New Year's Eve is a time of miracles. Bright decorations, outfits and carnival costumes, a Christmas tree covered in balls and garlands are indispensable attributes of the holiday. But it's not just the house that needs festive design. You should also think about decorating dishes New Year. 2019 – to Chinese calendar Year of Yellow Earth Pig. And she is a lover of bright things. Yellow and green tones will be relevant. Use them when decorating salads, and they will also become an element of decor and add a festive mood to your guests.

Decorating salads for the New Year can be very diverse. Photos and descriptions will help you make delicious salads original and beautiful.

Symbol of the year

Although it is not recommended to serve pork on the New Year's table in 2019, this does not mean that you cannot arrange salads in the shape of a pig.

Small edible piglets can also be used.

The attitude towards such a design can be twofold: on the one hand, the symbol of the year is on the table, on the other, everyone seems to be eating “pig”. Here everyone will decide for themselves, but the fact that this option for decorating salads in the year of the pig will be interesting and original is guaranteed.

Place it in the shape of a pig

Olivier, fur coat, crab, any puff pastries are suitable for this. First we form the “body”. It's simple: the head is smaller, the body is larger. You can use lettuce leaves as a “substrate” or surround the “piggy” with dill sprigs. The laid out salad is coated with mayonnaise. And all that remains is to make the ears, eyes and snout. For this you will need sausage. Two holes are made in one circle, two more need to be cut into a triangle - there will be ears. Black olive eyes will complete the picture. Pieces of olives can be used in another way: insert them into the sausage (to represent the nostrils) and place them on mugs of boiled egg white to create eyes. If you want to emphasize that in 2019 the Pig is Yellow, sprinkle the body and head with finely grated yolk.

Piglets

They can be made from eggs: a snout is attached to the sharp end with the help of mayonnaise - a circle of carrots, and triangles are cut out of it - ears, eyes - pieces of olives.

A thick sausage is also suitable: it is cut off, a wider “nickel” is attached to one end, and slits are made on top for the ears. Everything is cut out of sausage, for the eyes - pieces of olives, black peppercorns. The original will be piglets made from squid carcasses. It's very easy: the carcasses are boiled and stuffed. Their shape is perfect - the narrow end will be a place for the heel, it can be marked with pomegranate seeds, the ears - from forked pieces from the end of the squid carcass - an ideal option. We already know how to make eyes.

New Year theme

In the New Year 2019, you can use traditional symbols to decorate the festive salad. Our photos will convince everyone that the effort spent is worth it - the table will immediately be transformed.

Christmas balls

They are easy to make: put them in the shape of a ball and coat them with mayonnaise. And then everything depends on imagination. Sprinkle the sides with finely chopped herbs, and make the middle orange with finely grated carrots.

The red ball will come from finely chopped red pepper, the yellow ball from yellow pepper. There is no limit to the combinations here: to decorate a large salad ball, you can use all kinds of stars from carrots, pineapple, egg whites, and yolks. The carom will look original - the fruit interesting shape, it is enough to simply cut it across to get a ready-made star of green or yellow color. The balls can be smaller if served in portions. Use a thick dill branch - it will imitate a spruce branch, make two small balls different color and decorate with mini stars, your guests will appreciate it.

Snowman

A big snowman is made according to the same principle: we form three balls on an oblong wide dish, coat it with mayonnaise, and sprinkle with grated egg white. The hat and nose are made of carrots, the eyes and hands are made of olives. You can only make the head. Fill the middle with yolk, mark the beard with egg white on the bottom, and the same “hair” on top.

Half of a large tomato will represent a hat, a small nose, olive eyes, enliven the picture with the help of dill branches. If the menu includes crab with rice, then you can form balls out of it, “blind” snowmen and decorate the head with a bucket of carrots (just cut a piece of suitable diameter) and, naturally, the nose from its tip.

New Year's paintings

There are a lot of ideas here. Using finely chopped peppers (red or yellow), grated eggs, carrots, beets, olives and other colorful vegetables, you can lay out anything. Santa Claus, clock, bullfinch, mittens, festive bell, Christmas trees and fir branches laid out easily on the flat surface of any salad.

Christmas tree

The symbol of the New Year - a fluffy beauty - is not difficult to make. Place the salad in the shape of a Christmas tree, sprinkle it with finely chopped herbs. All that remains is to decorate: cut out a star at the top, use thin threads for garlands Korean carrots and beets. They can also be topped with pomegranate seeds or corn. Cherries are suitable for balls. Small Christmas trees are made from pieces of cucumber, cheese, and sausage. They are strung on a large wooden skewer.

Candles

If you sprinkle the surface with greenery (large twigs), and sprinkle with pomegranate and corn seeds, the finishing touch will remain - a candle. Roll a piece of cheese into a tube, insert a flame on top - a piece of red pepper and install the finished candle.

Original presentation

Portioned salads do not have to be served in a plate. Use large bell peppers, large tomatoes (the middle is removed), and cucumbers instead. Remove the middle of the cucumbers, place a portion, put a “sail” of a long thin slice of cucumber and a red “flag” on a skewer.

Another original option is to place salads in pre-baked thin pancakes. They are collected “in a bag” and the top is tied with a stalk of green onion. “Strings” made from Korean carrots or beets are also suitable.

If you insert almond grains evenly into the surface (sharp end up), you will get a cone.

Place the salad on a large dish in the middle, make a hole - there will be a basis for a wreath, greens, “garlands” and “balls” will make it elegant.

Use the suggested ideas or come up with your own options, the main thing is that your creativity will delight the guests and decorate the festive table!

Simple, original and extraordinary DIY salad decorations for the New Year 2018. 48 photos of salads. Useful tips and links to our recipes.

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Not a single special event is complete without salads, incl. and New Year. Beautifully decorated dishes create festive mood, stimulate the appetite and please the eye. To surprise guests and provide aesthetic pleasure, many are looking for different ways salad decorations. Let's find out how to decorate salads for the New Year 2018.

Features of decorating salads for the New Year 2018

New 2018 a year will pass under the sign of Yellow Earth Dogs. To pay attention to the mistress of the year, use yellow and yellow products for decoration. brown colors. Foods that grow on the ground, such as mushrooms or nuts, would also be appropriate. The dog will be happy to see bread on the table. This hearty product, for example, in the form of croutons, can become an ingredient for salads and decorations. It is worth mentioning that the Dog will appreciate the meat. Therefore, all meat products can be included in the decoration New Year's menu 2018.

Products for decorating salads for the New Year

To create designs, ornaments and decorate dishes, use products that are combined with each other. It is advisable to decorate the salad with the ingredients that were used to prepare it.

Products for decoration ( egg white and yolk, cucumbers, boiled carrots, beets, cheese, sausage) can be grated. Use the sprinkles in pure form or mix with mayonnaise or other sauce. Vegetables can be used boiled or raw. Also try cutting out foods beautiful flowers, rings, diamonds, triangles, stars... In addition to grated ingredients, take chopped herbs, as well as individual small products, like green pea, corn, red and black caviar, pomegranate seeds, nuts.

An additional decorative effect can be achieved using mayonnaise. Subtle patterns look especially attractive and appetizing. If the mayonnaise is in a tube, then draw it just like that. If needed fine lines put it in a pastry bag or a regular plastic bag and draw it like cream on a cake.

Decoration of salads for the New Year 2018 in the form of a Dog

When creating a holiday menu, it is worth considering the symbol of the coming year. Therefore, it would be appropriate to design one of the salads in the image true friend. A spectacular salad in the shape of a dog will become the main dish at New Year's table 2018. It can be formatted according to the example below.

The Dog will also be happy to see salads on the table in the form of a bone, which he loves very much in life.

See our recipes:

• with mushrooms and eggs
• with sprats and peas
• and an apple in the shape of a Dog
• with cheese and apple

Ideas for decorating salads for the New Year - photos

Creative people will be interested in preparing a New Year's salad not only in the form of a dog, but also in other New Year's images reflecting the theme of the holiday. Salads decorated in a New Year's design in the shape of Santa Claus, a snowman, bells, the Snow Maiden, a Christmas tree, chimes, a pine cone, a calendar, a hat or mittens of Santa Claus look great on the New Year's table... It's easy to make such beauty. Prepare your favorite salad by mixing the ingredients or laying them out in layers. Give the mass the desired shape, which you decorate (sprinkle, decorate, grease). When creating such colorful culinary masterpieces, choose various colorful products for decoration.

Below are examples of decorating and decorating salads for the New Year. You can take any of the proposed options as a base and supplement it with other products and personal design ideas.

Salad “Santa Claus's Mitten”:

Salad “Santa Claus Boot”:

Salad "Santa Claus":

Snowman salad:

Salad “New Year's Toy”:
See the recipe - with chicken and Korean carrots.

• Layered salads. Technique puff salads simple. Alternately lay out layers of products, alternating colors. For example: green cucumbers, orange carrots or red fish, yellow corn, etc. For layered salads, use a transparent deep dish or a flat dish with a special cooking ring or other form.
• Burning candle for the New Year's wreath salad. To make it, cut a rectangle from hard cheese and cut off the corners. This will be a candle. Cut the sweet red pepper into an elongated triangle. Place it on top of the candle - this will be the flame. You can also make a candle from a crab stick, on top of which insert a piece of cheese in the shape of a flame.
• Draw a beautiful garland. Dip the green onions into the water: they will curl into neat rings.
• How can you not decorate salads? Symbol of the coming year, the Dog. She definitely won’t like the design of the dish in the shape of a cat, with whom she “doesn’t play nice.”
• Making sandwiches. Place the sandwiches on a wide plate on top of each other to create an interesting Christmas tree.
• Beautifully designed cut in the form of a “Christmas tree”. Cut sausage, cheese, vegetables into thin slices different sizes. Thread them onto a long wooden skewer, with larger pieces at the bottom and smaller pieces at the top. Stick a skewer into a piece of bread or half a potato for stability. Decorate the crown with a star made of sweet red pepper or carrots.

How to decorate a salad for the New Year:

Not a single holiday and not a single big feast is missing, and in the daily menu, one or another type of salad is constantly found. But any housewife knows that you won’t be satisfied with just salad, so you have to prepare many more different dishes. Naturally, there is simply no time left for decorating salads, because there is so much to cut, so much to mix and prepare that we simply don’t have the strength to create any kind of beauty. Therefore, salads on our tables often look like just a mixture of ingredients dressed with oil or some kind of sauce. The appearance of such a dish placed on the table cannot be called beautiful, but we really want each of our dishes to please not only with its taste, but also appearance. Simple, but spectacular ideas When decorating salads, the dish pleased not only with its taste, but also with its appearance.

First of all, I would like to talk about the simplest and most fast way salad decorations. Often, salads include products that can be used as dishes for serving them. In such a natural “ware”, any salad will look very impressive, even if you just mix it with sauce and don’t waste time on other decorations. What products can be suitable for decorating salads like this? If you know how to handle a coconut and don’t see a problem in carefully opening it, leaving a small cap, then it will become great decoration. Also, a pineapple cut lengthwise is suitable for the role of natural “ware”. The removed core can be used as one of the salad ingredients. In this case, both regular pineapples are suitable if you plan to serve the salad in a common dish, and mini pineapples if you plan to serve the salad in portions. Large tomatoes, oranges, grapefruit halves or pomelo can also be used to decorate salads. In addition to the original appearance, the big advantage of such decorations is that after a meal this “dish” does not have to be washed.

Decorating salads can be done not only from vegetables and fruits, but also from such unexpected products as, for example, bacon. So, in order to make this salad basket, you will need bacon, paper towels, a baking dish, a heatproof bowl or short wide glass and a microwave or oven. Fold a paper towel in half and line a baking pan with it. Wrap the glass or bowl tightly with paper towels folded in two or three times. Turn this paper-wrapped glass over and place it on the baking pan. Now take two pieces of bacon and place them crosswise on the bottom of the glass. Now take another piece of bacon and wrap it around the glass, intertwining it with the pieces already placed. Repeat this procedure with the next piece of bacon and so on until the entire glass or bowl is wrapped in bacon. Now place the baking dish in the microwave for 4 minutes on full power. When the bacon strips are baked together, carefully remove the glass from the paper, turn the bacon basket over and very carefully, so as not to damage the structure, remove the paper that has absorbed excess fat. It is unlikely that you can make a strong basket without paper, because excess fat will prevent the bacon pieces from sticking to each other, and instead of drying out, they will remain moist.

However, the previous option for decorating salads can hardly be called very simple and quick. But there are situations when there is practically no time, and you want to serve the dish beautifully. Surely every housewife has a handful of nuts in her treasured kitchen cabinet, and a bunch of fresh herbs in the refrigerator. All this will be useful to decorate the salad if it contains nuts. Place the salad in the shape of cones, take the almonds and stick each kernel into the salad so that they resemble scales. But even in this form, the decoration of the dish is unlikely to be perceived as at least some kind of pine cones; it lacks “pine branches”, which can successfully replace rosemary sprigs. You can create such a salad decoration in a matter of minutes, but your family and friends will be happy to see such beauty on their dining table.

Have you ever come across salad recipes that have nothing to do with their name, either in appearance or even in content? On the Internet, such specimens come across quite often, just look at the well-known “Mimosa” salad, which, by the way, can be decorated with an edible “mimosa” made from a pair of fluffy sprigs of dill and egg yolk, grated on a fine grater! So, salads “Penguin”, “Polar”, “Pole”, etc. You can decorate them with penguins like this to somehow bring their name and content into line. It’s very easy to make such penguins, but they look impressive and will certainly be remembered by everyone for a long time. You will need carrots, mozzarella cheese in small balls, a can of large and small olives, green onions, canned beans or kidney beans and toothpicks. Cut the carrots into circles and cut out a small section from each circle. Cut the mozzarella balls in half and cut out a corner of large olives. Insert the mozzarella ball halves into large olives and place them on a toothpick that needs to be inserted into the carrot. Make a cut in small olives so that you can insert a pre-cut piece of carrot. Place small olives on top of the cheese in large olives, making sure that the toothpick goes through the carrot piece. Attach canned beans or beans on top as a cap, tie a green onion feather like a scarf. Original decoration The salad is ready!

You can quickly and easily make decorations for salads from fruits and berries. Such decorations will look especially good in fruit salads. For this decoration you will need a small ice cream scoop, hard cookie cutters, wooden skewers, a sharp knife, as well as pieces of watermelon, melon, apple or any other fruit or berry. Cut pieces 1 cm wide from each fruit or berry, using hard cookie cutters or sharp knife cut out flowers, stars or any other shapes you like. Using an ice cream scoop, scoop out small balls from the fruit. For those “flowers” ​​that are supposed to have a core, remove the center and insert a ball there. Secure everything with a skewer and decorate the salad, summer tastes, aromas and mood will appear on your table.

If all these flowers are not for you, you have free time, and your soul craves originality, then this method of decorating salads is for you. We all collected the Rubik's Cube as children; some were able to group squares of certain colors along different faces, others were not, but everyone probably remembers and loves the toy. Why not use the idea of ​​using multi-colored squares as a decoration for salads? You can make a salad from just these cubes, or you can put any other salad inside and use the fruit only for decoration. Let's use the second option. Place the salad in a square plastic container, then invert the contents onto a platter and carefully remove the container so that the salad remains on the plate and holds square shape. Cut out squares from fruits and berries or cheese, ham and vegetables and use them to lay out all the planes of the future cube. Creating such a masterpiece will take a lot of time, but no one will blame you for lack of originality.

How many times have you prepared delicious salads and wondered how to decorate them at the very last moment? As a rule, at such moments nothing comes to mind more interesting than lilies made from onions, mice made from chicken and quail eggs, all kinds of roses made from beets and swans made from apples, which, of course, look beautiful, but from time to time they appear on every table as a decoration for salads. But you really want to add variety and please your loved ones with something new and interesting. Stock up on original ideas in advance, bring your fantasies to life, create, decorate and surprise!

Alena Karamzina

While everyone is preparing for the New Year 2019 and running across culinary sites in search of the most best dishes, we want to show you the options for preparing and decorating salads. After all, the recipe can be anything, but how to decorate it in a festive way? Take a look, brainstorm ideas and don’t forget to photograph your creations. After all, it continues. So, options for decorating salads for the New Year, from masterpieces to the simplest.

Every caring housewife, in anticipation of the New Year, draws up a holiday menu and puzzles over what is so tasty and interesting to cook this time? Main character of the upcoming 2019 – Pig! Watch and repeat interesting ideas from photos and videos.

Let's start with a simple and quick, but effective option. Marina Shevchenko decided to cook original dish, a variation on the famous and beloved Olivier salad.Guests will be pleasantly surprised by such a cold appetizer!

Salad “Pig”, variation of Olivier

Ingredients:

• boiled sausage – 200 g
• potatoes – 2 pcs.
• pickled cucumber – 3-4 pcs.
• egg – 2-3 pcs.
• processed cheese – 1 pc.
• green onions – 50 g
• canned peas – 200 g
• mayonnaise – 3 tbsp. l.
• salt, pepper - to taste

For decoration:

• olives – 2 pcs.
• paprika - optional
• fresh herbs

Cooking method

Boil several small potato tubers in their skins in advance. Then cool it, peel it and cut it into small cubes.

Choose boiled sausage from a trusted manufacturer, fresh and of high quality, then the salad will taste better. From part of the sausage, cut out the ears, snout and stigma for the pig, and chop the rest of the sausage into medium-sized cubes.

This time I used pickled cucumbers, but you can replace them with salted ones, because this will not adversely affect the taste of the salad. Chop the cucumbers into cubes as well. Drain the brine that formed after slicing the cucumbers.

Rinse several green onions in running water, wipe dry and finely chop with a sharp knife.

Combine all previously prepared ingredients in a deep plate. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Add two tablespoons of mayonnaise. Mix.

On a beautiful large plate in which the dish will be served, place the salad in a hemisphere so that it resembles the “body” of a pig.

Boil chicken eggs in advance (about 8-10 minutes), cool and peel them. Grind on a fine grater along with melted cheese.

Mix cheese and eggs thoroughly. You should get a homogeneous paste-like mass. Cover the top of the salad with this mixture. Then make a mesh of mayonnaise and with clean hands spread the mayonnaise over the entire surface of the salad.

Decorate the salad with sausage ears, snout and stigma. Sprinkle paprika on top for color and arrange fresh parsley around the salad.

The result was an incredibly beautiful and tasty New Year's dish - “Pig” salad!
Happy upcoming you!
You can see more options on how to decorate salads and snacks in the shape of Piggy in these videos from YouTube.

Pig with a surprise:

You can decorate snacks and sandwiches in the same way.

Tartlets - pigs

They can be prepared both on the eve of the holiday itself and after it, when you want to pamper your family with an original snack. These are the wonderful pigs you will get to please your loved ones and guests.

Ingredients:
— tartlets – 6-8 pcs.;
- hard or other cheese - 50 g;
— mayonnaise – 50 g;
- garlic - 1 clove;
— chicken eggs – 2 pcs.;
- sausages for decoration - 1-2 pcs.;
- salt, pepper - optional;
- lettuce leaves, olives or peppercorns - for decoration.

Preparation:

Three hard-boiled chicken eggs on a fine grater, do the same with hard cheese. Grate the cheese and eggs into one container, where we will prepare the filling. For the filling you can use any type of cheese: hard or soft.

Squeeze a peeled clove of garlic into the filling; it will give the appetizer a piquant aroma and additional taste.

Season the filling with full-fat mayonnaise and mix until smooth to form a thick filling. If desired, add salt and pepper.

Place a teaspoon of filling into the tartlets and press lightly, giving an even shape. On top we decorate the tartlets with a snout and ears cut from milk sausages.

We lay out the eyes of the pigs: they can be cut out from an olive or you can use peppercorns or pieces of prunes for this.

Place the finished tartlets on a dish and serve immediately for the holiday, garnished with lettuce leaves.
Bon appetit and happy New Year!

Snack “Glamorous Pigs”:

Stuffed eggs with piglets:

Christmas tree salads

First of all, of course, the New Year is associated with a Christmas tree. Here the best option for decorating salads - dill.

Recipe for Herringbone salad with chicken and prunes

Amazing salad recipe for festive table, called “Herringbone”. This is a very tasty, tender and at the same time satisfying salad, with a harmonious combination of chicken and prunes, decorated in the form Christmas tree. Photo and description of Marina Shevchenko's preparation.

This salad is not at all difficult to prepare, does not cost much in terms of ingredients or time, and in the end it turns out to be an ideal appetizer for the winter holidays!

Ingredients:

• chicken fillet- 1 PC.
• champignons – 300 g
• onion – 1 pc.
• prunes – 10-13 pcs.
• hard cheese – 50 g
• boiled egg – 2 pcs.
• mayonnaise – 80 g
• salt, pepper - to taste

For decoration:

• fresh dill – 1 bunch
• pomegranate seeds
• prunes

Cooking method

Mushrooms and onion wash, peel and cut into thin slices.

Heat a frying pan with vegetable oil. First put the onion in the pan, fry it lightly for 1-2 minutes, then add the champignons to it. Add salt and pepper to taste, stir and continue frying over medium heat for 5-7 minutes until the mushrooms and onions acquire a golden color. After this, transfer the prepared mushrooms to a plate so that they cool completely.

Boil in advance chicken breast in salted water for 30 minutes. Then cool the meat and cut into thin pieces or disassemble it into fibers.

Place chicken fillet on a plate as the first layer. Form triangular shape, reminiscent of a Christmas tree. Cover the meat with mayonnaise mesh.

The next layer will be - fried champignons with onion. Place them around the entire perimeter of the salad and spread with mayonnaise.

Peel the boiled chicken eggs and grate them on a fine grater, also chop them hard cheese.

Now add grated eggs to the salad and cover them with mayonnaise.

Transfer the prunes to a deep plate and rinse under running water. Pour boiling water over it and leave for 20 minutes so that the prunes are thoroughly steamed. Then separate the prunes from the stone and cut into thin pieces.

Place prune slices on top of eggs. Cover with a mesh of mayonnaise.

The last layer in this salad is grated cheese with mayonnaise.

Now, you need to make the decor for the New Year's dish. Wash fresh dill, dry it and chop finely. Prunes (1-2 pieces) are also finely chopped. Prepare a portion of pomegranate seeds. Cut a “star” out of hard cheese for the Christmas tree.

Cover the salad on all sides with herbs.

Decorate the “Christmas tree” salad with pomegranate seeds and prunes, and use mayonnaise to make a “garland” for the Christmas tree.
It turned out very tasty and nutritious holiday salad“Herringbone” with chicken, mushrooms and prunes!
Bon appetit!

With dill you can make a salad in the form of a Christmas wreath:

Other greens, such as parsley and onions, are also suitable for creating a Christmas tree.

Or post a green beauty made from green peas:

And even a very simple version of the Christmas tree - made from cucumbers:

And even from cauliflower, cheese or citrus fruits:

Kremlin Christmas tree :)

Original combination: winter Christmas tree... from kiwi:

Fir branches from lettuce leaves:

Christmas trees can also be vertical:

“Herringbone” tartlets

We invite you to serve stuffed tartlets decorated in the shape of Christmas trees in an original way. The appetizer is prepared from the most available products, and every housewife can repeat it at home. Delicious and beautifully decorated tartlets will fly away in an instant, so we advise you to immediately prepare a double, or maybe triple, portion if you are expecting a large number of guests.

What’s great about tartlets is that they’re a convenient snack for 1-2 bites, so even those watching their figure shouldn’t be afraid to overeat. The portion of tartlets is quite small, so you can please everyone. The filling can be absolutely anything to your taste. Today we propose to prepare the simplest and fastest filling of cheese, eggs and crab sticks.

Ingredients:

— chicken eggs – 2 pcs.;
— waffle or other tartlets – 8 pcs.;
— hard cheese – 70-80 g;
— mayonnaise – 80 g;
— crab sticks – 5 pcs.;
— dill – 3-4 sprigs;
— boiled carrots- 1 PC.;
- salt - to taste.

Preparation:

Using a fine grater, grate hard-boiled chicken eggs and hard cheese. Place the filling immediately into a bowl, where it will be convenient to mix all the ingredients.

We either cut the crab sticks into small cubes or into three on the same grater.

Add mayonnaise and a little salt to the filling. Mix and you're done.

Filling the tartlets delicious filling and form it like a Christmas tree, giving it a cone shape. Tartlets can be waffle, shortbread or other.

We decorate the filling with fresh dill - it’s like spruce branches.

Place a star or snowflake cut from boiled carrots or hard cheese on the top. You can also use red to decorate the star. Bell pepper or tomatoes.

We place pieces of crab sticks on the Christmas trees, imitating Christmas decorations. For decoration in the form of toys you can take canned corn and peas.
Place the tartlets on a plate and decorate with fresh herbs. Immediately after preparation, serve to the festive New Year's table.

How do you like this masterpiece - a snack tree (video recipe):

Salads "Santa Claus"

With crab sticks

Don't know what to impress your guests with? New Year's Eve? Try making this delicious and appetizing salad, decorated in the shape of Santa Claus. Bright and elegant, such a salad will become a real decoration for a festive feast! Description of preparation and photo from Elena Petrushina.

In fact, it is very simple to prepare such beauty; you do not need special products, because to decorate the salad we will use only those ingredients that are indicated in the composition. We will make Grandfather’s fur coat from the top part of crab sticks, and the edge and face from eggs.

Ingredients:
Crab sticks – 200 g;
Rice – 0.5 tbsp.;
Onions – 0.5 pcs.;
Corn – 0.5 cans;
Chicken egg – 4 pcs.;
Mayonnaise – 100-120 ml;
Salt - to taste;
Peppercorns – 2 pcs. (For decoration).

Cooking time – 40 minutes.
Number of servings – 4.

Cooking recipe step by step:

Boil the rice in lightly salted water until tender.

Carefully cut off the red sides of the crab sticks into thin slices. Cut the rest into cubes as usual. If the crab sticks were frozen, they must first be thawed.

Boil chicken eggs, cool and peel them. We put the whites from two eggs and one third of the yolk aside, they will be useful for decoration. Cut the remaining eggs into cubes.

Peel half of the white onion and cut into small cubes.

Combine all the prepared ingredients in one bowl and add canned corn to them.

Season the salad with mayonnaise, add a small pinch of salt and mix everything thoroughly. It’s better not to skimp on mayonnaise, the rice will absorb most and the salad can learn to be dry.

Place the salad on a large flat dish, forming the silhouette of Santa Claus. The head, collar, fur coat and arms should be clearly visible. We compact the salad and press it with a spoon, making the contours clearer.

Next we lay out the prepared crab sticks. From these we make a fur coat and a cap for a hat. Hands should be completely covered. In the area of ​​the hands, you can use scissors to trim the edges to create rounded palms.

Grate the yolk on the finest grater and sprinkle it on the salad in the face area. We also grate the protein and use it to form the edge of the fur coat, hat and collar.

Using a pastry syringe with a textured nozzle, we use mayonnaise to create a beard and hair for Santa Claus. Then it’s the turn of the face – the peppercorns will be the eyes, and a small piece of crab sticks will be the nose. We also decorate the fur coat with corn buttons. Our Grandfather Frost is ready! The salad can be cooled slightly in the refrigerator before serving. Bon appetit!

Ham salad

Let's cook nutritious salad with ham with cheese, carrots and pickled cucumbers. According to the processes, everything is easy and simple, it comes down to the fact that all the products are cut into cubes, but the preparation of the dish will take some time, so be patient and you will get a wonderful New Year's salad in the form of Father Frost or Santa Claus.

Ingredients:
– ham – 200 g;
– carrots – 100 g;
— eggs – 2 pcs.;
– pickled cucumber – 100 g;
– cheese – 70 g;
— sweet red pepper – 1 pc.;
- olives - for decoration;
— mayonnaise – 100-120 g;
- salt - to taste.

Preparation:

Grate hard cheese, you can use large or small chips, it doesn’t matter.

Boil chicken eggs, cool and peel. Divide into whites and yolks. One yolk will go for decoration, the other will go into the salad. The squirrels will be used entirely for decoration.

Place grated cheese in a salad bowl and grate the egg yolk there.

Cut the ham into small cubes. Also cut the pickled cucumbers into cubes.
Add ham and cucumbers to the salad. If you don’t have ham, you can replace it with delicious sausage – semi-smoked or boiled.

Peel the pre-cooked carrots from thin peels, cut into small cubes, and add to the salad.

Mix everything and season with mayonnaise, if desired, add a little salt.

Place the finished salad on a wide, flat plate, giving it the shape of Santa's head in a hat.

Finely grate the yolk into the center of the salad, and also put a piece of red pepper in the center - this will be the nose.

Make a beard and the edges of a hat from the squirrel. Cut out eyes from the olives and place them in the center.

Finely chop the red bell pepper and place it to form a hat.

The funny “Santa Claus” salad is ready, you can serve it right away, it looks elegant and appetizing.
This dish will be the highlight of the New Year's feast.

Bon appetit and good mood!

More Santa Clauses:

Here is Grandfather’s fur coat made of smoked salmon, hat, belt and bag of red sweet peppers, edged with grated cheese:

And Grandfather’s mitten made from salmon or caviar. Similarly, you can make a boot (sock) for gifts.

Stuffed eggs

The coming 2019 will be even more fun for you if you prepare delicious stuffed eggs"Santa Claus" with cheese filling. Children will definitely like this dish.

Ingredients:
— chicken eggs – 3-4 pcs.;
– cheese – 100 g;
- mustard - 1 teaspoon. l.;
— mayonnaise – 1.5 tables. l.;
— red bell pepper – 1 pc.;
- salt - to taste;
- peppercorns - for decoration.

Preparation:

Boil the chicken eggs hard, cool and peel them. Cut into equal halves.
We take out the yolks and use them for the filling, and we will stuff the whites.

Grate the cheese and boiled yolks on a fine grater. Lightly salt the filling. We use any type of cheese for the filling, according to your taste and preference.
Season the filling with mustard and mayonnaise, stir several times to achieve a uniform consistency.
Stuff the boiled whites with cheese filling. Spread 1-1.5 teaspoons of filling.
From red sweet peppers we cut out triangular hats and small round noses of Santa Claus.

Place the bell pepper on the eggs: on one side of the cap, and just below the spout. Hats can be additionally glued onto mayonnaise.

Place peppercorn eyes, lightly pressing them into the filling. Eyes can be made from black olives, prunes and other edible products.

Decorate the finished Santa Clauses with mayonnaise and make a fluffy beard.

Serve the finished appetizer to the table, garnished with fresh bright herbs.

Elegant and tasty “Santa Clauses” will be a worthy treat on your holiday table.

Clocks and calendars

An equally important symbol of the New Year is the clock and chimes; the hands and numbers on them are drawn with mayonnaise or laid out in cut strips bell pepper, carrots, sausages.

Festive salad - the first sheet of the calendar:

Snowmen

And what would winter be without snowmen! Typically, the white base is grated protein. boiled eggs, cheese or mayonnaise. The nose is a boiled carrot, the eyes are olives. And the outfit can be made from any products.

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Olive palms for decorating salads

Slice green onions long tubes - 3 pieces for each palm tree.
We cut the onion tubes into noodles, but do not cut them all the way through. It turns out to be a skirt with a long fringe.
In order for the onion to curl well, you need to buy freshly cut ones. Also, for better curling, the resulting “skirts” can be slightly chatted in warm water.
Then a “skirt” of a larger diameter is taken and a smaller one is inserted into it, then another and another... (the principle of a telescopic pipe is used).
Olives are strung onto skewers for kebabs, and greens are put on top. Instead of skewers, you can also use hard cocktail tubes cut obliquely at the ends.
To ensure that the palm trees stand steadily in the salad and do not fall, they should be inserted into half a large radish or into a cucumber cut lengthwise.

Design options with sweet pepper palm crowns:

“Palm trees” made from banana slices, kiwi and tangerine slices:

Flower made from cucumber slices

Cut a piece 5 cm long from the cucumber. Cut in half lengthwise. Use a knife to make longitudinal cuts in the peel (this is called “carbing”). Use the cut strips for the stem of a decorative flower.
Cut the processed cucumber into thin slices. Divide them in half and use them as petals for a “daisy”.
Complete the “flower” with cherry tomato halves.

Design option with salted fish “roses”: