Salads from our readers. Recipes for Christmas

Ingredients: 500 grams of cooked red beets, 500-600 grams of boiled potatoes in their skins, 400 grams of boiled and boned chicken, 3-4 onions, 1-2, pomegranate, mayonnaise.
Preparation: the salad, "garnet bracelet" on the holiday recipe to chicken chop, onion crumble and mix with the meat of chicken and lightly fry in a pan, cool. Cooked beets and potatoes peel and grate (each vegetable in a separate bowl). Grated potatoes to put in a ring about 3 cm layer of the ring is smooth, you can put in the center of the cup dishes. Fluff layer of potatoes with mayonnaise, then put it on chicken, onion and mayonnaise over fluff. The last layer - a layer of sugar beet and mayonnaise on top, too, miss the mark. On the last layer of mayonnaise spread out over the entire area of the ring garnet grains.

Special recipe for special day - Snowballs

Ingredients: 6 eggs, a cup of powdered sugar, 200 grams of milk, 200 grams of cream, 2 tablespoons sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla sugar, pinch of salt on.
Preparation: for this dessert recipe vkusnou separate whites and yolks. Chilled whites beat, slightly salted until until they begin to thicken. Then, gradually add the powdered sugar and beat until thickened. Milk, cream and sugar, mix and bring to a boil, add the vanilla sugar. Take a tablespoon of beaten egg whites and immerse in boiling milk and cream mixture. Cook for 1-2 minutes on proteins, turning with a fork. Then remove with a slotted spoon and allow to dry. After that, a creamy blend of milk and strain it again, bring to boil. Egg yolks in a bowl, mash and pour a thin stream into boiling mixture, stirring constantly so the milk does not curdle. Then reduce heat and simmer on low heat until the cream thickens. Ready to pour the cream into the dish and cool. Before serving, "snowballs" Put the cream, garnish with canned fruits and berries.

Chocolate Mousse for Christmas Special

Ingredients:: 150g chocolate, 200g butter, 6 eggs, 50 ml of liquor, berries for decoration (you can frozen), whipped cream, mint

Preparation: Separate the whites from the yolks and beat them with a mixer in a solid foam.  Melt the chocolate in a water bath.  Then, in the chocolate, add melted butter.  Whisk whisk the egg yolks and mix with the chocolate-oil mixture and cool.  Cooked a lot of chocolate, butter and egg yolks, stirring gently, add in beaten egg whites, without ceasing to stir, pour the liqueur.  Ready to Spread the mousse and place on kremankam 2:00 in the refrigerator.  When a table garnish mousse with whipped cream, berries or a sprig of mint.

Christmas Special -Chocolate Tree

Ingredients: 560g dark chocolate, 250g cashew nuts, almonds 1, 2 teaspoons powdered sugar
Preparation: Cover the metal tray or wooden cutting board with foil food. Schedule 9 to foil crosses, size 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 16 and 17 cm distance between the crosses should be at least 2.5 cm from the cardboard cut out a circle of diameter 20 cm circle Cardboard wrap with foil and mark on it cross size of 18cm.
Chocolate cracked into pieces and place in pan (set aside a little Christmas tree for binding). Pan larger than the chocolate, fill with water, put on fire, bring to a boil and place in this water bath pan with chocolate chips. Coarsely crush the nuts. Vsypte nuts in melted chocolate and mix everything carefully.
With Spoon chocolate in foil along the lines marked crosses. Allow chocolate to harden at room temperature or refrigerated, but do not place the dish in the freezer.
All frozen chocolate crosses, in addition, which is located on a circle (it will serve as the basis fir trees) to gently peel from foil. Melt remaining chocolate in a water bath until soft. In the middle of the cross-base Put 1 teaspoon of softened chocolate and place on top the biggest chocolate cross (17 cm). A little push and let the chocolate harden the mass. Just attach the other "branches" from largest to smallest. In the center of the last cross Put the chocolate is soft and stick it in almonds. Herringbone sprinkle with powdered sugar and decorate her cake, dessert, or just put on a festive table.

Smoked chicken salad with grapefruit

Ingredients: 300g smoked chicken meat, 1.5 cups of cooked rice, 1 grapefruit, 120g pine nuts kernels, 2 tablespoons mayonnaise 2 tablespoons sour cream, lettuce, herbs, salt to taste.  

Preparation: Smoked chicken meat cut into thin slices.  Grapefruit Peel, divide into sections, remove the film and cut the flesh into small pieces.  Wash lettuce, dry and finely chop.  Pine nuts and all prepared foods in the salad bowl combine salt, pepper, season with a mixture of mayonnaise and sour cream and mix.  Serve sprinkled with chopped greens.

Pie with chicken liver

Ingredients: For the dough: 1 cup of yogurt, 0.5 cups of mayonnaise, salt, 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 cup flour, 3 eggs, 1 / 2 cup vegetable oil. For the filling: 400g chicken livers, 1 cup milk, 1 carrot, 1 clove of onion, salt, pepper, nutmeg (a pinch), oil. 

Preparation: Boil the milk with one cup of water, add salt and boil the chicken livers, then cool and cut into small pieces.  Two hard-boiled eggs boil, chopped and mixed with the liver.  Finely chop the onion, carrots, grate and fry in vegetable oil. For dough, mix yogurt, mayonnaise and salt, add egg, vegetable oil, stir and add the sifted flour with baking powder.  The finished dough should be in consistency, like thick cream. Grease a baking pan with oil and sprinkle with flour, then pour half of the dough.  Top with the liver, sprinkle with nutmeg and black pepper, and lay on the liver carrots and onions.  Then cover with remaining filling test. Bake the pie for 40-50 minutes in a per-heated to 180 ° C oven.

Layer cake with cabbage

Ingredients: 2 layer prepared puff pastry, egg grease, ½ head of cabbage for stuffing, 1 bunch dill 1 onion, butter or vegetable oil.

Preparation: Remove from the freezer, puff pastry, thawed to it.  Cabbage for stuffing finely shred, onions too finely chop.  Then simmer until tender cabbage and saute onion until transparent in butter.  When the cabbage is tender, add the onions.  Cut greens and arrange the rest of the ingredients, season with salt and pepper to taste and mix well. Roll out one layer of dough slightly larger than the size of the form.  Transfer the dough to a greased form and place the dough on cabbage stuffing.  Then cover with a second layer of dough and the edges well together.  Lubricate the surface of the dough egg, place in preheated 180 ° oven and bake until done for 30-45 minutes.