It is impossible to imagine a new year without a rich holiday table, which is crammed with an abundance of hot, salads, snacks and other dishes. Festive feast is an important part of the New Year's celebration, so it is important to pay the main attention to the preparation of dishes for guests.
Gone are the days when without the "Olivier", "Vinegret", "Mimosa", "Capital" it was simply impossible to imagine the New Year's table. At that time, few people decided on culinary experiments, so as not to be misunderstood by numerous relatives.
Today, when there is no lack of information, it has become much easier to find interesting recipes. Delicious, healthy and beautiful dishes that guests have never tried before, cause great interest and approval. They will decorate the holiday table and will honor any hostess.
Salads for the New Year 2019: how to please the guests and patroness of the year
The symbol of the coming year is the Yellow Earth Pig.As you know, this animal loves a lot and tasty food, but this does not mean that the New Year's table should burst with an abundance of meat and fatty dishes. Increasingly, the hostess prefer to cook, as they say, just a little bit. And the main elements of such a festive table are salads and snacks.
As for the ingredients for salads, you should immediately make a reservation - no pork meat on the table. At the upcoming celebration in the priority vegetable salads, chicken, sea fish. We offer you 5 delicious and original recipes of Christmas salads that your guests will love.
Fruit and Vegetable Salad “Zabiyaka”
The combination of fruits and vegetables, contrary to the prevailing opinion, will appeal to all guests. Offer them to try the “Zabiyaka” fruit and vegetable salad.
To prepare the salad will need:
- 3-4 medium sized carrots
- 1 apple
- 1 orange
- 10 pieces of dried prunes
- 10 pieces of dried apricots
- a quarter cup of raisins
- half a cup of walnuts
- garlic to taste
- mayonnaise for dressing
Scratch carrots on a coarse grater, peel the fruit and cut into small cubes. Dried fruits pour boiling water for 10-15 minutes, rinse thoroughly under running water. Prune and dried apricots cut into pieces. Grind walnuts with a blender.
Combine all the ingredients and season the salad with mayonnaise or a mixture of mayonnaise and sour cream. If desired, add to the salad garlic passed through the press.
Winter Fantasy Fruit Salad
This salad can be considered a fruit snack, so it is light and tasty.
To prepare the salad will need:
- pear
- banana
- kiwi
- tangerines
- any nuts - hazelnuts, walnuts, cedar
- ice cream
Peel and chop the fruit into evenly sized slices, lay them in a cream bowl, pour lightly melted ice cream on top and sprinkle with chopped nuts in a blender.
This salad must be refilled just before serving, so that the ice cream does not have time to stratify and melt. Fruits also should not be mixed in advance, as they will give unwanted juice.
New Year's salad "Little Red Riding Hood"
Such a salad can easily compete with the famous Olivier. In addition, the ingredients of both salads are similar, with the exception of a few bright and very tasty additives.
To make a salad, you will need:
- smoked chicken breast - 500 grams
- potatoes - 500 grams
- carrot - 600 grams
- hard cheese - 200 grams
- walnuts to taste
- eggs - 5 pieces
- mayonnaise for dressing
- pomegranate seeds
- Let's start with vegetables. Peel and dice potatoes and carrots like on Olivier.
- We clean and cut the eggs.
- We cut chicken breast into small cubes.
- We rub cheese.
- Grind nuts in a blender or with a rolling pin.
Salad "Little Red Riding Hood" ideally should be a la carte, that is, for each guest preparing their own plate with a layered dish. If you have absolutely no time for cooking, then you may well be limited to one big dish, where the ingredients will also be laid out in layers.
Place a salad ring in the center of the plate and lay out the ingredients in the following sequence:
- 1 layer: potatoes
- 2 layer: chicken + mayonnaise layer
- 3 layer: nuts
- 4 layer: cheese + mayonnaise
- 5 layer: carrots
- 6 layer: eggs + maoinesis
And the final touch of the salad is the same red cap, which is made from pomegranate seeds. Salad needs to be made in advance so that it becomes soaked and tastier and richer.
New Year's salad for a luxurious feast "Abundance"
It is easy to compensate for the lack of meat dishes from pork with dishes from river and sea fish, shrimps, lobsters, etc. New Year's table in 2019 will be the most diverse and rich, because the housewives will have to think carefully over the ingredients so as not to offend the mistress of the coming year, the Yellow Earth Pig. We offer you a recipe for a refined and luxurious salad that will be the main highlight of the festive table.
To prepare the salad will need:
- 200 grams of squid
- 200 grams of boiled rice
- 1 fresh cucumber
- 2 pickled cucumbers
- soy sauce to taste
- tomato sauce is sweet to taste
- cilantro, parsley, green onions
- 50 grams of shrimp chips
- vegetable oil
- Clean the squids, double them with boiling water, hold in hot water for 1 minute. After that, soak in cold water.
- Cut the squids into small neat cubes.
- Cucumbers (salted and fresh) peel and also cut into small cubes.
- In the bowl for the salad, add the boiled round rice, greens, sauces and previously prepared ingredients.
- Fry the shrimp chips in a deep fat fryer or in a frying pan with a lot of oil, cool on a napkin, thereby removing excess fat. Ready salad is spread on chips or just served on a table on a small plate with chips around the edge.
Hearty salad on New Year's table in 2019 with duck and oranges
Salad, despite the unusual ingredients, is prepared very easily. Each housewife will cope with this tasty and nourishing salad that will surely please men who prefer meat dishes.
To prepare the salad will need:
- 300 grams duck fillet (any game allowed)
- 2 oranges
- 200 grams of honey agaric or chanterelles in marinade
- celery stalk
- 200 grams of red seedless grapes
- 3 small bulbs
- lemon juice
- vinegar 9%
- sunflower oil
- salt, pepper, tarragon to taste
- Boil the meat and cut into cubes.
- Crumble the celery and onion into 1 cm pieces.
- Cut the grapes in half.
- Mix everything.
Next, proceed to serving the salad. For this:
- Cut the oranges in half, remove the pulp from them with a spoon, crumble it into a salad.
- Put the resulting mass into the rind bowl and decorate the finished salad with celery petals.
Ready-made cups can be placed on salad leaves or on a large beautiful plate.
The festive table with Olivier and Vinegret has already become boring and does not cause much interest among the guests. Delight the guests with unusual recipes and interesting ways of serving the New Year's table. Your efforts will be appreciated not only by the guests, but also by the “mistress” of the coming year, who will surely thank you with luck and well-being.
