For the festive anniversary menu, you should choose the most original delicious salads that will pleasantly surprise guests. If you plan to serve familiar familiar dishes, then you need to think over an unusual design for them.
"Royal" salad with homemade croutons
Ingredients:
- pre-cooked chicken eggs - 4-5 pcs. (depending on the size);
- crab sticks (not frozen) - 270-300 g;
- cheese - 1, 5 tbsp. (already crushed);
- loaf - ½ pcs.;
- garlic - 3-4 cloves;
- mayonnaise sauce, oil, salt - to taste.
Preparation:
Remove films from crab sticks, cut them into small pieces. You should not use a frozen product for such a snack, as it is dry. Refrigerate pre-cooked eggs until firm yolk. Peel them and chop them into neat even cubes. It is convenient to use an egg cutter for this purpose.
Chop the garlic in any suitable way. The best way is to pass it through a garlic press. Mix part of it with grated cheese and a little salted mayonnaise sauce.
Cut the loaf into medium cubes. Transfer them to a large bowl. Sprinkle the bread with butter on top, sprinkle with the remaining garlic and salt. Gently mix the loaf cubes with the added ingredients to avoid breaking them.
Lay the appetizer on a nice plate with a serving ring in layers. You can arrange them arbitrarily. For example: crab sticks - cheese and garlic mass - eggs - salted mayonnaise sauce - croutons. Bread slices should be poured into the appetizer last so that they do not turn into an unappetizing porridge. After removing the serving ring, you can decorate the treat to your liking.
"Anthill" with fried potatoes
Ingredients:
- chicken fillet - 280-300 g;
- ripe juicy tomato - 1 pc.;
- fresh cucumber - 1-2 (depending on size);
- parmesan - 40 g;
- garlic - 1 slice;
- mayonnaise - half a glass;
- potato tubers - 2 medium;
- oil - for frying;
- green onions - a few feathers;
- salt to taste.
Preparation:
First, send the poultry fillets to boil in salted water. To make the chicken more flavorful, you can add various spices and herbs to the liquid to your liking. Be sure to leave the meat to cool directly in the broth. In this case, it will turn out to make it especially juicy. Chop the cooled product at random. The pieces should be smooth, neat, but not too small. Pour them immediately into a container suitable for mixing.
Chop the tomato together with the skin into cubes. Grind fresh cucumber using a special "Korean" grater. Pour both prepared vegetables into a bowl with chicken. Add medium parmesan flakes. If this dairy product cannot be obtained, it is worth replacing it with any quality hard / semi-hard cheese.
Salt mayonnaise separately, mix with mashed garlic. Season all the combined components with the resulting aromatic sauce. While the almost finished snack is infused on the sidelines, you can do potato strips. She will then become a special "chip" of the salad.
Potatoes must first be peeled, rinsed thoroughly from excess starch, and dried with paper towels. Grind it with a "Korean" grater. Repeat rinsing and drying with the resulting potato strips. Drying is especially convenient on a clean cotton kitchen towel or cheesecloth.
Heat a large amount of refined oil in a deep cast iron skillet. When it starts to sizzle slightly, fry the potato chips in fat. The vegetable should be golden brown and crispy. In no case should all the straws be poured into the oil at once, otherwise it will not be possible to make it crispy - the product will simply stick together into one large lump. Spread the finished fried potatoes on paper towels to remove excess oil.
Put ready-made and slightly infused seasoned salad into a deep domed bowl covered with cling film. Tamp it well with clean palms. Turn the appetizer onto a large, flat plate. Correct errors.
Cover the resulting appetizing dome with potato strips from all sides. If desired, decorate it with green onion rings or other herbs, fresh / pickled vegetables, and then serve it to the guests for a festive table for a birthday or New Year.
Delicate snack with pineapple and chicken
Ingredients:
- chicken fillet - 270-300 g;
- cheese - 170-200 g;
- pineapple in syrup (canned) - 1 full glass of cubes;
- ready-made store crackers - 1 small pack;
- oil, salt, mayonnaise - to taste.
Preparation:
It is more convenient to cut the poultry for frying in a slightly frozen form. Then the pieces are smooth and neat. Pour the resulting slices into a skillet with well-heated oil. Cook them until the pieces change color on the inside and are covered with a clear brown crust on the outside.
Remove the pineapple cubes from the syrup jar. The most convenient way is to take the already cut fruit. Put them in a colander, drain off excess syrup (by the way, the latter can be used to make various desserts). If you don't want the salad to turn out sweetish, you should also rinse the pineapple pieces from the sugary liquid.
Combine pineapple pieces with chicken. Add coarsely grated cheese to them. Pour in store croutons. Sour cream and cheese flavors are best. The croutons option is one of the varieties of such a salad. If you don't want to cook it with bread, you can replace croutons with coarsely chopped walnuts. This will change the taste of the snack, but it will not get worse.
In any case, it is worth refueling a delicious treat with salty light mayonnaise. If desired, it is allowed to add a little granulated garlic to it.
"Rainbow" salad
Ingredients:
- sweet bell pepper - half of each color (yellow, red, orange)
- fresh cucumber - 1-2 pcs.;
- hunting sausages - 250-300 g;
- grains of sweet corn (canned food) - a full glass;
- red onion - small head;
- boiled eggs - 3-4 pcs.;
- mayonnaise - half a glass;
- French mustard - 2 small spoons;
- salt and spices to taste.
Preparation:
In such a recipe, you should not replace hunting sausages with ordinary sausages. It is with them that the taste of the salad turns out to be bright and original. The sausages must be removed from the top film and cut into cubes.
Wash off all the seeds from the bell pepper halves. Remove internal loose partitions. Cut the remaining juicy parts into large cubes or cubes. You can use sweet peppers and one color, but multicolored ones look especially appetizing in the salad.
Chop the onion and fresh cucumber at random. Cut the previously completely cooled eggs with a special egg cutter.
Connect everything. Pour corn without marinade last to the appetizer.
In a separate bowl, prepare a dressing for such an unusual bright salad. In classic mayonnaise (best of all - in homemade), send mustard, salt. Add spices to your taste. Only dry garlic and / or a mixture of ground colored peppers can be added.
Pour the prepared salad with the resulting sauce. Mix everything. Be sure to let the salad sit for about an hour in the cool. Only after that, serve it to the festive table.
"Herring under a fur coat" in a roll
Ingredients:
- slightly salted herring - 1 large;
- medium-sized beets and carrots - 2 each;
- eggs and potatoes - 3 pcs.;
- white onion - 1 head;
- salt and mayonnaise sauce to taste.
Preparation:
The first step is to send the eggs to boil. They need to be cooked to a firm center, cooled, and then (without dividing into components) rubbed coarsely. Beets, carrots and potatoes can not only be boiled, but also baked in the oven. To do this, each vegetable individually needs to be wrapped in foil and cooked for softness. You can check it with a toothpick.
Grind the cooled cooked vegetables with a medium / large scale grater. If the beets turned out to be too watery, then its shavings should be squeezed out of excess moisture with clean hands.
Cut off the head, tail, fins from the herring. Remove all insides. Gently pull out the bones. Rinse the remaining fillets and dry slightly. Cut it into medium cubes. To make it easier for yourself and speed up the process of preparing a snack, you can immediately buy cut herring fillets in oil. For example, the classic version or with spices. Then it will be enough to drain the oil from the pieces and cut them into smaller pieces. Sometimes, even in a shop cut herring, large bones come across. This point also needs to be taken care of. Chop the onion very finely and mix with the fish pieces.
Spread cling film on a flat surface. Put the beets on it first. Then distribute - carrots, potatoes. The last - eggs and herring. When stacking each product, it must be immediately mixed or coated with salted mayonnaise. In addition, the next layer needs to be made slightly smaller than the previous one, so that it is possible to completely close the roll when folding.
Helping yourself with cling film, gently twist the structure. Fasten the edges securely. Remove the resulting roll in the cool for the whole night. Only in the morning, remove the cover and festively serve an unusual version of everyone's favorite salad. This simple step-by-step recipe will really surprise your guests with the original design of the treat.
"Polyanka" with egg pancakes
Ingredients:
- boiled potatoes - 280-300 g;
- canned green peas - 180-200 g;
- any smoked meat (it is best to take pork or chicken);
- eggs - 4 pcs.;
- onion - half the head;
- flour - 1 large spoon;
- mayonnaise on quail eggs - 2/3 tbsp.;
- refined oil - 1 large spoon;
- salt - a pinch;
- parsley - 5-6 branches;
- salt to taste.
Preparation:
Pour raw eggs into a small bowl. Whisk them lightly, then mix with mayonnaise and all the stated dry ingredients. You will get a pancake dough from which you need to bake two thin large cakes. Let them cool completely. Smear each warm pancake with a thin layer of mayonnaise, roll it up and cut into thin rings.
Chop the onion very finely. Pour boiling water over for a few minutes. Next, drain the liquid and squeeze the vegetable cubes.
Chop the potatoes with a medium grater. Mix most of it with onion. Season with mayonnaise and salt.
Separately cut the smoked meat into small cubes. Mix it with green peas and salted mayonnaise.
Cover a deep round bowl with cling film. Spread egg "curls" over the entire surface of the coating. Put on top first the mass with potatoes, and then with meat. Cover the ingredients with the remaining grated potatoes mixed with salted mayonnaise.
Give the treat to brew well in the cold. Before serving - turn it over onto a nice plate and carefully remove the film. The guests themselves will divide it into portions.
