What is a New Year's festive table in the Year of the Dog without a delicious dish in her honor? After all, you need to cajole a friendly symbol, show how everyone is happy to meet. So we buy groceries, put on aprons and prepare an unusually nourishing, spicy and appetizing "Shaggy Dog" salad with meat, mushrooms and sausage. You can call the children for help, they will definitely like the dish!
To prepare a salad for the New Year in the form of a dog, you will need meat, sausage, mushrooms, vegetables, mayonnaise. It is these products that will give a festive dish a unique taste. If you don't want to mess around with laying out the layers and forming a dog's face, you can simply mix all the components. However, this option will not be able to amaze guests with an original way of serving, so we will make a salad for the New Year 2018 according to all the rules.
You will need the following ingredients:
- boiled beef, veal - 500 g;
- "Doctor's" boiled sausage - 300 g;
- boiled eggs - 5 pieces;
- onions - 3 heads;
- pickled / pickled cucumbers - 3 pieces;
- medium-sized boiled potatoes - 5 tubers;
- boiled carrots - 4 pieces;
- pickled champignons (or homemade mushrooms from blanks) - 300 g;
- mayonnaise for spreading layers;
- vegetable oil for frying;
- salt;
- black olives for salad dressing.
Step-by-step recipe for Shaggy Dog salad for the new year 2018:
- Prepare all the food first. Peel the potatoes, onions and carrots, peel the boiled eggs.
- Grate pickled cucumbers, carrots, potatoes, whites and yolks, put all the ingredients on different plates without mixing.
- Cut the boiled meat and onion into small cubes. Pour oil into a frying pan, fry half of the onion with the meat pieces. After 3 minutes, after the appetizing crust appears, add the grated cucumbers. Fry the mixture for a couple of minutes, transfer to a dish, cool.
- Add oil to the pan, fry finely chopped champignons with the remaining onions. Season with pepper and salt to taste. Leave to cool.
- Rub the sausage through a Korean carrot grater or cut it into very thin strips to make thin strips.
- We start collecting puff salad for the New 2018. To do this, divide the potatoes, carrots, meat into equal halves.
- The first layer is beef fried with onions, formed on a platter in the form of the symbol of the coming year - the Yellow Earth Dog. We make the abdomen, four legs, head and tail, spreading the meat with a spoon.
- The second layer is half of the grated potatoes. We coat with mayonnaise, add some salt if desired.
- Next, lay out half the carrots in layers, mushrooms fried with onions, the remaining potatoes, again make a mayonnaise grate for juiciness.
- Add the leftover beef, sprinkle the meat with yolk, pour the proteins from the plate on top with a layer.
- The finishing touch of the New Year's salad is the formation of ears, paws and tail from the sausage. We make the tongue from smoked sausage, gas - from the halves of olives.
The salad for the New Year 2018 of the dog is ready, you can put it in the refrigerator for half an hour to soak it, then show it to the guests.