Easter salads 2021

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-01-12 17:37

No Easter feast is complete without delicious and beautifully decorated salads. You need to draw up a festive menu in advance and think about which ones are better to cook for Easter in 2021. Recipes with photos of the simplest and most delicious salads, which will surely please all guests at the festive table, can already be collected in a culinary piggy bank.

Swallow's Nest salad

Very satisfying, tasty and original decorated salad. The unusual appearance and delicate taste of the dish will pleasantly surprise you. Thanks to the satiety, the salad can easily replace the usual dinner.

Ingredients:

• 150 grams of Peking cabbage;
• 150 grams of fresh champignons;
• 1 apple;
• 1 carrot;
• 150 grams of ham;
• 200 grams of boiled chicken meat;
• 1 chicken egg;
• 100 grams of sour cream;
• 3 tbsp. tablespoons of sunflower oil;
• 1 teaspoon of lemon juice;
• 100 grams of mayonnaise;
• 1 bunch of fresh parsley;
• 5 quail eggs;
• salt, ground black pepper - to taste.

Preparation:

• Rinse fresh herbs, fruits and vegetables under running water.
• Cut the mushrooms into thin strips, put in a frying pan preheated with sunflower oil, fry until golden brown.

• Chop the Chinese cabbage into thin strips.
• Chop a fresh apple (to avoid darkening, you can sprinkle it with a spoonful of lemon juice), carrots, chicken, egg and ham.

• Set aside a small amount of prepared ingredients, they will be needed to decorate the salad.
• Chop parsley, mix with lemon juice, mayonnaise and sour cream. Let's get the sauce for salad dressing.

• Add the fried mushrooms to the remaining ingredients, season with pepper and salt to taste. Season with ready-made sauce and stir.
• Put the salad in the form of a nest on a flat dish. Make the sides a little higher than the middle. Decorate them with the set aside ingredients.

Put peeled quail eggs in the very middle. Place the finished appetizer in the refrigerator for a couple of hours so that all the ingredients are well saturated with the sauce, after which it can be served to the table, garnished with herbs

Ham salad with mushrooms

Such a delicious and simple Easter salad is prepared quickly from the available ingredients. The finished dish tastes delicious, eggs and ham add satiety to it, and tomatoes and mushrooms give it a special piquancy.

Ingredients:

• 300 grams of champignons;
• 2 ripe tomatoes;
• 70 grams of hard cheese;
• 250 grams of ham;
• 3 boiled eggs;
• 1 onion;
• 2 tbsp. tablespoons of sunflower oil;
• 1 tbsp. a spoonful of butter;
• salt, freshly ground pepper - to taste;
• mayonnaise - for salad dressing.

Preparation:

1. Cut the ham into medium cubes.
2. Rinse ripe tomatoes under running water, remove the stalks, cut into small cubes.
3. Grind the cheese on a medium grater.
4. Peel, grate or chop the eggs with a knife.
5. Cut the mushrooms washed under running water into strips or cubes.
6. Chop the peeled onions as small as possible.
7. Preheat a frying pan, melt the butter. Put chopped onion, add a pinch of salt to taste, fry until soft over low heat.
8. Remove the onion from the pan using a perforated spoon. Put mushrooms in the remaining hot oil, salt, sprinkle with ground pepper, fry until the liquid has completely evaporated. After reducing heat, continue to fry until golden brown.
9. Put the ready-made mushrooms on a paper towel to get rid of excess fat.
10. Combine chopped ham, fried onions, mushrooms, cheese, eggs and tomatoes in a deep salad bowl.
11. Season with salt and sprinkle with ground pepper to taste, season with mayonnaise. Stir, decorate the finished dish with herbs and serve.

Optionally, add medium-sized sweet peppers to the salad.

Easter Egg Salad

For Easter 2021, you can serve a very simple and delicious, but originally decorated salad in the form of an Easter egg. Preparing this dish will not be difficult. The presented recipe with a photo will help.

Ingredients:

• 2-3 potato tubers;
• 5 chicken eggs;
• 2 carrots;
• 2 onions;
• 300 grams of meat, ham or sausage;
• sunflower oil;
• ground pepper, salt - to taste;
• mayonnaise.

For decoration:

• fresh herbs;
• Bulgarian pepper of different colors;
• canned corn.

Preparation:

• Rinse potato tubers, place in a preheated oven, bake until tender for 40 minutes. Boil the potatoes if desired.
• Grate the carrots on a coarse grater, cut the onion into small cubes.
• Boil hard-boiled eggs.
• Fry the onions over medium heat using sunflower oil. Then add the grated carrots and continue to fry until tender. Salt a little to taste.

• Chop the carbonate or boiled meat into small cubes.
• Peel the eggs, divide into yolks and whites, and grate separately.
• Peel baked potatoes, chop with a fine grater. Place the grated vegetable on an egg-shaped flat dish. Sprinkle with salt on top and brush with mayonnaise.
• Next, lay out the chopped chop and distribute evenly. Also coat with a little mayonnaise.

• Spread the grated yolks evenly and brush with mayonnaise.
• Next - carrots with onions and a layer of sauce.

Put the protein on top of the finished salad. You do not need to grease the top of the dish with mayonnaise - decorate the salad with fresh dill and colorful bell peppers, as shown in the photo

If desired, the salad on top can be decorated with canned corn and boiled carrots, cutting out beautiful flowers from it.

Easter wreath salad

Such an unusual Easter salad can be prepared for a holiday or to diversify the usual menu. This dish will delight you with its unusual appearance and bright decoration.

Ingredients:

• 250 grams of chicken fillet;
• 2 potato tubers;
• 3 eggs;
• 1 onion;
• 1 carrot;
• 1 clove of garlic;
• 70 grams of hard cheese;
• vegetable oil - for frying;
• bell peppers, parsley leaves - for decoration;
• Provencal herbs;
• ground black pepper, salt - to taste;
• mayonnaise.

Preparation:

• Peel the onions, cut into thin half rings, put in a deep salad bowl. Add a large spoonful of vinegar to the onion, a pinch of granulated sugar and salt, mix.
• Dry the chicken fillet washed under running water with paper towels. Grate the meat with black pepper, salt and Provencal herbs. Fry the chicken fillet in preheated sunflower oil until cooked on both sides.

To remove excess fat, place the sautéed meat on a napkin for a few minutes. After cooling, you need to cut it into small cubes

Peel the pre-boiled potato tubers, grate on a medium grater. Place a glass in the center of a flat plate, spread grated potatoes evenly around it, grease with a layer of mayonnaise and press lightly with a spoon. Then spread the pickled onions evenly

• The next layer is fried meat, it must be liberally smeared with sauce.
• Using a fine grater, rub the boiled carrots.

Peel the eggs, carefully divide into yolks and whites. Mix the grated carrots with the yolks and put on top of the meat, pour over with mayonnaise

• Mix the grated hard cheese with the garlic passed through a press, put on top of the salad, also pour over the sauce.
• Grate the remaining proteins on a fine grater, put on top of the remaining ingredients. Press lightly with your hands so that the finished salad retains its shape after removing the glass.
• It remains to decorate the ready-made salad for Easter 2021 with fresh parsley leaves and flowers cut from sweet peppers.

You can decorate the salad to your liking, using any vegetables and fresh herbs.

Red fish and avocado salad

This salad turns out to be very tasty, satisfying and tender. A dish is being prepared according to a simple recipe with a photo of the available ingredients. And the original presentation will surely give everyone present at the festive table a good mood for Easter in 2021.

Ingredients:

• 250 grams of lightly salted salmon fillet;
• 120 grams of round rice;
• 1 fresh cucumber;
• 200 grams of avocado;
• 1 carrot;
• 3-4 eggs;
• 1 red onion;
• 1 lemon;
• 5-6 feathers of green onions;
• 200 grams of mayonnaise;
• 1 teaspoon of granulated sugar;
• sweet pepper - for decoration;
• ground black pepper, salt - to taste;
• fresh dill and parsley.

Preparation:

• Rinse the rice several times so that the water becomes completely transparent, boil until tender.
• Rinse carrots and boil until tender.
• Boil eggs for 10 minutes.
• Squeeze 1 tablespoon of juice out of the lemon. Add 1 teaspoon of granulated sugar and ½ teaspoon of salt to it. Send the sauce to the rice.

• Finely chop the green onion, fresh parsley and dill separately.
• Peel one head of red onion, cut half into small cubes, carefully cut off one ring. Chop the remaining vegetable into thin half rings.

• Peel the avocado, remove the pit, cut the pulp into small cubes and pour over the lemon juice.
• Grind the peeled eggs with a coarse grater.
• Add chopped green onions, a tablespoon of mayonnaise to the grated eggs, mix the ingredients.
• Chop fresh cucumber into small cubes.

• Cut lightly salted red fish in the same way.
• Grate pre-boiled and peeled carrots.
• Put a layer of boiled rice on a flat plate or oval dish, form in the form of a fish's body. Coat with a layer of mayonnaise.

Then place the chopped red fish evenly. Sprinkle the salmon with finely chopped parsley, dill and red onion

• Put chopped cucumbers in the next layer. Spread generously on top with mayonnaise.
• Place the avocado, brush with a little sauce.

• Spread a layer of eggs mixed with mayonnaise and chopped dill.
• At the very end, lay out the chopped carrots, grease again abundantly with mayonnaise.

To depict a fish, red onions, dill, green onions and pieces of sweet pepper can be used on top of the finished salad, as shown in the photo.

Original red cabbage salad

To surprise guests, you can prepare a rather original Easter salad and serve it in portions. An unusual serving of cabbage leaves and a pleasant taste will favorably highlight it on the festive table.

Ingredients:

• 600 grams of red cabbage;
• 450 grams of boiled chicken meat;
• 300 grams of canned corn.

For refueling:

• 1 tbsp. a spoonful of lemon juice;
• 70 grams of mayonnaise;
• ½ tbsp. tablespoons of granulated sugar;
• ½ tbsp. tablespoons of table vinegar;
• 1 pinch of ground pepper and salt.

Preparation:

To prepare the dressing, mix all the necessary ingredients in a salad bowl. Set aside for a while

Carefully cut off the protruding part of the red cabbage stump. Remove 5 outer cabbage leaves and rinse under running water

• Finely chop the remaining cabbage, put in a deep salad bowl.
• Cut the chicken into medium slices.
• Throw the canned corn on a sieve to drain the liquid.
• Add canned corn and chicken to the chopped cabbage. Pour the prepared dressing over the ingredients, stir.

Gently arrange the prepared salad over the prepared leaves and serve on the festive table for Easter 2021

All of these simple and delicious salads can be prepared for Easter 2021. And if you dream a little, then it is easy to diversify the presented recipes with photos to your taste.