Have you already decided which salads to cook for the New Year? If not, then it's time to decide on a holiday menu. Deciding on the last day what to put on the table is not the best option.
New Year's salads can be varied. Some people like beef snacks, others prefer dishes with the addition of smoked chicken, and still others recognize only seafood salads. Everyone has different tastes, so consider recipes for salads for the New Year, which can surprise you with their simplicity of preparation and piquancy.
Smoked chicken salad
Smoked chicken salad, the recipe for which will be discussed below, does not require any special culinary skills. The dish is prepared simply and quickly, but at the same time it harmoniously fits into the category of "salads for the New Year".
To make a delicious smoked chicken salad, use the following foods:
- 1 smoked chicken breast
- 1 medium fresh cucumber;
- 1 red bell pepper;
- 150 g of canned mushrooms;
- 3 chicken eggs;
- 100 g pitted prunes;
- 1 bunch of any greens: onions, parsley, etc. (you can do without it);
- Salt, spices and mayonnaise to taste.
Smoked chicken salad is prepared in the following sequence:
- Separate the chicken meat from the bone, cut into large cubes.
- Wash the cucumber, remove the inedible parts, cut into medium-sized cubes.
- Wash the pepper, peel the seeds out of it, remove the stalk. Cut the prepared vegetable into cubes. Do not grind too much so that the salad for the New Year will delight you with its juiciness.
- Boil the eggs, cool, remove the shell from them, cut as small as possible.
- Rinse the prunes under running water, and then pour boiling water for 5-10 minutes so that the berries swell.
- Drain the liquid from the prunes, cut the product into small pieces.
- Open a jar of mushrooms, drain the marinade, if you wish, you can fry the mushrooms.
- Combine all prepared ingredients together, stir, add salt and pepper to taste. If you decide to season the salad with fresh herbs, then wash it, chop it and add to the dish. Season the salad with mayonnaise.
Smoked chicken salad is ready to eat. Serve with the decoration you want.
Beef salad
Many housewives prefer to prepare meat salads for the New Year. For many ladies, dishes with pork seem too fatty, with chicken - not satisfying, but with beef - that's it.
The beef salad, the recipe for which will be described below, is called "Man's Dreams". To create it, you need a minimum of ingredients, and the taste is very unusual. To make a salad, take:
- 300 g of beef;
- 100 g of hard cheese;
- 1 medium green apple;
- 4 eggs;
- 1 medium onion;
- 4 tbsp. l. apple cider vinegar;
- ½ tsp salt;
- Mayonnaise to taste.
Steps for preparing beef salad:
- Rinse the meat, remove excess fat and inedible parts. Boil the beef until tender in salted water, cool.
- Remove the husk from the onion, cut it into thin rings, put in a deep plate, pour in vinegar and 2 tbsp. l. water, stir. Let the onion marinate for 20-30 minutes.
- Boil eggs, cool, peel.
- Now let's start collecting the beef salad. To do this, disassemble the meat into fibers. It is important that the pieces are small. Beef is the first layer. Season the meat with salt, if desired.
- Remove the onion from the marinade, let the excess liquid drain. The second layer, which is located on the meat, is pickled onions. Spread the vegetable evenly, sprinkle this layer with mayonnaise.
- Wash the apple, peel, remove the core and pits, grate on a coarse grater. The apple will be the third layer in the "Men's Dreams" salad. The crushed fruit should be flavored with mayonnaise.
- Grate the prepared eggs on a coarse shredder - this will be the 4th layer, which is again greased with mayonnaise.
- The last layer of beef salad is cheese chopped on a coarse grater. You do not need to grease the cheese with mayonnaise. You can decorate the dish with leaves of fresh herbs or something else to your taste.
Before serving, beef salad is recommended to be kept in refrigerators for 3-4 hours so that it is soaked.
Seafood salad
If you are looking for unusual salads for the New Year, which will include seafood, then pay attention to the recipe below. To make seafood salad you will need:
- 200 g of seaweed without additives and mayonnaise;
- 250 g crab sticks;
- 300 g shrimp (peeled);
- 1 can of canned pink salmon;
- 3 eggs;
- 1 small red onion head
- 3 tbsp. l. mayonnaise.
Seafood salad is prepared according to the following scheme:
- Choose a convenient salad plate as it is cooked in layers. Place the first layer of seaweed in the bowl of your choice. The product must be removed from the jar and allowed to drain off excess liquid, only then put on a dish.
- Peel the red onion, cut as small as possible, distribute over the seaweed.
- Open a jar of pink salmon, drain the excess liquid from it. Remove the bone from the fish, mash the product with a fork. Spread the prepared pink salmon in the third layer in the salad.
- Cut the chilled crab sticks into large pieces - this will be the fourth layer.
- Boil eggs, cool, peel, chop finely. Prepared eggs are the fifth layer of seafood salad.
- Grease the eggs liberally with mayonnaise.
- Boil the shrimps in boiling water for 5 minutes, discard in a colander, let the liquid drain. Spread the shrimp over the mayonnaise. This will be the last layer of the salad.
Before serving seafood salad, it is recommended to keep it in the refrigerator for a couple of hours to soak it. Thanks to seaweed and pink salmon, the dish will turn out to be juicy and unusual.
As you can see, salads for the New Year can be varied, you just need to choose the one that you like best and cook it.
