TOP 8 simple and delicious salad recipes for the New Year 2020. Features of making salads in the Year of the Rat. Video recipes.
A festive table without salads cannot be called festive, and a New Year's table without delicious salads and snacks is generally difficult to imagine. Moreover, even an exquisite hot dish will not replace the familiar Olivier, Mimosa, Herring under a fur coat, etc. What can you cook on December 31 of the outgoing year in order to please everyone with delicious, simple and brand new salads in 2020?
As you know, the New Year 2020 according to the Eastern calendar will be held under the sign of the White Rat. The animal is not picky and eats almost everything, which makes it easier to draw up a festive menu. However, some symbol preferences should be considered.
Features of cooking salads for the New Year 2020
- When creating a festive menu, it is not necessary to use expensive and exotic products. Since the patroness of the year will not appreciate it. She loves simple dishes, but tasty and beautifully presented. There will be enough inexpensive ingredients, but interestingly designed and originally served.
- Don't just put salads in a bowl in a shapeless mass. Show creativity and imagination for outdoor salad dressing. Form treats in separate layers inside the serving rings, decorate them in New Year's paraphernalia.
- To gain the Rat's favor, use salads that contain cheese, corn, and vegetables. The animal of the year most often prefers to consume these products.
- Meat salads are also appropriate on the New Year's table. A bird, a turkey and a goose will not hurt, a duck and a rabbit will do. The main thing is to refrain from the meat of the animal itself.
- Since our Rat is an esthete, he appreciates not only a beautiful presentation of dishes, but also a good serving. Serve the 2020 New Year's table with beautiful dishes, tablecloths and napkins. Napkins can be rolled up, secured with a special ring and laid out on the seats.
- When serving, choose dishes and table surroundings, adhering to the color scheme. Orange, yellow, brown and green colors work well. The same colors should be in the priority of products on the New Year's table.
We have discussed the preferences for the symbol of the year. Now let's look at the recipes for the most delicious and mouth-watering New Year's salads for the New Year 2020. We will remind you how to cook the already familiar holiday dishes and suggest some new New Year's recipes. Moreover, they are all simple and prepared taking into account the availability of the constituent products.
Salads for the New Year 2020 in the form of Mice
Below are several options for salads in the form of Mice, but the mouse looks especially impressive over a monochromatic snack. However, in this way, any salad can be turned into Rodents and Rats. In any case, it will look beautiful and elegant.
"Mouse" salad with red fish
Since the upcoming year 2020 will be the Year of the Rat or, according to another version of the Mouse, a salad in the form of this cute animal must necessarily flaunt at the New Year's feast. He will surprise guests and delight relatives.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 196 kcal.
- Servings - 3
- Cooking time - 30 minutes
Ingredients:
- Lightly salted red fish - 150 g
- Chicken eggs - 3 pcs.
- Potatoes - 1-2 pcs.
- Salt to taste
- Vegetable oil - 1 tablespoon
- Mayonnaise - 3 tablespoons
- Carrots - 1 pc.
Cooking "Mouse" salad with red fish:
- Peel the red fish, remove the bones, cut into cubes and mix with vegetable oil to keep it fresh for longer.
- Boil eggs hard-boiled, cool and peel. Set aside the protein from one egg, you will need it to decorate the Mouse, and grate the rest together with the yolks on a medium grater and mix with mayonnaise.
- Boil the potatoes in their uniforms, cool, grate on a medium grater and mix with mayonnaise.
- Boiled carrots, peel, cool, grate on a coarse grater and cover the potato layer.
- Put the food in layers on a plate in the form of a drop, which will be the body of the Mouse. First fish, then eggs, potatoes and carrots.
- Next, shape the salad with your hands. Raise the back of the animal slightly so that the Mouse is not flat.
- Brush the salad with mayonnaise, cover with grated egg white and decorate the Mouse.
- Roll into balls from a small amount of potatoes and make legs. Make eyes, nose and antennae from olives, and ears and tail from cheese.
Rat salad with melted cheese
The most ordinary salad of the most unpretentious products can be turned into a decoration for the New Year's table by decorating an appetizer in the form of a symbol of the coming year "Rat".
Ingredients:
- Processed cheese - 300 g
- Hard boiled eggs - 3 pcs.
- Garlic - 3 cloves
- Mayonnaise - for dressing
- Boiled sausage - for decoration
- Olives - for decoration
- Dill - for registration
Cooking "Rat" salad with melted cheese:
- Grate the melted cheese on the finest grater.
- Peel the boiled eggs and rub them on a shredder in the same way.
- Peel the garlic and pass through a press.
- Combine foods and mix with mayonnaise.
- Put the appetizer on a flat plate, giving it an oval shape.
- Next, decorate the dish. Cut out the ears from 2 circles of sausage. To do this, make triangular cuts in the sausage pieces and connect the edges. Fasten the finished ears with a toothpick on the body.
- Cut out the fingers on the remaining sausage triangles and place the legs over the salad.
- Form the eyes from the halves of olives, the nose from a quarter of this berry, and make the mustache and tail from the twigs of dill.
New Year's ham salad decorated with Mice
Turning the salad into a "Mouse" is beautiful, but you can do it differently by decorating the appetizer with small figures of mice. You can arrange any appetizer in this way.
Ingredients:
- Boiled potatoes in uniforms - 3 pcs.
- Hard-boiled chicken eggs - 4 pcs.
- Hard-boiled quail eggs - 10 pcs.
- Fresh cucumbers - 2 pcs.
- Ham - 300 g
- Cheese - 300 g
- Mayonnaise - 200 g
- Bulb onions - 1 pc.
- Dill - a few twigs
- Salt to taste
- Black peppercorns - to taste
Cooking New Year's ham salad decorated with Mice:
- Peel chicken eggs and potatoes and grate together with cucumbers on a coarse-toothed grater, and grate the cheese on a fine shredder.
- Peel the onions, wash and cut into thin half rings.
- Cut the ham into cubes.
- Place the ham on a flat, wide plate in a circle and brush with mayonnaise.
- Then lay the layers (potatoes, eggs, cucumbers) alternately, greasing them with mayonnaise.
- Sprinkle the top and sides of the salad with cheese.
- The salad is ready, now decorate it with mice. To do this, peel the quail eggs and put them on a salad, these will be little Mice. Attach the triangular ears made from small pieces of cheese, the nose and eyes from the peppercorns to the testicles.
- Chill the finished salad in the refrigerator for half an hour.
Korean carrot salad garnished with Rats
Small rodents for decorating a salad can be made not only from quail, but also from chicken eggs. This method of making mice is less expensive because chicken eggs are cheaper than quail eggs, while the treat looks great.
Ingredients:
- Boiled chicken meat - 200 g
- Champignons - 200 g
- Korean carrots - 150 g
- Onions - 1 pc.
- Cheese - 200 g
- Hard-boiled chicken eggs - 2 pcs.
- Vegetable oil - for frying
- Mayonnaise - for dressing
- Salt to taste
- Black peppercorns - to taste
Cooking Korean Carrot Salad Garnished with Rats:
- Peel the onions and cut them into half rings, and the mushrooms into plates. Fry the food until tender in a skillet in oil and cool.
- Cut the meat into strips.
- Combine food, salt, season with mayonnaise and stir.
- Put the salad on a plate in the shape of a circle or any other configuration.
- Grate the cheese on a fine grater and sprinkle over the finished snack.
- Peel the boiled eggs, cut in half and place on the surface of the salad.
- Make small incisions about 2 cm from the sharp end of the testicle. Insert triangular pieces of cheese into them, which will serve as the ears of the animals.
- Use peppercorns for the eyes and nose. Build a mustache and tail from Korean carrots. And put a small piece of cheese in front of each mouse.
Classic New Year's salads
A mouse salad or a dish decorated with small rodents, of course, will look interesting at a festive feast. However, do not forget about the classic dishes, without which not a single New Year's table can do.
Salad "Christmas candles"
Edible Christmas candles on the festive table will look beautiful and rich. In addition, our animal will be grateful for the interest in everything smart and bright.
Ingredients:
- Canned champignons - 300 g
- Ham - 200 g
- Cheese - 150 g
- Sweet corn - 1 can
- Garlic - 1 clove
- Mayonnaise - for dressing
- Pomegranate - 1 pc.
- Sweet pepper - 0.5 pcs.
- Salt to taste
- Ground black pepper - to taste
- Dill - a few twigs
Cooking salad "Christmas candles":
- Make a garlic dressing. To do this, mix the mayonnaise with the garlic passed through a press and stir.
- Cut the ham into small cubes.
- Grate the cheese on a coarse shredder.
- Cut the mushrooms into 4 pieces.
- Combine all products, pepper and mix.
- Place the salad in an oval shape on a plate and cover it with chopped dill.
- Peel the pomegranate and lay out the grains, improvising a garland.
- Cut the cheese into wide slices, roll it up, secure with a toothpick and set inside the salad.
- Cut out the "tongues of flame" from the pepper and insert it inside the cheese tube.
"Clapperboard" appetizer salad
Khlopushka salad is a wonderful appetizer for the New Year's table. Bright, smart and beautiful. Such a treat will definitely not be ignored.
Ingredients:
- Boiled sausage - 100 g
- Boiled potatoes - 2 pcs.
- Hard boiled eggs - 2 pcs. (for decoration)
- Pickled cucumbers - 2 pcs.
- Boiled carrots - 1 pc.
- Pomegranate - 0.5 pcs. (for decoration)
- Thin lavash - 1 sheet
- Processed cheese - 2 tablespoons
- Mayonnaise - 1 tablespoon
Cooking salad snack "Clapperboard":
- Brush lavash with melted cheese and add the grated sausage.
- Peel potatoes and carrots, grate on a coarse grater, mix with mayonnaise and lay out in the next layer.
- Grate pickled cucumbers, put in a thin layer and pour with mayonnaise.
- Roll the pita bread, put it seam side down and brush with mayonnaise.
- Peel the eggs, grate and sprinkle on the roll, alternating layers of yolk and white.
- Place pomegranate seeds all over the roll at the junction of the yolk and protein strips.
- Place the roll on a platter and garnish with herbs.
New Year's salad "Masquerade"
The most festive, bright and beautiful salad for the festive table is "Masquerade". He will not be left without attention and will become the centerpiece of the New Year's table.
Ingredients:
- Ham - 200 g
- Crab sticks - 100 g
- Canned green peas - 100 g
- Tomatoes - 2 pcs.
- Boiled potatoes - 2 pcs.
- Vegetable oil - 3 tablespoons
- Provencal mayonnaise - 3 tablespoons
- Dill - 1 bunch
- Garlic - 2 cloves
- Lettuce leaves - for serving
- Hard boiled eggs - 1 pc. (for decoration)
- Canned corn - zhmenya (for decoration)
- Pomegranate seeds - zhmenya (for decoration)
Cooking New Year's Masquerade salad:
- Cut the ham into strips, the tomatoes - into cubes, the crab sticks - into small pieces, chop the dill, pass the garlic through a press.
- Cut the potatoes into strips and fry in a pan in vegetable oil until golden brown. Then place on paper towels to remove excess oil.
- Put all the food in a bowl, add the green peas with mayonnaise and stir.
- Put lettuce leaves on a dish, on which put salad on top and grease it beautifully with mayonnaise.
- Garnish the salad with coarsely grated eggs, pomegranate seeds and corn on top.
Olivier salad in the form of a Christmas tree
It is impossible to imagine a New Year's table without Olivier's favorite salad. To serve it in a special way, prepare a dish in the form of a New Year's symbol - a Christmas tree.
Ingredients:
- Canned peas - 1 can
- Boiled eggs - 5 pcs.
- Boiled potatoes - 4 pcs.
- Pickled cucumbers - 4 pcs.
- Milk sausage - 300 g
- Mayonnaise - for dressing
- Pitted olives - 3 pcs. (for decoration)
- Dill - bunch (for decoration)
- Canned corn - zhmenya (for decoration)
- Pomegranate seeds - zhmenya (for decoration)
Preparation of the "Olivier" salad in the form of a Christmas tree:
- Cut sausage, cucumbers, peeled carrots, eggs and potatoes into cubes about 5 mm in size.
- Combine food in a bowl, add peas, add mayonnaise and stir.
- Put the Olivier salad on the dish in the form of a triangular Christmas tree.
- Wash the dill, dry it, tear off the twigs and put it on the salad to make a green tree.
- Decorate the salad in the form of a Christmas garland with pomegranate seeds, halves of olives and corn.
