Delicious salads on the festive table - and a minimum of effort!

Festive salads are advised to cook for a sample for a month or two before a solemn day, in order to select the ingredients as accurately as possible, check them for compatibility, check the proportions. It is necessary to carefully remember the formulas of preparation, and then also have time to miss the taste of salads to eat them with appetite. The celebration assumes a full workload in the house, because in addition to the kitchen worries about the magnificence of the table, one should also be pleased about the convenience for the guests, having prepared for the reception hall, living room, bathrooms - do not list the whole front of the work. Today's article is intended to give the hostess at least a little time to have time to prepare for the right moment not only an apartment and a table, but yourself. Not only delicious salads are offered on the festive table, but also surprisingly simple and quick to prepare. However, the furore with their tasting may well happen - it's all about winning design and accurate calculation of ingredients.

Green salad with cranberry sauce-vinaigrette

The most delicious salads on the festive table are prepared according to this formula: 50% of the new for the same traditional. This - it is suitable for any presentation, despite the fact that there is nothing unusual in it, it would seem, not. From the traditional everyday salad with beetroot, of course, it is different! The taste is sweet, a little spicy and spicy. Good for all seasons!

It will take 2-3 large handfuls of washed and dried spinach, heads of green lettuce and head of red (for example Radicchio), thinly sliced (yes, although it is considered a mauveton to use a knife when chopping salads, here is another case, this one Closer to the chicory), a pair of large oranges - lobules, peeled from the skin and films, the grain of one pomegranate, 300 g "Mozzarella" (choose small balls, drain liquid), a glass of halves of walnuts, 2 tbsp. L. Sugar, 1 tbsp. L. water.

For sauce-vinaigrette: shallots (finely chopped and take 1 tablespoon), 1 glass of fresh or thawed cranberries, 1 tbsp. L. Sugar, balsamic vinegar, a little mustard, half a glass of orange juice, a partial glass of good olive oil, black pepper, salt.

How to do it quickly

You can plan in advance how to make salads on a festive table. With the photo everything becomes most clear. From the top as a decorating element, we see halves of walnuts - in addition to decorating, they are also incredibly tasty, and you can prepare them in advance - in a few days. On a non-stick (you can pancake) frying pan heat 2 tablespoons of sugar with 1 spoonful of water - let it boil, mix the syrup with nuts, until they completely cover with sugar mixture and change color to shiny, caramel-gold. It will take about 2-3 minutes. Dry the nuts by laying them in one layer on parchment or plate. Pour and store in a sealed container in a cool place. Before the arrival of guests take a blender and work with other cooked products. First pulverize the onion, then add the cranberries, sugar, balsamic vinegar (spoon), mustard, orange juice. Now, at an average blender speed, pour olive oil in a thin trickle and achieve full smoothness of the sauce. Add salt and pepper. This sauce can also be prepared in advance and stored for several days in the refrigerator. It remains to assemble the salad. Greens lay round the edge of the dish, you can wreath, red chopped lettuce mix with spinach and the remaining torn leaves of a green salad, put the slide in the middle. Sprinkle with pomegranate seeds, orange slices, candied nuts and "Mozzarella". Generously pour the sauce and serve.

Seafood salad

Tasty salads on the festive table can be diversified by choosing different ingredients, and the sauce to use one - for example, the previous one, cranberry vinaigrette.

Will be required for salad: 2 apples diced, cubes or slices, green salad leaves, 1 tomato - large and fleshy, 1 glass of pistachios peeled, Feta cheese cut into cubes (packing), and the main component can be fried scallops, crab meat, large Shrimp.

How to do it quickly

It is fine to tear salad leaves, crush them with cranberry sauce, put in a dish, place finely chopped tomato, apples, pistachios, Feta cheese, seafood on top. Spend plenty of sauce and serve.

Delicious salads on a festive table do not necessarily have to cook for hours on end!