For the festive anniversary menu, you should choose the most original delicious salads that will pleasantly surprise guests. If you plan to serve familiar familiar dishes, then you need to consider an unusual design for them.
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"Royal" salad with homemade crackers
Ingredients:
- pre-cooked chicken eggs - 4-5 pcs. (depending on size);
- crab sticks (not frozen) - 270-300 g;
- cheese - 1.5 tbsp. (already shredded);
- loaf - ½ pcs.;
- garlic - 3-4 cloves;
- mayonnaise sauce, oil, salt - to taste.
Cooking:
Remove the film from the crab sticks, cut them into small pieces. Do not use a frozen product for such an appetizer, as it is dry. Cool the eggs pre-cooked to a solid yolk. Peel them and chop them in neat, even cubes. It is convenient to use an egg cutter for this purpose.
Chop the garlic in any suitable way. Best of all - pass through a garlic squeezer. Mix part of it with already grated cheese and a small amount of salted mayonnaise sauce.
Cut the long loaf into medium cubes. Pour them into a large bowl. Sprinkle butter on top of the bread, sprinkle with the remaining garlic, salt. Gently mix the cubes from the loaf with added ingredients so as not to break them.
Put the appetizer on a beautiful plate with a serving ring in layers. You can arrange them arbitrarily. For example: crab sticks - cheese and garlic mass - eggs - salted mayonnaise sauce - crackers. Bread slices need to be poured out for the last snack so that they do not turn into an unappetizing porridge. After removing the serving ring, you can decorate the treats to your liking.
Anthill with Chips
Ingredients:
- chicken fillet - 280-300 g;
- ripe juicy tomato - 1 pc.;
- fresh cucumber - 1-2 (depending on size);
- Parmesan - 40 g;
- garlic - 1 clove;
- mayonnaise - half a glass;
- potato tubers - 2 medium;
- oil - for frying;
- green onions - a few feathers;
- salt to taste.
Cooking:
First, send the bird fillet to boil in salt water. To make chicken more flavorful, you can add various spices and spices to your taste to your taste. Be sure to leave the meat to cool right in the broth. In this case, it turns out to make it especially juicy. Chilled product cut arbitrarily. Pieces should be smooth, neat, but not too small. Pour them immediately into a container suitable for mixing.
Tomato with peel chopped into cubes. Grind fresh cucumber with a special “Korean” grater. Pour both prepared vegetables into a bowl with chicken. Add medium parmesan chips. If this dairy product cannot be obtained, it is worth replacing it with any quality hard / semi-hard cheese.
Add the mayonnaise separately, mix with mashed garlic. Fill all the combined components with the resulting aromatic sauce. While an almost ready snack is insisted on the side, you can do potato straws. She will become a special "chip" salad.
The potatoes must first be peeled, washed thoroughly from excess starch, and dried with paper towels. Grind it with a "Korean" grater. Repeat washing and drying already with the resulting potato straws. Drying it is especially convenient on a clean cotton towel or gauze.
Heat a large amount of refined oil in a deep cast-iron skillet. When it begins to hiss slightly, batch fry the potato chips in fat. The vegetable should turn out to be rosy and crispy. In no case can you pour the whole straw into the oil at once, otherwise you will not be able to make it crispy - the product will simply stick together into one big lump. Ready fried potatoes should be laid out on paper napkins to remove excess oil.
In a deep domed bowl, covered with cling film, put the ready-made and slightly infused seasoned salad. Tamp it well with clean palms. Turn the appetizer onto a large flat plate. Correct the errors.
From all sides to fill the resulting mouth-watering dome with potato straws. If desired, decorate it with green onion rings or other herbs, fresh / pickled vegetables, and then serve guests to the festive table for a birthday or new year.
Delicious appetizer with pineapple and chicken
Ingredients:
- chicken fillet - 270-300 g;
- cheese - 170-200 g;
- pineapple in syrup (canned) - 1 full glass of cubes;
- ready-made store crackers - 1 small packet;
- oil, salt, mayonnaise - to taste.
Cooking:
It is more convenient to roast a bird for roasting in a slightly frozen form. Then the pieces are smooth and neat. Pour the resulting slices into a pan with well-heated butter. Cook them until the pieces change color inside and are not covered with a clear golden crust on the outside.
Remove the pineapple cubes from the jar of syrup. It is most convenient to take already sliced fruit. Put them in a colander, drain the excess syrup (by the way, the latter can be used to prepare various desserts). If you don’t want the salad to be sweet, you should also rinse the pineapple slices from sugary liquid.
Combine the pieces of pineapple with chicken. Add grated cheese to them. Pour in store crackers. The best option is with sour cream and cheese flavor. The variant with crackers is one of the varieties of such a salad. If you do not want to cook it with bread, croutons can be replaced with coarsely chopped walnuts. From this, the taste of the snack will change, but it will not get worse.
In any case, refueling a delicious treat is worth a salty, light mayonnaise. If desired, a little granulated garlic can be added to it.
Rainbow Salad
Ingredients:
- sweet bell pepper - half of each color (yellow, red, orange)
- fresh cucumber - 1-2 pcs.;
- hunting sausages - 250-300 g;
- grains of sweet corn (canned food) - a full glass;
- red onion - a small head;
- boiled eggs - 3-4 pcs.;
- mayonnaise - half a glass;
- French mustard - 2 mal. spoons;
- salt and spices to taste.
Cooking:
In this recipe, hunting sausages should not be replaced with ordinary sausage. It is with them that the taste of the salad turns out to be bright and original. Sausages need to be removed from the top film and cut into cubes.
Flush all seeds with half the bell pepper. Remove internal loose partitions. Cut the remaining juicy parts into large cubes or cubes. You can use sweet pepper and the same color, but the multi-colored one looks especially appetizing in the salad.
Randomly chop the onion and fresh cucumber. Pre-cooled eggs are cut with a special egg slicer.
Connect everything. The last to add corn to the snack without marinade.
In a separate bowl, prepare a dressing for such an unusual bright salad. In classic mayonnaise (best of all - in homemade) send mustard, salt. Pour spices to your taste. Only dry garlic and / or a mixture of ground colored peppers can be added.
Pour the resulting salad into the resulting sauce. To mix everything. Be sure to let the salad brew for about an hour in coolness. Only then bring it to the festive table.
“Herring under a fur coat” in roll
Ingredients:
- slightly salted herring - 1 large;
- medium-sized beets and carrots - 2 pcs.;
- eggs and potatoes - 3 pcs.;
- white onion - 1 head;
- salt and mayonnaise sauce to taste.
Cooking:
The first thing to send is boiling eggs. They need to be cooked to a solid center, cooled, and then (without dividing into components) rubbing coarsely. Beets, carrots and potatoes can not only be boiled, but also baked in the oven. To do this, each vegetable individually needs to be wrapped in foil and cooked for softness. You can check it with a toothpick.
Chilled ready vegetables are also ground using a grater with medium / large divisions. If the beets turned out to be too watery, then its chips should be squeezed with clean hands from excess moisture.
From the herring cut off the head, tail, fins. Delete all the insides. Carefully pull out the bones. Rinse remaining fillet and pat dry. Cut it into medium cubes. To ease your task and speed up the process of preparing snacks, you can immediately buy chopped herring fillet in oil. For example, the classic version or with spices. Then it will be enough to drain the butter from the slices and cut them smaller. Sometimes, even in a shop-cut herring, large bones come across. This point also needs to be taken care of. Chop the onion very finely and mix it with the fish slices.
Spread food wrap on a flat surface. First put the beets on it. Then distribute - carrots, potatoes. Last - eggs and herring. Stacking each product, it must be immediately mixed or coated with salted mayonnaise. In addition, the next layer needs to be done slightly less than the previous one, so that you can completely close the roll when folding.
Helping yourself with cling film, gently twist the design. Securely fasten the edges. Remove the resulting roll cool all night. Only in the morning to remove the cover and festively serve an unusual version of the beloved salad. This simple step-by-step recipe will truly surprise guests with the original design of the treat.