Recipes for holiday salads and appetizers. Salads and snacks for the New Year

Each mistress of the New Year's table tries to prepare original holiday salads and snacks in order not only to please the guests, but also to show off their culinary abilities. Therefore, many women think through the menu two to three weeks before the celebration, often changing ideas and ideas.

How to foresee everything?

If many guests are expected to celebrate the New Year, you should think over the table in advance: what will be served as appetizers, what will be the main main course, salads, sweets - all this must be painted in details so as not to get hot at the right time, if any ingredients will not be missed during cooking. All products for New Year's snacks should be put on the list: what, how much and when to cook. After all, there are dishes that require instant serving (hot salads, for example), and there are those that require several hours of curing to reveal the taste.

A bit of creativity: stuffed profiteroles

Unusual recipes for festive salads and appetizers always attract lovers to conjure in the kitchen, so that at the moment of celebration you can receive enthusiastic cheers of guests and envious glances of friends who sigh perplexedly: “When do you have time to do everything?”. In fact, some dishes only seem so complicated and elaborate, but in the process of cooking it turns out that everything is extremely simple. Profitoli with salmon are considered one of these recipes: this New Year appetizer looks amazing, although it cooks relatively quickly. Profiteroles are small custard pastries filled with salty filling.

The dough for this new and tasty snack is prepared according to the usual method of preparation: one glass of water with 150 grams of butter is boiled, you should definitely add a pinch of salt. When the water boils, pour a glass of wheat flour into it, be sure to vigorously stir the mass with a wooden spatula (in no case iron). We turn off the stove fire, but continue to grind the dough until it turns into a beautiful smooth lump that easily lags behind the walls of the dishes. Stir the dough until it cools down to 40 degrees, and then add four eggs one at a time, each time thoroughly mixing the mass until smooth.

Then we transfer the dough into a pastry bag and place small lumps on the baking sheet, with a diameter of not more than three centimeters. We bake in the oven for twenty minutes at a temperature of 200 degrees, while the oven door should not be opened ahead of time - the dough will settle, and profiteroles will lose their air structure.

The filler can be prepared from 200 grams of cream cheese (you can make a more expensive option - take cream) and the same amount of salmon fillet: smoked or salted, which we cut into small pieces. Mix fish and grated cheese, add one bunch of finely chopped fresh dill and mix. When the baked profiteroles are completely cooled, we cut off the top with a sharp knife and fill them with the filling. Put the lid on top so that the filling looks a little.

A new look at Olivier

Olivier salad, which has already become traditional on New Year's Eve, can be prepared in several new ways: for example, serve portionwise in glasses, laid out in layers. Moreover, we prepare the salad Olivier with tongue (beef or pork) - this will give the dish a completely new unique taste, after which this New Year's dish with boiled chicken or sausage will seem fresh.

For cooking for every 350 grams of language you will need:

• one each: onion, boiled carrots and potatoes, fresh cucumber;
• can of peas;
• 4 eggs;
• 2 tbsp. tablespoons of mayonnaise, which can be replaced with sour cream if necessary.

All the ingredients, except peas, are naturally cut into small cubes and placed in wide glasses (as for whiskey) in layers: put the chopped boiled tongue at the bottom, then finely chopped onion, lightly grease with mayonnaise, on top of which we put a layer of potatoes, then a little more mayonnaise, a layer of carrots, peas. Put mayonnaise on top and sprinkle abundantly with chopped eggs, it will also be useful to decorate with a sprig of fresh parsley. Such a salad with tongue looks very impressive on the festive table and is convenient to serve, since it does not take up much space on the New Year's table covered with dishes.

For vegans

A healthy attitude towards food and life has long turned many people to veganism - the animal rights movement. These people do not eat animal products, as well as seafood, so if you are waiting for a vegan, you should worry about a couple of dishes for him to show respect, and also so that the person does not feel “out of place”.

Salads and snacks on the festive table in this style are always distinguished by the simplicity of preparation and a certain minimalism, which makes them honor. Required Products:

- one at a time: pomegranate, orange, apple;

- half a handful: white grapes, olives and walnuts;

- 100 grams of spinach or tops from beets;

- rye bread;

- soy sauce and any spices to your taste.

Cut olives and grapes into halves, cut the orange and apples into medium-sized pieces, and wash the spinach under running water, dry on paper and cut into strips. Mix the ingredients in a salad bowl, add pomegranate seeds and walnuts, a little fried in a dry pan. Sprinkle with spices and lightly pour the sauce. Fry the loaf in vegetable oil until it is a deep golden color, and when it cools down, cut a large star out of it. Put the salad on the dish with a slide and crown it with a star - it turns out a creative Christmas tree, colorful and quite appetizing. Your vegan friends will surely beg you for a recipe for this deliciously tasty, and most importantly, healthy salad, because it has more than a piquant taste - it is quite satisfying, despite the abundance of light fruits.

Without mayonnaise

All owners try to diversify their recipes for holiday salads and snacks, using different combinations. Many began to attract salads without mayonnaise, because this product is not the most dietary, but at the same time most men prefer snacks containing meat or sausages. In order to “score a goal all the way”, you can cook an Italian salad with a fragrant dressing inherent in the cuisine of this country. For cooking you will need:

• Two fresh cucumbers.
• 200 grams of salami.
• 2-3 fresh tomatoes.
• 100 grams of pitted olives.
• A large bunch of parsley and lettuce.
• For dressing: mustard (2 teaspoons), wine vinegar (1 teaspoon) salt to taste, olive oil (3-4 tablespoons) and mix a little black pepper and beat slightly with a whisk.

Break lettuce into medium-sized pieces, cut the cucumbers into thin slices without peeling, and the sausage into strips. It is better to take tomatoes or cherry tomatoes: cut the first into halves, and if the second option is taken, then into small slices. Olives are also cut in half. We mix all the ingredients in a salad bowl, pour the dressing - the snack is ready! On the festive table, this kind of salad will surely find its admirers.

Vegetable snacks

Almost no festive table is complete without vegetables, especially slices of fresh cucumbers, tomatoes and bell peppers, as well as various rolls and canapes with their participation, are especially welcome. The guests especially love recipes for holiday salads and eggplant snacks and their frequent companion - Korean carrots. With these two components, you can create several cooking and serving options:

• Classic pickled eggplant stuffed with Korean carrots . Each recipe certainly has this recipe, but the serving may be different: sliced ​​eggplant, layered with carrots, rolls of them, sprinkled with grated cheese and herbs, or even marinated in adjika for a sharpness.
• Baked eggplant "Peacock's Tail": this is a very entertaining dish, if cooked correctly, while it is served moderately hot, which will be very popular with the male part of the guests. To prepare this festive appetizer, the eggplant is cut into circles and on a baking sheet greased with butter, transferred with mugs of fresh tomatoes and mayonnaise in the form of a peacock's tail, then everything is sprinkled with grated cheese and baked in the oven until cooked.
• You can also cook all your favorite classic "mother-in-law language." This spicy snack has long been considered a frequent guest at all the holiday tables for its simplicity and amazing taste.
  
  To prepare it, even and small eggplants are selected, cut lengthwise into strips that are lightly sprinkled with salt and left for 20 minutes, so that the bitterness from this wonderful vegetable leaves with the acting juice. Next, the eggplant is washed in water, dried on paper and fried in a pan until a soft golden color. Smeared with a sauce of mayonnaise with garlic and chopped parsley, put on the edge a slice of fresh tomato and wrap it with a roll. After two to three hours of standing in a cool place, an appetizer can be served at the table.

Salad with olives and mushrooms

The recipes of holiday salads and snacks are full of variety, but the owners, of course, have the price of those that do not require lengthy preparations or hard-to-reach ingredients. Many guests will like an easy-to-cook, but rather spicy, salad with pickled champignons and corn. To cook it, you need to take these products:

• 15-20 olives;
• 200 grams of canned corn;
• 200 grams of pickled mushrooms;
• 1 large onion;
• 4 boiled eggs;
• 2 tbsp. tablespoons of vegetable oil;
• 5-6 Art. tablespoons of mayonnaise;
• salt and black pepper according to your taste preferences.

Cut the onion into thin half rings and fry in oil until soft. Cut the mushrooms into strips, the eggs also or medium-sized cubes, and the olives in circles. Mix all the components of the salad in one dish, season with spices and mayonnaise, mix - and you can immediately serve it to the table.

If you want a more original presentation, you can use the idea of ​​puff salads: unusually tasty snacks, in which the ingredients are laid out in layers on a thin dish, spreading each layer with a small amount of mayonnaise, look very elegant.

Thai warm salad

If you surprise guests with recipes for holiday salads and snacks, then to the full: why not make a warm salad? After all, winter is after all, and it is better not to abuse abusive drinks, so as not to recall the festival scraps later. And what can warm you more than a hot Thai-style beef salad? The combination of juicy meat and aromatic oriental spices will add variety to the New Year's table, and the presence of greens and vegetables will reduce the burden on the digestive system. We procure products:

• Head of Beijing cabbage.
• 400 grams of beef tenderloin.
• Two fresh cucumbers and bell peppers each.
• Half a head of garlic.
• Half a lemon.
• 6 tbsp. tablespoons of vegetable oil.
• 1 chili pepper
• 2 teaspoons of honey.
• Fresh ginger, sesame seeds, soy sauce.

Freeze the meat a little so that it is easily cut into very thin straws. Cut, move into a bowl and pour over lemon juice and soy sauce to coat the meat. Then add ginger, chopped into pieces of medium size (a spine five cm long), garlic with halves of slices, honey and a couple of tablespoons of oil. Stir the mass thoroughly with your hands until completely mixed and put in a cold place for three to four hours for marinating.

Cut sweet pepper into thin strips, grate the cucumber for Korean carrots, and tear up Beijing cabbage in large pieces, put everything in a salad bowl. Chili pepper cut very thinly and add to the salad. In a pan, warm the sesame seeds until golden brown and set aside, warm the oil and pour the pickled meat into it, peeled off pieces of garlic and other things. Make the fire maximum and fry the meat on it for 8-10 minutes, and then pour on the vegetables together with the juice that has formed, sprinkle with sesame seeds and mix. Three minutes later, serve. A fabulous spicy salad is ready and guests will definitely enjoy it.

Seafood salads

Salads made of squid with caviar, crab sticks or shrimp are considered to be very refined and interesting both in taste and in appearance, so every housewife who is waiting for guests will definitely make a signature salad according to her secret recipe.

1. Tsarskiy salad is considered an expensive, but very tasty substitute for bored olivier, so you should take it into service. It is prepared in a matter of minutes: boil 300 grams of shrimp in salted water for five minutes. This process should not be delayed longer - the shrimp meat will become tough and tasteless. Peel, add boiled and finely chopped egg, 150 grams of canned corn and 50 grams of red caviar. Add a couple of tablespoons of mayonnaise and mix gently. Line a semicircular salad bowl with cling film and place the salad in it, send to a cool place for a couple of hours, after having lightly rammed the salad with a spoon. Before serving, carefully turn the salad bowl onto a dish, remove the film, and decorate the resulting slide with a small amount of red caviar and a sprig of dill.
2. Neptune salad slightly resembles the previous one, although it has more marine ingredients: 300 grams of boiled shrimp, crab sticks and squid, five eggs and 120 grams of red caviar.
   
   We clean the shrimp, cut the crab sticks into slices, and cut the squid into rings and boil it in water for no more than 2-3 minutes. This is very important, otherwise their meat will turn into hard, tasteless rubber. Divided boiled eggs into proteins and yolks, cut the proteins into large pieces. Mix all the products, season with mayonnaise and mix. We spread in a salad bowl and sprinkle with chopped egg yolk.
3. More budget balls from crab sticks are prepared elementarily, and look quite impressive on the festive table, especially in combination with various cuts. To make balls, you need to grate 300 grams of crab sticks on a grater with small holes, set aside half, and mix the second with 150 grams of hard cheese, minced in the same way, and three eggs, also grated. Add to the mass two cloves of garlic, minced with the help of the garlic, and about three tablespoons of mayonnaise, so that the mass can be formed into balls the size of a small plum. Roll each ball in the rest of the crab sticks and put on the green lettuce leaves located on the serving platter.

How unusual is it to cut meat?

A simple appetizer of sausage can be served very original, if you use a little imagination. For example, you can do this:

• Cut a fresh cucumber into circles and cut a hole in the middle into which to insert a rolled sausage slice.
• In the middle of each slice put a teaspoon of grated cheese mixed with mayonnaise, curl it up and lay out a beautiful bouquet on a dish. Also, in the center of each cone, you can insert a strip of red sweet pepper or a green onion feather.
• In the center of ham, you can lay out a beautiful chrysanthemum, for the preparation of which large round slices of ham or boiled sausage are folded in half and placed in the form of a path, laying slices on top of each other. Then twist with a roller and dress at the base, for this you can use the feathers of green onions or string cheese. Cut off the excess edge with a knife and set it with a slice down on the dish - the slices will unfold beautifully in the flower.
• Connect three slices of sausage with a rose, chopped with a wooden skewer if necessary, and put olive or a small slice of cheese in the center of each.

An appetizer of ham with fresh herbs can be a real decoration on the table: in thinly sliced ​​slices of ham, wrap two or three leaves of spinach with a slice of tender mozzarella, and for the aroma you can add a sprig of arugula.

Put the resulting rolls vertically on a dish, close to each other. The resulting miracle will look like a spring bouquet, everyone will immediately remember the New Year's fairy tale "Twelve Months", because this snack will resemble delicate flowers - snowdrops.