New Year's salad for the Year of the Dragon
Description
Get ready to welcome the New Year with the new Eastern symbol — the Green Wooden Dragon. This means your table should definitely include something he will like, and in return, he will bring you luck and prosperity. I suggest preparing a New Year's salad called "Mitten" for the Year of the Dragon. This salad will delight not only the Dragon, but everyone gathered at your table! The salad is made from ingredients you usually already have at home before the holiday — mushrooms, chicken, eggs, cheese, vegetables, and fresh herbs, so you won't need to go looking for or buying anything special. Moreover, the ingredients are interchangeable: for example, you can replace the mushrooms with pickled cucumbers, and the chicken fillet with ham or sausage, depending on your preference.
Instructions
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Step 1
Prepare all the ingredients. Boil the eggs, carrots, and chicken fillet in advance and let them cool.
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Step 2
Cut the onion and mushrooms into cubes. Fry in vegetable oil until cooked.
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Step 3
Chop the chicken fillet and transfer it to a salad bowl. I used chicken breast, but you can use any part of the chicken.
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Step 4
Add the fried mushrooms with onions, half of the grated carrot (grated on a coarse grater), grated cheese, and eggs (I reserved two egg whites for decorating the salad).
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Step 5
Season the salad to taste, add mayonnaise, and mix.
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Step 6
Place the salad on a flat plate and shape it like a mitten with a little dragon's head.
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Step 7
Place the minced vegetable mixture made from red sweet pepper pulp on the top surface of the mitten shape. Before placing the pepper crumbs, it is advisable to squeeze out the juice to prevent the salad from becoming watery, as sweet peppers can be very juicy! Grate the remaining egg white on a fine grater and sprinkle it over the mitten's border. Wash the herbs thoroughly and dry them. Place them on the dragon's head.
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Step 8
Use the egg white and olive to make the dragon's nose and eye. Cut triangles from the remaining carrot and use them for the dragon's head. You can also cut flames from the carrot to represent the fire the dragon breathes. The New Year's salad "Mitten" for the Year of the Dragon is ready.
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Step 9
Before serving, the salad can be decorated with herb sprigs shaped like "pine branches," sprinkled with "confetti" made of carrot and egg white circles, and the mayonnaise can be piped into a mittened pattern.