Incredibly delicious salads that create a fairytale atmosphere on the festive table

A colorful abundance of delicious dishes is a distinctive sign of the New Year's table. We offer you recipes for original salads that can give you a fabulous mood.

Herringbone salad

Despite the simple preparation, the Herringbone dish turns out to be tasty, satisfying and attractive. The recipe includes quite affordable ingredients:

• 300 g ham;
• 3 chicken eggs;
• 3 large pickled cucumbers;
• 3 potatoes;
• 2 carrots;
• 1 onion;
• mayonnaise;
• Dill.

Preparation:

1. Prepare all components.
2. Boil potatoes and carrots in their skins until tender, eggs - hard boiled.
3. Dice cucumbers and ham.
4. Chop the peeled onion, boiled eggs and vegetables into small cubes of the same size.
5. Place all ingredients in a deep bowl.
6. Season with mayonnaise and stir; add salt and ground pepper if desired.
7. Gradually spread the salad on a flat dish, forming a cone out of it, compacting with a culinary spatula.
8. Decorate the herringbone with fresh dill branches, starting to lay them in a circle from the bottom, gradually moving upwards.
9. Leave the salad for 2-3 hours to soak, and then serve.

The dill must be laid out so that the “herringbone” does not have white gaps. When adding mayonnaise, you need to control the consistency of the salad - it must be thick, otherwise you will not be able to create the desired shape.

"Mouse" salad

In the menu of the festive New Year's table, there must be a dish symbolizing the hostess of the year - the Rat. You can give any salad a shape similar to the animal, and the small details are easy to accomplish using the following products:

• eyes and nose - black olives;
• ears - radish cut into rings or slices of smoked meat;
• legs - cut from boiled carrots;
• the mustache is a cut feather of a green onion.

To prepare the salad itself you will need:

• 2 chicken eggs;
• ½ medium onion;
• 4 tbsp. l. canned corn;
• 150 g of hard cheese;
• 150 g pork;
• mayonnaise.

Cooking sequence:

1. Boil eggs hard-boiled, let them cool, peel and grind.
2. Cook the pork with the addition of spices and salt.
3. Put the grated eggs on a wide dish and give them a drop shape to make the salad look like a mouse.
4. Lubricate the "mouse" with mayonnaise.
5. Sprinkle with finely chopped onion on top.
6. Pour corn evenly over the onion and coat with mayonnaise.
7. Finely chop the boiled pork, put on top of the corn and coat with mayonnaise.
8. Grate the cheese on a fine grater, sprinkle on the salad and condense a little to fix the shape.

To the "mouse" obtained from meat and cheese, you need to add small details for decoration. Leave the salad for 2-3 hours so that its layers are soaked, and then serve.

Christmas wreath salad

The festive dish contains the following ingredients:

• 200 g of boiled rice;
• 1 apple;
• 200 g crab sticks;
• 100 g green peas;
• 2 fresh tomatoes;
• 70 g of hard cheese;
• green onions, dill;
• spices, salt to taste;
• mayonnaise.

The salad is laid out on a wreath-shaped dish and garnished with plenty of greens.

Preparation:

1. Cut the crab sticks into small cubes, and set aside 2 pieces for decoration.
2. Grind apples and tomatoes into cubes.
3. Connect all components.
4. Put boiled rice, mayonnaise in the salad and mix well.
5. Grate the cheese and add to the total mass.
6. Take a large dish, place a tall cylindrical glass in its center. Spread the lettuce mass in a circle so as to form a ring around it.
7. Sprinkle the "wreath" with chopped herbs. To decorate the salad, place the remaining dill in a circle.
8. Cutting the crab sticks slightly to make it look like candles. Insert the "fire" cut from tomatoes into the "candles".
9. Put slices of tomato, pepper and green peas on top of the greens.

The salad must be chilled for 30-40 minutes before serving.

Santa Claus Hat salad

It is quite simple to prepare and decorate this original dish. His recipe includes the following products:

• 350 g chicken fillet;
• ½ onion;
• 2 pickled cucumbers;
• 3 sweet peppers;
• 2 eggs;
• 2 potatoes;
• 150 g of hard cheese;
• mayonnaise.

Preparation:

1. Boil the meat in salted water and cut into cubes.
2. Chop onion, cucumber, boiled chicken eggs and potatoes into cubes.
3. Season everything with mayonnaise, add salt and spices to taste and mix.
4. Put the salad on a plate so that you get a slide in the form of a hat.
5. Place thinly sliced ​​bell pepper on top of the slide.
6. Form the edge of the grated cheese and form a pompom.

The salad can be served after cooling.

Snowflake salad

This beautiful and light dish consists of the following ingredients:

• 250 g fillet of lightly salted salmon or trout;
• 150 g of "Russian" or "Dutch" cheese;
• 5 chicken eggs;
• 1 large orange;
• mayonnaise.

Preparation:

1. In boiled eggs, separate the yolks from the whites and grate them separately on a fine grater.
2. Cut the peeled orange slices into pieces.
3. Grind the fish into small cubes.
4. Grate cheese on a coarse grater.

Lay out the salad layers in the following sequence, smearing each of them with mayonnaise:

• protein;
• yolk;
• fish;
• cheese;
• Orange;
• fish;
• protein;
• yolk.

Sprinkle the salad with cheese on the sides, and decorate the top with a “snowflake” of mayonnaise or strips of cheese. The dish should stand in the refrigerator for 2-3 hours for the layers to soak. Then it can be served.