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The eastern horoscope has tightly entered the life of Europeans, although the Chinese New Year 2020 comes a month or a half later than the Gregorian. The hostess adjusts the attributes, decoration of the table, salads, desserts to the totem animal. In 2020, the White Metallic Rat entered into law, so everything is subordinated to its taste preferences and color. The mouse is omnivorous, which means you can create a menu without fear of violating certain canons in meat, fish, fruits or vegetables.
What can not do without on the table
The Chinese believe that the Rat brings wealth, fertility to its year, so the tables should be even more plentiful than all previous years. The mouse opens a 12-year cycle, which means that the doors are not only in 2020, but also on all subsequent ones, up to 2032. Following the Eastern view, the mistress of a leap year is greeted with cereals, cheese, meat, fruit and vegetable desserts.
To include the basic set of favorite rat dishes, you can make a plan:
- Main course. Poultry or meat is cooked with some of the cereals: buckwheat, lentils, rice or millet in the form of a side dish or a stuffed version.
- Salads, canapes must be mixed with cheese and meat.
- Vegetables, fruits are added to appetizers, the main dish or cooked in a stew, baked form, grilled.
- Desserts and cakes should preferably be decorated with slices of fruit, caramelized vegetables. Cheesecakes will also please the Rat.
The mouse is not Mouse’s favorite dish, but it is omnivorous, so there will be no prohibitions on seafood. She is favorable to mushrooms, nuts, sweet cocktails, light alcohol, tea, compotes. But it is better to refuse coffee and sweet soda, they scare away a pungent odor. The colorful decor, small details arouse the rodent's increased interest, so table setting and decoration on New Year's Eve 2020 comes to the fore.
Decoration and table setting
The appetite and mood directly depend on how the food is served. On New Year's Eve, this rule works at times, because the feast begins at a physiologically unusual time for most people. And the meeting of the White Mouse should be solemnly pleasant, so that it endowed the owners of the house with the promised wealth. Small figures must be placed on the table in the form of a symbol of the year. Buy elegant napkins, scented candles, Christmas wreaths. The rat is attentive to detail.
White color, metal decorations, chrome appliances or mirror, reflective surfaces will be appropriate in the design and table layout. But to overload the table with everyone and immediately a bad decision, the Mouse loves simplicity and sophistication at the same time. A white linen tablecloth, beautifully folded napkins, a pair of metal candlesticks, fabric bags with cereal are enough for a festive atmosphere and satisfaction of the hostess of the year.
Salad decoration options
Salads in the New Year of the Rat - this is a field for the implementation of ideas for decoration. Use eggs, greens, olives, carrots, mayonnaise to make an ordinary dish elegant.
Salad "Novelty" with rice, ham and cheese
The composition of the ingredients will delight the curious Mouse, because at the same time it meets all its taste needs. And for guests it will be an unexpected discovery. You will need:
- hard cheese - 200 g;
- ham - 150 g;
- raw long grain rice - 30 g;
- chicken egg - 2-3 pcs.for salad and 1 pc. for decoration;
- quail egg - 2-3 pcs.;
- mayonnaise "Olive" - 150 g;
- ketchup "Tomato" - 20 g;
- water - 100 ml;
- sunflower oil - 5 g;
- black pepper peas - 15 pcs.;
- ground pepper whisper;
- salt to taste.
Step-by-step cooking instructions with the final photo of the decorated salad:
- We wash the rice under running water until the water becomes clear. In boiling, slightly salted water with a volume of half a glass, lower the washed rice, cook for 10-15 minutes until tender. Cool, lightly sprinkle with ground pepper.
- Boil all hard-boiled eggs, cool, clean.
- Lubricate the fine grater with sunflower oil. Rub in separate plates 150 g of cheese, 3 eggs. 30 g of cheese will be left for decoration.
- Cut the ham into small strips or rub on a coarse grater.
- We’ll prepare a dressing in the bowl: mix mayonnaise with ketchup.
- On a flat dish without sides, put the salad in layers, each coat with dressing, except for the top. The sequence of layers: rice, ham, eggs, cheese.
- Decorate the salad. From whole peeled eggs we make mice. From chicken you get a big mouse, from quail small ones. The muzzle is denoted by 3 pcs. peas of black pepper: eyes and nose. From the cheese we cut out the ears and a thin tail.
- We decorate the salad with mice and slices of cheese.
Salad “Mouse joy”
This dish will please with simplicity of preparation, and it can be decorated together with children. Prepare the products:
- smoked chicken breast 450 g;
- 8 eggs;
- Dutch cheese 200 g;
- sweet and sour apple 1 pc.;
- red bell pepper 1 pc.;
- mayonnaise 250 g;
- allspice 10 pcs.;
- walnuts.
Instructions on how to cook and decorate the dish:
- Cut the breast into small strips.
- Boil hard-boiled eggs, cool. 3 pcs. crumbled into a salad, 5 leave for decoration.
- Finely chop the nuts with a knife or chop in a blender.
- Three cheese on a coarse grater. Leave 20 g for decoration.
- Sweet pepper cut into a small cube.
- We mix all the ingredients, add the apple, grated on a fine grater. Mix with mayonnaise, salt if necessary. But, most likely, salt will not have to be salted because of the smoked taste of breast and mayonnaise.
- We spread it on a flat dish. We make mice out of whole eggs. On the muzzle pepper eyes and mouth. The tail also left the cheese. Garnish with slices of cheese, mice and a few cubes of pepper.
Mouse crab salad
Decorating all dishes from above is not so interesting. One of the usual salads can be fully designed in the form of mice. You will need:
- lettuce 2-3 pcs.;
- crab sticks or meat 350 g;
- hard-boiled eggs - 8 pcs.;
- canned corn 1 b;
- mayonnaise 150 g;
- Dutch cheese 200 g;
- a pinch of salt.
For decor:
- radish 2 pcs.;
- black caviar 10 pcs.
Crab sticks, eggs, cut into small cubes. We leave one crab stick for mouse tails, cut it lengthwise into long thin strips. We open the corn, express the juice. Three hard cheese on a fine grater, leave a piece of 15-20 g for decoration. Combine everything in a deep bowl, add mayonnaise, mix. Leave for 5 minutes. On a flat dish, lay out washed and dried lettuce leaves, torn in an arbitrary size. For each piece of sheet lay out a separate mouse. We form the bodies with our palms, like a large cutlet. Give the shape of a mouse. On the face we make eyes out of black caviar, add a tail of crab stripes at the back. In the center of the dish we put a few pieces of cheese. Ears are made from circles of radishes. Alternatively, ears can be made from cucumber, cheese or egg white.
Christmas trees, balls, candles and snowmen
Any traditional dish of the New Year's table looks unique if it is dressed up in accordance with inalienable holiday attributes:
- Herringbone. There are two options: we give the shape of a coniferous beauty or dress up in a green fur coat. For spruce paws, dill, parsley, onion feathers, green peas or olives are suitable.
- Ball. Put a few different salads on a plate, cover them with different decor, or make a large salad ball on a large flat dish. For color and diversity we take: egg yolk, coconut, pomegranate seeds, herbs, beets, carrots, tangerines, olives, corn.
- Candle. Lettuce in the form of a candle and decorate with vegetables. And you can make "real" candles.In a bell pepper of yellow, red or green color we put a salad, and we will depict a burning flame with a slice of carrots. Candles can also be made from paprika and crab sticks.
- Snowmen The constant companions of Santa Claus, without them it is impossible to imagine a holiday. Let them take their rightful place in the center of the festive table. They can also be voluminous. In this case, it is better to make small "snow" balls so that the salad does not fall apart. Or we will depict on the salad bowl only the face of a Snowman. And from the salad in the form of the good-natured Olof from the fairy tale Frozen, all children and guests under 15 will be delighted. White color will create mayonnaise, coconut, egg white.
- Chimes are directly associated with the New Year. The photo shows several ideas for decorating salads. You can repeat them or transform them into something of your own. The main thing is to get a taste, then the fantasy becomes endless.
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