Salads for the New Year is a special list of dishes that, even if they are prepared from ordinary ingredients, are decorated in a special way, but still most housewives prefer new, even exotic recipes. These are the ones that are collected in the following selection of chicken snacks.
Juicy salad "Watermelon slice" 
Boiled chicken goes well with champignons, but you can add juiciness and color to this appetizer by decorating it in the form of a watermelon wedge or a cut-off watermelon.
For such a delicious treat you will need:
- 400 g chicken breast;
- 400 g fresh champignons;
- 100 g of hard cheese;
- 3 chicken eggs;
- 200 g of fresh cucumbers;
- 200 g of tomatoes;
- 5-7 olives:
- vegetable oil and mayonnaise.
Cooking steps:
- Boil the chicken meat in salted water with spices and cool without removing it from the broth. This will help keep the breast juicy:
- Chop the champignons into thin slices and fry until tender with a little vegetable oil, cool. Hard-boiled eggs.
- Grate the cheese and eggs on a coarse grater, disassemble the chicken into small fibers. Add fried mushrooms to these products, leaving some cheese shavings for decoration, and season with mayonnaise. Lay out the salad in a circle using the cooking ring.
- Cut the tomatoes in half, pick out the seeds with a spoon, and cut the pulp into small cubes. Cut the cucumbers lengthwise into 4 parts, cut the light middle (it will not come in handy), and grate the green one on a fine grater. Cut the olives into watermelon "seeds".
- In the center of the appetizer, put a circle of tomatoes on top, scatter olives on it in random order. Then lay out two circles of cheese and cucumber chips.
Chicken salad with oranges
A lean, but at the same time exquisite and original treat can be prepared from chicken meat, fresh vegetables and oranges, without which the New Year is simply impossible. The proportions of ingredients included in the snack:
- 500 g chicken fillet;
- 50 g salad mix;
- 100 g fresh cucumber;
- 4-6 cherry tomatoes;
- 3 medium oranges;
- 40 g of liquid honey;
- 40 ml of olive oil and more for frying;
- 40 ml white wine vinegar;
- 10 g garlic;
- salt, spices, sesame seeds, or pine nuts.
Progress:
- Wash the fillets, blot with paper towels, cut into small pieces and put in a container.
- Squeeze juice from one orange and remove the zest. Mix the juice and zest with honey and garlic pressed through a press. In the resulting mixture, marinate the meat for 30-40 minutes, sending it to the refrigerator.
- Fry the marinated fillets in olive oil, season with salt and pepper at the end of cooking.
- Cut the tomatoes in half, chop the cucumbers into strips, tear the lettuce leaves with your hands. Peel the remaining oranges and cut them into medium slices.
- Put green leaves on a plate, on them - chicken, oranges and vegetables. Drizzle with olive oil and vinegar dressing and sprinkle with sesame seeds or pine nuts before serving.
More chicken salad recipes are here.
Maki salad with chicken and pickled mushrooms
For New Year's salads, the design and serving of the dish is not the last thing. This appetizer option proves once again that, even with a minimum of effort, you can get a very beautiful treat.
Ingredients for cooking and decoration:
- 300 g chicken fillet;
- 270 g of pickled champignons;
- 150 g fresh tomatoes;
- 100 g of hard cheese;
- 70 g olives;
- 50 g green onions;
- mayonnaise, salt and spices;
- 1 sprig of dill and 10 g of poppy seeds for decoration.
Priority of actions:
- Boil the meat, cool and chop into cubes.So cut the tomatoes and leave one for decoration.
- Chop mushrooms into thin slices, olives into slices, and just finely chop the onion. Pass the cheese through a fine grater.
- Layer chicken, mushrooms, onions, tomatoes and olives on a serving plate. Coat each layer with mayonnaise.
- Fill the dish with cheese chips on top, on which put the poppies from tomato slices and olive in the center, sprinkle it with poppy seeds a little. Place a twig of dill between the poppies, like the stem on which they grow.
New Year's salad with pineapple and chicken
Easy to prepare, but with a very interesting combination of ingredients, the salad can be prepared from the following set of products:
- 300 g chicken breast;
- 200 g of canned pineapples;
- 100 g of yesterday's white bread;
- 100 g of hard cheese;
- vegetable oil and mayonnaise.
Cooking method:
- Cut the chicken fillet into neat equal cubes. It will be much easier to do this if you first send it to the freezer for a short time.
- Fry pieces of meat in hot oil until golden brown, then gently transfer to a salad bowl for further cooling.
- In the pan where the chicken was fried, brown the white bread diced in equal cubes. Cool the finished croutons.
- Drain the syrup from the pineapples and chop them if they are too large. Grate cheese.
- Combine all the ingredients of the appetizer in a deep plate, season with mayonnaise and serve.
Spicy chicken and grapes appetizer
In order not to quickly get drunk during the celebration, salads for the New Year, like other dishes, should be high in calories and nutritious. This recipe can also be attributed to such snacks.
You will need:
- 500 g chicken fillet;
- 250 g fresh champignons;
- 250 g seedless grapes;
- 120 g of cheese;
- 120 g onions;
- 3 hard-boiled eggs;
- 70 g of hazelnuts;
- 20 g corn starch;
- 5 g ground cinnamon;
- 5 g turmeric
- 3 g chili powder;
- 10 ml soy sauce;
- 10 ml of honey;
- 5 ml balsamic vinegar;
- 150 g mayonnaise;
- 40 ml of vegetable oil.
How to cook:
- Chop the meat into thin long strips, which are marinated in a mixture of spices, soy sauce, honey and vinegar. The marinating time is 3-4 hours. Those who do not like spicy can substitute paprika for chili.
- Breaded marinated fillets in starch and fry in vegetable oil. Then cool and chop finely.
- Chop the champignons and fry with the onions. Grate cheese and eggs on a fine grater. Fry the nuts in a dry frying pan and beat with a blender into coarse crumbs.
- Combine all prepared ingredients, season with mayonnaise and stir. Transfer the appetizer to a salad bowl, and put washed and dried grapes very tightly on top. Let the dish sit in the refrigerator before serving.
Smoked Chicken Salad by Gordon Ramsay
If you want to surprise guests in the New Year with something interesting and tasty, the recipes of the world-renowned British chef Gordon Ramsay will help. And even if none of those present at the table knows how many Michelin stars his restaurants have received, still this author's recipe will conquer everyone.
The composition of the dish:
- 2 ripe mangoes;
- 2 medium avocados
- 350 g smoked chicken breast;
- 200 g salad mix;
- 30 g of pine nuts;
- 45 ml orange juice;
- 30 ml olive oil;
- 20 g whole grain mustard;
- black pepper and sea salt.
Preparation:
- Peel the mango pulp from the bone and skin, and then cut it into neat cubes. Do the same with the avocado, so that its pulp does not lose color, it is better to sprinkle the slices with lemon juice.
- Cut the smoked chicken into thin small slices. Wash, dry and tear the leaves of greenery with your hands.
- Combine all ingredients and season with mustard, orange juice and butter sauce. Season with salt and pepper to taste.
Chicken and mushroom salad
Chicken, mushrooms and cheese are almost a classic combination that is used in many appetizers.If these products are also carefully laid out for individual serving in a culinary ring, and sprinkled with nut crumbs on top and decorated with herbs, you will get a real restaurant treat for the New Year.
The proportions of the required products:
- 200 g of boiled chicken fillet;
- 150 g of Russian cheese;
- 150 g fresh champignons;
- 2 eggs;
- 70-80 g of onions;
- 12 g garlic;
- 150 g mayonnaise;
- 70-100 g of walnuts;
- vegetable oil, salt and spices.
Work algorithm:
- Chop the mushrooms and onions, and then fry them together until tender. Boil eggs hard-boiled. Anneal the kernels in a dry frying pan and beat into crumbs.
- Grate cheese and eggs. Disassemble the chicken into fibers or finely chop. Place all ingredients (except nuts) in a bowl of suitable size.
- In the norm of mayonnaise, squeeze the garlic through a press and season the appetizer with the resulting sauce. Then use the culinary ring to form portions, sprinkle each portion with nut crumbs and garnish with herbs.
If you don't have a cooking ring, you can cut a ring out of a small plastic bottle and use it to form neat portions.
New Year's puff chicken salad
Puff snacks turn out beautiful if they are served in tall transparent glass bowls without unnecessary decor. And to make the appetizer also tasty, you need to use proven salad combinations:
- 150 g of boiled chicken meat;
- 150 g canned pineapple;
- 2 hard-boiled eggs;
- 50 g of hard cheese;
- 80 g of walnuts;
- 80 g mayonnaise.
Recipe step by step:
- Cut meat, eggs and pineapples into small cubes. Turn the cheese into a fine grater. Dry the nuts in the oven and crush them into crumbs.
- Gather the appetizer in layers: fillets, pineapples, eggs, cheese. Make a mayonnaise mesh between each layer, and evenly distribute crumbled nuts on top.
In this recipe, you can use not only canned, but also fresh pineapple. This will make the appetizer even more interesting.
Warm salad with chicken, mushrooms and vegetables
Many nutritionists believe that a warm salad is the best way to start a multi-course dinner, so this snack will come in handy on New Year's Eve.
For cooking you will need:
- 200 g chicken fillet;
- 200 g of champignons;
- 6-8 cherry tomatoes;
- 1 onion;
- vegetable oil and mayonnaise, salt, spices.
We cook as follows:
- Cut the meat into small slices, season with salt and pepper and very quickly fry until crisp in a hot frying pan.
- Chop the champignons into slices and fry separately. Mix fillets and mushrooms, season with mayonnaise and add chopped vegetables: cut cherry into quarters and onion into thin half rings.
Caesar salad with smoked chicken
This simple salad is gaining more and more fans, and the housewives are trying to somehow improve the classic recipe, for example, replacing boiled meat with smoked meat:
- 200 g Iceberg lettuce;
- 400 g smoked chicken meat;
- 100 g cherry tomatoes;
- 50 g Parmesan cheese;
- 40 g white loaf crackers;
- 100 ml of light mayonnaise or Caesar sauce.
Preparation:
- Wash the Iceberg leaves and lay them on a towel to dry. Then tear them apart with your hands and place on a serving dish.
- Chop the meat into small slices (strips or cubes), cut the tomatoes into slices (into halves or quarters), put them on the green leaves together with the croutons.
- Pour light mayonnaise or sauce over the appetizer, sprinkle with fine Parmesan shavings on top.
Here is another, simpler Caesar recipe.
Salads for the New Year, cooked with chicken meat, will turn out not only beautiful (which you yourself can judge from the photo), but also delicious, which can be seen by cooking them. In this case, the main difficulty will not be in the technology, but in which type of snack to choose. Have a delicious holiday!
