Salad in the form of a gift is an original ornament for a holiday. Its wonderful taste will be surely estimated even by the choosiest gourmets. A set of ingredients in this salad the most various. Here you can show all the imagination.
Gift salad
Ingredients: - 520 g of smoked chicken quarters;
- 430 g of fresh champignons; - 4 eggs;
- 2 onions; - 4 long cucumbers; - 2 carrots; - 2 red paprikas; - salt to your taste; - 1 small packing of mayonnaise. Accurately separate meat from bones cut its small pieces. Wash up mushrooms, clean and cut small plates. Rinse onions, a cucumber, pepper and carrots, clean. Grate carrots on an average grater, crush onions. In a frying pan fry onions with mushrooms. Fry carrots separately. Cook eggs. Wash up cucumbers and cut them in cubes. Cut pepper on small segments. Crush eggs and spread out everything on separate plates. Then accurately spread layers: the cut meat, carrots, cucumbers, the crushed eggs, champignons with onions, pepper. Properly miss the mark each layer with mayonnaise, only don't grease top of salad. Salt a little. For ornament it is possible to use the cucumbers cut by strips which will imitate tapes. It is possible to make such strips the ordinary potato peeler. Place the received salad in the fridge for 2 hours.
Gift salad with a surprise
Ingredients: - 320 g is fresher than some veal; - 420 g of carrots; - 320 g of beet; - 220 g of prunes (without stone); - 5 eggs; - 160 g of a hard cheese; -1/2 cups of chishchenny walnuts; - 320 g of mayonnaise; - salt to your taste; - 5 branches of curly parsley. In slightly subsalty water boil carrots. In 14 minutes when carrots begin to boil, get the biggest and long (it is required for ornament), prepare the others to full softness. In hot water wet prunes for 35 minutes, previously wash out it. Take out berries which will be necessary for a surprise in 12 minutes. Wash out veal and you cook to full readiness. Then take out, cool and cut in small cubes. Accurately lay out meat on a flat plate in the form of a square and dress with mayonnaise. Prunes small cut and lay out the following layer. Then crush nuts, strew with them a prunes layer, and from above make a mayonnaise grid, salt a little. Grate boiled carrots on an average grater, lay out a part on a mayonnaise grid. Cook beet, grate, lay out on a carrots layer. Hide a surprise (several berries of prunes). Then again miss the mark all with mayonnaise, strew with a grated cheese, lay out a layer of boiled carrots which remained. Cover all with a mayonnaise grid. From above decorate salad with parsley branches. Grate boiled eggs on an average grater, mix with mayonnaise in a separate plate and cover salad from all directions. For ornament it is possible to cut carrots thin strips and to create a bow.