An original salad is a dish that can decorate any holiday table. Today, there are many unusual recipes for both cold and hot salads. Next, consider the most original of them, as well as the main features of their preparation at home.
"Lilac"
To prepare the salad "Lilac", which with its appearance is able to decorate any holiday table, you need to take the following list of ingredients:
- carrot;
- 4 potatoes;
- 200 g of champignons;
- 3 pickled cucumbers;
- 4 boiled eggs;
- beet;
- onion head;
- 3 tbsp. l mayonnaise;
- greens for decoration.
First of all, in a pan it is necessary to fry the mushrooms with chopped onions, and then cool and mix with a small amount of mayonnaise. Next, you need to separately prepare the other ingredients. To do this, boil potatoes, carrots and chicken, and then grate each ingredient and mix with a small portion of mayonnaise. Separately, cut pickled cucumbers, and also disassemble the eggs into yolks and squirrels, and then grate each part.
When all the ingredients are ready, you need to form a salad out of them, laying out the layers in the following order:
- Potatoes with mayonnaise.
- Boiled Chicken Fillet.
- Cucumbers
- Fried mushrooms with onions.
- Carrots with mayonnaise.
- Egg yolk.
In a separate dish, crumble the cooked proteins over very finely and sprinkle them with beetroot juice so that the product acquires a lilac hue.
After the salad is formed, it is necessary to decorate it with greens and lay out the "bunches of" lilacs "made from proteins stained with beetroot juice.
Salmon Cake
Consider a recipe for an interesting and tasty salad on a festive table, which with its bright appearance will certainly attract the attention of all invited guests. To prepare it, you need to take:
- 100 g of rice cooked with 4 g of paprika;
- 5 boiled eggs;
- 150 g of slightly salted salmon;
- 100 g of crab sticks;
- 10 g of gelatin;
- 100 g mascarpone;
- 0.5 cups fat sour cream;
- dill greens;
- red caviar (for decoration).
To prepare the salad, soak the gelatin in 150 ml of purified water and leave it for an hour to swell. As soon as the granules become voluminous, the mass should be put on a slow fire and, melted, injected with a thin stream into a cream made from mascarpone cheese, grated with sour cream. The combined ingredients must again be carefully beat with a whisk.
Next, proceed with laying out the salad. To do this, take a deep dish and cover its bottom with thin slices of salmon. Then it must be greased with cream. On top of this, lay a layer of grated egg yolks, then - of shredded crab sticks, proteins and cooked rice. Each of these layers should be covered with cheese cream. After all, lettuce should be sent to the refrigerator for 3-4 hours for infusion and impregnation.
After the specified time, you should turn the salad over and serve, garnished with finely chopped dill and red caviar.
"Violet"
Violet salad will undoubtedly become the best decoration of any table. In its finished form, it resembles a real violet bush, the leaves of which are made from round spinach, and the flowers from radish.
To prepare such a unique salad, you need to take the following products:
- 300 g of boiled chicken breast;
- 100 g of prunes;
- 300 g of cucumbers;
- 200 g Korean carrots;
- 300 g of champignons;
- spinach leaves for decoration;
- small cracker;
- radish (for decoration).
The salad in question is prepared in layers. In order to make it, you need to put these ingredients on a serving dish in the following order:
- Boiled chicken cut into small cubes.
- Shredded Prunes.
- Fried mushrooms.
- Cucumbers grated on a coarse grater.
- Korean carrots.
When laying out the layers, you need to remember that each of them must be lubricated with a small amount of mayonnaise. Above all, you need to lay out spinach leaves, and then form flowers from thin circles of radish. The side of the salad must be overlaid with a cracker.
"Mittens of Santa Claus"
"Santa Claus Mittens" is an interesting, unusual and tasty salad that will decorate the festive feast in honor of the New Year, Christmas or any other winter holiday. To prepare it, you need to take:
- 100 g of rice cooked with 10 g of turmeric;
- 200 g canned pink salmon;
- 200 g of crab sticks;
- 5 boiled eggs;
- dressing mayonnaise;
- 100 g of hard cheese.
To prepare this very interesting tasty and simple salad, you need to combine in one bowl rice, mashed pink salmon with a fork, and also grated eggs. After mixing the components, you should season the salad with mayonnaise, and then put on a serving plate, repeating the shape of the mittens.
Next, you need to make a decor of crab sticks. To do this, each of them must be deployed and the red part separated from the white. Red stripes need to cover the mittens on top so that there are no gaps. On one side, grated cheese should be copiously laid out, imitating mittens.
Napoleon
An interesting and delicious salad for your birthday will be Napoleon - a puff and juicy dish that will be a great cold appetizer. To prepare it, you need to take:
- 2 boiled eggs;
- 300 g of pickled champignons;
- 150 g of ham;
- 100 g of hard cheese;
- 2-3 carrots;
- clove of garlic;
- 2 onion heads;
- processed cheese;
- dill greens;
- mayonnaise (for greasing layers);
- 700 g puff pastry.
Having decided on the salad mold in advance, you need to cut thin layers of the same shape from the dough and bake them until they turn golden. After they have cooled, a salad should be formed, laying out the ingredients in layers, overlapping each with crust of dough. The order of the layers should be as follows:
- Grated hard cheese with chopped eggs (the mixture must be seasoned with a small amount of mayonnaise and crushed garlic).
- Ham with chopped herbs.
- Pickled mushrooms with mayonnaise.
- Onions fried with grated carrots.
- Grated cream cheese with mayonnaise.
"Cordial"
In order to prepare an inexpensive, tasty and quickly interesting salad "Hearty", you need to take the following ingredients:
- 700 g pork heart;
- 4 cooked potato tubers;
- carrot;
- a pair of boiled eggs;
- 3 pickles;
- onion head;
- dressing mayonnaise;
- dill greens.
To prepare the salad, you need to boil the heart in salted water. After the ingredient has cooled, it must be cut into thin strips. To the heart, add chopped eggs, potatoes, cucumbers, as well as grated fresh carrots. After combining all the ingredients, the resulting mass must be seasoned with mayonnaise and, sprinkled with chopped herbs, mix, and then serve.
"Thai"
The reviews about this salad often say that it in a special way decorates any feast with its green appearance and, moreover, has excellent taste. To prepare such a dish you need to take:
- 4 fresh cucumbers;
- a pair of boiled eggs;
- 50 g thin vermicelli;
- 50 g sesame;
- 40 ml of rice vinegar;
- 40 ml of sesame oil;
- half a glass of soy sauce;
- 30 g of sugar;
- dried shrimp (to taste).
To prepare the salad, you must fry sesame in a pan without oil. Beat eggs separately, and then combine them with sesame seeds and bake a couple of pancakes from the resulting mass, which, after cooling, must be cut into thin strips. You also need to boil vermicelli in salted water.
After all these ingredients have cooled, they should be combined, add dried shrimps, cucumbers chopped on a grater for Korean carrots, as well as onions marinated in a mixture of soy sauce, rice vinegar and sesame oil.
By mixing the ingredients, the salad can be served.
In reviews of Thai salad, it is often noted that it is very useful, and also quite simple to prepare, which is its big plus.
Mussel salad
A rather original dish for any holiday is a salad with valuable seafood - mussels. To create it, you need to take the following ingredients:
- 300 g of boiled chicken;
- 700 g of cooked rice;
- bell pepper;
- 200 g canned peas;
- a glass of walnut kernels;
- 300 g canned mussels;
- 2 tablespoons of lemon juice;
- 2 cloves of garlic;
- 40 ml of wine vinegar;
- 40 g of basil;
- 40 ml peanut butter.
In order to collect this interesting and very tasty salad, you need to combine in one dish cut into small pieces of mussels, boiled rice, diced pepper. Add fried in vegetable oil and diced chicken fillet, as well as nuts processed in the same way.
Separately, prepare a salad dressing with mussels. To do this, in one bowl you need to combine peanut butter, crushed garlic, vinegar, lemon juice, and finely chopped basil. Having seasoned the ingredients, you need to mix them and serve.
Canned Salad
Among the recipes for inexpensive and tasty salads, you must definitely include a dish prepared with canned fish. To create it, you need a minimum of ingredients:
- a can of canned fish in oil;
- 3 hard boiled eggs;
- onion head;
- 3 pickled cucumbers;
- 1.5 tablespoons of sugar;
- 0.5 tbsp. apple cider vinegar;
- 10 g of salt;
- dressing mayonnaise.
At the very beginning of the preparation of the salad in question, pickle the onions. To do this, it must be cut into half rings, then pour sugar, salt and pour vinegar. After mixing, it should be left in a cold place for 15-20 minutes.
After the onion is pickled, the marinade must be drained from it, and then add to it all the other ingredients, cut into cubes. Now the salad must be seasoned with mayonnaise and, after mixing, serve.
The reviews about this salad say that it turns out to be incredibly juicy and goes well with potato side dishes.
New Year's salad
According to the recipe below, you can prepare an interesting and tasty salad for the New Year. There are a lot of positive reviews about this dish, which speak of its amazing taste, juiciness, brightness and nutritional value.
To prepare a New Year's salad, you will need the following set of products:
- 100 g of crab sticks;
- fresh tomato;
- onion head;
- 3 boiled eggs;
- several olives (for decoration);
- 100 g canned corn.
This recipe for an interesting and tasty salad for any feast involves combining in a single bowl chopped crab sticks, chopped onions, corn, mayonnaise and chopped yolks. These ingredients should be seasoned with mayonnaise, salt to taste and mix.
Separately, it is necessary to chop the egg whites very finely - they need to sprinkle the salad, laid out on a dish for serving. On top of them, evenly chopped olives, as well as tomatoes, should be spread out evenly.
Snack salad "Strawberry"
This salad is a more beautiful representation of the usual herring under a fur coat. To prepare the dish you need to take:
- fillet taken from one carcass of herring;
- some green onions;
- several branches of parsley;
- 1 cooked beetroot;
- 2 cooked potato tubers;
- boiled egg;
- 100 g of hard cheese;
- some butter;
- a spoonful of sour cream;
- 2 tablespoons crackers.
Potatoes, an egg, a piece of butter, as well as sour cream should be chopped in a blender, and then put in the refrigerator for half an hour. After the specified time, the mass must be removed and small strawberries formed from it, wrapping a piece of herring in each of them. Next, each made “berry” needs to be rolled in grated beets, garnished with several sesame seeds, and then put on a pillow made of grated cheese and herbs.
Hot vegetable salad
One of the most delicious and interesting salads can be attributed to vegetable, which is served in a warm form and successfully complements any side dish. To prepare the dish you need to take:
- onion head;
- 5 cloves of garlic;
- carrot;
- 40 g of honey;
- bell pepper;
- 20 g of grated ginger;
- 20 g tobasco;
- 2 tablespoons of soy sauce;
- 200 g of Beijing cabbage;
All of these vegetables, except for Chinese cabbage, should be chopped and pickled in a mixture made of honey, oil, soy sauce and tobasko. After 15 minutes of pickling, the ingredients must be sent to a preheated oven for 30-40 minutes.
Serve the finished salad exclusively in hot form, laying it on the spread leaves of cabbage.
In the reviews of this dish, it is noted that the finished salad is distinguished by its benefits and bright appearance.
"Sea Queen"
Among the tasty and interesting salads, many housewives include the cold dish "Sea Queen", for the preparation of which a large number of seafood is useful for the human body. To create a dish you need to take:
- 1 kg squid;
- 100 g of salmon caviar;
- 300 g of hard cheese;
- 4 boiled eggs;
- 3 cooked potato tubers;
- 300 g of mayonnaise.
To prepare the salad, boil the eggs and cut them into strips, the same thing must be done with squid. Peeled potatoes should be grated. Next, lay out all the ingredients in layers, in the following order:
- Half squid.
- 50 g of red caviar.
- Potatoes.
- Grated cheese.
- The rest of the caviar.
- The balance of squid.
- The eggs.
After laying out each new layer, you need to cover it with a thin mesh of mayonnaise. On top of the dish you need to decorate, for which it is recommended to use fresh cucumbers or red caviar with greens.