Salads are never enough, but when preparing for the New Year, you need not only to set the table, but also to purchase a Christmas tree, gif.webpts for family and friends. In this regard, it becomes clear that the hostess wants to save money. Can inexpensive salads be tasty and original? What to cook them from? We will give comprehensive answers to these questions right now!
Salad with omelet and chicken
There are only two main ingredients in this dish - chicken and eggs. If you boil them, then even with the original dressing, the appetizer will be bland, but if you fry the meat and make an omelet from the eggs, you get an inexpensive, but also very appetizing treat.
List of required products:
- 2 eggs;
- 20 ml of milk;
- 20 g butter;
- 80 g of onions;
- 400 g chicken fillet;
- 40 ml vinegar;
- 50 g mayonnaise;
- salt, spices and herbs.
How to cook:
- Chop the onion into thin half rings and pickle in a solution of vinegar and water, taken in equal proportions.
- Beat the eggs with milk until smooth, then fry a thin pancake from the egg-milk mixture in a hot and greased frying pan.
- Fry the chicken fillet until tender, but not for long, so that it does not become too dry.
- Chop meat and pancake into strips. Squeeze the onion. Mix everything, add salt, spices, herbs and season with mayonnaise. Before serving, garnish with dill sprigs and a thin cucumber ribbon rose.
Vinaigrette on the New Year's table
This dish confirms the fact that delicious salads don't have to be expensive. The products that make up the snack are not only not expensive, but easily digestible, so they will not overload the stomach on New Year's holidays.
List of products for vinaigrette:
- 300 g potatoes;
- 350 g of beets;
- 150 g carrots;
- 150 g cabbage;
- 100 g pickled cucumber;
- 100 g sweet and sour apple;
- 50 g green peas;
- 80-100 ml of vegetable oil.
- salt, spices, herbs.
Cooking process step by step:
- Boil carrots, beets and potatoes until tender and cool. Beets can be baked in the oven or microwave to keep their color intense.
- Chop boiled vegetables, pickled cucumber and apples into small cubes. Finely chop the cabbage.
- Mix all the chopped ingredients, add green peas, season with vegetable oil.
The given set of ingredients cannot be taken as the only correct one. If one of the products does not appear, you can omit it or add other components to the existing ones (canned or boiled beans, pickled mushrooms).
In addition to salads, we have thought out a complete New Year's menu, as well as a menu of very simple dishes.
New Year's salad with croutons and sausage
A piece of yesterday's dried bread, of course, can be thrown away, but you can cut it into small cubes or cubes, mix with salt, spices and vegetable oil, and then dry in the oven to subsequently prepare a delicious snack with homemade crackers.
For one of the options for such a dish you will need:
- 3 hard-boiled chicken eggs;
- 200 g smoked sausage;
- 150 g Korean carrots;
- 50-80 g of home or store croutons;
- mayonnaise.
Cooking algorithm:
- Grind eggs and smoked sausage into thin cubes (straws). Korean carrots, if they are too long, can also be chopped a little.
- Mix all ingredients and season with mayonnaise to taste. Serve the salad immediately, garnish with a few sprigs of herbs.
Since croutons get soaked quickly and can turn into porridge, they must be added immediately before serving. Also, all components of the appetizer can be chopped and laid out in separate containers, and then only mixed, seasoned with sauce and served.
Nordic herring and beetroot salad
Inexpensive ingredients that are usually used for vinaigrette can be combined with affordable lightly salted herring and a fragrant dressing based on vegetable oil. The result will be an inexpensive New Year's salad, the proportions of the ingredients for which will be as follows:
- 350 g of potatoes cooked in their skins;
- 300 g of boiled beets;
- 300 g fillet of lightly salted fish;
- 2 sweet and sour apples;
- 100 g pickles;
- 80 g of onions;
- 15-20 g of dill;
- 100 ml cucumber marinade;
- 80 ml of vegetable oil;
- 10 g mustard;
- sugar, salt and pepper to taste.
Recipe step by step:
- Cut the peeled vegetables into small cubes. Also chop the apple, after cutting out the seeds. Cut herring fillet into large oblong pieces. Chop the greens finely.
- For dressing, mix together the cucumber marinade, vegetable oil and mustard. To taste, this sauce can be seasoned with salt, sugar and spices.
- Mix all the ingredients of the appetizer together and pour over the dressing. Before serving, let the salad sit in the refrigerator for 2 hours to overnight.
Hearty flaky New Year's snack
A simple set of ingredients of this treat into a festive dish transforms the original sauce and beautiful serving in layers. The composition of the dish is as follows:
- 300 g of boiled chicken fillet;
- 3 boiled eggs;
- 150 g of hard cheese;
- 170 g carrots;
- 140 g apples;
- 70 g onions;
- 1 raw yolk;
- 100 ml of olive oil;
- 20 ml lemon juice;
- 40 g sour cream;
- mustard, sugar and salt to taste.
Preparation:
- First you need to prepare the sauce. For him, beat the yolk together with mustard, sugar and salt. Then, continuing to beat in a thin stream, add vegetable oil. At the very end, add lemon juice and sour cream.
- Prepare the ingredients by chopping them: fillet and onion - into cubes, carrots, cheese, apples and eggs - coarsely grate.
- We form the dish, laying the layers in the following order: ½ chicken and onions, ½ carrots, an apple, ½ chicken with onions, eggs, ½ carrots, cheese. Spread each layer generously with sauce, decorate with herbs on top.
Salad with crab sticks and cream cheese
Crab stick treats are firmly established on the New Year's table, as is the traditional Olivier. Canned corn and fresh cucumber included in his classic recipe increase its value, but there is a more democratic version of such an appetizer that will simply enchant with its tenderness and taste.
Ingredient proportions:
- 150 g crab sticks;
- 100 g processed cheese;
- 2 eggs;
- 140 g sweet and sour apple;
- 100 g mayonnaise.
Progress:
- Send the processed cheese into the freezer for a quarter of an hour, so that later it will be easier to grind. Hard-boiled eggs and cool in cold water.
- Place a culinary ring on a serving dish and grate the processed cheese directly into it, distribute them evenly and coat with a mayonnaise mesh, which should also be between other layers. Next, also do with crab sticks.
- Peel and seed the apple, grate over crab sticks. Do this directly at the time of assembling the salad so that the fruit does not darken.
- The final layer should be boiled egg shavings. Decorate the appetizer with some chopped crab sticks, mayonnaise patterns and herbs. Carefully remove the ring before serving.
Korean carrot and bean treat
Many people love Korean carrots because of their interesting spicy taste and inexpensive cost. These two facts make it an excellent ingredient from which you can prepare inexpensive salads for the New Year.
List of required products:
- 150 g Korean carrots;
- 200 g canned beans;
- 100 g of Chinese cabbage;
- 50 g croutons;
- 60 g mayonnaise;
- 10 g dill;
- salt and spices to taste.
Priority of actions:
- Finely chop the cabbage into a bowl, add the carrots and beans to it, after having drained the liquid from it. Add finely chopped herbs and season the appetizer with mayonnaise.
- Last of all, add croutons and you can serve salad, decorating it with herbs. If you don't like the crunch of crackers, then you can wait a little, they will quickly soften.
You can also reduce the cost of a snack if you use not canned, but boiled beans yourself, replace Peking cabbage with white cabbage, knead it well, and make crackers from yesterday's bread.
Fresh New Year's salad with green onions and egg
Green onions are vitamin greens, which are completely easy to grow on your own on a windowsill, and then make a cool inexpensive salad from them, which will include:
- 3 eggs;
- 40 g green onions;
- sour cream or mayonnaise for dressing.
Cooking sequence:
- Rinse green onions under running water, dry and chop finely.
- Hard-boiled eggs, cool, peel and chop. This can be done by grating them on a coarse grater or cutting them into small cubes.
- Mix onions, eggs and sour cream (or mayonnaise).
Depending on the budget that the hostess has for preparing the New Year's table, the composition can be supplemented with fresh cucumber, boiled squid rings, processed cheese or canned corn.
Unusual appetizer with fried mushrooms and ham
This New Year's salad has a simple set of ingredients, but an unconventional way of preparing mushrooms makes it festive and original.
The snack includes:
- 300 g ham;
- 250 g of small mushrooms;
- 150 g of hard cheese;
- 2 eggs;
- vegetable oil, mayonnaise and dill.
Cooking steps:
- Rinse the mushrooms, dry with a napkin. Large specimens can be cut in half and then fried in a large amount of vegetable oil until a delicious golden brown. Catch the fried mushrooms with a slotted spoon and spread on paper napkins.
- While the fried mushrooms are cooling, grind the ham, cheese and hard-boiled eggs into cubes. Put the prepared ingredients in a bowl of suitable capacity, season with mayonnaise and mix.
- Finely chop the greens, and then you can add it directly to the appetizer itself, or simply sprinkle it on top of the treat.
"Omelette tape" with sausage
Simple food combinations tend to be the safest. So, choosing different varieties of sausages for the "Omelette Ribbon", you can get a different salad each time for the New Year.
For cooking you will need:
- 300 g sausage;
- 160 g of onions;
- 6 eggs;
- salt, spices, mayonnaise.
We cook as follows:
- Beat the eggs with a whisk and fry thin egg pancakes from the resulting mass. Chop the sausage and pancakes into thin strips.
- Dice the onion and sauté in a pan until soft and lightly gilded.
- Lettuce ingredients, mix, season with mayonnaise. Put the finished treat in a slide on a dish. Simple vegetable decorations will make the appetizer even more appetizing.
Beetroot salad with prunes and cheese
Beets are a root vegetable, the price of which practically does not change throughout the year, and due to the fact that it goes well with many products (apples, raisins, cucumbers, garlic, eggs and others), the most inexpensive dishes are prepared from it.
So, New Year 2022 can be met with a snack made from:
- 300 g of boiled beets;
- 15 pcs. prunes;
- 50 g sunflower seeds;
- 50 g of fine shavings from hard cheese;
- vegetable oil.
Cooking method:
- Grate beets on a coarse grater. Calcine the seeds in a dry frying pan. Chop the prunes into thin strips, steaming them in boiling water for 10 minutes, if the plums are too hard.
- Mix all prepared ingredients, season with vegetable oil, you can add salt to taste. Sprinkle with cheese shavings on top before serving.
Summing up all of the above, it is worth noting that vegetables (pickled and long-term storage), croutons from stale bread, thin egg pancakes, affordable salted herring and affordable meat products (sausage, chicken breast) - these are the products from which you can prepare inexpensive salads, both for everyday and festive menus. By combining with dressings and combining these ingredients, as the cook's intuition suggests, you can create new dishes every day.
