How to cook delicious and beautiful salads for the New Year's celebration, recipes, photos and description of cooking

How to cook delicious and beautiful salads for the New Year's celebration, recipes, photos and description of cooking

One of the popular dishes in many cuisines of the worldis a salad. It can be just a few types of vegetables with vinegar, oil or any other dressing, or you can combine meat, cheese and mushrooms. Nuts, fish, fruits and various greens are added to salads. Almost every nation has something of its own, with ingredients inherent in this particular climate zone. At the same time, modern cuisine is full of a variety of options, when recipes are mixed, components are added or removed, cooks bring in something new. In addition to taste, external characteristics are also important, you must agree, it is much more pleasant to eat a beautifully decorated dish. Salads are no exception, and this is especially important if we are cooking not just for dinner, but for some kind of celebration, for example, for New Year's. In this article, we offer recipes for New Year's salads. Not only tasty, but also very beautiful. Such original works of culinary art will become a real decoration of the festive table. Salad "Sea Cake"How to prepare tasty and beautiful salads for the New Year's celebration, recipes, photos and description of cooking. Photo №1The salad doesn't have to belook like a bright mixture of cubes or slices of ingredients. Make this unusual cake for the New Year's holiday, which will appeal to everyone who loves seafood. You will need:

  • Lightly salted fish - 0.5 kg.
  • Eggs - 4 pcs.
  • Rice groats - 100 g.
  • Shrimps – 400 g (can be easily replaced with crab meat).

Since we have a cake, even if it is not sweet, it must have cream. You will need:

  • Sour cream (preferably full-fat) – 4 tbsp.
  • Mayonnaise – 4 tbsp. l.
  • Instant gelatin - 8 g.
  • Cream cheese (Philadelphia or similar will do) – 100 g.

For decoration:

  • Parsley – bun.
  • Red caviar.

You will also need to use cling film anda container of a suitable shape. Rice cereal and eggs must be boiled, of course, in separate containers. While they are boiling and cooling, we begin to create the cream. Mix gelatin with 100 ml of water and let it swell. Chop crab sticks or shrimp (boiled) finely or even grate. To make it easier to grate, freeze them first. Separate the yolk from the white of the boiled eggs. Grate finely. Cut the fish into thin slices. Cover the container with cling film and put the salmon (trout) on its bottom and walls. This will be the very top layer of the cake, because when we are done, we will turn the container over. Therefore, choose a beautiful mold with a smooth curve.How to prepare tasty and beautiful salads for the New Year's celebration, recipes, photos and description of cooking. Photo # 2Now let's get to the cream layer.If necessary, dissolve the swollen gelatin using a water bath. While it cools, beat sour cream, cheese and mayonnaise in a separate container, then pour in the gelatin. All the ingredients are ready, all that remains is to lay them out in layers. We have already laid out the fish, then comes a layer of cream, then yolks, another layer of cream and then crab sticks or shrimp. Then another layer of cream, then egg whites, cream again, rice and cream again.How to prepare tasty and beautiful salads for the New Year's celebration, recipes, photos and description of cooking. Picture №3Now we send our cake to the refrigerator for hours.for 12. Take it out, cover it with a flat plate and turn it over. The cream in the cake has set and its beautiful shape will be preserved. Carefully remove the cling film, decorate the top with red caviar and add greens.How to prepare tasty and beautiful salads for the New Year's celebration, recipes, photos and description of cooking. Photo №4It turns out delicious and beautiful."Pomegranate Bracelet" is one of the very famous salads, we suggest you prepare another treasure. This salad will also appeal to those who love red caviar and fish. Salad "Coral Bracelet"How to prepare tasty and beautiful salads for the New Year's celebration, recipes, photos and description of cooking. Photo №5You will need:

  • Beetroot - 1 pc.
  • Avocado – 1 piece
  • Pickled (or fresh) cucumbers - 2 pcs.
  • Chicken eggs - 3 pcs.
  • Smoked fish (hot smoked) - 200 g.
  • Mayonnaise.
  • Small onion - 1 pc.
  • Red caviar - 40-50 g.

Don't be surprised by the avocado included in the ingredients.In this recipe, it replaces boiled potatoes, making the salad lighter and more tender. Fresh cucumber instead of pickled ones will also go well with avocado. The taste of the salad will be slightly different, but not worse. Boil the beets until tender. Drain the water and add cold water. Then you need to peel them and grate them coarsely. Do the same with hard-boiled eggs - grate them on a fine grater. Peel the avocado and cut into cubes. Cut the cucumbers in the same way. Remove the pits from the hot smoked fish and chop it. If you want to add onion, then you need to chop it finely and pour boiling water over it. Assemble the salad in the same way as the "Pomegranate" jewelry. Place a glass upside down in the center of a large flat plate. Put the avocado as the first layer. Then comes a layer of beets and mayonnaise, then we put the fish and mayonnaise. Then finely chopped onion. The fifth layer will be cucumbers, then eggs with mayonnaise. Now we leave our salad for a few hours so that it soaks. We take out the glass and decorate the top layer with red caviar. The next salad is also laid out in layers. At the same time, its bright appearance in itself will become an excellent decoration for the New Year's table. Salad "Orange Slice"How to prepare tasty and beautiful salads for the New Year's celebration, recipes, photos and description of cooking. Photo №6Very often children and some adults refuse to eat carrots in any form. But in this salad it is served so brightly, beautifully and originally that no one will resist. You will need:

  • Large carrots - 2 pieces.
  • Chicken eggs - 4 pieces.
  • Onion – 1 piece
  • Chicken fillet – 300 g.
  • Marinated mushrooms (champignons) – 200 g (without liquid).
  • A piece of hard cheese - 150 g.
  • Garlic – 3 cloves.
  • Mayonnaise.

Wash the carrots thoroughly.Boil one until done, remove the top layer and grate on a fine grater. Set it aside for a while - this is for salad decoration. Finely chop the onion, peel the second carrot and grate it coarsely. Saute them in vegetable oil until golden brown. Boil the chicken fillet until done and cut into small pieces or tear into fibers. Boil the eggs, cool and separate the white and yolk. Grate. Cut the mushrooms into small pieces. Grate the cheese on a coarse grater. Pass the garlic through a press. Put the salad on a flat beautiful plate. The bottom layer is fried carrots and onions. The next is fillet, greased with mayonnaise. Next, lay out the mushrooms and also spread a layer of mayonnaise on top. Next, mix the cheese with garlic and mayonnaise, lay out. The next layer is yolks with mayonnaise. Put some of the whites aside, mix the rest with mayonnaise and lay out the layer. Now put a layer of boiled carrots, grated on a fine grater. Do not grease this layer with mayonnaise. It is necessary to make the salad perfectly round. The final touch is to draw stripes on an orange background with grated whites, so that it looks like an orange in a cut. Now let the salad sit for a few hours, and you can serve it.

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