The “New Year's Wreath” salad from cod liver with rice turns out bright in both appearance and taste, thanks to the addition of canned peas and, especially, pomegranate seeds. This salad can be made in layers or simply from mixed lettuce mass.
Just fresh dill serves as fluffy coniferous branches. If you wish, you can also add fresh cucumber to the salad. Eggs for salad need to be hard-boiled and cooled.
It’s better to buy canned cod liver in pieces for a salad, but I bought canned food “Murmansk style” at a discount - it’s a kind of compressed mass, but it also worked very well!
For the New Year's Wreath salad, prepare the ingredients according to the list.
Cook the rice as usual. Choose any type of rice to suit your taste.
Chop the onion very finely and squeeze. If the onion is bitter, then scald it, and pickled lovers can sprinkle with sugar and sprinkle the onion with apple cider vinegar for a few minutes. Add the prepared onions to the cooled rice.
Drain the liquid from the peas. Peel and grate or chop the eggs.
Next to the rice, add either cod liver, broken into pieces, or pieces of cod liver mass.
Season with mayonnaise and mix gently.
To form a salad in the form of a ring - a wreath, you need to first place a glass on a flat dish and place the salad around it.
Then use sprigs of fresh dill to give the salad... a pine-like look)
Place canned peas and pomegranate seeds on top of the dill.
Salad "New Year's wreath" is ready.
Bon appetit and festive mood!
The originality of the New Year's Wreath festive salad lies in its unusual appearance. The ingredients that it contains are laid out in a ring, and on top it is decorated with original candles and greenery. Just the sight of the New Year's Wreath salad conveys the feeling of the holiday. It is relevant for both New Year and Christmas. This salad will fit well into the overall decoration of the holiday table and will add some zest. And the taste of the dish will not let you doubt its ideality for a minute.
Cooking time – 50 minutes.
Number of servings – 5.
Ingredients
To make a delicious New Year’s salad and diversify your holiday feast, just stock up on the necessary products:
- rice – 1 glass;
- green apple – 1 pc.;
- crab sticks – 300 g;
- fresh tomato – 1 pc.;
- mayonnaise – 200 g;
- green onions – 1 bunch;
- dill – 2 bunches;
- salt to taste.
Step-by-step recipe for making New Year's Wreath salad
To make the cooking process successful, it is recommended to use the New Year's Wreath salad recipe, which consists of a few simple steps:
- Boil rice in salted water. Rinse it several times with cold water and leave in a colander. If crab sticks were stored in the freezer, they should be thawed a little. Chop into small pieces, leaving a few pieces for decoration.
- Chop the apple and tomato into cubes. Leave a small amount of fresh tomato for decoration.
On a note! To prepare a New Year's salad, it is advisable to use a sour apple, which will improve the taste of the dish.
- In a separate bowl, mix rice, crab sticks, apple and tomato with mayonnaise. Add salt and mix again.
- Place a glass upside down in the center of a salad bowl or flat dish.
- Place the prepared New Year's Wreath salad around the glass.
- Remove the glass.
- Wash the green onions and dill. Dry and start decorating the festive salad for the New Year. Sprinkle chopped onion feathers on top of the ring, and arrange dill greens in the form of spruce branches. The middle of the salad remains empty.
- Cut candles from the remaining crab sticks. Make a flame out of a tomato and place it on candles.
Thus, you get an interesting edible New Year's wreath with “burning candles.”
Video: how to prepare the New Year's Wreath salad
To prepare the New Year's Wreath salad, you can use the video.
Peel the onions and chop into small segments, grate the fresh carrots.
Pour a few tablespoons of vegetable oil into a frying pan and fry the chopped onions and carrots until softened and a sweetish aroma of fried vegetables appears. Remove from heat and cool.
While you are busy with vegetables and chopping the rest of the ingredients, boil the rice until fully cooked or use pre-cooked rice. It is important that it turns out crumbly, does not form a lump and does not contain excess liquid. To do this, set it aside for 10 minutes after boiling and wait until the rice cools and absorbs the remaining moisture. Salt the rice to taste while cooking.
When the rice and onion-carrot mixture have cooled, mix them in one container.
We send there canned sweet corn without liquid, which is in the jar, and three processed cheeses. To make the cheese easier to grate, you can freeze it a little in the freezer.
We remove the crab sticks from the plastic wrappers, leave five sticks for decoration (!), cut the rest into cubes and add to the bowl.
Season the salad with mayonnaise to taste, but do not overdo it so that the salad does not “float” - we will need to form the basis for the wreath from the entire salad mass.
Mix all the salad ingredients and taste for salt. If necessary, add salt again to taste.
Place a glass in the center on a wide round plate. We distribute the salad around the glass in the form of a rim, lightly compact it and level it over the surface.
Now carefully remove the glass, and sprinkle the resulting circle with finely grated hard cheese. The base for the wreath is ready.
Now comes the fun part - decorating the salad! As you remember, at stage 6, 5 crab sticks were left. They will act as Christmas candles, so carefully insert the sticks into the salad. We decorate the entire wreath with a variety of fresh herbs (sprigs of dill, fennel, curly and regular parsley).
Salad "Christmas wreath", prepared with chicken,- a beautiful, bright salad for the holiday table. This dish is not difficult to prepare and it turns out very tasty. This salad, decorated in the form of a wreath, decorated with pine dill and candles made from crab sticks, will help create a festive atmosphere at the table. Prepare this bright, unusual and very tasty salad!
Ingredients
To prepare the Christmas Wreath salad with chicken you will need:
boiled chicken (any parts) - 250 g;
crab sticks - 3 pcs.;
potatoes, boiled in skins - 2 pcs.;
pickled cucumber - 1 pc.;
boiled egg - 2 pcs.;
canned corn - 3-4 tbsp. l.;
mayonnaise - 3-4 tbsp. l.;
salt, ground black pepper - to taste.
For decoration:
crab sticks - 2 pcs.;
dill greens - 1 bunch;
boiled carrots - 1 pc.;
pomegranate seeds, sweet red bell pepper.
Cooking steps
Cut boiled chicken meat and 3 crab sticks into pieces and combine in one bowl.
Cut the pickled cucumber and peeled potatoes into small cubes and add to the chicken and crab sticks salad.
Cover the entire “Advent Wreath” salad with dill sprigs imitating pine branches.
And then decorate the salad with pomegranate seeds, pieces of boiled carrots (imitation of New Year's lights), narrow slices of carrots, candles made from the remaining crab sticks (2 smaller candles - half a crab stick, 1 large - a whole crab stick). Cut candle flames from bell peppers. Serve a delicious, interesting and bright “Christmas Wreath” salad prepared with chicken to your holiday table.
Bon appetit!
Details
Decorative wreaths for Christmas are not a Russian, but a European tradition. However, during the Christmas holidays, many housewives decorate the festive table with such a wonderful wreath - all you have to do is prepare a salad called “New Year’s Wreath”.
Salad “New Year's wreath” with egg
Required ingredients:
- chicken egg – 2 pcs.;
- medium potatoes – 2 pcs.;
- boiled meat – 100 g;
- fresh cucumber – 1 pc.;
- hard cheese – 100 g;
- canned corn - 1/3 can;
- salt;
- mayonnaise – 4 tbsp;
For decoration
- parsley – 1 bunch;
- large carrots – 1 pc.
Cooking process:
Boil all the vegetables – carrots and potatoes, as well as eggs. Then they need to be cooled and cleaned.
Wash the parsley and cucumbers, and simply drain all the liquid in the can from the canned corn. Now you can proceed directly to assembling this salad.
Potatoes need to be cut into small cubes. Moreover, all products for this salad should be cut as finely as possible so that they survive better and the salad itself does not fall apart. A little mayonnaise and salt are immediately added to the chopped potatoes, after which everything is mixed well. In this case, the potato layer will be juicy, and it will be easier to lay it out. Meat, cucumbers and eggs are prepared in the same way.
In order for the finished salad to have a neat appearance, it is better to lay it out using a mold. A cup is placed in the very center of the dish, and the lard will be laid out in even layers around it. Potatoes are laid out as the first layer, which needs to be shaped into a wreath. The next layer is chopped eggs, and on top of it are diced cucumbers.
On top of them you need to lay a layer of meat, and on top of it - coarsely grated cheese. The very last layer in this salad is made from corn. If desired, the sequence of layers can be slightly changed.
The finished salad is sent to the refrigerator, where it will soak for several hours. Already before serving to the festive table, it is decorated - parsley is laid out on the surface of the salad, as well as decorations in the form of carrot ribbons. You can also make a few drops of mayonnaise.
Another option for preparing such a salad is simpler - for it you need to combine all the ingredients in a salad bowl, and then form a wreath from the resulting mass and decorate it in the same way.
Salad “New Year's wreath” with mushrooms
Required ingredients:
- hard cheese – 130 g;
- canned corn - 1 can;
- champignons – 300 g;
- ham – 250 g;
- parsley – 1 bunch;
- garlic – 3 cloves;
- mayonnaise – 100 g;
- olives – 4 pcs.;
- sweet yellow pepper for decoration.
Cooking process:
Ham and champignons are cut into small pieces or in the form of strips. Moreover, champignons for salad must be taken canned or fresh, but in the latter case they are first boiled in slightly salted water. The cheese is grated on the coarsest grater, after which all the ingredients are combined in one container. First, all the liquid is drained from the can of corn, and then its contents are also added to the salad.
At the end, all that remains is to add the garlic, passed through a press and mayonnaise, to the resulting mass and mix everything.
Now the ring from the springform pan is placed on the plate, which needs to be placed on a large plate. A glass or just an empty jar is placed in the center. The salad will be laid out between them and compacted well. When ready, all auxiliary elements are removed, and the can is removed first and only then the outer ring.
Finally, the finished wreath is decorated with pre-washed and dried parsley. Dill greens are also suitable.
The carrots are peeled and cut into thin strips using a vegetable peeler. You also need to cut circles from the yellow pepper. All this, together with halves of olives, is laid out on top of the top layer of salad. The final element of the decoration will be a bow, which is also made from carrots.
Bon appetit!