What to surprise guests in New year with, each hostess thinks. What salad put on a holiday table that it was original, interesting, tasty and corresponded to New Year's subject? The salad issued in the form of pine cones will please all your guests young and old. It is simple in preparation, has wonderful taste and perfectly looks.
Each New year there is a wish to put something unusual on a table and it is desirable that preparation didn't take a lot of time. Beautiful New Year's salad ""Pine Cones"" will help to solve this problem. Especially as in a year of the Red (Fiery) Monkey it is desirable to decorate a table originally.
For preparation of New Year's salad it will be required to you:
- smoked chicken - 20 g without bones;
- tinned corn - 1 bank;
- potatoes - 3 pieces;
- eggs - 3 pieces;
- processed cheese - 150-200 g;
- onions - 1 average head;
- nutlets (any);
- almonds - for ornament;
- pine branches or branches of fresh rosemary - for ornament;
Way of preparation
There are two options of preparation of Pine Cones salad. In the first case ingredients give all the best layers, in the second - mix up. Choose what suits you more. Anyway it is desirable to give on a flat dish.
- Boil potato and eggs. Rub them on a large grater (if you spread layers, in separate tanks if you mix, it is possible in one at once).
- Cut chicken into small pieces. Cut onions and scald boiled water.
- Rub processed cheese on a large grater and mix with chopped nutlets.
- If you spread salad layers, then sequence from below up: potatoes, chicken, onions, corn, eggs, cheese mix with nuts. Grease each layer with mayonnaise, spreading, give to salad the form of two identical cones. If it isn't convenient to you to do layers, then simply we mix all ingredients and we dress with mayonnaise.
- We cover shishechka with mayonnaise, we insert almonds, since a cone nose. We decorate with branches of rosemary or small pine branches.
If you have small children or you decided to make salad more useful, then mayonnaise can be replaced with sour cream mix with salt and 0.5 teaspoons of mustard.
Fast and beautiful New Year's salad ""Pine Cones"" is ready.
One more advantage of this salad is that it is possible to make it in advance, for example, in the morning, densely to set and by the time of giving the table it won't get out of either the shape, or gustatory qualities.