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Decorate the salad for the new year. Decorating salads for the holiday: recipes with photos

Today it is difficult to imagine any festive table without salads. Our Slavic people love salads: different, tasty, with vodka, traditional and original! A beautiful salads- this is such a pleasant addition to any salad that every housewife tries to implement in her kitchen.

Salad decorating is like religion and philosophy - each housewife has her own, and they have one common hobby - decorating dishes. Philosophizing on how to decorate salads can take a long time. And there are people who do not like dressing salads at all in our usual sense. In any case, beautiful salads are the atmosphere of a holiday, celebration, this is an opportunity to make ours brighter and more saturated.

Dear guests of the site, I bring to your attention original selection with examples of decorating salads, which I hope you will not only like, but will also appear on your festive table.

Sunflower salad

The recipe for the "Sunflower" salad and design options can be viewed

Salad with chicken and mushrooms "Mushroom"

How to cook and decorate the "Mushroom" salad see

Ingredients:

  • Chicken breast - 300-400 grams,
  • champignons - 300 grams,
  • onions - 1-2 heads,
  • eggs - 2-3 pcs.,
  • tomatoes - 2-3 pcs.,
  • fresh cucumbers - 2-3 pcs.,
  • green onions - 1 bunch,
  • hard cheese - 100-150 grams,
  • olives.

Preparation:

Boil the chicken breast - finely chop.

Cut mushrooms and onions into cubes, fry in vegetable oil, with the addition of butter.

Boil eggs, cut into cubes.

Lay out in layers: chicken breast - sour cream-mushrooms fried with onions - sour cream - boiled eggs - sour cream.

Top decoration: tomatoes - finely chopped, cucumbers - in strips + dill, cheese - grated, olives.

Pink salmon salad "Camomile"

How to cook and decorate pink salmon salad "Camomile" look

Hedgehog salad with Korean carrots

Ingredients:

  • half chicken fillet - about 300 grams
  • marinated mushrooms whole from a jar
  • 2 medium onions
  • 3 chicken eggs
  • medium cucumber
  • about 200 grams of hard cheese
  • 1 pack of mayonnaise
  • a handful of walnuts
  • a glass of korean carrots
  • 3 medium pitted olives
  • a bunch of lettuce leaves
  • Salt and a little pepper

Preparation:

1. Boil the chicken fillet in salted water, cool and cut into small cubes.

2. Boil the eggs and grate them coarsely.

3. Peel and chop the onions.

4. Wash the cucumber and cut into small strips. You can, of course, grate, but then too much juice will come out and a mushy cucumber in this salad will not work.

5. Grate the cheese on a coarse grater.

6. Walnuts are very good to grind, you can in a blender and pepper them.

7. Leave a few fungi for decoration, and finely chop the rest of the mushrooms and fry in butter.

8. Even from this amount of products, a rather big hedgehog will turn out, so take a larger plate, lay lettuce leaves on the bottom and form a silhouette of a hedgehog, laying out the layers in turn: chicken - a layer of mayonnaise - onions - more mayonnaise - mushrooms - a layer of mayonnaise - eggs - again mayonnaise - cucumber - grated walnuts - cheese - mayonnaise.

9. Cover the body of the hedgehog Korean carrots, leaving the muzzle cheesy. Make the eyes and nose out of olives, spread the greens around and plant the mushrooms on top of the "needles".

I recommend this dish for a holiday. It seems to me that the Hedgehog salad is a purely masculine recipe, but if you remove the pepper, it is also suitable for children. Very adorable animal for the center festive table... And it is better to cook mayonnaise yourself, for your own health!

Ladybug pomegranate salad

How to cook and decorate a salad « ladybug"Look with a pomegranate

Tulips salad

Preparation:

1. Making a tulip cut the petals at the top of the tomato, it is better if the tomatoes are firmer.

2. We remove what we cut. With a knife, neatly.

3. Then take out the core with a spoon, take out half of the tomatoes so that the taste of the tomato is also present, but whoever likes it if you like more filling take out more of the core.

4. For the filling cheese, boil two eggs, garlic, Walnut and mayonnaise.

Calla salad

How to cook decorate Calla salad look

"Birch Grove" salad

Ingredients:

  • 300 gr. boiled chicken fillet,
  • 300 gr. fried champignons,
  • Fry 3 onions,
  • 200 gr. pitted prunes,
  • 5 eggs (white, yolk separately)
  • 2 small fresh cucumbers
  • mayonnaise, herbs.

Preparation:

1st layer — chicken — finely chopped fillet,

2nd layer - finely chopped prunes,

3rd layer - champignons with onions,

4th layer of protein,

5th layer cucumbers in small cubes.

The yolks are finely grated on top, on the sides the whites are also finely grated.

We decorate for every taste. Ready.

White Royal salad

Ingredients:

  • Chicken meat 500 gr.
  • Cucumber 2 pieces (fresh)
  • Eggs 3-4 pieces
  • Mushrooms 300 gr. (any to taste)
  • Hard cheese 100 gr.
  • Mayonnaise

Preparation:

The whole process of preparing a salad consists of layers, which are laid out in a certain sequence. Before we start laying out the layers of salad, we need to prepare everything for this required ingredients thus:

- chicken meat should be boiled;

- fry mushrooms in a pan;

- grate cucumbers with a grater, while using a coarse grater;

- also boil eggs and grate on a coarse grater.

Lay out the layers in a certain sequence:

1 layer - boiled chicken;

2nd layer - mayonnaise;

3rd layer - fried mushrooms;

4th layer - mayonnaise;

5th layer - fresh cucumbers;

6 layer - mayonnaise;

7th layer - boiled eggs;

8 layer - mayonnaise;

9 layer - cheese.

Decorate like a grand piano using hard cheese and black olives. You can also form from lightly salted salmon beautiful rose that will perfectly transform the whole salad landscape.

Ladybug salad with caviar

How to cook Ladybug salad with caviar see

Every hostess knows how important a beautiful presentation of dishes is, especially when you are preparing to receive guests. And when setting the table, it is important not to forget about salads. The very design of salads is not so much a complicated process as it takes time and a lot of patience. But one has only to get creative, and your culinary masterpieces will surprise guests not only with taste, but also with all their interesting appearance.
And indeed, how can you, while decorating a festive table, forget about one of the most important and popular dishes? Don't underestimate them.

It doesn't matter if you are going to celebrate an important event or just want to have dinner with your family, just put on a bright, decorated salad and it instantly transforms your usual meal.

And while there are festive and casual dishes in every kitchen, this is one that always fits perfectly on the menu. Many of them do not even need to be decorated, they themselves are a riot of colors and elegant brightness, and the rest will in no way yield to their "festive" brothers, you just have to show your imagination.

Remember how many things the hostess has to do before an important feast: to buy food in advance, and think over all the dishes, and cook, and set the table, and not forget about yourself. And how can you serve cooked food beautifully at such a frantic pace?

And in this case, salads will come to your aid. Their design will not take much time, especially if you find a couple of options the day before, with photos and descriptions.

Over time, you will get so used to it that serving even the most simple dish will amaze guests and your family with its sophistication. And time will take less and less each time. And then you will definitely have time to do both manicure and makeup before the holiday.

How can you decorate a dish so that even a real gourmet is interested in your creation? To get started, stock up on herbs - they will help the dish look fresh.

For decoration, it is better to use those ingredients that are already included in its composition, or those in which you are sure, since everything should be combined with each other not only in color, but also in taste.

But, if everything is simple with salads without dressing (or dressed with oils) - they do not require additional decoration, then what about others? After all, many others imply the presence of mayonnaise or other sauce that hides the bright color of the products.

Here, take on board a boat (also called a round cut): it will help you serve a snack in the shape of a neat ring. Such a device can also be found in a square shape. If you don't have time to go to the store, do not despair.

An ordinary cut plastic bottle or baking dish can also cope with this task. Simply place them on a plate and place a serving of salad inside, crushing it well with a spoon to keep it from falling apart. Then remove the "frame" and - voila! - the dish is ready for further serving.

On top you can put a chopped egg, mushrooms, bell peppers, olives, olives or herbs. When served this way, the dish will look very stylish and neat. Or you can make a basket like in the photo.

There are times when time is so short that there is no time to be distracted even by such simple details. Then again you have to postpone for the next time and serving, and decoration. But there are options for such cases. They do not require any preparation and are absolutely independent of the composition or dressing.

If you are planning several options at once, then do not decorate them in the same way, it will be boring. It is better to diversify the decor, but so that they all look harmonious with each other and the main dishes. Do not forget that everything is fine in moderation: excessive enthusiasm for decoration will nullify all your efforts, the table will look awkward, and the dishes will be unappetizing.

It will not be superfluous to remember some tricks. For example products and colors:

  • If you want a burgundy color, take beets;
  • red - pomegranate, tomatoes, bell peppers will help you;
  • do you need green? Take pepper canned peas, cucumbers and any greens;
  • if you want to add blue - mix the juice of red cabbage with rice or a boiled egg;
  • corn, yolk and pepper will give you a yellow color;
  • cranberry juice - pink;
  • not enough white? You will be helped by peeled radish cottage cheese, cream, boiled egg and rice;
  • if you rub the protein and mix it with beet juice, you get purple. Such a little mastery of the laws of artistic color mixing right in the kitchen.

If you have enough time and you want to learn the art of table decoration in full, then pay attention to carving. This is a type of decorative decoration for vegetables and fruits, in fact, it is artistic carving.

Carving has been on the wave of popularity for many years; many famous chefs even arrange competitions in this discipline. To do this, you need a curly knife. Now on sale you can even find special kits with many accessories.

Remember a few tips on what to cut and from what. For example, cucumbers can be decorated with a spiral (using a special tool from the carving kit), serpentine, stripes and ribbons. Large fruits and vegetables can be made with baskets.

Flowers can be cut from tomatoes, eggs, and even radish! The only thing is, do not forget to first immerse it in cold water, - this will remove the bitterness.

Ordinary lettuce leaves can be added to the "picture" of cut out decorations: line them on a serving dish or add a couple of leaves on top. Leaves of mint, lemon balm and basil are also used for decoration.

Seasonings will also help to change the color: paprika, curry, parsley, ground black pepper. Even the usual tomato paste can bring a touch of originality to the design of the salad.

Thus, you can decorate absolutely any vegetable option... But with fruit, there are a couple of tricks. Buy a noisette at any crockery store. This is a special spoon for "cutting" balls and hemispheres of different sizes from fruit pulp. It looks like an ordinary spoon, but with metal hemispheres of different diameters at the edges.

You can cut watermelon and peach balls, melon and apples, like ice cream balls, and serve them in waffle cups, dough baskets or crystal bowls. Don't forget to garnish the top with berries and mint leaves. It is perfect for dessert and even children will like it.

In addition to all of the above, there are a few more points that can be highlighted:

  • First, the main point, of course, is the compatibility of products with each other. Usually this does not raise questions, the main thing is not to use incompatible components, such as, say, meat and kiwi. It is better to pay attention to lemons, olives with olives, eggs and bright vegetables.
  • Secondly, decoration requires no less sense of style than any other art. It is important to clearly think over the composition, choose accents, and determine the center.
  • If you decide to decorate the dishes, then it is worth picking up suitable dishes that will not distract attention from the main elements. For example, bright dishes combined with sophisticated decor will turn your dish into a fractional and lurid thing.

Do not forget that the final look of the dish depends only on you, so it's worth practicing. Give preference to clear lines and even cubes. Use well-sharpened knives. Your accuracy in cutting vegetables and fruits is already 50% of success.

Don't forget about color balance. As an artist, you must see and feel the most winning combinations. Add some contrast for light options with tomato and bright bell pepper, and for dark ones - take greens and cucumbers. You can even use the colored zest of citrus fruits - orange or lemon.

Make sure that the decor does not divert attention from the main dish, but only complements it. It is better not to get carried away with excessive decoration, let everything be modest, but tasteful.

If you need to use any inedible ingredients, be sure to warn guests about this, especially if you need wooden skewers or toothpicks for canapes and fastening jewelry.

It is possible to use and raw vegetables... Still, you should strive to ensure that the entire decor is not only beautiful, but also edible.

Beautiful video decoration

Separately, it is worth talking about decorating the table for children's parties. Any children's holiday, especially if it is a birthday, requires careful preparation from the parents. You must create such a cheerful and joyful atmosphere so that the holiday will be remembered not only by the hero of the occasion, but also by all his invited friends.

It would seem that there is no place for salads on the table, because most children do not eat them. But no matter how it is! If you show originality and cook tasty options with an unusual design, then children will definitely appreciate them. It all depends only on your imagination: you can create whole plot compositions on plates! Children's joy and surprise are definitely worth the effort.

In addition to the decor, pay attention to the following points:

  • Avoid spicy, salty and fatty foods. On the children's table there is no place for fried, smoked and appetizers with mayonnaise and an abundance of spices.
  • Avoid daring experiments: you should not replace the products that your child is used to and add something new. Give preference traditional dishes choosing ingredients that kids will definitely not give up on.
  • If you have a holiday with very young kids, then exclude citrus fruits, as well as bright fruits and vegetables. Remember, they can trigger an allergy attack!
  • The same attention should be paid to any fish if you plan to put it on the table or add it to dishes. There should be no bones in it.
  • Adopt a couple of canapé recipes. Children eat them with great pleasure: they are small and on comfortable skewers. For their preparation, give preference to neutral fruits and vegetables, berries, cheeses, eggs and mushrooms.

Examples of decorating children's salads

Kids birthday decoration: beautiful, fun and edible!

Little tricks

Any home celebration creates an upbeat and joyful mood, immersing everyone in an atmosphere of genuine fun. Especially if you don't have to spend a lot of time preparing dishes and setting the table.

And any hostess wants not only to demonstrate her culinary skills, but also to surprise guests with a beautifully decorated table. And here salads will come to your aid again. Simple to decorate, they will become a bright highlight that will certainly be remembered.

Table decoration for the holiday

We are especially careful in choosing what we will cook for the festive table. We look through the recipes in advance, decide on the final version of the menu, make a list of the necessary products.

And, undoubtedly, each hostess has a couple of recipes that must be prepared for a gala dinner. But even if these are the most ordinary Olivier and vinaigrette, you do not need to give up the idea of ​​making them if you decide to amaze everyone with an original presentation.

It is worth only slightly decorating them, and you can be sure that your guests will definitely highly appreciate even these familiar dishes.

To make them not only tasty, but also spectacular, show your imagination and ingenuity. Don't forget to be neat! The registration will not take long, which will definitely play into your hands. If you have enough time, you can try more complex decorating methods.

From the first try, such decorations can take more than twenty minutes, so it is better to try them out in advance and get used to them, especially if you are planning a complex composition. After a few workouts, even complex elements will not take you more than ten minutes.

Look out for recipes with carved flowers and other figurines from the pulp of fruits and vegetables. Some preparation is required to create them, but the result is worth it.

You can give preference to simpler methods:

  • you can even make a voluminous "rose" from bacon or ham;
  • For fruit dishes, use sliced ​​kiwis or skimmed citrus zest.
  • another way to effectively serve salads is to focus not on top decorations, but on the ingredients themselves. So, if it does not imply obligatory mixing, then you can experiment with this.

For example, vegetable dishes will look great if laid out in layers. The dressing can be placed side by side in a separate gravy boat or coated on top and sides of the formed dish. Use not only mayonnaise for this, sour cream and unsweetened yoghurts are perfect.

From above, the composition can be completed with almonds, hazelnuts or pine nuts.

If the nuts do not suit your dish at all, then pomegranate seeds are also excellent substitutes.

And you can do without them, adding carved flowers from vegetables to the dish or laying out an edible drawing. Using sprigs of parsley, radishes and chopped olives, you can create a fish and a penguin, as in the following photo.

You can also experiment with 3D molding. For example, winter dishes can be served in the form of forest cones, and seafood dishes can be served in the form of fish.

All of the above methods of decorating dishes are not at all the limit. It all depends only on your imagination!

Get creative and you have all sorts of different designs for the same salad, but for different occasions. Change shapes and come up with new unique recipes for decorating Christmas and everyday meals... Each housewife will have all this in different ways, because everyone has their own vision of beauty.

One thing remains unchanged - the atmosphere of the holiday and good mood brought by beautifully presented dishes. Whether these skills are used in everyday life or only on holidays is up to you.

It is not difficult to learn how to decorate not only salads, but also other food in an interesting and unusual way: just be patient and spend some free time. Coupled with a great desire, this will be enough. Having mastered even the simplest elements, you can already combine them in different ways and create many bright compositions.

There is no "ceiling" in this art, even after learning the performance of the most difficult things, you can continue to go further, improve your skills and come up with new ones. original ways serving both salads and all other dishes for any occasion.

And you will be able to pamper your household with a spectacular serving of an ordinary dinner at least every day, bringing the mood of celebration and magic into everyday life!

While everyone is preparing for the New Year 2019 and running across culinary sites in search of the most the best dishes, we want to show what options for preparing and decorating salads. After all, the recipe can be anything, but how to decorate it in a festive way? Look, play with ideas and do not forget to capture your works in the photo. It continues. So, the options for decorating salads for the New Year, from masterpieces to the simplest.

Each caring housewife, in anticipation of the new year, composes holiday menu and wonders what is so tasty and interesting to cook this time? The main character upcoming 2019 - Pig! Watch and repeat interesting ideas for photos and videos.

Let's start with a simple and quick but effective option. Marina Shevchenko decided to cook original dish, a variation on the famous and beloved by all salad Olivier.Guests will be pleasantly surprised by such a cold snack!

Pig salad, variation of Olivier

Ingredients:

  • boiled sausage - 200 g
  • potatoes - 2 pcs.
  • pickled cucumber - 3-4 pcs.
  • egg - 2-3 pcs.
  • processed cheese - 1 pc.
  • green onions - 50 g
  • canned peas - 200 g
  • mayonnaise - 3 tbsp. l.
  • salt, pepper - to taste

for decoration:

  • olives - 2 pcs.
  • paprika - optional
  • fresh herbs

Cooking method

Boil several small potato tubers in their uniforms in advance. Then cool it, peel and cut into small cubes.

Choose boiled sausage from a trusted manufacturer, fresh and of high quality, then the salad will taste better. Cut out the ears, patch and stigma for the pig from a part of the sausage, and chop the rest of the sausage into a medium-sized cube.

This time I used pickled cucumbers, but they can also be replaced with pickled ones, because this will not affect the taste of the salad badly. Chop the cucumbers also into cubes. Drain the brine that formed after cutting the cucumbers.

Rinse a few green onion feathers in running water, wipe dry and chop finely with a sharp knife.

Combine all previously cooked ingredients in a deep bowl. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Add two tablespoons of mayonnaise. Mix.

On a beautiful large plate, in which the dish will be served, lay out the salad with a hemisphere so that it resembles the "little body" of a pig.

Cook in advance chicken eggs(about 8-10 minutes), cool and clean them. Grind on a fine grater with melted cheese.

Mix the cheese and eggs thoroughly. You should get a homogeneous pasty mass. Cover the salad with this mass. Then make a net of mayonnaise and spread the mayonnaise over the entire surface of the salad with clean hands.

Decorate the salad with sausage ears, a patch and a stigma. Sprinkle paprika on top for color, and put fresh parsley around the salad.

The result is an incredibly beautiful and delicious New Year's dish - Pig salad!
Happy New Year!
You can see more options on how to decorate salads and snacks in the form of Piggy in these YouTube videos.

Piglet with a surprise:

You can decorate snacks and sandwiches in the same way.

Tartlets - pigs

They can be prepared both on the eve of the holiday itself, and after it, when you want to pamper your relatives. original appetizer... You will get such wonderful pigs to please your loved ones and guests.


Ingredients:
- tartlets - 6-8 pcs.;
- hard or other cheese - 50 g;
- mayonnaise - 50 g;
- garlic - 1 clove;
- chicken eggs - 2 pcs.;
- sausages for decoration - 1-2 pcs.;
- salt, pepper - optional;
- lettuce leaves, olives or peppercorns - for decoration.

Preparation:

Three hard-boiled chicken eggs on a fine grater, we do the same with hard cheese. Rub the cheese and eggs into one container, where we will prepare the filling. For the filling, you can use any kind of cheese: hard or soft.

Squeeze a peeled clove of garlic into the filling, it will give the appetizer a spicy aroma and additional taste.

Fill the filling with fat mayonnaise and mix until homogeneous mass to get thick filling... Salt and pepper if desired.

We spread the filling in tartlets on a teaspoon and tamp it slightly, giving it an even shape. From above we decorate the tartlets with a piglet and ears cut from milk sausages.

We spread the eyes of the pigs: they can be cut out of an olive tree or use peppercorns or prune pieces for this.

We spread the finished tartlets on a dish and serve immediately for the holiday, decorating with lettuce leaves.
Bon appetit and a Happy New Year!

Glamor Pig Snack:


Stuffed eggs with piglets:

Herringbone Salads

First of all, of course, the New Year is associated with a Christmas tree. Here the best way for the decoration of salads - dill.

Herringbone salad recipe with chicken and prunes

Recipe amazing salad for a festive table called "Herringbone". This is a very tasty, tender and at the same time satisfying salad, with a harmonious combination of chicken and prunes, decorated in the form of a Christmas tree. Photo and description of the preparation by Marina Shevchenko.

In preparation, such a salad is not at all difficult, not costly either in terms of products or in time, but in the end it turns out perfect snack for the winter holidays!

Ingredients:

  • chicken fillet- 1 PC.
  • champignons - 300 g
  • onion - 1 pc.
  • prunes - 10-13 pcs.
  • hard cheese - 50 g
  • boiled egg - 2 pcs.
  • mayonnaise - 80 g
  • salt, pepper - to taste

for decoration:

  • fresh dill - 1 bunch
  • pomegranate seeds
  • prunes

Cooking method

Wash mushrooms and onions, peel and cut into thin slices.

Preheat a frying pan with vegetable oil... First put the onion in the pan, fry it lightly for 1-2 minutes, then add the mushrooms to it. Season with salt and pepper to taste, stir and continue to fry over medium heat for 5-7 minutes, until mushrooms and onions acquire a golden color. After that, transfer the ready-made mushrooms to a plate so that they cool completely.

Boil the chicken breast in salted water for 30 minutes in advance. Then cool the meat and cut into thin slices or disassemble it into fibers.

Put chicken fillet in the first layer on a plate. Form a triangular shape that resembles a herringbone. Cover the meat with mayonnaise mesh.

The next layer will be - fried mushrooms with onion. Spread them around the entire perimeter of the salad and brush with mayonnaise.

Peel and grate boiled chicken eggs, also grind hard cheese.

Now add grated eggs to the salad, cover them with mayonnaise.

Transfer the prunes to a deep plate and rinse in running water. Pour boiling water over it and leave for 20 minutes, so that the prunes are thoroughly steamed. Then separate the prunes from the pits and cut into thin slices.

Place the prune slices on top of the eggs. Cover with mayonnaise mesh.

The last layer in this salad is grated cheese with mayonnaise.

Now, you need to make the decor for New Year's dishes... Wash fresh dill, dry and chop finely. Chop prunes (1-2 pieces) also finely. Prepare a meal of pomegranate seeds. Cut a star out of hard cheese onto a Christmas tree.

Cover the salad with herbs on all sides.

Decorate the "Herringbone" salad with pomegranate seeds and prunes, and make a "garland" on the herringbone with mayonnaise.
It turned out very tasty and nutritious holiday salad Herringbone with chicken, mushrooms and prunes!
Bon Appetit!

With dill, you can make a salad in the form of a Christmas wreath:

Other greens are also suitable for creating a Christmas tree, for example, parsley and onions.

Or lay out the green beauty from green peas:

And even a very simple version of the Christmas tree - from cucumbers:

And even - from cauliflower, cheese or citrus fruits:

Kremlin tree 🙂

Original combination: winter herringbone ... from kiwi:

Spruce branches from lettuce leaves:

Fir-trees can also be vertical:

Herringbone tartlets

We suggest you serve stuffed tartlets decorated in the form of Christmas trees in an original way. The appetizer is prepared from the most affordable products, and every housewife will be able to repeat it at home. Delicious and beautifully decorated tartlets will fly apart in an instant, so we advise you to immediately prepare a double or maybe triple serving if you expect a large number of guests.

What are good tartlets are convenient snack for 1-2 bites, so even those who follow the figure may not be afraid to overeat. The portion of the tartlets is quite small, so everyone can please. The filling can be absolutely anything to your taste. Today we propose to prepare the simplest and fastest filling of cheese, eggs and crab sticks.

Ingredients:

- chicken eggs - 2 pcs.;
- waffle or other tartlets - 8 pcs.;
- hard cheese - 70-80 g;
- mayonnaise - 80 g;
- crab sticks - 5 pcs.;
- dill - 3-4 branches;
— boiled carrots- 1 PC.;
- salt to taste.

Preparation:

Using a fine grater, rub hard-boiled chicken eggs and hard cheese. We immediately put the filling in a bowl, where it will be convenient to mix all the ingredients.

We either cut the crab sticks into small cubes, or three on the same grater.

Add mayonnaise and a little salt to the filling. Mix and you're done.

We fill the tartlets with delicious filling and form a herringbone, giving the shape of a cone. Tartlets can be waffle, sand or others.

We decorate the filling with fresh dill greens - it's like spruce twigs.

Place a star or a snowflake cut from boiled carrots or hard cheese on the top. You can also use red for star decoration. Bell pepper or tomatoes.

We put pieces of crab sticks on the Christmas trees, imitating Christmas tree decorations. For decoration in the form of toys, you can take canned corn and peas.
We set the tartlets on the dish and decorate with fresh herbs. Immediately after preparation, we serve it to the festive New Year's table.

And how do you like such a masterpiece - a snack tree (video recipe):

Salads "Santa Claus"

With crab sticks

Do not know how to amaze guests in new year's eve? Try to cook this delicious and delicious salad, decorated in the form of Santa Claus. Bright and elegant, this salad will become a real decoration festive feast! Description of preparation and photos from Elena Petrushina.

In fact, it is very simple to prepare such beauty, you do not need special products, because for the design of the salad we will use only those ingredients that are indicated in the composition. We will make our grandfather's fur coat from the top of the crab sticks, and the edge and face from eggs.

Ingredients:
Crab sticks - 200 g;
Rice - 0.5 tbsp.;
Onions - 0.5 pcs.;
Corn - 0.5 cans;
Chicken egg - 4 pcs.;
Mayonnaise - 100-120 ml;
Salt to taste;
Peppercorns - 2 pcs. (for decoration).

Cooking time - 40 minutes.
Servings Per Container - 4.

Cooking recipe step by step:

Boil the rice until tender in lightly salted water.

For crab sticks, carefully cut off the red sides with thin slices. Cut the rest into cubes as usual. If the crab sticks have been frozen, then they must first be defrosted.

Boil chicken eggs, cool and peel. We put the whites from two eggs and one third of the yolk aside, they will be useful to us for decoration. Cut the rest of the eggs into cubes.

Peel half of the white onion and cut it into small cubes.

Combine all prepared ingredients in one bowl and add canned corn to them.

Season the salad with mayonnaise, add a small pinch of salt and mix everything thoroughly. It is better not to spare mayonnaise, the rice will absorb most of it and the salad can learn to dry.

Put the salad on a large flat dish, while forming the silhouette of Santa Claus. The head, collar, fur coat and arms should be clearly visible. We compact the salad and press it with a spoon, making the contours clearer.

Next, lay out the prepared crab sticks. From them we blind a fur coat and a cap at the hat. Hands should be completely closed. In the area of ​​the hands, you can trim the edges with scissors to make rounded palms.

Rub the yolk on the finest grater and sprinkle it on the salad in the face area. We also rub the protein on a grater and form the edge of the fur coat, cap and collar with it.

Using a confectionery syringe with a textured nozzle, we create a beard and hair for Santa Claus with mayonnaise. Then the turn of the face - peppercorns will be the eyes, and a small piece of crab sticks will be the nose. We also decorate the fur coat with corn buttons. Our Santa Claus is ready! The salad can be chilled a little in the refrigerator before serving. Bon Appetit!


Ham salad

Let's prepare nutritious salad with ham with the addition of cheese, carrots and pickled cucumbers. In terms of processes, everything is easy and simple, it boils down to the fact that all products are cut into cubes, but the design of the dish will take some time, so be patient, you will get a wonderful New Year's salad in the form of Santa Claus or Santa Claus.

Ingredients:
- ham - 200 g;
- carrots - 100 g;
- eggs - 2 pcs.;
- pickled cucumber - 100 g;
- cheese - 70 g;
- sweet red pepper - 1 pc.;
- olives - for decoration;
- mayonnaise - 100-120 g;
- salt to taste.

Preparation:

Grate hard cheese, you can use coarse or small chips, no difference.

Boil chicken eggs, cool and peel. Divide into whites and yolks. One yolk will be used for decoration, the other for salad. Squirrels will go completely for decoration.

Send grated cheese to a salad bowl and grate egg yolk there.

Cut the ham into small cubes. Also cut the pickled cucumbers into cubes.
Add ham and cucumbers to the salad. If ham is not available, you can replace it with delicious sausage- semi-smoked or boiled.

Peel the pre-cooked carrots from the thin peel, cut into small cubes, add to the salad.

Mix everything and season with mayonnaise, if desired, you can slightly salt.

To lay out ready salad on a wide and flat plate, immediately giving it the shape of Santa's head in a cap.

Grate the yolk on a fine grater in the center of the salad, also put a piece of red pepper in the center - this will be the nose.

Make a beard and the edges of a hat from the squirrel. Cut out the eyes from the olives and place them in the center.

Chop the red bell pepper finely and lay out to form a hat.

The funny Santa Claus salad is ready, you can immediately serve it to the table, it looks elegant and appetizing.
Such a dish will become the highlight of the New Year's feast.

Bon appetit and good mood!

More Santas:

Here Grandfather's fur coat is made of smoked salmon, a hat, a belt and a bag of red sweet pepper, the edge is grated cheese:

And Grandfather's mitten made of salmon or caviar. Similarly, you can make a boot (sock) for gifts.

Stuffed eggs

The upcoming 2019 will be even more fun for you if you cook delicious stuffed eggs"Santa Claus" with cheese filling... Children will definitely like this dish.

Ingredients:
- chicken eggs - 3-4 pcs.;
- cheese - 100 g;
- mustard - 1 tsp. l .;
- mayonnaise - 1.5 tablespoons. l .;
- red bell pepper - 1 pc.;
- salt - to taste;
- peppercorns - for decoration.

Preparation:

Hard-boiled chicken eggs, cool and peel. Cut into equal halves.
We take out the yolks and use them for the filling, and we will stuff the proteins.

Grate cheese and boiled yolks on a fine grater. Lightly salt the filling. We use any type of cheese for the filling, according to your taste and preferences.
We fill the filling with mustard and mayonnaise, mix several times to achieve a uniform consistency.
Stuff boiled proteins with cheese filling. We spread 1-1.5 teaspoons of the filling.
Cut out triangular hats and round little noses of Santa Claus from red sweet pepper.

We spread the bell peppers on the eggs: on one side of the cap, and a nose slightly below. The hats can be additionally glued to mayonnaise.

Put the eyes out of peppercorns, lightly pressing into the filling. Eyes can be made from black olives, prunes, and other edible foods.

We will decorate the ready-made Santa Clauses with mayonnaise: we will make a fluffy beard.

We serve the finished appetizer to the table, decorating with fresh bright greens.

Elegant and tasty "Santa Clauses" will become a worthy treat on your festive table.

Clocks and calendars

Clocks and chimes are no less important symbols of the New Year, hands and numbers on them are drawn with mayonnaise or laid out with sliced ​​strips of bell peppers, carrots, sausages.

Holiday Salad - the first sheet of the calendar:

Snowmen

And what a winter without snowmen! Typically, the white base is grated protein boiled eggs, cheese or mayonnaise. Nose - boiled carrots, eyes - olives. And the outfit can be made from any product.

And here it looks like a New Year's card, a very dynamic picture:

Other options

Christmas tree gifts:

Only the Snow Maiden lost her kokoshnik:

An interesting option - in the form of a carnival mask, you can decorate as your heart desires:

Bullfinches:

And I also liked this option, it's funny, but this is for the next 2020 Year of the Mouse :):

And this is how they decorated the salad for the year of the snake:

I hope these photos helped you decide on the decoration of the salad. We are waiting for your masterpieces on!

Send your photos

Do you also make beautiful crafts? Send photos of your work. Best photos we will publish and send you the diploma of the participant of the competition.

It's always nice when holiday dishes on the table they are not only tasty, but also beautifully decorated, since in this case they become doubly appetizing and look aesthetically pleasing. A colorful bright dish will decorate the table and will undoubtedly delight the guests.

For decoration, you can use not only greens, which has already become a common thing, you just need to show a little of your imagination for the presentation, and, of course, select products in accordance with the ingredients of the salad.

Korean carrot and chicken appetizer. Required Ingredients:

  • chicken meat - 200 grams;
  • soy sauce;
  • cucumber - 1 pc;
  • carrots - 2 pcs;
  • tomatoes (cherry) - 3 pcs;
  • greens;
  • seasoning.

Peel the carrots, chop, salt, then place the container in the refrigerator under pressure for 1 hour. Cut the meat into cubes and fry in a pan with sauce. Take out the carrots and drain the juice from them, then mix well with the meat. Heat 15 grams of oil in a frying pan and add the seasoning for the loin, stir and pour the mixture hot into a container with prepared foods. Mix all ingredients and refrigerate again for 1.5 hours.

Thinly sliced ​​along fresh cucumber(1 slice) place in a round rim-shaped form, then fill the form with the prepared mass, compact and turn onto a plate. Roll a rose from the rest of the slices and decorate the finished dish, complementing it with cherry tomato roses.










For a romantic dinner

Compliment salad. Required Ingredients:

  • boiled shrimp - 200 grams;
  • egg - 3 pcs;
  • medium lemon - 1 pc;
  • canned pineapple - 1 can;
  • red caviar - 100 grams;
  • cheese - 200 grams;
  • mayonnaise.

Grate cheese, chop pineapples, boil eggs. Then put the food in layers in two forms. Lay the bottom with grated protein and season, then shrimp and dressing again, put pineapples on them, season and stir with grated yolk. Mix the mayonnaise and the prepared cheese until smooth, then fill the mold up to the edge, turn the molds over onto a dish and carefully remove. Fold two heart-shaped shrimps on the towers obtained and fill the space in the middle with caviar. You can use leftover shrimp and parsley for garnish, or you can make a lemon rose.











For birthday

Seahorse salad. Required Ingredients:

  • boiled shrimp - 300 grams;
  • onion - 1 pc;
  • boiled squid - 300 grams;
  • mayonnaise;
  • egg - 2 pcs;
  • canned corn - 200 grams;
  • red caviar - 50 grams;
  • cheese - 200 grams;
  • apple - 1 pc;
  • salmon (smoked) - 100 grams;
  • greens.

Chop the apple, chop the squid into thin strips, and dice the shrimp, grate the eggs, marinate the chopped onion (scald with boiling water). Combine all prepared ingredients with corn and season. Then draw the outline of the seahorse on a platter and carefully lay out the resulting mass on it. Sprinkle cheese on the dish; mayonnaise will be the last layer.

To give a festive look, lay out the scallop with shrimps with the addition of red eggs, and also make strips with fins. Make roses from salmon and decorate the dish, add lemon and herbs to the composition.







For children's birthday

"Fox fur coat" salad. Required Ingredients:

  • fried champignons - 400 grams;
  • herring - 300 grams;
  • boiled carrots - 2 pcs;
  • boiled potatoes 4 pcs;
  • egg - 4 pcs;
  • onion - 1 pc;
  • mayonnaise.

Thoroughly mix mushrooms with chopped onions. Chop the herring, grate the potatoes and carrots, pass the eggs through the mesh (leave 1). Draw the outline of the salad and start layering. The first will be the fish to be greased with the dressing, then potatoes, mushrooms, dressing again, eggs and finally carrots.

While decorating the salad, you need to draw the face and eyes, legs and tail with mayonnaise. For the eyes, cut off two round pieces from the protein, rub the rest and fill the tip of the tail and paws with them. Green eyes can be made with cucumber or olives. Fill the belly, muzzle and ears with grated yolk. The eyes are supplemented with circles of olives, the nose and cilia are also done with their help. Draw a butterfly from the ingredients.












For New Year and Christmas

Christmas wreath salad. Ingredients:

  • boiled sausage - 500 grams;
  • egg - 6 pcs;
  • canned peas 600 grams;
  • boiled potatoes - 4 pcs;
  • onions (feathers) - 100 grams;
  • boiled carrots - 2 pcs;
  • parsley;
  • pickled cucumbers - 700 grams;
  • mayonnaise.

Cut one carrot and all the potatoes into cubes, finely chop the cucumber and onion, cut the sausage into cubes, pass the eggs through the mesh. Mix the mass with peas and season, it is advisable to leave the tops of the eggs. You will need juice to paint Christmas tree decorations red cabbage, using a toothpick, lower the tops of the eggs into it for 5 seconds.

To lay out the salad, put a jar in the center of the plate and put the salad around it, then carefully remove the jar and draw a mayonnaise mesh on the salad, attach the parsley to it in a circle. You will get a wreath, which needs to be decorated with made toys and carrot bows.






Valentine's Day

Lover's Kiss salad. Ingredients:

  • cheese - 200 grams;
  • boiled beets― 2 pcs;
  • carrots - 3 pcs;
  • peeled garlic - 3 cloves;
  • steamed raisins - 100 grams;
  • walnuts - 100 grams;
  • mayonnaise.

Carrots, grated well, mix with raisins, season, then spread the mass in the form of lips on the selected dish. Grate cheese with garlic and season, put on top. Grate the beets and nuts, season and spread, giving the mass the shape of the lips. Decorate the salad with beet-dyed daikon roses and cucumber leaves.











Festive fur coat

Ingredients:

  • herring - 500 grams;
  • boiled carrots and potatoes - 5 pcs each;
  • onion - 1 pc;
  • boiled beets - 2 pcs;
  • mayonnaise.

Grate the potatoes and spread ⅔ of the mass on the selected dish, after which will go herring, which is cut into cubes, marinate the chopped onions (scald with boiling water) and spread on top of the fish, then grease everything with dressing. Grated carrots will be the fourth layer, then potatoes again, grease with dressing. Grate the beets and, leveling the salad, lay out, then coat the dish with dressing.

For decoration, draw a net of mayonnaise, decorate with buttons and carrot roses, add parsley to the decoration.








On March 8

Emerald salad. Ingredients:

  • chicken (fillet) - 500 grams;
  • cheese - 300 grams;
  • cucumber - 2 pcs;
  • nuts (walnuts) - 50 grams;
  • kiwi - 3-5 pcs;
  • mayonnaise.

Grind the meat into cubes and fry in a pan, spread the mass on the prepared dish, giving it the shape of an eight, then grease with dressing. Chop the cucumber into strips and place on top of the meat, then grated cheese, grease with dressing. Grind the nuts to a powder and sprinkle with the salad, cut the peeled kiwi into slices and spread on top.

Daikon roses, greens and canned corn can be used to decorate the dish.








Original salad

Sea star salad. Ingredients:

  • round rice - 200 grams;
  • olives;
  • cucumber (fresh) - 1 pc;
  • egg - 3 pcs;
  • lettuce leaves;
  • salmon (smoked) - 400 grams;
  • shrimp - 350 grams;
  • mayonnaise;
  • Philadelphia cheese - 175 grams.

Cook rice in a proportion of 350 milliliters of liquid per 200 grams of rice, reduce heat after boiling and cook until water is completely absorbed. Mix the cheese with dressing in the same proportion and beat with a blender. Cut the cucumbers into strips, then arrange the lettuce leaves on the selected dish and draw a star-shaped outline. Place the rice, then anoint it with the prepared dressing and top with the chopped boiled shrimp, which we again cover with the dressing. The next layer is a cucumber, on which put coarsely grated eggs and again a layer of dressing.

For decoration, we use strips of salmon, which need to be laid out in the shape of a star, and rings of olives.











For a festive table

Tiffany salad. Ingredients:

  • grapes - 300 grams;
  • cucumber (fresh);
  • cheese - 200 grams;
  • egg - 3 pcs;
  • chicken breast (smoked) - 1 pc;
  • nuts (walnuts) - 100 grams;
  • mayonnaise.

Grind the breast into cubes, grate the cheese and nuts, halve the grapes and remove the pitted or take the pitted variety right away. With the first layer on ⅔ of the dish, you need to decompose the meat and attach a grape twig to it, then a layer of grated eggs and dressing, then sprinkle everything abundantly with nuts, and grind cheese on top. After greasing the mass with dressing, put the grape slices close to each other.

Cut leaves from a cucumber and attach them to a branch of grapes to decorate the dish.









For any occasion

Birch salad. Ingredients:

  • chicken meat (fillet) - 300 grams;
  • champignons - 300 grams;
  • egg - 5 pcs;
  • pickled cucumbers― 6 pcs;
  • onions (feathers) - 50 grams;
  • mayonnaise.

Fry mushrooms with onions, boil chicken and eggs, chop cucumbers. On a dish spread the mass in the shape of an oval, then the breast, crushed into cubes, grease everything with dressing. After that, lay out a layer of grated protein, and then cucumbers and again dressing. Sprinkle with finely grated yolk in the last layer.

To decorate the salad, you need to draw a birch with a dressing, make the strips from slices of olives, and the leaves from onion feathers.












Calorie content: Not specified
Cooking time: Not indicated

It just so happened: for the New Year we are preparing "Olivier". Despite the fact that the hostesses have mastered the preparation of many newfangled salads from exotic ingredients, New Year's table the traditional "Olivier" must be present. This is both a tribute to tradition and a tribute to our taste preferences too. Gathering together, relatives and friends want to taste the dishes that they ate together year after year. It is like an indispensable attribute of both the New Year and a family festive meal.

True, and "Olivier" now can be prepared in different ways. Fairly traditional boiled sausage replace with some other ingredient (meat, pork, bacon, lightly salted red fish, etc.), as our salad will sparkle with different colors, different flavors.

Today I will cook Olivier with boiled chicken breast, and also show you how you can decorate a salad for the New Year of the Dog 2018. You can take another recipe from our website and make the same decoration from the photo on any other recipe.



What do you need:
- one chicken fillet (medium),
- 2-3 testicles,
- a pack of mayonnaise (you may need more or less),
- 2 pieces of carrots and potatoes,
- 2-3 pickled cucumbers (depending on size),
- 2 tablespoons of coconut flakes,
- 1 onion,
- pepper and salt to taste,
- 3 tablespoons of canned green peas.

How to cook from a photo step by step





1. Let's start with boiling the breast. Cook chicken fillet in salted water. Boil potatoes and carrots separately. Cook the vegetables in their skins, making sure that the potatoes are not boiled, otherwise they may fall apart right in the pan. Eggs are also cooked until cooked - hard boiled.
2. Peel the carrots, eggs and potatoes, then rinse them well.




3. Let's start cutting the ingredients for the salad. Cut the potatoes into small pieces. We try to keep the pieces from sticking together.




4. Finely chop the carrots. Let's leave one carrot for decoration.






5. But the chicken fillet can be cut larger.




6. Eggs can be chopped with a special egg cutter or, traditionally, with a knife.




7. An indispensable ingredient in Olivier is pickled cucumbers. We will also cut them finely.






8. And finally, onions. This is not the main component of the salad, but without it there will be no necessary zest. It is very good if purple or white salad onions are used instead of onions.




9. Put all the ingredients in a deep bowl for easier mixing. Add green peas.




10. Season the salad with mayonnaise, but not too much. Since I will put the salad in the garnish ring, excess mayonnaise may leak. Add salt and pepper.




11. Mix our Olivier. The salad is ready.






12. It remains to place the salad in the garnish ring to shape it. It's not obligatory. In what form you serve your salad, it's only your business.




13. Put grated carrots on top of the salad. It's not obligatory. Since I'm going to apply a dog figurine to the salad, I need grated carrots to create a contrasting background. For half an hour, put the salad in the refrigerator to make it easier to remove the ring, and so that the salad does not deform when removed.




14. I will decorate my salad with such a funny dog ​​figurine (2018 is the Year of the Dog). For this I will use a stencil, and I will apply a drawing coconut flakes... It has no pronounced taste, and will not affect the taste of our salad.




15. Apply the stencil to the top layer.















19. "Olivier" salad for the New Year in a dog design is ready!