Salads for the New Year

There comes the year of the Black Water Snake, which means that on the festive table you should put dishes that the patroness of this year will like. The Snake has a water element, so dishes for the New Year's table should be prepared from seafood. From meat, it's better if it's chicken and small animals, you can not refuse. And use plenty of fresh vegetables and leafy greens. Such dishes should most like the Snake.

Salad "Snake": recipe first

So, which dishes can you cook? You can start with a salad "Snake". This salad will be the main decoration of your table. To make this salad, take:

• 400 g of champignons


• 3 fresh cucumbers


• 2 boiled chicken legs


• 200 g of sausage cheese


• 4 boiled eggs


• lettuce leaves


• mayonnaise


• olives, pickled cucumbers, boiled carrots - for decoration

Brush and chop the mushrooms, then frythem until ready on sunflower oil. Chicken meat, eggs and fresh cucumbers cut into cubes. Try to have all the ingredients cut into cubes of the same size. Sausage cheese first put in the freezer for several minutes, and then grate on a large grater. Stir all the ingredients and season the salad with mayonnaise.

Now it is only beautiful to lay out the saladon a large flat dish. On the dish itself, put the lettuce leaves, then lay out the ready salad in the form of a wriggling snake. When you give the salad the right shape, you can decorate the dish. Slice the cucumber slices. Lay out cucumbers in the form of snake skin. In addition, the head of the snake and the back decorate with pieces of olives, and cut out the tongue from a piece of boiled carrots.

"Snake" salad: the second way

By the way, a salad in the form of a snake can be prepared from a wide variety of ingredients. For example, a salad can be prepared with seafood. For such a salad you will need:

• 2 cans of canned pink salmon


• 4 boiled eggs


• 4 boiled potato tubers


• 3 processed cheese


• 1 clove of garlic


• mayonnaise


• pepper, salt, greens

Try to prepare a salad for the New Year bythis recipe. Mash the pink salmon with a fork, cut the eggs and potatoes into cubes. Cheese grate on a large grater. Mix all the ingredients, salt and pepper to taste, season with mayonnaise. As already described in the previous recipe, lay the salad on a dish. On top decorate your salad with sliced ​​marinated cucumbers and olives.

Red Sea salad

Not just one salad in the form of a snake put onNew Year's table! If you cook one salad with chicken, then the second dish can be prepared with seafood. For example, it can be a salad "Red Sea". To prepare a salad for this recipe, take:

• 1 kg of boiled shrimps


• 2 eggs


• handful of champignons


• cheese


• 1 apple


• 1/2 lemon


• some milk


• Cayenne pepper


• French mustard


• dill


• mayonnaise

Whisk the eggs with milk and cayenne pepper. Fry the champignons in a frying pan. When mushrooms are almost ready, add whipped eggs to them. Bring the omelet with mushrooms until ready.

Finely chop dill, cheese and applea large grater. Peel the shrimp from shells. Now mix the peeled shrimps, scrambled eggs with mushrooms, dill, apple and cheese. Top with salad dressing with mayonnaise, 1 tsp. French mustard and juice half a lemon. Mix everything well and lay out your salad on the dish you will serve. On top decorate the salad with a few uncooked shrimps.

Bon appetit and happy New Year!