19.12.2015

The snowman is one of the favorite winter heroes and culinary “plots” when it comes to the festive decoration of snacks and salads. And all because it is very simple to decorate this or that holiday dish in the form of this wonderful creature. For several years now, culinary specialists have been preparing salads and snacks in the form of snowmen for the New Year's feast: large and small, in different hats (from cucumber, carrots, dark bread, etc.), in savory and sweet variations. Choose your version depending on the circumstances or change the ingredients according to your preferences.
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Recipe 1. New Year's salad "Snowman" ( with chicken, egg, potatoes and cucumber)

We invite you to prepare a layered holiday salad in the shape of a “snowman”. This will be a wonderful salad presentation for the New Year.

Ingredients:

✵ chicken fillet (breast) - 400 g;
✵ chicken eggs - 3 pcs.;
✵ potatoes ‒ 2 pcs.;
✵ fresh cucumbers - 2 pcs.;
✵ mayonnaise ‒ 150 g.
For decoration :
✵ crab sticks;
✵ carrots;
✵ olives or black pepper (peas).

Preparation

1. Rinse the chicken breast and boil until cooked. Once cooled, cut into small cubes.
2. Boil the potatoes in their jackets, cool and also cut into cubes.
3. Hard boil the eggs, cool in cold water and peel.
4. Carefully separate the whites from the yolks. You won't need the yolks, just grate the whites.
5. Peel the cucumbers and cut into small strips.
6. Place the salad on a large flat dish in the shape of a snowman in layers: chicken breast, cucumbers, potatoes. Coat each layer with mayonnaise. Top with a layer of grated egg white.
7. Make a hat, buttons and mouth from crab sticks, a nose from a piece of carrot, eyes from olives or black peppercorns.

Have a nice feast and good mood!

Recipe 2. Olaf the Snowman Salad ( with chicken, egg, potatoes, carrots, cucumber and onion)

On New Year's holidays, you want the food to be not only beautiful and tasty, but also original. Serving the salad in the shape of the good-natured snowman Olaf (the hero of the Disney cartoon "Frozen") is what you need! Children will especially enjoy this treat - they will be delighted with the edible cartoon snowman!

Ingredients:

✵ chicken fillet (breast) - 200 g;
✵ egg yolks - 4 pcs.;
✵ potatoes ‒ 2 pcs.;
✵ carrots (small) - 1 pc.;
✵ cucumbers (fresh) - 2 pcs.;
✵ onions ‒ ½ pcs.;
✵ mayonnaise - to taste;
✵ salt, pepper - to taste.
For decoration:
✵ egg whites - 4 pcs.;
✵ olives (pitted) - 10 pcs.

Preparation

1. Boil the chicken breast in salted water until tender, cool and cut into small pieces.
2. Hard-boil the eggs, cool, peel, separate the yolks from the whites and grate individually on a fine grater.


3. Boil potatoes and carrots in their skins, cool and peel. Cut the potatoes into small cubes. Leave a sharp piece of carrot for the “snowman’s nose”, and the rest of the carrots can also be cut into small cubes and added to the salad.
4. Wash the cucumbers and cut into small cubes.
5. Chop the onion and pour boiling water over it so that you don’t feel the bitterness.


6. Place all prepared ingredients (chicken, potatoes, carrots, egg yolk, cucumber, onion) in a deep salad bowl. Pepper, salt, season with mayonnaise and mix thoroughly.
7. Place a tablespoon of salad onto a flat serving plate, forming the silhouette of a snowman. Coat the surface with mayonnaise and sprinkle with egg white.


8. Use olives to make the eyes, eyebrows, mouth, hands and buttons of a snowman (as in the photo). Make a nose from a sharp piece of carrot.

Bon appetit and new culinary discoveries!

Recipe 3. Olaf salad ( with cod liver, egg, potatoes, leeks and green peas)

We bring to your attention another version of the salad, which is decorated to resemble the snowman Olaf (the hero of the Disney cartoon "Frozen"). It turns out to be a very beautiful and at the same time satisfying and tasty dish. This salad can even be prepared for a family New Year’s table, because all the events in the cartoon take place in winter. It is advisable to decorate the dish immediately before serving so that the layer of egg white decoration does not wear off. You can easily customize the recipe for this salad to suit yourself by choosing your favorite or familiar products.

Ingredients:

✵ cod liver (canned) - 2 jars;
✵ chicken eggs - 4 pcs.;
✵ egg yolk - 4 pcs.;
✵ potatoes ‒ 2 pcs.;
✵ leek (stem) ‒ 1 pc. (can be replaced with onions);
✵ green peas (canned) - 4 tbsp. spoons;
✵ lemon juice - 1-2 teaspoons;
✵ mayonnaise ‒ 150 g;
✵ black pepper (ground) - to taste;
✵ salt - to taste.
For decoration:
✵ egg white - 4 pcs.;
✵ olives (pitted) - 10-15 pcs.;
✵ Baby carrots (4-5 cm) – 1 pc.;
✵ nori (pressed seaweed for sushi) ‒ ½ leaf.

Preparation

1. Remove the cod liver from the oil (you won't need it) and finely chop or mash with a fork.
2. Hard boil the eggs, cool and peel. Set aside the whites of 4 eggs for decoration, chop the rest (4 whole eggs and 4 yolks) and add to the salad.
3. Boil the potatoes in their jackets, cool and cut into small cubes.


4. Wash the leek and chop finely. Important nuance! Leeks can accumulate dirt between the leaves, which are tightly attached to the stem. Therefore, it needs to be washed in a cut form: cut the upper part of the stem lengthwise (not all the way) into 4 parts so that streams of water can penetrate between the layers and drive away sand and dirt.


5. In a deep salad bowl, combine all the chopped ingredients (potatoes, eggs, leeks), add green peas, salt and ground black pepper to taste, freshly squeezed lemon juice, mayonnaise and mix it all thoroughly.


6. You can prepare a template for Olaf’s head in advance (draw it from memory or print the picture on A4 sheet and cut it along the contour with scissors).
7. Choose a suitable large flat dish (preferably dark in color so as not to blend in with the salad) and place the template in the center. Make a cornet from parchment paper, put 1 tbsp in it. spoon of mayonnaise and trace the template along the contour so that Olaf's mayonnaise sketch remains on the plate.
8. Without going beyond the boundaries of the stencil sketch, lay out the salad in parts with a tablespoon.
9. Level the surface of the salad with your hands, giving Olaf's head a more regular shape, and generously coat with the remaining mayonnaise.


10. Grate the egg whites, set aside for decoration, on a fine grater.
11. Drain the olives in a colander, dry lightly with a napkin and chop very finely.


12. Looking at the black and white picture, place grated egg white and chopped olives on top of the mayonnaise layer. Using cutlery, make the necessary bulges and depressions to make the salad textured and voluminous. Using a toothpick and a knife, draw contours along which you can then lay out the eyebrows, eyes and mouth, make a nose from a mini-carrot, and cut out hairs for the forelock from pressed seaweed.

Bon appetit and new culinary masterpieces!

Recipe 4. Layered salad “Jolly Snowman” ( with chicken, mushrooms, egg, potatoes and cucumber)

Ingredients

For the salad:
✵ chicken fillet (breast) - 450 g;
✵ pickled mushrooms (champignons) - 250 g;
✵ chicken eggs - 4 pcs.;
✵ potatoes (medium size) - 3 pcs.;
✵ pickled cucumbers (small size) - 3 pcs.;
✵ mayonnaise ‒ 250 g;
✵ salt - to taste.
For registration:
✵ carrots (medium size) - 1 pc.;
✵ olives (pitted) - 3 pcs.

Preparation

1. Boil the chicken breast in salted water until tender (30 minutes from the moment of boiling), cool, cut into small pieces or disassemble into fibers.


2. Wash the potato tubers, boil them in their jackets, cool, peel and cut into small cubes.
3. Thinly slice the pickled cucumbers.

On a frosty New Year's Eve, you can build a snowman not only on the street, but also at home. In addition, making this is not just fun, but also incredibly tasty: the New Year’s “Snowman” salad will become one of the main decorations of the holiday table. Available ingredients are used to prepare the dish, and if you use your imagination, you can decorate it to your taste. There is no doubt that with the “Snowman” salad the festive feast will be a success.

Cooking time – 40 minutes.

Number of servings – 4.

Ingredients

To prepare a delicious holiday salad “Snowman”, you will need the following ingredients:

• chicken fillet – 450 g;
• potatoes – 3 pcs.;
• chicken eggs – 4 pcs.;
• pickled chopped mushrooms (preferably champignons) – 250 g;
• pickled cucumbers – 4 pcs.;
• mayonnaise – 300 g;
• carrots, olives for decoration.

On a note! When making the New Year's salad "Snowman", you do not have to deviate from established traditions. For its preparation, almost the same products are used as for Olivier, which has invariably decorated tables for the New Year for many years.

Step-by-step recipe for making Snowman salad

The process of preparing the delicious New Year's salad “Snowman” consists of the following sequence of actions:

1. Boil chicken fillet in salted water.

1. Cool and chop into cubes.

1. Boil the potatoes in their skins. When it cools down a little, peel and cut into cubes.

1. Boil the eggs too. You can do this together with potatoes. Then cool, remove the shells, separate the whites from the yolks and grate separately using a fine grater.

1. Grind the pickled cucumbers.

1. Lay out the Snowman salad in layers, each covered with mayonnaise. You need to put it on a round dish or in a salad bowl, giving it the shape of a snowman's head. The first layer is potatoes.

1. The next layer is half a chicken fillet.

1. Next - mushrooms.

1. Sprinkle grated yolks on top. Then - cucumbers.

1. The last layer is the remaining half of the chicken fillet. Then the “Snowman” salad needs to be generously greased with mayonnaise on all sides. The entire surface should be sprinkled with chopped egg whites. The result will be a white snowman head that needs to be decorated. From boiled carrots you need to cut out the nose, cheeks, mouth, and make a forelock. Place olives in place of the eyes, and cut out eyelashes from them.

The result is an interesting snowman that will lift your spirits and create a festive atmosphere.

Video: how to prepare New Year's salad “Snowman”

It’s not difficult to prepare the New Year’s “Snowman” salad, especially if you watch the suggested videos.

The snowman is one of the most beloved winter characters, whom we often associate not only with winter and snow, but also with New Year's celebrations. Each of us probably remembers at least one fairy tale or cartoon where a snowman helps Father Frost or Santa Claus. Therefore, it is quite logical to decorate some festive dishes for the New Year's table in the form of snowmen or decorate them with appropriate figures.

A culinary snowman, unlike a real snowman, does not have to be made up of three parts - you can easily get by with two: the head and the body. This design will be more compact and stable, especially when it comes to desserts and snacks and you need a vertical figure.

A vertical snowman can be built from eggs, fastened with skewers, or from balls made from various snack or dessert mixtures. An important condition is that the mass must be viscous and thick in order to keep its shape well.

It is better to grate products for snack mass or pass them through a meat grinder rather than cutting them. When dressing, it is advisable to add not only mayonnaise or butter to the mass, but also soft cheese - it will give the mass the desired viscosity.

You can roll the balls in coconut flakes, finely grated protein or grated hard cheese. The ideal option, of course, is protein - since the cheese has a yellowish tint, and not everyone likes coconut flakes.

To decorate the snowman, you can use different vegetables, cutting out the necessary parts from them, black peppercorns, clove buds, nuts, prunes, olives, sprigs of dill and parsley. You can also make scarves for snowmen from green onion feathers, unwrapped crab sticks, and thinly sliced ​​cheese.

A dessert snowman can be created from curd mass, coconut candy mass, or potato cake mass if you cook it with condensed milk and add cream cheese.

Coconut shavings, powdered sugar or white confectionery sprinkles are also suitable for deboning. In some cases, you can use melted white chocolate or icing sugar.

You can decorate the dessert snowman with dried fruits (prunes, dried apricots), nuts, candied fruits, small confectionery and sprinkles. Some details and hats can be cut out from marmalade or marshmallows.

Try not to hold the balls together with skewers or toothpicks, as many recipes advise. Guests (especially children) may not immediately notice an inedible element in a soft appetizer or dessert, which will lead to unpleasant consequences. If you use a mount, then choose decorative skewers that will be visible to guests and will not spoil the design of your dish.

In order for the snowman figurine to be stable, make the bottom ball flat on one side, and on the other side press the mass a little inward to form a recess. When you install the top ball, its bulge will be in this notch and the ball will not fall.

Before assembling the figures, keep the dessert and snack balls in the refrigerator so that the mass hardens and does not float. Some recipes advise freezing the balls, but here you need to take into account the composition of the products - whether freezing will spoil the taste and how the dish will behave when it begins to thaw before serving.

When assembling a snowman, you can glue the balls together with soft cheese (both appetizer and dessert), softened butter, melted chocolate or jam (desserts). Once assembled, place the dish back in the refrigerator to harden.

When choosing ingredients for appetizers and desserts, make sure that the ingredients go well with the dish and do not spoil or interrupt its taste. This point is often overlooked when focusing on the beauty of the design.

Black peppercorns and other similar ingredients can be replaced with small pieces of vegetables - they, of course, are very convenient for decoration, but still not intended to be eaten.

If you plan to serve snowmen not on portioned plates, but on a common platter, then it is better to immediately place the figures on crackers, cookies, toast, etc., so that it is convenient for guests to move the snack to their plates and the snowmen do not fall apart. Think about what tools are more convenient to do this: a spatula, a wide fork, or something else.

A large dish in the shape of a snowman will also look beautiful.

For example, you can lay out a layered or regular salad, forming it in the shape of a snowman and decorate it with vegetables and herbs, giving the snowman a familiar appearance.

You can make a snowman cake, because the cakes are often baked in round pans. All you need is to join cream-layered cake layers of smaller and larger diameters, and then make the overall cake covering and decor. At the junction of the cakes, it is better to trim them a little and coat the sides with jam or cream to glue them together. It is better to assemble the cake immediately on the dish on which you plan to serve it.

An ordinary round cake can be turned into a snowman's face using cream or icing.

You can also cut out or sculpt snowmen from pastry fondant and create a whole fairy-tale composition.

Pies in the shape of a snowman, buns, cheesecakes, puff pastries - you can do anything with the dough, so your snowmen will turn out to be very diverse.

And of course, one cannot ignore cookies and gingerbread cookies in the shape of snowmen, painted with colored icing and decorated with a variety of confectionery decorations. For this New Year's baking, you can choose any familiar recipe, because the main thing is the shape and decoration. Surely, the younger members of the family will join you with great pleasure, because all children love to draw, and painting funny snowmen with sweet colors is a very exciting activity!

Ideas for decorating New Year's dishes

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The New Year's menu must include beautifully decorated children's dishes that the baby will eat with great pleasure. At the same time, it is extremely important that the children's New Year's salad is tasty, prepared from high-quality ingredients to which the child is not allergic. You can season the salad with sour cream or homemade mayonnaise; using store-bought mayonnaise is highly not recommended.
Decorating a festive children's dish does not have to be very complicated, because not every mother has time for labor-intensive decorations. The “Snowman” salad will feed your baby deliciously and delight you with its original design - children's Olivier is prepared in just 10 minutes!
The list of ingredients in the recipe can easily be varied depending on the child’s taste preferences and his age: you can use good quality lean ham or replace it with boiled chicken fillet (option for the little ones), boiled veal or rabbit. Instead of olives, which imitate snowman eyes, you can use green peas; you can also add a little fresh cucumber to the salad. Involve children in decorating the salad; according to our step-by-step photographs, even a child can prepare this salad, with the help of his mother, of course. Experiment - children will be absolutely delighted with this cheerful and friendly snowman!

Ingredients

• jacket potatoes - 1 pc.;
• ham or boiled meat - 100 g;
• chicken egg - 1 pc.;
• boiled carrots - 1 pc.;
• sour cream or homemade mayonnaise - 1 tbsp. l.;
• olives - 1 pc.;
• salt - 1 whisper;
• dill - 1 sprig.

How to prepare New Year's children's salad "Snowman" - the basis of Olivier

Cut potatoes, egg yolk, ham (or boiled meat), and half a carrot into small cubes.


We combine the listed ingredients and season them with sour cream or homemade mayonnaise - 1 tablespoon is enough.


Salt to taste and mix the salad, then place it on a serving plate, forming a hemisphere.


To get a snow-white salad, completely cover it on top with a layer of protein, chopped on a fine grater.

From the remaining half of the carrot we form the nose of a snowman and make a smile from small pieces. For the eyes, we use a pitted olive, cut into two equal parts - for the little ones, the olive can be replaced with green peas, or the eyes of a snowman can be formed from halves of a cherry tomato or a couple of slices of fresh cucumber.


The final touch is a sprig of dill or parsley on the top of the snowman's head.


Serve the finished “Snowman” salad immediately after preparation.
Bon appetit and Happy New Year!