Even the most simple salad can be dressed in such a way that it becomes the main decoration of the festive table. In this article we tried to pick up the simplest and most beautiful ideas for decorating salads.

Salad decorations for any occasion

Salad dressing: shape, sprinkle with grated cheese. The keys are made of slices of cheese and olives. Childbirth from tomato and greens.

Salad dressing: salted straws; fresh cucumber rings arranged in a chain shape, red fish wrapped in a roll on the ends of straws, lettuce, olives, canned corn.

Bees Salad Decoration: olives, olives and fresh cucumber for wings.

Decoration of Calla salad: the base of the calla flower from cream cheese (in bags), stamens from boiled carrots, stalks and leaves of green onions.

Salad decoration "Asters": crab sticks used as flower petals. Leaves, stems made of fresh cucumber.

Salad decoration "Basket":  the basket is made of green onions, which are intertwined between salty straws.

Lukushko salad decoration: weaving a basket made of pieces of hard cheese, a flower of egg white and boiled carrots. Chives, chopped in rings.

Palm Salad Decoration: palm trees made of olives, planted on wooden skewers for barbecue, and green onions.

Heart salad dressing: grated cheese, green onions at the base, pomegranate seeds for edging, cherry tomatoes as berries, fresh cucumber - leaves, green onions - stalks.

Bouquet salad decoration:  Tulips from tomato stuffed with salad; stalks of green onions.

Chamomile salad decoration: egg white and yolk, thinly sliced \u200b\u200bfresh cucumber.

Mushroom salad decoration: mushroom leg - egg white, the bottom of the cap is grated cheese or boiled potatoes, the top is Korean carrots.

Salad Decoration: Green pea and cucumber grapes. The following shows the ideas of original decorations for salads from simple ingredients (cucumber, egg, olives, radishes). You can make beautiful spirals out of green onions: separate the feathers from the onion, cut each feather lengthwise, carefully tear it into thin strips along the entire length, and hold the onion strips in cold water for 0.5 hours.

Decorate the salad  it is possible and ordinary bell pepper.

Christmas Salad Decoration: dill, pomegranate, corn, green peas.

Salad dressing: in this version, the salad is simply laid out in portions on the potato chips.

Boat Salad Decoration: original fresh cucumber boats filled with salad. The sail is attached with a toothpick.

Lapti salad decoration: processed cheese (in bags), herbs, canned mushrooms.

Pineapple Salad Decoration: walnut, chives. In the second version, chopped canned mushrooms and green onions are used.

Mice Salad Decoration: mice are made of boiled eggs, cheese and black pepper (peas), the surface of the salad is sprinkled with grated yolk.

Decoration of salad "Slice": Put the salad on a crescent-shaped plate. Sprinkle with grated cheese on top of a coarse grater. The edge of the "watermelon slice" is a grated cucumber. Next is the cheese. And then a tomato without a crust. Seeds of "watermelon" from half rings of olives. In the second embodiment, grated egg white and boiled carrots were used as decoration.

Fish Salad Decoration: Sausage (different types) in sliced \u200b\u200band cheese spread in the form of fish. Mouth tenderloin from a tomato, eye - a ring (protein from an egg), the pupil - a slice of tomato or olive.

Decoration of the Rosette Salad: roses are made from a thin slice of sausage twisted with a roll, with straightened edges.

Beetroot salad decoration.

Salad decoration "Ear": canned corn and green onions, cut along along one side, were used for decoration.

Card Salad Decoration: green onions, tomatoes and olives.

And thus, in a roll, you can roll any puff salad, and then cut it. It looks original. In the photo roll ““.

Sack salad decoration: the salad is portioned in pancakes, a pancake bag tied with green onions.

Boiled egg swan.

Roses from tomatoes.

Ladybugs made of tomatoes and olives.

Scallop of tomato and boiled egg.

Chain, fan and openwork rings of fresh cucumber.

To decorate the salad, sometimes onions and a little imagination are enough.

New Year’s salad decoration »Dog»

Such a Poodle will perfectly decorate any New Year's dish in 2018. Symbol of the year. The muzzle is made of cauliflower inflorescence, the body is of eggplant, the legs and tail are of zucchini.

  "Boiled Eggs"

Charming decoration of the New Year's table “Boiled Eggs Cockerels”. They can decorate any salad. Or make an independent dish, sitting the cockerels on the greens. The photo clearly shows how easy it is to make such a cock of their boiled egg. In a small incision from the sharp end of the egg, you need to insert a piece of scallop with beak made of boiled carrots. Eyes can be made from poppy seeds, having previously prepared a hole with a toothpick.

“Egg White Rooster”

Give the salad a rooster shape, sprinkle grated egg whites on top. The feathers on the tail and wings are made of half rings of olives, the legs of a rooster and the beak are made of french fries. Scallop and beard from tomato.

  "Chickens in the egg"

Well, aren't the cuties! Boil the eggs, carefully cut off the sharp end of the egg, to the yolk. Remove the yolk, knead with a fork and mix, for example, with cream cheese. Fill the egg again with the filling, cover with a “hat of protein”. We make eyes for chickens from black pepper, a beak and paws from boiled carrots.

Christmas Salad Decoration

Also, to decorate the New Year's salad, the ideas presented below are perfect.

Christmas tree decorations

Apple cut in half. Put half an apple on a plate with the slice down. Insert a wooden kebab skewer into the middle of the apple. And put slices on it. Get wonderful Christmas trees.

Santa Claus

Everyone knows that fresh herbs are healthy, as they are rich in minerals and essential vitamins, so you need to eat them more often and more.

But perhaps the most dedicated fan of healthy writing or a vegetarian is ready to replace a full meal with a bunch of mixed greens or salad. The easiest way to eat greens is to decorate with it dishes, especially those prepared on the New Year's festive table.

In anticipation of 2017, the Rooster is worth considering how to make New Year's dishes not only tasty and fragrant, but also healthy, appetizing looking and beautiful.

It is not necessary to include a lot of imagination, because even the simplest cutlets, if laid out neatly on fresh lettuce leaves, will look great on the New Year's table.

Of course, a yellowed dill and wilted parsley will lead to a sad result. Before decorating dishes on the New Year's table, you need to stock up on fresh and varied greens. Most often, housewives just finely chop the greens and sprinkle dishes on it. This is the easiest way to decorate.

But you can try, the main thing is to use all kinds of greens and pay attention to its size. For example, finely chopped greens or fresh whole leaves look beautiful.

Large and crookedly chopped dill or green onions will look out of place on the New Year's festive table, and such a dish will not make any impression.

Classic decoration options

Most often, on the New Year's table, delicious delicacies are prepared, decorating them with the usual parsley, dill or onions. Instead of finely crushed greens, large branches and leaves are suitable.

Such a dish, such as fried chicken or potatoes, due to such a green healthy decoration, will look much more original and appetizing.

It is recommended to place neatly decorated baskets or tartlets with filling on the table, decorating them with lettuce or dill in advance. Arrange them evenly on a large dish, decorate it with lemon slices, fill the empty parts of the dish with fresh sprigs of herbs.

The result is a finished dish, which is not a shame to serve as a treat to guests at the New Year's party.

Chives and chives

Professional chefs decorate their dishes at New Year's banquets with chives or chives. The feathers of such onions look like thin neat tubes and blend beautifully with other herbs and vegetables.

They are decorated with miniature canapes and snacks, sandwiches and tartlets. Such onions do not require special preparation before decorating dishes.

Just cut it into slices of equal length and lay it on the finished dish. It will certainly turn out beautifully, originally and very appetizingly.

Rosemary

Such greens will perfectly complement other snacks on the table. Olives, olives, cucumbers, mushrooms, tomatoes are not just laid out in cups, but also decorated with sprigs of fragrant rosemary. The original salad will turn out if you put it on a large dish in the middle, forming a wreath of rosemary leaves.

Place the salad in the middle, and on the sides - rosemary and olives, olives, gherkins, mozzarella mini balls, cherry tomatoes or other miniature goodies. Rosemary in the form of a wreath, decorated with snacks, looks like a Christmas tree, and its sophisticated aroma will soar throughout the festive evening.

Decoration mint

Mint is added not only to tea to give it a delicate and delicate aroma, but also make refreshing cocktails and decorate all kinds of festive dishes. This is a universal decoration for soups, and for desserts, and for salads, and for drinks.

Ice cream, fruit salads, jelly and pastries only benefit in appearance and taste if they are decorated with sprigs of fresh mint. Mint jewelry can be supplemented with fresh small berries - currants, raspberries or blackberries.

Even the simplest home-made cake, if you put mint leaves around it, will seem more delicious and tasty.

The decoration of chocolate mint dishes looks unusual and very original. Thanks to chocolate, such a delicacy lasts several days, while the leaves of mint remain fresh and green.

• Rinse beautiful large and fresh mint leaves, dry and lay on baking paper.
• Melt the chocolate in advance.
• From a pastry bag, apply it to mint, to the center of each leaflet and cover tightly with a second layer of paper. The result is thin chocolate cakes.
• Leave the mint in the refrigerator until it hardens.

Such an unusual decoration of dishes will certainly cause an appetite and surprise guests; it is stored on a refrigerator shelf in a plastic container.

Basil for salads and hot

For the New Year, basil is decorated with any dishes: pizza, salads, ice cream and sweet desserts, but it is classically combined with tomatoes and mozzarella cheese. In a caprese salad, basil is an integral ingredient, not just a beautiful decor.

You can also decorate such an appetizing dish with basil leaves festively: put large leaves on a wide dish in a circle to resemble a wreath.

Put cherry tomatoes on top of each leaf of basil and add half a mozzarella ball. Caprese salad due to such exquisite laying out of products will acquire an appetizing look.

Decorating dishes does not have to be complicated and intricate. The main thing is to use fresh herbs. Place the finished dish on a lettuce leaf, garnish with basil or a leaf of mint, feathers of green onions or parsley on top and it will take on an appetizing and finished look.

Dressing salads is an occasion to write a separate article, because beautiful salads are an integral part of a festive feast, when every housewife comes up with an original one to make the holiday special.

Beautiful salads are especially relevant when there are small children in the house - it is interesting for children to watch how mom makes decoration of salads, and then they all gobble it all together.

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Also, beautiful salads are relevant for children's mornings, and birthdays. Beautiful decoration of salads is not at all as difficult as it may seem, and it’s enough to show a little imagination and your beautiful salads will surprise all guests.

Especially for readers of the Home Restaurant, I made a photo selection of how to beautifully decorate salads, which, I hope, will come in handy.

Most of the salads presented in this article are layered, and to keep their shape, they are best done in a detachable baking dish, wait for the salads to freeze in the refrigerator, and then remove the ring, and only then proceed to decorate the salads.

Festive salad "Butterfly"

How to cook Butterfly salad with step by step photos you can see

New Year's salad "Horse"

Ingredients:

• Chicken leg: 1 pc. (or chicken breast: 1 pc.)
• Fresh cucumbers: 2 pcs. (or sweet bell pepper: 2 pcs.)
• Mushrooms: 200-300 g
• Onion: 1 pc
• Vegetable oil: for frying
• Chicken eggs: 4 pcs.
• Mayonnaise: to taste
• Salt: to taste

Cooking:

Hard boiled eggs. Cool.

Boil chicken leg (or breast) until cooked in salted water (about 30 minutes after boiling). Cool.

Peel, wash and chop onions in small cubes.

Wash the mushrooms and cut into small cubes.

Preheat the pan, pour a little oil. Put mushrooms and onions in a pan. Fry over medium heat, stirring for about 10 minutes.

Separate the chicken meat and cut into slices.

Wash the cucumbers (or sweet peppers) and cut into cubes.

Separate the squirrels from the yolks. Grate the protein on a fine grater.

Grate the yolk on a fine grater.

Mushrooms cool.

In a bowl combine the prepared meat and cucumbers.

Salt to taste, season with mayonnaise.

Mix well until smooth.

Combine the yolks with mayonnaise, mix well. (Bring to the consistency of thick sour cream.)

On a flat dish (black or burgundy will look more spectacular) put a salad, forming a horse's head with a knife. You can pre-prepare the pattern.

Yolk mixture to lubricate the silhouette of the horse. Put the mane from the mushrooms.

The last layer is proteins. Finally shape the head and ears.

Make eyes and nostrils (for example, from olives), decorate the New Year's salad as you wish. Let the salad stand in the refrigerator for at least 1-2 hours. New Year's fat t "Horse" is ready.

Mouse crab stick salad

Ingredients:

• 150 gr hard cheese (can be processed)
• 240 gr crab sticks
• 2 cloves of garlic
• 250 gr mayonnaise
• 1 carrot
• parsley
• peppercorns

Cooking:

1. Grate cheese, crab sticks and garlic on a fine grater.

2. Cut the carrots into circles.

3. Combine cheese and garlic with mayonnaise, mix well.

4. Put the finished mass in the refrigerator for 1 hour.

5. From the cheese mass to form oval molds.

6. Then roll them in grated crab sticks on all sides.

7. Make carrot ears, carrot sticks - ponytails, black pepper - eyes.

Ingredients  for salad:

300 grams of smoked chicken or pork chopped into strips;

2 small-sized table beets chopped on a grater;

Bank of pickled champignons;

Egg yolks 4-5 eggs;

Grated cheese 200 grams;

Grated squirrels.

You can add fried or pickled onions after beets.

Salad making:

Coat all layers with mayonnaise.

Sakura flowers are made from protein, painted with beetroot juice, twigs of black and green olives grated on a fine grater, leek leaves.

Stamens - from yolk.

Design depends on your taste.

The salad is made in a drop-down baking dish. If there is none, you can use a simple cardboard tape, fastening it in the form of a ring, and wrap it with foil. We lay out in this ring in layers, smearing each with mayonnaise:

1. grilled or smoked chicken, cut into pieces;

2. prunes cut into strips;

3. champignon mushrooms fried with onions;

4. cucumbers cut into strips (let them stand before laying out and drain the excess liquid),

5. Korean carrots.

To decorate:  Radish is used, which is soaked in beet juice.

If you want lilac flowers - in the juice of red cabbage.

Release the salad from the contour, put unsweetened crackers around the "pot", decorate with green leaves, which will be at hand. In the photo, the salad is decorated with sorrel.

Lay out the flowers, arrange the middle with the yolk, and spread the protein between them, grated on a fine grater.

Keep in the refrigerator until serving.

Salad "Pansies"

Salad "New Year Clapper"

The recipe for the salad "New Year Clapper" with step by step photos can be viewed

Salad "Snake" for the New Year 2013

Recipes for the New Year's salad “Snake” (7 pcs) with a photo can be viewed

Salad "Krabik"

The recipe for the salad "Crab" can be viewed

Goldfish Salad

The recipe for preparing a salad "Golden Fish" and decoration options, you can see

Salad "Pearl"

The recipe for the salad “Pearl” can be viewed

White Birch Salad

The recipe for the salad "White Birch" and decoration options, you can see

Tsarsky Salad

Cooking Tsarsky salad and decoration options, you can see

Cornucopia salad No. 1

Recipe for the salad "Cornucopia" No. 1 can be viewed

Violet Salad

salad ingredients:   smoked ham, prunes, mushrooms fried with onions, fresh cucumber, Korean carrot, mayonnaise.

cooking : Lay out all the ingredients for the salad in layers, smearing with mayonnaise in the salad bowl, or in a detachable form. Cut radishes into circles and soak in red cabbage juice so that the violet petals turn purple. Put spinach leaves on the salad, and then make flowers from the radish circles. The middle of violets to make from egg yolks. Put crackers on the sides of the salad.

Salad "Fox coat"

Salad preparation and decoration options can be viewed

Spider Web Salad

salad ingredients:   sprats, butter, onions, hard cheese, boiled eggs, mayonnaise. Fresh cucumber, black olives, ketchup, greens for decoration.

cooking : Mash the sprats with a fork and put on a plate, then put finely chopped onions with mayonnaise. The next layer is grated cheese with mayonnaise, then three creamy little, and at the end of the egg.

To decorate, mix 1 tablespoon of mayonnaise with ketchup, and draw a cobweb. Make a spider out of black olives. Garnish the sides of the salad with cucumbers and herbs.

Eggplant Snack Peacock Tail

Cooking snacks with step-by-step photographs can be viewed

Salad "Fireworks"

salad ingredients:   ham, boiled eggs, yellow, red and green bell peppers, tomato, mayonnaise, onions

cooking : Cut all the ingredients for the salad into thin flat slices. On the plate, lay the ham with the first layer, with stripes of onions. Next, bell pepper of three colors, alternating them with egg whites. On top are tomatoes and mayonnaise, which we hide under grated egg yolks. Mayonnaise can be served separately in a gravy boat.

Salad "Lady's hat"

salad ingredients:   based on

ingredients for decoration : Suluguni rope cheese, tomato, black olives

April Olivier Salad

salad ingredients:   boiled eggs, boiled carrots, boiled potatoes, pickles, fresh cucumbers, boiled sausage, green onion, smoked sausage, parsley, dill, mayonnaise.

ingredients for decoration : radishes, fresh cucumbers, lettuce, curly parsley, salami sausage for roses, olives, egg white.

cooking : Dice the salad ingredients and season with mayonnaise. To decorate the salad, put the lettuce on a plate. On top of the leaves put the salad itself. Cut the cucumber in half and cut into slices. Cut the radish in half. Lay in turn the radishes and the cucumber on the sides. Top on the edges to put curly parsley. Before preparing a salad, cut a piece and half it in boiled eggs. Lay the halves in a circle. Put a salami rose in the middle. It turns out to be done very simply. Cut 7 thin slices of salami, wrap the first slice in a tube, and attach the rest to each other and fix with toothpicks.

Cut olives into thin slices and decorate them with salad in the egg area.

Green Rose Salad

salad ingredients:   boiled chicken, processed cheese, fresh cucumbers, boiled eggs, seedless olives, Crimean red onion, mayonnaise.

cooking : Dice the salad ingredients and season with mayonnaise. Decorate the salad with plates or slices of fresh cucumber in the form of a rose.

Mexican Salad

salad ingredients:   boiled chicken, radishes, fresh cucumbers, boiled eggs, green onions, boiled potatoes, chili peppers, lettuce, pickled cucumbers, lemon juice and vegetable oil

cooking : Dice the salad ingredients and season with lemon juice and vegetable oil. Put lettuce on a plate and lettuce on top. Use a toothpick to pick a cactus from pickled cucumbers.

White Crocus Salad

salad ingredients:   boiled eggs, Beijing cabbage, canned corn, pickled champignons, green onions, fresh cucumbers, mayonnaise.

cooking: peking cabbage, pickled champignons, green onions, cut fresh cucumbers into cubes, add corn and season with mayonnaise. Put the salad on a plate and sprinkle with finely chopped eggs on top.

For decoration, we take 7-8 small seedlings (they are sold at grandmas in the market), a bunch of green onions and 1/4 carrots. We clean small bulbs. Now take a sharp knife and cut the cloves on top of the onion. We take out the “insides” of the onion and with the help of a toothpick and green onion we insert the stems into the “onion bowls” and put a small piece of carrot in each onion.

Chamomile liver cake

cooking: we are preparing a liver cake according to this recipe. We decorate with chopped dill, from egg white and yolk we spread chamomile.

Championship Salad

salad ingredients : green peas (young, or frozen), canned. corn, boiled potatoes and carrots, balyk, eggs, chives, dill, mayonnaise, quail eggs.

cooking : Cut all the ingredients into cubes and lay out the layers on a square plate with a coat of mayonnaise in the following sequence: potatoes, green onions, eggs, balyk, corn, carrots, potatoes. Garnish the salad with green peas, and dill. Mark the fields with mayonnaise, and a soccer ball with a quail egg.

Snowdrop Salad

salad ingredients : boiled beef marinated in lemon juice and sugar onions, eggs, mayonnaise, hard cheese

cooking : lettuce is laid out in layers in the following order: pickled onions, boiled meat, boiled eggs. Each layer is not too thickly smeared with mayonnaise, including the topmost one. Lightly crush. Sprinkle the salad with grated cheese, make snowdrop stalks of green onion feathers, and cut the daikon radish from the thinly sliced \u200b\u200bslices of the petals.

salad ingredients : unsweetened round crackers, canned pink salmon, saury or tuna, boiled eggs, garlic, green onions, mayonnaise

cooking : Put the crackers on a plate in a circle in the shape of a flower. Then a layer of eggs from mayonnaise, then a layer of crackers, then canned food with mayonnaise and green onions, and grease the last top layer of crackers with mayonnaise and sprinkle with finely grated eggs. Garnish the salad with tomato slices, halves of olives and sprigs of greens.

Salad "Vegetable with garlic"

salad ingredients : tomatoes, cucumbers, garlic, vegetable oil, herbs

cooking : Cut the vegetables into slices, and arrange them in rows on a round dish. Sprinkle with crushed garlic, herbs, and pour over vegetable oil.

Crab Spring Salad

salad ingredients : crab sticks, or crab meat, fresh cucumbers, eggs, grated hard cheese, Chinese cabbage, olives. Sauce: in equal parts, mix mayonnaise and sour cream, seasoning with a little mustard.

cooking : Crab sticks, cucumbers, eggs, and olives cut into cubes, Peking cabbage tear into small pieces. Add cheese, and season with sauce, put in a mold, and refrigerate for 30 minutes. Get a salad, transfer to a dish, and decorate with green onions and flowers from crab sticks.

Mimosa salad with mice

salad ingredients : boiled eggs, boiled carrots, boiled potatoes, onions, canned fish (sardine in oil), mayonnaise, greens

ingredients for decoration : slices of cheese (for ears and ponytails of mice), black pepper peas (use as eyes for mice)

Aquarium Salad

salad ingredients : sea cocktail, onions, canned red beans, pickled champignons, pickles, grated hard cheese, mayonnaise

ingredients for decoration : seaweed, red bell pepper (make fish and star), mayonnaise, a few mussels to make crabs

Sunflower Salad

salad ingredients : boiled chicken, onions, fried mushrooms, boiled eggs, mayonnaise

ingredients for decoration : Pringls and Olive Chips

Salad "Wicket"

salad ingredients : avocado, shrimp, fresh cucumbers, boiled eggs, onions, mayonnaise

ingredients for decoration : feathers of green onions, salted straws, a slice of brown bread to make a bottom

Corn Salad

salad ingredients : boiled chicken breast, pickled cucumbers, onions, fried mushrooms, boiled eggs, parsley and dill, mayonnaise, canned corn

ingredients for decoration : leek leaves and canned corn

Hedgehog Salad

salad ingredients : boiled chicken breast, pickles, boiled carrot, green onion, dill, parsley, canned corn, eggs, mayonnaise

ingredients for decoration : Put the salad on a hedgehog-shaped dish.

Rub the eggs on a fine grater, mix with mayonnaise, and coat the hedgehog. For needles, use potato chips, and for eyes and a nose, squeeze circles out of the skin of a pickled cucumber.

Crab Paradise Salad

salad ingredients : crab sticks, pickled mushrooms, processed cheese, canned corn, garlic, mayonnaise, herbs

ingredients for decoration : red caviar, olives, curly parsley

Watermelon Slice Salad

salad ingredients : smoked chicken, fried mushrooms, boiled carrots, boiled eggs, grated cheese, garlic, mayonnaise

ingredients for decoration : red bell pepper (watermelon pulp), olives (pits), fresh cucumber (peel)

Gift Salad

salad ingredients : boiled veal, boiled carrots, boiled beets, steamed prunes, walnuts, boiled eggs, grated hard cheese, mayonnaise, parsley

ingredients for decoration : Cut ribbons from boiled carrot and decorate with parsley.

Salad "Capercaillie Nest"

salad ingredients : boiled chicken, ham, pickled champignons, eggs, mayonnaise

ingredients for decoration : julienne potatoes fried in vegetable oil, lettuce, for poultry eggs: cream cheese, egg yolks, dill, mayonnaise, garlic.

Starfish Salad

salad ingredients : crab meat, or crab sticks, canned corn, boiled eggs, slightly salted salmon, grated hard cheese, garlic, dill, mayonnaise

ingredients for decoration : shrimp, red caviar, salad laid out in layers.

Salad "Hares in the garden"

salad ingredients : smoked fish fillet, e.g. butter, boiled potatoes, boiled eggs, boiled carrots, pickles, greens

ingredients for decoration : in the middle, make a "bed" of carrots, put bunnies from eggs on the sides

Orange Slice Salad

salad ingredients : boiled eggs, boiled carrot, onions, chicken, pickled mushrooms, grated hard cheese, mayonnaise

ingredients for decoration : Lay the salad in layers, shape into orange slices, garnish with grated carrots and egg white.

Salad »Cornucopia» No. 2

salad ingredients : boiled chicken, boiled potatoes, pickles, canned corn, eggs, mayonnaise

ingredients for decoration : lettuce, vegetables, slightly salted salmon, greens, and cheese

Pineapple Salad

salad ingredients : smoked chicken, boiled potatoes, boiled eggs, grated hard cheese, pickles, onions, mayonnaise

ingredients for decoration : halves of walnuts, green onion feathers

Tiger Salad

salad ingredients : smoked or fried pork, onions, boiled carrots, eggs, grated cheese, prunes, fresh cucumbers, paprika, garlic, mayonnaise

ingredients for decoration : Lettuce is laid out in layers, garnish with grated carrots, olives, olives, and egg white

Grape bunch salad

salad ingredients : canned fish (cod liver, for example), green onions, boiled potatoes, eggs, grated hard cheese, mayonnaise

ingredients for decoration : blue seedless grapes

Salad "Male whim"

salad ingredients : smoked chicken fillet, boiled beef, eggs, Crimean onion, grated hard cheese, mayonnaise

ingredients for decoration : sandwich cheese for calla flowers, green onion feathers for stalks, and yellow bell pepper to make a pestle

The products with which you decorate the dish should not conflict with the main components, but only complement them and enrich the taste. Today we’ll talk about decorating dishes not only with our own hands, but also about everyday dishes.

DIY highlights for decorating your holiday table

The first dish is best decorated with greens - finely chopped parsley, cilantro, green onions give it a summer flavor and, most importantly, enrich it with vitamins.

Attractive is the second dish, decorated with vegetables of bright, contrasting colors. For example, chop or rump steak can be served in a wide plate, decorating it with a handful of green peas, semicircles of radishes, sauerkraut, a sprig of greens. Potato cut into strips and deep-fried looks appetizing as a side dish.

Vegetable plate decoration

In spring and summer, lettuce, celery, various types of cabbage, both whole and chopped, are an excellent decoration for dishes.

Tomatoes and cucumbers, sliced \u200b\u200band laid out on plates covered with large green lettuce, look beautiful.

Vegetable cutting - home decoration

The first dish will look like a crumbled clearing if you cut the carrots with flowers and sprinkle the soup with chopped green onions. Carrots should be taken medium size, peeled, washed and cut into 3-4 parts across. From the obtained bricks of different diameters cut, not reaching the core of the sector, from the narrowest part - three sectors, from the next - four, etc. As a result, at the end of the block you will get “flowers” \u200b\u200bwith a different number of “petals”.

Tomatoes will decorate your table originally if you remove the core from them and fill it with cubes of unpeeled cucumbers or green peas.

It’s very fun to see on the table, especially fly-agarics from eggs and tomatoes - the "fly agaric in the clearing", especially loved by children. Boil hard-boiled eggs, peel them and cut off the blunt part of the egg for stability on a plate. Pour chopped greens, green onions into a plate or lay on lettuce leaves and set eggs. Then take a tomato, cut a segment and take out a little pulp with a knife, just enough to put a “hat” on the “leg”. After all the mushrooms are assembled, put white dots of sour cream on the hats.

Vegetables can be decorated to the gala table. When decorating a dish, it is good to use both fresh and canned vegetables. Natural cucumbers can be cut into a fan, feathers and thin long strips that are easily folded in the form of cones and petals.

If in autumn you took care of salted cabbage in a timely manner, then all winter you will have not only wonderful pickles, but also excellent decoration for any meat dish.

Finely chopped red cabbage gives a special flavor to the whole table.

Beautiful decoration of second courses and snacks with their own hands

If the side dish is rice, you can color it in different colors: tomato - in pink, saffron - in yellow, and if you mix rice with finely chopped dill - in green.

Fish dishes can be decorated with lemon slices, cutting corners out of their zest, resulting in gear wheels of different diameters.

A beautiful contrast to lemons and oranges when decorating meat and fish dishes are the whole fruits of pickled plums, gooseberries, olives and soaked apples.

If you have some savory snack in a small amount, it is convenient to distribute it portionwise. For this purpose, you can take boiled eggs, cut them lengthwise in half, take out the yolk, which is useful as a decoration for another dish or salad, and fill the protein with black and red caviar, pollock roe, herring mincemeat, etc.

Try to decorate the fish as follows. Take a beautiful sprig of parsley or cilantro, green peas, a “flower” of carrots, a toothed wheel of lemon or radish, a circle of a cool egg and pour a jelly dish made from broth (based on the proportion: 5 g of swollen gelatin per 100 g of heated broth). A perfect complement to the fish are kefir jelly with chopped herbs and horseradish.

A spectacular backdrop for a salad or cold cuts can be the leaves of beet tops or red cabbage. For an egg, an unpeeled cucumber, obliquely and often notched on one side and turned out in a fan.

Chrysanthemum can be made from an ordinary onion if it is often cut into sectors without reaching the base and lowered into cold water overnight. It is also possible multicolor. If water is tinted with beetroot juice or saffron infusion, then by morning you will have a pink, white, or yellow “flower” “bloom”.

PAPILLOTS  (fr. papillote - paper wrapper). Paper tubes used in restaurant kitchens with various cutouts and scallops, with which they hide the endings of animal or bird bones protruding from meat. Papillots also play the role of a pen, for which you can hold a serving without soaking your hands on fat, and make it easier to cut portions into smaller pieces.
Papillots first appeared in the 19th century in French restaurant cuisine, from where they quickly spread to many cuisines of the world, including and in Russian restaurant cuisine. Papillots were especially widely used in Soviet restaurants and in the communist Kremlin cuisine.

Paper papillots and sockets are used to decorate fried game, cutlets and chop with bone, ham on the bone.
For papillots, a sheet of paper is folded three times in length, then the edge of the paper is folded to a width of 1-1.25 cm and strips are cut evenly across the width of the paper with a sharp knife or scissors. The paper is cut into 4 strips, screwed onto a round stick, giving the appearance of a flower, and its ends fold.
To make a socket, paper 12:12 cm in size is folded into 4 layers (in half and again in half), cut obliquely and crimped with a thin cloth. Then the sharp tip of the outlet is cut off, the outlet is deployed and put on a papillot and a bone (see below).

"... I never wrote about how to cook fish in papillots. A papillot, dear dumbhead, in cooking is a twisted cut paper that is usually worn on the bones of cutlets or a fried bird. Well, except that Gedrius managed to cook catfish in a papillotka her lady who was screwed into her hair. "
(excerpt from Lithuanian literature of the twentieth century).

  Scheme of manufacturing the simplest papillot:

1. The paper does not have to be very thin — printer paper is best.
2. Take thick white paper and cut a strip of about 8 cm long and 4 cm wide from it.
3. Fold the strip along its middle along.
4. Cut the folded paper into folds with a pair of scissors into uniform notches - you get something like a fringe.
5. Wrap the round stick with the cut paper in a spiral, the diameter of which coincides with the diameter of the bone.
6. Glue the end of the paper strip with food glue from brewed starch or flour, or gelatin, or attach it with tape.
NOTE. Although lately, papillots have often been glued together with tape for simplicity, but it must be admitted that the tape does not fit well with edible products, therefore food glue made from flour or starch or gelatin is always preferable.
7. Trim the bottom of the cuff with scissors.
Use ready-made papillots to decorate birds.
  Photo of the step-by-step production of the simplest papillot: