Rooster salad is an excellent option for New Year's celebrations. On New Year's Day, it is customary to surprise guests with a beautiful table, symbolizing the wealth and well-being of this house. As the well-known proverb says, “how you celebrate the New Year is how you spend it.” What exactly should be prepared for the table so that the symbol of the next year, the Red Rooster, will be pleased with the dishes on display and the decoration of the table, and bring good luck to every home?
The rooster is a contradictory bird: sometimes he strides proudly, sometimes he intends to peck at the heel of a passerby. He prefers to eat seeds and grains and loves to peck fresh vegetables and fruits.
It is for this reason that in the salad it is advisable to use hard cheese, boiled eggs, fresh seafood and any lean meat with the exception of chicken (the Rooster will not approve of eating his brothers).
- bell pepper - 2 pcs.;
- sardine, canned in oil - 250 gr.;
- soft processed cheese - 100 gr.;
- table mayonnaise - 3 tbsp. l.;
- boiled eggs - 2 pcs.;
Cooking procedure:
First you need to chop the canned fish with a fork. Grate the processed cheese on a fine grater. The eggs need to be peeled and the whites carefully separated from the yolks. The yolks must be thoroughly mashed with a fork. Three boiled whites on a fine grater. Let's start laying it out: put the grated cheese in the shape of a rooster. Lubricate it with mayonnaise. Next, lay out a layer of chopped fish, and also coat this layer with mayonnaise. Place the whites on top and coat the layer with mayonnaise. Lay out the yolks. From red sweet pepper we cut out the beak, scallop, tail, legs, and eyes.
You can see the details of this recipe here:
Decorate the salad You can also use regular bell pepper.
Decorating Christmas salads: dill, pomegranate, corn, green peas.
Salad decoration: In this version, the salad is simply portioned onto potato chips.
Decoration of “Boats” salad: original fresh cucumber boats filled with salad. The sail is attached with a toothpick.
Decoration of Lapti salad: processed cheese (in bags), herbs, canned mushrooms.
Pineapple salad decoration: walnuts, green onions. The second option uses chopped canned mushrooms and green onions.
Decoration of the “Mice” salad: mice are made from boiled eggs, cheese and black pepper (peas), the surface of the salad is sprinkled with grated yolk.
Decoration of salad “Slice”: Place the salad on a plate in the shape of a crescent. Sprinkle the top completely with grated cheese. The edge of the “watermelon slice” is grated cucumber. Next is the cheese. And then a tomato without a crust. Watermelon seeds from olive half rings. In the second version, grated egg white and boiled carrots were used as decoration.
Decoration of “Fish” salad: Sliced sausage (of different types) and cheese are laid out in the shape of a fish. The mouth is a cutout of a tomato, the eye is a ring (white from an egg), the pupil is a piece of tomato or olive.
Decoration of the “Roses” salad: roses are made from a thin slice of sausage, rolled into a roll, with the edges straightened.
Decoration of beet salad.
Decoration of salad "Cob": Canned corn and green onions, cut lengthwise on one side, are used for decoration.
Decoration of the “Cards” salad: green onions, tomatoes and olives.
And thus, you can roll any puff salad into a roll and then cut it. Looks original. In the photo, ““ is wrapped in a roll.
Salad decoration “Bags”: the salad is placed in portions into pancakes, the pancake bag is tied with green onions.
Boiled egg swan.
Roses from tomatoes.
Ladybugs made from tomatoes and olives.
Scallop of tomato and boiled egg.
Chain, fan and openwork rings made of fresh cucumber.
To decorate a salad, sometimes all you need is a head of onion and a little imagination.
Decoration of New Year's salad "Dog"
This Poodle will perfectly decorate any New Year's dish 2018. Symbol of the year. The muzzle is made of cauliflower inflorescence, the body is made of eggplant, the paws and tail are made of zucchini.
"Cockerels from boiled eggs"
Charming New Year's table decoration "Cockerels made from boiled eggs." They can decorate any salad. Or make an independent dish by seating the cockerels on the greens. The photo clearly shows how easy it is to make such a rooster from a boiled egg. In a small incision at the sharp end of the egg you need to insert a scallop with a beak, made from boiled carrots. Eyes can be made from poppy seeds by first preparing a hole with a toothpick.
"Egg White Rooster"
Shape the salad into a rooster shape and sprinkle grated egg whites on top. The feathers on the tail and wings are made from half olive rings, the rooster's paws and beak are made from French fries. Tomato comb and beard.
"Chicks in an Egg"
Decorating New Year's salads
Also, the ideas presented below are perfect for decorating a New Year's salad.
Christmas trees for the New Year's table
Cut the apple in half. Place the apple half cut side down on a plate. Insert a wooden kebabs skewer into the middle of the apple. And put slices on it. You will get wonderful Christmas trees.
Father Frost
A Santa Claus-shaped salad can be made using unwrapped crab sticks, boiled rice, grated egg white (beard) and pieces of cheese (Santa Claus' bag and face).
New Year's bell
Decorating New Year's salad: Grated boiled carrots on top. Ornament made from grains of black caviar (caviar snack). On top there is a spruce branch and a bow.
Decorating salads
Serving the dish is already half the battle. And even if you are preparing a simple and extraordinary salad, by decorating it correctly, you can depict the most unusual and original dish. The main thing is to stick to the theme of the holiday or event, for example, for the New Year you can decorate salads in the form of an animal whose year is coming, in the shape of a Christmas tree or a snowman. Or, for your birthday, create unique salads, giving them the shape of a festive cap, cake or gift wrapping. For children you can make cats, fish, and even a car. On March 8, make a salad in the form of a bouquet or just a flower: a tulip, rose or lilac.
To decorate a salad, even the simplest one, let’s take, for example, a vegetable one, you can use either the same vegetables, or take an original and tasty inclusion, in our case it will be cottage cheese, garlic and herbs. The dish may consist of bell peppers, cucumbers and tomatoes, but the decorations will be made from cottage cheese mixed with chopped herbs and garlic passed through a press. We form balls and place them around the perimeter of the plate, here you have a regular snack with a spicy touch.
A salad of pineapples and chicken, cheese and onions can be served directly in the fruit itself. Just take out the pulp, put it on the dish itself, and leave the peel - a boat - as a salad decoration. Place the salad directly into the pineapple trough and garnish with herbs on top.
Mimosa salad is simple and familiar to most. But how original and new it will look if you plant a sprig of white flowers on top. This decoration of salads is very unusual, since we will make snow-white flowers from a boiled egg, or rather the white and yolk. Cut the yolk into circles - this will be the middle, and for the flower itself, use the tops of the egg white, giving it sharp jagged corners. Place the parsley along with the branch, and build flowers around it, placing a round yolk on a white base.
Even an ordinary holiday Olivier can be beautifully transformed with the help of a fresh apple and cucumber, an egg and a Korean carrot. Here, as they say in the famous film: “Another thing that matters is ingenuity.” Therefore, all products must be combined in taste and theme with the main ingredients of the dish. We cut the apples into thin half-slices, and the cucumbers into rolls. We make a circle of cucumbers, folding them in half. We will make a swan from apples in the middle: simply fold the wings from half rings, and the neck from a separate piece of apple, which can be obtained by cutting the fruit in half and leaving the spine on it. Now, as in the previous salad, we will make flowers from eggs, only in the middle we put not the yolk, but several Korean carrots.
You can simply and easily make calla lilies from cheese, as a decoration for absolutely any salad. Just cut the cheese into thin squares, then roll the pieces like a glass for seeds, as they used to do from paper, put it on the salad, add the yellow center of the pepper, eggs, and lay out the green onion stalks. The centers can be made black - from olives, green - from olives.
You can also make flowers from plum tomatoes. Excellent tulips are obtained if the fruit itself is cut into four parts at the top, a few centimeters apart, placed on a salad, and stems and leaves are made from parsley or dill. But lilac can be depicted from processed cheese, simply grated on a coarse grater in the form of a cluster of these flowers, and adding a drop of food coloring.
Sandwiches "Rooster"
As you know, the symbol of 2017 is the Rooster, who loves grain and everything produced from it. Therefore, sandwiches in the shape of a cockerel will certainly attract good luck to your home. You need to take two round loaves, one smaller than the other. You can cut circles out of bread. The scallops are made from slices of cheese (white and yellow), which are also given a wavy shape. By the way, it’s convenient to take cheese in plastic and cut out the shape without removing the cellophane. The paws, beak and whites of the eyes are also made from cheese. The pupils are carved from olives, the beard is made from radishes or tomatoes. To prevent the sandwich from being dry, you can grease the bottom circle of bread with butter or mayonnaise.
Decoration of salads “Rooster”
The salad is laid out in the shape of a rooster. Topped with boiled chicken yolk. The tail, wings, comb, beak, legs and beard of the rooster are made of bell pepper. Eyes can be made from olives. Thus, you can decorate many New Year’s salads, for example, “Olivier”
Decoration of the salad “Cockerels from boiled eggs”
Charming New Year's table decoration "Cockerels made from boiled eggs." They can decorate any salad. Or make an independent dish by seating the cockerels on the greens. The photo clearly shows how easy it is to make such a rooster from a boiled egg. In a small incision at the sharp end of the egg you need to insert a scallop with a beak, made from boiled carrots. Eyes can be made from poppy seeds by first preparing the hole with a toothpick
New Year's table decoration "Chicken"
But this chicken-cockerel can be put on everyone’s plate. A wonderful decoration for the New Year's table. The cockerel is made from a circle of pineapple, carrots and black pepper (eyes).
Decoration "Rooster"
This wonderful rooster is made from vegetables: cucumber, onions, beets, carrots, radishes. (you can arrange the cuts this way so that you get a rooster)
Decoration of the salad “Rooster from vegetables and fruits”
Decoration “Rooster” for salad or, as in this case, for sliced fruit. The rooster is made from orange (body), pineapple leaves (rooster tail), bell pepper (rooster wings, comb and beard), eggplant (neck and head), carrots (rooster beak).
Decoration of the “Tangerine Chicken” salad
But such wonderful tangerine cockerels should definitely decorate any New Year's table. Plus they are very easy to make.
Salad decoration “Rooster made from egg whites”
Most salads can be decorated for the new year 2017 in this way. Shape the salad into a rooster shape and sprinkle grated egg whites on top. The feathers on the tail and wings are made from half rings of olives, the rooster's paws and beak are made from French fries. Tomato comb and beard.
Decoration of the salad “Chickens in an egg”
Well, aren't they cuties! Boil the eggs, carefully cut off the sharp end of the egg, down to the yolk. The yolk needs to be taken out, mashed with a fork and mixed, for example, with melted cheese. Fill the egg again with the filling and cover with a “hat of whites.” We make the chickens' eyes from black pepper, and their beaks and legs from boiled carrots.
These chickens can be used to decorate any festive New Year's salad: mimosa, salad with crab sticks, salad with chicken and pineapples.
Sandwiches "Chicken"
These sandwiches are very easy to make. Place a slice of cheese on a thin slice of bread, lightly fried in butter and grated with garlic. Make the beak, legs and scallops from boiled carrots or tomatoes. Place sandwiches on greens. Beauty!
And here are some more pictures with roosters, hens and chicks on our table from the Internet.
Here is a laying hen, eggs can be made from grated cheese with mayonnaise and garlic, or you can put real ones, of course without the shell, and cut in half and place the yolks down.
And chickens - chickens...
Cockerels have always been loved in Rus' and many songs have been written about them.
Let the coming year, according to the eastern calendar, be the year of the rooster - or rather the hen, since this is a women's year.
For Russia, let the rooster crow in the New Year and all evil spirits disappear! From Russian land...
COCKS sliced
Arrange to suit your taste!
And this is for dessert - a sweet rooster...
Baking can also be a success...
And this is for children for breakfast: mashed potatoes, cutlet, dill, maybe a green onion, beak and scallop of tomato, eye of cucumber
So what cuts will look harmonious on the New Year's table? Let's figure it out.
First you need to stock up on the necessary products. It all depends on your imagination. Suitable for cutting meat: different types of sausage, balyki, boiled pork, lard with a layer of meat, brisket. There are no rules for cutting or laying out food on a plate, so pick up a large, sharp knife with a thin blade and go ahead.
- To add some flair to your cold cuts, you can garnish them with vegetables, such as lettuce, cucumber slices, black olives, parsley, etc.
- Large slices of meat products (balyk, boiled sausage) can be rolled into a tube, or simply rolled into a roll.
- You can place a container with your favorite sauce in the middle of the meat slice. A product that perfectly complements meat ingredients is hard cheese of various varieties.
- If you are a lover of everything exotic, then you can also decorate the plate with fresh flowers - this will add a special piquancy to your “product”.
- An option with a flower in the middle is also possible, but it will be made of balyk. To get started, you just need to practice a little.
- You can lay out the sliced products either in stripes or in layers in a circle. In the middle there may be cheese, rolled into a tube with a piece inside, or a whole olive.
Photo examples of cold cuts:
Beautiful vegetable slices for the New Year
Vegetable cutting is also a very important part of the holiday table, because everyone knows that meat without vegetables is difficult to digest. To do this, you can use absolutely any vegetables you like. Knives should be sharp and, if desired, shaped.
It’s so good that nowadays you can buy fresh vegetables even in winter, so cutting vegetables for the New Year will be a piece of cake. The most popular products are cucumbers, tomatoes, bell peppers, herbs, and cherry tomatoes.
Sliced fresh vegetables can be supplemented with pickled or pickled cucumbers and tomatoes. How it will be laid out on the plate depends only on you and your imagination.
Why can’t you do without cutting vegetables:
Vegetables are a great treat for those who are losing weight. And nowadays, almost everyone tries to at least somehow take care of themselves.
This is an excellent substitute for all kinds of salads. After all, there are people who may not like your salads, or who simply do not like salty or oil/mayonnaise-seasoned food.
And finally, who doesn’t want to crunch on fresh, juicy vegetables!
Photo examples of vegetable slicing:
New Year's fruit slice (very beautiful)
Fruits are not only useful substances and vitamins, but also a bright, beautiful decoration for the New Year's table. The good thing about fruit slices is that they can also be placed next to other dishes, and not just desserts, since fruits ideally complement cold appetizers.
They need to be cut before guests arrive so that they do not lose their fresh appearance. You will need a sharp knife to cut the fruit into thin slices.
Photo examples of cutting:
Have fun fantasizing! And you will remember the New Year for a long time!
Calories: 156.06
Proteins/100g: 1.01
Carbohydrates/100g: 4.21
We have one tradition - to celebrate the coming year, taking into account its symbolism according to the Chinese calendar. And every year, a magnet with one or another animal takes pride of place on the refrigerator, themed dishes are placed on the festive table, and we dress up in dresses of the right colors. Despite the fact that I am quite skeptical about this whole carnival, nevertheless, I constantly fall under the influence of society and in recent days I have also become involved in the general atmosphere of festive troubles. After all, the holiday is approaching and I want to spend these days in high spirits, make new wishes, open the package of gifts and have a lot of fun with family and friends.
Therefore, despite the fact that I have not yet written out the menu for the New Year’s table, I know for sure that I will prepare one wonderful dish - the “Cockerel” sliced vegetable salad for the New Year’s table 2017, the recipe for which is in front of you. Although this is not even a salad, but simply a vegetable appetizer, which is impressively laid out on a dish in the shape of a cockerel - a symbol of the coming year. For this serving you need to take fresh fruits of cucumber, tomato and lettuce, as well as fresh parsley, dill and green onions.
Here it is important to use all your creative reserves in order to beautifully place the chopped vegetables on a dish and get a bright, juicy snack. By the way, there is no need to salt and pepper the vegetables, because they will quickly release their juice, but you can serve several different sauces separately.
They will look very beautiful on the table, which you can also prepare according to our recipe. 
- cucumber fruit (fresh) – 1-2 pcs.,
- tomato fruit (ripe) – 2 pcs.,
- pepper (salad, different colors) – 2 pcs.,
- greenery,
- pepper or cloves - pea,
- lettuce or Chinese cabbage leaf.
How to cook at home
There are no particular difficulties in the snack technology, but first, thoroughly wash all the vegetables and herbs with running water and let them dry.
We deal with tomato fruits. First, we cut off the side of one fruit, cut it in half, make shallow diagonal cuts on one part - we get the comb and chin of a cockerel. 
We cut the remaining fruits into neat slices.
Next, cut the cucumbers into diagonal slices of medium thickness.
We cut out the stalk of the salad peppers and clean out the seeds, then strip them. 
Now put the vegetables on the dish. First, we form the cockerel's head from one cucumber slice. Next, cut out the beak separately and attach it to the head. Add the tomato preparations - scallop and chin - and make an eye from a clove pea. 
Next, lay out the body of the cockerel from cucumber slices.
We make a beautiful tail from greenery. 
Then we form wings and feathers from tomato slices on top. 
Additionally we decorate with bell pepper.
Place a lettuce leaf at the bottom of the rooster. 
We prepare sauces separately. Can be submitted
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