How beautiful to decorate a festive salad. Festive beautiful salad

The menu of festive dishes has already been compiled, all products have been prepared and the tastes of the invited guests have been taken into account, but the last question remains: how to decorate salads so that the feast is remembered for a long time.

You don't have to be a professional chef to make a great meal. There are many ideas that will help decorate salads with your own hands without much difficulty.

Among them you can find both very simple ways and intricate ones, allowing you to connect all your imagination and create a true masterpiece.

You can decorate salads, as in the photo, with the help of the simplest products. For bright vegetable snacks such as Caesar or Greek salad, which are beautiful in themselves, croutons, seeds, nuts, pomegranate seeds, orange slices are suitable. They should decorate the salad on top, when it is already laid out on portioned plates.

Salads dressed with mayonnaise and some flaky ones often look very simple and can get lost on the festive table if they are not decorated. In this case, help:

• Greens (parsley, dill, basil, lettuce, green onions).
• Mayonnaise patterns.
• Eggs - whole, chopped or sliced.
• Grated cheese.
• Grated boiled sausage or sliced ​​sausages.
• Olives or olives.
• Cherry tomatoes or large tomato slices.
• Circles of fresh or pickled cucumber, radish, boiled carrots.
• Canned peas, beans or corn.
• Seafood, including shrimp, squid rings, sprats or salted fish slices.
• Chopped nuts (walnuts, whole pine nuts, almond flakes).

simple decoration

You can decorate salads with herbs in many ways, for example, simply spread or stick sprigs of dill, parsley or basil into the top of the appetizer, creating some kind of pattern, or sprinkle the dish with chopped herbs. You can decorate the dish with leaf lettuce, putting it on a plate under a snack, adding cherry tomatoes and sprigs of any greens.

Salads decorated with mayonnaise patterns look spectacular and beautiful. It can be just a mesh over a contrasting top layer of a snack: beets, nuts, carrots, tomatoes, mushrooms, etc., complemented by sprigs of fresh herbs.

And you can show your imagination, for example, one of the ways to decorate the Herring salad under a fur coat: lay out a fish-shaped appetizer in advance, then draw scales with mayonnaise, you can put olives cut into rings in between and in place of the eyes, make fins from greens.

It is very easy to decorate a salad with an egg; for this, both chopped proteins or yolks, as well as quarters, halves, or even whole ones, are suitable. With their help, you can decorate a snack on top, sprinkling it or laying out patterns, and large slices can be laid out around the edges.

For a child's birthday, we often decorate salads, eggs are the best fit for this. You can make chickens out of them by "seating" a few boiled eggs on top of the snack. Scallops and beaks are made from sweet peppers, eyes from olives or black pepper.

Figured salads

Salads laid out in the form of some kind of animal or plant will help decorate the table. In this way, you can decorate the salad according to its contents, but the design should begin with covering the finished form with a layer that is uniform in color and consistency: mayonnaise, grated cheese, chopped proteins.

You can make a carrot salad by laying out an appetizer in the form of a cone and covering it with grated carrots, make a tail out of green sprigs. Boiled carrots are combined with most products, so you can decorate almost any salad in this way.

Mushroom salad can be laid out in the shape of a mushroom, the hat can be covered with thin slices of tomatoes, and the leg with cheese or mayonnaise. The last thing you can do is dots on the hat to make a "fly agaric".

Decorate the base of the leg with greens and pickled mushrooms. Salads prepared according to any recipe can be decorated according to this principle, choosing the color and taste of the ingredients for decoration based on the set of products for making the dish itself.

There are many such ideas in the photo with which you can decorate a salad for a children's birthday. The easiest way is to turn a puff snack into a cute animal face.

1. You can make a tiger cub by covering the salad with a layer of grated carrots (boiled, fresh or Korean) on top, and make ears out of it on the sides.
2. From the halves of the egg white, make a muzzle, draw eyes with mayonnaise. The nose and pupils will come from olives.
3. Strips are also made from olives, cut into strips.
4. Make a tongue out of half a cherry tomato.

By the same principle, you can make a leopard (base - egg yolks, grated cheese, yellow pepper, spots - olives or walnuts), a pig (with boiled sausage), a puppy (with walnuts), etc.

Vegetable mix

To figure out how beautifully you can decorate salads, a photo and a grater-shredder, which many housewives can find, will help. With the help of the latter, you can quickly and accurately cut fresh or boiled vegetables or fruits into even strips, rings or cubes.

Sliced ​​foods can be laid out in slides on a dish, for example, in the form of an appetizing flower or a rainbow. Or use them to decorate salads on top. For example, a salad decorated with a cucumber looks impressive and juicy, or rather, its neat circles of a flat or ribbed shape.

If you cut vegetables of different colors into large identical cubes, then you can make a spectacular portioned salad in the form of a colored cube, serving it on a plate with sauce. Such a salad can be vegetable, fruit or fruit and vegetable.

The main thing is that the ingredients should be quite elastic: boiled potatoes, carrots, beets, cucumbers, pumpkins, apples, bananas, pears, etc. In such a spectacular way, you can serve vinaigrette, supplementing it with separately lying green peas and dressing in a gravy boat.

Thinking about how to effectively decorate salads with your own hands, looking at the photo? Use a curly grater. With its help, you can turn any oblong-shaped ingredient into an elegant spiral or spring: cucumber, carrot, piece of cheese or sausage. Such spirals can be laid out around a salad slide or placed in the center of the top, folding in various ways.

A salad decorated with tomatoes looks impressive and bright on the table. It can be whole cherry tomatoes or their halves, and large tomatoes can simply be cut into thin slices, rolled into a funnel, making it look like a flower.

Beautiful festive salads, decorated using the carving technique, as in the photo, always make an indelible impression. Curly cutting is carried out with special tools, and anything can be used as a material: cabbage leaves, pumpkin pulp, root crops, other fresh vegetables or fruits. Even the most ordinary salad like Shuba can be decorated as your heart desires.

other methods

An easy and affordable way to decorate salads or serve them beautifully, as experience shows, is jelly. You can make fruit jelly or broth-based with herbs added to it, and when it hardens, cut into cubes or in another convenient way, decorating the appetizer with such elements. Jelly decorations look good in combination with flowers from boiled vegetables, herbs, crackers.

In the form of aspic, you can serve absolutely any salad, starting with a vinaigrette or fruit mixture, ending with Olivier or other meat appetizers. Jelly can be made clear or milk can be added to it. These salads are best prepared in small forms to serve them in portions.

Salads decorated with roses, orchids or tulips from boiled or fresh vegetables, chips, boiled pork slices, egg pancakes always look win-win. It can be one large flower in the center of the snack or a whole meadow of small flowers of different colors. Cores can be made from crushed yolks, olives, pomegranate seeds. Complement the decoration of sprigs of greenery.

You can always decorate the salad by making it in the form of a clearing, covering it with greens. On it you can place pickled mushrooms or all kinds of figures: ladybugs from tomatoes and olives, hedgehogs from grated cheese and walnuts, egg white bunnies, etc.

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

How to decorate salads

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

Herring under a Fur Coat.

Patterns of mayonnaise, roses from carrots and beets will unrecognizably transform your favorite salad.

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

It is worth giving the desired shape, sprinkle with grated cheese, decorate with beets and herbs and the miracle is done.

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

and all you need to do is make cucumber roses and stick a few branches of greenery

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

Hats are dyed by immersing the halves of the eggs in a strong

boiling hour for 20 minutes.

green peas and mayonnaise patterns, onion flowers.

But the Monomakh's Hat salad, few people cook it, as it gives the impression of a salad, the preparation of which will take a lot of time, effort and money, but this is not at all the case! A bit of meat, potatoes, beetroot... it's not hard, but making a salad looks like a work of art!

Watermelon salad, especially when there is snow and bad weather outside, makes a strong impression on guests. Put the salad in a semicircle and arrange it with grated cheese, cucumber and chopped tomatoes, I think every housewife will be able to, but how beautiful and bright it looks on the table.

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

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

Wedding Salad Swan Fidelity

Lay out a salad in the shape of a heart, overlay carrots with semicircles (who does not like carrots, you can use 1/2 slices of cucumber or lemon) and make swans from eggs (see below).

Fast, cheap, beautiful

Salads can be decorated with apple swans.

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

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

The original design of even a simple salad

makes a strong impression.

You can make such Christmas trees for winter salads.

And so you can decorate everyone's favorite Olivier salad

You can decorate the salad with mushrooms.

Hats are soaked for several hours in strong tea.

Salads Mimosa and Lilac Branch
to decorate salads, you only need an egg grated on a fine grater and a sprig of greens

Salads Orchid and Sunflower, salads decorated with chips.

Salad cake, salad decorated with thinly sliced ​​radishes, beautiful and simple!

Snow-white salad garnished with an egg, grated on a fine grater.

Christmas trees without needles, very edible

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

See more than a hundred ideas for decorating salads in the photo album on our website.

How to make a swan from an egg

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

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

Swans for salad decoration can be done like this.

Swans from an apple

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

And you can make such swans.

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

In general, beauty is not difficult to create. Here is another option for decorating the table.

Roses and potatoes

French fries roses

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

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

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

The second option for making potato roses

How to make a cucumber rose , daikon, carrots

Vegetable roses are made according to the same principle.

- first we fold the tape with a tight tube (the middle of the rose), and then more loosely, turning the tape over (for each petal), lay it out in a circle, if one tape is not enough, take the second, third, until the rose is fully formed
- fasten the bottom of the flower with a toothpick

pickle roses

Salad can be decorated with bees from olives and olives

How to make lilies from onions

Onion lily tinted with beetroot juice.

We make frequent notches on the onion, without cutting 1 cm to the end. Put the onion in cold water for a couple of hours.

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

grated yolk. Lily is ready!

How to make a snowman from eggs

for the holidays drawer table

Snowman from cheese balls. We put three cheese balls on a toothpick, fasten it on a toothpick,

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

from pieces of olives or cloves or from peppercorns,

hat - from bread, nose - from a carrot. Snowman,

for joy children and adults, ready!

How to make hearts out of boiled eggs, very easy!

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

Dip the egg in cold water to make the shell easier to remove. We do not cool the egg to the end, otherwise this trick will not work. The egg must be warm.

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

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

Take thick elastic bands and fasten the twig to the cardboard with them. We leave our "structure" for 15 minutes, so that it cools down with a notch in the middle. Then gently flatten it with your fingers along the edges.

We remove the rubber bands, remove the twig and take the egg out of the cardboard. Cut the egg in half. "Heart" is ready.

How to make lilies from eggs

How to make a mouse out of an egg

A simple mouse from an egg will greatly enliven a salad.

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

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

better kept it is necessary to make small notches with a knife.

Don't forget to make a ponytail and mustache.

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

Original, beautiful, simple!

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

How to make roses from carrots

How can you make a rose out of a tomato?

How to make beetroot roses

Cucumber, daikon and carrot roses

vegetable roses are made according to one principle
- cut a long cucumber into thin strips with a vegetable cutter (do not take the middle)
- first we fold the tape with a tight tube (the middle of the rose), and then more loosely, turning the tape over (for each petal), lay it out in a circle, if one tape is not enough, take the second, third, until the rose is fully formed
- fasten the bottom of the flower with a toothpick

How to make callas from cheese

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

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Olive "palms" for garnishing salads

Cut green onions into long tubes - 3 pieces for each palm.
Cut the onion tubes into noodles, but cut through not completely. It turns out such a skirt with a long fringe.
In order for the onion to twist well, you need to buy freshly cut. Also, for better twisting, the resulting “skirts” can be chatted a little in warm water.
Then a “skirt” of a larger diameter is taken and a smaller one is inserted into it, then another and another ... (the principle of a telescopic tube is used).
Olives are strung on skewers for kebabs, and greens are put on top. Instead of skewers, you can also use hard tubes for cocktails cut obliquely at the ends.
In order for the palms to stand steadily in the salad and not fall, they should be stuck into a half of a large radish or into a cucumber cut along the length.

Design options with sweet pepper palm crowns:

"Palms" from slices of banana, kiwi and tangerine slices:

Flower from cucumber slices

Cut off a 5 cm long piece from the cucumber. Cut in half lengthwise. Make longitudinal cuts on the peel with a knife (this is called "karbovanie"). Cut strips to use for the stem of a decorative flower.
Cut the processed cucumber slice into thin slices. Divide them in half and use as chamomile petals.
Fill the "flower" with cherry tomato halves.

Design option with "roses" of salted fish:

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.

sakura branch«

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.

flower pot«

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 radish circles. 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 in 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 spread the layers on a square plate 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 over 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, shrimps, 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

Even the simplest salad, but beautifully and unusually decorated, will make you a reputation as a master chef. And among the various ways of decorating a salad, there are such simple and uncomplicated ones that you just wonder and understand how simple everything is ingenious.

Date added: 2013-11-15 04:57:45

So, we cook salads regularly. And it is important to remember that an originally decorated salad will attract the eyes of your guests and family members like a magnet. This article contains very simple ways to decorate salads. These methods do not take much time, but the effect is amazing. Your salads will be devoured by the eyes. In this list, we have collected only the simplest ideas for decorating a salad, which even a child can surely handle, and at the same time, these are very interesting ideas. So, sharpen your knife and let's get started.

1. HOW TO DECORATE SALAD - SPIDERS FROM OLIVES

Plant such a spider on your salad - it will surprise everyone. As you can see from the picture, it is very easy to prepare. You only need a few olives. Cut one olive in half - and one of the halves will become the body of a spider. Cut the second half lengthwise into strips - here you have the legs. The spider has eight legs. Such spiders need to be planted on salads with a uniform surface, for example, I planted them on a salad of chicken and walnuts (300 gr. Boiled chicken fillet, 200 gr. Peeled walnuts, mayonnaise, salt and black pepper. Skip the chicken and nuts through a meat grinder, season with mayonnaise, salt and pepper). See how well these spiders are visible on the surface of the salad? And from olives you can make not only spiders. These round black berries look so much like black eyes...

2. HOW TO DECORATE A SALAD - BASKET FROM HARD BOILED EGGS

Hard boil the eggs. Take a sharp knife (not corrugated) and a peeled egg in your hand. Make such oblique cuts around the perimeter (I would say “along the equator”) of the eggs as in the photo and divide the egg into 2 halves. One half (like a basket) can be filled with green peas or sweet corn, or herbs, and the other half can be filled with chopped yolk and mixed with finely chopped dill.

3. HOW TO DECORATE SALAD - LILYS FROM PROCESSED CHEESE PLATES

You will need several slices of melted cheese (the kind you put in cheeseburgers, each cheese is wrapped separately in cellophane) and boiled carrots. A little more dill and parsley for decoration. So, boiled carrots need to be cut into long stripes - these will be the pistils of our flower. And make the lilies themselves from curdled cheese squares. Insert carrot pistils inside, and green stalks of dill or parsley will be thick stalks of our lilies. Around these stems and you need to wrap our "bags" of cheese.

4. HOW TO DECORATE A SALAD - FORM SCREEN FROM PAPER

The idea is simple: you need to cut a stencil out of paper in some interesting shape. For example, a star, or a bell, or some geometric figure, a circle, for example. Put this stencil on the salad and fill it with a uniform color on top, for example, mashed yolks, or finely chopped greens, but this should be a color that contrasts with the background of the salad so that it is clearly visible. Then remove the paper, and our drawing will remain on the salad. Only if you are not an artist, and generally not very experienced in these matters, it is better to work with a really simple, uncomplicated figure, for example, a star. Everyone will recognize it for sure, and it can be decorated around the edges, for example, with pomegranate seeds, to make the boundaries of the star brighter, clearly defined. I have a cake in the photo (I decorated the cake with a star like that), and not a salad, but the very idea from the photo is clear :)

5. HOW TO DECORATE A SALAD - ROSE FROM TOMATOES

The tomato rose is a classic. Such a rose can be planted on almost any salad - the tomato is quite neutral and goes well with many salads. It is especially important to decorate vegetable summer and spring salads with such a tomato rose. With such salads, you cannot make a perfectly flat surface on which you can draw whatever you want - they are a shapeless, uneven mass. Plant a tomato rosette in the middle of such a salad - and the salad is decorated. It is clear that the first time you will not get a rose from a tomato, but sooner or later your rose will become like a real one, the main thing is practice. There are two ways to make a tomato rose, both of which require a very sharp knife. The first way is to simply peel off all the skin from the tomato with a spiral and form a rose from this skin. The rose from the skin is going straight by itself, the main thing is not to tear it, the ribbon of the skin should be solid. And the second way - we just cut the tomato into very very thin slices, without cutting it to the end, and slightly shift, rotate these slices. The second method is a little more complicated, but the whole tomato is involved in it. In any case, from now on, if you add a fresh tomato to your salad, and you usually peel it off, now you know what to do with this peel ... you can make a rosette and decorate the salad!

6. HOW TO DECORATE A SALAD - FIGURES FROM BOILED VEGETABLES CUT WITH COOKIE MOLDS

These molds are available at any hardware store. Here is a mold, as in the photo, it costs only ten rubles. And any material from which you can cut can be taken, you can cut it from boiled sausage or ham, from boiled beets, from boiled carrots, from boiled potatoes (unless it is a potato with a low starch content, that is, it does not fall apart and does not boil soft during cooking and retains its shape well). If there is no such mold at hand, use glasses, glasses .. for example, you can make rings by first cutting a large circle with a glass from a plate of boiled beets, and then a small one inside. Pay attention to the photo below: in order to lay out individual portions of the salad, it is convenient to have such a mold that does not have a bottom. With such a mold, the salad can be molded perfectly round, already on a plate.

7. HOW TO DECORATE A SALAD - A NET FROM MAYONNAISE AND PETALS FROM CHIPS

A net of mayonnaise can be very simple and quick to decorate a salad. It is necessary to make a very thin hole in the mayonnaise bag with scissors so that the mayonnaise bag looks like a pastry bag, from which you can draw anything with mayonnaise (even write a text) by squeezing mayonnaise. But do not rush with the text, it may not work out, but the mayonnaise mesh will always work out. In addition, you can put red caviar or greens, or other colorful greens-fruits-vegetables in the mesh cells, in a checkerboard pattern, and it will turn out very beautifully. And the chips around the perimeter of the salad look like petals. And something like chips, snapped up in the first place :)

8. HOW TO DECORATE SALAD - PALMS FROM OLIVES

Thread the olives onto a skewer or toothpick. Decorate the tops of the palms with herbs (dill or green onions) and stick these palms into your salad. Original and quite simple.

9. HOW TO DECORATE A SALAD - LAY OUT KOLEIDOSCOPE PATTERNS FROM PEA, BERRIES OR CORN

In fact, half a can of canned corn, or pineapple rings, or a few green peas is enough to make a rather original, eye-catching pattern - a pattern on a salad. You can just chop the radish very thinly and come up with an interesting pattern from these circles. Pomegranate berries are also a very good material for laying out a picture. Pomegranate pairs especially well with chicken salad. For example, simply boiled chicken fillet mixed with mayonnaise and laid out on a flat plate can be garnished with pomegranate seeds, and it will be a very tasty salad that everyone will like.

10. HOW TO DECORATE A SALAD - STRIPES OF MULTI-COLORED PEPPER OR CUCUMBER, COMPOSED IN A PICTURE

There is no particular need to describe this method - and so everything is clear. Though flowers, even a person's face, even just geometric shapes: all this is easily assembled from simple bright colorful bell peppers, cut into strips.

This second pattern is, of course, much simpler, but everything is in your hands. You can take bright yellow, bright green and bright red bell peppers. This colorful trio will brighten up any salad with just the brightness of its colors.