Wedding salads included in the banquet menu should be varied, because people with a wide variety of taste preferences gather at the table. Fish, meat, vegetables, seafood - there should be enough salads on the wedding table so that the guests are full and satisfied.

The very design of the dishes should be beautiful and appropriate for the occasion on which everyone gathered at the table that day. With the help of carving, you can decorate any salad, but you need a little for this: curly knives and a little imagination.

If possible, it is better to serve the salad in portions, and not on a common dish. This presentation is more convenient for guests.

How to cook salads for a wedding - 15 varieties

A salad with such a romantic name must be on the wedding table, especially since it looks so much like a real bouquet. Salted fish lovers will undoubtedly appreciate the familiar taste of “herring under a fur coat”, which sounds in a new way.

Ingredients:

• Carrot
• Beet
• Potato
• Herring fillet
• Fresh cucumber
• lettuce leaves
• Mayonnaise
• hard cheese
• Garlic
• Pita

Cooking:

Boil and grate vegetables on a fine grater, and finely chop the herring and cucumber into cubes. Put fresh lettuce leaves on a dish, and lay the rest of the products on them in layers: first herring, then chopped cucumber, carrots and potatoes. Make a layer of mayonnaise between each layer. Boil the beets, grate with cheese on a fine grater and add chopped garlic to taste. Stir and cover the salad on all sides with this mixture. Roses and lettuce made from pita bread will help make the dish look like a real bouquet.

Among all the salads on the table, there should be salads that are not seasoned with mayonnaise, because there will definitely be a person who does not eat it. Such a light salad with vegetables, chicken and crispy croutons is just right for such people.

Ingredients:

• White loaf
• Boiled chicken fillet
• Hard cheese (parmesan)
• Yalta purple onion
• fresh cucumber
• Lemon juice
• Vegetable oil
• lettuce leaves

Cooking:

Prepare croutons. To do this, cut the loaf into cubes and fry them in a pan until they are browned. Disassemble the meat into fibers and put in a salad bowl. Add grated cheese and cucumber, cut into strips. Add the onion, cut into half rings, and lettuce (just pick it with your hands). Add croutons and dressing from vegetable oil, lemon juice, salt and pepper.

A delicious salad with a name corresponding to the event will also be appropriate at a wedding banquet. The salad is decorated with swan figurines made from boiled eggs.

Ingredients:

• boiled eggs
• Onion
• hard cheese
• Apple (sour)
• Crab sticks

Cooking:

Boil hard-boiled eggs, four of them are needed for decoration, and the rest of the whites are separated from the yolks. Separately grate egg whites with yolks on a fine grater. Chop and pickle the onion to get rid of its bitterness. Coarsely grate the cheese together with the sour apple, and cut the crab sticks into thin strips.

Spread layers on a dish: yolks, pickled onions, cheese, apple, crab sticks, egg whites. Add a little mayonnaise to egg whites with yolks and crab sticks to make the salad more juicy.

Swans are made from the remaining eggs. Two eggs are torsos, and two are heads. Connect them together with a toothpick. On the torsos, a cut is made at the bottom to achieve stability. From the cut protein, you can build ponytails, wings, necks. Small pieces of carrots will be used instead of a beak, and eyes can be cut out of pieces of olives.

Snacks and salads with red fish are constant guests on the festive table, and a wedding is no exception. After all, the richer the wedding table, the better the young people will live - this is what the people think. It is worth preparing this salad, at the end of the feast there will be no crumbs left of it.

Ingredients:

• Smoked red fish
• Crab sticks
• boiled eggs
• boiled rice
• boiled carrots
• Curd soft cheese
• Mayonnaise
• Sour cream

Cooking:

Carefully cover a container with a deep bottom with cling film, and then line the walls and bottom of this container with thin strips of red fish.

Prepare a cream for the salad: mayonnaise and sour cream (4 tablespoons each) and a little curd cheese. Mix well until smooth and apply a little mixture on the fish in an even layer. The next layer is chopped eggs and cooked cream as a layer. Then crushed crab sticks with a layer follow. Grate the carrots and put on the salad, smooth and grease. At the very end, lay out the rice, smooth and grease with the rest of the cream.

Carefully wrap the ends of the film and put the salad in the refrigerator overnight for soaking, and then, gently turning it over, put it on a dish. Thus, it turns out that the top layer will be the bottom, and only the fish will be visible from above.

Among other salads, try making a salad called "Royal". The products in it are chosen so well that the result will definitely please. Chicken, mushrooms and prunes are the perfect trio for a salad.

Ingredients:

• Boiled chicken fillet
• Champignon
• Prunes
• Walnuts
• Onion
• Mayonnaise
• Greenery

Cooking:

Fry the mushrooms in vegetable oil along with finely chopped onions. Cut the chicken into small cubes and add the mushrooms to the meat. Grind the steamed prunes and cheese, add to the rest of the products.

Season the salad with mayonnaise, add salt and pepper to taste, and top with nut crumbs. You can decorate with greenery.

Chicken can be replaced with turkey fillet or quail meat.

If you cook a salad according to this recipe, you should get not only a delicious dish. It will really look like a bouquet with delicate violets.

Ingredients:

• Boiled chicken fillet
• Prunes
• Fresh champignons
• Cucumber
• Korean carrot
• Mayonnaise
• salted cracker
• spinach leaves
• Radish

Cooking:

Chicken, prunes and cucumber cut into strips. Fry the mushrooms in oil, add pepper and salt to taste. All products are laid out in layers on a dish and each one is smeared with mayonnaise: chicken, prunes, fried mushrooms, cucumber and, at the very end, Korean carrots.

You can start decorating. Cover the sides with crackers, make violet leaves from spinach. The flowers are made from radishes, which are cut into very thin rings and stained with blue cabbage juice to resemble the flower.

Salmon salad with crab sticks will undoubtedly delight guests, because it is seasoned with a delicate dressing of sour cream, mayonnaise and mascarpone cheese.

Ingredients:

• Lightly salted salmon
• Crab sticks
• boiled rice
• Cucumber
• Gelatin
• Mascarpone
• Mayonnaise
• Sour cream
• Paprika
• lettuce leaves

Cooking:

Hard-boil the eggs, and rice until tender with paprika and spices.

Next, a deep dish is lined with cling film and laid out with slices of fish. Grated egg yolks are laid on it. They need to be smeared with cream, and for it the dissolved gelatin is mixed with mayonnaise, sour cream and mascarpone. The cream is well mixed. Next comes a layer of crab sticks, cut into small strips, and a layer of cream. Then follows a layer of grated egg whites and a layer, and at the very end a layer of rice. Gently smooth and brush with the rest of the cream.

Send the salad cake to the refrigerator for 6-8 hours. Next, fresh lettuce leaves are laid out on a dish, and you need to put a salad on them. To do this, you just need to turn it over and remove the cling film.

Salad called "Jelly" is a tasty and original dish that can decorate any wedding banquet.

Ingredients:

• Carrot
• Canned green peas
• Potato
• Ham
• An Apple
• Lemon juice
• boiled eggs
• Mayonnaise
• Sour cream
• Mustard
• Gelatin

Cooking:

Boil potatoes and carrots. Drain liquid from canned peas, dissolve gelatin in it. Next, prepare the sauce from mayonnaise, mustard and sour cream. Salt and pepper to taste. Cut the ham with vegetables into cubes and mix them with canned peas. Cut the apple into cubes, sprinkle them with lemon juice and leave on the board.

When the gelatin swells enough, put on the stove and heat, but do not bring to a boil. When the gelatin cools down a bit, it is mixed with the sauce and the resulting mixture is poured over the chopped products. Mix well and put in a form lined with foil, half of the salad. Then lay whole boiled eggs and fill them with the second half of the salad mixture. Smooth out and put in the refrigerator. In order for the gelatin to harden, 6-8 hours are enough. The salad is laid out from the mold on a dish, you can cut it with a knife into even parts.

This salad is very colorful in design: a lot of greens, flowers from vegetables and bright lingonberries. It all looks very appetizing on a platter.

Ingredients:

• Boiled potatoes
• Fresh cucumber
• boiled carrots
• Marinated mushrooms
• pickled cucumber
• canned green peas
• Bulgarian multi-colored pepper
• Cowberry
• green onion
• Parsley
• lettuce leaves
• Olive oil

Cooking:

Cut the potatoes into small cubes, and the carrots into half circles. Take a fresh cucumber and cut into slices, and peeled bell pepper into cubes. Cut pickled mushrooms and cucumber in the same way.

Chop the green onion and cut in half. Mix one half with chopped vegetables. Drizzle salad with olive oil, pepper and salt. You can add a little mustard. Decorate arbitrarily to get an imitation of a forest clearing.

Why not make a salad with such an impressive name? It is quite suitable for a wedding banquet. The sweetish aftertaste of crab sticks in tandem with apple sourness is an unexpected pleasant taste.

Ingredients:

• Crab sticks
• Processed cheese
• boiled eggs
• Green apple
• Onion
• Butter
• Mayonnaise

Cooking:

The salad is laid out in layers on a wide flat dish and after each layer a layer of mayonnaise is made. First comes the grated egg whites. They are followed by crab sticks, very finely chopped. Next comes chopped onion and butter, finely grated (from the freezer). The oil is not smeared with mayonnaise, it is better to slightly salt it. The next layer is an apple grated on a fine grater, followed by grated processed cheese. The last layer is crushed yolk. Cool and let soak, decorate as desired.

To make the processed cheese easy to grate, it is slightly frozen in the freezer, and the grater is smeared with refined vegetable oil.

In this salad, in addition to healthy vegetables, there is an ingredient unusual for a salad. Berries from cherry jam do not spoil its taste, but add "zest" to this light vegetable salad.

Ingredients:

• White cabbage
• green apples
• Carrot
• Lemon
• Pitted cherry jam

Cooking:

Chop the cabbage, and cut the carrots and apple into strips. Remove the zest from the lemon and squeeze the juice into a separate bowl. Mix together chopped food and lemon juice in a salad bowl. Season the salad with a small amount of cherry syrup and garnish with jam cherries.

Which place always knew how to please wedding guests? Only in the village, because all the inhabitants gathered for the walk and everyone had to stay full. It is such a rustic salad, hearty and unpretentious in cooking.

Ingredients:

• Pork
• Onion
• Greenery
• Sugar
• Vinegar
• Vegetable oil
• Spices

Cooking:

Boil pork for one hour with a whole onion and spices, salt shortly before the end. Cool the meat and cut into strips. Put in a deep bowl and cover with a lid.

Cut the onion into thin rings and chop the greens. Mix. Prepare a marinade from 50 ml of boiled water, 3 tbsp. sugar, 1.5 tsp salt, 9 tbsp. vinegar, 0.5 tsp ground pepper and 5 tbsp. rast. oils.

Now spread the meat and onions with herbs in layers, pouring them with marinade. Then put the salad in a cold place for soaking for 8 hours. Be sure to mix several times, but very gently. It remains only to put the salad in a salad bowl and decorate with chopped herbs.

This salad is usually prepared in Jewish families for a wedding. Why not make the same layered salad?

Ingredients:

• Pork or beef
• Onion
• boiled eggs
• Chopped walnuts
• Beet
• Prunes
• Mayonnaise

Cooking:

Lettuce is laid out in a salad bowl in layers, starting with onions. It must be cut into half rings and briefly pour boiling water, then squeeze. Behind him spread the meat, cut into small cubes, grease with mayonnaise. Then spread the grated eggs, a little mayonnaise. The next layer is repeated - it's onions, and then grated eggs and a little mayonnaise. Now it's the turn of the prunes, it needs to be steamed and cut into thin strips. Smooth, grease with mayonnaise, then a layer of boiled beets, grated on a fine grater. Lubricate everything with mayonnaise, decorate with chopped walnuts.

Another interesting salad, which is prepared in portions. A minimum of products and unusual preparation are the keys to the success of this snack salad.

Ingredients:

• Potato
• hard cheese
• Crab sticks
• boiled eggs
• Mayonnaise
• Red caviar

Cooking:

Cut the potatoes into thin strips and fry until golden brown, let it dry on a paper towel. Spread fried potatoes in greased small molds and add a little grated cheese with mayonnaise on top. Place in oven and bake until cheese is melted. Carefully remove the potatoes from the molds so as not to destroy the structures.

Cut crab sticks into thin strips and mix with chopped eggs, add mayonnaise. Salt a little, mix. Spoon the mixture over the potatoes and smooth out. Decorate with grains of red caviar with sprigs of greens.

Another delicious salad with a name and decoration appropriate for the celebration. You should definitely cook it, lay it out in the form of wedding rings, which are a symbol of the wedding.

Ingredients:

• boiled pork
• Marinated mushrooms
• boiled carrots
• Boiled potatoes
• boiled eggs
• Onion
• Mayonnaise

Cooking:

Coarsely grate the carrots and potatoes, cut the mushrooms with meat into cubes. Chop the onion in half rings, marinate it for a short time. Eggs cut into slices. Spread in layers in the form of a ring or two crossed rings. Products should be laid out as follows: potatoes, mushrooms, pickled onions, meat, carrots and eggs. Coat each layer with mayonnaise. You can decorate with pomegranate seeds and canned corn. Let the salad rest in a cold place.

You can not buy mayonnaise in the store, but cook it at home. To do this, beat the egg and, without turning off the mixer, gradually add vegetable oil in a thin stream. As soon as the mass acquires the desired color and consistency, add salt, ground pepper, a little mustard, sugar and a little bit of vinegar or lemon juice.

Let your wedding table burst with salads and all kinds of dishes, and the young ones glow with happiness, and then the holiday will be a success!