Salad decoration is a reason to write a separate article, because beautiful salads are an integral part of the festive feast, when each hostess 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 their mother decorates salads, and then they all eat it together.

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Also, beautiful salads are relevant for children's matinees and birthdays. A beautiful salad dressing is not at all as difficult as it might seem, and it is enough to show a little imagination and your beautiful salads will surprise all guests.

Especially for the readers of the Home Restaurant, I made a photo selection of how you can beautifully decorate salads, which, I hope, will be useful to you.

Most of the salads presented in this article are flaky, and to keep their shape, they are best done in a split baking dish, wait for the salads to freeze in the refrigerator, and then remove the ring, and only then start decorating the salads.

Festive Butterfly salad

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

Preparation:

Boil eggs hard-boiled. Refrigerate.

Boil the chicken leg (or breast) until tender in salted water (about 30 minutes after boiling). Refrigerate.

Peel the onion, wash and cut into small cubes.

Wash the mushrooms and cut into small cubes.

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

Separate the chicken meat and cut into pieces.

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

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

Grate the yolk on a fine grater.

Cool the mushrooms.

Combine prepared meat and cucumbers in a bowl.

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.)

Put the salad on a flat dish (black or burgundy will look more impressive), shaping the horse's head with a knife. You can prepare a pattern in advance.

Lubricate the silhouette of a horse with a yolk mixture. Lay out 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 sit in the refrigerator for at least 1-2 hours. New Year's bacon t "Horse" is ready.

Crab stick salad "Mice"

Ingredients:

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

Preparation:

1. Grate cheese, crab sticks and garlic.

2. Cut the carrots into slices.

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

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

5. Form oval molds from the curd.

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

7. Make ears from carrots, tails from crab sticks, and eyes from black pepper.

Ingredientsfor salad:

300 grams of smoked chicken or pork, cut into strips;

2 small table beets, chopped on a grater;

A jar of pickled champignons;

Egg yolks 4-5 eggs;

Grated cheese 200 grams;

Grated proteins.

You can add sauteed or pickled onions after the beets.

Salad preparation:

Coat all layers with mayonnaise.

Sakura flowers are made from squirrel colored with beet juice, branches from black and green olives grated on a fine grater, leek leaves.

The stamens are from the yolk.

The design depends on your taste.

The salad is prepared in a drop-down baking dish. If there is none, you can use a simple cardboard tape, fasten it in the form of a ring, and wrap it with foil. In this ring we lay out 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 red cabbage juice.

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

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

Keep in the refrigerator until serving.

Pansies salad

Salad "New Year's cracker"

The recipe for the "New Year's firecracker" salad with step-by-step photos can be viewed

Snake salad for New Year 2013

Recipes for New Year's salad "Snake" (7 pieces) with a photo can be viewed

Crab salad

The recipe for the "Crab" salad can be viewed

Salad "Goldfish"

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

Pearl salad

The recipe for the "Pearl" salad can be viewed

White birch salad

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

Tsarsky salad

Preparation of Tsarsky salad and decoration options, you can see

Cornucopia salad # 1

The recipe for making cornucopia salad # 1 can be viewed

Violet salad

ingredients for salad: smoked legs, prunes, mushrooms fried with onions, fresh cucumber, Korean carrots, mayonnaise.

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

"Fox fur coat" salad

Salad preparation and decoration options, can be viewed

Gossamer salad

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

cooking : Mash sprats with a fork and put on a plate, then put finely chopped onion with mayonnaise. The next layer is grated cheese with mayonnaise, then three creamy little, and finally eggs.

To decorate, mix 1 tablespoon of mayonnaise with ketchup and draw a spider web. Make a spider from a black olive. Decorate the sides of the salad with cucumbers and herbs.

Eggplant appetizer "Peacock's tail"

Cooking snacks with step by step photos can be viewed

Fireworks salad

ingredients for salad: 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 a plate, lay out the first layer of ham, with strips of onions. Then there are three colors of bell peppers, alternating with egg whites. Top with tomatoes and mayonnaise, which we hide under grated egg yolks. Mayonnaise can be served separately in a gravy boat.

Ladies' hat salad

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

April Olivier salad

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

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

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

Cut the olives into thin slices and decorate the salad with them in the area of ​​\ u200b \ u200bthe eggs.

Green Rose salad

ingredients for salad: boiled chicken fillet, processed cheese, fresh cucumbers, boiled eggs, pitted olives, red Crimean onions, mayonnaise.

cooking : Cut the ingredients for the salad into cubes and season with mayonnaise. Decorate the salad with slices or slices of fresh cucumber in the form of a rose.

Mexican salad

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

cooking : Cut the ingredients for the salad into cubes and season with lemon juice and vegetable oil. Put the lettuce leaves on a plate, and the salad itself on top. Using toothpicks, collect a cactus from pickled cucumbers.

Salad "White crocuses"

ingredients for salad: boiled eggs, Chinese cabbage, canned corn, pickled mushrooms, green onions, fresh cucumbers, mayonnaise.

preparation: Chinese cabbage, pickled mushrooms, green onions, fresh cucumbers cut into cubes, add corn and season with mayonnaise. Place the salad on a plate and sprinkle with finely chopped eggs on top.

For decoration, we take 7-8 small seedling bulbs (they are sold by attendants in the bazaar), a bunch of green onions and 1/4 of carrots. We clean small onions. Now we take a sharp knife and cut out the cloves along the top of the bow. We take out the "insides" of the onion and with the help of a toothpick and green onions insert the stems into the "onion cups" and put a small piece of carrot in each onion.

Liver cake "Chamomile"

preparation: prepare a liver cake according to the recipe. Decorate with chopped dill, spread chamomile from egg white and yolk.

Championship salad

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

cooking : cut all the ingredients into cubes and lay out the layers on a square plate, smearing with mayonnaise in the following sequence: potatoes, green onions, eggs, balyk, corn, carrots, potatoes. Decorate the salad with green peas and dill. Make the marking of the field with mayonnaise, and the soccer ball from a quail egg.

Snowdrops salad

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

cooking : The salad is laid out in layers in the following order: pickled onions, boiled meat, boiled eggs. Not too thickly coat each layer with mayonnaise, including the top one. Slightly crush. Sprinkle the salad with grated cheese, make snowdrops from the feathers of green onions, and cut the petals from thinly sliced ​​daikon radish.

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

cooking : Arrange the crackers on a plate in a flower-shaped circle. Then a layer of eggs with 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. Decorate the salad with tomato slices, halved olives and sprigs of herbs.

Salad "Vegetable with garlic"

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

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

Crab Spring salad

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

cooking : cut crab sticks, cucumbers, eggs, and olives into cubes, tear Chinese cabbage into small pieces. Add cheese and season with sauce, put in a mold and refrigerate for 30 minutes. Take out the salad, transfer to a platter, and garnish with green onions and flowers from crab sticks.

Mimosa salad with mice

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

ingredients for decoration : pieces of cheese (for ears and tail of mice), black peppercorns (use as eyes for mice)

Salad "Aquarium"

ingredients for salad : seafood cocktail, onions, canned red beans, pickled mushrooms, pickles, grated hard cheese, mayonnaise

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

Sunflower salad

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

ingredients for decoration : Pringls chips and olives

Salad "Gate"

ingredients for salad : avocado, shrimps, fresh cucumbers, boiled eggs, onions, mayonnaise

ingredients for decoration : green onion feathers, salted straws, a slice of black bread to make the bottom

Corn salad

ingredients for salad : 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

ingredients for salad : boiled chicken breast, pickles, boiled carrots, green onions, dill, parsley, canned corn, eggs, mayonnaise

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

Grate the eggs on a fine grater, mix with mayonnaise, and brush over the hedgehog. Use potato chips for the needles, and squeeze circles out of the pickled cucumber skin for the eyes and nose.

Crab Paradise salad

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

ingredients for decoration : red caviar, olives, curly parsley

Salad "Watermelon slice"

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

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

"Gift" salad

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

ingredients for decoration : cut ribbons from boiled carrots and garnish with parsley.

Capercaillie's nest salad

ingredients for salad : boiled chicken fillet, ham, pickled mushrooms, eggs, mayonnaise

ingredients for decoration : potatoes cut into strips, fried in vegetable oil, lettuce, for poultry eggs: processed cheese, egg yolks, dill, mayonnaise, garlic.

Sea star salad

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

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

Hares in the Garden Salad

ingredients for salad : smoked fish fillets, such as butter, boiled potatoes, boiled eggs, boiled carrots, pickles, herbs

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

Orange Slice Salad

ingredients for salad : boiled eggs, boiled carrots, onions, chicken fillet, pickled mushrooms, grated hard cheese, mayonnaise

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

Cornucopia salad №2

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

ingredients for decoration : lettuce, vegetables, lightly salted salmon, herbs, and cheese

Pineapple salad

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

ingredients for decoration : walnut halves, green onion feathers

Tiger salad

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

ingredients for decoration : lay out the salad in layers, garnish with grated carrots, olives, olives, and egg white

Grape bunch salad

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

ingredients for decoration : blue seedless grapes

Salad "Man's whim"

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

ingredients for decoration : sandwich cheese for calla flowers, green onion feathers for stems, and yellow bell pepper to make pistil

Lovers' salad

ingredients for salad : boiled shrimps, Korean carrots, grated hard cheese, eggs, mayonnaise

ingredients for decoration : olives and red caviar

You can watch a few more beautiful ideas for decorating salads in this video.

Salad decoration: original ideas for a festive table

You always want to arrange a table for the New Year in a special, fabulous way. Indeed, for many, the holiday is associated with miracles, an unusual and fun pastime.

Decorating salads for the New Year 2020 is one of the ways to draw guests' attention to the table and cheer them up.

The patroness of the coming year is the yellow earthen dog, which allows experiments with edible table decoration.

It is not necessary to make exclusively winter compositions, you can build a beautiful floral bouquet of fruits, edible, prepare an appetizer in the form of a dog with a colorful background. Such an unusual design of festive dishes will appeal not only to a child, but also to an adult.

Sprinkles and slice patterns

Sprinkling is considered a classic decoration option. There is nothing easier to sprinkle the finished salad with finely grated one of the ingredients.

For this, as a rule, the following products are used:

• egg yolk or white;
• boiled carrots, beets, potatoes;
• fresh, canned cucumbers;
• sausage or meat products.

They are allowed to be used neat or combined in a separate container with mayonnaise sauce.

In addition to sprinkling, some housewives use finely chopped fresh herbs (parsley, cilantro, dill). Canned peas, corn, beans, pomegranate seeds, black or red caviar are often used for decoration. Provided that these components are part of a cold snack.

Having shown a little of your imagination on a flat dish, it is allowed to depict a salad in the form of a small composition or a simple ornament.

You can also serve salads in individual plates in an original way. To give a more festive look, it is recommended to lay out the appetizer in transparent small salad bowls, vases, bowls. And the recipe should be selected so that the ingredients are in harmony with each other in color.

For a more original presentation, experienced chefs use a combined type of decoration: sprinkling and thinly chopped slices of food. Grated components are used to create a background, and solid pieces to add volume to the composition.

You can also use only slices to decorate the dish. It is recommended to take mushrooms, hard cheese, lightly salted red fish, fruits as a basis. The main and important condition is that the slices should be no thicker than 2 mm.

Volumetric decoration

The most famous technique for decorating not only salads, but also other dishes is considered to be carving. Using various vegetables and fruits, cooks create figures, decorative curls, which are later used as decoration of dishes or as an independent decoration (for example, a fruit plate in the carving style).

How to decorate New Year's salads with edible and mouth-watering figurines?

This art offers us many options, but we will consider only a few and basic ones.

There are many ways to cut decor from fresh vegetables and fruits. The main thing is not to be afraid to experiment and not to forget to show your imagination.

Pancake Roses

This decoration option is not entirely related to carving, but the elements of the technique are present.

• boiled beets;
• pancakes;
• mayonnaise sauce;
• fresh sprigs of parsley.

Grate the prepared peeled vegetable finely. Combine in a small container with the sauce, stirring thoroughly.

Spread the pancakes on the surface of the desktop and grease them with a thin layer of prepared beet paste. Roll tightly into a roll and cut into pieces no more than 5 cm long.On one edge we make small cuts with a knife to create the appearance of petals. We carefully put the finished roses on the product, additionally decorate with parsley sprigs.

Dressing salads with mayonnaise sauces

Mayonnaise-based sauces are allowed as an additional decoration.

Not every housewife decides to use this decoration method, since most cold snacks already include this component. But despite this, subtle and uncomplicated patterns look beautiful and awaken the appetite of others.

To do this, you can use mayonnaise in a tube or put it in a pastry (plastic) bag. They paint like on a cake. This decoration method is recommended to be combined with others.

Now you know how you can decorate salads for the New Year 2020 in an appetizing and original way. Having studied the above techniques, methods and methods, you can come up with your own plots, combining summer and winter themes. Indeed, on the festive table it is allowed to cook not only meat, vegetable or fish salads, but fruit or mixed ones to taste.

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Every hostess knows how important a beautiful presentation of dishes is, especially when you are preparing to receive guests. And when setting the table, it is important not to forget about salads. The very design of salads is not so much a complicated process as it takes time and a lot of patience. But one has only to approach this creatively, and your culinary masterpieces will surprise guests not only with their taste, but also with all their interesting appearance.
And indeed, how can you forget about one of the most important and popular dishes when decorating a festive table? Don't underestimate them.

It doesn't matter if you are going to celebrate an important event or just want to have dinner with your family, just put on a bright, decorated salad and it instantly transforms your usual meal.

And while there are festive and casual dishes in every kitchen, this is one that always fits perfectly on the menu. Many of them do not even need to be decorated, they themselves are a riot of colors and elegant brightness, and the rest will in no way yield to their "festive" brothers, you just have to show your imagination.

Remember how many things the hostess has to do before an important feast: to buy food in advance, and think over all the dishes, and cook, and set the table, and not forget about yourself. And how can you serve cooked food beautifully at such a frantic pace?

And in this case, salads will come to your aid. Their design will not take much time, especially if you find a couple of options the day before, with photos and descriptions.

Over time, you will become so accustomed that serving even the simplest dish will amaze guests and your family with its sophistication. And time will take less and less each time. And then you will definitely have time to do both manicure and makeup before the holiday.

How can you decorate a dish so that even a real gourmet is interested in your creation? To get started, stock up on herbs - they will help the dish look fresh.

For decoration, it is better to use those ingredients that are already included in its composition, or those in which you are sure, since everything should be combined with each other not only in color, but also in taste.

But, if everything is simple with salads without dressing (or dressed with oils) - they do not require additional decoration, then what about others? After all, many others imply the presence of mayonnaise or other sauce that hides the bright color of the products.

Here, take on board a boat (also called a round cut): it will help you serve a snack in the shape of a neat ring. Such a device can also be found in a square shape. If you don't have time to go to the store, do not despair.

An ordinary cut plastic bottle or baking dish can also cope with this task. Just place them on a plate and place a serving of salad inside, crushing it well with a spoon to keep it from falling apart. Then remove the "frame" and - voila! - the dish is ready for further serving.

On top you can put a chopped egg, mushrooms, bell peppers, olives, olives or herbs. When served this way, the dish will look very stylish and neat. Or you can make a basket like in the photo.

There are times when time is so short that there is no time to be distracted even by such simple details. Then again you have to postpone for the next time and serving, and decoration. But there are options for such cases. They do not require any preparation and are absolutely independent of the composition or dressing.

If you are planning several options at once, then do not decorate them in the same way, it will be boring. It is better to diversify the decor, but so that they all look harmonious with each other and the main dishes. Do not forget that everything is good in moderation: excessive enthusiasm for decoration will bring all your efforts to nothing, the table will look awkward, and the dishes will be unappetizing.

It will not be superfluous to remember some tricks. For example products and colors:

• If you want a burgundy color, take beets;
• red - pomegranate, tomatoes, bell peppers will help you;
• do you need green? Take peppers, canned peas, cucumbers and any greens;
• if you want to add blue - mix the juice of red cabbage with rice or a boiled egg;
• corn, yolk and pepper will give you a yellow color;
• cranberry juice - pink;
• not enough white? You will be helped by peeled radish cottage cheese, cream, boiled egg and rice;
• if you rub the protein and mix it with beet juice, you get purple. Such a little mastery of the laws of artistic color mixing right in the kitchen.

If you have enough time and you want to learn the art of table decoration in full, then pay attention to carving. This is a type of decorative decoration for vegetables and fruits, in fact, it is artistic carving.

Carving has been on the wave of popularity for many years; many famous chefs even arrange competitions in this discipline. To do this, you need a curly knife. Now on sale you can even find special kits with many accessories.

Remember a few tips on what to cut and from what. For example, cucumbers can be decorated with a spiral (using a special tool from the carving kit), serpentine, stripes and ribbons. Large fruits and vegetables can be made with baskets.

Flowers can be cut from tomatoes, eggs, and even radish! The only thing, do not forget to first immerse it in cold water - this will remove the bitterness.

Ordinary lettuce leaves can be added to the "picture" of cut out decorations: line them on a serving dish or add a couple of leaves on top. Leaves of mint, lemon balm and basil are also used for decoration.

Seasonings will also help to change the color: paprika, curry, parsley, ground black pepper. Even ordinary tomato paste can add a touch of originality to a salad design.

Thus, you can decorate absolutely any vegetable option. But with fruit, there are a couple of tricks. Buy a noisette at any dish store. This is a special spoon for "cutting" balls and hemispheres of different sizes from fruit pulp. It looks like an ordinary spoon, but with metal hemispheres of different diameters at the edges.

You can cut watermelon and peach balls, melon and apples, like ice cream balls, and serve them in waffle cups, dough baskets or crystal bowls. Don't forget to garnish the top with berries and mint leaves. It is perfect for dessert and even children will like it.

In addition to all of the above, there are a few more points that can be highlighted:

• First, the main point, of course, is the compatibility of products with each other. Usually this does not raise questions, the main thing is not to use incompatible components, such as, say, meat and kiwi. It is better to pay attention to lemons, olives with olives, eggs and bright vegetables.
• Secondly, decoration requires no less sense of style than any other art. It is important to clearly think over the composition, choose accents, and determine the center.
• If you decide to decorate your dishes, then it is worth picking up suitable dishes that will not distract attention from the main elements. For example, bright dishes combined with sophisticated decor will turn your dish into a fractional and lurid thing.

Do not forget that the final look of the dish depends only on you, so it's worth practicing. Give preference to clear lines and even cubes. Use well-sharpened knives. Your accuracy in cutting vegetables and fruits is already 50% of success.

Don't forget about color balance. As an artist, you must see and feel the most winning combinations. Add some contrast for lighter options with tomato and bright bell pepper, and for darker options use herbs and cucumbers. You can even use the colored zest of citrus fruits - orange or lemon.

Make sure that the decor does not divert attention from the main dish, but only complements it. It is better not to get carried away with excessive decoration, let everything be modest, but tasteful.

If you need to use any inedible ingredients, be sure to warn guests about this, especially if you need wooden skewers or toothpicks for canapes and fastening jewelry.

It is also possible to use raw vegetables. Still, you should strive to ensure that the entire decor is not only beautiful, but also edible.

Beautiful video decoration

Separately, it is worth talking about decorating the table for children's parties. Any children's holiday, especially if it is a birthday, requires careful preparation from the parents. You must create such a cheerful and joyful atmosphere so that the holiday will be remembered not only by the hero of the occasion, but also by all his invited friends.

It would seem that there is no place for salads on the table, because most children do not eat them. But no matter how it is! If you show originality and prepare delicious options with an unusual design, then children will definitely appreciate them. It all depends only on your imagination: you can create whole plot compositions on plates! Children's joy and surprise are definitely worth the effort.

In addition to the decor, pay attention to the following points:

• Avoid spicy, salty and fatty foods. On the children's table there is no place for fried, smoked and appetizers with mayonnaise and an abundance of spices.
• Avoid daring experiments: you should not replace the products that your child is used to and add something new. Give preference to traditional dishes, choosing ingredients that kids will surely enjoy.
• If you have a holiday with very young kids, then exclude citrus fruits, as well as bright fruits and vegetables. Remember, they can trigger an allergy attack!
• The same attention should be paid to any fish if you plan to put it on the table or add it to dishes. There should be no bones in it.
• Adopt a couple of canapé recipes. Children eat them with great pleasure: they are small and on comfortable skewers. For their preparation, give preference to neutral fruits and vegetables, berries, cheeses, eggs and mushrooms.

Examples of decorating children's salads

Baby birthday decoration: beautiful, fun and edible!

Little tricks

Any home celebration creates an upbeat and joyful mood, immersing everyone in an atmosphere of genuine fun. Especially if you don't have to spend a lot of time preparing dishes and setting the table.

And any hostess wants not only to demonstrate her culinary skills, but also to surprise guests with a beautifully decorated table. And here salads will come to your aid again. Simple to decorate, they will become a bright highlight that will certainly be remembered.

Table decoration for the holiday

We are especially careful in choosing what we will cook for the festive table. We look through the recipes in advance, decide on the final version of the menu, make a list of the necessary products.

And, undoubtedly, each hostess has a couple of recipes that must be prepared for a gala dinner. But even if these are the most ordinary Olivier and vinaigrette, you do not need to give up the idea of ​​making them if you decide to amaze everyone with an original presentation.

It is worth only slightly decorating them, and you can be sure that your guests will definitely highly appreciate even these familiar dishes.

To make them not only tasty, but also spectacular, show your imagination and ingenuity. Don't forget to be neat! The registration will not take long, which will definitely play into your hands. If you have enough time, you can try more complicated decorating methods.

The first time, such decorations can take more than twenty minutes, so it is better to try them out in advance and get used to them, especially if you are planning a complex composition. After a few workouts, even complex elements will not take you more than ten minutes.

Look for recipes with carved flowers and other figurines from the pulp of fruits and vegetables. Some preparation is required to create them, but the result is worth it.

You can give preference to simpler methods:

• you can even make a voluminous "rose" from bacon or ham;
• For fruit dishes, use sliced ​​kiwis or skimmed citrus zest.
• Another way to effectively serve salads is to focus not on the top decorations, but on the ingredients themselves. So, if it does not imply mandatory mixing, then you can experiment with that.

For example, vegetable dishes will look great if laid out in layers. The dressing can be placed side by side in a separate gravy boat or coated on top and sides of the formed dish. Use not only mayonnaise for this, sour cream and unsweetened yoghurts are perfect.

From above, the composition can be completed with almonds, hazelnuts or pine nuts.

If the nuts do not suit your dish at all, then pomegranate seeds are also excellent substitutes.

And you can do without them by adding carved flowers from vegetables to the dish or by laying out an edible drawing. Using sprigs of parsley, radishes and chopped olives, you can create a fish and a penguin, as in the following photo.

You can also experiment with 3D molding. For example, winter dishes can be served in the form of forest cones, and seafood dishes can be served in the form of fish.

All of the above methods of decorating dishes are not at all the limit. It all depends only on your imagination!

Get creative and you have all sorts of different designs for the same salad, but for different occasions. Change shapes and come up with new unique recipes for decorating New Year's and everyday dishes. Each housewife will have all this in different ways, because everyone has their own vision of beauty.

One thing remains unchanged - the atmosphere of the holiday and the good mood that beautifully decorated dishes bring. Whether these skills are used in everyday life or only on holidays is up to you.

It is not difficult to learn how to decorate not only salads, but also other food in an interesting and unusual way: just be patient and spend some free time. Coupled with a great desire, this will be enough. Having mastered even the simplest elements, you can already combine them in different ways and create many bright compositions.

There is no "ceiling" in this art, even after learning how to perform the most difficult things, you can continue to go further, improve your skills and come up with new original ways of serving both salads and all other dishes for any occasion.

And you will be able to pamper your household with a spectacular serving of an ordinary dinner at least every day, bringing the mood of celebration and magic into everyday life!

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It just so happened: for the New Year we are preparing "Olivier". Despite the fact that the hostesses have mastered the preparation of many newfangled salads from exotic ingredients, the traditional "Olivier" must be present on the New Year's table. This is both a tribute to tradition and a tribute to our taste preferences too. Gathering together, relatives and friends want to taste the dishes that they ate together year after year. It is like an indispensable attribute of both the New Year and a family festive meal.

True, and "Olivier" now can be prepared in different ways. It is enough to replace traditional boiled sausage with some other ingredient (meat, boiled pork, bacon, lightly salted red fish, etc.), as our salad will sparkle with different colors, different flavors.

Today I will cook Olivier with boiled chicken breast, and also show how you can decorate a salad for the New Year of the Dog 2018. You can take another recipe from our website and make the same decoration from a photo on any other recipe.



What do you need:
- one chicken fillet (medium),
- 2-3 testicles,
- a pack of mayonnaise (you may need more or less),
- 2 pieces of carrots and potatoes,
- 2-3 pickled cucumbers (depending on size),
- 2 tablespoons of coconut flakes,
- 1 onion,
- pepper and salt to taste,
- 3 tablespoons of canned green peas.

How to cook from a photo step by step

1. Let's start with boiling the breast. Cook chicken fillet in salted water. Boil potatoes and carrots separately. Cook the vegetables in their skins, making sure that the potatoes are not boiled, otherwise they may fall apart right in the pan. Eggs are also cooked until cooked - hard boiled.
2. Peel the carrots, eggs and potatoes, then rinse them well.




3. Let's start slicing the ingredients for the salad. Cut the potatoes into small pieces. We try to keep the pieces from sticking together.




4. Finely chop the carrots. Let's leave one carrot for decoration.






5. But the chicken fillet can be cut larger.




6. Eggs can be chopped with a special egg cutter or, traditionally, with a knife.




7. An indispensable ingredient in Olivier is pickled cucumbers. We will also cut them finely.






8. And finally, onions. This is not the main component of the salad, but without it there will be no necessary zest. It is very good if purple or white salad onions are used instead of onions.




9. Put all the ingredients in a deep bowl for easier mixing. Add green peas.




10. Season the salad with mayonnaise, but not too much. Since I will put the salad in the garnish ring, excess mayonnaise may leak. Add salt and pepper.




11. Mix our Olivier. The salad is ready.






12. It remains to place the salad in the garnish ring to shape it. It's not obligatory. In what form you serve your salad, it's only your business.




13. Put grated carrots on top of the salad. It's not obligatory. Since I'm going to apply a dog figurine to the salad, I need grated carrots to create a contrasting background. For half an hour, put the salad in the refrigerator to make it easier to remove the ring, and so that the salad does not deform when removed.




14. I will decorate my salad with such a funny dog ​​figurine (2018 is the Year of the Dog). For this I will use a stencil, and I will apply the drawing with coconut flakes. It has no pronounced taste, and will not affect the taste of our salad.




15. Apply the stencil to the top layer.

19. "Olivier" salad for the New Year in a dog design is ready!