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 right foods. It all depends on your imagination. Suitable for cold cuts: sausage different types, balyk, boiled pork, lard with meat layer, brisket. There are no rules for cutting, or laying out food on a plate, so take a large sharp knife with a thin blade in your hands and go.

1. To add flavor to your cold cuts, you can decorate it with vegetables such as lettuce, cucumber slices, olives, olives, parsley, etc.
2. Large slices of meat products (balyk, boiled sausage) can be rolled up, or simply wrapped in a roll.
3. You can place a container of your favorite sauce in the middle of the meats. A product that perfectly complements meat ingredients – hard cheese of various varieties.
4. 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".
5. A variant with a flower in the middle is also possible, but which will be laid out from a balyk. For starters, you just need to practice a little.
6. You can lay out the sliced ​​products both in strips and in layers in a circle. In the middle there may be cheese rolled into a tube, inside which is a slice, or a whole olive.

Photo examples of cold cuts:

Beautiful vegetable slicing for the new year

Vegetable cutting is also a very important part of the festive table, because everyone knows that meat without vegetables is poorly digested. To do this, you can use absolutely any vegetables that you like. Knives should be sharp and, if desired, curly.

It's so good that nowadays, even in winter, you can buy fresh vegetables, so for the New Year it will be as easy as shelling pears to make vegetable slices. The most popular foods are cucumbers, tomatoes, bell pepper, greens, cherry tomatoes.

Fresh vegetables can be supplemented with pickled or pickled cucumbers and tomatoes. How it will be laid out on a plate depends only on you and your imagination.

Why can't you do without slicing vegetables:
Vegetables are a great treat for those who are losing weight. And in our time, almost everyone is trying to somehow take care of themselves.

This is a great substitute for all kinds of salads. After all, there are people who may not like your salads, or they simply do not like salty food or food seasoned with oil / mayonnaise.
And finally, who doesn't want to crunch on fresh juicy vegetables!

Photo examples of vegetable slicing:

New Year fruit slices (very beautiful)

Fruit is not only useful material and vitamins, but also bright, beautiful decoration New Year's table. Fruit platter is good because it can also be placed next to other dishes, and not just with desserts, since fruits ideally complement cold snacks.

You need to cut them before the very arrival of the guests so that they do not lose their fresh look... You will need a sharp knife to cut the fruit into thin slices.

Photo examples of cutting:

Imagine with pleasure! 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 symbols according to the Chinese calendar. And every year on the fridge place of honor takes a magnet with this or that animal, on festive table themed dishes are arranged, and we dress up in the desired colors. Despite the fact that I am rather skeptical about this whole carnival, nevertheless, I constantly fall under the influence of society and in recent days I also join the general atmosphere of festive troubles. Still, the holiday is approaching and I want to spend these days in high spirits, make new wishes, open the gift wrapping and have fun with family and friends from the bottom of my heart.

Therefore, despite the fact that the menu for the New Year's table has not yet been scheduled, I know for sure that I will cook one wonderful dish - a vegetable salad-sliced ​​"Cockerel" for New Year's table 2017, the recipe for which is in front of you. Although it's not even a salad, it's just vegetable snack, which is effectively laid out on a dish in the shape of a cockerel - a symbol of the coming year. For such a serving, you need to take fresh fruits of cucumber, tomato and salad peppers, as well as fresh parsley, dill and green onions.

Here it is important to include all your creative reserves in order to beautifully lay out the chopped vegetables on the dish and get a bright juicy snack. By the way, you do not need to salt and pepper vegetables, because they will quickly let the juice out, but you can serve several separately different sauces.

They will look very nice on the table, which you can also cook according to our recipe.

- cucumber fruit (fresh) - 1-2 pcs.,
- tomato fruit (ripe) - 2 pcs.,
- pepper (salad, different colors) - 2 pcs.,
- greens,
- pepper or cloves - a pea,
- a leaf of lettuce or Chinese cabbage.

How to cook at home

There are no particular difficulties in the technology of the snack, but first, we thoroughly wash all the vegetables and herbs with running water and let them dry.
We are engaged in tomato fruits. First, we cut off the barrel of one fruit, cut it in half, on one part we make shallow diagonal cuts - we get the comb and chin of the cockerel.



Cut the rest of the fruits into neat slices.
Next, cut the cucumbers into diagonal slices of medium thickness.
Cut out the stalk of salad peppers and clean out the seeds, then rip them apart.



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 apply it to the head. Add blanks from tomatoes - a scallop and a chin and make an eye from a pea carnation.





Next, lay out the body of the cockerel from cucumber slices.
We make a beautiful tail out of greenery.



Then on top we form wings and feathers from tomato slices.



Additionally, we decorate the bell pepper.
Put a leaf of lettuce at the bottom of the cockerel.



Prepare sauces separately. You can submit

Rooster salad is excellent option for the New Year's celebration. On New Year's Eve, it is customary to surprise guests with a wonderful table, symbolizing the wealth and well-being of this house. As the well-known proverb says, “how will you meet New Year, you will cheat him. " What exactly to cook on the table so that the symbol of the next year is the Red Rooster satisfied with the dishes displayed and the decoration of the table, bringing good luck to every home?

The rooster is a contradictory bird: it walks proudly, then it intends to peck at the heel of a passer-by. He prefers to eat seeds and grains, he likes to nibble on fresh vegetables and fruits.

It is for this reason that it is advisable to use hard cheese, boiled eggs in the salad, 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. Processed cheese rub on a fine grater. Eggs need to be peeled, the whites must be carefully separated from the yolks. Mash the yolks thoroughly with a fork. Boiled proteins three on a fine grater. We begin to lay: spread the grated cheese in the shape of a rooster. Lubricate it with mayonnaise. Next, lay out a layer of chopped fish, this layer is also coated with mayonnaise. Lay out the proteins on top, coat the layer with mayonnaise. We spread the yolks. From red sweet pepper cut out the beak, comb, tail and legs, eyes.

You can see the details of this recipe here:

Decorate salad you can also ordinary bell pepper.

Salad decoration "Christmas": dill, pomegranate, corn, green peas.

Salad dressing: in this variation, the salad is simply spread over potato chips.

Salad decoration "Boat": original boats from fresh cucumber filled with salad. The sail is attached with a toothpick.

Salad decoration "Lapti": processed cheese (in bags), herbs, canned mushrooms.

Pineapple salad dressing: Walnut, green onions. In the second version, chopped canned mushrooms and green onions.

Salad decoration "Myshki": mice are made of boiled eggs, cheese and black pepper (peas), the surface of the salad is sprinkled with grated yolk.

Salad decoration "Slice": Place the salad on a crescent-shaped plate. Sprinkle completely on top with grated cheese on a coarse grater. The edge of the "watermelon wedge" is a grated cucumber. Next is the cheese. And then a tomato without a crust. Seeds "watermelon" from half rings of olives. In the second version, grated egg white and boiled carrots were used as decoration.

Salad decoration "Rybka": Sliced ​​sausage (different types) and cheese are spread in the shape of a fish. Mouth - a sirloin of a tomato, an eye - a ring (egg white), a pupil - a slice of tomato or olive.

Salad decoration "Roses": Roses are made from a thin slice of sausage, rolled into a roll, with straightened edges.

Beetroot salad decoration.

Salad decoration "Pochatok": used for decoration canned corn and green onions, cut lengthwise on one side.

Salad decoration "Karta": green onions, tomatoes and olives.

And thus, in a roll, you can roll any puff salad and then slice it. Looks original. In the photo, it is wrapped in a roll.

Salad decoration "Pouches": salad in portions placed in pancakes, tied pancake bag green onions.

Boiled egg swan.

Tomato roses.

Ladybugs made from tomatoes and olives.

Scallop made from tomato and boiled egg.

Chain, fan and openwork rings made from fresh cucumber.

Sometimes a head is enough to decorate a salad. onions and a little fantasy.

Decorating New Year's salad "Dog"

Such a Poodle will perfectly decorate any New Year's dish 2018. Symbol of the year. The muzzle is made from cauliflower inflorescence, the body is made from eggplant, the legs and tail are made from zucchini.

"Boiled egg cockerels"

A charming decoration of the New Year's table "Petushki from boiled eggs". They can be used to 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 cock of their boiled eggs. In a small incision from the sharp end of the egg, you need to insert a scallop blank with a beak, made of boiled carrots. Eyes can be made from poppy by preparing a hole in advance with a toothpick.

"Egg White Rooster"

Shape the salad into a rooster, sprinkle with grated on top egg whites... The tail and wing feathers are made from half rings of olives, while the rooster's legs and beak are made from French fries. Tomato scallop and beard.

"Chickens in an egg"

Decorating New Year's salads

Also, the ideas below are perfect for decorating a New Year's salad.

Christmas trees for the New Year's table

Cut the apple in half. Place half of the apple on a plate, cut side down. Insert a wooden skewer into the middle of the apple. And put slices on it. Wonderful Christmas trees will turn out.

Father Frost

Salad in the shape of Santa Claus can be made using unwrapped crab sticks, boiled rice, grated egg white (beard) and pieces of cheese (Santa Claus bag and face).

Christmas bell

Decorating New Year's Salad: grated on top boiled carrots... Ornament from grains of black caviar (caviar snack). Above is a spruce sprig and a bow.

Salad decoration

Serving the dish is half the battle. And even if you are preparing a simple and uncommon salad, decorating it correctly, you can depict the most unusual and original dish... The main thing is to adhere to the theme of a 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 form of a tree or a snowman. Or create unique salads for your birthday, 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: tulip, rose or lilac.

To decorate a salad, even the simplest one, take, for example, a vegetable one, you can use either the same vegetables, or take an original and tasty splash, 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 invented from cottage cheese mixed with chopped herbs and garlic passed through a press. We form balls and arrange them around the perimeter of the plate, here you have an ordinary snack with a piquant touch.

Pineapple and chicken, cheese and onion salad can be served right in the fruit itself. Just take out the pulp, put it on the dish itself, and leave the peel as a decoration for the salad - the boat. Place the salad directly into the pineapple trough and garnish with herbs on top.

Mimosa salad is simple and familiar to most. But here's how original and new it will look if you plant a sprig of white flowers on top. Such decoration of salads is very unusual, since we will make snow-white flowers from a boiled egg, or rather protein and yolk. Cut the yolk into circles - this will be the middle, and for the flower itself, use the tops of the egg white, making 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 the usual festive "Olivier" can be beautifully transformed with the help of fresh apple and cucumber, eggs and korean carrot... Here, as the famous film says: "There is also such a thing as ingenuity that is important." Therefore, all products should be combined in taste and theme with the main ingredients of the dish. Cut apples into thin half slices, cucumbers - like into rolls. Fold a circle of cucumbers by folding them in half. In the middle, we will make a swan from apples: just 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 a root on it. Now, as in the previous salad, we will make flowers from eggs, only in the middle we put not the yolk, but a few Korean carrots.

Calla lilies can be made from cheese simply and easily, as a decoration for a salad of absolutely anyone. We just cut the cheese thinly into squares, then fold the pieces, like a glass for seeds, as they used to make from paper, put them on a salad, add a yellow center of pepper, eggs, and lay out the stalks from green onions... The middle can be made black - from olives, green - from olives.

You can also make flowers from plum tomatoes. It turns out excellent tulips, if the fruit itself is cut into four parts on top of a few centimeters, put on a salad, make stems and leaves from parsley or dill. But the lilac can be depicted from processed cheese, simply grated on a coarse grater in the form of a bunch of these flowers, and adding a drop of food coloring.

Rooster sandwiches

As you know, the symbol of 2017 - the Rooster loves grain and everything that is produced from it. Therefore, sandwiches in the shape of a cockerel will certainly bring 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 have also been given a wavy shape. By the way, it is 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. Pupils are carved from olives, beard from radish or tomato. To prevent the sandwich from being dry, you can grease the bottom circle of bread with butter or mayonnaise.

Salad decoration "Rooster"

The salad is laid out in the shape of a rooster. Top decorated with boiled chicken yolk... The tail, wings, comb, beak, legs and beard of the rooster are made of bell pepper. The eyes can be made from olives. Thus, you can decorate many New Year's salads, for example, "Olivier"

Decorating salad "Cockerels from boiled eggs"

Charming decoration of the New Year's table "Cockerels from boiled eggs". They can be used to 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 cock of their boiled eggs. In a small incision from the sharp end of the egg, you need to insert a scallop blank with a beak, made of boiled carrots. Eyes can be made from poppy by preparing a hole in advance with a toothpick

Chicken New Year's table decoration

But such a chicken - cockerel, can be put on a plate for everyone. A wonderful decoration for the New Year's table. A cockerel is made from a circle of pineapple, carrots and black pepper (eyes).

Rooster decoration

This wonderful rooster is made of vegetables: cucumber, onions, beets, carrots, radishes. (you can decompose the cutting so that the rooster turns out)

Salad decoration "Rooster of vegetables and fruits"

Rooster decoration for salad or, as in this case, for fruit slices. A rooster is made of orange (body), pineapple leaves (rooster's tail), bell pepper (wings, scallop and beard of a rooster), eggplant (neck and head), carrots (rooster's beak).

Tangerine Chicken salad dressing

But such wonderful tangerine cockerels should certainly decorate any New Year's table... Plus, it's very easy to make them.

Egg White Rooster Salad Decoration

Most salads can be decorated this way for the new 2017. Shape the salad into a rooster, sprinkle with grated on top egg whites... The feathers on the tail and wings are made from half-rings of olives, the legs of a rooster and the beak are made from french fries. Tomato scallop and beard.

Chickens in an egg salad dressing

Well, aren't they cute! Boil the eggs, carefully cut off the sharp end of the egg until the yolk. Remove the yolk, mash with a fork and mix, for example, with melted cheese. Fill the egg again with the filling, cover with the "egg white hat". We make chickens' eyes from black pepper, beak and legs from boiled carrots.

Such chickens can be used to decorate any festive New Year's salad: mimosa, salad with crab sticks, salad with chicken and pineapple.

Chicken Sandwiches

These sandwiches are very easy to make. On a thin slice of bread, lightly fried on butter and grated with garlic, put a slice of cheese. Make the beak, legs and scallops from boiled carrots or tomatoes. Place the sandwiches on top of the herbs. The beauty!

And here are more pictures with roosters, hens and chickens on our table from the vastness of the Internet.

Before you is a hen - a laying hen, eggs can be sculpted from grated cheese with mayonnaise and garlic, or you can put real ones, of course, without the shell and cut in half and spread them down with the yolks.

And chickens are chickens ...

Cockerels in Russia have always been loved and there are a lot of songs about them.

Let the coming year according to the eastern calendar be the year of the rooster - or rather the chicken, since this year is female.

For Russia, let in New Year the cock crows and all the evil spirits will perish! From the Russian land ...

COCKS in slicing

Lay out to your taste!

And this is for dessert - a sweet rooster ...

Pastries can be crowed too ...

And this is for children for breakfast: mashed potatoes, cutlet, dill, green onion, tomato beak and scallop, cucumber eye