Almost all New Year's salads have a special design. This year is the year of the Goat. That is why we decided to arrange the presented dish accordingly.
Delicious goat salad: recipe with a photo of the finished dish
This is perhaps the easiest salad in the form of a pet. To do it yourself, we need:
- medium potatoes - about 2 pcs.;
- pickled cucumbers - 3 medium pcs .;
- crab sticks - about 200 g;
- sweet and sour green apples - 2 small pieces;
- hard cheese - about 60 g;
- fresh eggs - 2 pcs.;
- low fat mayonnaise - use to taste;
- boiled cauliflower - 100 g;
- canned olives (for decoration) - 3 pcs.;
- red juicy pepper (for decoration) - 1/8 pcs.
Component Preparation
New Year's salad "Goat" should begin to cook by processing all of the above components. To do this, boil medium potatoes and eggs, and then cool them, peel and grate (whites separately from the yolks). Next, chop the diced pickles and crab sticks into cubes. As for hard cheese and green sweet and sour apples, they should also be grated.
By the way, in order for the Goat salad to fit its name, it is imperative to prepare the details in the form of eyes and nose from canned olives and red pepper mouth.
The process of forming a dish
After processing the ingredients in one bowl, mix the crab sticks, yolk, pickled cucumbers, boiled potatoes, grated cheese and a green apple. Dressing the products with mayonnaise, they need to be thoroughly mixed with a large spoon and put on a flat plate in the form of a goat’s head. In the future, it is necessary to stick pre-boiled cauliflower in the upper part of the dish, which will act as curly fur. As for the rest of the salad, it should be covered with mayonnaise net and sprinkled with grated protein. At the end of the "goat" you need to make the eyes, nose and mouth.
Correctly serve to the table
Now you know how to make a goat-shaped salad. After the appetizer for the New Year's table is ready, it must be placed in the cold and kept for several hours. This will make the salad more soaked and tender.
Making goat fish salad
Goat Salad may include completely different ingredients. The main thing is that outwardly this dish was as much as possible similar to the mentioned pet.
So we need:
- canned fish in oil (for example, saury or tuna) - 1 standard jar;
- small potatoes - 2 pcs.;
- average carrot - 2 pcs.;
- large onion - 1 pc.;
- hard cheese - about 150 g;
- mayonnaise of low fat content - about 200 g;
- fresh chicken eggs - 4 pcs.;
- boiled dill, olives and boiled carrots - used to decorate dishes.
Ingredient Processing
In order to cook and beautifully decorate the goat salad, all the ingredients should be processed. Canned fish must be removed from the jar and knead with a fork along with oil until a homogeneous mass is obtained. You also need to boil potatoes, carrots and chicken eggs separately. In the future, these products must be cooled and cleaned. After that, they should be grated on a small grater (yolks and squirrels separately). Hard cheese is exactly what you need to do. As for onions, you just need to chop it.
Salad Formation
An appetizer dish in the form of a goat is recommended to be formed in layers. To do this, you need to take a flat plate, and then put the potatoes on it in the form of the mentioned animal. In the future, the following products are required to be placed exactly the same: canned fish, chopped onions, carrots and grated cheese. All of these layers must be greased liberally with mayonnaise so that the salad does not turn out to be dry.
In conclusion, the head of the goat needs to be sprinkled with grated yolk, and the body with protein. After this, the animal should make horns and legs from boiled carrots, as well as eyes from olives. For beauty, sprigs of fresh dill can be placed at the bottom of the salad. As a result, an impression will appear that the New Year's goat seems to be walking in a green meadow.
Serve for a festive dinner
Now you know how to cook New Year's salads in the form of a goat. After the canned fish dish is fully formed, it must be sent to the cold. In this state, it is advisable to withstand the salad for several hours. This will allow to soak well all layers of the dish, which will make it more tender and juicy. Serving it for New Year's dinner is recommended before a hot dinner.
To summarize
As you can see, it is not so difficult to make a delicious salad in the form of a symbol of 2015 on your own. The main thing at the same time is to possess certain culinary abilities and to show due creative imagination.
As for the ingredients, you do not need a specific list to select them. After all, a salad in the form of a goat can include completely different components. Moreover, you can make such a dish using even recipes you have long known. For example, Olivier salad. Having made it from the usual ingredients, you need to take a flat plate, and then put all the products mixed with mayonnaise (potatoes, sausage, cucumbers, carrots, onions, etc.). Further from “Olivier” it is required to form a goat or, for example, its head. After this, the resulting form should be sprinkled with grated egg white and by any method draw on it eyes, mouth, horns, etc. As a result, you will get a familiar dish with an unusual design. Enjoy your meal!