New Year's dinner always gives housewives room for creativity. In any family, there are traditional types of food that make it for this solemn event. The composition of such foods, as a rule, includes completely ordinary components. However, their combination provides a unique and vibrant taste. One of these dishes is discussed in the sections of the article.
Snowflake Salad Recipe
To make this original snack for the holiday, you need to take:
- Chicken thigh.
- Carrots.
- Onion.
- Half a glass of rice cereal.
- 2-3 eggs.
- A few slices of dried mushrooms.
- Leaves of red cabbage.
- 3 large spoons of mayonnaise sauce.
- Salt, pepper.
- A little vegetable fat.
Slices of mushrooms should be held in a bowl of cold water for several hours. Then boil them.
Peel the onion head. Chop this vegetable in the form of squares. Cook on fire with vegetable fat. Grind carrots with a grater. Add to the pan where the chopped onion is fried. Mushrooms, some salt, pepper are put there.
Boil the thigh in water with spices. Wait until the flesh has cooled, and then chop it in the form of cubes. Cook rice in a decoction left over from chicken. Cool. Then the rice is spread in an even layer on the bottom of the salad bowl. This is followed by a layer of fried vegetables, mushrooms and a small amount of sauce. Then comes a layer of meat and mayonnaise.
Hard-boiled eggs are ground using a grater. One protein is left; it will be needed for salad dressing. Red cabbage leaves are brewed in very hot water and left under the lid for a while. Boiled egg white is placed in the resulting broth. No need to rub it on a grater, just cut into several medium-sized slices. Protein will acquire a specific blue tint in the broth. Salad "Snowflake" according to the recipe, which is described in this section, is decorated as follows. The surface of the dish is sprinkled with grated blue egg white. Top make a snowflake of grated eggs on a fine grater. The dish is put in a cold place and kept there for about two hours. You can also make a snowflake pattern on it from mayonnaise sauce or cheese. And you can arrange it a little differently, for example, by forming mittens or a Snow Maiden figure, as in the photo.
Cooking Appetizer with Corn
The following components are needed for this salad:
- 300 grams of chicken pulp.
- 3 eggs.
- 180 grams of cucumber.
- About six peas of black pepper.
- Mayonnaise.
- Salt.
- 150 grams of corn (canned).
- Hard cheese.
- Two leaves of laurel.
- A small amount of ground black pepper.
Cook the chicken flesh in water with salt and the above spices. Wait for the fillet to cool, and then chop it in the form of squares. Grind pre-cooked eggs. Cut the cucumbers into small cubes. Put all the specified products in one bowl, combine with them the corn grains. Pour some salt, pepper. Add the sauce and mix gently.
The snowflake salad recipes with the photo indicate that this appetizer should be put in a square or round plate. Its surface is then decorated. This is done as follows. Figures are cut out of hard cheese using a special device. They are given the appearance of snowflakes and attached to the surface of the salad with small drops of sauce.
Salted Fish
For a salad according to this original recipe, you will need to take:
- 5 eggs.
- Large orange.
- 100 grams of hard cheese.
- Mayonnaise sauce.
- 200 grams of red fish (such as salmon or trout) in salt form.
Preparing a snowflake salad according to this recipe in the following way. Pre-cooked eggs are cleaned, the proteins are laid separately from the yolks. Both of these components must be ground. Remove the peel from the orange, remove the grains and films. Cut the fruit into small cubes. Chop the fish in the form of squares. Grind hard cheese with a grater.
Snowflake salad is laid out in separate layers in a bowl.
First put the whites and sauce. Then some mass of yolks and again a layer of mayonnaise. Then some fish. Following is a piece of cheese, oranges. So you need to lay out all the layers in turn. Do this until the products run out. Each layer must be covered with sauce. The surface of the snack is sprinkled with chopped cheese. The food is put in a cold place for a couple of hours. Then you can get it and try it.
Vegetarian way of cooking
For such a snowflake salad you will need the following products:
- 3 eggs.
- 400 grams of champignons.
- A few walnut kernels.
- Greenery.
- 100 grams of mayonnaise-based sauce.
- 100 grams of hard cheese (you can use vegetarian).
- 150 grams of black grapes.
Pre-cooked eggs are crushed using a grater. Kernels are chopped into small pieces. Mushrooms should be chopped into slices and cooked over a fire without vegetable fat. Rub hard cheese. Grape berries divided into halves. The snack is laid out in separate layers in the following order:
- Mushrooms.
- Kernels
- Hard cheese.
- The eggs.
Each layer should be evenly coated with mayonnaise sauce. On the surface of the dish put chopped cheese, herbs and grapes.
This option is a very original way to make a snowflake salad. There are a lot of recipes with photos. Each housewife seeks to add a twist.