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12.05.202227.05.2017

Without New Year's salads - Olivier salad, Mimosa and Herring under a fur coat it's impossible to imagine New Year. But it is absolutely not necessary to be limited to the traditional set of New Year's salads with mayonnaise.

Any salad is a great opportunity to show imagination and ingenuity, to please yourself and your guests with delicious festive dishes.

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It is New Year's salads that make the New Year's table the way it should be: bright, beautiful, spectacular - without them it is simply impossible to imagine it, whatever one may say!

To make New Year's salads delight you and your loved ones, cook them according to the recipes proposed in this section.

Salad Olivier

Salad Olivier has been one of the must-have attributes of the New Year's table for many years.

Ingredients:

mayonnaise - 1 can
fresh or pickled cucumbers - 4 pcs.
onion - 2 pcs.
boiled chicken breasts - 3 pcs.
potatoes, boiled "in uniform" - 6 pcs.
ham or boiled meat - 100 g
hard-boiled eggs - 6 pcs.
canned green peas - 1 can
greens for serving

Cooking method:

Peel potatoes and eggs, cut into small cubes. Cucumbers, onions, chicken, ham or meat cut into cubes of the same size. This is necessary so that the salad is well saturated with mayonnaise and becomes tender and airy. Put the prepared components in a salad bowl, add green peas. Season with mayonnaise and mix well. Depending on the season and desire, garnish with green onions, parsley and dill.

Herring under a fur coat

Herring under a fur coat is one of the traditional New Year's salads, the taste of which has been familiar to us since childhood.

Ingredients:

Salted herring - 500 grams
Carrots - 300 Grams
Potatoes - 300 Grams
Chicken egg - 2 pieces
Onion - 1 piece
Beets - 300 Grams
Mayonnaise - 150 Grams
Salt - 1 teaspoon

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Cooking method:

We wash all vegetables properly, cook beets, carrots and potatoes separately from each other. We clean the cooled products. We process the herring, cut the fillet into small squares. We chop the onion (you can pour over boiling water or marinate for a couple of minutes in a mixture of vinegar and water). We cut the potatoes into small cubes, three carrots with beets on a grater. We prepare a large in-depth salad bowl or dish and proceed to laying out the layers: first we distribute the herring, coat with mayonnaise, followed by onions and mayonnaise, then potatoes, mayonnaise, carrots, mayonnaise again and at the very end beets and the final layer of mayonnaise. Smooth the top of the salad with a spoon. We send the dish to the cold soak. Before serving, decorate with herbs or green onion rings.

Mimosa salad

When buying eggs for this New Year's salad, try to make sure that they have as bright yolks as possible.

Ingredients:

eggs 6 pcs.
canned fish 1 can
hard cheese 150 g
mayonnaise 200 g
butter 100 g
onion 1 pc.
fresh herbs 4-5 sprigs
salt

Cooking method:

Hard-boil eggs, cool and peel. Chop the whites very finely with a knife, mash the yolks with a fork. Peel the onion, finely chop or grate. Grate the cheese on a medium grater, chop the greens.

Remove the fish from the jar, remove excess liquid and large bones. Put the fish in a separate plate and mash with a fork. Place the egg whites in a wide dish. Put a layer of grated cheese on top of the proteins, then a fish layer. Lubricate with mayonnaise.

Lay a layer of chopped onion on top, then half of the mashed yolks. Lubricate the yolks with mayonnaise, sprinkle with chopped herbs. Grate the frozen butter on top of the greens on a fine grater. Decorate the salad with the remaining yolks.

Send the salad to the refrigerator for 2 hours. Garnish with fresh herbs before serving.

Salad New Year's clock?

New Year's salad, laid out in the shape of a clock, creates a festive mood.

Ingredients:

chicken fillet 1 pc.
eggs 4 pcs.
prunes 100 g
walnuts 75 g
hard cheese 100 g
mayonnaise 100 g
salt to taste
fresh cucumber for garnish
carrots for decoration

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Cooking method:

Boil the chicken fillet in salted water until tender, cool and finely chop. Pour prunes with hot water. After half an hour, drain the liquid and chop the dried fruits. Chop the walnuts. Grate the cheese on a fine grater.

Boil eggs and carrots. Separate egg whites from yolks. Proteins and yolks separately from each other grate on a fine grater. Take a large flat plate and lay out the layers of New Year's salad on it in the following sequence:

1st layer: chicken fillet, mayonnaise
2nd layer: yolks, mayonnaise,
3rd layer: prunes, mayonnaise,
4th layer: proteins, mayonnaise,
5th layer: walnuts, mayonnaise,
6th layer: cheese.

Make a dial on the top layer of the New Year's salad of chopped fresh cucumbers and boiled carrots.

Advice: Any puff salad can be decorated like a New Year's clock. The main thing is to have a white layer of grated cheese or proteins on top.

Salad Pineapple

To make your guests remember the feast for a long time, you should not run after the exotic at all. With simple ingredients, you can make a wonderful holiday salad. Its feature is a beautiful serving in the form of pineapple.

Ingredients:

boiled chicken fillet (or ham) 250 g
potatoes 3 pcs.
eggs 4 pcs.
pineapple rings 5 pcs.
onion 1 pc.
apple 1 pc.
lemon juice 1 tsp
walnuts for decoration
green onion for garnish
mayonnaise 200 g
salt, pepper to taste

Cooking method:

Grate potatoes and boiled egg on a coarse grater. Cut the chicken fillet, chop the onion. We remove the core from the apple, remove the peel and rub the apple on a coarse grater. Finely chop the pineapple.

Put some potatoes on a plate, salt, pepper. We spread a little mayonnaise on the potatoes and distribute it over the surface. We spread a part of the onion on the mayonnaise and distribute it over the surface with a thin layer, salt, pepper.

We make a layer of chicken meat, add mayonnaise. We make a layer of an apple, lay a layer of eggs on top, salt, pepper, cover with mayonnaise.

We spread part of the pineapples on the salad and repeat all the layers again (10 layers in total should be obtained). At the end, sprinkle the salad with grated egg and carefully distribute it over the entire surface. We cover the surface of the salad with mayonnaise. Decorate the salad with walnuts to make it look like a pineapple

Alternatively, you can chop the nuts and sprinkle them over the finished salad. Green onion feathers will play the role of a ponytail.

Salad Sunflower

A festive salad in the form of a sunflower will be an excellent decoration for the New Year's table.

Ingredients:

chicken fillet 400 g
canned corn 1 can
eggs 4 pcs.
carrots 2 pcs.
marinated champignons 200 g
green onion 1 bunch
olives for decoration
chips for decoration
mayonnaise to taste
salt to taste

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Cooking method:

Boil carrots until cooked, cool and peel. Grate on a medium grater. Wash the chicken fillet, boil in salted water, cool and finely chop or divide into fibers with your hands.

Boil eggs, cool and peel. Grate on a fine grater or cut into small cubes. Chop mushrooms. Wash green onions and finely chop. Drain the liquid from the can of corn.

Put the chicken fillet on the bottom of the plate, grease with mayonnaise. Put grated carrots on the fillet, grease with mayonnaise. Put mushrooms on carrots, grease with mayonnaise. Put green onions on mushrooms. Put the eggs on the onion, grease with mayonnaise. Spread corn over eggs.

Decorate the salad with olive halves. Stick the chips around.

Rainbow salad??

The recipe for a delicious holiday salad for the New Year's table.

Ingredients:

beets 2 pcs.
carrot 1 pc.
pickled cucumbers 2 pcs.
potatoes 1 pc.
slightly salted salmon 100 g
eggs 2 pcs.
green onion 50 g
mayonnaise 200 g

Cooking method:

Boil potatoes, carrots and beets. Grate vegetables on a coarse grater. Finely chop cucumbers and green onions. Mash the boiled eggs with a fork. Cut the fish into thin slices.

Arrange all vegetables and eggs on a flat dish in a circle. Pour mayonnaise into the center of the plate, spread the pieces of fish on top. Stir salad after serving.

This salad is good because there are a huge number of food layout options. In addition, you can experiment with ingredients: use fresh vegetables for salad and replace fish with boiled meat.

Tiffany salad

Ingredients:

chicken breast 1 pc.
hard cheese 200 g
hard-boiled eggs 5 pcs.
green grapes 100 g
mayonnaise 1 pack
salt, ground pepper to taste
curry on request
almonds optional

On the eve of the holiday, every housewife tries to think over the menu for the feast, and this is especially true for the new year. After all, based on belief, how you celebrate the new year is how you will spend it. Therefore, the richer and more versatile the table is, the richer life will be! The most popular dishes are salads for the new year 2016, which you can cook based on our recipes. Here you will find not only the composition and cooking instructions, but also information on how beautifully, unusually and flawlessly to decorate each dish. In addition, each salad has healthy and nutritious properties, harmoniously combined with an unsurpassed taste. We offer recipes for both meat eaters and vegetarians, which makes us different from other sites.

Do you know what the next year symbolizes according to the Eastern calendar? This will be the year of the fire monkey, who, for our general information, loves fruits. Therefore, it is also necessary to prepare fruit salads for the new year 2016. Children will especially enjoy these dishes! What else does a monkey love? Well, of course, vegetables: carrots, cabbage, fresh herbs.

Tip: Not a single feasting event is complete without drinking alcohol, as a result of which intoxication and morning headaches occur. Therefore, do not refuse plant foods on New Year's Eve. Because the vitamins, microelements and other useful substances contained in them have a beneficial effect on the body as a whole. Thanks to this, side effects after alcohol can be avoided.

It's no secret that salads combine several different ingredients that sometimes seem completely incompatible. Thanks to this, every time you can achieve a new unusual taste shade. For hundreds of years, mankind has been accustomed to putting on the festive table everyone's favorite Olivier, herring under a fur coat, mimosa, but modern people strive for innovation even in the field of cooking. And it's great! Moreover, as for the New Year's feast, the menu should not repeat the dishes of last year. By the way, even the usual Olivier recipes can be diversified with the help of additional components. And then you can completely replace the sausage with a liver. The result will be, well, a very original dish, and you will learn how to cook it correctly from our recipes.

Preparing salads for the new year 2016, based on the existing recipe, is quite simple. But for novice cooks, photos will be a great help. After all, this is how you can see how this or that dish is properly prepared. Salad decoration plays a huge role in creating a good mood and bon appetit! Only for this you need to stock up on a small amount of ingredients such as greens, peas, corn, olives and more. In a word, by choosing certain recipes, you will already know in advance what to purchase. Yes, and you need to take care of the appropriate dishes in advance, because salads can be served both in a common salad bowl and in portions. And you will learn about these tricks too from our collection of recipes.

To create a real masterpiece as a salad, large financial investments are not always required. Because we present salads for the new year 2016 in a different interpretation. That is, we have salad recipes that can be prepared from the simplest and most affordable products. And even with a small set of components, it is possible to make a delicious salad and decorate it in the most original way.

So, salads for the new year 2016:

This salad is called "Monkey". You can find similar recipes on any resource, but this dish still differs from the rest in a set of ingredients. So, you need to prepare:

onions - 1 head;
mayonnaise - 100 ml;
fresh cucumber - 1-2;
eggs - 3-5;
crab sticks - 100 grams;
round-grain rice - 70-80 grams;
hard cheese - 20-30 grams;
greenery;
olives - pieces 5;
1 can of sardines in oil

Boil eggs and rice groats in salted water until tender. Pay attention to the fact that the rice does not turn out to be excessively crumbly, as it will play the role of a gluing agent. But it's not worth digesting either. Grind greens, onion and egg whites, chop the sardine with a fork. And cut the cucumbers into small cubes, grind the cheese through a fine grater, cut the crab sticks. We combine all the components and knead, after which we add mayonnaise. Leave some rice for decoration.

Now you need to take the most flat dish and carefully lay out the minced meat. In this case, it is necessary to give the mass an oval of a monkey, as shown in the photo. Lettuce should be slightly smoothed, but not pressed down. Next, the yolks are ground into a homogeneous mass. Where the eyes of the animal will be, 2 stacks are installed, around which you need to sprinkle with yolk throughout the mass. Remove the stacks and put rice on this place. Half an olive is placed in the center and the contour of the eyes is made from them. But in this case, the olives are cut into strips. On the "pupils" you can apply a drop of mayonnaise. Do not forget to create a smile from carrots or boiled beets. From the remaining greenery, you can make a hairstyle for a monkey.

Salad for the new year 2016 "Amazing monkey". This salad is laid out in layers. But to shape the muzzle, care must be taken. First you need to make a beet edging, inside which the salad fits in the following sequence:

mashed sprats (1 bank);
finely chopped smoked sausage (100 grams);
corn (0.5 cans);
chopped olives (about 80-100 grams);
grated sweet and sour apple;
chopped onion (1 piece);
a pack of crumbled crackers (except bacon);
boiled carrots, grated on a fine grater (1 piece);
boiled potatoes.

Each layer must be smeared with a small amount of mayonnaise. Now we can move on to decorating. To do this, the yolks and whites are rubbed separately, which are laid out in a certain pattern, as shown in the photo. Eyes and a nose are created from olives, and a mouth from carrots. From hard cheese you can make a tongue and ears.

Salad for the new year 2016 may also have the shape of a snowman. Therefore, the next salad is called "Merry Snowmen". Of course, there have been similar dishes before, but this recipe is innovative. For the manufacture you will need the following components:

processed cheese (5-6 pieces);
hard cheese (100 grams);
boiled eggs (6-7 pieces);
crab sticks (200 grams);
corn (1/3 can);
carrots for decoration;
mayonnaise to taste.

All ingredients are cut and ground on a grater, after which they are combined and thoroughly mixed. Then you need to form three balls of different diameters for each snowman. You can put a little grated processed cheese on the dish to create the effect of snow and strengthen the structure. Then a snowman is formed, and a nose and a bucket are cut out of carrots. Onion leaves can serve as hands. Lettuce must be refrigerated for at least half an hour.

This salad can surprise even experienced people, despite the fact that its appearance is the most primitive. Its secret lies in the filling. So, you need some canned mushrooms, processed and hard cheese, mayonnaise and boiled eggs. Try to choose the smallest mushrooms, as they will be the filling. Eggs and melted cheese should be grated on a fine grater and combined with mayonnaise. In this case, mayonnaise must be taken in minimal quantities so that the mass does not blur. With a tablespoon, you need to separate part of the mixture and form a small cake, inside which you need to put the fungus. Then it is required to give the mass the shape of a ball and roll in grated hard cheese. It is worth noting that the combination of mushrooms and tender processed cheese can delight real gourmets.

TIP: As a rule, such balls are laid out on a dish that is covered with lettuce or greens, but you can do it differently and in a more original way. To do this, you need to buy special waffle baskets, on the bottom of which you can put any greens. And then you need to put a ball on top. The smaller the basket and the ball, the more convenient it will be to eat this salad.

Well, what is a New Year's celebration without a Christmas tree? That's right, no, therefore, salads for the new year 2016 should look like a live and real spruce. Designing such a composition is quite easy, but not every salad is suitable for this. If you hear somewhere that a Christmas tree can be made from Olivier, then do not believe it. Because this salad will just blur. Of course, we are ready to offer several options for those salads that really stand. To form a spruce, you need to stack the mass alternately with a large spoon. Once you reach the crown and cone shape, be sure to hang dill leaves on the salad and insert pomegranate seeds, corn, green peas, cranberries and the like instead of Christmas decorations. You can use a toy as a decoration for a star, or cut a layout out of cardboard and color it. Better yet, cut a star out of red sweet peppers or beets, carrots. By the way, cone salad can be laid out in layers. To simplify the task, you can roll the cardboard into a cone, which stretches inside with foil, pour the salad and turn it over onto a plate. So here are the recipe options:

"Crab coat". This recipe calls for layering. Just keep in mind that there should be a lot of layers, that is, you lay the ingredients thinly, so that they will be repeated. First, you fold the grated protein (6 pieces for the whole salad), onion (1), processed cheese (2 pieces), butter (50 grams), chilled planed on top. Further, the mass is abundantly smeared with mayonnaise. Upstairs, you crumble crab sticks (200 grams), one green apple, mayonnaise and yolk again.
"Magnificent Margot". Now you will need 300 grams of boiled chicken, 5 eggs, 0.5 cans of pickled mushrooms, 2-3 potatoes and 100 grams of hard or processed cheese. All ingredients are finely chopped and mixed with mayonnaise. After that, you can put the salad in a slide.
"Caprice": pass boiled meat in the amount of 300 grams through a meat grinder, grind 5 eggs, grate 100 grams of cheese. Pre-marinate finely chopped onions. Combine everything and add mayonnaise, chopped parsley and dill. Lay out in a cone shape.
"Fast". This salad for the new year 2016 is really fast, inexpensive, simple, but delicious. Buy 200 grams of salty cracker biscuits and crush them a little. Add chopped garlic to taste, 1-2 boiled eggs and mayonnaise. Put the salad in a slide and sprinkle generously with hard cheese on top. Then decorate it according to the generally accepted method.
"Olivier with chicken liver" is prepared simply. The liver is boiled and rubbed on a coarse grater, potatoes, eggs, pickles and fresh cucumbers, finely cut into strips. Be sure to add the onion. Everything is combined and seasoned with thick mayonnaise. Due to the presence of the liver, the salad will not fall apart.

Tip: For this kind of recipes, mayonnaise must be taken as thick as possible, or even better, make it yourself. Do not add too much of it, otherwise the salad will not stand up with a slide.

This recipe is great for vegetarians as it only contains vegetables. For cooking you need:

lettuce leaves;
greenery;
tomatoes;
fresh cucumbers;
boiled potatoes;
soy grains;
green pea;
mayonnaise or vegetable oil.

Finely chop the potatoes and mix them with mayonnaise. Add soy, cucumbers and peas. Pour into a glass and garnish with tomatoes and herbs. If you make a salad with vegetable oil, then you can pour it with lemon juice.

As a dessert, you can prepare a fruit salad that is excellent in taste and appearance. For this you will need for 4 servings:

4 oranges;
half a pomegranate;
2 kiwis;
3 plums;
2 tangerines;
1 banana;
a small branch of grapes;
4-5 strawberries;
dry cloves;
sprig of mint.

For salad dressing, you can take yogurt, cream, lemon juice or sour cream. It's for someone who likes it. Cut off about a third of the orange and clean the inside with a spoon. Chop all the fruit and carefully place directly into the orange. During the laying process, add fill in small portions. Top the salad with mint and orange with cloves.

"Fish in the Pond" Perhaps you have ever tried such a salad, but not this one for sure, because this recipe is not yet known to anyone, but has already been tested. So you need:

potatoes: 3-4 pieces;
eggs: 5 pieces;
sprats: 2 cans;
greenery;
blue food coloring
mayonnaise: 1 pack;
sausage cheese: 100 grams;
fresh cucumber: 1 piece;
squid: 150 grams.

Boil potatoes and eggs until tender and cut into small cubes. Grind boiled squids, too, but with a strip. Three cheese on a grater, and cut the cucumber into cubes. Sprats must be carefully laid out of the jar and mashed with a fork. It is very important to leave 5-6 fish on a paper napkin in a timely manner. This is necessary so that the fish remains without oil. A small amount of mayonnaise should be combined with blue food coloring to decorate the salad on top, giving it a hint of water. Next, lettuce is stacked in layers. First of all, potatoes are poured, which must be poured abundantly with canned oil. Lay eggs on top and brush with white mayonnaise. Then we add mashed sprats, fresh cucumber, a layer of mayonnaise, squid, cheese, mayonnaise and eggs again. We cover the top of the salad with blue sauce and make it look like waves. After that, insert the dried sprats with their tails and head up. The edge of the salad bowl is abundantly sprinkled with herbs.

In fact, there are a lot of ways to decorate a salad for the New Year 2016, so we suggest you watch a short video:

The Eastern calendar claims that the coming year will be held under the auspices of the Fire Monkey. This magical creature is distinguished by a restless character, a fair amount of audacity and great charisma. In order to enlist the support of a symbolic animal, you need to carefully consider the festive menu and include original snacks, gourmet hot dishes and unusual salads (from fruits, vegetables, mayonnaise, and tartlets, in the form of balls, a tower, etc.). For the New Year 2016, fragrant greens, all kinds of vegetables, lean meats, a variety of fruits and herbs must be present on the table. It is this combination of products that the Fire Monkey will like and, in gratitude for your attention, he will give you his care and patronage.

Delicious and unusual salads for the New Year 2016: puff "Secret of the Forest"

This dish has a rich, bright taste, and the decoration of spicy suluguni cheese ribbons makes it especially spectacular and stylish.

Required Ingredients:

boiled squid fillet - 400 gr
pitted black olives - 100 gr
sweet bell pepper - 2 pcs
salad cucumber - 2 pcs
red boiled beans - 250 gr
eggs - 6 pcs
smoked suluguni cheese "pigtail" - 150 gr
mayonnaise 67% - 1 pack
parsley - 1 bunch

Step-by-step instruction

Boil the eggs until fully cooked and cool under cold water. Peel and grate five pieces on a fine grater. Set one aside for decoration.
Chop the cucumbers into equal small cubes.
Cut the stalks from sweet peppers, remove the partitions and seeds, wash, let the water drain and crumble into small sticks.
Cut the finished squid meat into thin strips, finely chop the parsley.
Cut most of the olives into slices, and leave a few whole for decoration.
Disassemble the cheese into fibers and cut into strips 6-8 cm long.
Put all the products in layers in the following sequence: beans + egg + cucumbers + squids + bell peppers + olives + parsley. Be sure to coat each layer with mayonnaise, lightly salt the cucumber layer.
Arrange strips of suluguni cheese on top.
For decoration, cut across one boiled egg. From the sharper part, select the yolk, and boil the protein in strong tea leaves for 4-5 minutes. Put the darkened half on the white. With mayonnaise, apply a few dots to the dark part so that the figure becomes completely similar to a forest mushroom. Put in the center of the salad, and spread the whole olives around and scatter the chopped parsley.
Send the dish for an hour in the refrigerator, and then serve it on the table.

The most delicious and original cocktail salad for the New Year

Snacks served in portioned glasses are gaining more and more popularity. Yes, this is not surprising, because effective serving accounts for at least half of the success of the dish.

Required Ingredients:

boiled peeled shrimp - 300 gr
fresh cucumber - 2 pcs
ripe avocado - 2 pieces
boiled carrots - 2 pcs
canned peas - 1 can
eggs - 2 pcs
white onion - 1 pc.
large sweet orange - 1 pc.
mayonnaise 67% - 1 pack

Step-by-step instruction

Leave a few whole shrimp for garnish and finely chop the rest.
Cut cucumbers, avocados, carrots, eggs and onions into small squares.
Peel the orange from the skin and films, disassemble into slices and cut into small triangles.
Combine all ingredients in a deep bowl, add mayonnaise and herbs and mix very well.
Arrange in portioned glasses with a wide neck, garnish with a whole shrimp and herbs and serve. Hot meat dishes and spicy, spicy snacks will be most successfully combined with such a salad.

New and unusual salads for the New Year 2016: how to cook "Obzhorka"

Not a single feast is complete without hearty meat snacks, but the traditional Olivier has long been impossible to surprise anyone. You can replace the usual dish with a new version of the salad with meat and pickles.

Required Ingredients:

boiled beef fillet - 0.5 kg
onion - 1 pc.
pickled cucumber - 2 pcs
carrots - 3 pcs
mayonnaise 75% - 8 tbsp
salt - 1/2 tsp
ground black pepper - 1/4 tsp
sunflower oil
greenery

Step-by-step instruction

Wash onions and carrots and chop into thin strips.
Peel cucumbers and cut into neat strips 5-6 cm long.
Heat 1 tablespoon of sunflower oil in a frying pan, fry the onion on it until golden brown and transfer it to a salad bowl.
The second step is to fry the carrots in 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil. Stir constantly and watch that the vegetables do not burn. After 7-10 minutes, turn off the heat and add the carrots to the onions.
Chop the boiled meat as finely as possible and combine it with vegetables, add pickles.
Salt, pepper, season with mayonnaise and garnish with herbs.
Leave for an hour in the refrigerator for impregnation, then serve on the festive table.

Lenten New Year's Greek salad, recipe with photo

This dish not only has a pleasant, fresh taste, but also looks very attractive. But the "Greek" has one more indisputable advantage - it is made from tasty, but low-calorie foods. Thanks to these qualities, the food is popular with those who observe a religious fast or are on a diet.

Required Ingredients:

slightly salted cheese - 300 gr
cherry tomatoes - 300 gr
pitted black olives - 1 jar
Bulgarian sweet pepper - 2 pcs.
prunes - 150 gr
dry oregano - 3 tbsp
green salad - 1 bunch
olive oil

Step-by-step instruction

Steam prunes with boiling water and leave in hot water for 30-40 minutes to make it soft. Then finely chop.
Chop the cheese into large cubes and sprinkle with spicy oregano.
Cut the tomatoes in half, and the cucumbers in thin slices. Tear the lettuce leaves into wide pieces with your hands.
Place all ingredients in a salad bowl, add olive oil and mix very well.
Place in the refrigerator for a couple of hours, and then serve to guests with hot dishes and meat snacks.

We offer a video recipe for quick cooking at home for New Year's salads. The most exquisite dishes, as in restaurants:

But also to the dishes on your table. Zealous housewives, who have not spared time for cooking, will have good luck and many pleasant events in the new year. But how to please the Monkey? Actually, it's not that difficult.

Remember: the original serving of salads will conquer the Monkey!

Vegetable salads in the Year of the Monkey

When compiling a festive menu, consider the preferences of the lady of the year. They concern not only the ingredients, but also the presentation of dishes.

Vegetables, fruits and berries. Monkeys eat meat, but it makes up a tiny fraction of their diet. The main source of nutrients for these animals are vegetables, berries and fruits. Such products should be present on the festive table in abundance. Also, keep in mind that monkeys are mobile creatures, and heavy food would prevent them from leading their usual way of life. Another plus in favor of light dishes on the New Year's table!
More colors. The monkey loves the holiday in everything: the brighter the dishes are decorated, the better. Lots of greens, bell peppers of different colors, fresh cucumbers and tomatoes, carrots, oranges and other colorful vegetables and fruits will enliven your table and will definitely please the symbol of the coming year.
Originality. Always ready for experiments and open to new things, the Monkey will appreciate the most unusual dishes. Bold combination of products, unusual presentation, replacement of ingredients in the usual recipe and just unusual and exotic ingredients - all this is appropriate on the eve of 2016. But for all his courage, the Fire Monkey is not at all reckless: test the recipe in advance to avoid embarrassment in the midst of the holiday.

And remember: a salad is the perfect dish to meet all the requirements of a monkey menu. We offer you several recipes for the New Year's holiday.

Vegetable salad with oranges

Here you have vegetables and bright decoration! Tomatoes, peppers and celery look very fresh and New Year's: in the end, no one cancels the traditional festive colors - red and green. Feel free to put peppers and tomatoes of different colors in the dish - pink, red, orange, green and yellow.

Ingredients: 8 ripe tomatoes, 3 bell peppers, 6 celery stalks, 1 small red onion, 2 medium oranges, 200 g pitted olives, 1 lemon, a few sprigs of dill, 1 tbsp. sugar, 2 tsp mustard with grains, 75 ml of olive oil, salt, freshly ground pepper to taste.

Cooking:

Prepare vegetables. Wash the tomatoes, dry, cut into cubes or medium-sized slices. Peel the celery, cut into small strips. Peel the onion, cut into thin half rings. Wash the pepper, remove the stalk and seeds, cut into thin sticks. Finely chop the dill.
Remove the peel from the oranges, cut into quarters, cut into thin slices, remove the seeds. Combine all ingredients in a large salad bowl, add olives.
Prepare the dressing: wash the lemon, squeeze the juice. Combine juice, olive oil, mustard and sugar, salt, pepper and mix thoroughly.
Just before serving, add the dressing to the vegetables and mix thoroughly.

Portion serving of salads - fashion trend of 2016

"Olivier" in a new way

A fresh look at eternal value! No matter how much we try to get rid of this relic of the Soviet past, it still seeps onto the festive table. There is nothing to do - you have to put up with it. Just be original and arrange the salad in serving cups. The dish will immediately “get younger” and will look fashionable and modern. Take this idea into service: dishes in cups are a fashionable culinary trend.

Ingredients: 250 g chicken fillet, 3 medium potatoes, 4 eggs, 125 g canned peas (drain the liquid), 1 small carrot, 3 small canned cucumbers, 1 medium onion, 125 ml mayonnaise, salt, freshly ground pepper to taste.

Cooking:

Vegetables - potatoes and carrots - boil, let cool, peel and cut into small cubes of the same size.
Boil eggs and fillets. Let cool, finely chop.
Cucumbers also cut into small cubes.
Put the ingredients in layers in serving cups, alternating light foods (eggs, fillets, potatoes) with bright ones (cucumbers, peas, carrots). Put a small amount of mayonnaise on top, lightly salt and pepper.

Salad with avocado in a "boat"

Another way to be original when serving is to use the peel of a vegetable or fruit that was used in cooking as a salad bowl. Avocado salad served with the skin on looks just great! True, this option is more suitable for small companies or a quiet gala dinner for two - it will be difficult to prepare 20 or 50 halves.

Ingredients

1 ripe avocado, 1 piece of chicken fillet, 2 eggs, 1 can of canned black beans, 1 medium tomato, 50 ml of natural yogurt, basil or any other spices, salt, freshly ground pepper to taste.

Cooking

Wash the avocado, pat dry, cut in half and remove the pit. Using a spoon, remove the pulp, leaving a layer 3-4 mm thick on the walls. Be careful not to damage the peel. Cut the pulp into small cubes, put in a bowl, sprinkle with lemon juice - so the avocado does not darken and retains its bright color.
Boil the fillet, let cool, cut into small cubes. Peel the eggs, cut in half and then cut into wedges. Cut the tomatoes into small pieces as well.
Combine prepared ingredients, add yogurt and spices, salt and pepper.
Mix thoroughly. Arrange the salad in "boats", garnish with herbs.

In "boats" of avocados you can serve any salad

Salad "Tropics"

Since the Monkey loves fruits, they should be given a special place on the festive table. Usually oranges, bananas and other sweet gifts of nature play a rather secondary role and act as an addition to the “sweet table”: cake, sweets and pastries. This year they deserve a separate place in the New Year's menu. Prepare salads from them and serve on their own or with ice cream.

Ingredients

1 small mango, 1 small pineapple (can be substituted with canned ones), 1 large or 2 medium kiwis, 1 passion fruit, 100 ml freshly squeezed orange juice, 50 ml freshly squeezed lime juice, sprig of fresh mint, lemon balm, or both herb leaves.

Cooking

Wash, dry and peel mango, pineapple and kiwi. Cut into small pieces. If the pineapple is canned, drain in a colander and let the juice drain completely, and then chop. Stir.
Place the fruit mixture in a salad bowl. Wash the passionfruit, pat dry and cut in half. Scoop out the pulp with a spoon and place on top of the salad.
For dressing, combine orange and lime juice (the latter can be replaced with lemon, adding it to taste), mix thoroughly. If desired, you can add a little liquid honey, it will set off the delicate taste of the dish.
Wash mint or lemon balm, dry, tear off the leaves and cut into thin strips. Sprinkle over salad and serve.

Dressings for vegetable salads for 2016

There is another way to make a salad original. Try seasoning it with a new sauce. Even the banal "Olivier" plays with completely different shades of taste, if you add a little mustard to mayonnaise. And it is completely transformed if instead of harmful high-calorie mayonnaise we take sour cream and mix it with mustard in equal proportions, and in addition lightly salt and pepper.

We suggest hostesses take note of several dressings for different salads. Let them become the very final touch that will make your dishes special and unforgettable - both for guests and for the Fire Monkey!

Do not be lazy, and instead of mayonnaise, prepare dressing for the salad!

Vinegar + mustard

A classic vegetable salad dressing, but superseded by the ubiquitous mayonnaise. Replace it with this mixture, and the dish will become not only tastier, but also much healthier.

Ingredients: 2 tbsp white wine vinegar, 6 tbsp. extra virgin olive oil, 1 tsp mustard seeds (you can take the usual), salt, freshly ground black pepper to taste.
Cooking: combine vinegar and mustard in a small container, salt, mix, leave for 15 minutes. Whisk. In the process, in small portions, pouring in a trickle, add olive oil. The sauce should not be too thick! When it reaches the consistency of not very liquid sour cream, pepper, mix and season the salad.

Spicy dressing with cloves

It goes best with salads, which are full of tomatoes and herbs. This dressing can be prepared in advance - the ingredients are designed for a fairly large portion. If you do not want to risk, divide the indicated amount in half.

Ingredients: 100 ml liquid honey, 4 pcs. dry cloves, 300 ml olive oil, 500 ml balsamic vinegar.
Cooking: combine vinegar and honey in a saucepan, add cloves. Put on fire, bring to a boil, cook for 20-25 minutes until the amount of liquid is halved. Pour the oil (pre-cool it in the refrigerator) into a medium container. Add the previously reduced mixture. Before dressing the salad, the sauce should be whipped with a whisk or fork.

Yogurt + greens

The best alternative to fatty sour cream and, especially, mayonnaise. A big plus: it cooks in a couple of minutes, and fresh herbs for this dressing can be grown on the windowsill. So even by the New Year, your salads will be dressed with sauce with aromatic herbs just from the garden.

Ingredients: 2 tbsp finely chopped dill, 2 tbsp. finely chopped green onions, 250 ml low-fat yogurt without additives.

Cooking: Combine all ingredients in a bowl and mix thoroughly. Salt and pepper if desired, although the sauce will have a rich taste anyway. Before dressing the salad, let the yogurt with herbs stand in the refrigerator for 2-3 hours.

Fruit Salad Dressings in the Year of the Monkey

You can fill fruit salad not only with ice cream

Banana + apple

This sauce is one of the most "winter". First, it is made from apples and bananas available during the cold season. Secondly, it perfectly complements the taste of salads made from oranges, tangerines, grapefruits and other citrus fruits. In addition, all these fruits are favorites of the Monkey.

Ingredients: 1 large banana (very ripe, or even slightly overripe - it will be even tastier), 100 ml of apple and 50 ml of freshly squeezed carrot juice.
Cooking: peel the banana, using a blender, beat into a light, airy puree. Combine apple and carrot juice, mix, add to the banana in the blender bowl. Whisk all the ingredients together again.

Rum dressing

Such a dressing is suitable for a table at which adults will sit. Rum will emphasize the delicate taste of cream and, at the same time, enhance the aroma of each of the components of the fruit salad.

Ingredients: 100 ml heavy cooking cream, 1 tsp. rum, 1 tbsp. powdered sugar.
Cooking: combine cream with powder, beat with a mixer. Then add the rum and mix the sauce thoroughly until smooth.

berry sauce

Great dressing for fruit salad. However, it can also be used as a sauce for ice cream or warm pastries such as strudel or pie.

Ingredients: 100 g of any berries (fresh or frozen), 50 ml of water, 1 tsp. sugar, citric acid or concentrated lemon juice to taste.
Cooking: puree the berries - with a pestle or a blender. Add sugar and citric acid (or season with lemon juice to taste). Pour in water, stir. Put on fire, bring to a boil. If the sauce is too thin, let it reduce slightly. Then remove from the stove and let cool completely.

I am glad to welcome you my dear readers!

Today we will have a topic that worries many women, namely the preparation of a festive menu, or more precisely, simple salads for the New Year 2016.

Waiting for a holiday, and in particular, such as the New Year, is always exciting and joyful. The main task of any housewife is basically two things: it is to look simply amazing and set the festive table so that everyone's mood is lifted just at the sight of it.

How to combine these two tasks? And where to find time for yourself and for cooking and at the same time not bothering much? Are you saying mission impossible? But no! I will help you solve it easily and simply! We are talking, of course, about the preparation of the New Year's table.

Especially for this, I have prepared a section: simple salads for the New Year 2016. After all, everyone knows that this particular dish is a regular at any festive table. Each of the proposed recipes is prepared literally in a matter of minutes and does not require a special set of products. That is the beauty of my proposal.

You will absolutely not get tired and use the freed time exclusively for yourself, in order to outshine all those present with your unsurpassed appearance like a true queen!

You do not have to, wiping sweat, spin at the stove all day, then literally just fall off your feet. For this, I came up with original and simple salads for the New Year, which will come to the rescue of any housewife. In addition to them, you can serve a delicious meat dish, for example, beef ham or juicy pork, the recipes of which you can easily find on my culinary blog. They don't take long to prepare either.

The idea to create recipes for simple salads for the New Year 2016 came to me due to the fact that usually heavy salads saturated with mayonnaise and an abundance of ingredients were put on the festive table in almost every home. I consider it sheer violence to load my unprepared body with them at night.

Therefore, I decided that in my salads the main ingredients would be fresh vegetables and grapes, combined with meat, cheese, red fish, crab sticks and red caviar. Everything is thought out taking into account different tastes and goes well with each other.

Simple and quick salads for the New Year, so to speak - salads in a hurry, I hope, will find a positive response from my readers, because each of them was prepared with love!

Of course, they don’t argue about tastes, but if you like light and at the same time tasty food, then I’m sure that these dishes will be appreciated by you. Simple salads for the New Year 2016 will decorate any holiday table and will surely find their admirers.

Ingredients