New salads: interesting recipes. Original birthday salads

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

Feasts and holidays are an integral part of our lives. At this time, relatives and close people gather at the common table, friends and buddies come, on the table there are snacks, cuts, hot dishes and, of course, salads, interesting, tasty, nutritious and unusual. It's so nice to see a beautifully set table when everyone is eating and having fun. Another key component of a successful feast is the ease of preparation. Why? Yes, because a tired hostess is unlikely to be in a good mood during the holiday. Therefore, in our article you will find simple but interesting salads, recipes and ingredients for them, as well as a description of the process of their preparation.

Cooking "Soccer Ball"

For this dish you need to prepare the following ingredients:

• 2 cans of tuna in oil;
• 3 boiled potatoes;
• medium-sized tomatoes - pieces 3;
• two boiled chicken eggs;
• 2 bulbs;
• s alt;
• mayonnaise for dressing;
• and we will decorate our salad with 3 egg whites, pitted olives and herbs.

Preparing an interesting salad is easy: first you need to pour the oil from open cans of tuna, and then mash the fish with a fork to get a homogeneous mass. Chop the tomatoes into cubes, peel the boiled potatoes, then also finely chop. Eggs, boiled until cooked, grind into crumbs on a grater. Onions must be cut into small pieces or also passed through a grater. Next, combine all our ingredients together: canned food, potatoes, tomatoes, grated eggs and onions, sprinkle with s alt and mix with mayonnaise.

Decorating and Assembling Football Salad

To serve, you will need a shallow dish or tray so that it is convenient to put the salad on it, it should resemble a ball in shape. Put the almost ready salad on a dish, form the desired appearance. To do this, three whites on a grater (finely), it is also recommended to add yolks to the salad. Sprinkle the entire surface of the future ball with grated squirrels, leaving no gaps. Pitted olives are cut into medium pieces and laid on the grated proteins in the form of hexagons. Thus, we decorate the entire area of \u200b\u200bthe salad so that it resembles a soccer ball in color. My greens, dry and finely chop, then put on a dish around the salad. This "carpet" symbolizes the football field. Such a masterpiece will certainly appeal to a man who is fond of football, plays himself or watches broadcasts of matches on TV.

Delicious seafood dishes

There are quite interesting salads, the recipes of which contain seafood. Such treats include the "Pearl of the Sea". For the salad you need to prepare:

• half a kilo of squid;
• 250 grams of crab sticks (or crabmeat);
• 4 hard boiled eggs;
• 100 grams of natural (non-protein) red caviar.

Put the squids in a pot of water, bring to a boil and then cook for 3 minutes. Take them out of the pot and let them cool down. At the same time, we cut crab sticks (or crab meat) into small pieces. Then we cut the cooled squids into cubes. We separate the egg whites from the yolks, put the yolks aside, we won’t need them for this treat, and rub the whites on a fine grater. In a clean bowl, mix the chopped ingredients - squid, crab sticks, eggs and caviar. S alt depending on your personal preference, then mix with mayonnaise. Next, put everything in a beautiful salad bowl. You can decorate the salad with caviar on top, and put a hard-boiled peeled quail egg on top of it, it will symbolize a pearl in a shell.

Special for kids

Almost all children love sweet foods. And mothers, in order to pamper their children, look for unusual salads, interesting recipes in cookbooks, and sometimes they come up with new combinations on their own, mixing the baby’s favorite berries and fruits. The whole family will be pleased with the unusual serving of the he althy Pineapple Salad. ForThis dessert requires the following ingredients:

• miniature pineapples - 3 pieces;
• medium kiwi - 2 pieces;
• ripe banana - 1 piece;
• a bunch of seedless grapes;
• half a lemon or lemon juice;
• garnet seeds (for decoration);
• orange - 1 piece.

An interesting salad for a child's birthday, you need to start preparing with the processing of pineapples: they must be rinsed with water and blotted with a towel to dry. Then cut the pineapple lengthwise into 2 halves. With a sharp knife we cut out the stump, and then carefully remove all the pulp with a spoon, leaving only the peel from the pineapple. Thus, we get a pineapple salad bowl.

The pulp that was removed from the tropical fruit is cut into small slices, it will still be useful to us. My grapes and cut into halves, peel the kiwi and cut into medium-sized cubes, peel the bananas and cut into pieces, then sprinkle with lemon juice so that they do not darken. Squeeze juice from an orange, it will come in handy for dressing. We mix the chopped fruits, season with orange juice, then put them in pineapple halves. Top with pomegranate seeds. We put it in the refrigerator for about an hour, when the fruit gives juice, the salad will become even more delicious. Such light interesting salads can be prepared from any fruit, vegetable or a mixture of them. Just show your imagination. Dressing can also be different: you can use yogurt, natural or with fillers, and syrup, and evenjam. And for decoration, use flowers cut from strawberries, halves of grapes and other small berries.

Sweet and tasty: chicken and prunes salad

Each housewife has her signature salads, interesting and savory. Sometimes the ingredients that make up their composition seem to be incompatible with each other. But in fact, it turns out a hearty, tasty and festive dish, such as, for example, "Salad with chicken and prunes." For it you need to get it from the fridge:

• 250 grams of chicken, preferably smoked;
• 50 grams of prunes;
• 3 boiled eggs;
• 100 grams of cheese;
• 150 grams of mushrooms;
• onion;
• garlic clove;
• mayonnaise;
• peeled walnuts;
• we will decorate our salad with bell pepper, pomegranate seeds, and also herbs.

Cut the chicken into pieces, soak the prunes in water for an hour, and then finely chop. From the eggs that were boiled before, we take out the yolk and rub it on a fine grater. Protein is also three on a grater, but put on a separate plate. Finely chop the cheese, chop the onion, chop the walnuts to crumbs. Fry the mushrooms in oil, add onions to them, and then keep on fire for another 5 minutes. Preparations complete.

How to decorate a salad

Assembling our treat, forming it in layers:

• champignons with onions with mayonnaise and a small handful of nuts;
• egg yolks;
• a piece of grated cheese mixed with mayonnaise and nuts;
• a piece of smoked chicken withmayonnaise and nuts;
• prunes mixed with mayonnaise and walnuts;
• remaining half chicken with mayonnaise and nuts;
• rest of cheese with mayonnaise;
• grated squirrels with mayonnaise.

The topmost layer must be carefully leveled and decorated with pomegranate.

In our article we presented to your attention interesting, bright, unusual salads that will decorate any table.