Many women start planning their New Year's menus in advance. Ladies want to please their loved ones with delicious dishes, but at the same time do not spend a lot of time on preparing salads, because everyone wants to look like a queen on a holiday, not a tired Cinderella.
To make it easier for women, consider 3 recipes for simple salads that are perfect for the New Year's table in 2018.
Salad with beef and cucumber
This simple salad will be appreciated by all housewives. You don't need to spend a lot of time to prepare a dish, meanwhile, the salad turns out to be hearty and at the same time juicy. To create a dish, you need the following ingredients:
- 300 g of beef;
- 2 fresh cucumbers;
- 1 sweet red pepper;
- 1 head of onion;
- 3 cloves of garlic;
- red and black ground pepper to taste;
- 2 tbsp. l. soy sauce;
- 3 tbsp. l. odorless vegetable oil;
- 1 tsp vinegar 9%;
- 1 tsp salt;
- ½ tsp Sahara.
The steps for making a delicious salad with beef and cucumbers are as follows:
- Wash the cucumbers, cut off the inedible parts, cut into strips.
- Put the prepared vegetable in a bowl and season with salt. Leave the cucumber for 20 minutes to release the juice.
- Drain the juice from the cucumber.
- After you drain the excess liquid from the cucumber, sprinkle the vegetable with sugar, pepper, add the garlic passed through a press. Stir in the ingredients and set the cucumbers aside.
- Wash the meat, remove excess fat and other inedible parts from it. Cut the beef into thin strips.
- Pour vegetable oil into a preheated pan, fry the beef until tender. Watch the meat carefully, it is important that it does not overcook or dry out.
- Remove the husk from the onion, cut into half rings, send to the pan to the beef.
- Wash the pepper, remove the seeds from it, cut into strips, send to the pan with beef and onions.
- Fry the contents of the pan for 15 minutes, stirring constantly. It is important that the vegetables retain their firmness.
- Now you need to combine all the ingredients, season the salad with vinegar and soy sauce, mix everything. If the meat and vegetables have already cooled down, then the dish should be sent to the refrigerator for 1.5-2 hours.
- Salad with beef and cucumbers is served chilled.
Guests will appreciate this delicious salad without mayonnaise.
Chicken and ham salad
If you are looking for a simple salad for the New Year's table, then pay attention to the chicken and ham dish. The preparation time of the appetizer will take no more than half an hour. To prepare a salad with chicken and ham you need:
- 250 g chicken fillet;
- 300 g ham;
- 4 chicken eggs;
- 2 fresh cucumbers;
- 150 g hard cheese
- 1 tsp mustard;
- 2 tsp soy sauce;
- 100 g mayonnaise. It is allowed to replace with yogurt without additives, sour cream;
- 1 tsp mustard;
- 2 cloves of garlic.
The chicken and ham salad is prepared like this:
- Wash the chicken fillet, boil until tender, cool. Disassemble the meat into fibers.
- Boil the eggs, cool, peel, cut into cubes.
- Wash cucumbers, remove inedible parts, peel, cut into strips.
- Cut the ham into thin strips.
- Put the prepared ingredients in a deep bowl, grate the cheese there.
- Combine mayonnaise (sour cream or yogurt), soy sauce, mustard, garlic in a press in a separate plate. Stir the ingredients until smooth.
- Season the salad with the prepared sauce, mix. Taste the prepared dish, add salt and spices if necessary. Place the chicken and ham salad in the refrigerator for 1 hour. Serve the dish to the table in a beautiful salad bowl or on a flat plate, laid out in a slide.
Squid salad
This appetizer will appeal to all seafood lovers. Squid salad is prepared quickly, it turns out very tasty and perfectly diversifies the New Year's table. To prepare the dish you need:
- 5 carcasses of squid;
- 5 chicken eggs;
- 1 head of onion;
- 100 g mayonnaise;
- Salt and spices to taste.
Salad with squid and eggs is very simple at first glance, but we suggest you marinate the onions deliciously for the dish under discussion. To prepare the marinade you need:
- ½ glass of clean water;
- 2 tbsp. l. vinegar 9%;
- ½ tsp salt;
- ¼ h. L. ground black pepper;
- 1 tsp Sahara.
The stages of preparing a salad with squid are as follows:
- Immerse thawed, unpeeled squid carcasses in boiling water for 1-2 minutes. During this time, the pink skin should wrinkle. Cool the carcasses, remove the chitin plates from the squid, remove the skin. As a result, you will get beautiful white squids. A little tip: do not keep the carcasses in boiling water for a long time, otherwise the squid will digest and become rubbery.
- Slice the squid into thin rings.
- Remove the husk from the onion, cut into squares, put in a colander and pour over boiling water, let the water drain. Transfer the prepared vegetable to a deep plate, pour in ½ cup of water, add salt, sugar, pepper and vinegar, mix. Let the onion marinate for half an hour, then transfer the vegetable to a colander to drain the remaining marinade.
- Boil the eggs, cool, remove the shell, grind.
- Combine all the ingredients: squid, onion and eggs together, season with mayonnaise, stir.
- Put the prepared salad with squid and eggs in the refrigerator for 30 minutes. Serve the appetizer in a beautiful salad bowl, garnished with sprigs of herbs.
All of these salads are prepared very quickly and are delicious. Such snacks will become a real decoration of the New Year's table and will give guests a gastronomic pleasure.
