New Year's salad Fir-trees-Needles

Step-by-step preparation

Cooking time: 20 mins

1. STEP 1

   

   To begin with, in this case, remove all the liquid from the jar of mushrooms, squeeze them out a little and put them in a frying pan over medium-high heat and nothing! oil, first of all, evaporate all the water from the mushrooms and only after that you can add oil and fry them. If you use fresh ones, then chop them not very finely and put them in a hot frying pan with vegetable oil, immediately salt them, salt will help the mushrooms get rid from the remaining liquid inside.

2. STEP 2

   

   While the mushrooms are fried, let's prepare the rest of the ingredients. Let's get to the beans, if you don't have red beans in your pantry - it's not critical, you can use white ones, but red ones are usually harder, so they turn out more interesting in this salad. Drain all the sauce from the beans, rinse and dry briefly, then put them in a large, beautiful and elegant salad bowl.

3. STEP 3

   

   Let's move on to the cheese, it's better to use semi-hard cheeses, as very soft cheese can turn out to be one big lump, and if the mushrooms are not cool enough when you add them to the salad, then hang on, you'll definitely be eating a salad with melted cheese :) Take the semi-hard cheese and grate it it’s on a coarse grater, cheese is the basis of this salad, so don’t feel sorry for it and don’t take the worst one. Once you’ve grated the cheese, add it to the salad bowl.

4. STEP 4

   

   Mushrooms, beans, cheese, well, of course, there’s some garlic here, grate a few cloves of garlic on a fine grater into a salad bowl. Never replace fresh garlic with dry garlic, if you don’t have fresh garlic, then run to the store as soon as possible!)

5. STEP 5

   

   Let's dress the salad with whatever mayonnaise you like, according to your taste. Of the recent good ones, I would like to mention "Maheev" with sun-dried tomatoes, well, very tasty mayonnaise and a great addition to any salads. Mix the salad well.

6. STEP 6

   

   I answer your question - no, I didn’t forget about the mushrooms, they just cool down so that they can be added to the salad, otherwise, as was said above, the cheese will float and the salad will no longer be a salad at all. Once the mushrooms have cooled, add them to the salad bowl and mix.

7. STEP 7

   

   Let's get to the New Year's part, the serving! I used a salad bowl from the fix price store, very healthy and not expensive, put the salad in it in one even layer and lightly press it down so that everything is on the same level, without lumps.

8. STEP 8

   

   Next, we lay out the croutons, croutons are perfect, crunch the baguette, they are ideal with assorted cheeses, they are not hard enough to break your teeth, but soft and tender.

9. STEP 9

   

   Now let’s tear off the dill branches, wash them, shake off all the water and lay them out so that we get these cute Christmas tree branches. Well, what’s a Christmas tree without toys? To decorate the Christmas tree, use pomegranate seeds, an inexpensive and simple option, but if you want something more interesting, then replace the pomegranate with red caviar, bon appetit and Happy New Year!