Light simple salads for a birthday. Birthday Salads and Holiday Tables

Today it is difficult to imagine a birthday without delicious salads. Salads can be prepared a variety, inexpensive, beautiful and for every taste. Each hostess will be able to pick up a great birthday menu. It is only necessary to recall the old recipes of salads, to show imagination, decorating them. The old and beloved by all “Herring under a fur coat”, “Olivier” are real culinary masterpieces.

Also note the shape of the dish. What looks attractive always seems to us appetizing and tasty. Therefore, it is worthwhile to invent your own unusual decorations for dishes.

Also when cooking salads, consider the following features.

For a husband, father, brother, man, it is better to cook salads with fish and meat ingredients. Children should make a vegetable or sweet fruit salad. A light salad with fresh vegetables will suit your sister, daughter or friend. For older people, fish or vegetable with cabbage or beet are ideal.

Serving salad on the table, you need to take into account the little things serving. Make an unusual table setting and plates and birthday salads will look extraordinary.

For festive salads do not need a lot of financial costs, look in your refrigerator for leftovers and you can cook something interesting and tasty.

Ingredients:

1. seedless grapes - 1 large bunch
2. chicken fillet - 4 packs
3. durum cheese - 250 g
4. walnuts - 300 g
5. fresh cucumbers - 4 pcs.
6. mayonnaise olive
7. cilantro
8. parsley
9. ground black pepper.

Cooking:

1. Disassemble the grapes into individual berries, wash them. Cut into 3-4 pieces. For decoration, cut the grapes in half lengthwise.
2. Boil chicken fillet in salted water, divide with a knife or fork into strips. Cheese cut into cubes. Peel fresh cucumbers, and cut into long strips. Split the walnuts, chop the kernels with a blender or meat grinder.
3. Boil the potatoes in a peel, peel, cool and cut into cubes. Then lay out and decorate the salad in a salad bowl in the form of a bunch of grapes.
4. Spread the salad in layers: potatoes, mayonnaise, walnuts, cheese, grapes, chicken, grapes. In the upper part, leave space for the stem, which is to be made from greenery.

Ingredients:

1. pickled cucumbers - 2 pcs.
2. potatoes - 250 g
3. carrots - 2 pcs.
4. red caviar - 45 g
5. chicken fillet - 250 g
6. crab sticks -200 g
7. hard boiled eggs - 2 pcs.
8. garlic –3 cloves
9. mayonnaise to taste
10. spice
11. spices

Cooking:

1. Boil chicken fillet and cut into cubes. Cook potatoes and carrots in slightly salted water. Then clean and chop finely. Boiled hard-boiled eggs finely chop.
2. Crab sticks cut into circles. Cut the pickles into 4 pieces lengthwise and so that the length of the slices is maximum 4 cm. Pass the garlic through the press. Put the basic ingredients in a star-shaped salad bowl in the following layers: pickles, chicken fillet, mayonnaise, garlic, potatoes, eggs, carrots, mayonnaise.
3. Decorate the salad with sliced \u200b\u200bcrab sticks and greens, pour with mayonnaise and cool.

Ingredients:

1. boiled chicken - 175 g
2. soft cheese - 100 g
3. onions - 1 large onion
4. champignons - 270 g
5. chicken eggs - 4 pcs.
6. carrots - 2 pcs.
7. mayonnaise olive
8. jacket potato - 2 pcs.
9. mushroom sauce
10. sunflower oil
11. ground white pepper.
12. sea \u200b\u200bsalt
13. dill
14. parsley
15. cilantro

Cooking:

1. Make a salad dressing: in a separate saucepan, mix olive mayonnaise, mushroom sauce, salt, ground white pepper, chopped greens. Stir and cool. Leave the dressing in the fridge and start cooking the salad ingredients.
2. Peel the onions, cut into cubes, scald with boiling water and cool.
3. Fry some onions with finely chopped champignons and set aside another part for salad.
4. Cooked carrots and potatoes wipe on the largest grater.
5. Cut the cooked chicken into medium sized slices.
6. Chop the herbs and set aside to decorate the dish.
7. Then put the salad in the following layers: potatoes, carrots, onions, chicken, fried mushrooms, the rest of the onions.
8. Spread each layer with mayonnaise.
9. Garnish with chopped boiled egg with mashed cheese and chopped fresh herbs.
10. Pour over dressing and leave for 45 minutes in the refrigerator.

Birthday sausage salad

Ingredients:

1. smoked sausage - 300 g
2. onions - 4 pcs.
3. sausage cheese - 100 g
4. garlic - 2 teeth
5. carrot - 2 pcs.
6. olive oil
7. chicken eggs - 4 pcs.
8. beets - 0.5 pcs.
9. radish - 1 pc.
10. salt.

Cooking:

1. Cut the sausage into thin straws 4 cm long. Cut the onion into cubes, fry until golden brown. Boil carrots and fry separately. Break eggs into a pan, make scrambled eggs in olive oil and cut it into slices.
2. Garlic skip through the press. Stir in the ingredients of salt, garlic and olive oil to prepare the sauce, and season the salad with it. Sprinkle salad with grated cheese, garnish with slices of boiled vegetables: beets and carrots. Also decorate with radish slices.
3. The main thing - on the surface of the salad should get a funny image - face, date of birth, name or zodiac sign of the birthday.

Italian birthday salad

Ingredients:

1. sweet apple - 1 pc.
2. red onions - 2 pcs.
3. mediterranean orange - 1 pc.
4. fresh cucumber - 1 pc.
5. macaroni - 250 g
6. low-fat sour cream - 100 g
7. lemon juice - 3 tbsp. l
8. olive mayonnaise - 3st. l
9. orange juice - 1 tbsp. l
10. mint - 20 g
11. sea \u200b\u200bsalt.
12. ground pepper
13. granulated sugar

Cooking:

1. Boil macaroni. Peel fresh cucumber and cut into slices. Peel the onions and shred into thin rings. Oranges are better to choose juicy and sweet, wash them, clear from white films and peel. Cut the remaining flesh into small cubes.
2. Wash sweet apples, cut into slices, removing the core. Sprinkle with lemon juice so as not to blacken. Finely chop the mint, but leave a few leaves to decorate the bacon. Mix sour cream and mayonnaise by adding orange juice. Also add granulated sugar, mint and salt, pepper to taste.
3. Mix the pasta with other ingredients. Pour the creamy mayonnaise sauce. Decorate the salad with cucumber, orange slices and mint leaves. The dish is ready.

Children's birthday salads:

1. Birthday salad for children “Golden fish”

Products:

1. potatoes - 3 pcs.
2. herring (fillet) - 1 pc.
3. carrot - 1 pc.
4. red onion - 2 pcs.
5. apple - 1 pc.
6. chicken eggs - 3 pcs.
7. olive mayonnaise - 6 tbsp. l
8. small beets - 1 pc.
9. salmon or pink salmon fillet of weak salting - 175 g
10. pickled cucumber - 1 pc.
11. vinegar marinade
12. sugar, salt

Cooking:

1. Cut onions very finely. Put it for 40 minutes in vinegar marinade, add salt, water, granulated sugar. Cook potatoes, beets, carrots, hard-boiled eggs and cut into cubes.
2. After marinating, rinse the onion in boiled water. Cut the herring fillet and red fish into small pieces. Cut the cucumbers into cubes. Peel the apple from the peel and seeds, grate it. All ingredients can be layered or mixed.
3. In the first embodiment, the salad will look elegant and appetizing. Each layer must be smeared with mayonnaise. Pour olive liquid mayonnaise and decorate with greens. Put the prepared salad in a refrigerator for a couple of hours so that it is well soaked with mayonnaise.

Ingredients:

1. beef - 250 g
2. potatoes - 5 pcs.
3. small onions - 2 pcs.
4. cheese - 200 g
5. oyster mushrooms - 250 g
6. sunflower oil - 2 tbsp. spoons
7. mayonnaise provencal
8. parsley salt
9. dill
10. ground pepper.

Cooking:

1. Cook potatoes and cut into cubes.
2. Chop onions.
3. Mushrooms cut, boil, fry with onions until golden brown.
4. Cut the cooked beef into cubes.
5. Grate cheese.
6. Ingredients lay layers: potatoes, mushrooms with onions, boiled meat, chopped greens.
7. Spread each layer of mayonnaise with pepper, salt, dill, and fresh parsley. Cool well before serving.
8. Garnish with exotic fruits, such as kiwi, grapefruit or avocado slices.

Original birthday salads

1. Cucumber with meat - Korean salad

Ingredients:

1. beef - 200 g
2. cucumbers - 500 g,
3. vegetable oil - 100 g
4. tomato - 1 pc.,
5. onions - 1 pc.,
6. small carrots - 1 pc.,
7. sweet pepper - 1 pc.
8. sesame seeds - 1 tsp
9. vinegar - 1 tsp
10. sugar - 1 tsp
11. soy sauce - 2 tbsp.
12. pepper - 1 tsp,
13. salt,
14. garlic - 5 cloves,
15. cilantro.

Cooking:

1. Slice the meat along the fibers along. Cut cucumbers 8 cm long, rub carrots, salt. Tomato and pepper cut into strips in length, cut onions into half rings.
2. Heat the pan, pour the oil, fry the meat in it for 5 minutes, put the onion and fry for another two minutes. Remove from heat.
3. Now start dressing the salad: chopped garlic, chili pepper, sweet pepper, sugar, sliced \u200b\u200btomato, sesame seeds, soy sauce, chopped cilantro, toss in the finished meat and put the cucumbers and gently mix. This should be infused for 10 minutes.

Ingredients:

1. cod liver - 1 can
2. cucumbers - 200 g
3. potatoes - 400 g
4. olives, mayonnaise
5. salt, eggs - 4 pcs.

Cooking:

1. Cook the potatoes, finely grate, put in a salad bowl, and then put the grated protein and cod liver, top with grease with mayonnaise, then finely chopped green onions, again mayonnaise, put finely chopped salted cucumbers.
2. Top with pounded yolks. Give the salad a sunflower shape. Cover yolks with mayonnaise, draw squares on it. Put them in a slice of butter.

There are also light salads for birthday, we give one of the recipes

Ingredients:

1. Lettuce leaves
2. Celery
3. Green pepper
4. Red onion
5. Salad dressing or mayonnaise
6. Green pea
7. Meat or bacon

All products take in equal parts, depending on how many guests.

Cooking:

1. Finely chop the lettuce leaves and place in a transparent salad bowl.
2. Salt a little. Put boiled finely chopped eggs on top.
3. Cut a few celery stalks and lay.
4. Then the green Bulgarian pepper, cut into thin strips.
5. Cut onion over thin rings.
6. Then green canned peas. Cover all this with mayonnaise or white salad dressing.
7. Cut the cheese into thin squares, measuring 2x2 cm.
8. On top or thinly sliced \u200b\u200bbacon or meat.
9. Decorate the salad with dill sprigs.

What a wonderful holiday it is - a birthday! Gifts, greetings and all sorts of different goodies, which are generously decorated festive table. What is there just not! BUT salads  for birthday, these are the main dishes holiday table  and its decoration. That is why birthday salads should be not only tasty, but also beautiful.

Recipes interesting, unusual and delicious salads  for a birthday there are many. Birthday salads differ in the composition and method of mixing the ingredients. Vegetable, meat, fruit, having a sharp or mild, delicate taste, cold and hot birthday salads will always be appropriate on the festive table and set the desired tone throughout the feast.

It is customary to chop salads just before the start of a holiday and fill with mayonnaise or another dressing just before serving. How beautiful your birthday salads will look on the holiday table depends directly on your ingenuity, imagination and design abilities. The main thing in this case - do not be afraid to experiment. Decorations from vegetables, fruits, nuts, fresh greens will give salads an appetizing look. The only rule is that they should harmonize to taste with the ingredients in the salad, only in this case they will add charm and delicacy to the salad, they will add piquancy and flavor to it.

Thinking over salads for a birthday, do not forget about the other dishes. For example, if you have baked fish for hot, then you should not add fish to salads. If, in the oven, a chicken is waiting for its time, then it’s completely illogical to duplicate it in a salad.

Do you want to move away from the usual framework and cook something not previously tested? Welcome to our website!

Layered salad "Table"

Ingredients:
  1 chicken breast,
  2 tomatoes,
  2 carrots,
  200 g of champignons,
  2 bulbs,
  3 eggs,
  100 grams of cheese
  2 pickled cucumbers,
  parsley,
  vegetable oil,
  mayonnaise.

Cooking:
  Fry chicken breast until tender, cool and cut into small pieces. Finely chop the onions and champignons and fry in a pan with vegetable oil until cooked, then cool. Boiled carrots rub on a large grater. Cut tomatoes and cucumbers into small cubes. Grate cheese and eggs separately on a fine grater. Spread the salad in layers in a transparent salad bowl or on a flat dish, greasing each layer with mayonnaise. First, put the chicken breast, then tomatoes, mushrooms with onions, carrots, cucumbers, eggs and grated cheese. Decorate the top of the salad with a rose of tomato and parsley sprigs. Let the prepared salad stand for a while so that the layers are soaked.

Salad "Moments of Happiness"

Ingredients:
  400 g boiled chicken meat,
  2 boiled potatoes,
  2 canned cucumbers,
  1 stack canned green peas,
  3 boiled eggs.
  For the sauce:
  1 stack mayonnaise,
  ¼ stack 10% cream
  8 tbsp. l lemon juice
  2 tbsp. l spicy tomato sauce,
  salt, sugar, pepper, greens - to taste.

Cooking:
Finely chop the chicken meat, potatoes, cucumbers and eggs. Pour mayonnaise into the salad bowl, add sugar, pepper, tomato sauce, lemon juice, whipped cream and salt. First of all, put cucumbers, meat, peas, eggs and then potatoes into the prepared sauce. Stir everything slightly. Decorate the finished salad with eggs, peas and greens.

Salad "Birthday"

Ingredients:
  300 g boiled chicken fillet,
  3 boiled eggs,
  100 g apples
  300 g fresh cucumbers,
  100 g tomatoes
  30 grams of greenery
  mayonnaise - to taste.

Cooking:
  Cucumbers, peel, apple from the skin and core. Chicken fillet disassemble hands into small pieces. Cut eggs, cucumbers and apples into small pieces. Mix everything carefully, season with mayonnaise to taste, lay a slide on the dish and garnish with sliced \u200b\u200btomatoes and greens.

Warm salad with fish "Cultural rest"

Ingredients:
  300 g fillet of sea fish,
  100 grams of cheese
  2 tomatoes,
  1 onion,
  1 apple
  vegetable oil,
  mayonnaise,
  salt, pepper - to taste.

Cooking:
  Cut the fish fillet into small pieces, fry in vegetable oil with chopped onion, add salt and pepper to taste. Slice tomatoes, cheese and peeled apple rub on a coarse grater. Spread the prepared ingredients on the ice cream layers in layers, smearing each layer with a small amount of mayonnaise: fish with onions, apples, tomatoes, cheese. Decorate.

Salad with grapefruit and cheese "For the dear birthday"

Ingredients:
  2 grapefruit,
  200 grams of tomatoes,
  200 g soft cheese
  50 grams of olives.
  For the sauce:
  3 tbsp. l olive oil,
  1 tsp Oregano greens,

Cooking:
  Peel the grapefruit and peels and cut into thin slices. Tomatoes also cut into slices, cheese cubes. Put the grapefruit slices on a flat dish, then the tomato slices and the cheese, layering the products so that the edges lie on top of each other. Garnish with olives on top of the salad. Prepare the sauce from the oil, chopped green oregano, salt, pepper, pour the salad gently with it and send to the refrigerator for 30 minutes.

Bean salad with ham and crackers

Ingredients:
  200 grams of ham,
  1 can of canned beans in tomato sauce,
  200 grams of cheese
  1 pickled cucumber,
  3 slices of hard white bread,
  mayonnaise - to taste.

Cooking:
  Cut off the crust from the bread, cut it into cubes and fry over low heat in a dry frying pan to a light brown color. Cut ham and cucumber into strips, rub the cheese on a large grater. Drain the sauce from the jar with the beans, place the beans in a salad bowl, add the ham, cucumber and cheese to it, season with mayonnaise and mix. Before serving, add croutons to the salad and mix gently again.

Smoked cheese garlic salad roll

Ingredients:
  350 g smoked sausage cheese,
  2 boiled beets,
  4 boiled potatoes
  4 pickled cucumbers,
  1 onion,
  2 boiled eggs,
  3-4 cloves of garlic,
  2 tbsp. l butter,
  mayonnaise,
  Dill and parsley - to taste.

Cooking:
  Grate the sausage cheese on a coarse grater, mix it with mayonnaise, butter and chopped garlic. On a food film, form a sausage out of it, wrap and put in a refrigerator for 20-30 minutes. Spread on the table a new food wrap. Spread the beetroot grated on a large grater, then the potatoes, then the finely chopped onions in an even layer. On it, lay grated on a large grater and squeezed pickled cucumbers. In the middle of this design, put a frost-bitten sausage made of cheese and carefully roll everything into a roll using a film. Wrap it in film and refrigerate for 1-1.5 hours. Before serving to the festive table, remove the film from the roll, garnish with a grated egg and greens.

Layered cake-cake "Festive"

Ingredients:
  2 smoked chicken legs,
  50 g celery root,
  1 red sweet pepper,
  1 apple
  2 bulbs,
  1 boiled carrot,
  100 g of prunes,
  50 g of crushed walnuts,
  100 ml of 6% vinegar,
  100 ml of mayonnaise,
  100 ml of 15% sour cream,
  salt, black pepper - to taste.

Cooking:
  Separate chicken meat from pits and cut into strips. Peeled celery grate. Sweet pepper and onion chop straws. Rub boiled carrots and peeled apple on a coarse grater. Pour onion with warm vinegar for 30 minutes. Mix mayonnaise with sour cream, season with salt and pepper to taste. Put chicken in a salad bowl, brush with cooked sauce, then lay celery, apple, pickled onions, sweet peppers and carrots. Pour over the salad dressing, sprinkle with chopped prunes and walnuts and place in the refrigerator overnight.

Salad "Happy Balagan"

Ingredients:
  300 g pork pulp,
  1 small onion,
  2 potatoes,
  200 g canned peas,
  2 carrots,
  1 large beet,
  ¼ head of cabbage,
  100 g of mayonnaise or sour cream,
  spices for meat and salt to taste.

Cooking:
Cut the meat into small cubes with a side of 1.5-2 cm and marinate it in your favorite spices. Then fry with finely chopped onions in a frying pan with vegetable oil until cooked, then place on a plate and cool. Boil potatoes, carrots, beets until cooked, cool, peel and put into separate plates, cut into cubes. Finely chop the cabbage and slightly remember with your hands. Put potatoes, peas, carrots, cabbage, beets in a circle on a large flat dish, and in the middle - meat, fried with onions, salt the vegetables and meat and make a net of mayonnaise or sour cream on top of everything. After serving on the table, letting the guests admire the cooked dish for a bit, mix it up.

Salad with beef and kiwi "Beautiful life"

Ingredients:
  600 g of beef,
  3 kiwis,
  2 bulbs,
  chopped greens
  mayonnaise, salt - to taste.

Cooking:
  Boil beef until cooked, cool it, cut into small cubes. Peel the kiwi and cut into the same cubes as beef. Chop the onion. Combine all the ingredients in a salad bowl, season with mayonnaise, lightly salt and mix.

Salad Surprise

Ingredients:
  150 g boiled beef,
  3 boiled eggs,
  150 grams of cheese
  80 g pitted prunes,
  3 pickled cucumbers,
  1 onion,
  100 g canned peas,
  50 g pine nuts,
  vegetable oil,
  mayonnaise.

Cooking:
  Grease a deep salad bowl with vegetable oil and cover with food film. Eggs and cheese rubbed on a grater, mix and put a little first layer on the food film, this egg-cheese layer grease with mayonnaise. Finely chop the prunes and place it in a second layer in the middle, lay the egg-cheese mixture on the sides. Then on the prunes lay finely chopped meat, lay the egg-cheese mixture from the sides and a layer of mayonnaise on top. The next layer is sliced \u200b\u200bcucumbers, onions and peas. Smear everything again with mayonnaise and close the salad with the ends of the film. Leave the finished salad for 40 minutes in the cold to soak. Then turn it over on a flat dish and remove the film. Decorate your culinary masterpiece with lettuce leaves and sprinkle with pine nuts. Serve, slicing portions, like a cake.

Sweet Pepper Salad with Cheese "Great mood"

Ingredients:
  2 sweet peppers,
  100 g of cheese,
  2 cloves of garlic,
  ½ tsp salt,
  1 tsp 6% vinegar,
  4 tbsp. l olive oil,
  parsley,
  ground black pepper - to taste.

Cooking:
Bake the peppers in the oven, cool, remove the skin and cut into strips. Finely chop the greens. To make the sauce, rub the garlic with salt and black pepper, then gradually add vinegar and oil to the mixture. In a salad bowl lay sweet pepper, sprinkle it with greens, pour the sauce. Before serving, sprinkle the ready salad with cheese, cut into small cubes.

Salad "Funny Adventure"

Ingredients:
  200-250 g of cauliflower
  2 tomatoes,
  2 cucumbers,
  ½ stack canned peas,
  1-2 apples
  100 grams of seedless grapes
  3 tbsp. l vegetable oil
  3 tbsp. l lemon juice
  bunch of greens.

Cooking:
  Boil the cauliflower and divide it into small florets. Apples, cucumbers and tomatoes, prepared for cooking, cut into thin slices. Put the vegetables in a bowl, add green peas, grapes, salt and mix everything carefully. Put the prepared salad in a salad bowl, pour with a dressing made from vegetable oil and lemon juice, and sprinkle with chopped greens.

Salad "Fantasy"

Ingredients:
  4 boiled potatoes
  200 g red cabbage,
  2 boiled eggs,
  1 boiled beets,
  1 apple
  4 tbsp. l vegetable oil
  1 tbsp. l 3% vinegar,
  parsley,
  salt, pepper - to taste.

Cooking:
  Cut the potatoes into cubes and season with butter. Beetroot, too, cut into cubes and season with vinegar. Peeled and coreed apple and cabbage cut into strips. Combine all the ingredients, add to them finely chopped eggs, salt, pepper to taste, put in a salad and garnish with greens.

Salad with orange and sesame "Celebration"

Ingredients:
  2 oranges,
  50 g sesame seeds
  30 grams of shrimp.
  For refueling:
  1 tsp honey
  2 cloves of garlic,
  2 tsp. soy sauce
  ½ lemon juice.

Cooking:
  Peel oranges. Holding the orange over the bowl, cut out the pulp from the tapes. From the residues, squeeze the juice into the same bowl and save, it is still useful. To make the dressing, mix orange and lemon juice, soy sauce, honey, and chopped garlic. Boil the shrimp for 3 minutes, then peel and roll in sesame seeds. Put the oranges and shrimps in a salad bowl, pour the dressing and serve to the festive table.

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Bon appetit and new culinary discoveries!

Larisa Shuftaykina