We advise you to prepare holiday salads for testing a month or two before the solemn day in order to select the ingredients as accurately as possible, check for compatibility, verify the proportions. You should carefully remember the cooking formulas, and then also have time to miss the taste of salads to eat them with appetite. The celebration implies a complete workload around the house, because in addition to kitchen worries about the magnificence of the table, you also need to appreciate the convenience for the guests, having prepared the hall, living room, and bathrooms for the reception — not to list the entire front of the work offhand. Today's article is intended to give the hostess at least a little time to have time to prepare for the right moment not only an apartment and a table, but also herself. It offers not only delicious salads on the festive table, but also surprisingly simple and quick to prepare. However, a sensation with their tasting may well happen - the whole thing is in the winning design and accurate calculation of the ingredients.
on the festive table are prepared according to this formula: 50% new to the same traditional. This one is suitable for any presentation, despite the fact that it would seem that there is nothing unusual in it. Of course, everything distinguishes it from the traditional everyday vinaigrette with beets! The taste is sweetish, slightly spicy and spicy. Good for all seasons!
Will be required for this salad: 2-3 large handfuls of washed and dried spinach, a head of green leafy lettuce and a head of red (for example Radicchio), thinly sliced (yes, although it is considered to be a bad manners to use a knife when chopping salads, here is another case, this closer to chicory), a pair of large oranges - slices, peeled of skin and films, grains of one pomegranate, 300 g "Mozzarella" (choose smaller balls, drain the liquid), a glass of halves of walnuts, 2 tbsp. l sugar, 1 tbsp. l water.
For vinaigrette sauce: shallots (finely chopped and take 1 tbsp. L.), 1 glass of fresh or thawed cranberries, 1 tbsp. l sugar, balsamic vinegar, a little mustard, half a glass of orange juice, an incomplete glass of good olive oil, black pepper, salt.
How to do it fastYou can plan in advance how to prepare salads on the festive table. With the photo, everything becomes most clear. From above, as a decorating element, we see halves of walnuts - in addition to decorativeness, they are also incredibly tasty, and you can cook them in advance - in a few days. In a non-stick (pancake-like) pan, heat 2 tablespoons of sugar with 1 tablespoon of water - let it boil, mix the syrup with nuts until they are completely covered with the sugar mixture and change their color to shiny, caramel-golden. It takes about 2-3 minutes. Dry the nuts by placing them in a single layer on a parchment or plate. Pour and store in a sealed container in a cool place. Before guests arrive, take a blender and work with other cooked products. First chop the onion with a pulsation, then add cranberries, sugar, balsamic vinegar (spoon), mustard, orange juice. Now at medium speed blender pour olive oil in a thin stream and achieve full smoothness of the sauce. Add salt and pepper. This sauce can also be prepared in advance and stored for several days in the refrigerator. It remains to collect the salad. Lay greens round the edge of the dish, you can wreath, chopped red lettuce with spinach and the remaining torn leaves of green lettuce, lay a slide in the middle. Sprinkle with pomegranate seeds, orange slices, candied nuts and Mozzarella. Pour sauce over generously and serve.
Seafood salad
Delicious salads on the festive table can be varied by choosing different ingredients, and use one sauce - for example, the previous, cranberry vinaigrette.
Required for the salad: 2 apples, diced or sliced, green lettuce leaves, 1 tomato - large and meaty, 1 cup peeled pistachios, feta cheese, diced (packaging), and the main component may be fried scallops, crab meat, large shrimp.
How to do it fastFinely tear lettuce leaves, cover them with cranberry sauce, place in a dish, place thinly sliced tomato, apples, pistachios, Feta cheese, seafood on top. Pour sauce over it and serve.
Delicious salads on the festive table do not have to cook for many hours in a row!