Holiday salads should not only be delicious and prepared from gourmet foods. Their purpose is to delight the eyes of the guests. As the name implies, these snacks are stacked. In order for consumers to appreciate their beautiful appearance, salads are usually placed in layers in a transparent dish. Put them on plates, cutting them with a spoon vertically, like a cake. The most famous Russian puff salad is, of course, "Fur coat". But here we give more original recipes.
"Obsession"
An alternative to the usual “Fur coat” can be other salads in layers with the presence of herring. In “Obsession”, each layer is prepared in a separate bowl, and then collected in a smart dish. Bottom layer: we peel 3-4 boiled potatoes in their uniforms, grind, salt, knead with mayonnaise. Three beets as well, mix with finely chopped garlic (1-2 cloves). Salt, knead with mayonnaise. The next layer is herring. Her fillet is simply cut into thin slices. Sprinkle onion rings on top. The top layer is a grated carrot, mixed with 100 g of grated cheese and mayonnaise. After the “assembly” we will decorate the salad with fresh herbs.
"Black Pearl"
Layered salads often made with crab sticks. This ingredient, thanks to its pink color, decorates the dish and gives it piquancy. A 200-gram pack of crab sticks should be well cooled, and then grated with large chips. The bottom layer in this appetizer is a hard boiled egg. All components must be ground on a grater. The second layer is a quarter of the number of sticks. We coat this layer with mayonnaise. Then comes 100 g of hard cheese. Top - 25 g of butter pulled from the freezer. Following is the highlight of the salad - half a glass of steamed prunes, in which walnuts are inserted instead of seeds. Then again, crab sticks, mayonnaise, cheese, butter and another egg. Such salads in layers often decorated not with herbs, but with nuts, prunes and sprinkled with grated cheese. Or you can just limit yourself to a mayonnaise net.
"Horseshoe"
This salad is layered with chicken very appropriate for the coming Year of the Blue Horse. Red onion finely chopped. Dice boiled or baked chicken breast. Four hard boiled eggs and separate the proteins from the yolks. On a flat dish set the shape in the shape of a horseshoe. Then we remove it. Such a horseshoe can be prepared independently from cardboard. Inside the form are three squirrels. Cover with mayonnaise net. We lay the chicken, then onions, Korean carrots, yolk, grated hard cheese. Grease each layer with mayonnaise. Set in the refrigerator for an hour for impregnation.
"Wonderful"
This salad with mushrooms layers looks like Olivier. But instead of green peas, we use walnuts. And pickles in this appetizer are replaced by pickled champignons. In addition, we include 100 g of grated cheese in the salad. And, of course, unlike the mixed Olivier, in Miracle, we lay all the components in layers. They go in this order: half the amount of carrots, cheese, eggs, potatoes, all chicken, mushrooms, walnuts, the rest of the potatoes, eggs, cheese, carrots. Between potatoes and meat, as well as among eggs and cheese, apply mayonnaise.