Salad "Santa Claus": recipe for cooking

At the festive table, especially the New Year, we have long been accustomed to some constant assortment of salads: herring under a fur coat, olivier, etc. But many housewives decided to diversify these dishes, change their form, appearance. This is how the salad "Santa Claus" appeared, which can be any of the above, but has the appearance of a real Russian Santa Claus. Now we will analyze some of the most interesting recipes for cooking such a dish.

Recipe for the New Year's "Santa Claus". Basis - Olivier

For its preparation we will need such products: 200 grams of ham, 200 grams of chicken breast, as much - champignons, mayonnaise, 100 grams of cheese, two cucumbers. Ingredients for decoration: for eyes - black olives, for caps - grated beetroot, for cap, beard and face - grated boiled eggs, for nose - half of tomato or beetroot. Now we collect the salad "Santa Claus". Pre-prepare the components. Boil the chicken breast and cut into thin strips. We also cut mushrooms with straws and fry them with vegetable oil, after which we cool them. In the same way, we cut cucumbers and ham, we rub cheese on a small grater. We start on a flat plate to spread layers of lettuce, lubricating each of them with mayonnaise. The first layer is a chicken, the second is a mushroom, the third is a cucumber, the fourth is a ham, the fifth is a cheese. And in the end we decorate the prepared dish with the appropriate ingredients.

Salad "Santa Claus" based on herring under a fur coat

List of necessary products: five potatoes, 500 grams of herring fillets, one onion, three carrots, two beets and mayonnaise. We offer an original recipe for its preparation. First of all, take a syringe confectionery, fill it and draw on a large plate the contour, we make dill from the dill. It is assumed that beets, carrots and potatoes are already boiled. We make the first layer of grated potatoes, the second - from herring, diced, the third - from finely chopped onions. Lubricated with mayonnaise. Next, put the carrots, grated on a small grater, spread the spoon. The next layer is beet, also grated on a fine grater, then mayonnaise. We begin to decorate our salad "Santa Claus". On the finished dish, draw out the outline of the picture and fill it. From cheese, making a glass, make a face, on a fine grater, rub the egg white for the beard. We rub the egg yolk and carrot. From the first we create a sheepskin coat, from the second - a bag and mittens. Final stage: again draw a contour and make a staff from beets, and from olives - eyebrows and eyes.

"Santa Claus" with Bulgarian pepper, olives and cherry

List of necessary products: 200 grams of ham, as much - champignons and boiled chicken, 100 grams of cheese, two cucumbers, one Bulgarian pepper, mayonnaise, two pieces of olives, four chicken eggs, one cherry tomato. We tell you how else you can make an original salad "Santa Claus". The recipe for cooking is as follows. The first stage, as always, is preparatory. We cut thin chicken fillet chicken, cucumber and ham, mushrooms - small pieces and fry them, on a fine grater we rub cheese. Then in a special form, which looks like Santa Claus's head, we lay out our salad with layers. Each of them, at the same time, is oversaturated with mayonnaise. The order of the layers is as follows: chicken, mushrooms, then cucumber and ham. Finishing is cheese. We decorate the salad. Boil the eggs and separate the proteins from the yolks. From the first we do the edge for the cap and the beard, from the second - the face. We spread the cap itself from Bulgarian pepper, previously shredded in a blender and well wrung out. The nose is a tomato, the eyes are olives. This is all ready.

Another, very similar recipe

We slightly change the previous salad "Santa Claus". Photos of the prepared dish will help us to understand these differences. Ingredients: one chicken breast, five eggs of chicken, 300 grams of champignons, two peppers of Bulgarian, three olives, dill, sunflower oil, mayonnaise, salt. Boil the eggs, squeeze the protein from the yolk and on a small grater three. Mushrooms, Bulgarian pepper and smoked chicken breast are cut into small pieces, then mushrooms in sunflower oil fry. Lubricating mayonnaise each layer, we form a salad. We start with the breast, continue with pepper, mushrooms and finish with yolk and protein. We continue with the fact that we build a sled out of a chicken, from a mushroom - a deer, red and white pepper - Santa Claus, and fir-trees - from dill. As a result, a real picture has turned out, which it is a pity to even eat.

Recipe for "Santa Claus" of potatoes and meat

We will need: any boiled meat - 200 grams, boiled two potatoes, one carrot and five chicken eggs, red bell pepper, one black olive and mayonnaise. Cut small cubes of meat and make from it the first layer of our salad. We rub potatoes on an average grater, we spread from it the second layer and grease with mayonnaise. As the third layer, we use a carrot, also grated on an average grater. Sauce. From the yolks we make a face, and from the red pepper, diced - a headdress. In principle, there is a recipe for a salad "Father Frost's Hat" as a separate dish, but we will leave it for another article. Moreover, its foundation will be the same Olivier. Or a favorite herring under a fur coat. From the grated proteins we make the hoods and the beard on the edge, from the olives - the eyes, we finish with a nose from a piece of red pepper.

"Father Frost" with salmon

Products: four boiled eggs, canned corn - one jar, two onions, one tomato, one carrot, mayonnaise and vegetable oil. Well, and one more salad in the form of "Santa Claus". We clean the eggs, separate the yolks from the proteins, and then rub them separately on a small grater. Salmon is divided into two parts, one of which is cut into cubes, the other - in thin slices. Diced tomatoes. We clear carrots and onions, the first - we rub on a grater, large, the second is finely chopped. Fry them together in vegetable oil. We merge the liquid from the jar with corn and combine the tomato, carrots with onions, salmon, diced, corn, yolks in one container. After that - season with mayonnaise, mix well and spread on a large flat dish. In the process we form the figure of the festive Santa Claus. We decorate the ready salad with salmon slices, squirrels, pepper and cheese. Leave for 30 minutes for impregnation and can be served on the table. Bon Appetit.