The most important thing in the New Year's holiday is preparation for it. The hostesses want to surprise the guests with unusual New Year's dishes or at least an unconventional presentation of a traditional treat.
We offer recipes with photos salads for New Year 2025. They are easy to prepare and won't make you spend hours in the kitchen, so they are perfect for holiday menu.
1. Mushroom glade
Any pickled or salted mushrooms will do for the dish, but small mushrooms will look better. The caps on top look spectacular. This is how to decorate a salad for the New Year 2025.
Ingredients for 4 servings:
- pickled champignons or honey mushrooms – 150 grams;
- Parmesan cheese or similar – 60 grams;
- ham – 90 g;
- 2 eggs;
- potatoes and carrots – 110 grams each;
- green onions, parsley, dill – 50 grams;
- mayonnaise for dressing – 180 grams.
Boil carrots and potatoes, peel. Cut vegetables and ham into cubes, grate cheese. Chop greens and mix.
The process of decorating the treat is interesting. To lay out the layers, you will need a dish of the appropriate size and shape: round, oval or rectangular. Place the mushrooms caps down on the bottom. If the caps are large, you will have to cut them into 3-4 pieces.
Cover the champignons with greens, lightly tamp so that the dill and parsley fill the spaces between the mushrooms. Apply a mayonnaise net on top. Do the same with the egg, cheese, ham, carrots, potatoes, not forgetting the mayonnaise.
The peculiar cake is left for half an hour to an hour to soak. Before serving, it is turned over onto a flat plate. So that guests do not have to guess how to put a portion, the salad is cut into pieces and a cake spatula is used instead of a spoon.
2. Rainbow
Compound:
- boiled carrots and potatoes – 100 grams each;
- boiled eggs – 2;
- pickled or fresh cucumber;
- meat – 200-250 grams;
- green peas and canned corn - 3 tablespoons each;
- mayonnaise – 3 spoons;
- greens and boiled egg for decoration.
The meat is cut into pieces, fried on both sides for a couple of minutes at medium temperature. Pour a glass of boiling water and simmer for 20-30 minutes. It is not recommended to add cold water to the half-cooked meat in order to keep the meat juices inside the pieces.
Vegetables and eggs are cut into small cubes, mixed together with chilled meat and mayonnaise. The finished salad is easy to form. To do this, the contents are tightly packed into a bowl, kept for an hour in the refrigerator, and then turned over onto a flat dish.
If you use fresh cucumber for cooking, it is recommended to season the dish with mayonnaise before serving. Cucumber in mayonnaise starts to taste bitter after a few hours. As a way to decorate salads for the New Year 2025, you can use an egg, depicting a head or a figure with it.
3. Early ripening
For 1 serving you will need:
- stewed meat – 200 g;
- canned beans - half a can;
- clove of garlic;
- rye bread with cereals - a couple of pieces;
- olive oil – 2-3 tsp.
The meat and bread are cut into square or rectangular pieces. The ingredients are placed in a salad bowl along with the beans. The garlic is squeezed through a garlic press and mixed with oil. The mixture is seasoned with the dressing, after which it is left for half an hour to soak.
4. Fir cones
The recipe has won the sympathy of housewives due to the combination of excellent taste and satiety. The appearance is quite consistent with the style of decorating New Year's salads 2025, and will also suit any festive table.
Ingredients for 3 servings:
- bulb;
- eggs – 3 pcs;
- cheese – 160 grams;
- canned cucumbers - a couple of pieces;
- chicken meat – 180 g;
- potatoes – 300 g;
- almonds – 150 g;
- dill for decoration – 2-4 sprigs;
- mayonnaise – 180 gr.
Boil eggs, meat, and potatoes until done. Grate cheese, cut other ingredients into small cubes. Divide potatoes into the number of cones and lay each one out in the shape of an elongated oval. Then follow layers of chicken, onions, cucumbers, and eggs.
After each product, apply a little mayonnaise. The final layer of cheese is also greased. Use a spoon to give the desired shape, then apply the almonds. The nuts can be placed flat or pressed in slightly at an angle. The final touch is dill greens to resemble fir branches.
5. Salad with red fish
Any red fish will do for cooking. The difference in fat content and juiciness of fish varieties among other products becomes almost unnoticeable. Even the dryness of pink salmon can be compensated by adding seasoning.
Ingredients for 3 servings:
- lightly salted red fish – 150 g;
- small tomatoes – 100 g;
- arugula – bunch 30-40 g;
- avocado – 1;
- a pinch of salt, you can add pepper.
The dressing is mixed from the juice of half a lemon, a tablespoon of honey and two tablespoons of olive oil.
Vegetables are washed, dried with a napkin, cut. Tomatoes are divided into halves. If there are no cherry tomatoes, large ones are cut into long slices. Avocado and fish are cut in the same way. Products are placed in a salad bowl, mixed with arugula greens, and before serving, poured with dressing.
6. Salad with chicken breast
Compound:
- smoked or boiled chicken breast – 150-200 g;
- 2 eggs;
- canned cucumbers – 3 pcs;
- champignons or other mushrooms – 150 grams;
- potatoes – 250 grams;
- carrots – 100 grams;
- bulb;
- mayonnaise sauce – 180 g;
- vegetable oil for frying – 2 tsp.
Chicken meat is boiled or baked in the oven. To prevent the breast from drying out, it is wrapped in foil. Vegetables and eggs are boiled, peeled, and chopped with a grater. Mushrooms are cut and fried until done. You can cook in layers or simply mix the chopped ingredients.
It is pleasant not only to decorate salads for the New Year 2025 with your own hands, but also to surprise guests with unique recipes for dishes.
7. Salmon Mimosa
Products:
- can of canned salmon;
- eggs – 3 pcs;
- head of onion;
- cheese – 180 grams;
- mayonnaise – 3 tbsp.
The fish is mashed with a fork. Hard-boiled eggs are separated into whites and yolks, after which the whites are grated. The onion is cut into small pieces, the cheese is grated on a coarse grater. The slices are laid out in layers.
First, outline the base from half of the grated egg whites. Put salmon, onion, and half of the mayonnaise on top. Next comes a layer of cheese, then yolk. Grease the surface with mayonnaise and cover with the remaining egg white. To make the dragon more elegant, you can swap the egg white and yolk.
It is desirable to decorate the New Year's salad, but it is not necessary to make it from the same products as the dish. You can make ears from cheese or carrots, and on the muzzle, mark the eyes and nose with olives or allspice peas.
8. Herring under a fur coat
An old-timer of the New Year's table can also become a dragon-shaped salad for the New Year 2025. It is flexible and reliably retains its shape after cooling.
What you need to prepare:
- lightly salted herring fillet – 300 g;
- boiled beets, potatoes, carrots - 400-500 g each;
- eggs – 4 pieces;
- bulb;
- mayonnaise – 250 g, divided into 3 parts.
The herring fillet is cut into pieces. If there is no ready-made fillet, the fish is carefully cleaned of skin and bones and then chopped. The vegetables are boiled until soft, peeled and chopped on a coarse grater. The onion is chopped with a knife.
The first layer in the salad bowl is potatoes. Grease it with mayonnaise and cover with fish. The next layers in order will be onions, egg white. Another portion of mayonnaise, then carrots and the final layer of beets. Cover the surface with mayonnaise, sprinkle with yolk.
9. Olivier with salmon
Red fish instead of sausage radically changes the taste of a familiar salad. A familiar appetizer becomes an exquisite dish.
Products:
- lightly salted salmon – 200 g;
- potatoes – 160 g;
- eggs - a couple of pieces;
- green peas – 160 g;
- carrot – 1 pc;
- parsley - a couple of sprigs, optional;
- fresh cucumber – 100 g;
- mayonnaise – 70-100 g.
The fish is cleaned of skin and bones. The boiled carrots, potatoes, and eggs are peeled and cut into cubes of approximately the same size. The ingredients are put into a salad bowl. The chopped cucumber and green peas are also sent there.
Mix with mayonnaise. Now the Olivier salad can be decorated and served on the festive table.
10. New Crab
Products:
- boiled rice – 100 g;
- canned corn – 300 g;
- crab sticks 200 g;
- boiled eggs – 4 pcs;
- fresh cucumbers – 2 pcs;
- mayonnaise – 3-4 tbsp.
For cooking, take hard rice, for example, for pilaf. It does not boil over and does not turn into porridge. Canned corn is first placed in a colander to remove all the liquid. The more brine remains, the worse the dragon will hold its shape.
The products are finely chopped. Corn is added. Carefully mixed with mayonnaise and placed on a plate. The resulting figure is covered with rice on top. Eyes and a nose are made from corn. Long ears are cut out of cucumbers.
Classics always remain in demand. These salads are prepared from available products and, although many are skeptical about them, they usually do not linger on the table. Without changing the recipe, you can update the appearance of the dish. How to decorate salads for the New Year 2025, your imagination and the arsenal of remaining products will tell you.
11. New Olivier
You will need:
- bulb;
- pickled cucumber – 4 pcs;
- boiled potatoes – 3 pcs;
- hard-boiled eggs – 3 pcs and 1 for decoration;
- green peas - a can or 150 g frozen;
- boiled sausage – 250-300 grams;
- mayonnaise – 3 spoons;
- olives for decoration.
All vegetables and sausage are cut into cubes, and onions into half rings. Frozen peas are boiled for about 5 minutes. The ingredients are seasoned with mayonnaise and sent to a salad bowl.
12. Vegetable salad with shrimps
A light, refreshing salad will reduce the calorie content of the New Year's table. In addition, it is prepared very quickly. You only need to boil the shrimp.
Ingredients for 4 servings:
- boiled shrimp – 180 grams;
- avocado - half;
- tomato – 60 grams;
- onion/red – 1 pc;
- bell pepper – half;
- lettuce leaves – 30 grams;
- lemon juice – 3 tsp;
- a pinch of salt and black pepper to taste;
- sunflower or olive oil – 30-40 grams.
Shrimps are cleaned after boiling, so you need to take more fresh ones than usual. A few raw ones can be left for decoration. Small shrimps are boiled for 2-3 minutes, tiger shrimps - twice as long.
Vegetables are cut into strips or pieces. In a deep dish, combine the ingredients, salt, pepper, pour lemon juice and olive oil. Serve to guests immediately after dressing. If the treat is prepared in advance, it is better to postpone adding salt and dressing.
13. Winter summer
Ingredients:
- boiled meat – 250 grams;
- small cucumber – a couple of pieces;
- tomatoes 3 or 4 pcs depending on size;
- purple onion – 1;
- green leaves of arugula, basil, lettuce;
- for dressing – 4 tsp olive/sunflower oil, pepper, salt and Provencal herbs to taste.
Tomatoes are cut into slices, meat into squares or strips, cucumbers and onions into rings. Vegetables are poured with dressing, carefully mixed, then washed and dried greens are added. Lettuce leaves can be used to line the bottom of the plate.
14. Olive-scaled kingsnake
Ingredients:
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Champignons – 600-700 gr.
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Chicken fillet – 700-800 gr.
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Carrots – 1-2 pcs.
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Sour cream – 3-4 tbsp.
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Mayonnaise – as needed.
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Greens: cilantro, parsley and dill.
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Sweet onion – 1.
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Vegetable oil, salt and spices – to taste.
Preparation
- Wash the mushrooms and chicken fillet, boil in a saucepan with water for 10 minutes.
- Cut the onion into half rings.
- Chop the greens.
- Grate the carrots and cut the mushrooms into small pieces.
- Grind the chicken meat.
- Pour vegetable oil into a frying pan and fry onions, meat and mushrooms over medium heat for 20 minutes.
- Remove from heat, add salt, spices, grated fresh carrots, herbs, sour cream and stir.
- Place the prepared mixture on a serving dish and form the salad into the shape of a snake.
- Grease the surface with mayonnaise, cut the olives into circles and form the Snake's scales.
- We cut out a crown and a snake's tongue from the carrot.
- Decorate the salad with herbs.
15. Drakosha salad for the Old New Year
In anticipation of the current holiday, dragon-shaped salads will be popular. You can make a face with long ears or form a figure of an animal sitting in a salad bowl.
The decorative material used is lettuce leaves, olives for the eyes and nose, or other ingredients of the dish. The white skin is imitated with grated cheese and an egg. If the salad does not have suitable products, fruits or vegetables are selected that harmonize with the taste of the dish.
The lying dragon is formed either from a ready-made salad or laid out on a platter of individual products., layer by layer. A tail, eyes, and nose are attached to the finished figure. Good ears are made from Chinese cabbage, but can be replaced with long slices of cheese.
No one forbids you to approach the matter creatively. You can mold the symbol of the year in bright red, green or color. Surely both children and adults will appreciate such a treat.
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