Dishes of the New Year's menu should be not only tasty, but also elegant. Let's think about how to decorate the table for the holiday. What is New Year without the Snow Maiden? And if you do not invite Santa Claus with his granddaughter to visit you, make a salad with one of these fairy-tale characters. It is not very difficult to prepare. Let's say more: this salad can be prepared from different products. Fasting can use ingredients such as red fish or seafood (squid and shrimp) for the dish. The Snegurochka salad with smoked chicken is very tasty. The main difficulty in cooking is the design. Indeed, the Snow Maiden should have her traditional blue fur coat with a fur edge. And a golden braid comes down to her shoulder. In this article we will step by step tell you how to collect and arrange a puff New Year's salad. A photo will make this story more visual.
Christmas squid salad
Finely chop the onion and pour over boiling water. A kilogram of squid is dipped in cold water. Bringing to a boil, immediately remove from heat, remove, cool, remove the film, cut into strips. In the same way, in separate containers we grind two peppers peeled from seeds and a tomato. We cut a bunch of parsley. Hard boiled three or four eggs. Separate the yolks, knead them and mix with mayonnaise. It turns impregnation. We cut squirrels with small straws. We leave a small part. Pour the rest with juice from sauerkraut. It will take about three tablespoons of this liquid. After some time, the juice will turn the squirrels blue. They will serve as the "coat" of the Snow Maiden. Combine all ingredients except eggs. Knead, salt. Put in a dish. Top grease with impregnation. Now it remains only to decorate our salad "Snow Maiden". But we will talk about this a little later. After all, the salad recipes are different. But the design is the same. Let's look at what else you can cook a holiday dish.
Fish salad "Snow Maiden": recipe with photo
We send three potatoes in their skins and six eggs to cook. When they cook, cool. We do the impregnation (you need to add three or four prongs of garlic passed through the press) and a blue coat for the Snow Maiden, as indicated in the previous recipe. We take a beautiful flat dish, put a cardboard form in it and start spreading the salad. The bottom layer is potatoes, shabby with large chips and salted. Lubricate it with impregnation. The second layer is lightly salted salmon (or other red fish), cut into thin strips. Put canned sweet corn on top. Then - grated apple and hard cheese. Do not forget to coat all layers with impregnation. Salad, in principle, is ready. It remains only to decorate it.
Smoked Mackerel Budget Salad
We put two potatoes in their skins and three eggs to cook. Slice one red onion and pickle in a quarter cup of boiling water, a pinch of salt, a tablespoon of sugar and 2 tbsp. l vinegar. A handful of walnut kernels are calcined in a dry frying pan, coarsely crushed. We cut the carcass of smoked mackerel (it can be replaced with slightly salted herring), cut into thin strips. Three large chips separately peeled boiled potatoes, two hundred grams of hard cheese and one large apple. We make a stencil in the form of a Snow Maiden from cardboard. We put it in a flat dish. We begin to lay the salad "Snow Maiden". Each layer will be smeared with ordinary mayonnaise. The layers are in this order: potatoes, fish, onions, apples, nuts, hard cheese, yolks.
Salad "Snow Maiden": recipe with chicken
First of all, boil two potatoes and four eggs. Peel the onion, finely chop and marinate, as indicated in the previous recipe. Separate the proteins, cut, set to turn blue. In separate containers, three potatoes, yolks, squeeze through a press one or two processed cheese. Drain the onion from the marinade. Three hundred grams of smoked chicken meat without veins and peels are cut along the fibers into small pieces. Salt and pepper a little potatoes. We start to lay out the salad in layers. The "Snow Maiden" with chicken is juicy, especially if each layer is generously greased with mayonnaise. At the very bottom we place smoked chicken meat. Then come alternately pickled onions, potatoes, cream cheese and yolks. Having decorated such a salad, it should be put in the refrigerator for soaking for two hours. And before we get into the design, let's look at another recipe.
"Snow Maiden" with smoked brisket
This recipe is not much different from the previous one. The only thing, as the basis for such a dish as the salad "Snow Maiden", we take three hundred grams of smoked brisket. It needs to be cut into small cubes and put in an even layer on a flat dish. Spread with mayonnaise. Next - everything is exactly the same as in the chicken salad. There is only one difference: instead of cream, you need to take smoked cheese (150-200 grams). The smell of haze will give the dish a unique charm. Laying the salad in layers, put it in the refrigerator for impregnation. Some housewives similarly prepare other meat snacks. Instead of brisket, you can take smoked sausage or boiled tongue. As we have already mentioned, the numerous and varied recipes of the Snegurochka salad are related only by one thing - design.
Decoration of the dish. Ideas for Salad with Fish or Seafood
So, we still have egg white stained with sauerkraut juice. If you don't like the smell coming from it, you can sprinkle it with lemon juice. True, the blue color from this brightens to pale blue. If you laid the salad in layers in a simple circle, put on top a stencil in the form of a stylized Christmas tree. True, we will draw not a tree, but a very similar silhouette of a girl in a fur coat. You may have kept some of the protein unpainted. It should be used for the edge of a fur coat, in which our Snow Maiden will be dressed. The salad, the photo of which you see, looks very festive. Do not be afraid to experiment. The main thing is that the ingredients of the decor fit the components of the salad. If you used red fish in a dish, leave a slice of it for decoration. From it we cut out a mouth, mittens, buttons on a fur coat. Grated boiled shrimp is suitable for the edge. Eyebrows and nose can be made from parsley or finely chopped olives. We make a braid from corn grains.
Salad decor with mackerel or herring
This dish uses cheese. The main part is finely rubbed. From a separate plate, cut out a circle for the face. The edge for the blue coat of colored egg whites will be grated hard or processed cheese. The eyes of the Snow Maiden will be made of black olives, and the eyebrows of two needles of rosemary. We’ll have a slice of red bell pepper. Salad "Snow Maiden" will look amazing if we braid the hair of a fairy-tale character from suluguni or smoked cheese "Pigtail". You can dress the Snow Maiden not in a hat, but in a beautiful kokoshnik. Pomegranate grains come up to the fish, which will shine on the headdress, like rubies. You can also decorate a fur coat with them. It will be appropriate to decorate the Snegurochka fish salad with crab sticks. They need to be finely rubbed, and then make the edge, mittens and boots of a fairy-tale character.
Decoration of meat salads
Chicken goes well with ketchup. And therefore, it can be used to design the mouth of the Snow Maiden, her mittens and boots. Leave a piece of chicken and divide the meat into fibers. From them you can weave a braid for the granddaughter of Santa Claus - it will come out just amazingly realistic. The meat salad "Snegurochka" recipe suggests making with cheese. This ingredient can also be used for decoration. Processed cheese, passed through a press and mixed with a small amount of mayonnaise, can become the face of the Snow Maiden. On such a disk small details of the face - mouth, eyes and eyebrows - will hold well. In a word, the design of the salad depends solely on the wealth of your imagination and improvised means. You can also make a dish of Santa Claus. In this case, the proteins are stained with beets, and the beard is made out of yolks or fibers of the “Pigtail” cheese. If you show creative imagination, and you have at least basic artistic skills, then your guests will be pleasantly surprised at the festive table.