Salad "New Year's wreath", a recipe with step by step photos

I offer a recipe for a real New Year's salad. The originality of the salad lies in its original appearance. The salad is laid out in the form of a ring and decorated in the form of a New Year's wreath with candles and lots of greens. Having prepared such a salad, you will immediately feel the arrival of the holiday. The "New Year's wreath" contains ingredients from the festive set: crab sticks, tomato, apple, boiled rice and a lot of greens.

Cooking time: 60 minutes.

Ingredients for 5 servings Christmas Salad Recipe:

• rice - 1 cup,
• crab sticks - 300 grams,
• green apple - 1 piece,
• tomato - 1 piece (large size),
• mayonnaise - 200 grams,
• onion greens - 1 bunch,
• dill greens - 2 bunches,
• salt.

Salad preparation "New Year's wreath":

1) Boil rice in salted water until tender, rinse and set aside.
Defrost crab sticks, cut into medium-sized pieces, put in a bowl. Leave a couple of pieces of crab sticks for decoration.

2) It is better to take a green apple with a sour taste, wash it, remove the core with stones and cut into a medium cube.
Wash the tomato and also cut into cubes. Leave a piece of tomato for decoration.

3) Add chopped apple and tomato to crab sticks, put boiled rice, pour mayonnaise and mix. Be sure to add salt.

4) Now take the plate on which the salad will be served, and a glass or jar to make an empty middle in the wreath.

5) Place the glass exactly in the middle of the plate and start laying out the salad. Put the salad tightly around the glass, press down a little. If you have a lot of salad, make a few "New Year's wreaths".

6) Remove the glass, there is an empty space inside the salad.

7) Wash greens under running water and dry, removing moisture. Finely chop the green onions and sprinkle over the salad.

8) Put the dill sprigs on top of the salad so that it looks like branches of a Christmas tree, and the middle will remain empty.