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Salads in bowls will perfectly diversify the festive atmosphere in your home. Such salads are served in portions, in individual bowls or tall wine glasses. Another name used in cooking is cocktail salad. The filling can consist of various ingredients and can be either a savory dish or a sweet dessert.
Served in portions, salads are made from meat, fish, seafood, and diluted with fruits or vegetables. Thus, by changing the composition, the dish does not get boring, and by experimenting with new additives, you can change the taste of your usual food.
A special type of serving will create a holiday out of everyday food. Dishes in wine glasses will be a surprise and a mystery for many guests and will become the highlight of a romantic evening.
How to prepare salads in bowls - 15 varieties
- Salad cocktail “Tenderness”
- Salad “Romance” with corn
- Salad “Velvet Season”
- Cocktail salad with mushrooms
- Portioned mix salad with shrimp and avocado
- Mimosa salad with pink salmon
- Cocktail salad “Festive” with cod liver
- Vegetable salad “Light”
- Fruit salad
- Mixed salad with croutons
- Salad "Lady's whim"
- Salad with herring and avocado
- Cocktail salad with ham and cheese
- Mixed salad with crab sticks
- Salad "Sadko"
Salad cocktail “Tenderness”
The use of prunes in the salad adds some spice to the dish, and egg pancakes will add uniqueness and a special taste.
Ingredients:
- Raw eggs – 2
- Fresh cucumber – 2
- Cheese – 150 gr.
- Garlic – 1 tooth.
- Prunes – 100 gr.
- Chicken breast
- Walnut
Preparation:
Cut the boiled chicken into strips. We also cut the cucumber and prunes into strips. Grind the walnuts. Mix grated cheese with chopped garlic.
You should bake pancakes from the eggs; to do this, add a little salt to the eggs and shake them, then add 1 tbsp. milk and 1 tsp. flour and mix gently. Bake several pancakes from the resulting dough in a frying pan, which should then be cut into strips.
If the prunes are dry, it is recommended to soak them in boiling water for a few minutes.
Place the chicken in the first layer on the bottom of the bowl, put prunes and cucumber on top, lay out grated cheese and egg pancakes, repeat the layer of prunes and cucumber, sprinkle with cheese and nuts. Coat the layers with mayonnaise. You can use dill sprigs as decoration.
Basics of the art of catering
Restaurant dishes always look beautiful. And so that your snacks are not only tasty, but also spectacular, we will try to arrange them accordingly. What do we need for this? There is an opinion that such snacks are served in bowls. This is true, but not always. Only simple portioned salads are served this way. From recipes with photos of dishes, you will not only learn how to make these puff pastries, but also understand that they are served in the form of cylinders on flat plates.
Fusion salads are often served on the table in small deep dishes. A transparent round or square glass is also a good idea for decorating a snack.
And finally, edible tableware. You can stuff the salad into puff vol-au-vents and shortcrust pastry baskets.
If hard cheese is listed among the ingredients of the snack, do not rush to add it to the dish. Heat a frying pan and add a piece of this fermented milk product. When slightly melted, lift it with a spatula and quickly move it to the bottom of an inverted glass. Once cooled, the cheese will take the shape of a basket, where you place the salad. It should be remembered that different snacks require special decoration. For example, juice-producing snacks should not be placed in dough baskets. Coarsely chopped ingredients will not create even layers.
Salad “Romance” with corn
A delicious and moderately high-calorie salad with simple ingredients. The original presentation of the dish will be a good addition to any holiday.
Ingredients:
- Cheese "Russian" - 70 gr.
- Ham – 150 gr.
- Hard-boiled egg – 2 pcs.
- Fresh cucumber
- Corn – 150 gr.
- Bulb onions
- Mayonnaise
Preparation:
Chop boiled eggs, ham and cucumber into cubes. Coarsely grate the hard cheese. Chop the onion and pour boiling water over it.
Place the prepared ingredients into portioned bowls, coating with mayonnaise. Sprinkle with chopped egg and corn. Cool before serving.
"Venice"
First, boil hard-boiled eggs - half for each bowl. You can use not a chicken product, but a quail one. Then you need one egg per bowl. For this portioned salad, the recipe calls for cutting the ingredients into small cubes. You can mix them, season with mayonnaise, or lay out the appetizer in layers. So, cut into small cubes:
- ham (150 grams);
- any hard cheese (70 g);
- large fresh cucumber without peel.
- Peel the onion, finely chop it, pour boiling water over it.
- Strain and sauté until golden brown.
- Add to the general pot along with 150 grams of canned corn.
- Season with mayonnaise.
- If you choose the puff serving method, then lay out the ingredients in this order: ham, cucumber, fried onion, cheese, corn. Don’t forget to coat each layer, except the top one, with mayonnaise.
- Thin slices of cucumber are placed on top.
- The dish can be decorated with a quail egg. We place it like a pearl in the center of the bowl. If we use a chicken product, then figuratively cut the egg in half in the shape of a lotus flower. Drizzle mayonnaise into the center.
Salad “Velvet Season”
Subtle notes of your favorite apple variety will color the dish with pleasant freshness. A magical dish for the Christmas holidays.
Ingredients:
- Chicken breast
- Egg – 3 pcs.
- Tomato – 3 pcs.
- Apple
- Celery stalk – 2 pcs.
- Cheese – 100 gr.
- Garlic – 1 tooth.
- Mayonnaise
- Sour cream – 1 tsp.
Preparation:
Cut the apple and tomato into the same size. Grate cheese and boiled eggs. Tear the boiled breast. Peel the stems and chop into small pieces. Chop the garlic clove.
To season the mayonnaise, add a spoonful of sour cream, garlic and chopped herbs, mix well.
Place the salad in a serving bowl, with the breast going first, then the apple and celery, pour over the sauce. The next layer is egg and a little more chicken and also grease with sauce. Sprinkle with cheese and add tomato. Garnish with remaining celery and parsley.
Cocktail salad with mushrooms
Cream cheese adds a creamy taste. In combination with fried mushrooms they create complete flavor harmony.
Ingredients:
- Champignon mushrooms – 100 gr.
- Onions – optional
- Processed cheese
- Corn – 2-3 tbsp.
- Eggs – 2 pcs.
- Mayonnaise – 3 tbsp. l.
Preparation:
The first layer is to add herbs to the grated cheese and season with mayonnaise. Then grate the boiled eggs and add mayonnaise. Sprinkle with corn. Place mushrooms fried with onions on top of the salad. As a decoration, you can sprinkle a little hard cheese, add a spoonful of mayonnaise, and a sprig of parsley.
To remove any remaining oil after frying the mushrooms, place them on a napkin.
Decoration of the New Year's salad “Dog”
This Poodle will perfectly decorate any New Year's dish 2021. 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.
“Boiled egg cockerels”
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.
Portioned mix salad with shrimp and avocado
An easy-to-make salad, lightened by the fresh taste of avocado.
Ingredients:
- Avocado
- Lemon juice – 1 tbsp.
- Cherry tomatoes – 150 gr.
- Boiled shrimp - 200 gr.
- Mayonnaise – 1 tbsp.
- Sour cream – 1 tbsp. l.
- Bunch of dill
- Lettuce leaves
Preparation:
Slice the peeled avocado, add lemon juice and chopped dill to it. Cut the tomatoes into 4 parts. Add peeled shrimp and season the salad; add salt to taste. Mix the prepared salad and distribute into portions, garnishing with lettuce leaves.
Served in shortcrust pastry tartlets
Unlike a dense cheese plate, such containers require a special approach. Not every portioned salad recipe can be used for tartlets. Firstly, the mass should be dense and not leaking juice. After all, the dough, saturated with it, may lose its shape.
Secondly, all salad ingredients in tartlets must be crushed almost to the consistency of a homogeneous cream. Only in this case will the “cakes” look neat and appetizing.
Mimosa salad with pink salmon
A slightly different recipe from the classic version. The fishy aroma is not so intrusive, and the taste is more delicate.
Ingredients:
- Pink salmon – 1b.
- Eggs – 3 pcs.
- Processed cheese – 2 pcs.
- Mayonnaise – 150 gr.
Preparation:
Boil the eggs, grate the whites coarsely. Grate the cheeses separately. Cut the fish into pieces.
Alternate layers of protein, fish, cheese and chopped herbs, coat with mayonnaise. At the end, sprinkle this salad with yolk.
Salad “Firewood on the grass”
What ingredients are included in the snack with such an original name? Calm down: there is no wood or grass in the portioned salad recipe. Or rather, the first ones are rye crackers (store-bought, in the form of oblong sticks). And our grass will be finely chopped dill.
- Leave a handful of crackers for decoration. Mix the rest of the pack (100-150 grams) with mayonnaise.
- We do the same thing, only in separate containers, with 200 g of ham cut into thin strips, three hard-boiled and grated eggs, 3 pickles, half a can of green peas.
- Place the cylindrical frame on a flat plate. You can make it yourself by cutting off the top and bottom of a half-liter plastic bottle.
- Inside such a frame we lay out layers of: crackers, peas, ham, cucumbers, eggs.
- Sprinkle the top of the product with finely chopped dill.
- We remove the frame. We place 4-5 “logs” on the “grass” - croutons set aside for decoration.
Cocktail salad “Festive” with cod liver
The name speaks for itself. The delicate taste of liver will not leave your guests indifferent.
Ingredients:
- Potatoes – 3 pcs.
- Carrots – 2 pcs.
- Eggs – 3 pcs.
- Cheese – 100 gr.
- 1 ban. cod liver – 1 b.
- Green onions
Preparation:
Coarsely grate the boiled potatoes and carrots. We also grate the white and yolk of the egg separately. Chop the onion greens. Drain the oil from the liver and mash the meat with a fork. Mayonnaise mixed with yogurt will be used as a dressing.
To prepare a layered salad, lay out potatoes, top with cod liver and sprinkle with onions. Cover the top with cheese, grease it with the prepared sauce. The next layer is whites and carrots, also thoroughly coated with sauce. The composition is completed with grated yolk. Decorate to your liking.
Vegetable salad “Light”
On the holiday table, as a rule, there is a huge abundance of fatty foods. A vegetable salad without mayonnaise will be an excellent snack without extra calories. A beautiful presentation will give the dish a special chic.
Ingredients:
- red onion
- Fresh cucumber - 2 pcs.
- Sweet pepper (preferably different colors) – 2 pcs.
- Radishes – 6 pcs.
- handful of corn
- Green onions
Preparation:
Remove seeds from peppers and chop into small pieces. Also chop cucumbers, radishes and onions. Chop green onions.
Lay out the layers in any order, creating a color composition. Drizzle with olive oil and add salt.
STEP-BY-STEP COOKING RECIPE
Step 1
Pour the salad mixture into a bowl. Take a separate bowl and pre-defrosted shrimp and pour over a dressing of wine vinegar, grapefruit zest, olive oil, salt and pepper.
Step 2
We cut off the peel of the grapefruit and carefully cut out the slices with a knife so that there are no films or white peel. And puts it in a bowl with salad. From the remaining films with pieces of grapefruit, you can squeeze the juice into the dressing.
Step 3
We clean the avocado, place it in a bowl with the juice of one lemon, cut it into cubes and mix with the juice so that they do not darken.
Fruit salad
A refreshing salad with seasonal fruits, the composition can be varied according to personal preferences. Thus, every time you get unique pleasure.
Ingredients:
- Apple
- Pear
- Kiwi
- Banana
- Canned pineapple
- Mandarin or orange
Preparation:
Remove seeds from apple and pear and chop. Peel banana, kiwi, orange, cut into small pieces. Cut pineapple slices or use ready-made pieces. Stir and season the salad with yogurt. Place portions into bowls, sprinkle with nuts if desired.
You should never cut soft fruits into small cubes. They will not retain their shape and will give the dish an overall sloppiness.
With grapefruit
This portioned salad recipe invites you to practice carving, that is, the art of cutting fruit. The task is very simple: we need to cut a large grapefruit so that we get two halves with jagged edges.
- We disassemble the fruit pulp into slices.
- We remove the bitter whitish membranes from them and chop them not very finely.
- Heat a handful of pine nuts in a dry frying pan and let cool.
- Scald one hundred grams of prunes with boiling water, remove the seeds from the soft berries. We also chop not very finely.
- Boil 300 grams of chicken fillet in salted water with spices.
- Cool, cut into oblong pieces.
- Mix chicken meat, grapefruit pulp and prunes. Season with mayonnaise to taste.
- We stuff the salad into two halves of grapefruit peel.
- Sprinkle with pine nuts.
Mixed salad with croutons
The tenderness of the salad is emphasized by the pleasant crunch of the toasted bread. During baking, you can sprinkle with your favorite seasoning and the taste will sparkle in a new way.
Ingredients:
- 2-3 slices of loaf pulp
- Ham – 150 gr.
- Egg – 3 pcs.
- Cheese – 100 gr.
- Onion and parsley
- Dressing - yogurt.
Preparation:
Brown the loaf, cut into cubes, in the oven for about 7 minutes at 200 C. Chop the ham, egg and cheese into small cubes. Add chopped herbs and season with yogurt.
Place in bowls, sprinkle with prepared crackers.
Salad "Lady's whim"
Adding fruit to your salad will excite your taste buds, helping you experience the flavors of the main ingredients in a new way.
Ingredients:
- Boiled chicken – 200 gr.
- Apple
- Canned pineapple (cubes) – 0.5 b.
- Cheese – 150 gr.
- Bow - goal.
- Garlic is a tooth.
- Mayonnaise
Preparation:
Chop the onion and garlic. Grate the cheese. Cut the boiled chicken and apple into cubes.
Assembling the salad, to do this, grease the bottom of the bowl with mayonnaise and add apple cubes. Place the chicken on top of the apples, then chopped onion and garlic. Add pineapples and grated cheese. Serve garnished with greens.
Salad with herring and avocado
If you boil the beets in advance, you can prepare this salad in a few minutes. Looks very nice in serving glasses.
Ingredients:
- Beets – 2 pcs.
- Herring – 300 gr.
- Avocado – 2 pcs.
- Yogurt – 50 gr.
Preparation:
Clean the fish. Maintain the same size when cutting. Add beets, avocado and herring. Drizzle with yoghurt and replace with mayonnaise if desired. Garnish with dill. It is recommended to refrigerate before serving.
Cocktail salad with ham and cheese
The composition contains accessible ingredients, which allows you to create a beautiful composition from the simple.
Ingredients:
- Ham – 100 gr.
- Cheese – 100 gr.
- Bell pepper – 1
- Cucumber – 1
- Egg – 2 pcs.
- Mayonnaise
Preparation:
Cut the pepper and ham into strips. Using a Korean carrot grater, chop the cucumber. Cheese and boiled eggs on a coarse grater.
Place ham on the bottom of a glass wine glass and coat with mayonnaise. Top with cucumber and eggs, again a layer of mayonnaise. Evenly distribute the bell peppers and the final layer of cheese. Garnish with fresh herbs if desired.
"Tenerife" in fusion style
This dish not only satisfies, but creates a special romantic atmosphere. Prepare these appetizers for a candlelit dinner for two. Such salads can be served in small transparent portioned plates or glass vases with legs. In snacks of this type, it is important to maintain a harmonious color scheme.
- We tear lettuce leaves into the bottom of the serving dish with our hands.
- Peel the banana and cut the pulp into even slices.
- Distribute among two vases.
- Place boiled and peeled shrimp (depending on size from 14 to 20 pieces) on a banana.
- Pour three tablespoons of mayonnaise into a separate plate.
- Squeeze the juice of one orange into it, add a pinch of nutmeg and ground black pepper.
- We roast the nuts (walnuts or cashews) and crush them.
- Pour mayonnaise over the salad. Sprinkle nuts on top.
- We place two orange circles on the edge of the vases and serve.
Mixed salad with crab sticks
The presence of seafood in the salad gives it an incomparable taste, which is subtly emphasized by the sourness of the pickled cucumber. Portion serving will delight you and your guests.
Ingredients:
- Crab sticks – 200 gr.
- Pickled cucumber – 2 pcs.
- Egg – 2 pcs.
- handful of corn
Preparation:
Cut the sticks, egg and cucumbers into small cubes. If desired, add green onions, which are finely chopped.
Lay in layers, spreading with mayonnaise.
