Well, when all the dishes on the festive table are beautifully decorated, it creates a special solemn mood. On the New Year's table we prepare dishes, the appearance of which is devoted to the main theme of the holiday. One of these dishes is the New Year's salad "Yelochka", the recipe can be widely varied in terms of ingredients, the main thing - design.
Herring salad
We will make a reservation at once, "a New Year tree" on a serving dish can be constructed in two variants:
- "Herringbone" in the form of a cone (as if standing on a platter);
- "Christmas tree" in the form of a triangle (as if lying on a platter, we see it only from the same side).
Ingredients:
- ham pork or boiled chicken fillet - 300-400 g;
- cucumber salted or pickled - 2 pcs .;
- potatoes - 2-3 pieces;
- egg of chicken - 2-3 pcs .;
- marinated mushrooms - 150 g;
- onion - 1 pc .;
- olives without pits;
- small red berries and corn kernels for depicting toys on the "Christmas tree";
- different greens - most of all fennel, as well as parsley and cilantro;
- mayonnaise thick.
Preparation
We boil the potato until it is ready, but not digested. Eggs cook hard-boiled, cool, clean. Olives cut into circles, and all other ingredients except greenery, corn and berries - small cubes (side about 0.6-0.8 cm). For this purpose, modern kitchen devices operating in the chopper mode (that is, they cut food on
Now mix all the products, add the mayonnaise and build a cone (hands) on the platter. We decorate the cone with twigs of greenery so that we get a design that looks like a Christmas tree. We cover with mayonnaise and decorate with corn and berries. We put it in the refrigerator or on the glassed unheated balcony so that the salad is frozen, we serve it at 23.45.
You can also use for the New Year's salad "Christmas tree" fruit kiwi, sweet pepper, green onions, fresh cucumbers, broccoli, and in addition - persimmon and tangerines. Instead of potatoes, you can add freshly brewed polenta or glutinous rice to the salad - these are excellent materials for modeling, they harden well and keep the shape.
With a flat version of the herringbone "Christmas tree" is still easier, if you want, lay it in layers. And most importantly: include imagination.