Ball-shaped salad for New Year's table

Salad recipe Christmas ball with photos illustrating the cooking process will help diversify the table setting and add a new element to the traditional menu. The dish is prepared from the available products available in the house of every housewife.

How to make a Christmas ball salad

Prepare a salad New Year's ball according to any selected recipe. You can make several small or one large symbol of the Christmas tree decoration by forming it on a salad bowl and decorating it as desired.

A set of products for preparing a cold festive snack is standard. The main rule when purchasing the necessary ingredients is good quality and their freshness. Meat of any kind is used, it is boiled in a broth with spices so that the taste is more pronounced.

The Christmas ball salad is not flaky, all the ingredients are mixed, then the mass is given the necessary shape, so the consistency should not be too liquid. It is corrected by adding portions of sauce.

Chicken Balls Salad Recipe

The composition of the New Year's ball snack includes the following products:

  • walnuts (peeled) - 100 g;
  • chicken breast - 1 pc.;
  • greens dill or parsley - 1 bunch;
  • garlic - 1 slice;
  • processed cheese "Creamy" - 1 pc .;
  • hard cheese - 150 g;
  • mayonnaise on quail eggs - 1 soft pack;
  • pepper and salt to taste;
  • grains from ¼ pomegranate.

Cooking technology:

  1. The chicken is boiled in broth with salt, bay leaves and allspice.
  2. Poultry meat cools in the liquid in which it was cooked, then it is taken out and all moisture is removed from the surface with a napkin.
  3. Cut the breast into small pieces.
  4. Walnut kernels are lightly dried in the oven or in a frying pan and grind with a blender until they become fine crumbs.
  5. Chips are obtained from hard cheese using a fine-mesh grater.
  6. The greens are chopped, a few stems are left for decoration.
  7. Cut the processed cheese into squares.
Important! All ingredients are processed in separate containers.

The salad is collected in the following order:

  • breast;
  • processed cheese;
  • nuts (slightly more than half);
  • cheese shavings (1/2 part);
  • the greens are poured into the salad, leaving a little for sprinkling;
  • garlic is squeezed into the total mass;
  • salt and pepper are used depending on gastronomic preferences;
  • add mayonnaise.

Stir the preparation of the New Year's ball salad until a homogeneous consistency, add sauce, if necessary, so that the mass is not dry, but not too liquid.

The structure of the workpiece must be viscous to keep its shape well

Roll up balls and roll each of them in the remaining products

White will turn out with cheese, green with dill, golden with nut crumbs and red with pomegranate.

From the left stalks of greenery, loops for the New Year's ball are made, placed on top.

 

If there are chips of cheese, add paprika or curry to it and make an orange snack

Salad Christmas ball with ham

A set of components for a salad New Year's ball:

  • cheese "Kostromskoy" - 150 g;
  • cream cheese "Hochland" - 5 triangles;
  • chopped ham - 200 g;
  • dry garlic, paprika, white and black sesame seeds - 2 tbsp. l .;
  • dill - ½ bunch;
  • mayonnaise - 2 tbsp. l.

A necessary set of seasonings of different colors for salad decoration

Cooking cold appetizer New Year's ball:

  1. Hard cheese is processed into shavings using a fine grater.
  2. The ham is molded into cubes and added to the cheese shavings.

    They try to cut the meat as small as possible.

  3. Processed cheese, mayonnaise and garlic are placed in the total mass, mix well.
  4. Roll up the ball
  5. iki and roll them in herbs and spices (each separately).

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Sesame seeds can be mixed or used separately, then the appetizer will turn out to be white and black.

Attention! If you like the spicy taste, you can add red ground hot pepper to the paprika.

Attention! From onion twigs, you can make an imitation of a loop, like on a Christmas tree toy.

Christmas balls salad with red caviar

The Christmas ball salad consists of the following components:

  • red caviar, dill greens - for decoration.
  • large eggs - 5 pcs.;
  • salt to taste;
  • mayonnaise "Provencal" - 2 tbsp. l .;
  • potatoes - 3 pcs.;
  • pickled cucumber - ½ pc.;
  • cream cheese "Hochland" –3 triangles;
  • garlic - 1 tsp;
  • crab sticks - 100 g.

Christmas ball salad recipe:

  1. Before starting work, the processed cheese is slightly frozen in the freezer to make it easier to process into small chips.
  2. Eggs are hard boiled, boiled for about 15 minutes, then immediately immersed in cold water for 10 minutes. Remove the shell. Grind with a grater.
  3. Defrost crab sticks, remove the protective film. Cut into small pieces.
  4. Boil the potatoes, then peel them off, chop them.

  5. Boil the potatoes, then peel them off, chop them.

In a wide bowl, combine all the blanks, taste for salt, adjust the taste, pour garlic and add mayonnaise. At this stage, during the mixing process, a viscous mass should be obtained. If there is not enough sauce, the workpiece will be too dry. Mayonnaise is introduced in small portions. Then the mass is molded, rolled in dill and decorated with red caviar. You can make one New Year's ball in the same way.

Ball-shaped salad with smoked sausage

In the process of preparing for the New Year's holiday, there are always unused products that can become a decoration for the New Year's salad. You can decorate a snack with the following ingredients:

  • boiled carrots;
  • olives;
  • corn;
  • green peas;
  • bell peppers or pomegranate seeds.

Contents of the Christmas ball snack:

  • processed cheese "Orbita" (creamy) - 1 pc .;
  • mayonnaise - 2 tbsp. l .;
  • egg - 2 pcs.;
  • sour cream - 2 tablespoons;
  • dill - 1 bunch;
  • smoked sausage - 150 g:
  • salt to taste;
  • allspice - ¼ tsp

Step-by-step technology for preparing New Year's ball salad:

  1. Processed cheese is preliminarily kept in the freezer until solid.
  2. Rubbed on a grater.
  3. The sausage is formed into small cubes.
  4. Dill is chopped, a twig is left to imitate a Christmas tree.
  5. Hard-boiled eggs are divided, the yolk is rubbed with hands, the protein is crushed.
  6. Combine all components, add pepper and salt to taste.
  7. Mayonnaise with sour cream is added to the total mass, mixed.

Form the dish and arrange it.

Ideas for decorating a Christmas ball salad

In this type of New Year's snack, the content is not so important, the main emphasis is on the design. To decorate an impromptu Christmas tree toys, products are used:

  • green pea;
  • spices of different colors curry, paprika, sesame;
  • chopped walnuts;
  • greens;
  • olives;
  • corn;
  • grenades.

Grated boiled carrots, brightly colored beets, red caviar are also suitable for creating elements on a salad in the style of a Christmas tree decoration. The main condition is that the products must be combined to taste.

A rain tied around a salad dish will help to create an imitation of a Christmas tree toy.

The basis for the pomegranate pattern is grated processed cheese

The central design element is the red pepper detail

The part for attaching the loop can be made of olive or pitted olives, having previously cut it into 2 parts, Carrot elements can be replaced with pineapple of a similar shape

To decorate the central part, olives cut into rings are suitable.

Conclusion

Salad recipe A Christmas ball with a photo of the finished product will help create an image of festive symbols, as well as make a delicious snack.The set of ingredients is varied, there are no strict dosage restrictions, so you can choose a recipe for every taste. The shape is also chosen at will: in the form of one large Christmas tree decoration or several pieces with different colors. The dish can be decorated with dill sprigs imitating spruce branches. The arrows of the bow are suitable for making a loop.

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