"Herringbone": salad, cooking recipe

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

The following associations are associated with the celebration of the New Year: tangerines, Olivier, Bengal candles, magic and … a Christmas tree. The beauty and unique smell of a spruce tree are important attributes of the holiday. But you can not only enjoy its view and inhale the tart aroma of resin. The green guest can be… eaten! In this article we will learn what the New Year's salad "Yolochka" is, the recipe for its preparation and various design options.

Cold appetizers

Salad is a dish prepared, as a rule, from boiled or raw vegetables and fruits, crushed and mixed. These products are poured over with any vegetable oil, sour cream, mayonnaise or dressing, s alt and spices are added for taste. You can add meat, fish, nuts.

Salads can be not only a cold appetizer, but also a wonderful decoration for a festive table.

What are they like?

There are many options for mixing products. Nevertheless, all salads by main product are divided into:

1. Vegetables that use raw, cooked or canned foods.



2. Fruit. These are dessert salads made from natural fruits and snack bars, where, in addition to fruits, there are also vegetables.
3. Mushroom. The composition includes fresh, pickled, boiled, dry, s alted mushrooms.
4. Beans. The basis of such dishes is green pods or boiled grains of beans, peas, lentils.
5. Meat, consisting of meat and meat products with spicy dressings.
6. From game meat and poultry.
7. Fish. Consist of s alted, smoked, fresh fish.
8. Seafood.
9. From eggs.
10. From pasta.

Edible Christmas tree

The Christmas tree salad recipe is quite simple and has several options. But in each case, its form attracts first of all.

The decoration of any table will be such a "Christmas tree": a salad in the shape of a Christmas tree, decorated with dill.

To create this attribute of the New Year, let's prepare Olivier, a two-liter plastic bottle in the form of a cone, dill for decoration.

First, cut off the bottom of the bottle, put cling film there. Then we stuff the Olivier salad tightly, tip it onto a plate and carefully remove the form. The film inside will help to do it neatly. Now we make branches with dill. At the top, cut out a star from the beets. You can decorate with "toys" - green peas, corn, olives. It turned out elegant and tasty "Herringbone": a salad according to an old recipe with a new design.

Miscellaneous ideas

Christmas Tree (salad) can bedifferent. Fantasy will tell you the most unusual options. Here are some of them.

• Herring under a fur coat in the form of a Christmas tree. We lay out all the components on a plate in layers, each of which we coat with mayonnaise. Then we form a Christmas tree, decorate it with dill and corn, at the top we make a star from beets. The original New Year dish is ready.
• Here is another "Christmas tree" - a salad for those who watch their figure. It is prepared from the following products, which are taken raw: one bunch of celery, three to four carrots, half a sweet pepper, one cucumber, six red and yellow cherry tomatoes, two radishes, two green olives, two pickled champignons. Preparation: cut champignons into four parts, make a leg; celery, carrots, cucumber, pepper cut into strips and lay out the base of the Christmas tree; tomatoes in half, the rest of the products in circles and decorate the Christmas tree; from a radish we will make a decoration on the crown.



• Interesting Christmas tree in waffle cups. Finely chop and mix cauliflower (300 g), garlic (1-2 cloves), walnuts (100 g). Add grated cheese (100 g, season with mayonnaise and fill waffle cups with a slide. Decorate with herbs.
• And here is a very satisfying Christmas tree. Take crab sticks (300 g), a small onion, cheese (200 g), boiled rice (200 g), corn (200 g), s alt, pepper, mayonnaise, leek for decoration. Grind the onion and crab sticks, grate the cheese. Mix all the ingredients, lay out a high slide and decorate with chopped leek leavestriangles. For beauty, you can use a garland of carrots.

Happy New Year!