The classic salad "Olivier" is known, tasted and loved by many. However, it is considered a little boring, boring, because many guests at the festival look to try something new, original. If you don't want to give up your favorite dish even on New Year's, you can simply transform it. What? In the New Year's puff salad "Pig" in the shape of a cheerful pink piglet - the symbol of the upcoming 2019.
Those who have ever made "Olivier" according to the classic Russian recipe know the products necessary to prepare a delicious dish. However, it is not difficult to re-enumerate them, because repetition is the mother of learning.
Ingredients
For the "Pig" puff salad you will need:
- boiled potatoes - 3-4 pieces;
- pickled (or better - fresh) cucumbers - 3 pieces;
- canned peas - small jar;
- boiled eggs - 5 pieces;
- doctor's or milk sausage (boiled) - 300 g;
- bulb onion - one;
- mayonnaise for coating layers;
- salt;
- 2 olives and a slice of carrot - for decoration.
Preparation
In advance, it is necessary to peel the eggshell from the egg, remove the peel from the potatoes, onions, drain all the liquid from the peas into the sink.
Making the Piggy New Year's puff salad in the shape of a pig is not difficult at all.
- Grate potatoes, eggs and pickled cucumbers separately on a coarse grater.
- Finely chop the onion.
- Grate the boiled sausage on a coarse grater, leaving a couple of pieces for decoration.
- On a flat dish lay out grated potatoes, onions, cucumbers, green peas, boiled eggs in layers, not forgetting to coat with a fine mesh of mayonnaise and add salt if necessary.
- Form an oval or circle, remove excess from the plate.
- Cover the body and head of the pig with grated boiled sausage.
- From the remaining piece, cut a patch, ears, tail with a knife.
- Make the eyes from olives, the tongue from a piece of carrot.
- Add some peas or fresh vegetables to the plate.
- Can be garnished with lettuce on the sides.
Design options
Those who have good imagination can go further and come up with new ways to decorate the "Pig" puff salad for the New Year's holiday. You don't even have to bother and just mix all the products with mayonnaise, forming an oval, a ball on a plate. All that remains is to cover it with a layer of boiled sausage, grated white or yolk, boiled grated carrots or mayonnaise to build the body, the face of the pig.
The photo below shows the most interesting ideas on how to decorate salads "Olivier", "Crab", "Capital", "Winter", "Mimosa" and even a vinaigrette in the form of a New Year's pig, pig or a cheerful pig.
For decoration, the easiest way is to use olives, olives, green peas, corn, pomegranate seeds, pieces of carrots, boiled sausages. On the sides of the "pig" it is easy to arrange slices of fresh cucumbers, tomatoes, add canned peas, herbs, chopped green onion feathers, olives.
