How to eat a snowman? Salads and appetizers for New Year

Snowman - one of our favorite heroes and culinary winter "scenes", when it comes to festive decoration of appetizers and salads. And all because of that issue or that festive dish in the form of this wonderful creation is quite simple. This article - a few ideas and recipes and decoration edible snowmen.

Is not the first chefs to the New Year's feast prepared salads and snacks in the form of snowmen: large, small, in different hats (cucumber, carrots, dark bread, etc.), in savory and sweet variations. Today we talk about the savory options - salads and snacks, a snowman.

The biggest snowman was molded out of the snow in 2008. in the US city of Bothell Maine. His height was 37 m, and weight - 6000tonn.

Make an edible snowman can be virtually any light products: eggs, rice, crab sticks, mashed potatoes, cheese, etc. It is remarkable that, making a snowman, for example, the following recipe, you can decorate them any dish - with cold meats, salads, sandwiches, etc.

Recipe for cooking edible snowmen to decorate dishes

You will need: 2 eggs and processed cheese, garlic, sour cream / mayonnaise, salt (if desired also grated nutmeg, black pepper), clearance - greens, boiled carrots, peppers, peas, canned green peas.

How to cook a snowman decoration for dishes. On a fine grater rub garlic, boiled eggs and cheese, mayonnaise or sour cream, mix until a plastic mass, salted and seasoned to taste. Molded snowmen, clinging on the weight of your hands are wet balls of different sizes and stacking them on top of each other, to make a "hand" of the green eyes - of peas black pepper, and nose cap of boiled carrots, green peas - decoration for the body.

You can make a snowman out of rice for sushi or regular rice.

For more "fluffy" figures can roll balls stuck together from a mass to taste (rice, cheese and garlic), a finely grated cheese.

In the form of snowmen, you can even submit full salads - for example, corn salad with crab sticks, rice and eggs.

And you can put an edible snowman in "flat" version, as in this recipe.

Christmas recipe salad with canned fish and rice "Snowman"

Need: rice, canned fish, pickles, sour-sweet apples, boiled carrots or beets, suluguni sauce - mayonnaise, sour cream, soy sauce, hot mustard.

How to cook fish salad "Snowman." Fish mash with a fork, drain the liquid, rubbed on a grater cucumber, drain the liquid from them, just rub the apples, carrots or beets, cheese. Mix the ingredients for the sauce. Spread salad layers on a flat dish in the shape of a snowman, each promazyvaya sauce: boiled rice, fish, cucumbers, apples, carrots or beets, cheese, smear the last layer of sauce. Make a snowman as follows: from the bell pepper and green onions to make scarf, hat - from the finely chopped olives, tassels scarf - of garnet grains, eyes and buttons - olives, mouth - pepper nose - carrot, dill broom.

Christmas salad recipe "muzzle Snowman" with chicken and mushrooms

You will need: 450g of boiled chicken fillet, boiled potato tuber 3, 250g marinated mushrooms, 3-4 boiled eggs, mayonnaise, carrots and olives for decoration.

How to cook chicken salad with mushrooms snowman. Cut chicken into small cubes, then do the same with boiled potatoes, eggs have to separate the whites from the yolks, rub on a small grater proteins, egg yolks used for other dishes. Spread salad layers, each promazyvaya mayonnaise: mushrooms, chicken, potatoes, proteins. Make your mouth, nose and cheeks of boiled carrots, cilia and eyes - from olives, salad before serving to soak.

Then - a few ideas of Christmas decoration in the form of salads snowmen.