Associations associated with the New Year's celebration: tangerines, Olivier, Bengal candles, magic and ... Christmas tree. The beauty and unique smell of spruce tree are important attributes of the holiday. But you can not only enjoy its appearance and inhale the astringent aroma of resin. The green guest can ... eat! In this article we will learn what New Year's Eve Christmas salad is, a recipe for its preparation and various design options.
Cold snacks
Salad is a dish prepared, as a rule, from boiled or raw vegetables and fruits, chopped and mixed. These products are watered with any vegetable oil, sour cream, mayonnaise or dressing, salt and spices are added for taste. You can add meat, fish, nuts.
Salads can be not only a cold appetizer, but also a wonderful festive table decoration.
What are they like?
There may be many options for mixing products. Nevertheless, all salads for the main product are divided into:
- Vegetables that use raw, boiled, or canned foods.
- Fruit. These are dessert salads made from natural fruits and snack bars, where, in addition to fruits, there are also vegetables.
- Mushroom. The composition includes fresh, pickled, boiled, dry, salted mushrooms.
- Legumes The basis of such dishes is green pods or boiled beans, peas, lentils.
- Meat, consisting of meat and meat products with sharp dressings.
- From game meat and poultry.
- Fish. Consist of salty, smoked, fresh fish.
- Seafood.
- From the eggs.
- From pasta.
Edible "Christmas Tree"
The herringbone salad recipe is quite simple and has several options. But in each case its form attracts first of all.
The decoration of any table will be such a "Christmas tree": a salad in the shape of a New Year tree, decorated with dill.
To create this attribute of the New Year, we prepare olivier, a two-liter plastic bottle in the form of a cone, dill for decoration.
First, cut off the bottom of the bottle, put the cling film there. Then we stuff olivier salad tightly, knock it over on a plate and carefully remove the mold. The film inside will help to do this neatly. Now make dill twigs. At the top, we cut a star from beets. You can decorate with "toys" - green peas, corn, olives. The result was an elegant and tasty "Herringbone": a salad according to the old recipe with a new design.
Different ideas
New Year's "Fir-tree" (salad) can be different. Fantasy will tell you the most unusual options. Here are some of them.
- Herring under a fur coat in the form of a Christmas tree. We lay out all the components on a plate in layers, each of which is coated with mayonnaise. Then we form a Christmas tree, decorate it with dill and corn, on the top make a star of beets. The original Christmas dish is ready.
- Here is another "Herringbone" - a salad for those who follow their figure. It is prepared from the following products, which are taken raw: one bunch of celery, three to four carrots, half sweet pepper, one cucumber, six red and yellow cherry tomatoes, two pieces of radish, two green olives, two pickled champignons. Preparation: we cut champignons into four parts, make a leg; celery, carrots, cucumber, pepper, cut into strips and lay out the base of the Christmas tree; cut the tomatoes in half, the remaining products in circles and decorate the Christmas tree; make radish from the radish on the crown.
- An interesting Christmas tree in waffle cups. Finely chop and mix the cauliflower (300 g), garlic (1-2 cloves), walnuts (100 g). Add the grated cheese (100 g, season with mayonnaise and fill the wafer cups “with a slide”. Decorate with herbs.
- And here is a very satisfying Christmas tree. Take crab sticks (300 g), a small onion, cheese (200 g), boiled rice (200 g), corn (200 g), salt, pepper, mayonnaise, leek for decoration. We chop onion and crab sticks, rub the cheese on a grater. We mix all the ingredients, lay them out with a high slide and decorate with leek leaves, cut into triangles. For beauty, you can use a garland of carrots.
Happy New Year!