At the festive table, especially New Year's, we have long been accustomed to a certain assortment of salads: herring under a fur coat, olivier, etc. But many housewives decided to diversify these dishes, change their shape, appearance. So there was a salad "Santa Claus", which can be any of the above, but at the same time, it looks like a real Russian Santa Claus. Now we will analyze some of the most interesting recipes for preparing such a dish.
The recipe for New Year's "Santa Claus." Basis - Olivier
To prepare it, we need such products: 200 grams of ham, 200 grams of chicken breast, the same amount - champignons, mayonnaise, 100 grams of cheese, two cucumbers. Ingredients for decoration: for the eyes - black olives, for the hat - grated poisonous beets, for the hat, beard and face - grated boiled eggs, for the nose - half a tomato or beetroot slide. Now we collect Santa Claus Salad.
Pre-prepare the components. Boil the chicken breast and cut into thin strips. We also cut mushrooms into strips and fry them in vegetable oil, then cool them. In the same way we cut cucumbers and ham, grate cheese on a fine grater. We begin to spread the
salad on layers on a flat plate
, greasing each of them with mayonnaise. The first layer is chicken, the second is mushrooms, the third is cucumbers, the fourth is ham, and the fifth is cheese. And finally, we decorate the finished dish with the appropriate ingredients.
Salad "Santa Claus" based on herring under a fur coat
List of necessary products: five potatoes, 500 grams of herring fillet, one onion, three carrots, two beets and mayonnaise. We offer an original recipe for its preparation. First of all, we take a confectionery syringe, fill it and draw a contour on a large plate, we make fir-tree dill from it. It is assumed that beets, carrots and potatoes are already boiled. We make the first layer of grated potatoes, the second - from herring, diced, the third - from finely chopped onions. Lubricate with mayonnaise.
Next, lay the carrots, grated on a fine grater, level with a spoon. The next layer is beets, also grated, then mayonnaise. We begin to decorate our Santa Claus salad. On the finished dish, draw the contours of the picture and fill it. From cheese, cutting out a glass, we make a face, on a fine grater we rub
egg white for a beard. Rub the egg yolk and carrot. From the first we create a sheepskin coat, from the second - a bag and mittens. The final stage: we again draw the outline and make a staff of beets, and of olives - eyebrows and eyes.
“Santa Claus” with bell pepper, olives and cherry
List of necessary products: 200 grams of ham, the same amount of mushrooms and boiled chicken, 100 grams of cheese, two cucumbers, one bell pepper, mayonnaise, two little things olives, four chicken eggs, one cherry tomato. We tell you how else you can make the original Santa Claus salad. The recipe is as follows. The first stage, as always, is preparatory. Cut chicken fillet, cucumber and ham into thin strips, mushrooms - into small pieces and fry them, grate cheese on a fine grater. Then, in a special form, having the appearance of the head of Santa Claus, lay out our salad in layers. Each of them, at the same time, is coated with mayonnaise.
The order of the layers is as follows: chicken, mushrooms, then cucumber and ham. The final one is cheese. Decorate the salad. Boil the eggs and separate the proteins from the yolks. From the first we make the edge for the cap and beard, from the second - the face. We spread the hat out of the Bulgarian pepper, previously crushed in a blender and squeezed well. Nose - tomato, eyes - olives. That's all done.
Another very similar recipe
We diversify the previous Santa Claus salad a little. Photos of the finished dish will help us understand these differences. Ingredients: one chicken breast, five chicken eggs, 300 grams of mushrooms, two Bulgarian peppers, three olives, dill, sunflower oil, mayonnaise, salt. Boil the eggs, separate the protein from the yolk and three on a fine grater. Mushrooms, bell pepper and smoked chicken breast are cut into small pieces, then fry the mushrooms in sunflower oil.
Lubricating each layer with mayonnaise, we form a salad. We start with the breast, continue with pepper, mushrooms and end with yolk and protein. We continue by building sledges from chicken, deer from mushrooms, Santa Claus from red pepper and protein, and dill from the Christmas tree. The result is a real picture, which is even a pity to eat.
The recipe “Santa Claus” from potatoes and meat
We need: any boiled meat - 200 grams, boiled two potatoes, one carrot and five chicken eggs, red bell pepper, one black olive and mayonnaise. Cut the meat into small cubes and make the first layer of our salad out of it. Grate the potatoes on a medium grater, put the second layer out of it and grease with mayonnaise. As the third layer we use carrots, also grated on a medium grater. Sauce. From the grated yolks we make a face, and from red pepper diced into a hat.
In principle, there is a salad recipe “Santa Claus Hat” as a separate dish, but we will leave it for another article. Moreover, its base will be the same Olivier. Or your favorite herring under a fur coat. From the grated proteins we make the rim of the cap and the beard, from the olives - the eyes, we finish with the nose from a piece of red pepper.
“Santa Claus” with salmon
Products: four boiled eggs, canned corn - one jar, two onions, one tomato, one carrot, mayonnaise and vegetable oil. Well, and another salad in the form of "Santa Claus." We clean the eggs, separate the yolks from the proteins, and then rub separately on a fine grater. We divide the salmon into two parts, one of which is cut into cubes, the other into thin slices. Diced - tomato. We clean the carrots and onions, the first - we grate, coarse, the second finely chopped.
Fry them together in vegetable oil. We pour the liquid from the jar with corn and combine in one container tomato, carrot and onion, salmon, diced, corn, yolks. After that - season with mayonnaise, mix well and put on a large flat dish. In the process, we form the figure of the festive Santa Claus. We decorate the prepared salad with salmon slices, proteins, pepper and cheese. Leave for 30 minutes to soak and can serve. Enjoy your meal.