Appetizer salads are an important part of any festive table. Without them, it is difficult to imagine a good feast. But, why is it necessary to prepare appetizer salads for a festive feast?
The fact is that appetizer salads prepare guests for the main courses. Salads for appetizers are usually light, delicate, have a moderate sourness. Such a dish awakens the taste buds and prepares people for the main meal.
Also, appetizer salads perfectly balance the table. That is, they become a counterbalance for more fatty and heavy for the stomach dishes.
Salads create balance on the table, allowing guests to opt for simpler and heartier cold dishes.
It is worth preparing several salads for the feast. This will allow guests to choose the salad that best suits their tastes. For example, it is worth making several vegetable and puff salads.
Let’s talk about one of the winning variants of a festive appetizer – salad “Count”
Ingredients:
- Boiled potatoes – 2 pcs;
- Boiled chicken breast – 1 piece;
- Peas – 300 g;
- Eggs – 4 pcs;
- Prunes – 10 pcs;
- Boiled beets – 1 pc;
- Garlic – 1 clove;
- Mayonnaise;
- Salt;
- Onion – 1 pc;
- Vinegar – 2 tsp.
Preparation of salad “Graf”:
Dice small onions, add to it a pinch of salt and vinegar, mix. Leave the onion to marinate for 10 minutes.
Peeled boiled potatoes grate on a coarse grater, put the first layer in the salad. Smear potatoes with mayonnaise, put onions on it.
Cut chicken into small cubes and put
it
on the onion layer. Lubricate the meat layer with mayonnaise, put peas on it. Grate
eggs on a coarse grater and put them on the pea layer, lubricate with mayonnaise. Cut prunes finely and put them on the egg layer.
Grate beets on a coarse grater, grate garlic on a fine grater and mix. Add a couple of spoonfuls of mayonnaise to the beets, mix.
Put the beet mixture on the prunes. Cover the beet layer with mayonnaise meshes.
It turns out a simple salad for an appetizer for a festive table. The salad harmoniously combines all the components, while it turns out unusual due to the prunes in the composition.
