Beautiful salads are not only tasty, but also look great. Increasingly, hostesses are trying to surprise guests and loved ones with their culinary skills.

The appearance of the salad depends on the event for which it is prepared. New Year's salads, salads for Easter or birthday, or just beautiful salads decorated with flowers from vegetables, these dishes look great on the ceremonial table.

For decoration most often use onions, herbs, cheese, eggs and a variety of vegetables. The main thing in these salads is that they not only have an excellent taste, but also an unforgettable appearance. You and your guests will definitely love it.

How to cook beautiful salads - 15 varieties

This salad will not be to everyone's taste, as it includes prunes. The dish looks great on the festive table. It will certainly attract the attention of your guests with its appearance and delight in taste.

Ingredients:

• 150 g prunes
• 250 g butter
• 200 g beef
• 1 fresh cucumber
• onion
• 4 boiled eggs
• mayonnaise
• parsley for decoration
• 3 cherry tomatoes
• a few black olives.

Cooking:

1. Boil the meat in salted water, let it cool. For a richer taste, you can boil the meat with your favorite spices.
2. Mushrooms cut into strips, onions - cubes. Fry the mushrooms and onions in a small amount of vegetable oil.
3. Cut the eggs into strips, but you need to leave 2 yolks for decoration. Also cut the cucumber into strips.
4. Cut prunes and meat into thin strips.
5. Spread the salad in layers, grease each layer with mayonnaise - prunes, meat, mushrooms, eggs, cucumber, grated yolk.
6. To decorate, cut the tomatoes in half, making the body of a “ladybug” out of them, make a head and small black spots from the olives. Place the "ladybug" on the parsley leaves.

Delicious and easy to prepare salad. If you fill it with sour cream and exclude boiled potatoes, you get a great diet dish. To start cooking, you must first boil the potatoes, eggs and chicken legs, if desired, the legs can be replaced with fillets.

Ingredients:

• 2 chicken legs
• 6 boiled potatoes
• 200 g fried mushrooms
• 2 cucumbers
• 2-3 boiled eggs
• 1 can of olives
• a bunch of green onions or lettuce leaves.

Cooking:

1. All components of the salad must be chopped. Greens, olives, mushrooms and chicken - cut. Potatoes, eggs and cucumber - grate on a coarse grater. Some of the olives must be set aside for decoration.
2. Lay out the lettuce in layers. Put the olives at the bottom of the bowl, then the meat and coat with mayonnaise. We spread the mushrooms, grease with mayonnaise, spread the potatoes and mayonnaise. Sprinkle with grated eggs. Spread the cucumber with the next layer, grease a little with mayonnaise.
3. The salad is ready, it remains only to decorate it, for decoration we form a crown from chopped onions. Cut the olives into thin strips and lay them on top of the salad. The decoration is ready.

Before the holidays, every hostess wants to surprise her guests. Salad "Flower" with tomatoes - a great treat. The appearance of the dish will decorate the festive table, and it will take all half an hour to prepare it.

Ingredients:

• 300 g prunes
• 500 g smoked chicken fillet
• 500 g tomatoes
• 4 eggs
• 2 eggs for decoration
• 2 cucumbers
• a few green onions
• a few black olives for decoration.

Cooking:

1. Pour prunes with boiling water for 15 minutes. Leave part of the prunes for decoration, cut the rest into strips, put on the bottom of the salad bowl and coat with mayonnaise.
2. Cut the tomatoes into cubes, put on prunes, you do not need to coat with mayonnaise.
3. Cut chicken fillet into cubes, put on tomatoes, grease with mayonnaise.
4. Grind hard-boiled eggs on a fine grater, sprinkle salad.
5. For decoration, cut the boiled eggs lengthwise, remove the yolk. Form a “glass of a flower” from a protein, cut a stem from a green onion, cut leaves from a cucumber peel. Cut the olives into circles and decorate the salad around the perimeter with them and make the middle of the flower.

This salad will look great on a festive children's table. Small children are very picky about various dishes and products, but not for this salad. Salad in the form of a hedgehog awakens in children the interest and desire to try it.

Ingredients:

• 2 chicken legs
• 100 g fried mushrooms
• 100 g hard cheese
• 200 g Korean carrots
• olives mayonnaise
• pepper
• fresh dill.

Cooking:

1. Boil chicken legs in salted water, cool, remove bones and skin, cut into pieces.
2. Leave a little Korean carrot for decoration, cut the rest.
3. Divide hard cheese into 2 parts. Grate the larger part on a coarse grater, grate the smaller part on a fine grater for decoration.
4. Combine all ingredients in a salad bowl. Salt, pepper, season with mayonnaise and mix well.
5. Put the salad on a flat dish, form a hedgehog. Sprinkle the nose with cheese, lay out the body with carrots. For thorns - cut olives into petals. The nose and eyes are also made from olives. Finely chop the dill and make grass for the hedgehog.

Prunes go well with smoked chicken meat. Cucumber gives this salad freshness and juiciness. The treat is perfect for both a festive and everyday table, and you and your loved ones will definitely like it.

Ingredients:

• smoked chicken fillet
• 150 g prunes
• fresh cucumber
• 6 boiled eggs
• 50 g chopped walnuts
• 150 g fried mushrooms
• mayonnaise
• 100 g hard cheese
• boiled sausage for decoration.

Cooking:

To start cooking, you need to cut the prunes into strips.

If the prunes are too hard, soak them in boiling water for 15 minutes and then pat dry with a paper towel.

Cut eggs, cucumber and chicken fillet into cubes, add chopped prunes, mushrooms and walnuts. Season with mayonnaise and mix well.

Put the salad on a flat dish in the form of a mouse.

Cut out “legs” and “ears” from boiled sausage. Grate the cheese on a fine grater to form a fur coat.

Decorate the salad. With prunes make eyes, mouth and nose, and green onion feathers - a mustache.

This salad dressing is perfect for a romantic dinner. It can also be served to any festive table, whether it's a birthday or a wedding anniversary. This salad takes a little time and patience to make, but the end result is worth it.

Ingredients:

• 200 g boiled chicken fillet
• 2 cucumbers
• 200 g cheese
• 200 g pitted prunes
• 3 boiled eggs
• mayonnaise

Cooking:

1. Cut the fillet into small pieces, put on a dish, smear with mayonnaise.
2. Cucumbers cut into cubes or strips, just put on a dish and cover with mayonnaise mesh.
3. Separate the whites from the yolks, mash the yolks with a fork, put on a dish.
4. Grate the cheese on a fine grater and put it on a dish, cover with a mayonnaise mesh.
5. Proteins grate on a coarse grater.
6. Chop prunes.
7. Using a glass or glass, outline the circles. Post a drawing.

Salad "Birch Grove" with pomegranate will suit real gourmets. This dish is not for everyone, because not everyone likes pomegranates, but it’s still worth a try. An unusual combination of products gives the salad an unforgettable exotic taste.

Ingredients:

• 300 g boiled meat
• 200 g canned mushrooms
• 5 boiled eggs
• one pomegranate seeds
• mayonnaise
• greenery
• olives or prunes.

Cooking:

1. Cut the meat into thin strips and lay on the bottom of the salad bowl, lightly brushing with mayonnaise.
2. Grind the mushrooms, put on the meat.
3. Separate the yolk from the protein and grate on a fine grater. Put protein on mushrooms, grease with mayonnaise.
4. Spread the pomegranate seeds evenly over the protein and sprinkle with yolk.
5. For decoration, we draw a birch trunk from mayonnaise, we make strips from prunes or olives, and foliage and grass from greenery. You can put a few mushrooms on the "grass".

The salad consists of simple ingredients, which will allow you to prepare it quickly and easily, if suddenly the guests dropped in without warning. If the salad is seasoned with olive oil or lemon juice, it becomes light and low-calorie, perfect for dinner.

Ingredients:

• Boiled chicken breast
• Pickled cucumbers - 5-7 pcs
• Boiled eggs - 5 pcs
• Black olives - 3-5 pieces
• Fried champignons
• green onion

Cooking:

1. Chicken fillet and cucumbers cut into small cubes. Chop the onion.
2. Separate the yolks from the whites. Grate the yolks on a coarse grater, whites on a fine grater.
3. Put the salad in layers - champignons, then chicken fillet, grease with mayonnaise. Lay grated protein and cucumbers on top, grease with mayonnaise. Put the yolk on the last layer.
4. Using mayonnaise, draw a birch. Form leaves from chopped onion, and dark stripes with olives. In order for the salad to be more tasty, it must be allowed to brew for at least 2 hours. Best left in the refrigerator overnight.

Elegant and appetizing dietary salad "Festive" perfectly diversifies the menu. Dietary products and dressing are used to prepare the salad. This salad is sure to please.

Ingredients:

• boiled chicken breast
• boiled carrots
• fresh cucumber
• 2 boiled eggs
• small boiled beets
• sour cream
• greenery
• lemon juice

Cooking:

1. Cut the chicken fillet into strips and lay on the bottom of the salad bowl.
2. Separate the yolk from the protein and grate on a fine grater. Lay the yolk in a second layer, lightly grease with sour cream.
3. Grate carrots and cucumber on a coarse grater. Put the carrots in the salad bowl first, and then the cucumber. Sprinkle with finely chopped olives.
4. Sprinkle grated egg white on top.
5. Decorate the dish. From thin longitudinal strips of carrots, depict the threads of a gift box. Peel and cut the beets into as thin circles as possible, form a bow out of them.
6. Decorate around the bow with green parsley or any other herbs.

Bright salad for your table. The salad is hearty and tasty, for its preparation you need simple products and a little time to make it neat and beautiful, and the taste of this dish is tender and juicy.

If you do not like black olives, you can replace them with green or prunes.

Ingredients:

• 200 g boiled chicken fillet
• 4 boiled eggs
• 150 g hard cheese
• black olives
• 3 tomatoes
• 3 cucumbers
• mayonnaise

Cooking:

1. Cut the chicken fillet into small cubes.
2. Grate boiled eggs on a coarse grater.
3. Grate hard cheese on a fine grater.
4. Cut a few olives into slices, the rest into circles.
5. Cut the tomatoes into small cubes.
6. Cucumber grate on a coarse grater.
7. In a large bowl, put the fillet, eggs, olives, cut into circles, cheese (leave a little cheese for decoration), salt, grease with mayonnaise and mix well.
8. We spread the salad on a flat dish and form a semicircle.
9. In order to turn a semicircle into a real watermelon slice, for this you need to lay out tomatoes first, then a small strip of grated cheese and cucumber. Seeds depict using olives.

This salad is a real find for any housewife. To prepare it, you need a minimum of products and time, but it turns out it is very tasty and satisfying.

Ingredients:

• 1 chicken breast
• 3 boiled egg whites
• 100 g cheese
• fresh cucumber
• boiled carrots
• bulb
• mayonnaise
• greenery

Cooking:

1. Boil the chicken breast until tender in salted water, if desired, you can add spices.
2. Cut the onion into rings, fry in vegetable oil.
3. Grate the cucumber on a coarse grater, and the cheese on a fine grater.
4. Lay out in layers, smearing with mayonnaise - onion, meat, cucumber, cheese.
5. Cut the carrot into thin strips and twist it into flowers.
6. Finely chop the greens and decorate the salad.

very tasty salad for cooking in a hurry. Guests do not always warn about their arrival, and you can cook this salad in 10 minutes. Also, the dish is perfect for lunch or dinner.

Ingredients:

• 300 g boiled chicken fillet
• 200 g champignons
• 300 g tomato
• bulb
• cucumber
• 150 g hard cheese
• vegetable oil for frying
• mayonnaise
• salt.

Cooking:

1. Mushrooms cut into strips and lightly fry in vegetable oil.
2. Chicken fillet and onion cut into small cubes.
3. Spread the salad in layers, in the form of a strawberry: meat, onion, mayonnaise, salt, put cheese grated on a fine grater and fried mushrooms. On top of the salad lay out, chopped into small cubes, tomatoes. "Chubchik" strawberries cut from cucumber.

This salad is a godsend. It will be a wonderful decoration of your table and will delight you with amazing taste. An unusual combination of products, namely an apple, gives this dish a special taste.

Ingredients:

• 300 g boiled chicken fillet
• 4 boiled eggs
• bulb
• green apple
• 200 g cheese
• mayonnaise
• olives
• 300 g fried mushrooms
• chips (how much will go).

Cooking:

1. Chicken fillet and onion cut into small cubes.
2. Grate eggs, apple and cheese.
3. Put the salad on a flat dish in layers: chicken fillet, onion, mushrooms, eggs and cheese. Spread all layers with mayonnaise.
4. Decorate the salad with chips and halved olives.

Delicious and quick to prepare, the Bunch of Grapes salad is perfect for those who like to combine meat products with fruits and berries. Grapes, paired with chicken and apple, give the salad an unusual and unforgettable taste.

Ingredients:

• 300 g chicken fillet
• 3 boiled eggs
• 2 green apples
• 100 g hard cheese
• 300 g seedless grapes
• lettuce or parsley
• mayonnaise.

Cooking:

1. Peel the apples, remove the core and cut into slices.
2. Grind the chicken fillet to your liking.
3. Grate eggs and cheese on a coarse grater.
4. Cut the grapes in half lengthwise.
5. Lay the salad on a flat dish in layers: chicken meat, eggs, apples, cheese. Spread the last layer well with mayonnaise.
6. Decorate the top of the salad with a “bunch” of grapes and herbs.

Salad "Gentle" with pineapple

Pineapple is an exotic product familiar to us, with many vitamins. The combination of pineapple and meat is very successful, which is what underlies this salad. In order to fully reveal the taste of the dish, it is worth leaving it in the refrigerator for several hours.

:
. 1.5 cucumbers, (one for the base, the rest - cut)
. 1 large potato
. a few slices of salmon or trout for a layer
. 10 slices of salmon or trout to garnish the salad on top
. 2 grated crab sticks or boiled or fried fish mashed with a fork
. 1-2 eggs
. shrimps

		Cut the cucumbers thinly along and lay out the base of the salad.
		Grate potatoes, mix with mayonnaise and put on cucumber slices.
		The next layer is chopped salmon.
		Put boiled or fried fish mashed with a fork or grated crab sticks. Drizzle with a little mayonnaise. Top with grated egg (1-2 pcs.), Mixed with mayonnaise.
		Then lay out the chopped cucumber, pour over with mayonnaise. Arrange peeled shrimp on top.
		Carefully cover the salad with thin slices of salmon or other salmon fish. Decorate. NOTE. Instead of covering the salad with slices of red fish, you can use a thin layer of pre-boiled and then grated carrots.

Salad "Olivier"

Salad "OLIVIER WITH CARAMEL"
Novorussian culinary extreme with fried sugar and Russian vodka

3-4 potatoes boiled in their skins and 2 carrots boiled in their skins, peeled and cut into cubes.
In the same way cut 4 hard-boiled eggs, one medium-sized onion, 2-3 pickles, half a sour green apple.
Add 100 g of grated any hard cheese, if desired - and green peas.
Season the salad with mayonnaise, mix and put in a bowl.
When the salad is ready, proceed to the preparation of the caramel mass. Place 1 tbsp in a hot, dry skillet. a spoonful of sugar, as soon as the sugar starts to melt - immediately add a piece of butter.
At the same time, the smell of caramel cloud is felt above the pan.
Stir the mass until dissolved and carefully pour the salad on top, as shown in the photo.
Decorate with air cookies protein dough .

Salad "OLIVIE"
with omelet rolls

Ingredients
For omelet pancakes:
. 3-4 raw eggs
. 1 st. flour spoon,
. slaked soda on the tip of a knife,
For salad:
. boiled potatoes "in uniform" - 3 pcs.,
. 3 chopped pickled or pickled cucumbers,
. 150 g sausage or meat (boiled or smoked),
. 1/2 can canned green peas
. 1 onion
. mayonnaise.
For decoration:
. sliced ​​olives,
. greens - dill and parsley.
Food film.

Cooking omelet pancakes.
Beat eggs with flour, salt a little, add soda on the tip of a knife.
Fry 2 omelet "pancakes" in a large frying pan. Lubricate warm pancakes on one side with mayonnaise, sprinkle with dill and carefully twist into rolls.
After cooling, cut the rolls across into slices 0.5-1 cm thick.
We are preparing a salad.
Put a deep salad bowl with a film (so that the edges hang down) and lay the rolls tightly to each other.
Grate potatoes and cucumbers on a coarse grater.
Put half of the potatoes in the form on the rolls, compact so that the rolls do not fall apart later.
Put the grated cucumbers on top of the potatoes.
Cut the sausage (or meat) into cubes, finely chop the onion, add peas and mayonnaise, mix and put the mixture on top of the cucumbers.
Close with the rest of the potatoes.
Top with a film that remains hanging around the edges, crush well and refrigerate for 3-4 hours.
Then open the film on top, turn the salad on a dish and remove the salad bowl along with the film.
Garnish with parsley leaves, olive slices and serve.

Salad "Bouquet of roses"

Ingredients :
. 500 g chicken fillet,
. 4 eggs,
. 200 g carrots
. 500 g champignons (or pickled mushrooms),
. 300 g cheese
. 200 g walnuts,
. 2 beets,
. 1 garlic clove
. mayonnaise,
. salt,
. pepper to taste.

First prepare the salad.
Finely chop boiled carrots and boiled chicken fillet. Finely chop the mushrooms and onions and fry in different pans.
Boiled eggs, cut cheese into cubes, grate nuts.
Mix everything, season with mayonnaise and put a slide on a dish.
Then fry 2 pancakes.
Mix boiled beets and garlic grated on a fine grater, season with 2-3 tbsp. spoons of mayonnaise.
Thoroughly grease each pancake with beetroot mixture, roll into tubes, cut across into small pieces about 1.5 cm long, from which put “roses” in the middle of the salad.
Around abundantly decorate with greenery.

Salad "Fish under an umbrella"

Ingredients :
. 3 medium potatoes,
. 1 herring fillet,
. 2 bulbs
. 1 carrot
. 1 apple
. 1 beet
. 3 eggs,
. 150 g red salted fish,
. 1 pickled cucumber
. mayonnaise.

Finely chop the onion and marinate it for 30-60 minutes in a marinade of vinegar, sugar, salt and water (ratio to taste).
Boil and grate potatoes, carrots, eggs and beets.
Drain the pickled onion.
Cut the herring into small pieces; cut the red fish and cucumber into cubes, grate the apple.
Lay on a dish in layers in the following order, with each layer smeared with mayonnaise:
- 1/2 of potatoes, herring, 1/2 of onions,
- grease with mayonnaise,
- carrot, apple,
- grease with mayonnaise,
- beets, 2 eggs,
- grease with mayonnaise,
- red fish, 1/2 onion, pickled cucumber, 1/2 potato,
- Lubricate with mayonnaise.
Grate the yolk and protein on top and decorate according to your imagination (see photo in the header).

Salad "Royal"

Ingredients :
. 200 g crab sticks,
. 200 g shrimp or squid
. 200 g cheese or boiled potatoes,
. 4 eggs,
. Red caviar,
. green olives,
. parsley,
. mayonnaise or sour cream.

Crab sticks, shrimp, eggs finely chopped. Cheese grate on a coarse grater.
Then mix everything and season to taste with mayonnaise or lightly salted sour cream (or a mixture of mayonnaise and sour cream).
Put on a plate with a ring around the glass, then remove the glass, pour olives into the resulting recess, decorate with red caviar, herbs and olives.

Salad "Snake Princess"

The basis can be different salads or pates - see the recipes on the pages of the section SALADS , on p. PATES and UNSWEETED CURD PATES .
In the same way, you can decorate various SWEET CURD MASSES - in this case, use pieces of candied fruits, slices of marmalade, fruits, berries, corn flakes, etc. for decoration.
For example, you can cook such a fish salad:

Ingredients :
. 4 medium potatoes, boiled in their skins or baked (this tastes better)
. 1-2 jars of pink salmon
. 4 hard boiled eggs
. 2 processed cheese "Druzhba" or "Volna", or others to taste and availability
. 1 garlic clove
. real mayonnaise
(try not to use purchased mayonnaise, as this is an inedible surrogate)
For decoration:
. pickled cucumbers
. olive slices
. pieces of boiled carrots

Grate all products, put in a salad bowl. (Grated melted cheese and potatoes are the binding components, because they are very viscous and do not allow the salad to blur.)
Grind the fish, pass the garlic through a press and add everything to the salad.
Season with mayonnaise, salt and pepper to taste, mix. Let it brew for 1 hour so that the salad becomes more viscous.
You can put lettuce leaves on the dish (there are no leaves in the photo).
Mix the salad again and carefully place on the leaves in the form of a snake. Form a head.
Cucumbers and olives cut into slices and lay out a pattern over the entire surface, put square pieces of carrots in slices of olives.
Make eyes from olives, tongue from green onions, cut a crown from carrots.
NOTE. You can make different parts of the "snake" from different salads, but this is more laborious.

Salad "Ural box"

Ingredients :
. 250-300 g smoked chicken breast,
. 2 pcs. potato,
. 1 onion
. 200 g mushrooms (you can take pickled mushrooms),
. 100 g hard cheese,
. mayonnaise,
. salt,
. pepper.

Boiled in their skins or baked potatoes, peel, grate on a coarse grater, salt and pepper a little.
Finely chop the onion. Finely chop mushrooms and chicken breast.
Grate hard cheese on a coarse grater.
Lay in layers in the following order, with each layer smeared with mayonnaise:
- potato
- onion
- mushrooms
- chicken breast
- hard cheese
Cover with cling film and let it brew for 8-10 hours in the refrigerator.
Before serving, garnish with parsley, dill, green onions, whole mushrooms.

Salad "Chest with jewels"

Ingredients :
. 500 g sea cocktail (frozen seafood mix)
. 1 carrot
. 1 bulb
. 1 sweet pepper
. 2 eggs
. mayonnaise
. 1 rectangular loaf of white bread
. 2 tsp red caviar
. 2 tsp halibut caviar
. 300 g cream cheese (Philadelphia type, such as Viola cheese)
. 1 garlic clove

		At a rectangular loaf of bread, which will become the basis of our box, carefully cut off the "lid". We try not to cut off the top crust completely - it is desirable that it be movably kept on one side. Carefully cut out the crumb from the middle of the loaf.
		Mix cream cheese, chopped small clove of garlic and salt. The resulting mass is heated with continuous stirring in a water bath with not too hot water until warm and easily smeared consistency. With a lukewarm cheese mass, we thoroughly coat the chest for our treasures inside and out. Can be coated in two layers. For the mass that has not yet hardened, decorate the outside with slices of sweet red pepper and green leaves, as shown in the photo in the header.
		Cut the carrots into strips, onions into half rings and fry them in vegetable oil. Put the sea cocktail in boiling water and boil for 5 minutes. Then strain, add to the fried vegetables and let cool completely. Cut sweet peppers and hard-boiled eggs into strips. Mix everything and add mayonnaise.
		We carefully put our treasures in a chest. We decorate with caviar, partially cover the lid so that the treasures can be seen. We spread the chest on lettuce leaves and serve immediately.

Salad "Chamomile"

Ingredients :
. 2 large carrots
. 5 walnuts,
. 1 garlic clove
. 1 boiled yolk,
. mayonnaise,
. 1 white radish
. Red caviar.

Grate carrots, garlic cloves, walnuts on a fine grater, mix with mayonnaise.
Put a slide on a dish, sprinkle with boiled yolk, make a depression in the center and fill it with red caviar, and then decorate with carrots.
Cut the petals out of the white radish and decorate the edges of the salad with them, as shown in the photo.

Herring under the "hat"

Ingredients :
. 2 potatoes
. 1 apple
. 3 hard-boiled eggs,
. 150 g herring fillet,
. 1-2 small beets
. 100 g mayonnaise,
. 1 st. l. mustard,
. salt,
. pepper,
. 1 bunch of greens.

Boil the potatoes in their skins, peel, cut into slices 5 mm thick and put on a dish.
Cut the herring fillet into small neat pieces or chop into small cubes and arrange on potato slices.
Peel the boiled eggs, cut into slices, cover the herring with them.
Put a grated apple on top.
Boil the beets, peel and grate on a coarse grater. Combine with mayonnaise and mustard, salt, pepper, mix and carefully lay a slide on top of a layer of grated apple.
Garnish the finished appetizer with greens and serve.

Salad "Football"

Ingredients :
. 2 cans of canned tuna in oil (or saury, pink salmon),
. 400 g potatoes
. 350 g tomatoes,
. 2 eggs,
. 1 stalk leek or 2 onion bulbs
. salt,
. mayonnaise,
. 3 boiled egg whites
. olives,
. greenery.

Drain the oil from canned food and use it for seasoning other dishes.
Mash the fish with a fork. Tomatoes cut into cubes. Boil potatoes, peel and cut into cubes. Grate the eggs on a coarse grater. Cut the leek into half rings (finely chop the onion).
Mix fish, potatoes, tomatoes, eggs, onions, salt a little. Fill with mayonnaise.
Put the salad on a dish with a hemispherical slide and grease with mayonnaise.
Then decorate in the shape of a soccer ball.
To do this, grate the proteins on a fine grater (the yolks from these eggs can be added to the salad), finely chop the olives.
Lay out the pieces of olives in the form of pentagons. For laying out pentagons, it is convenient to use a stencil cut out of thick paper. Or you can cut strips from olives, lay them out in the form of pentagons, and fill with finely chopped olives.
Sprinkle the rest of the space with grated egg whites.
Finely chop the greens and put a border around the "ball".

Hen under the "fur coat"

Ingredients :
. 400 g chicken fillet,
. 4 cucumbers (fresh or pickled)
. 4 things. potato,
. 1 jar of canned champignons,
. 1 onion
. 4 eggs,
. 100 g of cheese.

Chicken fillet, potatoes, boil eggs and cool.
Finely chop the onion and marinate in wine vinegar.
Finely chop the chicken fillet and mushrooms.
Grate cucumbers, potatoes, eggs, cheese on a coarse grater.
Lay in layers on a dish in the following order, with each layer smeared with mayonnaise:
- fillet,
- cucumbers,
- potato,
- Champignon,
- onion,
- eggs,
- cheese.
Decorate on top to taste, for example, with tomato roses and herbs, and serve.

Portion salad "Pearl"

Ingredients :
. 2 largest apples
. 1 pear
. shrimp - 250 g
. cucumber (small) - 1 pc.
. carrots - 1 pc.
. small onion - 1 pc.
. black olives - 2 pcs.
. mayonnaise - 2 tbsp. spoons

Cut out a shell from a large apple. Immediately grease with lemon juice so that the apple does not darken. If the lid fell off - it doesn't matter, it can be easily attached back with toothpicks.
If desired, the shell can be dyed any color, for example, with beetroot juice, carrot juice, or any other food coloring. (The apple in the photo is dyed pink with honeysuckle juice.)
Cut carrots and onions into strips, lightly fry in vegetable oil and cool.
Boil and peel shrimp.
Cucumber and pear cut into strips.
Mix everything, add mayonnaise, salt a little and put in a shell.
Put a black olive on top of the salad, depicting a pearl.

Port Said salad

Ingredients :
. 2 bananas
. 1 red apple
. 1 celery stalk or 80 g root
. 1 tomato
. 2 lettuce leaves
. mayonnaise
. greenery for decoration

Every hostess knows how important a beautiful serving 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 patience. But one has only to approach this creatively, and your culinary masterpieces will surprise guests not only with taste, but also with all their interesting appearance.
And really, how can one forget about one of the most important and popular dishes when decorating a festive table? Don't underestimate them.

Whether you're celebrating an important event or just wanting to dine with your family, all you have to do is put on a bright, decorated salad and it will instantly transform a regular meal.

And despite the fact that in any kitchen there are festive and everyday dishes, this is one of those that always fits perfectly into the menu. Many of them do not even need to be decorated, they themselves show a riot of colors and elegant brightness, and the rest are in no way inferior to their “holiday” counterparts, one has only to show imagination.

Remember how much the hostess has to do before an important feast: buy groceries in advance, and think over all the dishes, and cook, and set the table, and don’t 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 get used to it so much that serving even the simplest dish will amaze guests and your family with its sophistication. And each time it will take less and less time. And then you 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 greens - 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 that you are sure of, since everything should be combined with each other not only in color, but also in taste.

But, if with salads without dressing (or dressed with oils) everything is simple - 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 a boat (also called a round cut) into service: it will help you serve an appetizer in the form of a neat ring. Such a device can also be found in a square shape. If there is no time left to go to the store, do not despair.

An ordinary cropped plastic bottle or baking molds can also cope with this task. Simply place them on a plate and scoop a portion of the 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 greens. With this serving, the dish will look very stylish and neat. And you can make such a basket, as in the photo.

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

If you are planning several options at once, then do not decorate them 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: an excessive passion for decoration will nullify all your efforts, the table will look awkward, and the dishes will look unappetizing.

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

• If you need a burgundy color - take beets;
• red - pomegranate, tomatoes, bell pepper will help 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 boiled egg;
• corn, yolk and pepper will give you a yellow color;
• cranberry juice - pink;
• missing white? To help you, 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 small mastery of the laws of artistic mixing of colors 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 kind of decorative decoration of vegetables and fruits, in fact, it is an 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 will need a curly knife. Now on sale you can even find special sets with many devices.

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

Flowers can be cut from tomatoes, eggs, and even radishes! 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 carved decorations: line a serving dish with them or add a couple of leaves on top. Mint, lemon balm and basil leaves are also used for decoration.

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

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

You can cut out balls of watermelon and peaches, melons and apples in the manner of ice cream balls, and serve them in waffle cups, dough baskets or crystal bowls. Don't forget to decorate the top with berries and mint leaves. It is perfect for dessert and even kids will love it.

In addition to all of the above, there are a few more points:

• First, the main point, of course, is the compatibility of products with each other. Usually there are no questions about this, 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, determine the center.
• If you decide to decorate dishes, then you should also choose suitable dishes that will not distract attention from the main elements. For example, bright dishes combined with complex decor will turn your dish into a fractional and gaudy something.

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% success.

Don't forget about color balance. You, like an artist, must see and feel the most winning combinations. Add some contrast for the lighter versions with a tomato and bright bell pepper, and for the darker ones, use greens and cucumbers. You can even use the colored zest of citrus fruits like oranges or lemons.

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 non-edible ingredients, be sure to let your guests know, especially if you need wooden skewers or toothpicks for canapes and decorations.

You can also use raw vegetables. But still, it is worth striving to ensure that all the decor is not only beautiful, but also edible.

beautiful decoration video

Separately, it is worth talking about decorating the table for children's parties. Any children's holiday, especially if it's a birthday, requires careful preparation from parents. You must create such a cheerful and joyful atmosphere so that the holiday is 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 at all, because most children do not eat them. But no matter how! If you show originality and prepare delicious options with an unusual design, then the children will definitely appreciate them. It all depends on your imagination: you can create whole plot compositions on plates! Children's joy and surprise is definitely worth the effort.

In addition to 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 snacks with mayonnaise and an abundance of spices.
• Avoid bold experiments: do not replace the products familiar to your child and add something new. Give preference to traditional dishes, choosing ingredients that children will definitely not refuse.
• If you have a holiday with the participation of 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. It should not contain any bones.
• Take on "armament" a couple of recipes for canapes. Children eat them with great pleasure: they are small and on convenient skewers. For their preparation, give preference to neutral fruits and vegetables, berries, cheeses, eggs and mushrooms.

Examples of decorating children's salads

Decoration for children's birthday: 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 meals 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. Easy to decorate, they will become a bright highlight that will certainly be remembered.

Holiday table decoration

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

And, of course, every housewife has a couple of recipes that must be prepared for a gala dinner. But even if these are the most common olivier and vinaigrette, you don’t need to give up the idea of ​​​​preparing them if you decide to amaze everyone with an original serving.

You only need to decorate them slightly, and you can be sure that your guests will definitely appreciate even these familiar dishes.

To make them not only tasty, but also spectacular, show your imagination and ingenuity. Don't forget to be careful! Registration will not take much time, which will definitely play into your hands. If there is enough time, then you can try ways of more complex decoration.

From 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 it, especially if you are planning a complex composition. After several workouts, even complex elements will not take you more than ten minutes.

Pay attention to recipes with carved flowers and other figurines from the pulp of fruits and vegetables. To create them, you need some preparation, 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 figuratively cut kiwi or peeled 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 require mandatory mixing, then you can experiment with this.

For example, vegetable dishes will look advantageous if they are laid out in layers. The dressing can be put side by side in a separate gravy boat or spread over the formed dish on top and sides. Use not only mayonnaise for this, both sour cream and unsweetened yogurts are perfect.

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

If the nuts do not fit your dish at all, then pomegranate seeds also perfectly replace them.

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

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

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

Get creative and you'll end up with a variety of 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 hostess will have it all differently, 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. Use these skills in everyday life or just on holidays - it's up to you.

Learning how to decorate not only salads, but also other foods in an interesting and unusual way is not at all difficult: just be patient and spend some free time. Together 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 can at least every day pamper your family with a spectacular serving of a regular dinner, bringing the mood of celebration and magic into everyday life!

Decorating salads 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 something original 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 makes salad decorations, and then they gobble it all up together.

Read also: Decorating salads for the holiday: recipes with photos Examples of decorating salads for the New Year, birthday, anniversary, wedding. How to decorate salads for any celebration. Beautiful salads with descriptions and photos

Also, beautiful salads are relevant for children's matinees, and birthdays. Beautiful decoration of salads 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 to beautifully decorate salads, which I hope will come in handy.

Most of the salads in this article are layered, and to keep their shape, they are best done in a split baking dish, waiting for the salads to harden 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 boil eggs. Cool down.

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

Peel the onion, wash and cut into small cubes.

Wash mushrooms and cut into small cubes.

Heat up a frying pan, add some oil. Place mushrooms and onion in skillet. Cook over medium heat, stirring, for about 10 minutes.

Separate the chicken meat from the bones and cut into pieces.

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

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

Grate the yolk on a fine grater.

Cool mushrooms.

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.)

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

Lubricate the silhouette of the horse with the yolk mixture. Lay out the mane from the mushrooms.

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

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

Salad of crab sticks "Mouse"

Ingredients:

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

Cooking:

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

2. Cut carrots into circles.

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

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

5. Form oval molds from the cheese mass.

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

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

Ingredientsfor salad:

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

2 small 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 the beets.

Preparing the salad:

Spread all layers with mayonnaise.

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

Stamens are from the yolk.

The design depends on your taste.

The salad is made in a drop-down form for baking. 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, spreading 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 excess liquid),

5. Korean carrots.

For decoration: radish is used, which is soaked in beetroot 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, decorate the middle with yolk, and spread the protein grated on a fine grater between.

Keep in refrigerator until serving.

Salad "Pansies"

Salad "New Year cracker"

The recipe for the New Year's cracker salad 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 "Crab"

The recipe for the salad "Crab" can be viewed

Salad "Goldfish"

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

Salad "Pearl"

The recipe for the salad "Pearl" can be viewed

Salad "White birch"

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

Salad "Royal"

Preparation of the Tsarsky salad and decoration options, you can see

Salad "Cornucopia" №1

The recipe for the Horn of Plenty salad No. 1 can be viewed

Salad "Violet"

salad ingredients: smoked legs, prunes, champignons fried with onions, fresh cucumber, Korean carrot, mayonnaise.

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

Salad "Fox coat"

Salad preparation and decoration options, you can see

Salad "Spider line"

salad ingredients: 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 at the end of the egg.

To decorate, mix 1 tablespoon of mayonnaise with ketchup, and draw a cobweb. Make a spider out of 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

Salad "Fireworks"

salad ingredients: ham, boiled eggs, yellow, red and green bell pepper, tomato, mayonnaise, onion

cooking : Cut all salad ingredients into thin slices. On a plate, lay out the first layer of ham, with strips of onion. Next, bell peppers of three colors, alternating them with egg whites. Top with 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: is based

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

Salad "April Olivier"

salad ingredients: 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, salami sausage for rosette, olives, egg white.

cooking : Cut the salad ingredients into cubes and season with mayonnaise. Arrange the lettuce leaves on a plate to garnish the salad. Lay the lettuce on top of the leaves. Cucumber cut in half and cut into slices. Cut the radish in half. Arrange radish and cucumber alternately on the sides. Put curly parsley on top around the edges. Before preparing the salad, cut off a piece of boiled eggs and cut it in half. Lay the halves around. Put the salami rose in the middle. It turns out it's very easy to do. Cut into 7 thin pieces of salami, wrap the first piece in a tube, and put the rest on top of each other and secure with toothpicks.

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

Salad "Green Rose"

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

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

Salad "Mexican"

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

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

Salad "White crocuses"

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

preparation: Beijing cabbage, pickled champignons, green onions, fresh cucumbers cut 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 seedling bulbs (they are sold at grandmothers in the bazaar), a bunch of green onions and 1/4 carrots. We clean small bulbs. Now take a sharp knife and cut the cloves along the top of the onion. We take out the “insides” of the onion and, using a toothpick and green onions, insert the stalks into the “onion cups” and put a small piece of carrot into each onion.

Liver cake "Chamomile"

preparation: Cooking liver cake according to the recipe. We decorate with chopped dill, spread chamomile from egg white and yolk.

Salad "Championship"

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

cooking : cut all the ingredients into cubes and put the layers on a square plate, smearing with mayonnaise in the following sequence: potatoes, green onions, eggs, salmon, corn, carrots, potatoes. Decorate the salad with green peas and dill. Mark the field with mayonnaise, and make a soccer ball from a quail egg.

Salad "Snowdrops"

salad ingredients : boiled beef, onion 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. Spread each layer not too thickly with mayonnaise, including the top one. Take it lightly. Sprinkle the salad with grated cheese, make snowdrop stems from green onion feathers, and cut the petals from thinly sliced ​​daikon radish slices.

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

cooking : arrange crackers on a plate in a circle in the shape of a flower. Next, 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, olive halves and sprigs of herbs.

Salad "Vegetable with garlic"

salad ingredients : 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 vegetable oil.

Salad "Crab Spring"

salad ingredients : crab sticks, or crab meat, fresh cucumbers, eggs, grated hard cheese, Beijing cabbage, olives. Sauce: mix equal parts mayonnaise and sour cream, seasoning 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 dish, and garnish with green onions and crab stick flowers.

Mimosa salad with mice

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

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

Salad "Aquarium"

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

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

Salad "Sunflower"

salad ingredients : boiled chicken fillet, onion, fried champignons, boiled eggs, mayonnaise

ingredients for decoration : Pringls chips and olives

Salad "Gate"

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

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

Salad "Corn"

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

Salad "Hedgehog"

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

ingredients for decoration : Put the salad on a dish in the shape of a hedgehog.

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

Salad "Crab Paradise"

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

ingredients for decoration : red caviar, olives, curly parsley

Salad "Watermelon slice"

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

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

Salad "Gift"

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 carrots and garnish with parsley.

Salad "Capercaillie Nest"

salad ingredients : boiled chicken fillet, ham, marinated champignons, eggs, mayonnaise

ingredients for decoration : julienned potatoes fried in vegetable oil, lettuce, for bird eggs: processed cheese, egg yolks, dill, mayonnaise, garlic.

Salad "Starfish"

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

ingredients for decoration : shrimps, red caviar, lettuce is laid out in layers.

Salad "Hares in the garden"

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

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

Salad "Orange slice"

salad ingredients : boiled eggs, boiled carrots, onions, chicken fillet, marinated champignons, 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 fillet, boiled potatoes, pickles, canned corn, eggs, mayonnaise

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

Salad "Pineapple"

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

ingredients for decoration : walnut halves, green onion feathers

Salad "Tiger"

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

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

Salad "Grapes"

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 caprice"

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

ingredients for decoration : Sandwich cheese for the calla flowers, green onions for the stems, and yellow bell peppers to make the pestle

Today it is difficult to imagine any festive table without salads. Our Slavic people love salads: different, tasty, with vodka, traditional and original! And beautiful salads are such a nice addition to any salad that every housewife tries to embody in her kitchen.

Decorating salads is like religion and philosophy - each housewife has her own, and they are united by one common hobby - decorating dishes. You can philosophize on the topic of how to decorate salads for a long time. And there are people who do not like the decoration of salads in our usual sense. In any case, beautiful salads are the atmosphere of a holiday, celebration, an opportunity to make ours brighter and richer.

Dear guests of the site, I bring to your attention an original selection with examples of decorating salads, which I hope you will not only like, but also appear on your holiday table.

Salad "Sunflower"

Sunflower salad recipe and design options can be viewed

Salad with chicken and champignons "Mushroom"

How to cook and decorate the Mushroom salad, see

Ingredients:

• Chicken breast - 300-400 grams,
• champignons - 300 grams,
• onion - 1-2 heads,
• eggs - 2-3 pcs.,
• tomatoes - 2-3 pcs.,
• fresh cucumbers - 2-3 pcs.,
• green onion - 1 bunch,
• hard cheese - 100-150 grams,
• olives.

Cooking:

Boil the chicken breast - finely chop.

Mushrooms and onions cut into cubes, fry in vegetable oil, with the addition of butter.

Boil eggs, cut into cubes.

Lay out in layers: chicken breast - sour cream - mushrooms fried with onions - sour cream - boiled eggs - sour cream.

Decoration on top: tomatoes - finely chopped, cucumbers - julienne + dill, cheese - grated, olives.

Pink Salad "Chamomile"

How to cook and decorate the salad of pink salmon "Chamomile" look

Salad "Hedgehog" with Korean carrots

Ingredients:

• half chicken fillet - about 300 grams
• marinated champignons whole from a jar
• 2 medium onions
• 3 chicken eggs
• medium cucumber
• about 200 grams of hard cheese
• 1 pack of mayonnaise
• handful of walnuts
• a glass of Korean carrots
• 3 medium pitted olives
• bunch of lettuce leaves
• Salt and some pepper

Cooking:

1. Boil the chicken fillet in salted water, cool and cut into not very large cubes.

2. Boil eggs and rub coarsely on a grater.

3. Peel and finely chop the onions.

4. Wash the cucumber and cut into small strips. You can, of course, grate it, but then too much juice will come out and the mushy cucumber will not work in this salad.

5. Rub the cheese on a coarse grater.

6. Walnuts are very well chopped, you can in a blender and pepper them.

7. Leave a few mushrooms for decoration, and finely chop the rest of the mushrooms and fry in butter.

8. Even from this amount of food you get a rather big hedgehog, so take a bigger plate, lay lettuce leaves on the bottom and form a silhouette of a hedgehog, laying out layers in turn: chicken - a layer of mayonnaise - onions - more mayonnaise - mushrooms - a layer of mayonnaise - eggs - again mayonnaise - cucumber - grated walnuts - cheese-mayonnaise.

9. Cover the body of the hedgehog with Korean carrots, leaving the muzzle of the cheese. Make eyes and a nose from olives, spread greens around and plant mushrooms on top of the “needles”.

I recommend this dish for the holidays. It seems to me that the Hedgehog salad recipe is purely masculine, but if you remove the pepper, it will also suit children. A very charming animal for the center of the festive table. And it is better to cook mayonnaise yourself, for your own health!

Salad with pomegranate "Ladybug"

How to cook and decorate the Ladybug salad with pomegranate

Salad "Tulips"

Cooking:

1. We make a tulip, cut the petals in the upper part of the tomato, it is better if the tomatoes are firmer.

2. We remove what we cut. Knife carefully.

3. Then we take out the core with a spoon, take out up to half of the tomato so that the taste of the tomato is also present, but as you like, if you like more filling, take out more of the core.

4. For the filling, cheese, boil two eggs, garlic, walnuts and mayonnaise.

Salad "Calla"

How to cook to decorate the Calla salad

Salad "Birch Grove"

Ingredients:

• 300 gr. boiled chicken fillet,
• 300 gr. fried mushrooms,
• fry 3 onions
• 200 gr. pitted prunes,
• 5 eggs (white, yolk separately)
• 2 small fresh cucumbers
• mayonnaise, herbs.

Cooking:

1st layer - chicken - finely chopped fillet,

2nd layer - prunes, finely chopped,

3rd layer - champignons with onions,

4th layer of proteins,

5th layer cucumbers in small cubes.

The yolks on a fine grater on top, on the sides of the squirrels are also fine.

We decorate for every taste. Ready.

Salad "White Piano"

Ingredients:

• Chicken meat 500 gr.
• Cucumber 2 pieces (fresh)
• Eggs 3-4 pieces
• Mushrooms 300 gr. (any to taste)
• Hard cheese 100 gr.
• Mayonnaise

Cooking:

The whole process of preparing a salad consists of layers that are laid out in a certain sequence. Before we start laying out the layers of lettuce, we need to prepare all the necessary ingredients for this in this way:

- chicken meat should be boiled;

- fry the mushrooms in a pan;

- grate cucumbers with a grater, while using a large grater;

- Eggs also boil and grate on a coarse grater.

We lay out the layers in a certain sequence:

1 layer - boiled chicken;

2 layer - mayonnaise;

3 layer - fried mushrooms;

4 layer - mayonnaise;

5 layer - fresh cucumbers;

6 layer - mayonnaise;

7 layer - boiled eggs;

8 layer - mayonnaise;

9 layer - cheese.

Decorate in the form of a piano using hard cheese and black olives. You can also form a beautiful rose from slightly salted salmon, which will perfectly transform the entire salad landscape.

Salad "Ladybug" with caviar

How to cook salad "Ladybug" with caviar, see

Salad "Garden meadow"

Ingredients:

• 1 large onion
• chicken breast
• 2 eggs
• 2 pickled cucumbers
• 2 fresh tomatoes
• mayonnaise
• dill, parsley, green onions.
• For decoration:
• olives
• small tomatoes
• green salad