The festive table, including the New Year's one, is not complete without appetizers and salads. Try to cook unusual and original dishes that will certainly decorate the table and will delight your loved ones and guests.
Fans of unusual tastes and food combinations will love the light and fresh shrimp and avocado salad. To prepare it, take:
- 200 g frozen shrimp;
- 1 avocado;
- 1 sweet pepper;
- lemon juice;
- 3 tablespoons of heavy cream;
- 1 teaspoon of mustard;
- salt and ground white pepper.
Dip frozen shrimp in boiling water and cook for 5-7 minutes after they float. Cool and clean.
Cut the skin off the avocado. Cut the fruit in half and remove the pit. Cut the flesh into cubes and drizzle with lemon juice.
Prepare bell peppers. Cut off the top and peel off partitions and seeds. Cut the peppers into small cubes. Place all ingredients in a bowl and stir.
Prepare a salad dressing. Mix the cream with hot mustard, pour in 1-2 tablespoons of lemon juice, salt and season the dressing with white pepper. Add the mixture to the salad and stir gently.
Serve the shrimp and avocado salad on a platter. Fan it with lettuce and parsley, and place the snack on top of them.
Shrimp can be substituted for any other seafood or lightly salted red fish.
The decoration of the appetizer is important when serving, the salad prepared according to the following recipe can be rolled into balls and put on a plate. This will make the dish look like snowballs.
To make a cheese snack with sesame seeds and olives you will need:
- 100 g of hard cheese;
- 100 g feta cheese;
- 2 cloves of garlic;
- a bunch of dill;
- 10 pieces. olives;
- 3 tablespoons of sesame seeds;
- mayonnaise;
- ground black pepper.
Grate cheese and feta cheese on a fine grater. Chop the herbs. Pass the peeled cloves of garlic through a press. Combine and mix all the ingredients, season the mass with pepper and add mayonnaise.
Take some cheese salad in your hand. Place an olive in the middle and form a ball. Make the rest of the snowballs in the same way. Pour the sesame seeds into a saucer and roll the balls in it. Put lettuce leaves on a plate and cheese "snowballs" on top.
The New Year is unthinkable without tangerines and oranges. Citrus fruits can be a great dish for a la carte snack. For example, chicken fillet salad.
To prepare 6 servings of salad, you will need:
- 3 oranges;
- 2 chicken breasts;
- 200 g of cheese;
- 100 g of pickled mushrooms;
- 100 g sour cream;
- horseradish;
- greens;
- salt and black pepper.
Boil the breasts and cool the meat. Cut the fillets into cubes. Grate the cheese on a coarse grater, cut the cucumbers into the same pieces as the chicken, chop the pickled mushrooms and herbs. Mix all ingredients, season with salt and pepper to your liking.
There are many variations of chicken fillet salad. For example, meat goes well with fresh cucumbers, mushrooms, or a sour green apple.
For dressing, mix sour cream with horseradish passed through a meat grinder. Place the sauce in the salad bowl and stir the food.
Cut across the oranges with cloves and cut the fruit in half. Remove the flesh so that a cup is formed from the skin. Place the chicken breast salad in orange bowls and place on a serving platter. Decorate everything with herbs and serve for the New Year's table.
