"Herringbone": salad, recipe

With the celebration of the New Year associated with such associations: tangerines, olivier, Bengal candles, magic and ... Christmas tree. The beauty and unique smell of the spruce tree are important attributes of the holiday. But you can not only enjoy its appearance and breathe in the astringent aroma of the resin. A green guest can ... eat! In this article we will find out what the New Year's salad is, "Yolochka", the recipe for its preparation and various design options.

Cold starters

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

Salads can be not only a cold snack, but also a beautiful decoration of the festive table.

What are they like?

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

1. Vegetables, which use raw, cooked or canned foods.
2. Fruit. These are dessert salads from natural fruits and snacks, where, in addition to fruits, there are also vegetables.
3. Mushroom. The structure includes fresh, pickled, boiled, dried, salted mushrooms.
4. Beans. The basis of these dishes - green pods or boiled beans, peas, lentils.
5. Meat, consisting of meat and meat products with sharp dressings.
6. From the meat of game and poultry.
7. Fish. They consist of salted, smoked, fresh fish.
8. From seafood.
9. From the eggs.
10. Of pasta.

Edible "Fur-tree"

The recipe for salad "Yolochka" is quite simple and has several options. But in each case it attracts primarily its form.

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

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

First, we cut off the bottom of the bottle, put the food film there. Then tightly stuffed with salad olivier, tilted on a plate and carefully remove the shape. The film inside will help to do it neatly. Now we make dill sprouts. We cut out a star from the beet on the top. You can decorate with "toys" - green peas, corn, olives. It turned out elegant and delicious "Christmas tree": a salad according to the old recipe with a new design.

Different ideas

New Year's "Christmas tree" (salad) can be different. Fantasy will tell the most unusual options. Here are some of them.

• Herring under a fur coat in the form of a tree. All the components are laid out on the plate layers, each of which is smeared with mayonnaise. Then we form the tree, decorate it with dill and corn, on the vertex we make a star from the beet. The original New Year's 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 in raw form: one bunch of celery, three to four carrots, half a sweet pepper, one cucumber, red and yellow cherry tomatoes six pieces, two pieces of radish, two green olives, two pickled mushrooms. Preparation: champignons cut into four parts, make a leg; Celery, carrots, cucumber, pepper cut straws and lay out the basis of herringbone; Tomatoes in half, the rest of the products in circles and decorate the herringbone; From a radish we will make an ornament on a vertex.
• The fir tree is interesting in waffle cups. Finely cut and mix cauliflower (300 g), garlic (1-2 cloves), walnuts (100 g). Add the grated cheese (100 grams, dress with mayonnaise and fill the wafer cups with the slide. "Garnish with greens.
• But a very rich Christmas tree. Take crab sticks (300 g), a small onion, cheese (200 g), boiled rice (200 g), corn (200 g), salt, pepper, mayonnaise, leek for decoration. Bow and crab sticks to grind, cheese rubbed on grater. All the ingredients are mixed, put a high hill and decorate the leaves with leeks, sliced triangles. For beauty, you can use a garland of carrots.

Happy New Year!