1. In tartlets

Elegant dough baskets (tartlets) can be bought at any supermarket. They are also easy to prepare yourself.

Boil chicken breasts, chop finely. Chop the champignons finely, cut the onions into quarters into rings, fry until tender in a small amount of rast. oil, cool. Grate carrots and a couple of garlic cloves. Mix everything, salt, season with mayonnaise. Put in tartlets, sprinkle with cheese, garnish.

Boil shrimp, squid and eggs, peel everything and chop finely.

2. In green lettuce leaves

Put the dish prepared according to your favorite recipe on washed and dried lettuce leaves, roll it up like a bag or roll.

3. In glass goblets

Wide cognac glasses with a low, stable stem are best suited. The salad will look especially impressive in crystal dishes.

For cooking cocktail salad with tomatoes you will need:

• boiled carrots
• boiled sausage
• mayonnaise
• boiled potatoes
• tomatoes
• green pea

Finely chop the above ingredients and lay in layers: first the sausage, potatoes on top, carrots on it, then eggs, then cheese, tomatoes on it, mayonnaise on top, peas on top, and repeat all the layers again, starting with the potatoes. Put the salad in the refrigerator for an hour to infuse.

Ham and rice salad

• 100 g ham
• 2 boiled eggs
• 3 tbsp. l. boiled rice
• 100 g hard cheese

For refueling:

• 100 g mayonnaise
• 1-2 tsp tomato sauce
• salt to taste

Prepare food. Grate cheese and eggs on a coarse grater. Cut the ham into strips. Put the ingredients in a small salad bowl such as low glasses, season with mayonnaise mixed with tomato sauce, stir and salt to taste.

Dessert salad

Ingredients:

• 500 g fresh apples
• 500 g dried plums
• 1 liter apricot or pear compote
• 1 lemon
• 1 orange
• 50 g cognac or liqueur or rum
• 300 g ice cream
• 3 tablespoons of chopped nuts

Boil dried plums in sweetened water, select seeds from them and chop them into strips to make a dessert salad and put it on the table. Next, you need to peel fresh apples, divide into quarters, and then into thin slices. Cut the lemon and orange into slices, separate the fruit from the apricot (or pear) compote. Drain together the broth from the plums and the compote, if necessary, add salt, bring to a boil.

Put fresh and boiled fruits in a bowl, pour the resulting compote, sprinkle with rum, cognac, or you can replace with liquor and let it brew for several hours.

Serving dessert salad, pour compote with fruit into wine glasses, put orange and lemon circles on top, add one tablespoon of ice cream each and sprinkle with nuts on top.

4. In "cups" of red tomatoes

Wash vegetables, cut off the "lid" and pick out a little pulp with a spoon - so that you get a cup, fill it with salad, decorate and serve.

• Tomatoes - 4 pcs.
• Boiled peeled shrimps - 30 g
• Boiled rice - 30 g
• Canned green peas - 20 g
• Sour cream - 2 tbsp. spoons
• Salt to taste

Prepare the tomatoes. To do this, from the side of the stalk, you need to cut off the caps, take out part of the pulp and chop it finely. Then cut the shrimp into small cubes, combine with tomato pulp, rice, peas, salt and season with sour cream. After that, stuff the tomatoes with the resulting mass and cover with lids. When serving, arrange tomatoes stuffed with herbs.

5. "Carrot with a surprise"

Wash large carrots thoroughly, boil. Using a peeler (moving in a circle), cut off the peel with a thin layer. You should end up with one solid carrot ribbon. We form it in the form of a small bag, fill it with plump tasty ingredients, decorate with long sprigs of dill or parsley.

• minced chicken - 450 g
• carrots (boiled) - 450 g
• semolina - 3 tbsp. l.
• cream - 50 ml
• egg - 2 pcs.
• egg white - 1 pc.
• olive oil - 3 tbsp l.
• garlic - 2 teeth.
• onion - 1 pc.

Boil the carrots in advance, pass the chicken fillet through a blender or meat grinder. Fry finely chopped onion with one spoonful of olive oil, peel 2 cloves of garlic. Mix the chicken fillet with toasted onions, garlic, salt and black pepper. Knead the minced meat. Grate boiled carrots on a fine grater, add semolina, cream, 2 eggs, 2 tbsp. tablespoons of olive oil, salt. Stir to make a gruel.

Divide the two masses of carrots and minced meat equally into two parts - for the future two carrots. Put the carrot mass in the shape of a heart on foil 1 cm high. Form the minced meat filling into a cutlet and spread it closer to the center of the carrot layer and roll it up on both sides. Close the filling, connect the edges.

We give the shape of the carrot, first with our hands. Then we take the knife and smooth out the irregularities with the blunt side of the knife. Wrap in foil. This must be done very carefully. And close all the edges so that the juice does not flow out. We bake in the oven for 40-50 minutes, at a temperature of 220 degrees.

After baking the rolls, remove the foil, transfer to a heat-resistant dish. If the carrot layer has separated from the chicken fillet, patch the holes with the blunt side of the knife. Finally, grease the rolls with whipped egg white. And again in the oven for 10-15 minutes, also at 220 degrees. Decorate with parsley and cucumber.

6. In pita bread

We cut the sheets of pita bread into identical rectangles, put a portion of salad on them, level them with a spoon and roll up the pita bread in the form of neat rolls.

• Armenian lavash (thin) - 3 sheets,
• minced meat (pork + beef 1: 1) - 300-400 g,
• onion - 1 pc.,
• carrots - 1 pc.,
• tomatoes - 1-2 pcs.,
• lettuce leaves,
• cheese - 50 g,
• mayonnaise,
• garlic - 1-2 cloves,
• parsley or dill

Finely chop the onion. Grate the carrots on a coarse grater. Fry the onion in a pan with heated vegetable oil. After 3 minutes, add the carrots and fry until the carrots are half cooked. Put the minced meat on the onion with carrots and fry, stirring occasionally, for 20-25 minutes until the minced meat is ready, season with salt and pepper. Cut the tomatoes into circles. Grate cheese on a coarse grater. Wash and dry lettuce leaves. Mix mayonnaise with garlic passed through a press. Finely chop the greens.

Expand a sheet of pita bread, grease it with mayonnaise with garlic, evenly spread the minced meat on it, not reaching the edges of 2-3 cm, and sprinkle with herbs. Grease the second sheet of pita bread with garlic mayonnaise on both sides and place it on top of the minced meat. Spread lettuce leaves over the entire surface of the pita bread, put circles of tomatoes on top of the salad, and pour over the tomatoes with mayonnaise. Cover the tomatoes with a third sheet of pita bread, lightly greased with garlic mayonnaise on both sides. Sprinkle pita bread with grated cheese on top and gently roll into a roll.

Put the finished roll in the refrigerator for 30-60 minutes, then you can cut it across, 1.5-2 cm thick.

7. Cucumber "boats"

Cut off the peel from a fresh cucumber, divide the vegetable lengthwise into two halves. On one side of each half, select the pulp. We fill the resulting long boats with lettuce, "make them look beautiful" with the help of herbs, olives or pieces of vegetables.

• 2 medium ripe tomatoes
• 1.5 teaspoons olive oil
• 1 teaspoon vinegar
• 1 teaspoon dried oregano
• 80 grams of feta cheese
• 2 large cucumbers
• salt pepper

Cut the tomatoes into small pieces, add olive oil, vinegar, oregano, salt and pepper and mix gently. Refrigerate for several hours. Before preparing the dish, add cheese to the tomatoes (crumble it), and mix thoroughly.

Remove the skin from the cucumbers and cut them in half lengthwise. Use a spoon to remove the middle with the seeds to create a boat like this. Put the filling on top, garnish with herbs! Alternatively, you can add chicken fillet instead of cheese. Everything is ready, you can eat!

• fresh or pickled cucumbers of medium size - 8 pcs.
• eggs - 2 pcs.
• yolk - 1 pc.
• ham 100 g.
• sour cream - 100 g.
• potatoes - 2 pcs.
• 1 tsp lemon juice
• 1 tsp Sahara,
• some mustard.
• a pinch of salt,
• 100g. vegetable oil.

Peeled cucumbers are cut in half lengthwise, seeds are cleaned and stuffed with minced meat.

Preparation of minced meat: cold sauce is prepared from sour cream, boiled egg yolk, vegetable oil, mustard, lemon juice (mayonnaise can be used). Boil eggs and potatoes in their uniforms. The eggs and peeled potatoes are diced, and the ham is cut into strips and mixed with the sauce.

Stuffed boats are placed in the refrigerator. Served as a cold appetizer.

• basil, dill - 1/2 handful
• sour cream - 1/4 tbsp. l.
• large orange - 1 pc.
• large tomato - 1 pc. (about 100 g)
• salt to taste
• salmon / salted trout - 200 g
• cucumber - 8 pcs.
• ground pepper - to taste
• olive oil - 1 tbsp. l.
• onions - 1/4 pcs.

Grate the zest, cut the orange pulp into segments (without films), mix with tomato, fish, onion, basil, olive oil, pepper and salt. Fill the cucumber boats with the mixture. Put 1.5 tsp on top of each boat. sour cream. Decorate with herbs.

8. Delicious pancakes

The principle is the same as in the case of pita bread, only we wrap the salad portions in our own baked pancakes.

for pancakes

• eggs - 3 pcs,
• milk - 0.5 liters,
• flour - 1.5-2 cups,
• sugar - 0.5 tbsp. spoons,

for herring salad

• herring - 200 g,
• pickled cucumbers - 1 pc.,
• onion 1 pc. (small head),
• eggs - 2 pcs.,
• mayonnaise,
• white bread or loaf - 2-3 slices,
• green onions

Prepare pancakes. Cut lightly salted soaked herring into cubes. Boil the eggs hard-boiled and cut into cubes. Finely chop the onion. Cut the cucumbers into cubes.

Remove the crust from white bread and cut into cubes or strips (the bread will dissolve in the filling). Mix together herring, cucumbers, onions, eggs and bread, season with mayonnaise and stir.

Place the filling on the edge of the pancake and sprinkle with finely chopped green onions. Roll up the pancakes with an envelope or a tube.

• pancake dough
• a bunch of lettuce leaves
• 300 g champignons
• 300 g chicken fillet
• 100 g hard cheese
• mayonnaise

Pour the pancake batter into a plastic bottle, make a small hole in the lid, closer to the edge of the lid. Bake these pancakes out of the whole dough. I get about 26-30 pieces from one batch of dough:

Fry the chicken fillet in vegetable oil until golden brown. When frying, season with salt and black pepper. Cool and cut into small cubes. Cut the champignons into slices, fry the liquid in a pan and fry until golden brown, adding a little butter.

Place a leaf of lettuce on the edge of the pancake. Place the filling on a lettuce leaf along:

9. In cheese baskets

We take a piece of hard cheese, grate it on the coarsest grater and melt it in a preheated pan. Fry until melted and slightly browned. The main thing is that the cheese grabs like a pancake and can be easily pry off and transferred to the mold. Fry for 3-5 minutes. Quickly remove with a wooden spatula, put it on the bottom of the most ordinary glass and wait for the mass to cool. You can take any dish you like, for example, a deep, but not large in diameter, round salad bowl or a muffin pan. Press the edges tightly and leave to cool completely. You should have an original cheese tartlet - put the finished salad in it. We make the next basket and so on according to the number of servings.

• Hard cheese - 200 g
• Apples - 1 pc.
• Cream ~ 10% 100 ml
• Wheat flour - 10 g
• Olive oil - 10 ml
• Edible salt - 1 tsp
• Dried marjoram - 1 tsp
• Garlic wedges - 2 pcs.

Bechamel sauce with aromatic herbs, but if you don't like this sauce, you can use ordinary sour cream as a dressing or mayonnaise. So, bechamel sauce: pour the cream into a convenient dish. Finely chop the marjoram (I used fresh leaves), finely chop 1 clove of garlic or pass through a press. Mix herbs and garlic with cream, put cream on fire. Meanwhile, mix flour with olive oil until smooth. As soon as the cream begins to boil, add flour and butter and, stirring constantly, cook until thickened. It is imperative to stir constantly so that there are no lumps.

Cut the remaining cheese into cubes and the apple in the same way. Pass the second clove of garlic through a press or finely chop. Season with salt, dress with sauce and stir.

Put the salad in our cooled basket, garnish with grated cheese and parsley.

10. On slices of bread

We take a loaf, cut into slices of medium thickness, fry in butter on both sides until light brown. We spread the prepared appetizer on the cooled toast with a slide, decorate to the best of our imagination.

for 4-5 sandwiches:

• loaf or bread - 4-5 slices,
• sausages or boiled sausage - 2 pcs.,
• tomato - 1 pc.,
• garlic - 1-2 cloves,
• cheese - 50 g,
• greenery,
• salt,
• mayonnaise

Cut the sausages or sausage into cubes or strips. Wash the tomatoes and cut into cubes. Grate cheese on a coarse grater. Pass the garlic through a press.

Finely chop the greens. Combine sausages, tomatoes, garlic, cheese and herbs, add mayonnaise, salt and mix. Place the mixture on slices of bread or loaf. Bake sandwiches in the oven at 180 degrees for 10-15 minutes.

• eggs - 6 pcs.
• large bunch of green onions
• a small bunch of parsley
• canned corn - 1 can (425 g)
• mayonnaise
• salt,
• freshly ground black pepper

Put the eggs in cold water and put them on the stove. When the water boils, cook them for another 10 minutes. Fill the finished eggs with cold water and let them cool. Clean and cut into cubes. Wash green onions and chop finely. Chop the parsley finely. Drain the liquid from the corn. Mix all the ingredients, season with mayonnaise. Salt to taste. You can spread the salad on the bread slices and sprinkle with freshly ground black pepper.

• wheat bread - 8 slices
• butter - 80 g
• salmon caviar - 80 g
• small onions - 1 pc.
• salted salmon fillet - 120 g
• cucumber - 1/2 pc.
• lemon - 1/2 pc.
• cottage cheese - 100 gr.
• sour cream - 2 tbsp. spoons
• grated horseradish root - 1 tbsp. a spoon
• ground red pepper
• dill, parsley

Cut 8 round slices from the bread, 6-7 cm in diameter, 6-7 mm thick. Chop the greens finely. Brush the top and side of 4 slices of bread with softened butter. Pressing lightly, cover the side of the slices with chopped herbs. Brush the remaining 4 slices with curd mass, sprinkle with chopped herbs. For curd mass combine cottage cheese with sour cream, add grated horseradish root and ground red pepper. Spread caviar on slices with butter; decorate with lemon and herbs. On slices of bread with curd sauce, put slices of fish and decorate with cucumber, onion rings, herbs.

And in conclusion - a salad for the Year of the Snake: "Mistress of the Copper Mountain"

The salad is VERY tasty, it goes with a bang !!!

• 2 boiled chicken legs,
• 400 g champignons,
• 3 fresh cucumbers,
• 200 g smoked sausage cheese,
• 4 boiled eggs
• mayonnaise,
• lettuce leaf,
• carrots and pickled cucumbers for decoration.

Fry the mushrooms. Cut meat, cucumbers, eggs into small cubes, grate cheese on a coarse grater. Mix everything, season with mayonnaise, put on a salad leaf in the form of a snake, making a tongue and a crown out of carrots. Decorate the snake with thin slices of pickled cucumber. I think that you can use smoked chicken in cooking and regular cheese, but I don’t know how tasty it is, I haven’t tried it.

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The definitions "tasty" and "attractive" in relation to dishes are not always synonymous, but it is desirable that they go hand in hand. The aesthetic pleasure of contemplating a salad can also affect its taste perception. After a positive solution to the question "how to cook" the hostess begins to worry about a new problem: how to choose a worthy decoration idea.

How to decorate a salad

Having started to solve this issue, you need to add 1 more element to the list of conditions - the reason for which the salad is being prepared. Weddings, birth of a child, anniversary, New Year require adherence to a certain theme. If you just want to diversify the everyday table, decorating can be a new technology for the layout of ingredients and even choosing a more attractive dressing. A good example is restaurant salads, which are often devoid of obvious decor, but look great in glossy photos and in life.

• The fastest way is to find the original "container": half a pumpkin, zucchini, pepper.
• Choose a recipe that will have an unusual combination of colors or shapes - you won't have to decorate such a salad anymore.
• Meat and cheese cuts as a substrate for the main salad slide is a simple and healthy option for decorating a portioned dish.

Decorating salads for the new year

A universal idea for decorating such a dish would be to give it the shape of a herringbone. The option is even suitable for traditional Olivier: in the presence of a characteristic silhouette, green is not required, but garlands of olives and corn will be a beautiful addition. Professionals, on the other hand, suggest trying to push off from the patron of the next year. Simple ideas for decorating New Year's salads:

• A snake formed from any recipe that includes mayonnaise. The scales are laid out in thin semicircles of cucumber or peas, the eyes are olives or corn grains.
• A dragon is created by analogy with a snake, but it needs a mustache from dill twigs, and small leathery wings can be made from the leaves of Peking cabbage.
• The tiger's face is a circle with ears, covered with grated carrots, eyes made of egg whites and olives, tongue made of boiled sausage. The base of the salad can be made from pate with eggs and cucumbers.

How to arrange a salad for a birthday

For such a holiday, the central dish is mainly complemented with verbal congratulations. If you decide that it will be a salad, it can be even more impressive than a cake. However, how to decorate a salad for a birthday if it is just one of the most dishes on the festive table? Professionals give such advice:

• Try to push off the birthday person's time of year. In the decoration, one can only observe the time scale characteristic of the season (yellow-red for autumn, white-blue for winter, etc.), or fully draw parallels - "sketch" leaves, snowflakes, flowers.
• A festive salad for a woman, especially presented on an anniversary, can be tried in the form of a large bouquet. Which flower to choose for decoration depends on the tastes of the birthday girl and your capabilities: it is easy to lay out gerberas, tulips are also formed quickly. The lilies will have to tinker with.

Salad decorations for children

If the dish is focused on the child, you can push off from his individual preferences and interests - according to professionals, this is a win-win option. Decorating salads for a children's party can be done in several ways:

• Giving an unusual shape. This move is also used in preparing a cake for a child. The ingredients of the dish are laid in such a way as to get a "sculpture" on the plate: a bear cub, a bunny, a car, a ball, etc. The complexity of this method of decoration - it is suitable only for salads where there is a fastening component: sour cream, mayonnaise. Those. thick and dense in consistency, otherwise the figurine will quickly fall apart.
• Creating a painting on a salad. There is no need to “write” masterpieces: even a simple sun and small, but bright flowers will already attract children's attention. An equally interesting decoration is the characters of your favorite cartoons.
• Volumetric decor. We'll have to look for step-by-step instructions on how to prepare different figurines for decoration and practice. If you have a la carte salads, you can distribute them on "boats" of cucumbers, zucchini, peppers, add a toothpick with cheese plastics - you get real ships, ready for a long voyage.

How to decorate a salad

Culinary professionals are sure that a beautiful design of salads is possible with any product - from cucumber to raw smoked sausage. You can create an original decoration, even if the recipe includes only onions, raw beets and vegetable oil. A share of imagination, a grain of skill, some free time, and the dish will get an original look. Dyes that can be obtained from simple products deserve special attention:

• For red - cranberries, lingonberries, pomegranate seeds. From vegetables - tomatoes.
• For raspberry - beets.
• For orange - sea buckthorn, oranges, juice squeezed from carrots.
• For yellow - saffron, egg yolk, corn.
• For blue - squeeze red cabbage juice.
• For green, spinach.
• For black - olives.

Decoration for vegetable salads

For this design option, you need to make sure that the products can keep their shape for a long time, so it is used mainly for the fact that it has not passed heat treatment. In order to decorate the dish, figures are cut out of vegetables, which are laid out on a plate in an arbitrary or premeditated order. Or simpler classic decoration options are possible:

• "Cobwebs" or inscriptions with mayonnaise / sour cream;
• twigs, bunches of greenery;
• halves / quarters of olives;
• grated cheese, boiled meat or sausage, devoid of inclusions of fat;
• egg shavings / crumb.

How to beautifully decorate salads with nuts

This method of decoration is appreciated for its speed and simplicity. Even the basic sprinkling of crushed nuts on the finished salad already makes it more attractive, and if you come up with the idea of ​​using the shape of the kernels, you can make the whole picture. A winter salad garnished with walnuts is a classic of the festive table genre, and sesame grains on a dietary assortment of greens is the perfect way for a tasty but easy option. Pre-fry the nuts.

Egg decorations for salads

For such a decorative idea, you first need to figure out how to cook eggs so that the yolk does not fall apart during work. Professionals practice such cooking:

1. Place the eggs in cold water that covers them completely.
2. Wait until it boils.
3. Count down 9 minutes.
4. Take out, cool quickly.

Decoration predominantly represents the creation of bouquets or single flowers on a surface. To do this, the egg is cut longitudinally, and the resulting oval halves are stacked in the desired direction and in the desired shape. There are several more options:

• Petals can also be made from "slices": the egg is also cut vertically, but into several plates with a thickness of 0.4-0.7 mm.
• For simple decorations, a boiled egg yolk is used, which can be turned into crumb - great for simple sprinkling on the surface. It is also used to form yellow mimosa balls in the salad of the same name.
• If you remove the yolk, the remaining long half of the boiled egg white can be turned into a boat. By placing a stick vertically in it with a bent circle of cucumber, or plastic cheese or even red fish, you can get a small boat.

Original design of salads

In addition to the previously listed ways to make an interesting dish, there are several other unusual options. With such original ideas, decorating salads and appetizers will become especially enjoyable:

• Jelly. Can be used for pouring ingredients, so that after the frozen salad, cut and serve in portions. An alternative way to decorate is to create dense figures and decorate the dish with them.
• Ice. Make a bowl of frozen water with the vegetable pieces and serve the salad in it.

Carving decoration

Such an original design of salads and appetizers can be found in restaurants, especially when it comes to preparing a festive dish, which has high aesthetic requirements. Carving design involves curly cutting of vegetables or fruits, but can be used with cheese, sausage. Homemade carving for decorating dishes is not only beauty in the end, but also a pleasant pastime with a child.

Equip yourself with a sharp knife (it is better to take several, different sizes) and try to implement the following simple ideas for decorating your homemade salads:

• Cut the boiled sausage into thin circles, fold each one in half, fold on top of each other with a "step" of 0.5 cm, form a bouquet.
• Use a peeler to cut the cucumber into long, flexible slices and form a full-bloom bud.
• A large curved drop can be cut out of a fresh, whole cucumber with the tip of a sharp knife, veins can be made on the surface and a large green leaf can be obtained.

Nicely decorated salads - photo

To structure the information provided above, it is worth looking at the ready-made compositions, after disassembling them into components. This will help you decorate the dish yourself. Simple step-by-step options for a beautiful design of salads with a photo:

• Christmas wreath. The base can be any (herring under a fur coat, crab salad, etc.), it is laid out in a ring. Decoration - dill sprigs. On top you can put stars cut from cheese, carrots and bell peppers.
• Mimosa. Fast, simple, delicious. Submits even to an inexperienced mistress. They are stacked in layers in a glass (!) Bowl: pieces of salted fish, grated boiled proteins, grated carrots, chopped onions, boiled mashed potatoes. Decorated with crumbled yolks. Mayonnaise between layers.
• Garnet bracelet. Professionals advise placing a glass in the center of the dish - so you get a ring. The ingredients are stacked again in layers: pieces of boiled chicken, grated carrots, mashed potatoes, crushed nuts, grated boiled beets, again nuts, fried onions, again nuts. On top of the "slide" mayonnaise, which is tightly covered with grated beets. Decoration - pomegranate seeds.
• Rubik's Cube. An interesting idea is to cut each dense ingredient into small squares that fold into a cube. To prepare the salad, take cheese, beets, carrots, cucumber.

Video: how to make a rose from a cucumber - a decoration for a salad

How to decorate with your own hands a festive table for a children's party, wedding, anniversary, birthday, how to decorate a buffet table? Simple! A little imagination, free time, a bit of diligence and everyone is delighted!

How to decorate salads

Let's see how you can decorate such a familiar salad as

Herring under a Fur Coat.

Patterns of mayonnaise, carrot and beetroot roses will transform your favorite salad beyond recognition.

Lady's hat salad looks very impressive, but take a closer look ...

It is necessary to give the desired shape, sprinkle with grated cheese, decorate with beets and herbs and the miracle is ready.

Everyone's favorite salad Olivier will become not only tasty, but also beautiful,

but all that is necessary is to make cucumber roses and stick a few branches of greenery

The salad is sprinkled with yolk and decorated with egg mushrooms and fresh cucumber shavings.

The hats are dyed by immersing the halves of the eggs in a strong

boiling hour for 20 minutes.

green peas and mayonnaise patterns, onion flowers.

But the Monomakh Hat salad, very few people cook it, as it gives the impression of a salad, which will take a lot of time, effort and money to prepare, but this is not at all the case! A little meat, potatoes, beets ... everything is not difficult, but the salad looks like a piece of art!

Watermelon salad, especially when there is snow and bad weather outside, makes a strong impression on the guests. Lay out the salad in a semicircle and decorate it with grated cheese, cucumber and chopped tomatoes, I think every housewife can, but how beautiful and bright it looks on the table.

Hedgehog salad in the fog. Preparing the salad itself is a trifling matter, putting it on a dish in the shape of a hedgehog, I think, will not be too difficult, cutting olives too, but a child can stick the "needles". The children's table will be happy with such a hedgehog, and if the hero of the occasion himself helped you, then the child will remember the holiday for a long time!

Crocus salad, truly a salad for spring mood. For decoration, only toothpicks, green onion feathers and small onions are needed. You can decorate a salad in just five minutes!

Wedding Salad Swan Fidelity

Lay out the salad in the shape of a heart, surround the carrots with semicircles (if you don't like carrots, you can use 1/2 slices of cucumber or lemon) and make swans out of eggs (see below).

Fast, cheap, beautiful

Salads can be garnished with apple swans.

Cucumber, fresh and thinly sliced ​​with a peeling vegetable. Will look spectacular on a salad of roses (see how to do it below) from cucumber, ribbons and leaves

Thin cucumber ribbons are laid out in figure eight, simple and very beautiful.

The original design of even a simple salad

makes a strong impression.

You can make such Christmas trees for winter salads.

And so you can decorate everyone's favorite salad Olivier

You can decorate the salad with mushrooms.

The hats are soaked in strong tea for several hours.

Salads Mimosa and Lilac Branch
to decorate salads, you only need a finely grated egg and a sprig of greens

Orchid and Sunflower salads, salads decorated with chips.

Salad cake, salad garnished with thinly sliced ​​radish, beautiful and simple!

Snow-white salad decorated with a finely grated egg.

Christmas trees without needles, very edible

On the eve of New Year's and holidays, as a rule, housewives are looking for new, tasty and beautiful recipes for salads, appetizers, desserts and hot dishes. They are thinking how to decorate the table with their own hands to make the holiday bright and memorable. The specifics of the holiday dictate its own conditions. Roses, chrysanthemums, flowers from vegetables are certainly a very beautiful decoration, but still New Year ...
Try to make Christmas trees. They can decorate any salad, fruit and meat cuts, or serve on a festive table as an independent dish. You can make edible Christmas trees from cucumbers (salted and fresh), bell peppers, cheese, sausage, lemons ... For cooking, you need to take half an apple, orange, grapefruit, lemon (match the color of the twigs) ... In the center of the "stand" stick in a wooden skewer, point up (20-25 cm long) and string "spruce" branches in a circle.
Decorating the table in this way will not be difficult and will not take much time, but just imagine the surprise of the guests and the delight of the children!

For more than a hundred ideas for decorating salads, see the photo album on our website.

How to make a swan from an egg

To make 2 swans, we need 4 eggs and a few toothpicks, 2 peppercorns, a carrot or ketchup.
Let's get started
1. First, cut off two eggs obliquely. Make the cut closer to the thinner part of the egg so that our swans stand better on the salad
2.From the parts that we cut off, we will make the tails of our birds
3. Cut the other two eggs in half and cut out the necks, put them on a toothpick and insert them into the egg

4. Cut out 4 wings, make a depression in the body with the tip of a knife and insert the wings
5. We insert the tails, if they do not hold well, you can fix it with toothpicks, but it is better to try to do without them
6. Making beaks, there are two ways
- cut from a piece of carrot and secure with a toothpick
- cut out the neck, head and beak from the egg at once. Paint the beak with ketchup or beet juice
7, Making eyes. To do this, slightly pierce the place with a toothpick, where we insert the peppercorns. Fix the "eye"
The swans are ready.

Swans for decorating a salad can be done like this.

Apple swans

Cut the apple in half. We put it with the slice down. We visually divide the half of the apple into 3 parts and, stepping back from the 1 cm line, make cuts so that they are symmetrical and form an angle. The more corners you get, the better. We repeat the same thing on the other side. Cut out the swan's neck from a piece of apple and insert it, making an incision between the wings (you can strengthen it with a toothpick). Shift the cut corners to the sides. The swan is ready.

And you can make such swans.

Choose a salad of your choice, where chicken eggs are present. The salad should not be flaky, it will be difficult to lay out the layers. In a bowl, mix all the ingredients of the salad, season with mayonnaise and put the salad in the shape of swans on a flat dish. Sprinkle with grated protein on a fine grater, from the chopped protein we make wings, tails and a beak from pieces of carrot or red bell pepper. Eyes and noses made of finely chopped olives. Do not forget to make waves from the leaves of green lettuce or parsley under the swans. And now, what is interesting, 10 minutes of time and a little imagination and everyone's favorite and familiar salad has changed beyond recognition.

In general, it is not difficult to create beauty. Here's another table decoration option.

Roses and potatoes

French fries roses

we will need
2-3 potatoes, depending on the number of roses you want to cook
300 grams of sunflower oil
salt

cooking
- peel the potatoes
- using a vegetable peeler, we cut our root crop into very thin, almost transparent plates, make one plate thicker and cut into cubes from it
- soak in salted water (for 1 liter of water 1 tsp of salt) all the prepared "material" for 2 hours, the plates will become more elastic and pliable. We also dip toothpicks into salt water for the same time, otherwise they may burn out in boiling oil
preparatory work is over, we proceed to the most interesting, collecting roses
- we take a potato block (middle of a rose) and wrap it tightly with one plate (petal)
- then we twist the other on the opposite side and fix it with a toothpick
- so in a circle, one by one we twist the potato plates, each subsequent petal is looser, it is unforgettable to turn the petals slightly outward, like a blossoming rose, we fix the bottom of our rose with toothpicks

Leave the finished roses for 5-10 minutes to dry (so that the boiling oil is not splashed)
- we heat the odorless vegetable oil almost to a boil (it should not boil, but if you throw a plate of potatoes there, bubbles should appear in it)
- carefully, so as not to burn yourself, lower the rose with the "head" down, the oil should completely cover the "flower"
- fry until golden brown, carefully remove and spread on paper napkins to remove excess oil
- when the roses have cooled down, carefully turn the toothpicks around its axis and carefully pull them out
Lovely golden roses are ready! They will look great on a dish with meat, sausage and cheese slices, they are perfect for decorating salads (do not forget to make sprigs of parsley), and they will just become an excellent independent, very interesting and tasty dish (you can put it on a dish lined with green leaves salad and herbs) for small and large guests. French fries, cut into cubes far from our roses. Yes, I agree with you, you need to spend time, but look what beauty you get! Even the most advanced culinary experts invited by you to the holiday can be smitten with potato roses!

The second option for making potato roses

How to make a rose from a cucumber , daikon, carrots

Vegetable roses are made according to the same principle.

- first we fold the ribbon with a tight tube (middle of the rose), and then more loosely, turning the ribbon (for each petal) we spread it in a circle, if we take a little one ribbon the second, the third, until the rose is fully formed
- fasten the bottom of the flower with a toothpick

Pickled cucumber roses

The salad can be decorated with bees made from olives and olives

How to make lilies from onions

Onion lily tinted with beetroot juice.

We make frequent notches on the onion, not cutting to the end by 1 cm. Put the onion in cold water for a couple of hours.

The bow opens, turning into a lily, we decorate the center

grated yolk. Lily is ready!

How to make a snowman from eggs

for holidays bedside table

Snowman made of cheese balls. We put three cheese balls on a toothpick, fasten on a toothpick,

small ball-pens, a bow scarf, eyes and buttons can be made

from slices of olives or cloves or peppercorns,

a hat made of bread, nose - carrot. Snowman,

for joy children and adults, ready!

How to make hearts from boiled eggs, it's very simple!

Cook a steep egg in salted water (so as not to crack)

We put the egg in cold water so that the shell can be removed more easily. Do not cool the egg to the end, otherwise this trick will not work. The egg should be warm.

Take a small piece of cardboard and fold it in half. Put a boiled egg in the resulting fold.

Take a wooden stick (rod from the handle), place it on top of the egg and firmly but gently press the egg with it

Take dense elastic bands and use them to fix the twig on the cardboard. We leave our "structure" for 15 minutes to cool down with a recess in the middle. Then gently flatten it with your fingers along the edges.

Remove the rubber bands, remove the twig and remove the egg from the cardboard. Cut the egg in half. The "heart" is ready.

How to make egg lilies

How to make a mouse from an egg

A simple mouse made of an egg will make the salad very lively.

Mouse ears can be made from slices of cucumber, radish, cracker, or sausage.

We will make the eyes from peppercorns or cloves. For ears, eyes and nose

it is better to hold on to make small notches with a knife.

Let's not forget to make a ponytail and antennae.

And this is how quail eggs aged in beet juice look like.

Original, beautiful, simple!

How to do it, see the section Recipes for interesting snacks.

How to make carrot roses

And so you can make a rose from a tomato

How to make beetroot roses

Cucumber, daikon and carrot roses

vegetable roses are made according to the same principle
- cut a long cucumber into thin strips with a vegetable cutter (don't take the middle)
- first we fold the ribbon with a tight tube (middle of the rose), and then more loosely, turning the ribbon (for each petal) we spread it in a circle, if we take a little one ribbon the second, the third, until the rose is fully formed
- fasten the bottom of the flower with a toothpick

How to make calla lilies from cheese

We fold the plates of soft cheese into a bag and insert

Not a single celebration, be it a birthday, wedding or New Year, is complete without a festive table, which must be beautifully served: tablecloth, napkins, cutlery. Usually the owners stop there. And in vain, because serving is also a decoration of dishes. Of course, it is difficult to decorate at once, and hot, and cutting. But the salads, which will be on the table all the time, are definitely worth paying attention to.

Flower arrangements

What do you associate with beauty? Surely there was a place for flowers in the row you named. Floral motifs are used to decorate fabrics, clothing, and accessories. So why not consider how to decorate your salad with edible flowers?

To make the flower decoration look more effective, do it on a solid background: a layer of mayonnaise, grated cheese, etc.

Bulk drawings

If you like sprinkling on salads, then turn the process into creating a picture or shape. So, arm yourself with a grater and a template:

If you don't have a vegetable at hand, replace it with a product of the same color. For example, cucumber for green peppers.

Edible figures

If you are no longer a beginner in the question of how to decorate a salad with your own hands, then pay attention to the shape of the dish. One has only to fantasize a little, when suddenly instead of Olivier there is a large orange slice on the table!

This design requires serving without salad bowls, so prepare wide and shallow plates.

Decorating with seafood

You can make a beautiful decoration for salads from other ingredients. In particular, those that relate to seafood:

Before decorating a dish with any seafood, try them for flavor compatibility. If everything is in order, then feel free to start decorating.

Instead of dishes

The beautiful design of salads is not only about drawings or shapes, it is also a way of serving a dish. Fight traditional salad bowls, make way for new solutions!

When you are expecting a large number of guests, it is better to call for help for preparing such portioned salads, because the dish will have to be made for each person. But this work will be rewarded: there will be no dirty dishes left after the holiday!

Decorating salads is a fascinating process, so it is likely that, having once tried an interesting dish for a festive table, you will want to create on everyday days. I wish you creative success!

The aesthetic pleasure from the sight of a salad influences the taste perception. So it is desirable that the definitions "attractive" and "tasty" always go side by side with regard to dishes. It's not enough just to cook a delicious snack, you also need to think about decorating salads, and for this it is useful to consider several successful design ideas.

General principles

If the question arose of how to decorate salads with your own hands, then first you need to decide on the reason for which the dish is being prepared. It can be New Years, a birthday of a child or an adult, or a wedding. And for each occasion, it is required to observe a certain topic. If it is enough to simply diversify the everyday table, then the design may consist in an interesting technology for the layout of products and the choice of a more original dressing. One has only to remember the beautiful design of salads from restaurants - they do not have excessive decor, but in the photo, and in reality, they look very appetizing.

1. A very simple way is to find a suitable "container". And this does not mean an ordinary plate, but half of bell pepper, zucchini or pumpkin.
2. You can choose a recipe that involves a combination of shapes and colors - this will be a beautiful decoration for salads.
3. Cheese and cold cuts can be used as a substrate for a salad slide - this is done easily, but such an appetizer looks interesting.

For the new year

Decorating salads with your own hands for such a long-awaited holiday can be very simple: just give the salad mass the shape of a herringbone. A good idea for a classic Olivier, green with a recognizable silhouette is completely optional, but garlands of corn or olives will be a beautiful addition. Many housewives prefer to build on the patron saint of the coming year:

1. If this is a dog, then you can lay out the muzzle: cover the circle with ears with grated yolk, make eyes from proteins and olives, and the tongue from milk sausage. A simple pate salad with cucumbers and eggs can serve as the basis.
2. Until the Year of the Snake is still a long time, but when it approaches, you can form this symbol from any salad with mayonnaise, and lay out the scales in thin semicircles of cucumber, eyes - with corn grains.
3. And when the year of the Dragon approaches, this majestic creature can be laid out similarly to a snake and add dill twigs as a mustache, and form powerful wings from Peking cabbage.

And you can do this every year! Each salad is a symbol of the coming year. At home, it is not difficult to form such a snack and serve it to the table.

For a birthday

Usually, the center dish is complemented with verbal congratulations. And if it was a salad that became such a dish, then it can be decorated even more effectively than a cake. Here it is worth listening to the following tips:

If the child's birthday is approaching, then they are repelled by the interests and individual preferences of the birthday person - this is a win-win option.

For a children's holiday, you can decorate salads in different ways:

1. Unusual shape. This move is usually used when making a cake. You can do the same with the salad, laying out the ingredients in the form of the necessary figurine - a bear cub, a car, a bunny, a bow. But this method is only suitable for snacks that contain mayonnaise or sour cream - a bonding component. Without a dense and thick consistency of the salad mass, the figure will not hold its shape for a long time.
2. Painting. And it is not at all necessary to try to depict a masterpiece on the surface of the salad. Even simple flowers and a small sun will attract the attention of children. Favorite cartoon characters are also a good decision.
3. Volumetric decor. It takes skill. But the simplest option is to arrange the salad in portions in "boats" of zucchini, cucumbers, peppers and supplement them with skewers with thin slices of cheese - this is how you get real boats.

Color spectrum

Professional chefs have no doubt that you can decorate a salad beautifully with any product, be it ordinary cucumbers or sausage. Even if the salad includes only a can of canned fish and an onion, you can create an original design. In order for the appetizer to take on a finished look, you just need to stock up on imagination, a grain of skill and have free time. Particular attention should be paid to dyes that are easy to obtain from available products:

• red: lingonberry, cranberry, pomegranate seeds, tomatoes, red bell pepper;
• raspberry: beets;
• orange: oranges, sea buckthorn, carrot juice;
• yellow: egg yolk, saffron, corn;
• blue: juice from ordinary red cabbage;
• green: spinach and any greens;
• black: pitted olives.

With these multi-colored products, it is so easy to create the desired color scheme on the finished salad.

Decoration of vegetables, nuts, eggs

The selected products must keep their shape, so vegetables are usually taken that have not been heat-treated. Various figures are cut out of the products using a curly knife and laid out on a platter in a premeditated or arbitrary order.

But you can also use simple decoration options that are already considered classics in cooking:

Snacks are often garnished with nuts. The usual basic sprinkling of crushed nuts makes the salad more appetizing, but you can think over the shapes of the kernels and create a complete picture of them. A classic of the genre is a winter salad decorated with walnut kernels. And for diet cuts, sesame grains are often chosen. Only first the nuts are fried.

And if eggs are taken as decoration, then they must first be properly prepared so that the yolk does not fall apart during work. To do this, professionals boil them in a special way: they put the product in cold water so that it completely covers it, wait for it to boil, count down nine minutes, take it out and cool it quickly.

Decorating with eggs usually involves creating single flowers or bouquets on a surface. To do this, you need to cut the egg longitudinally, lay the resulting halves in the desired shape and in the required direction.

But there are other interesting options:

1. Petals are made from "slices": the egg is cut vertically, into a couple of plates half a centimeter thick.
2. Egg yolk is turned into crumbs and just sprinkled with it in ready-made salads. It is also used to create yellow mimosa balls when preparing the salad of the same name.
3. If you pull out the yolk, then the halves of the protein can be used as boats. You can put a toothpick with a slice of cheese or a bent cucumber in them to get a boat. Or you can just stuff the halves with any ready-made salad.

Original design

There are more unusual options that are used less often for decorating salads, but this does not make them look less impressive. With original ideas, decorating the snack will become very enjoyable:

1. Ice. Make a bowl of plain frozen water by inserting pieces of vegetables into it. Salad is served in it.
2. Jelly. They can pour prepared ingredients and serve a snack, cut into portioned pieces. An alternative method is to create dense figures from jelly for decorating a dish.
3. Carving. This design is very common in restaurants. Carving design involves a beautiful curly cutting of fruits and vegetables, but it is also used with sausage or cheese. Home carving can be turned into an interesting family activity. From boiled sausage cut into thin slices, you can form a bouquet, and using a peeler knife, you can cut a cucumber into long flexible layers and arrange a blossoming bud.

You can also consider full-fledged compositions, the creation of which is also not difficult. Here are some easy, step-by-step options for decorating snacks:

1. Christmas wreath. As a basis, take any salad and lay it out in a ring. Dill twigs are used as the main decoration. On top are laid out stars carved from bell peppers, carrots or cheese.
2. Mimosa. Even a novice culinary specialist will cope with the task. The salad is laid in layers in a glass container: first, salted fish, then proteins, carrots, onions, potatoes. Each layer is coated with mayonnaise. And on top is a decoration - crumbled egg yolks.
3. Garnet bracelet. A glass is placed in the center of the serving dish, and the ingredients are laid out in layers around: boiled chicken, carrots, mashed potatoes, nuts, beets, nuts, onions and again nuts. The top layer of mayonnaise is abundantly covered with grated beets, and pomegranate seeds are laid out on top.
4. Rubik's Cube. Each dense ingredient is cut into small squares and put into colored cubes. Usually, beets, carrots, cucumber and cheese are taken to prepare such a snack.

In general, there are a lot of ideas for decorating salads. You can use proven and classic options, or come up with something completely unique. Here you can safely trust your imagination and not be afraid to experiment, because the taste of the finished salad will not lose from this.

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