What to cook for the New Year 2020? TOP 10 best recipes for classic, puff and other original salads for the New Year.
New Year's salad is always a responsible choice. On the one hand, I want to cook something proven, tasty to the delight of the household, and on the other hand, original, to surprise the guests. In general, there is always a golden mean: you can take the usual ingredients, and add originality by playing around with the symbol of the year. New 2020 will be the year of the rat, and the traditional salad can simply be complemented with decor, so that you get a mouse figurine. This technique will surely be especially appreciated by children. Small portioned salads in tartlets and light vegetable salads will always sound good on the New Year's table - after all, after all, you don't really want to eat too much at night. But remember that when choosing ingredients it is important to take into account not only your own preferences, but also the symbol of the year.
What salad to cook for the New Year 2020?
New Year is a special holiday, a noisy company of close people with a variety of preferences gathers at the table, and therefore the main criterion for New Year's salads is diversity. Small portions are better, but more variety. You need to prepare hearty salads for men, and light ones for slimming ladies, and attention-grabbing ones for children.
Keep an eye on the variety and ingredients, making a list, be sure to see if your dishes are not too similar. Variety should be present in the "accompanying" components, and in the main ones. For example, out of four salads for the New Year, we make one meat, one with poultry, one with fish or seafood, and another vegetable.
You can also attend to serving different fillings. For example, the same good old and for many is still the best salad Olivier can be put on the table without seasoning and sour cream and mayonnaise can be served in separate bowls.
As for the binding to the symbol of the year - the Rat, it must be said that this animal is not whimsical, and therefore will be happy with any treat, but, for sure, he will especially like New Year's salads with cheese.
TOP 10 most delicious salads for the New Year 2020
The creation of salads for the New Year's table is not a difficult event, but a responsible one, since often at night it does not reach a hot dish, and therefore they become the "face" of the holiday. We present to your attention the TOP-10 salads that will not only decorate your holiday, but also help it become the most delicious.
The best layered salad "Santa Claus"
For this dish, simple win-win ingredients are taken, it is simple to prepare, but it looks very colorful. This delicious New Year's salad is made with meat, and you can take any - beef, turkey, pork, choose from your own preferences. For the rest, it is better not to deviate from the list of components.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 180 kcal.
- Servings - 6-8
- Cooking time - 1 hour
Ingredients:
- Any meat - 300 g
- Prunes - 100 g
- Cheese - 150 g
- Fresh champignons - 400 g
- Bulb onions - 1 pc.
- Carrots - 1 pc.
- Bulgarian pepper - 2 pcs.
- Egg - 5 pcs.
- Vegetable oil, mayonnaise, salt - to taste
Step-by-step preparation of the best puff salad "Santa Claus":
- Cook the meat until tender, sort it by fibers.
- Pour the prunes with boiling water, drain after a few minutes, dry and cut.
- Grate the cheese.
- Heat the oil, chop the onion finely, fry. After a while, add the grated carrots, fry together for 3-5 minutes, then add the mushrooms and cook until soft. If the vegetables and mushrooms are already soft, and there is still some mushroom water in the pan, be sure to evaporate it.
- Combine all prepared ingredients, mix with mayonnaise.
- Now put the salad on a dish, you should get the outline of the head of Santa Claus with a cap.
- You can start decorating: boil the eggs and finely chop the bell pepper.
- Make a beard and part of the cap from proteins, make a face from yolks, lay out the rest of the cap from bell pepper.
You can also make the face of Santa Claus more expressive, for this you can take olives and make eyes, and an excellent nose will turn out from half a cherry tomato. This salad on the New Year's table will look colorful, beautiful and appropriate.
Light salad for the New Year "Chef's whim"
If the spirit of proper nutrition reigns in your family, and you have already forgotten about salads with mayonnaise, we suggest preparing you a light New Year's salad with arugula, avocado and grapes.
Ingredients:
- Arugula - 1 large bunch
- Grapes - 200 g
- Avocado - 1 pc.
- Walnuts - 50 g
- Red onion - 1 small head
- Olive oil - 2 tablespoons
- Balsamic vinegar - 1 tablespoon
- Honey - 1 tablespoon
- Salt, pepper, pomegranate seeds - to taste
Step-by-step preparation of a light salad for the New Year "Chef's whim":
- Rinse the arugula, let it drain, put it in a dish.
- Cut the avocado pulp as you want, the grapes can be put whole, or you can cut it in half.
- Cut the onion into thin rings, pour boiling water over for 10-15 minutes with the addition of vinegar and a pinch of salt.
- Place avocado, grapes, onions on the arugula in a chaotic manner.
- Mix honey (if necessary, melt beforehand to get a liquid consistency) with olive oil.
- Pour the dressing over the salad, stir, salt and pepper, garnish with pomegranate seeds.
As you can see, preparing this light salad is very simple, but it is fundamentally important for it to choose the right avocado. The fruit must be ripe - before buying, be sure to "rinse" it, the pulp should sag a little. If you bought an unripe avocado, it doesn't matter, put it in an impervious paper bag for 2-3 days and leave it to ripen at room temperature.
Salad in tartlets for the New Year "Ideal"
Definitely, this dish will take one of the first places in the TOP of New Year's salads - it is with it that you can start a festive meal, putting a tartlet for each on a portioned plate.
Ingredients:
- Red caviar - 100 g
- Crab sticks - 200 g
- Eggs - 6 pcs.
- Cheese - 150 g
- Tartlets - 10-15 pcs.
- Mayonnaise to taste
Step-by-step preparation of salad in tartlets for the New Year "Ideal":
- Boil eggs and shrimps.
- Grate the cheese, chop the crab sticks.
- Mix all prepared ingredients, season with mayonnaise, arrange on tartlets.
Idealny is one of the best New Year's salads, it is very easy to prepare, but at the same time extremely tasty and will appeal to everyone - both a person with simple tastes and a gourmet.
New Year's salad "Mimosa mouse"
Another recipe that will definitely take its rightful place in the ranking of TOP salads for the New Year 2020 this year - it is prepared from products available to everyone, to taste like a traditional win-win mimosa, but the original decor decides everything. This layered salad is depicted in the form of a head of cheese, from which a small piece is cut, and mice of eggs are "scurrying around" next to it.
Ingredients:
- Eggs - 5 pcs. (+1 - for decoration)
- Cheese - 100 g
- Butter - 100 g
- Canned pink salmon - 250 g
- Bulb onions - 1 pc.
- Carrots - 2 pcs.
- Vinegar 9% - 1 tbsp
- Water - 20 ml
- Mayonnaise - 250-300 g
- Peppercorns - 6 pcs. (for decoration)
Step-by-step preparation of New Year's salad "Mimosa-mouse":
- Chop the onion as finely as possible, put in a bowl. Pour water and vinegar into the onion, mix well.
- Boil the carrots, cool, grate.
- Cut a small slice from the cheese, set aside, rub the rest.
- Boil the eggs, separate the yolks from the whites, mash the first, and grate the second.
- We begin to collect the salad - at the same time we do not collect the classic round puff salad, but we make it in the form of a cheese head with a cut out piece. The first layer is proteins, the second is half of carrots, then cheese, half of pink salmon, pickled onions, remnants of carrots, remnants of fish. Coat each layer, except for fish, with mayonnaise, but butter should go on top of the fish, it is best to first freeze it and just grate it on top.
- Form the top layer of the lettuce from the yolk and decorate the sides.
- Cut the egg for decoration in half, make two slots in each and insert the "ears" for the mouse into them, which you want to cut from a small slice of cheese. Make the eyes and noses from the peppercorns.
- Place one mouse on the salad, the other on the plate.
So the symbol of the year appeared on your table, or rather, two whole years. By the way, if you do not like mimosa salad, prepare any other puff in the form of a head of cheese with a cut out piece, make the top layer yellow - from yolks or cheese and also seat the mice out of eggs.
Festive salad "Original chicken with pineapple"
This is a really unusual representation of the usual combination: this salad for the New Year is prepared without mayonnaise, but it turns out to be quite satisfying.
Ingredients:
- Chicken fillet - 300 g
- Pineapple - 200 g
- Avocado - 1 pc.
- Garlic - 1 clove
- Lemon juice - 2 tablespoons
- Orange juice - 1 tablespoon
- Olive oil - 2 tablespoons
- Honey - 1 tsp
- Parsley - a small bunch
Step-by-step preparation of the "Original chicken with pineapple" festive salad:
- Boil the fillet, chop, put in a pan, fry over high heat until a beautiful crust.
- Add salt and minced garlic, stir, turn off heat.
- Cut the pineapple pulp into cubes - you can take canned, but fresh is better. If you use fresh, don't forget to cut a hard core out of the rings.
- Chop the avocado into cubes.
- Combine all prepared ingredients.
- Make a dressing - combine melted honey, butter and lemon juice.
- Season, stir.
Choosing both ripe avocado and ripe pineapple is important to make this salad a success. We already wrote about the rules for choosing and ripening the first one, as for the pineapple - choose the one that emits a light sweet aroma.
Warm New Years salad with bacon and cherry
And here is another original salad without mayonnaise, but it is important to serve it warm, which will require the hostess to be distracted from the holiday. The best option is to prepare all the ingredients in advance, and then be distracted only by preparing the warm component - bacon.
Ingredients:
- Bacon - 5 large slices
- Romaine lettuce - large bunch
- Cherry - 100 g
- Corn - 100 g
- Feta cheese - 100 g
- Olive oil - 1 tablespoon
- Apple cider vinegar - 1 tablespoon
- Lemon juice - 1 tsp
- Sugar - 2 tsp
Step-by-step preparation of a warm salad for the New Year with bacon and cherry:
- Rinse the salad, let dry, cut into pieces.
- Chop the feta cheese into cubes, cut the tomatoes in two.
- Mix everything, add corn.
- Make a dressing by combining vinegar, lemon juice, sugar, and butter.
- Dice the bacon or cut it into nice long strips.
- Fry it in a little oil.
- Add bacon, season and serve immediately.
It is noteworthy that such a salad can also play the role of a light hot dish, perhaps more appropriate on New Year's Eve than something nourishing.
Quick salad "Symbol of the New 2020"
If you want the symbol of the year to be on the table, but you don’t want to mess around for a long time, you can make this delicious salad with melted cheese.
Ingredients:
- Squid - 300 g
- Eggs - 3 pcs.
- Processed curd cakes of the Druzhba type - 2 pcs.
- Bulb onions - 1 pc.
- Cucumber or apple - 1 pc. optional for freshness
- Mayonnaise to taste
- Olives, thin ham - for garnish
Step-by-step preparation of a quick salad "Symbol of the New Year 2020":
- Boil the squid: dip the defrosted carcass in boiling water and cook for 2-3 minutes. Cool, cut into cubes.
- Boil the eggs, separate the whites from the yolks, grate in different bowls.
- Grate the apple or cucumber as well.
- Chop the onion, pour boiling water over for 10-15 minutes.
- Mix all the ingredients together (except for proteins) and with melted cheese, the latter is best pre-freeze and grate.
- Transfer the ingredients to a dish in the form of a mouse, sprinkle with protein on top.
- From thin ham, make ears, tail, legs, mustache.
- Nose and eyes made of olives.
The festive mouse is ready to decorate your table!
Original New Year's salad "Cheese basket"
Another honorary participant in the TOP of New Year's salads, which will be very appropriate to cook in the New Year of the Mouse 2020, because instead of a plate, it is laid out in … a cheese basket!
Ingredients:
- Cheese - 200 g
- Turkey breast - 150 g
- Apple - 1 piece
- Grapes - 50 g
- Lemon juice - 1 tsp
- Lettuce leaves - 1/2 bunch
- Walnuts - 50 g
- Sour cream, garlic - to taste
Step-by-step preparation of the original New Year's salad "Cheese basket":
- Boil the breast.
- Grate the cheese on a coarse grater, divide in half, add chopped garlic to taste.
- Cover the baking sheet with parchment paper, put a pile of cheese in a circle - the layer should not be thick, even. We prepare one circle at a time.
- Put in an oven preheated to 180 ° C, wait a few minutes for the cheese to melt, but make sure that it does not burn.
- Prepare a 0.5 liter jar, put the cheese on the jar right on the parchment - the center of the cheese mug should coincide with the bottom of the jar, its edges should hang down.
- While the baskets are solidifying, cut the breast into cubes, the grapes into halves, the apple into wedges, chop the walnuts and pick the lettuce leaves with your hands.
- Add lemon juice to sour cream.
- Combine all components, mix with dressing, arrange in baskets.
Of course, preparing this salad for the New Year is not so easy, but it will definitely become the star of the festive table.
Salad with lightly salted trout "New Year's Gift"
And this unusual salad will be especially liked by lovers of Japanese cuisine, since it will remotely resemble rolls in taste.
Ingredients:
- Rice - 4 tablespoons
- Trout - 300 g
- Egg - 3 pcs.
- Cucumber - 1 pc.
- Avocado - 1 pc.
- Lemon - 1/4
- Mayonnaise to taste
- Pomegranate seeds, curd cheese - for decoration
Step-by-step preparation of a salad with lightly salted trout "New Year's Gift":
- Rinse the rice, boil.
- Peel the avocado, slice, and pour over with lemon juice.
- Chop the cucumber into cubes.
- Divide the fish into two parts: cut one into cubes, the second into thin strips, they will be needed in order to decorate the salad for the New Year.
- Boil the eggs, chop the yolks, grate the whites.
- Collect the layers: first - half the rice, then avocado, trout, leftover rice, cucumber, yolk, then white. Coat all layers with mayonnaise.
- Now we turn the salad into a New Year's gift: we create a beautiful lattice from fish strips. Put a pomegranate seed in each sector of the lattice. Put curd cheese in a cream syringe and create a beautiful edging on the sides.
That's all, a beautiful New Year's gift is ready to decorate your table.
Olivier for New Year in lavash
Of course, how many original dishes you can't cook, but you can't do without Olivier in the TOP of salads for the New Year 2020. However, originality is also appropriate in the preparation of this traditional dish - it can be made, for example, in lavash.
Ingredients:
- Boiled sausage - 100 g
- Potatoes - 2 pcs.
- Eggs - 2 pcs.
- Pickled cucumbers - 2 pcs.
- Carrots - 1 pc.
- Lavash - 1 pack
- Processed cheese "Druzhba" - 1 pc.
- Mayonnaise to taste
Step-by-step cooking Olivier for the New Year in pita bread:
- Boil carrots, potatoes and eggs and leave to cool.
- When the cooked ingredients have cooled down, cut them, as well as the rest of the sausage and cucumbers, into small cubes.
- Expand the pita bread, coat it with melted cheese.
- Mix all the ingredients together, put on the cheese.
- Top with mayonnaise.
- Wrap the pita bread tightly and cut into strips with a sharp knife.
Traditional but not boring Olivier can be served!
