - 1 pc.
canned pepper - 1 pc.
tomato juice - 3 cups
cilantro (coriander) - ½ cup
red wine vinegar - 0.3 cups
olive oil - ¼ cup
tabasco sauce
Scald the tomatoes with boiling water and remove the skin, then cut half into small pieces. Chop half the cucumber and onion, transfer everything to a food processor, add red pepper and grind to a puree.
Pour into a bowl, add tomato juice, chopped cilantro, vinegar, olive oil and a few drops of Tabasco sauce, mix well.
Remove the seeds from the remaining tomatoes and cut into small cubes. Also chop the cucumber and onion. Add everything to the soup. Salt, pepper and put in the refrigerator to cool.
Cold avocado and zucchini soup
It will take:
large zucchini - 1 pc.
avocado - 2 pcs.
juice of half a lemon
drinking yogurt - 1 cup
mint
ground cumin
coriander
allspice
salt
olive oil - 1 tbsp. l.
Cut zucchini into slices 1.5 cm thick. Sprinkle with lemon juice, sprinkle with spices, mix and put in a double boiler. Cook until soft about 10 minutes. Cool down completely.
Measure out 1 cup of the liquid remaining in the double boiler after cooking the zucchini, cool and put in the freezer for 1 hour.
Peel the avocado from the peel and pit, cut randomly, sprinkle with the remaining lemon juice and oil, put in a blender. Add zucchini and yogurt, beat until smooth.
Remove the stems from the mint, leave a few leaves for decoration, chop the rest and put in a blender. Pour in the chilled liquid from cooking the zucchini and beat until smooth again.
Pour the soup into chilled bowls, drizzle with olive oil, season with pepper and garnish with mint leaves. Serve immediately.
Beet cream soup
It will take:
vegetable broth - 1 l
beets - 2 pcs.
carrots - 1 pc.
potatoes - 1 pc.
onion - 1 pc.
green apple - 1 pc.
garlic - 2 cloves
kefir - 1.5 cups
low-fat sour cream - 5 tbsp. l.
Brown sugar
dill
olive oil
salt
To cook vegetable broth, you need to lightly bake a carrot, parsley root, onion and leek stalk cut in half in the oven. Put them in a saucepan, add 2-3 stalks of celery, pour cold water. Bring to a boil over low heat, salt, put a few peas of allspice and cook over low heat under a lid for 30 minutes to an hour.
Wrap the beets in foil and bake at 180°C until soft. Cut the potatoes into small cubes, chop the onion, grate the carrots. In a skillet in olive oil over medium heat, sauté the onion until translucent, add the carrots, stir and cook for about 5 minutes. Bring the broth to a boil, put carrots with onions and potatoes in it, cook until the potatoes are ready.
Peel and cut the prepared beets into small cubes, add to the pot with broth and heat for 3-5 minutes. Beat the mixture with a blender until smooth, cool until room temperature, add kefir, salt, sugar (if the beets are unsweetened).
Remove the core from the apple, grind the pulp together with the peel with a blender. Chop dill and mix with applesauce and sour cream. Serve soup at room temperature or chilled, adding 1-2 tablespoons of apple-sour cream mixture to each bowl.
As a side dish, we always cooked stewed onions with carrots and tomatoes, and in different types. Incredibly easy way to cook, affordable products and less than an hour of time. An amazing feature of this vegetable dish- depending on the density, it can be a side dish, a main dish, a sauce and even tomato soup.
Simple and affordable vegetables: onions, fresh juicy carrots, a little tomato paste or natural tomato juice - stewed onions with carrots will be incomparable. According to this principle, we prepare sauce for minced pork, as well as a favorite family a fish dish, reminiscent of the taste of sprats in tomato - with mashed potatoes.
Who doesn't know what a carrot is? We are so accustomed to beautiful orange roots that we don’t even think that this is just the root of the Umbrella plant with incomparably beautiful tops. Carrots grow all over the world, they say that even in Antarctica, in greenhouses, of course, and in space at the station. Carrot cultivars, referred to as table garden carrots, are used in cooking, while fodder carrots are used as animal feed.
stewed onion with carrots and tomatoes is prepared from onions, one of the most popular vegetables in cooking. raw onion- a rather caustic and "aromatic" plant, during the heat treatment of which, the smell and pungent taste disappears, and when properly roasted, the onion becomes even sweet. I read somewhere that the sharper the onion, the more sweet substances it contains. When frying, apparently, the sugar caramelizes, and gives the fried onions that nice golden color.
Stewed onions with carrots are very tasty thanks to the tomato. Used in cooking fresh tomatoes or canned pulp, natural tomato juice or tomato paste. Paste - is used most often, and is a condensed pureed pulp of tomatoes. The content of solids in tomato paste can be up to 40%.
As a side dish, stewed onions with carrots goes well with fried or stewed large pieces meat. The advantage of this side dish is that it can be prepared in advance and reheated as needed. In addition, for vegetarians - stewed onions with carrots and mashed potatoes - great option good lunch.
Braised onions with carrots. Step by step recipe
Ingredients (2 servings)
- Large carrots 2 pcs
- Onion 3-4 pcs
- Vegetable oil 3 art. l.
- Tomato paste 2 tbsp. l.
- Salt, black pepper, ground coriander, sugar Spices
- The dish is best prepared from large and sweet-tasting carrots. Often, carrots come across, apparently, fodder with a rather unpleasant and bitter taste. It is better not to use such carrots. It is better to take onions large enough and not sprouted.
Selected carrots and onions
- Peel the carrots and grate on a coarse grater. You can also cut the carrots into large strips or use some kind of "fashionable" grater, fortunately - there are enough of them. Peel the onion and cut into large strips along the bulb. With this cutting, the onion is less prone to sprawl during heat treatment.
- Heat vegetable oil in a saucepan. If the oil has a smell, it is better to let it boil a little over medium heat. Put the grated carrots into the heated oil and fry it.
Put the grated carrots into the heated oil
- Fry the carrots over medium heat, stirring and not covering the saucepan with a lid. The carrots should become soft and should begin to show signs of browning.
Roast carrots over medium heat
- Add chopped onion to the fried carrots, mix and salt a little. Continue to fry the onions and carrots, stirring. Onions and carrots should be completely soft and golden brown.
Add chopped onion to fried carrots
- Pepper onion with carrots to taste, add 1-2 pinches of ground coriander and 1 tsp. Sahara. Dilute in half a glass of water 2 tbsp. l. tomato paste and add to the fried vegetables. Instead of tomato paste, if desired, you can add natural tomato juice.
Add tomatoes and simmer covered
- Stir vegetables and tomatoes, bring to a boil and cover the saucepan with a lid. Reduce heat to low, let cook 10-15 minutes. If there is liquid left in the vegetables, you can remove the lid from the saucepan and let the moisture boil away.
On the eve of the holidays, we gather our thoughts to prepare delicious and original holiday salads. Long gone are the days when for the holiday we prepared only herring under a fur coat, Olivier, and Greek salad, although this set of salads is always win-win and successful.
If you do not know what salads to cook on festive table- you've come to the right place! So, holiday salads - what should they be? There can only be one answer: delicious, and with traditional composition. After all, you must admit that not everyone likes a festive table, where there is an exotic combination of strawberries and ham, pears and blue cheese, or melons with herring, so it’s better to save such salads for romantic dinner on the day of St. Valentine, and for family holidays like Birthday or New Year, it is better to cook salads that all guests will like.
Salad with crab sticks and mushrooms
Ingredients:
. crab sticks - 150-200 g;
. boiled eggs - 4 pcs.;
. pickled mushrooms - 150 g;
. hard cheese - 100 g;
. corn - 1 small jar;
. onion 1 pc;
. mayonnaise or sour cream;
. greens.
Cooking:
1. Finely chop the crab sticks, mushrooms and onions.
2. Grate cheese and eggs on a coarse grater.
3. Drain liquid from corn.
4. Can be laid out in layers:
- corn,
- mushrooms,
- onion,
- cheese,
- eggs,
- crab sticks.
Lubricate with mayonnaise or sour cream. Or you can just mix it in a salad bowl. Salt and pepper if desired. Decorate with greenery.
Salmon salad "on a fur coat"
Ingredients:
. salted salmon (fillet) 250-300 gr.;
. onion 1-2 pcs.;
. boiled carrots 1 pc.;
. boiled potatoes 2 pcs.;
. boiled eggs 2 pcs.;
. boiled beets 2 pcs.;
. mayonnaise, herbs.
Cooking:
1. Grate boiled vegetables and eggs on a coarse grater.
2. Finely chop the onion.
3. Place a salad ring or any other removable form on the bottom of a flat plate. You can also use portioned salad bowls or bowls.
4. At the very bottom, lay out a layer of beets, then a layer of carrots, potatoes, eggs and onions.
5. Coat each layer of lettuce with mayonnaise. For even more delicate taste mayonnaise can be mixed with a small amount sour cream.
The topmost layer will be a fish fillet, complemented by herbs or any other culinary decor.
6. Remove the salad for a couple of hours in the cold so that all layers can soak well.
Before serving, remove the removable form from the salad.
Salad with walnuts and chicken "French mistress"
Ingredients:
. boiled chicken fillet (gram 300);
. 2 onions;
. 1 cup light raisins;
. 1-2 carrots;
. cheese (gram 50);
. 1 glass walnuts;
. 1-2 oranges;
. sugar, salt, mayonnaise.
Cooking:
Lay out all the ingredients in layers.
1 layer: finely chopped boiled breast
2 layer: pickled onions (half rings, a little sugar and salt, a drop of vinegar, pour over boiling water)
3 layer: steamed raisins
4 layer: grated carrots
5 layer: cheese on a grater
6 layer: chopped nuts.
Lubricate each layer with mayonnaise. Top with diced oranges.
Salad with chicken and pineapples "Pineapple Bouquet"
Ingredients:
. Boiled meat (chicken or beef) 500 gr.;
. Eggs 4-5 pcs.;
. Onion 3-4 pcs.;
. Potatoes 2 pcs.;
. Canned pineapples 1 b.;
. Pickled champignons 1 b.;
. Hard cheese 200 gr.;
. Mayonnaise, Garlic, Bay leaf, Allspice, Black pepper, Vinegar, Sugar, Salt.
Cooking:
1. Boil the meat until tender with the addition of spices. Cool it down and cut into small cubes.
2. Cut the onion into half rings. Pour boiling water over it and leave for 10-15 minutes.
3. Then rinse the onion under running water cold water and place in the marinade.
Its composition and proportions can be taken at your discretion, we suggest mixing water with sugar, salt and vinegar.
4. Boil potatoes and eggs until tender and grate on a coarse grater.
5. If the pickled mushrooms in the jar are whole, then cut them into plates.
6. Pineapple cut into small cubes. Lubricate the bottom of a deep salad bowl with mayonnaise, and then lay the salad in layers:
- pickled onion
- boiled meat
- potato
- mushrooms
- eggs
- grated cheese
- pineapples.
7. Spread each layer or after 1-2 layers with mayonnaise.
Ready salad can be decorated on top with pomegranate kernels and let it brew for some time in the refrigerator.
Layered salad with smoked chicken and mushrooms
Ingredients:
. smoked chicken 200 g;
. fresh cucumber 150 g;
. fresh mushrooms (champignons or oyster mushrooms) 150 g;
. onion 1 pc;
. boiled eggs 4 pcs;
. mayonnaise or sour cream - to taste;
. salt and pepper, green onion(any greens) - to taste.
Cooking:
1. Mushrooms and onions cut, fry a little, cool.
2. Cut the meat and cucumber into thin strips, grate the eggs, chop the greens.
3. Lay out in layers from bottom to top:
chicken, cucumber, mushrooms with onions, greens, eggs.
4. Spread dressing, salt and pepper to taste.
Decorate as desired.
Salad "Little Red Riding Hood" with pomegranate
Ingredients:
. Potatoes 3 pcs.
. Chicken breast (grilled or smoked) 300 gr.
. Egg 2 pcs. Onion 1 pc.
. Carrot 1 pc.
. Cheese durum varieties 100 gr.
. Walnuts 15 pcs.
. Pomegranate 1 pc.
. Greens
. Mayonnaise.
Cooking:
1. Boil potatoes and carrots and grate on a coarse grater.
2. Cut the onion very finely, if it is bitter, then you can pour boiling water over it after that. Coat these two layers with mayonnaise.
3. Break the breast into fibers or cut into medium-sized strips. It will be the next layer of the salad.
Sprinkle it on top with chopped walnuts and grease with mayonnaise.
4. Grate the eggs on a coarse grater and put them on the nuts.
5. Then sprinkle the salad with grated cheese, grease with mayonnaise and decorate.
6. The top of pomegranate seeds with a border and a center of finely chopped greens will look very impressive.
You can also lay walnut kernels all over the bottom of the lettuce.
1 layer - potatoes.
2 layer - chicken.
3 layer - walnuts.
4 layer - carrots.
5 layer - eggs.
6 layer - hard cheese.
7. Decorate the salad with pomegranate seeds and herbs on top. Arrange the walnuts around.
Remove after cooking in the refrigerator for a couple of hours.
Salad with mushrooms and meat "Lukoshko"
Very original puff salad Loved by everyone who tries it.
Laying out the layers:
. Green onions or dill
. Pickled champignons or mushrooms
. Onion
. Boiled potatoes, grated
. Mayonnaise
. boiled chicken or pork, finely chopped
. Finely chopped pickled cucumbers
. Onion
. Another layer of potatoes
. Mayonnaise
. Korean carrot
. grated cheese
. Mayonnaise
. Mushrooms
. Green onion or dill.
As with any layered salad, let it brew in the refrigerator.
Spicy combination Korean carrot, mushrooms and pickles goes well with chicken and mushrooms.
Salad "Obzhorka" with liver
Ingredients:
. beef liver 300 gr.;
. carrots 300 gr.;
. onion 300 gr.;
. vegetable oil, salt and pepper, homemade mayonnaise;
. baguette for croutons, lettuce for decoration.
Cooking:
1. beef liver soak in milk for at least two hours, and then boil in salted water. When the liver has cooled, cut it into strips.
2. Cut the onion into half rings and the carrot into strips, and fry in vegetable oil.
3. Cut the baguette into pieces and dry in the oven to make crispy croutons.
4. Displace the liver and onions with carrots, salt, pepper, and season with homemade mayonnaise before serving. Put the salad "Obzhorka" with liver on a plate decorated with lettuce leaves, and sprinkle with croutons.
Salad with squid and red caviar "Emperor"
Ingredients:
. Boiled squids 4-6 pieces;
. Boiled eggs 4 pcs.;
. Apple 1 pc.;
. Leek (stalk) 1 pc.;
. Red caviar;
. Salt, Mayonnaise.
Cooking:
1. Chop apples, eggs and squid into small cubes.
2. Cut the leeks into rings.
3. Add red caviar, a pinch of salt and mayonnaise to the salad.
4. Gently mix all the ingredients.
You can put the salad in small portions on lettuce leaves and decorate with green sprigs.
To get such a beautiful twig as in the photo, you need to carefully cut a strip of leek and bend it.
Salad "Cornucopia" with red caviar, salmon, and shrimps
Ingredients:
. Lightly salted trout or salmon 250 g;
. Peeled shrimp 250 g;
. Boiled rice 1 cup;
. Canned corn 1 can;
. Boiled eggs 5 pieces;
. Fresh medium-sized cucumber 1 piece;
. Half a small lemon;
. Green onions, parsley;
. Red caviar for decoration;
. Mayonnaise, salt, black pepper to your taste.
Cooking method:
1. Fish, cucumber, egg whites and finely chop the green onion.
2. Squeeze the juice from the lemon and sprinkle the fish and shrimp with it.
3. Mix fish, rice, corn, shrimp, cucumber, egg whites and green onions.
4. Fill with maynaise.
5. Sprinkle with mashed egg yolk on top, decorate with fish pieces, red caviar, parsley leaves and leave to brew for 2 hours.
Salad ready! Enjoy your meal!
Salad with tuna "A drop of water"
Ingredients:
. 1 can of tuna;
. 150 gr. rice (round);
. 150 gr canned corn;
. 1 PC. medium cucumber;
. 1 PC. bulb;
. 1/2 piece lemon
. 70 gr. cheese (any hard);
. 3 pcs. eggs;
. mayonnaise, salt, pepper to taste.
Cooking:
1. Finely chop the onion, marinate in lemon juice, mix with tuna.
2. Boil rice, salt, rinse, cool.
3. Grate cucumber on a coarse grater, rub boiled eggs and cheese on a fine grater.
4. We lay everything in layers, spreading with a thin layer of mayonnaise:
- rice,
- corn
- cheese,
- tuna with onions,
- cucumber,
- egg.
If you don’t have a salad ring, then a ring cut out of a plastic bottle is perfect for this purpose (we cut off the bottom and top of the bottle), or simply fasten two landscape sheets with stapler staples and wrap in foil.
Salad "Tenderness" with ham
Ingredients:
. ham 200 gr;
. canned corn 200 gr;
. fresh cucumbers 250 gr;
. hard cheese 150 gr;
. boiled eggs 4-5 pcs;
. homemade mayonnaise;
. for dressing, lettuce leaves and greens for decoration.
Cooking:
1. Cut the ham and cucumbers into strips.
2. Drain water from corn.
3. Rub the cheese on a coarse grater.
4. Finely cut the eggs.
5. Put all the ingredients in a salad bowl and season with mayonnaise before serving. In summer, you can add a little radish to the salad.
That's all, the salad "Tenderness" with ham is ready!
Salad with smoked chicken and Korean carrot "Isabella"
Ingredients:
. 2 smoked legs;
. 5 boiled eggs;
. 500 g of champignons;
. 2 heads of onions;
. 3 pickles;
. Korean carrots.
Cooking:
1. Boil the eggs, peel, finely chop.
2. Finely chop the mushrooms and onions, fry in vegetable oil separately.
3. Spread the salad in layers. Lubricate each layer with mayonnaise:
- smoked chicken legs
- mushrooms
- fried onion
- eggs
- salted cucumbers
- Korean carrots.
You can decorate the salad to your taste. But most often they take a few grapes of the Isabella variety and a sprig of dill. Hence, by the way, the name is so beautiful.
Salad "Fox coat" (an alternative to herring under a fur coat)
Ingredients:
. Boiled potatoes 250 gr;
. Herring fillet 300 gr;
. Boiled eggs 5 pcs;
. fresh carrot 300 gr;
. Mushrooms fried with onions (any) 250 gr;
. Homemade mayonnaise 250 gr.
Cooking:
1. Cut potatoes, herring fillet and eggs into cubes.
2. Lay out in layers smearing with mayonnaise in the following order: herring - potatoes - eggs - fried mushrooms.
3. Three carrots on a Korean carrot grater and fry in vegetable oil until half cooked so that it remains crispy.
4. Lay out the carrots with the last layer of lettuce, grease with mayonnaise, and decorate the salad.
Pink salmon salad with pickled cucumbers
Ingredients:
. canned pink salmon in oil 1 can;
. boiled potatoes 2 pcs;
. boiled carrots 1 pc;
. red onion 1 pc;
. boiled eggs 3 pcs;
. pickled cucumbers (or salted) 2 pcs;
. for dressing sour cream, mayonnaise, unsweetened yogurt (to taste);
. salt and pepper to taste, a little cheese and herbs for decoration.
Cooking:
1. Grate potatoes, carrots and eggs on a coarse grater.
2. Mash the fish with a fork (you can add liquid from a jar).
3. Onions, cucumbers cut very finely.
4. Lay out in layers from bottom to top:
- potatoes
- fish
- onion
- cucumbers
- eggs
- carrot.
5. Spread dressing, salt (I do not salt), pepper.
6. Decorate with grated cheese (you can do without it) and herbs. Enjoy your meal!
Salad with squid and nuts "Sea Fantasies"
Ingredients:
. Boiled squids 6-7 pieces;
. Eggs 6 pcs.;
. Onion 2 pcs.;
. Carrots 2 pcs.;
. Apple 2 pcs.;
. Walnuts 80-100 gr.;
. Dill, Mayonnaise.
Cooking:
1. Cut the onion into cubes and, if necessary, scald with boiling water so that there is no bitterness.
2. Squid carcasses cut into rings.
3. Boil the eggs until tender. Grate the whites and yolks into separate cups.
4. raw carrots also grate.
5. Finely chop greens and walnuts with a knife.
6. Put the salad in layers in a deep bowl: put squid rings on the bottom and coat them with mayonnaise.
7. Then put a layer of onion and coat it again with mayonnaise.
8. The third layer will be proteins and mayonnaise, sprinkled with nuts on top.
9. Then grated apple and a layer of mayonnaise.
10. The fifth is grated carrots with mayonnaise.
11. At the end, the salad is covered with yolks and garnished with chopped herbs.
Salad with cabbage and egg pancakes
Very tasty and original salad! If you do, you won't regret it.
Cooking:
Chop cabbage, mash well with salt, add boiled chicken meat, disassembled into fibers, and thinly sliced pancakes. Fill with mayonnaise.
For one pancake: 1 egg, 1 tbsp milk, salt, pepper.
Salad "Mushrooms under a fur coat"
Ingredients:
500 gr. mushrooms
1-2 onions
3-4 boiled potatoes
green onion
3-4 eggs
a few pickled cucumbers
hard cheese grams 200
mayonnaise
Cooking:
We sort the mushrooms, wash, cut and fry in a pan and onions. Boiled potatoes, eggs, pickles, three cheese on a coarse grater. Lay out in layers: 1 layer - fried mushrooms with onions 2 layer - boiled potatoes 3rd layer - green onions, 4th layer - mayonnaise 5th layer - pickles 6th layer - eggs 7th layer - mayonnaise 8th layer - grated cheese Decorate as you wish.
Ingredients:
crab sticks 200g
boiled eggs 6 pcs
large boiled carrots 1 pc
cheese 70g
mayonnaise or sour cream
Cooking:
Crab sticks very finely chop or grate (freeze first). Separate whites from yolks. Grate separately. Grate carrots and cheese on a fine grater. You can separately mix everything with mayonnaise (except cheese), or you can smear each layer. Spread in layers: crab sticks, proteins, carrots, yolks, cheese. Decorate with greenery.
Salad "Lick your fingers"
Ingredients:
300 g cabbage
200 g boiled meat(pork or beef)
3 small beets
2 carrots
1 medium onion
4-5 potatoes
2 garlic cloves
1 cucumber
2 tomatoes
hard cheese
mayonnaise
salt
soy sauce
vegetable oil
Cooking:
Boil carrots (one), beets and meat and cut into strips separately. Cut the potatoes into strips, then fry (make french fries). Cabbage and cucumber - straws.
1 layer - cabbage (salt, lightly squeeze and pepper, mayonnaise);
2 - carrots (1 fresh + 1 boiled, soy sauce and a little mayonnaise);
3 - beets + garlic and mayonnaise;
4 - meat + mayonnaise;
5 - finely chopped onion;
6 - potatoes + mayonnaise.
Put sliced tomatoes on top, salt them, put a little mayonnaise, sprinkle with grated cheese and garnish with herbs.
Salad with crab sticks "Red Sea"
Delicate, simple and very tasty salad for the holiday. If you cook, you will not regret it, the salad is really very tasty.
Ingredients:
crab meat or crab sticks 200 gr
tomatoes 250 gr
red bell pepper 150 gr
garlic 2 cloves
hard cheese (possibly Russian)
homemade mayonnaise for dressing
greenery for decoration
Cooking:
Crab meat and bell pepper cut into strips.
Cut the tomatoes into slices. If there is too much juice in them, we remove the cores along with the seeds (we do not need excess liquid).
Three cheese on a coarse grater.
In a salad bowl, mix all the ingredients, add garlic, and season with mayonnaise.
Salad with mushrooms, chicken and nuts "Goblin"
Ingredients:
1 PC. boiled chicken breast,
400 g champignons,
2 pcs. Luke,
3 pcs. boiled eggs,
100 g hard cheese,
0.5 tbsp ground walnuts
mayonnaise.
Cooking:
Mushrooms, onion cut, fry separately.
Cut the breast into cubes, boil the eggs, rub on a coarse grater, grate the cheese on a coarse grater, add nuts, season with mayonnaise, mix.
Put a glass or a bottle in the center on a flat dish, lay out our salad and press it down a little. Then very carefully pull out the glass and decorate.
We decorate our salad with herbs and flowers from olives.
Salad with cheese and pineapple
This salad is more like women. It has a rather interesting, pleasant taste.
Ingredients
300 g cheese (hard)
300 g canned pineapple
2-3 garlic cloves
mayonnaise
Cooking:
Cheese grate on a fine grater.
Cut pineapples into small cubes.
Mix cheese and pineapple.
Add crushed garlic through a garlic press and stir.
Fill with mayonnaise.
Salad with croutons and red fish "The pinnacle of bliss"
The salad is prepared quite quickly and simply, but amazingly tasty.
Dedicated to all lovers of red fish!
Ingredients:
200 g salted red fish (I have trout)
small head of cabbage Chinese cabbage
100 g of white (!!!) crackers (recommended "Klin", but I did not find)<
mayonnaise.
Cooking:
We cut the fish into small strips, chop the cabbage, mix.
Add mayonnaise, mix and add croutons.
Mix again and eat. You can let the salad stand for about ten minutes and the croutons soften slightly. Delicious and so and so!
Salad with smoked ham "Na Ura!"
A very original salad with an amazing composition. All ingredients blend well. If you don't like celery, replace it with cucumber.
Ingredients:
Smoked leg pcs.
Celery (stalks) 100 gr.
Tomato 1 pc
Eggs boiled 2 pcs.
Mayonnaise 2 tablespoons
Sour cream 1 tablespoon
A little bit of garlic.
Cooking:
Chicken, celery, tomato and eggs cut into cubes + sauce (mayonnaise + sour cream + garlic).
SIMPLY AND EASILY!
IDEAS & EXAMPLES
NO MEAT IS SUPPOSED WITHOUT MEAT
FESTIVE TABLE... I WILL TELL YOU HOW
YOU CAN QUICKLY AND BEAUTIFULLY DESIGN CUTTINGS
FROM MEAT, MEAT PRODUCTS AND SAUSAGE...
The easiest option is to use abundance
greenery: when there is a lot of it, it is always beautiful!
Just lay out different types of products,
thinly slice them, and decorate with different types
greenery.
The next idea is to roll sausages nicely.
and meat products into tubes, and in the center of the dish
put skewers or toothpicks to
it was more convenient to take; on such a plate
alternate meat products and cheese.
A very popular option is to make meat and
sausages flowers that become
excellent decoration for appetizers. Just twist
pieces of meat or sausage, shaping them
flower / see video at the end of the post
And you can decorate the sliced \u200b\u200band with a living flower -
it will look very impressive!
Often plates with cold cuts are decorated as
whole compositions. This of course takes time
but what a result! Real works
culinary arts, it’s even a pity to eat - in this
there is also a practical benefit: so they last longer
stay on the table rather than go away in 5 minutes.
It's very easy to make this look:
roll meat products into tubes, put
first the outermost layer, then the middle and
top center. Decorate the cut in the center
roses of tomatoes or ginger and herbs.
In this case, it is necessary to have the skills
carving - cutting from products of various
decorations and flowers. Flowers are made here
cucumber, radish and red pepper.
For such a design, master the skills
karting is not needed - just cut vegetables
and put them on meat products. And handsome
make the flower in the center very thin
chopped cucumber.
This plate is a whole set of snacks, not only
meat cut. Looks impressive and
practical to use the space on the table -2, -3.
Such plates will accommodate several
types of snacks and cuts. In this case, the meat
and sausage are complemented with stuffed eggs
and lavash rolls.
The coming year is the year of the Horse, so very
it is important to arrange cold cuts in the form
horseshoes, which is not as hard as it can be
to appear. Just make meat
products roses and tubes and beautifully
put them on a base of green salad.
Spicy apple salad
Compound: onion - 1-2 pcs., sour apple - 1 pc., hard-boiled eggs - 2-3 pcs., mayonnaise, dill and parsley - to taste.
Cooking: cut all products into small cubes, mix, season with mayonnaise. You can add a little soy sauce to mayonnaise.
A photo: Natalia Mologina
Onion salad with carrots
Compound: onion - 1 pc., carrot - 1 pc. (both are quite large), vegetable oil - 3 tbsp. spoons, ground coriander - 1 teaspoon, garlic - 1 clove.
Cooking: cut the onion into thin rings, grate the carrots on a coarse grater. Put the carrots in a frying pan with heated oil and fry for 3-4 minutes until soft. Add onion, crushed garlic and coriander, mix, turn off the burner and let stand for 2-3 minutes, then transfer the dish to a salad bowl and cool. Serve with meat.
A photo: Natalia Mologina
cabbage roll
This appetizer is perfect for any holiday table!
Compound: Beijing cabbage - 1 head, sweet pepper - 3-4 pcs. (different colors), soft processed cream cheese - 1 pack (200 g), feta cheese or any Caucasian cheese - 200 g, pitted olives - 1 can (200 ml), garlic - 2-3 cloves.
Cooking: grate the cheese, mash the melted cheese, chop the garlic. Pepper cut into small cubes, and olives - circles. Mix both types of cheese, garlic, pepper and olives. Cut the head of cabbage lengthwise. Coat each leaf of both halves with a thin layer of filling. Again, connect the head of cabbage into one whole, tie with a thread, wrap tightly with cling film and refrigerate for at least 2 hours. When serving, remove the strapping and cut into slices. Cabbage can be replaced with green lettuce leaves - they are smeared with stuffing and rolled into a roll.
A photo: Natalia Mologina
To beer - and not only
Onion rings
This dish was invented in Mexico, but now it has spread all over the world. Two options to choose from!
mexican
Compound: onion - 1 pc. (large), vegetable oil for deep fat. For batter (dough): egg - 1 pc., sour cream - 1 tbsp. spoon, vegetable oil - 1 tbsp. spoon, flour - 3-4 tbsp. spoons, salt, red pepper - to taste.
In Japanese
Compound: onion - 2 pcs. (large), vegetable oil for frying. For batter: potato starch - 3 tbsp. spoons, wheat flour - 1 cup, cold water or beer - 1 cup, soda - ½ teaspoon, salt, spices - to taste.
Cooking: mix all the components of the batter. It will be tastier if it stands for at least an hour, or better - a night. Onion cut into thin circles, disassemble into rings. Put the rings in a bowl, sprinkle with 1-2 tablespoons of flour and shake so that all the onions are covered with flour. Dip each ring in batter and fry in hot oil until golden brown. Fold the finished rings on a paper towel to remove excess fat.
A photo: Natalia Mologina
For dessert
carrot sweets
Ingredients (for 24 balls): carrots - 2 pcs. (large), dates - 8 pcs. (or 150 g of raisins), honey - 1 teaspoon, coconut flakes - 80 g, ground cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger - ½ teaspoon each, nuts (optional) - 1-2 tbsp. spoons, coconut flakes or sesame seeds for sprinkling.
Cooking: finely grate the carrots, add dates, honey and spices and grind with a blender into a puree. Mix with coconut flakes and crushed nuts (the mass should be dense). Blind balls, roll them in the sprinkle.
