Good afternoon! Our country, no secret, is famous for large quantity holidays, and just give the Russian people a reason - and now some event is already being celebrated with might and main.
Of course, any table decoration is meat, fish or vegetable and fruit salads. There are so many of them in our modern kitchen that sometimes you don’t know what to cook and how to surprise your guests.
With today's article I want to open the season variety of snacks. I will select for you the most delicious, interesting and at the same time classic dishes. Well, now, we'll talk about a beautiful, bright and original salad with Sunflower chips.
Why did I decide to start with this dish? Everything is very simple - I miss the summer and sunny days. And this variation of the dish fills the house with warmth and light! I love the idea of cooking and our whole family loves it, because they are especially tender and relatively inexpensive.
I won’t waste time, let’s start analyzing the preparation of an insanely delicious treat!
This dish strikes with its originality, because it turns out to be very aesthetic and will decorate any table. Let's find out soon how to cook it.
We will need:
- chicken breast - 300 gr.;
- mushrooms - 300 gr.;
- eggs - 5 pcs.;
- cheese - 150 gr.;
- olives - 0.5 cans;
- chips - 0.5 cans;
- mayonnaise - to taste;
- salt, ground black pepper - to taste.
Cooking method:
1. Boil chicken breast in slightly salted water, cool. Cut into small pieces.
2. Put the chicken meat in a layer on a plate. From above we make a mesh of mayonnaise.
Important! Lay out the layers in such a way that there is room for the petals.
3. Finely chop the mushrooms and fry them in vegetable oil until tender.
4. Spread them with the next layer and also grease with mayonnaise.
5. Boil eggs, cool, peel. Separate the yolks from the whites.
6. Three whites on a medium grater, evenly distributing them over the mushrooms. Lubricate with mayonnaise.
7. Now we rub the cheese on a fine grater, lay it in an even layer and add mayonnaise.
8. Send the salad for a short time in the refrigerator so that all layers are soaked.
9. Rub the yolks on a fine grater.
10. Before serving, we begin to decorate our dish. We take the chips and form the petals.
11. Cut the olives in half and, starting from the outer edge, lay the halves in a spiral.
12. Our beauty is ready. I think that after reading this step-by-step recipe, you will not have any difficulties in preparing it.
On a note! During cooking, the layers can be salted or peppered to your taste.
Cooking with chicken and mushrooms
There are a lot of variations of this popular dish, but chips and olives always remain unchanged. By the way, do you know who invented this salad? To be honest, no, although they write that this blank was invented by an ordinary resourceful hostess and published on the Internet. So the appetizer bypassed a large audience and became a favorite of holiday tables.
We will need:
- chicken fillet(smoked) - 300 gr.;
- eggs - 3 pcs.;
- champignons - 300 gr.;
- bulb - 1 pc.;
- vegetable oil - 1-2 tbsp. spoons;
- cheese - 100 gr.;
- mayonnaise - to taste;
- salt - to taste;
- chips - 15-20 pcs.;
- pitted olives - 1 can;
- cherry - 1 pc.;
- parsley - 1-2 branches.
Cooking method:
1. In this recipe, we take smoked chicken meat, it turns out to be unusually tasty. Cut the fillet into slices, chop the onion with a knife, and three cheese on a medium grater.
2. We wash the mushrooms, dry them, cut them into thin plates.
3. Hard-boil eggs, cool, peel. Proteins are separated from the yolk. Grate the whites on a fine grater, and grind the yolks with a fork.
4. Onion must be fried in vegetable oil and add champignons. Cook the mushrooms until cooked, at the end do not forget to salt them.
5. And now we proceed to the most interesting, we form our product. Take a round plate and put the chicken fillet on it, grease with mayonnaise.
6. From above we distribute champignons without mayonnaise, since the mushrooms will turn out to be juicy.
7. The next layer is egg white, coat with mayonnaise.
8. Now sprinkle everything with cheese and coat well with mayonnaise.
On a note! Mayonnaise can be replaced with sour cream, so the dish will be less high-calorie.
9. The final layer is the egg yolk. We put the salad for half an hour to soak.
Advice! Do not press the layers, all the ingredients should lie freely. When everything is soaked, the products will compact as they need.
11. Make tomatoes and olives ladybug and garnish with a sprig of parsley. Dinner is served!
How to make a salad with chips and corn
I like to make this dish using corn instead of egg yolk. Your appetizer will sparkle on the table in a new way and will be very bright and fragrant.
We will need:
- 400 gr. chicken fillet;
- 300 gr. champignons;
- 250 gr. sweet canned corn;
- 3 eggs;
- 1 carrot;
- 1 PC. Luke;
- 300 gr. mayonnaise;
- olives for decoration.
On a note! Instead of chicken fillet, you can use crab sticks. You have an awesome option. Because the combination is very interesting.
Cooking method:
1. Boil chicken fillet in advance, fry carrots and onions along with mushrooms.
2. Lay out the components of the dish in layers:
- chicken fillet, cut into pieces;
- mushrooms with onions and carrots;
- eggs, which are grated in advance on a medium grater;
- corn;
Important! Be sure to generously grease all layers with mayonnaise.
3. Put the food in the refrigerator, let it soak. We spread the chips like petals, and the olives in the form of seeds. And you can do without olives altogether, decorating with herbs and tomatoes, do it to your taste !!
Cod liver step by step recipe
Salad with cod liver is quite satisfying and high-calorie dish but very refined in taste. And this option turns out to be very useful, since there are a lot of vitamins in the fish liver that our body needs.
We will need:
- Cod liver - 400 gr.;
- Potatoes - 300 gr.;
- Egg - 5-6 pcs.;
- Bulb - 1-2 pcs.;
- Mayonnaise - 200 gr.;
- Olives - 100 gr.;
- Chips - 50-70 gr.;
- Salt - 1 pinch;
- Pepper - 1 pinch
- Butter - 50 gr..
Cooking method:
1. Peel the onion, cut into small cubes. Fry until transparent in butter.
2. Boil potatoes in their skins, cool, peel, grate on a coarse grater. Put it on the bottom of a deep plate and salt it.
On a note! AT this method cooking, you can use chopped, not grated vegetables .
3. Lubricate with mayonnaise on top, pressing firmly with a spoon.
4. Spread the onion over the entire surface and also coat with mayonnaise.
5. Knead the cod liver with a fork, first removing excess oil. Lay out in an even layer and soak with mayonnaise.
6. Boil the eggs for 10 minutes. Cool and clean. Separate the yolks from the whites and grate. Separately, lay out first the mayonnaise proteins, then the yolks.
7. The top layer, if desired, can be lubricated with mayonnaise, or you can not. Cut the pitted olives in half and place on top. Before serving, decorate the dish with chips, making petals out of them.
Mushroom free appetizer recipe
The following recipe has classic design, but with its own nuances and amendments. Instead of chicken meat, we will use duck meat, and we will completely exclude mushrooms, but we will add pickle. This cooking method is the most frequent in our family, as my husband does not like food with mushrooms.
We will need:
- 400 gr. duck meat;
- 1 carrot;
- 100 gr. leek;
- 2 eggs;
- 1-2 pickled cucumbers;
- 100-150 gr. hard cheese;
- 0.5 cans of canned corn;
- 0.5 cans of pitted olives;
- 200 gr. mayonnaise;
- oval chips for decoration.
Cooking method:
1. Boil duck meat, salt. Cut into strips.
2. Lubricate the meat with mayonnaise. Peel the carrots and grate on a coarse grater. We spread on a dish on top of the duck and also coat with mayonnaise.
3. Cut the pickled cucumber into strips and spread on top of the carrots and, as usual, do not forget about the mayonnaise.
4. Grate the cheese on a coarse grater over the cucumber. Cut the leek into rings and lay on the cheese. Spread generously with mayonnaise.
5. boiled eggs grate on a medium grater. Put on top of the onion, spread the layer with mayonnaise.
6. Spread corn kernels all over the dish. Cut the green part of the leek into pieces and arrange around the plate.
Video on how to cook Sunflower
Of course I found it for you best video recipe for this tasty snack. Cook with pleasure.
Advice! It is better to remove the skin from the chicken in advance and not use it, as the taste of the dish will deteriorate due to excess fat from the skin.
It's time to say goodbye to you. I hope it was useful and showed you some of the nuances of cooking classic salad"Sunflower". And I'll tell you a secret, such an appetizer is instantly eaten, and this is a compliment in your direction.
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From this material you will learn how to cook at home the Sunflower salad, popular in our country, the recipe for which is in classical form simple enough and understandable even for a novice in the kitchen. You will also find other ways to prepare this delicious dish with chips, chicken and mushrooms, step by step recipes with videos and photos of each stage of work. Cooking absolutely any salad is a fascinating creative process, and in order for everything to work out with a bang, you must follow a number of simple rules.
There are certain ways of cutting salad ingredients, such as cubes (small, medium, large), straws, slices, sticks, and others. Some salad recipes call for all ingredients to be cut in the same way.
The second rule concerns salad dressing. After all, the taste of the salad as a whole depends on the right dressing. Basically, the salad is dressed immediately before serving, except for those salads whose recipe requires dressing in advance. Salt and pepper are best put on the table and used already when eating salad.
Step by step recipe with photos. Classic way cooking salad "Sunflower" with chips, chicken, mushrooms:
BEST RECIPES FOR COOKING A HOLIDAY SALAD WITH CHIPS, OLIVES, CHICKEN, MUSHROOMS, CARROTS, COD LIVER .
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It is unlikely that in Russia there will be a culinary specialist or housewife who does not know at least one recipe for this colorful and delicious salad. It is very reminiscent of the traditional Russian table "Herring under a fur coat" because of the preparation in layers and unusual appearance. The dish itself is a product of folk culinary ingenuity. This is evidenced by its incredible popularity, simplicity, interesting appearance and universal adoration. The recipe has dozens of variations for every taste and it is difficult to distinguish the original from them, in addition, almost every day new types of this dish appear on the network, offered by users on the forums. Classically, "sunflower" is prepared using boiled chicken fillet, mushrooms and eggs and mayonnaise. The remaining ingredients are usually of no key importance and are easily replaced. The salad is garnished with olives and large potato chips, which act as sunflower seeds and petals. Each recipe that we will cover in this article is incredibly simple and takes 30-40 minutes in the worst case, without much rush. The dish will look very presentable on any table and will surely delight guests with an outstanding taste!
Classic recipe
Most popular recipe This salad contains the following ingredients:
- 500 grams of chicken fillet;
- 250 grams of pickled or fresh champignons;
- 150 grams hard grade cheese;
- one jar of olives, preferably pitted;
- 4 chicken eggs;
- 150-200 grams of mayonnaise;
- potato chips, preferably unflavoured;
- salt and pepper to taste.
Important: remember that the recipe is very versatile and each of the products can be replaced with another! For example, chicken eggs on quail or chanterelles instead of champignons.
As soon as everything necessary ingredients collected - you can start cooking. First of all, you should cut the chicken fillet into small pieces and put it in slightly salted boiling water for 15-20 minutes. During this time, it is necessary to cut the mushrooms, if they are pickled. Fresh champignons fry for 7-10 minutes in a small frying pan. After processing the mushrooms, it's time to boil the chicken eggs. Pour cold water and cook after boiling for about 7 minutes (eggs should be hard-boiled). Drain all the water from the pan with fillet pieces and put the chicken on the bottom of a deep salad bowl. Welded eggs must be separated from the shell, and then the protein and yolk should be separated. Grate whites and yolks on a medium grater into different cups! The cooled chicken pieces at this stage are mixed with a small amount mayonnaise and crush the mass at the bottom of the salad bowl.
Important: make sure that there is no excess water in the chicken fillet! Excessive moisture will break the consistency of the salad.
Put a new layer of mushrooms on the chicken fillet and spread them on top with a small amount of mayonnaise and lightly tamp, trying not to spoil the lettuce layers. Now evenly pour the mashed egg white so that it covers the entire surface of the cup. Grind the cheese on a grater and pour into a salad bowl, distributing as evenly as possible. The last layer of salad is a chopped egg yolk. Here you need to pay special attention - the yolk should cover all the places where mayonnaise or protein shines through, the surface must be yellow! All that's left to do is decorate the salad. Olives cut into quarters or even smaller - prettier salad looks like when the "seeds" are small. Choose big chips, preferably of the same size and insert one end into the dish along the edge of the salad bowl - they play the role of flower petals. Before use, the dish should be cooled in the refrigerator for half an hour and it can be served.
"Sunflower" with cod liver
An equally popular salad recipe is significantly different in preparation from the previous one. This is not surprising, because the "sunflower" is rather a form and way of decorating a dish, and not its exact recipe. The list of products that we need for this variation of the salad:
- 3-4 medium sized potatoes;
- two cans of cod liver;
- 4 eggs;
- jar of olives;
- mayonnaise;
- crisps.
This recipe is much easier to prepare and cheaper than the previous one. Potatoes are boiled in their skins for 15-20 minutes. Readiness should be checked periodically - ready-made potatoes are easy to pierce with a knife or fork to the middle. Cool the boiled potatoes cold water and remove the skin. Here you can immediately put the boiled eggs. Cut it into very small cubes or three to coarse grater and put the pieces of potatoes on the bottom of the same deep salad bowl. Cover the potatoes with an even layer of mayonnaise on top. We take out the cod liver from the jar, finely chop it or just knead it with a fork into fibers. We form a new layer from the liver and carefully tamp it down without damaging the previous one. Next, pour out the chopped hard-boiled egg white and again cover everything with mayonnaise, leveling the surface of the salad. This layer is almost final, so it should be even and as smooth as possible. On the final stage cover the rest of the layers with grated egg yolk and decorate the salad with olive seeds and chips petals, as in the previous recipe. Before serving, let the dish cool in the refrigerator for 10 minutes.
"Sunflower" with seeds
For lovers unusual taste there is another variation of the salad: using real sunflower seeds.
Salad Ingredients:
- 500 grams of chicken fillet;
- 200-250 grams of pickled champignons;
- 4 chicken eggs;
- 150 grams of peeled sunflower seeds;
- jar of olives;
- 1-2 small carrots
The recipe can rightly be considered the most unusual, although it differs from others quite slightly. Boiled chicken fillet pieces are mixed with sunflower seeds and mayonnaise and tamped as the first layer of salad. Next, pour the chopped pickled champignons, mixed with chopped boiled carrots and spread them with mayonnaise. boiled protein gently level on the previous layer and sprinkle with grated yolk, so that it completely covers the surface of the previous layer. It remains only to decorate the salad with "seeds" of olives and petals of chips. Chilled salad can be served at the table.
Tip: decorating ready salad you can lay out pieces of olives in a fine mesh of mayonnaise previously drawn on the top layer - so ready meal looks even more attractive and unusual.
Other options
Sunflower salad recipe great amount cooking methods and ingredients used! If you do not have any product for one of the recipes, you can fantasize and change it as you like. There are variations of salad using cod, crab sticks, shrimp, corn and even pineapples! Feel free to experiment and you will be pleasantly surprised by the results. You can also decorate the salad different ways, except for the traditional "sunflower salad with chips": using poppy seeds, black caviar, real peeled seeds, greens, tomatoes and pineapples. The main conditions that must be observed are the puffiness of the salad, the presence of meat, smoked or boiled or fish and decoration in the form of a sunflower. Enjoy your meal!
Salads with meat - simple recipes
Salad "Sunflower" great option for holiday table. It is very bright, juicy and tasty. Even the most demanding guests will like it.
30 minutes
150 kcal
5/5 (4)
Today I want to introduce you to Sunflower salad recipe with chicken and mushrooms. This dish is just made for festive feast. First, it is very tasty. Secondly, it continues the tradition of classic puff salads. Thirdly, it has an original design. I want to prove that this dish really looks very beautiful. To do this, I attached this photo to the Sunflower salad recipe with chicken.
To prepare the salad we need only a grater and a knife.
Ingredients:
How to choose ingredients
- It is desirable to use black olives. They look best in this salad, like real seeds.
- Cheese choose hard varieties.
- I prefer to use exactly chicken fillet because it is the most tender meat. But you can also take turkey fillet.
- Crisps you need to choose such that they are the same size and shape. Then the salad will look better. As a rule, Pringles chips are used for this purpose.
- If you don't count mayonnaise, that our salad can be called dietary. Therefore, choose a low-calorie, light mayonnaise, then your dish will be very healthy.
- In the recipe for Sunflower salad with chips and chicken, there is also mushrooms. I use mushrooms. You can take both canned and fried mushrooms. Who likes it better.
Step by step recipe
Subtleties of cooking
- Products can be prepared in advance. Boil the eggs and grate them with the rest of the ingredients. Boil the chicken fillet and chop the olives. After that, you can begin to form a salad. So much more convenient.
- The proportions of the ingredients can be changed to your liking. You can use fewer mushrooms, more fillets, or vice versa. The number of olives is also approximate, as they can be laid out thicker or less often.
- Some housewives prepare Sunflower salad with pineapples. These fruits give the salad a pleasant freshness and exoticism. All ingredients of the dish remain the same. But between the layers of mushrooms and egg white a layer of pineapples appears.
- Someone replaces pineapples with fresh cucumbers.
- Sometimes a layer is added fresh onion. You can use leeks or plain onion.
- There is also a sunflower salad recipe with smoked chicken. As you may have guessed boiled fillet is replaced smoked meat Chicken. It is also cut into small pieces and put in the first layer.
- I like another option. This is a sunflower salad recipe with chips and corn. The top layer in this recipe is canned corn. AT this case it replaces olives. Highly beautiful option lettuce, besides corn tastes great.
Sunflower salad recipe on video
I suggest watching this video. It prepares a salad "Sunflower" with chips, chicken and mushrooms.
How to decorate and serve
Ready salad already has a complete look. But still it can be decorated a little more.
It’s cold and gray outside the window, the weather doesn’t please something ... On such days, we all want to spend more time at home, closer to the warm hearth, and direct our energies mainly to the implementation of creative ideas, creating with our own hands cozy beauty for the most relatives and loved ones.
Cooking is a separate topic and, indeed, inexhaustible for the application of fantasy. Therefore, let's create something not just tasty, but very beautiful, bright, unusual. The holiday is right around the corner!
Just imagine: here, guests came to your house frozen, and maybe even a little sad under the influence of bad weather, approached the laid table, and there ... a sunflower blossomed there! Just like a real one, big, bright! Such a completely summer, like the sun, cheerful, and most importantly - very, very tasty! What a surprise! Hey hostess! Where did this miracle come from?
In fact, the Sunflower is a festive puff salad. It is prepared easily and quickly, has a soft, delicate taste, it doesn’t require much trouble, but at the same time it looks just amazing. Well, let's create this masterpiece for our loved ones? Shall we give them a piece of summer?
Today we will cook three varieties of this delicious salad:
To begin with, we will reveal to you a couple of secrets, thanks to which you can prepare a really delicious salad.
Sunflower is a very simple salad in every sense of the word. Its leading components, which determine the main "sound" of the melody of its taste, are either meat (chicken) or cod liver. Both of these products are quite tasty on their own, and therefore you should not interrupt their taste in a salad with an abundance of other products, especially spicy ones with a strong smell. The main rule for preparing Sunflower is to avoid multiple ingredients. It only at first glance seems that you can put more of this and that in the salad, and it will come out very cool. But do not give in to such a temptation - the dish will only lose from this. The task of the cook in preparing this salad is to skillfully emphasize and complement the taste of the main product (meat or fish).
The second important point is that, since the Sunflower salad has not only taste value, but also aesthetic value on the festive table, it must be prepared especially carefully. And therefore, you should pay close attention to the choice of chips, designed to become the petals of the future flower. Chips must be best quality: oblong shape, the same size, not crumbling.
The number of products indicated in the recipes is calculated for about 8 people, taking into account the fact that, in addition to the Sunflower, you will have at least 2-3 other salads on the table. As a rule, a total of 200-250 g of salads is required per person.
Classic recipe Sunflower salad with chicken and mushrooms
In this recipe, the delicate taste of boiled chicken goes well with cheese and eggs. Everyone's favorite classic, which anyone, even a novice hostess, can do.
Prepare the necessary products:
- Boiled chicken meat without skin - 300 g.
- Fresh mushrooms - 500 g. Usually champignons are taken for this salad, but if you are lucky enough to find porcini mushrooms, it will turn out even tastier.
- 4 hard-boiled eggs.
- 300 g hard cheese.
- A jar of pitted olives. Be careful when buying them: sometimes olives are on sale, in which some kind of filling is inserted instead of seeds. Such fruits are not suitable for salad, take the most ordinary ones, without additives.
- Chips packaging.
- Mayonnaise.
Tip: in the absence fresh mushrooms, for the preparation of Sunflower, you can also use dried ones. It is important to know that in this case, the mushrooms must be soaked in advance, several hours before cooking, so that the pieces are completely saturated with moisture and become fresh in texture.
Let's start cooking:
The first step is to fry the mushrooms. Cut them into medium-sized pieces and put them in a pan with heated vegetable oil. While frying, constantly stir the mushroom mass so that the moisture comes out of it faster and more evenly.
Don't forget to salt the roast well during cooking.
Be very careful not to burn. Most importantly, remember that fresh mushrooms during heat treatment give a strong shrinkage in volume, so do not be stingy, buy mushrooms with a margin just in case.
At the end of cooking, you can, if you want, add finely chopped onions to the mushrooms for frying. With fried onions, the dish will turn out to be spicier in taste, but without onions, the salad will come out easier, not so oily. Choose what you like best.
Now take a suitable flat dish and start laying out the layers of lettuce
Cut boiled chicken sharp knife into neat pieces.
Arrange the first layer of chicken on a serving platter in a neat circle shape.
Now cover it with thin stripes or a lattice of mayonnaise.
Tip: mayonnaise for lubrication of layers is best applied not directly from the package, but using a special culinary bag with a narrow opening. So you are guaranteed not to overdo it with this heavy product, which will positively affect the taste of the dish. In addition, often the opening for mayonnaise on the package is too wide, which makes it difficult to gently squeeze it into the salad. With a pastry bag, you can do everything easily and beautifully.
If you don’t have such a bag, just cut off a small corner from a plastic bag of mayonnaise.
Put the fried mushrooms in the next layer.
Again draw a small thin mayonnaise lattice.
The third layer will be egg whites grated on a coarse grater.
Attention! We do not grease this layer with mayonnaise.
Put a layer of cheese grated on a coarse grater on top of the proteins.
Let's draw a thin mayonnaise net on top.
The last layer is egg yolks, grated on a fine grater.
Drain the liquid from the olives and decorate the surface of the salad with them, spreading the fruits in the form of sunflower seeds.
If the olives are large, cut them in half lengthwise.
Use the chips to build the petals of your delicious flower.
Look how beautiful it turned out!
Put the finished salad in the cold for at least 6 hours.
Sunflower with chicken and chips
There is another common recipe for this holiday recipe. In this version, there is also a carrot in the composition and a completely different design option. See the video recipe for all the details.
Sunflower salad with cod liver
It's over savory option of this dish. Bright, rich, specific cod liver flavor is successfully mitigated by products with a delicate and neutral taste. Very harmonious combination!
For this salad we need:
- Two jars canned liver cod.
- A couple of large boiled carrots.
- 4-5 hard-boiled eggs.
- 1 medium bulb.
- 1 tablespoon 9% apple cider vinegar
- Hard yellow cheese - 300 g.
- Jar of olives.
- Chips packaging.
- Mayonnaise.
Attention: in this salad, we will not coat each layer with mayonnaise. So that the dish does not come out too heavy, we will add mayonnaise through a layer, since cod liver is a component with a very high content fat, and there is a risk of overdoing it with the total fat content of the salad.
First of all, you need to pickle the onion. So excess bitterness will go out of it, due to which the salad will turn out more tender. Finely chop the onion and pour over the vinegar. Insist 20-30 minutes.
Drain excess liquid from the cod liver and place the mass in a small bowl. Gently mash the mass with a fork so that it breaks up into small pieces. But do not overdo it, you should not turn cod liver into pate.
Take a flat salad bowl and put the pieces of cod liver on its bottom in the shape of a circle.
Drain the marinade from the onion and cover the cod liver layer with it.
Draw a thin mesh of mayonnaise.
Put the next layer boiled carrots, grated on a coarse grater.
Draw the mayonnaise lattice again.
Now lay out a layer of cheese, grated on a coarse grater.
Build petals from chips.
Remove the finished salad for several hours in the cold.
Tip: in order to make it easier to lay out the lettuce layers in the form of a regular circle, use a special culinary ring mold.
Oh, what a marvelous flower we have! It would be so good to eat it without leaving the kitchen table! But do not rush, let the salad brew properly - this will make it even tastier and more tender. Be sure to put vases with fruits (apples, pears, grapes, peaches), as well as salads from fresh vegetables with lots of greenery to further emphasize the warm summer theme of the winter holiday table. Your guests are guaranteed a great mood!
