DIY salad decoration step by step with photos. How to decorate salads for the holidays at home

It is impossible to imagine the New Year without salads on the table, but also to prepare them deliciously. You need to know how to decorate them correctly and give them individuality. The ability to decorate a dish does not come immediately, but over the years, it is a kind of philosophy, a hobby, and if you develop this ability, then your guests will be amazed at the results of your work. Some are limited to the use of spices and herbs, but beautiful salads for the New Year create a warm atmosphere of celebration and fun, and encourage friendly conversations. Of course, there are many options, but we will look at the fastest and simplest ones. 1. The most common way to decorate a salad on New Year's holidays is to post the date of the celebration, say, 2016. What can be used for this? It depends on what kind of salad you want to serve. If you prepared mimosa, then Korean-style carrots are perfect as a decoration; against a yellow background it will look bright and beautiful.

2. The year of the Fire Monkey is approaching, you can use this fact for decoration. You can use anything for this original method, for example cheese and a boiled chicken egg. Before you start decorating, you need to give the salad a certain shape. Don’t be afraid to do something wrong; it’s difficult to make a mistake during the decorating process, and if this happens, it’s easy to fix. 3. Since herring under a fur coat is very often served on New Year’s Eve, you can also add interest and originality to it, for example, draw a winter Kremlin with a fluffy Christmas tree; for this, the surface should be smeared with mayonnaise. You need to line the Kremlin itself with boiled beets, and the Christmas tree with sprigs of dill. 4. Decorate salads for the New Year with cheese. It can be used as a plate. Quite an unusual option, but worth your attention. You need to cut the cheese into thin rectangles and lay them out as if you were weaving a basket, then give them a certain shape and fill the finished cheese plate with salad. Cheese can also be used in another serving option, which is suitable if you serve the salad not in a common plate, but in portions. We will need not ordinary hard cheese, but Parmesan; it turns out much easier and faster, plus the finished products hold their shape better. Place the frying pan on low heat, do not grease it with oil, put in the cheese, cut into very thin strips or grated on a special grater for Korean carrots. Wait until it cooks for 20 seconds and transfer it to a jar. This is done so that the cheese takes the shape of a basket. It is very convenient to put any salad in such a product; it turns out strong and tasty. 5. Let's move on to the next method called "Christmas wreath". It's a little more complicated, but it turns out very beautifully. For it we need parsley, cheese, mayonnaise and orange or red sweet bell pepper. We will place greenery around the edges in the form of a wreath, make a candle from cheese and pepper, draw mayonnaise on the candle so that it appears as if it is dripping wax, and decorate the salad itself with the remaining pieces of pepper. 6. For this method we only need an onion and nothing else. This decoration will surprise both you and your guests. The onion must be peeled and cut first in half, without cutting all the way through, then into two more parts and again several times. After this, you need to put the bulb in warm water and wait about an hour and a half, during which time it will bloom and turn into a beautiful, white flower. Of course, flowers don’t grow in summer, but it would be nice to add delicate, white shades to the table.

7. Decorate the salad for the New Year with vegetables. It would seem that you can make it from the most ordinary carrots or tomatoes, but it turns out that such products will make the salad individual, beautiful and original. In this case, you can show your limitless imagination yourself, cut out the same flowers from vegetables, build a Christmas tree with New Year’s decorations from pomegranate, and so on. 8. Without what is winter impossible? That's right, no snowmen. This idea can be used to decorate salads. Products with dressing can be placed on a plate in the shape of a large snowman, so large that there is enough for all guests, in addition, you can make a voluminous snowman if you decide to serve the salad on portioned plates. Of course it will take more time, but the result will be worth it. Every housewife wants her table to look wonderful, so that salads and main courses delight those present. It all depends only on your imagination, and we just gave a few good ideas.

It’s hard to imagine a traditional feast without delicious salads, much less the New Year. The beautiful design of dishes pleases the eye, stimulates the appetite and generally creates a special festive mood. To surprise guests and bring aesthetic pleasure to themselves and their loved ones, housewives come up with and search online for a variety of ways to decorate salads - simple and complex. Let's find out how to decorate salads for the New Year 2018.

Salads with toppings and slice ornaments

One of the easiest ways to decorate salads is with sprinkles. What could be easier than sprinkling the finished salad with one of the ingredients, grated on a fine grater. For sprinkling use grated:

• eggs, both white and yolk;
• cucumbers;
• boiled carrots;
• beets;
• sausage.

The topping can be used in its pure form or mixed with mayonnaise.

In addition to grated ingredients, finely chopped greens are used, as well as small products such as peas, corn, red and black caviar, and pomegranate seeds. By imagining and using ingredients of different colors, they create designs and ornaments.

Video: decorating a herring under a fur coat

If you set out to do something even more original, then an interesting effect is obtained by combining sprinkles and thinly sliced ​​pieces of vegetables and fruits. Often they make a background of sprinkles, and put cucumber slices and olive rings on top, and cover the salad with thin slices of red fish. Look at the photo how to make calla lilies from squares of cheese, lay out pineapple from mushrooms, and form a starfish from lettuce and red fish.

With mayonnaise

An additional decorative effect is created using mayonnaise. Since most salads are already made with mayonnaise, some do not use this option, trying not to overdo it with the sauce. However, the subtle patterns look very attractive and appetizing.

If you buy mayonnaise in a tube, you can draw just like that. But if you need really fine lines, you need to transfer the mayonnaise into a pastry bag or into a regular plastic bag and draw like cream on a cake. Of course, a combination with other decoration options will not harm the appearance of the salad at all.

Layered salads

There is nothing complicated about the layered salad technique. However, alternate layers of green cucumbers, orange carrots, red fish, and yellow corn make the salad truly elegant. Use transparent bowls, vases, and cocotte bowls for layered salads, then they will not require additional decoration. But on the other hand, if there is a desire, why not decorate them on top, using already known methods?

Animals

Salads decorated in the shape of animals are relevant if you want to attract children's attention to food. In addition, on New Year’s Day, a bullfinch, a dog (after all, 2018 is the Year of the Dog) laid out from salad, a hare - all this will be in the theme of the holiday. Those who miss summer are advised to take this opportunity and enjoy the summer landscapes, the sight of colorful butterflies, bees, and ladybugs.

Note! Many decorations, including animals, are cut from thin pieces of vegetables using cookie cutters.

See below for ideas for decorating salads in the shape of birds, animals, and insects.

New Year's design

Salads decorated in New Year's style will look best on the New Year's table: in the shape of bells, Santa Claus, snowman, Snow Maiden, Christmas tree, chimes, pine cones.

How to make such beauty? Also, as already described. Lay out the salad, give the mass the desired shape, sprinkle, decorate, grease with mayonnaise. Look at the photo, everything is clear here.

Carving

The technique of decorating dishes has been elevated to the rank of a special art. One of the well-known techniques is carving. This is the art of creating figures and decorative curls from vegetables and fruits, which are subsequently used to decorate salads, main courses or as an independent decoration. There are so many decoration options that it’s simply impossible to imagine everything, but you can learn how to make the basic elements.

Carrot cones

Pine cones are immediately associated with Christmas trees and the New Year. Let's decorate the salads with carrot cones, and make fir branches from dill.

	To cut out the cone you will need a sharp narrow knife. It is necessary to give the carrots the shape of a cone.
	If available, it is convenient to cut with carving knives, but they are not necessary.
	Using a knife, cut the petals in a circle, trying to fit the whole number of petals, and cut off a little of the pulp under the petals. Continue row by row.
	When you reach the end, sharpen the tip of the carrot.
	You will get cones like this. Moreover, when using different tools, they will differ slightly.

Roses from pancakes and beets

Pancakes are not a very common product for carving, but this is where the beauty of this decoration comes into play. It’s not immediately clear what it’s made of.

	Grate the boiled beets and mix with mayonnaise.
	Distribute the beets over the pancake.
	Roll into a roll and cut into pieces of approximately 5 cm.
	On the side of the cut, on one edge, you need to make several small cuts in the form of petals.
	Arrange the pancakes as shown in the photo, and cover the gaps with parsley leaves.

Roses from tomatoes

How real roses are made from the skin of a tomato. You don't even need any special practice for cutting.

	Take any tomato with a beautiful, smooth, intact skin. Cut the cap at the top, but do not cut it off completely.
	Continue cutting the skin in a spiral pattern, being careful not to cut it accidentally.
	Then unroll the spiral onto the cutting board. And roll it into a roll, starting from the tip, towards the “hat”.
	Decorate the salad with the resulting roses. You can make several and collect a “bouquet”. You can make one big one and place it in the center.

The same method is used to make a rose from an apple.

cucumber leaf

Cucumbers are often used in carving. They have several valuable properties: they are dense, so they are easy to cut, their skin and pulp are of different colors, due to which a decorative effect is achieved. Try cutting leaves from a cucumber. One cucumber will yield at least two leaves.

	First, cut a piece of cucumber as shown in the photo.
	Cut out the pulp from the inside, but not too close to the peel.
	Shape the cucumber into a leaf shape. Trim off more flesh from the pointed edge.
	In the center along the sheet, make two cuts converging to the tip.
	From the sides, cut perpendicular cuts to the first two and remove these fragments.
	Cut through holes in the pulp in the shape of leaves.
	If you did everything correctly, you will get a cucumber leaf like this.

Water lily from a bulb

To carve a water lily you will need a purple bulb; this flower will not need to be dyed to add color.

Banana dog

Even if a banana is not very suitable for decorating a savory salad, it is worth making a dog out of a banana, because the Year of the Dog is coming. And this fruit makes a charming dachshund.

	Draw a banana template with legs on paper by hand. Place it on the banana and trace the outline with a sharp knife, cutting through the peel.
	Bend your legs.
	In addition to the template with legs, you will need a template with ears, which you also need to draw by hand.
	Cut only the ears and bottom according to the template.
	Make an arched cut like this between the ears.
	Trim and remove the banana pulp. Fold the loose skin that has formed between the ears at the top down.
	Use a knife to make indentations for the eyes and insert black peppercorns.
	Insert a couple of toothpicks into the base of the head.
	Attach the “head” to the “torso”.

Spirals

When you see ready-made spirals from vegetables, it seems that making them at home is either impossible or requires expensive tools. But everything, as it turns out, is much simpler.

Radish flower

You have already seen how to make roses from pancakes, beets, and tomatoes, but there is another way to make a carving flower. Let's try to cut it out of a radish, or rather, not even cut it, but put it together from pieces.

Swan their apple

This is an original, fairly easy way to decorate a salad or fruit slice. Carefully repeat all the steps according to the master class.

	Cut the apple into two halves using a diagonal cut.
	Take the part with the sepals. Remove the seeds.
	Place it as shown in the photo. Place a knife on top and bottom - they will serve as limiters.
	Using another knife, make a cut slightly to the right of center.
	Then cut the side of the apple.
	Then repeat on the left side of the apple.
	Place the cut area again between the two knives. Moving away from the edge, make cuts on the top and sides.
	You will end up with several pieces like this.
	Place them overlapping.
	Place the “wings” on the sides of the main apple half. Cut a piece of apple in the center.
	Take the other half of the apple that we haven't used yet.
	Cut a thin piece of apple.
	Now cut out the part that is covered with a knife in the photo.
	And also trim the edge.
	Press the seed into the pulp. Give the piece a more rounded shape.
	Insert the swan's head into the center cut.

Bulbous dahlia

At first glance, it’s hard to believe that you can make a dahlia from a bulb with your own hands in literally 8 cuts. She looks so beautiful and complex.

	Take a sharp and thin knife.
	We do not cut anything from the root side; on the other side we make an even cut.
	Take the onion in your hand or place it on the board. Cut the onion in the middle, but not all the way. Do not cut about 1 cm.
	Make a second cut perpendicular to the first cut. Now we cut each of the parts in half.
	And again in half: cut two parts at once or each separately.
	Take a bowl of water and place the onion in water for a couple of hours.
	After two hours, remove the bulb; it will turn into a chrysanthemum.
	If you want to make a red chrysanthemum, immerse the bulb in beet juice and leave for a while. The longer you keep the onion in the juice, the more intensely it will color.
	A beautiful and effective decoration.

Watch the video for some more interesting master classes.

Video: carrot flower

Video: cucumber butterfly

Video: decorations from tomatoes and cucumbers

Photos of carving jewelry will inspire you to get creative.

Royal salad

When herring under a fur coat and Olivier have long become boring, you want something new. You can waste a lot of time looking for a simple and tasty salad. But you don’t have to go far: all the ingredients of this salad are available to everyone!

Ingredients:

250 g boiled pork
2-3 potatoes
1 onion
handful of shelled nuts
100 g prunes
1 boiled beet
1 boiled carrot
2 boiled eggs
150 g hard cheese
mayonnaise

Pour boiling water over the prunes and let them stand for 20 minutes. Drain and chop the prunes. Peel the boiled potatoes and cut into cubes. Also cut the meat into cubes. Finely chop the onion, grate the carrots and beets on a coarse grater. Cut the eggs into strips. Grind the nuts in a blender, grate the cheese on a fine grater.

Place all prepared salad ingredients on a dish in layers:

Potatoes, mayonnaise;
onions, meat, mayonnaise;
carrots, mayonnaise;
prunes, nuts, mayonnaise;
beets, mayonnaise;
eggs mayonnaise;
cheese.

Let the salad sit in the refrigerator for at least 2 hours before serving.
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New Year's Salad "Tsarskiy"

Even a king would not refuse such a salad. The rich and wonderful taste of the Tsarsky salad with seafood will seem magical to you. If you don’t know what to cook for the New Year, then take this recipe into account.

Ingredients:

1 kg fresh frozen squid
200 g hard cheese
200 g red caviar
5 eggs
4 potato tubers
300 g mayonnaise

Boil the squid until tender (2-3 minutes), peel and cut into strips.

Peel the boiled potatoes and grate them on a coarse grater. Boil the eggs hard and grate on a medium track. Grate the cheese on a coarse grater.

Layer the salad in the following order: squid, mayonnaise, caviar, potatoes, mayonnaise, caviar, cheese, mayonnaise, caviar, squid. Cover the salad with grated egg and garnish with caviar.

Leave the finished salad in the refrigerator for half an hour, after which you can serve it.
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Salad "Curly"

Surely you are tired of ordinary fatty salads, but want something with a new taste. We offer you the “Curly” salad - a light and delicate dish.

Ingredients:

1 raw carrot
1 large sweet and sour apple
200 g crab sticks
4 boiled eggs
1 can canned corn
mayonnaise

Peel the carrots and apple. Grate them separately on a fine grater. Cool the hard-boiled eggs and also grate them on a fine grater. Grate the crab sticks on a coarse grater or chop with a knife.

On the dish on which you will serve the salad, make a mesh of mayonnaise and place a layer of carrots on top. Lubricate with mayonnaise and place a layer of grated eggs. Repeat the mayonnaise mesh, add an apple, again mayonnaise, crab sticks, mayonnaise and corn.

The corn will be a decoration for the salad, so there is no need to cover it with mayonnaise. Leave the salad in the refrigerator for a couple of hours so that it infuses, and you can serve.

As you may have noticed, the salad is prepared without salt, which does not affect its bright and original taste. If desired, you can add a little salt to the salad to taste.
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“Isabella” salad with Korean carrots

Korean-style carrots make incredibly tasty and piquant salads. Indeed, once you try this salad, you won’t be able to resist adding more.

Ingredients:

2 smoked legs
5 eggs
500 g champignons
2 onions
3 pickled cucumbers
carrots in Korean

Boil the eggs, peel and finely chop. Chop the mushrooms and onions and fry separately in vegetable oil.

Lay out all the prepared salad ingredients in layers. Lubricate each layer with mayonnaise.

1st layer: sliced ​​ham.
2nd layer: mushrooms.
3rd layer: onion.
4th layer: eggs.
5th layer: diced pickles.
6th layer: Korean carrots.

You can decorate the salad with a radish flower and herbs.
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Mongolian Hill Salad

Delicious and original salad based on beets and chicken. It looks very interesting, and the taste is so amazing!

Ingredients:

4 boiled beets
2 boiled carrots
1 handful of prunes
150 g hard cheese
400 g chicken meat
3 cloves garlic
2/3 tbsp. walnuts
bunch of fresh dill
mayonnaise

Grate the beets on a medium grater and mix with the garlic passed through a press. Season with salt and mayonnaise.

Grate the carrots and mix with grated cheese.

Grind the fried chicken and mix with chopped walnuts. Add a couple of spoons of mayonnaise and mix well.

Chop the prunes.

Lay the salad in layers: half the beets, chicken, a little mayonnaise, carrots with cheese, mayonnaise, prunes, mayonnaise. Place the remaining beets on top. Garnish the salad with chopped dill, mayonnaise and walnuts.
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New Year's salad "Pineapple bouquet"

Pineapples and chicken go great together. If you are planning to prepare a charming and very tasty salad for the New Year, then use this recipe.

Ingredients:

500 g chicken breast
3-4 onions
4-5 eggs
400 g marinated champignons
2 potatoes
200 g cheese
1 can of canned pineapple
mayonnaise

Boil the meat with the addition of bay leaf, garlic, allspice and black pepper. Judge, cut into cubes.

Cut the onion into half rings, pour boiling water over it and leave for 10-15 minutes. Wash the onion and marinate it in cold water with vinegar, salt and sugar.

Grate the cheese on a coarse grater. Boil the eggs, cool, peel and grate on a coarse grater.

Lay out all the salad ingredients in layers in the following order: onions, mayonnaise, meat, potatoes, mushrooms, eggs, mayonnaise, cheese, mayonnaise.

Garnish the salad with pineapple pieces and pomegranate seeds.
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New Year's salad with carrots and chicken

You will definitely love this delicate but very easy to prepare salad. The salad is decorated with corn, which gives it a delicate note. True, decorating the salad with corn is not necessary.

Ingredients:

400 g chicken fillet
100 g Korean carrots
5 eggs
100 g hard cheese
100 g mayonnaise
salt, pepper to taste
bell pepper, herbs and corn for decoration

Cut the boiled fillet into cubes. Peel the eggs, separate the whites from the yolks. Chop Korean carrots. Grate the whites, cheese and yolks on a fine grater.

Place the salad on a dish in layers, greasing each layer with mayonnaise: chicken, half a Korean carrot, yolks, cheese, Korean carrots, whites. Garnish the salad with corn, herbs and bell peppers or to your liking.
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Salad in a cheese basket

When you get tired of regular puff salads, you want to cook something new and unusual. A good option is a portioned salad in a cheese basket.

Ingredients:

300 g chicken fillet
3 potatoes
4 eggs
1 carrot
2 kiwi
1 medium sweet and sour apple
1 can of canned peas
70 g cheese

Boil the breast, cool and cut into small cubes. Boil carrots, eggs, potatoes, cool and cut into cubes. Peel apples and kiwis and cut into cubes. Mix all ingredients and add peas. Add salt to taste and season with mayonnaise. Transfer the salad to the cheese basket.

To prepare the cheese basket, grate the cheese on a coarse grater and place it in a thin layer on a hot frying pan. When the cheese is melted, carefully transfer it to an upside down jar. Place in the refrigerator for 10 minutes to allow the cheese to set.

Decorate the salad as desired.
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Salad "Little Red Riding Hood"

This recipe for Little Red Riding Hood salad will appeal to all pomegranate lovers. If you are already tired of the Pomegranate Bracelet salad, then why not try something new, but no less tasty and unusual?

Ingredients:

500 g chicken fillet
1 medium onion
lettuce leaves for decoration
1 medium carrot
pomegranate
eggs
mayonnaise
100 g shelled nuts
potato

Boil the chicken fillet until tender (30 minutes), then pat dry. Boil the potatoes and carrots in their skins and let cool. Chop the nuts and leave a few for decoration. Wash the lettuce leaves and dry. Peel the pomegranate and separate it into grains.

Line a flat, wide dish with lettuce leaves. Layer on them onions, potatoes, chicken, nuts, eggs, carrots, cheese. Lubricate each layer with mayonnaise. Do not grease the cheese with mayonnaise, but immediately decorate it with pomegranate seeds and walnuts.
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New Year's salad "Snowdrifts"

Snow-covered snowdrifts are as much a symbol of the New Year as the Christmas tree. So why not prepare a beautiful and unusual “Snowdrifts” salad for the New Year’s table? The dish looks very light and tender.

Ingredients:

2 potatoes
2 carrots
1 onion
1/2 red bell pepper
1 can of canned fish
5 eggs
2 cloves garlic
mayonnaise
cheese

Boil potatoes, carrots and eggs in their jackets. Cool and peel all ingredients. Grind the onion in a blender along with canned fish.

Now let's assemble the salad. Place a layer of coarsely grated potatoes on a dish. Lubricate with mayonnaise. Place grated carrots on top and brush with mayonnaise. The third layer of salad is canned food with onions (if you don’t like fish salads, then replace the canned food with boiled chicken) and grease with mayonnaise. Place a layer of finely chopped bell pepper.

Peel the boiled eggs and cut them into halves lengthwise. Remove the yolks, mash them with a fork, mix with the garlic passed through a press. Season with mayonnaise. Stuff the whites with this mixture and place the eggs on the salad. Lubricate the eggs with mayonnaise on top (it’s very convenient to do this with a silicone brush) and sprinkle with finely grated cheese.
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New Year's salad with red fish and orange

This salad with lightly salted salmon or trout can rightfully be considered an exotic version of herring under a fur coat. And it’s exotic for the reason that instead of vegetables they use fruits, or rather oranges.

Ingredients:

200 g lightly salted red fish
3 boiled eggs
1 large orange
pitted olives
40 g cheese
mayonnaise
salt
freshly ground pepper
1-2 tbsp. l. red caviar

Separate the whites from the yolks. Grate the whites on a fine grater, chop the yolks with a knife. Wash the orange, cut off the peel and peel the pulp from the films, cut into cubes. Grate the cheese on a fine grater. Cut the olives into strips. Assemble all salad ingredients in layers.

1st layer: half the egg whites, mayonnaise, salt and pepper to taste
2nd layer: yolks, mayonnaise, salt and pepper to taste
3rd layer: half of red fish
4 layer: olives
Layer 5: remaining fish
6th layer: cheese, mayonnaise
7th layer: orange
Layer 8: remaining egg whites, mayonnaise, salt and pepper to taste

Top the salad with caviar and olives.
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Salad "Leshy"

Leshy salad is a great option for a holiday salad. In this case, no overseas ingredients are used. Everything is very simple and accessible.

Ingredients:

1 chicken fillet
2 onions
400 g champignons
2 eggs
100 g hard cheese
1/2 tbsp. shelled walnuts
mayonnaise
olives

Boil the breast and cut into pieces. Chop the onion and champignons and fry separately in a frying pan. Grate the boiled eggs and cheese on a coarse grater. Mix all ingredients, add nuts, season with mayonnaise, and salt to taste.

Place a glass or bottle in the center of a flat dish. Place the salad around it, pressing it down a little with a spoon. Remove the bottle and garnish the salad with herbs and olives.

We present recipes for beautiful New Year's salads with calories included.

Salad "Christmas Candles".
Required:
Boiled rice.
Fried onions – 1-2 pcs
Any fried mushrooms – 200 g
Fried grated carrots – 1 piece
Boiled eggs – 4 pcs.
Crab sticks – 150g.
Low calorie mayonnaise.
100 g – 85 Kcal.
Garnish: yellow and red bell peppers, some pomegranate seeds and corn, “curly” parsley
Chop the meat and grate the sticks on a fine grater. Peel the eggs and separate the white from the yolk. Set aside the egg whites for the top layer. Mix onions, mushrooms and carrots. Lay out in layers: rice, crab sticks, mushroom mixture, eggs, finishing with protein. Cut 2 rectangles from the peppers. If they turn out bulging, just press them a little into the salad. These are candles. Garnish with the remaining ingredients as shown in the picture (you can enlarge it by clicking on it).

"Bullfinch".
Required:
Boiled potatoes – 3 pcs.
Onions - 2 medium.
Boiled chicken meat – 200 g
Pickled cucumbers – 2-3 pieces
Fried mushrooms – 200g
Processed cheese
Boiled eggs – 4 pcs.
Light mayonnaise.
Garnish: olives, red bell pepper, fresh cucumber.
Chop the onion and fry. Cut cucumbers, meat, mushrooms into cubes. Peel the eggs, set aside the whites for the top layer. Grate the remaining ingredients on a coarse grater. Make the first layer-template for the bullfinch from grated potatoes. Place it on a flat plate and use wet hands to shape it into a bird. Lay the remaining layers over the first, carefully trimming with wet hands. The order of layers (coat each with mayonnaise): potatoes, onions, chicken, cucumbers, mushrooms, cheese, eggs and protein. Garnish with finely chopped peppers and olives. The branch is carved from a cucumber.

"First of January".
A very simple salad that looks elegant on the festive New Year's table.
Take:
Boiled eggs - 5 pcs (separate the white from the yolk)
Low fat cheese – 150g
Raw carrots 1 piece
Boiled liver – 200g
Garlic – 2-3 cloves
Light mayonnaise – 250g.
Calorie content 100g – 83 Kcal.
Grate all products. Lay out in layers in the shape of a rectangle: yolk (leave one) on a grater, cheese, raw carrots, liver, squeeze out the garlic, a little more cheese and protein.

All layers are for mayonnaise. Decorate the top with grated yolk, the number is bell pepper, the letters are carrots or the same pepper, add a sprig of dill and pomegranate seeds.

That's it, the salad is ready! Or you can make a candle by finishing the salad with grated yolk and egg white, and garnishing with carrots, ½ tomato, dill and bell pepper. Bon appetit!

"Snowmen".
Everything ingenious is simple. We make snowmen.
Crab sticks - 100g
Boiled eggs - 3 pcs
Corn - 300-380 g
Low-calorie mayonnaise - 100g
Boiled rice - 100g
Salt.
In 100 g - 78 Kcal.
For topping: coconut flakes, or grated cheese, or grated crab meat (sticks), or egg white.

We pass all the ingredients through a meat grinder and season with mayonnaise (the main thing is not to overdo it, otherwise the balls will blur). Using wet hands, form the mixture into balls and roll in sprinkles. You can keep the balls in the freezer for a little while so that they “set” a little. Collect snowmen. Hats can be cut out of bread or cheese, or you can simply attach an olive or boiled carrot with toothpicks.

The eyes are black peas (pepper), the nose is a piece of carrot. Children love this dish.

New Year's balls:
What you will need for the white ball:
Beef tongue - 130
Walnuts - 40g.
Champignons - 130
Cucumbers (fresh or pickled) - 60g
Green peas - 50g
Boiled egg - 1 pc.
100g - 70 Kcal.
For 2 balls, orange:
Boiled carrots - 1 pc.
Marinated mushrooms - 100g
Onion - 1 small head
Boiled potatoes - 1 piece
Apple - 1 piece
Boiled chicken - 130g
Pickled cucumber - 1 piece
Boiled egg.
100g - 98 Kcal.
1st ball: Cook the tongue for 3 hours, 30 minutes before the end add carrots, onions, parsley, peppercorns. After cooking, immerse the tongue in cold water and remove the skin. Cut into small strips. Cut and fry the champignons. Cut the cucumbers into small cubes. Divide the egg into white and yolk. Place in the form of a ball: tongue, chopped nuts, champignons, cucumbers, peas, yolk, white. Lubricate all layers with mayonnaise.
2nd ball: Grate carrots, potatoes, apples, eggs separately. Chop mushrooms, onions, chicken, cucumber. We assemble the salad: mushrooms, then finely chopped onions, potatoes, apples, chicken, cucumbers, eggs, carrots. All layers are light mayonnaise.
For decoration, you can use seaweed or sprigs of dill and parsley. You can cut out carrot stars and decorate a white ball, and red ones with cheese stars. In the center of the stars are mayonnaise and red caviar. It’s easy to make a “mitten”: take champignons, fry them...

You can make mittens in the same way, just lay out the layers differently. With wet hands you can sculpt anything you want out of ingredients. Lay out the first layer in the form suggested by your imagination, and then lay all the rest according to this pattern.

Christmas wreath:
Boiled chicken meat - 250g
Champignons fried with onions - 200g
Fresh tomatoes - 2 pcs
Cheese - 200g
Greenery
Olives - 200g
Low-fat mayonnaise - 250g.
In 100g - 153 Kcal.
All layers are coated with mayonnaise. We put a regular glass in the center and lay it out in a circle: finely chopped chicken meat, mushrooms and onions, chopped tomatoes, herbs, olives chopped with a knife, cheese grated on a fine grater.

You can add corn. Take out the glass. Garnish with parsley, dill, olives, cheese, sweet pepper, etc., as shown in the photo.

It's hard to imagine New Year without Santa Claus. May you bring good luck and many gifts next year.
Cooking:
Boiled beets - 1 pc.
Boiled carrots - 2 pcs.
Jacket potatoes - 2 pcs.
Smoked chicken pulp - 150g
Fresh cucumber - 1 pc.
Walnuts - 2 pcs.
Chicken egg - 5 pcs.
Cheese (bright yellow) - 100g
Mayonnaise - 250g (low calorie)
100g - 98 Kcal.
Set aside the egg whites and cheese, and some boiled beets for the top of the salad. Grate the potatoes, place on a plate and smooth out. This is 1 layer, it should be round. Next, grease all layers with mayonnaise.

The sequence is as follows: after the potatoes, add beets and grated nuts, then chopped chicken, grated carrots, chopped cucumbers, grated egg yolks. Decorate with finely grated cheese and egg white.

The cap is finely grated beets. Eyes - olives or olives, nose - carrots or cherry tomatoes. Happy New Year!

Salad “Chimes”.
Cod liver - 200g
Potatoes - 4-5 pcs.
Pickled cucumbers – 250g
Eggs – 3 pcs
Onions – 100g
Mustard – 1 teaspoon
Light mayonnaise – 200g
Table vinegar – 1 tbsp. l
Sugar – 1 tsp.
Olives (optional).
For decoration: Boiled carrots or bell peppers.
100g – 86 Kcal
Chop the onion into half rings and marinate. To do this, dilute sugar and vinegar in ½ glass of water. Marinate for 5 minutes. Grate the boiled potatoes, then add the pickled onions. The third layer is chopped cucumbers, then cod liver (pre-mash with a fork). We finish our layered salad with eggs.

There are three whites in the center, and a yolk at the edges. All layers are for mayonnaise. You can add a layer of olives.

Decorate with eggs and bell peppers or carrots, from which numbers are cut out.

New Year's garlic.
This is a regular garlic cheese salad. For him we take:
Processed cheese – 2 pcs.
Any other cheese (Gouda, Edam) – 100 g.
Garlic – 2-3 cloves.
Boiled eggs – 4 pcs.
Low-calorie mayonnaise 150g
100g – 158 Kcal
Grind cheese and eggs on a fine grater, add garlic, passed through a garlic press. Season with mayonnaise and mix. Lay out in the form of a snowman or just in the form of a face.
Decorate: hat, eyes and buttons - chopped olives, scarf - green onions. Make the nose out of carrots or sweet red peppers.

You can make Santa Claus.

Carnival mask:
Boiled beets – 1 pc.
Boiled carrots – 1 pc.
Pomegranate seeds (for decoration).
Boiled potatoes – 3 pcs.
Light mayonnaise – 200g.
Fried chicken (beef) liver – 200g.
Fried chopped onions – 100g.
Fried mushrooms – 150g.
Chopped olives – 100g.
Dill greens.
Cooking:
Place two tall thin glasses on a plate. Place it around like a mask. Layer 1 – grated potatoes, 2 – grated liver, onions, mushrooms, olives. The top layer is grated carrots and beets. Take out the glasses. Garnish with pomegranate seeds and dill. Grease all layers except the top with mayonnaise. Or you can make it white by sprinkling the top layer with grated egg whites.

"Winter Drifts" - a very easy to prepare and beautiful dish
Winter snowdrifts:
Required:
Chicken eggs – 6 pcs.
Boiled meat (can be chicken) – 200g
Carrots – 2 pcs.
Boiled potatoes – 3 pcs.
Onions – 1 pc.
Garlic – 2-3 cloves.
Cheese 150g
Greenery.
Mayonnaise 150g
100g – 120 Kcal.
Preparation:
Dice the onion and fry. Grate the carrots on a coarse grater and also fry. Place carrots, onions, finely chopped meat, grated potatoes, and spread with mayonnaise. Next, peel the eggs, cut lengthwise and remove the yolk. Mash it with a fork, add grated cheese, crushed garlic, herbs, salt, mayonnaise. Stuff eggs with this mixture and place filling side down on salad. You can add a little more mayonnaise. Grate cheese on top. Bon appetit!

"Bunny":
1-Finely chopped chicken meat – 300g
2 onions, finely chopped 1 pc.
3- chopped walnuts 50 gr.
4-boiled carrots, grated 1 pc.
5-1 fresh cucumber, but first cut out the center with the seeds so that the salad does not leak.
6-olives 150g chopped with a knife
7-fresh pineapple 100g chopped.
Mix everything and season with mayonnaise. Place in bunny shape.
You will find the recipe for the Bunny salad on our website.

Sprinkle with finely grated egg or cheese (you can use coconut flakes). The eyes are olives, the ears are Chinese cabbage.

The famous salad "Shishka""Cone".
The salad can be laid out in layers, or you can simply mix all the ingredients and garnish with almonds. So, the salad consists of:
Boiled potatoes – 3 pcs.
Smoked chicken – 200g.
Onions (pour boiling water over them to remove the bitterness).
Canned peas (you can use corn, but then there will be more calories in the salad) – 200g.
Boiled eggs – 4 pcs.
Grated processed cheese (2 pcs), mixed with chopped walnuts (2-3 pcs).
For decoration, almonds, whole, undamaged kernels.
Calorie content 100g – 135 Kcal.

Salad “Snow Maiden”
Required
Boiled potatoes – 3 pcs
Canned pink salmon – 2 cans
Boiled eggs - 6 pcs
Canned corn – 1 can
Apple – 1 piece
Garlic -3 cloves
Cheese – 200g
Low-calorie mayonnaise – 200g
Calorie content 100g - 174Kcal

Salad "Snow Maiden" - step-by-step recipe with photos

Layered salad: grated potatoes, pink salmon (mash with a fork), corn, grated apple, grated cheese. A special sauce is needed to coat the layers. To do this, grind the egg yolks with mayonnaise and add garlic, passed through a press. Each layer needs to be coated. Then we decorate: fur coat - egg white dyed with red cabbage juice; braids – corn; mittens and boots - Cherry tomatoes; buttons - pomegranate or cranberry; bows, mouth - carrots; eyes are olives.

"Snake"
New Year's fantasies - "Snake" saladSnake
Ingredients:
Onions - 3 pcs.
Mashed potatoes - 300 g
Any mushrooms (fresh or pasteurized) – 0.5 kg
Chicken fillet - 400 g
Low-calorie mayonnaise - 250g
Hard cheese – 150g
Chips (cheese flavored) - 80-100 g
Pomegranate seeds
Fresh tomato or sweet pepper
Parsley
In 100g - 172 Kcal

Preparation:
Mashed potatoes for salad should be thick. We will use it to make the first layer of salad. Using your hands soaked in water, shape the potatoes into a snake shape. Then cut the onion into small cubes and marinate it (vinegar + sugar). Place the onion layer on the puree and brush with mayonnaise. Then fried mushrooms and mayonnaise again. Cut the chicken fillet into cubes with a knife and lay out in a layer, and again with mayonnaise. The last layer is grated cheese, which must be carefully coated with mayonnaise. Grind the chips into fine crumbs and sprinkle the salad on all sides. The snake's crown is also made from chips. Eyes can be made from pomegranate seeds or black peppercorns, or olives. Tongue – tomato or sweet red pepper. Decorate the salad as you wish. Bon appetit!

"Christmas decorations"
Required:
Onion – 1 piece
Crab sticks or meat – 200g
Canned corn – 1 can
Mayonnaise, thick ketchup.
For decoration:
Korean carrots, dill, red caviar, green peas, olives, corn. You can use any other ingredients you have on hand.

Cooking:
Cut crab sticks and onions into cubes, add corn and a little mayonnaise so that the salad does not spread. Form a ball with wet hands. Mix ketchup with mayonnaise and coat it. Decorate as shown in the photo or at your discretion. Happy New Year and Christmas!

Happy New Year! We wish you a pleasant holiday and hope that our recipes for low-calorie New Year's salads will help you lose weight and stay slim next year. In general, there are a lot of beautiful recipes on the site with calories indicated, take a look.

On the New Year's table 2020, everything should be solemn and conducive to the holiday. It’s not enough to prepare delicious snacks. They also need to be arranged correctly, and most importantly, decorated in an original way. This is what we will talk about. After all, you don’t have to cook something unusual to make the table festive. You can decorate even a simple Olivier salad or the familiar herring under a fur coat in a beautiful and unusual way.

A tasty and simple “Mouse” salad, a symbol of the coming year, will become a table decoration. But it is also very tasty; first of all, my household eats it. Detailed recipe with step-by-step photos.

Options for decorating salads in the shape of a Mouse

assorted photographs with original decorations for New Year's salads

How to decorate a New Year's salad, general principles

There are not many ways to decorate salads. The situation is easiest with puff snacks. Firstly, they already look beautiful in transparent portioned salad bowls. Secondly, the puff salad can be laid out in any shape, for example: crescent, Christmas tree, snowman, heart. It will already look unusual and beautiful. In this case, the upper part can simply be decorated with a pattern or inscription made from mayonnaise or other dressing sauce.

Penguins or snowmen made from eggs, olives and carrots, strung on a toothpick, will be an excellent decoration for your New Year's salad.

Christmas trees made from vegetables, fruits and sweets.

And here is an example of New Year's carrot carving - a Christmas cone.

And here’s how the hostess decided to present it to the New Year’s table in an original way, only instead of the traditional cabbage or fresh cucumber, rice was added to the salad.

An equally original option for serving puff salad would be to wrap it in a roll. In this form, any appetizer will look very unusual, even a simple herring under a fur coat. By the way, making a roll is quite easy if you collect the salad not on a plate, but on cling film.

“Bullfinch on a spruce branch,” another original decoration for a New Year’s salad made from tomatoes, eggs, green onions and olives. In the second salad, a walnut was used as a cone, and a spruce branch was decorated with pomegranate seeds.

You can work a little more by preparing the decoration from half eggs and Korean carrots. From these ingredients it is easy to lay out, for example, a watch dial. But it's quite simple. In fact, entire artistic compositions can be created from ordinary boiled eggs.

In general, the best option for decorating any salad is sprinkling. This design does not take much time, but the scope for imagination is almost unlimited.

Here is an example of how you can decorate a fruit salad for the New Year. These Christmas canapés can simply be placed on the table as a snack.

However, it is worth understanding that the products that will be used to decorate the salad must be in harmony with the ingredients of the appetizer itself. In fact, it is not very good if a salad with red fish is decorated with pieces of sausage. Although there are exceptions. For example, balls made from low-fat cottage cheese mixed with chopped herbs and crushed garlic can be an excellent addition to a vegetable salad with tomatoes.

New Year tree made from onion feathers.

An interesting design option is the unusual presentation of the dish. Salads that contain vegetables or fruits can be served in salad bowls made from the same vegetables. An excellent portioned salad bowl is made from a pod of sweet bell pepper or from half a large apple, if all the pulp is removed from it. A boat-shaped salad plate can be made from a cucumber slice. Well, half a pineapple will make a whole salad ship.

Bags of lettuce stacked on one dish will look completely unusual. Making them is also not difficult. Place a couple of spoons of salad on pre-baked pancakes. The pancake is wrapped in a bag and tied with a green onion stalk.

Ideas for decorating New Year's salads 2020

Now it's time to get straight to the ideas. Of course, no one says that you need to decorate salads exactly in the ways described below. Here are just a few examples. So you shouldn’t limit your own imagination. But perhaps these options will become the basis for creating your own masterpieces.

How do you like this culinary masterpiece of boiled beets and carrots and pickled cucumbers? The author of the salad is a real artist!

Decoration “Christmas balls”

An ordinary salad can be turned into a New Year's composition if you put a “fir branch” of fresh herbs on its surface and decorate it with balls made from halves of cherry tomatoes and olives. Additional decorations can be cut from colored bell peppers. The background for such a “drawing” can be grated egg white or fresh cucumber. It all depends on what ingredients the salad itself consists of.

Or you can put together a composition of different salads on one dish, placing them in the form of the same Christmas tree balls. You can decorate them with boiled carrot figures or simply paint them with mayonnaise. Well, the spruce branch is again made from fresh greenery.

Decoration of New Year's salad "Candles"

Candles perfectly emphasize the New Year's mood. So such decoration would be quite appropriate. Almost any salad can be decorated in this way, since the main products for decoration are greens, cheese for sandwiches, and canned corn.

To begin with, the finished snack must be laid out in the form of a ring or garland. Place thin sprigs of dill and rosemary on top. Scatter some corn over the greens. It will look nice if the yellow corn kernels are “diluted” with a small amount of pomegranate seeds. And the finishing touch is evenly placed candles made from rolled cheese. Flame tongues can be made from boiled carrots, pieces of crab sticks, Korean carrots or small pieces of sweet bell pepper.

You can simplify the task somewhat and simply “draw” a candle. To do this, the salad must be laid out in the shape of a truncated triangle with a rounded base. Level the top of the salad and spread with mayonnaise. Sprinkle the entire surface with grated cheese, and in the upper part pour a small oval of grated egg white. The candle wick can be made from a piece of prune, and the flame from cheese, egg yolk, boiled carrots and a piece of red bell pepper. Lay out the lower part of the composition with sprigs of dill and decorate with a bow and balls, again cut from sweet peppers.

Christmas wreath

For this design, the salad should be placed on a large plate in the shape of a ring. It’s quite simple to depict this by placing a glass in the center of the plate, laying out the ingredients or a ready-made snack, and then taking out the glass. The surface of the salad must be leveled and coated with mayonnaise.

The workpiece should be sprinkled with finely chopped herbs and decorated with cherry tomato halves. Imitation of ribbons tying the resulting wreath can be made from strips of daikon, radish or boiled carrots.

Decorating the Christmas Bell Salad

You can arrange the salad on a bell-shaped dish in almost the same way as in the previous case. First, the dish is laid out in the required form, and then the salad is sprinkled with grated carrots. The design on the resulting bell is laid out with black caviar or finely chopped olives.

If desired, the composition can be supplemented with a bow of red bell pepper. Well, a spruce branch can be modeled from dill.

Decoration “Watermelon slice”

Not only fresh fruits, but also salads made in their shape, for example: in the shape of a watermelon slice, can perfectly decorate the table. This design option is well suited for vegetable or meat salads, the ingredients of which are not cut into very large pieces.

Place the finished salad in the shape of a watermelon slice, level the surface and grease it a little with mayonnaise. Cover the entire surface of the salad with a thin layer of finely grated carrots (you can use either boiled or fresh root vegetables). Make a watermelon rind from finely chopped herbs, for example: dill, parsley and green onions. Sprinkle a thin strip of grated cheese between the “crust” and “pulp” - this will make the salad look even more like a real watermelon. Well, small pieces of olives can become seeds.

Fish salad can also be presented in the form of a watermelon crust. But in this case, instead of carrots, it is better to use red caviar (and not necessarily real) or finely chopped red parts of crab sticks.