Each hostess, preparing for the New Year holidays, wants to surprise the guests and cook something unusual and unconventional. Basically, various experiments are performed on dishes such as salads. They are trying to modify them, add new ingredients, replace the sauce with dressing spicy taste. In this article, we will teach you how to cook a surprisingly tasty and simple salad "Blizzard". This dish is not only appetizing, but also due to the presence of potatoes is very nutritious.
Essential Products
Not a single salad will be superfluous on the festive table. Moreover, it is prepared in just 30 minutes. Due to the composition of nutritious ingredients, a serving of Blizzard salad contains about 180 calories.
To prepare the dish you need:
- Potatoes in the amount of 2-3 pieces, depending on the size of the product.
- 100 grams of champignon mushrooms.
- A piece of ham weighing 100-120 grams.
- Jar of canned green peas.
- 2 pickles.
- Boiled chicken eggs - 2 pcs.
- 50 grams of hard cheese.
- Greens.
- Mayonnaise for dressing "Blizzard" salad.
- Sunflower oil for frying.
- Salt and spices.
Cooking
Before making a salad, it is necessary to prepare the individual ingredients. Remove the peel from the potatoes and cut them into small cubes. Then pour the sunflower oil on the bottom of the hot pan and pour the potato straws into the container. Further, stirring constantly, fry the sticks to the state of french fries. They should acquire a golden hue.
Lay out paper towels on a plate or tray. Then pour the fried potatoes onto napkins so that they absorb excess oil and the whetstones cool faster.
While the straw is cooling, wash the mushrooms for the Blizzard salad and cut into large pieces. Fry them in the same container and then place them on a napkin in a plate. Sunflower oil is absorbed into a paper towel and the mushrooms are dried.
Simultaneously with the frying of champignons, boil the eggs for 10 minutes. Then rinse in ice water, free from the shell and cut into small plates.
Chop a piece of ham and two cucumbers in strips and mix with eggs in a prepared bowl. Salt the preparation and add the fried mushrooms. Drain the brine from a can of peas, dry the contents and mix with the salad ingredients. Next, grate a piece of cheese with a straw on a grater with large cells and sprinkle them with the workpiece. Add spices, chopped herbs and onion feathers to the New Year's salad “Blizzard” and mix all the ingredients.
Lastly, add mayonnaise and potato crisp straws. Gently stir with a spoon and garnish the top with a sprig of parsley and chopped onions.
Variety in composition
For piquancy, the salad "Blizzard" with ham can be slightly varied by replacing or adding some ingredients. For example, champignons can be replaced with fresh or dry forest mushrooms. But before frying, they need to be boiled for half an hour. Soak dry fruits before boiling in cool water.
Onions go well with mushrooms, so cut the head into half rings and fry with them until golden.
Instead of ham, you can prepare boiled sausage or boiled poultry. Mayonnaise can be replaced with sour cream sauce.
The article provides a classic recipe for Blizzard salad with traditional ingredients. Fantasy and experimentation, as in any other dishes, are allowed. Try it, and your salads will become unique and will captivate guests with a refined and piquant taste.