Festive Layered Salad: Ideas For The New Year's Eve Menu

2023 Author: Lynn Laird | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-08-25 09:49

Gone is New Year's Eve, where you enjoyed toast covered with smoked salmon or foie gras as a starter! For once, think outside the box with a festive layered salad that colors the plate and cracks in your mouth! Whether you are traditional or a little arty, with our selection of varied salads for Christmas and New Year, you are sure to find your taste happiness. Simple or chef level recipes, there is something for all tastes and all skills.

New Year's Starter 2020: festive layered salad in 6 original recipes

Fancy a fresh and light starter to start your end-of-year meals off right? Instead of telling you about salads, you will instead be taught to prepare a few for Christmas and New Year. No need to watch your figure to dream of lightness with a hearty dish. Because who says festive menu, also says flavors and pleasures. Fresh, tasty and colorful, the salads below will be crunched as you wish before the stuffed Christmas turkey or New Year's capon arrive. Varied and easy to make, welcome to the world of festive layered salads!

For a Russian New Year, we dare the "Seledka pod Chuboy"

Ingredients for 6 people:

• carrot
• 1 onion
• 1 jar of mayonnaise
• 2 cooked eggs
• 2 cooked carrots
• 1/2 marinated herring
• 2 cooked potatoes
• 1 cooked beet

Preparation:

Start by grating the beetroot, apples, carrots and hard-boiled eggs. Then cut the herring and onion into small pieces. Place the potatoes at the bottom of a salad bowl and cover them with a layer of mayonnaise. Add the herring, onion, a second layer of mayo, eggs, carrots and a new layer of mayo. Finally, put the beetroot and the rest of the mayonnaise. If you're not too keen on herring, replace it with smoked salmon. This salad can be served both in a salad bowl and on separate plates using a round ring.

Quick and easy 7-layer salad

Ingredients for 6 servings:

• 1 lettuce, chopped
• cherry tomatoes cut in half
• 200 g peas
• 200 g of grated mimolette
• 200 g of broccoli
• 230 g mayo
• 100-150 g cooked bacon
• 1 pinch of salt
• 1 pinch of sugar
• pepper (optional)

Preparation:

To make it even more delicious, prepare your layered salad the night before. Then put the indicated ingredients in successive layers in the order given above in a transparent glass bowl. Season, sprinkle with grated cheese and cover with cling film, then put in the fridge. Serve as a starter for lunch or dinner. To enhance your salad, consider adding a layer of cooked pasta. The taste will be just as good!

Layered mini salad: crab, avocado and mango

To give a touch of exoticism to the festive table, our next mini-version layered salad recipe is yours!

Ingredients for 4 small portions:

• 2 tbsp. grated ginger
• 1 C. tablespoon of sugar
• 6 c. lemon juice
• 1 C. chopped garlic
• 1/4 cup water
• 1 cup of pea shoots
• 1 cup finely chopped tomatoes
• 1 cup finely chopped cucumber
• 1 cup finely chopped red onion
• 1 cup mango, diced
• 1 cup avocado, diced
• 1 cup of crab

Preparation:

Start by preparing the vinaigrette by mixing the grated ginger, sugar, lemon juice, garlic and water. Step by step, assemble your small layered salads using a round ring and following the order shown in our image. Gently remove the ring and drizzle with dressing before serving. Here ! A simple layered festive salad that will wow your guests on the evening of December 31!

Layered festive "Mimosa" salad with tuna - another Russian starter recipe to spice up

To bring some diversity to the Christmas menu this year, we take another layered salad from the festive Russian table.

Ingredients:

• 1 onion
• 50 ml of apple cider vinegar
• 50 ml of water
• 4 hard-boiled eggs
• 3-4 cooked potatoes
• 1 tin of tuna
• 3 cooked carrots
• 100 g light mayonnaise
• 1 pinch of sugar
• salt and pepper
• parsley (optional)
• cloves (optional)
• coriander seeds (optional)
• blackberries (optional)
• round ring 20 mm in diameter (or more)

Preparation:

Peel and chop the onion. In a small bowl, combine the vinegar, a little sugar and pepper, the coriander seeds and the cloves. Add the chopped onion and let it marinate for at least 15 minutes. Open the can and drain the tuna. Assemble your layered salad in a large transparent bowl or in a large plate using a round ring. In the first layer, put the drained tuna. Next, lay the cooked and mashed potatoes, followed by a layer of mayonnaise. Spread the pickled onions over the potatoes, then cover with a new layer of mayo.

Take the eggs and separate the yolks from the whites. Grate the whites and spread them over the potatoes and mayo. Grate the cooked carrots and add them to the round ring. Do the same with the egg yolks. These are indeed the last layer of your salad. Finally, gently remove the round ring and decorate according to your taste. Parsley branches, dill sprigs, basil leaves, small green olives, cherry or ripe tomatoes, you are spoiled for choice! Before serving, let the salad cool for a few hours.

Layered fruit salad to finish the festive meal on a fresh note

Pies, logs, cakes, cookies, truffles, candied chestnuts, this is what we are all used to seeing on the table during the holiday season. And although no one can resist these delicacies, sometimes we want to end the Christmas or New Year's meal on a lighter note. To change from the traditional overly chocolatey Yule log, why not opt for the fruit salad? So, swap the mayo and vegetables for layers of fresh fruit garnished with crushed cookies and Philadelphia cream and voila! A salad that is beautiful to the eye and good to taste!

Ingredients:

• 2 cups of red fruits (strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, blueberries)
• ½ cup of crushed cookies (almond or meringue flavor)
• 2 bananas
• 2 cups of seedless green grapes
• 250 g of Philadelphia
• 1/4 cup sugar
• Orange zest
• Orange juice
• 2 cups of whipped topping

Preparation:

In a large transparent bowl, spread the small red fruits, then cover them with crushed cookies, bananas and green grapes. Then beat the cream cheese, zest, sugar and orange juice. Gently add the whipped topping and beat the mixture for a few more minutes or until fairly well blended. Finally, pour the cream over the fruit and leave your salad in the fridge for 4-5 hours.

Sweet and savory layered salad

An appetizer idea to prepare for Christmas as well as for the evening of December 31, this layered salad is sure to delight lovers of sweet and savory!

Ingredients:

• 3 cups of cooked pasta
• 1 ¼ cups of mayonnaise
• ¼ cup sour cream
• 1 C. tablespoon of sugar
• 2/3 cup parmesan
• 3 green apples, diced
• juice and zest of 1 lemon
• 2 cups of diced strawberries
• 4 cups chopped romaine lettuce
• 2 cups of peas
• 1 ½ cup diced bacon
• 4 hard-boiled eggs
• ½ cup green onion

Preparation:

Spread the cooked pasta evenly on the bottom of a transparent glass bowl. In a bowl, combine the mayonnaise, sour cream, sugar, Parmesan and lemon juice. Pour the resulting sauce over the pasta. Add the green apples, previously garnished with lemon juice, the strawberries, the chopped lettuce, the peas and the bacon. Finish by adding the hard-boiled eggs and green onion. Season and send to the fridge.