Salad for the competition of a nurse with decorations. Interesting birthday salads: beautiful decoration and decoration

”, “European”) are prepared without mayonnaise dressing and always look great on the everyday and festive table. The components for such salads are usually large in size, and sesame seeds, small nuts, wheat croutons, pomegranate seeds are chosen as a useful decoration. Olive oil dressing with lemon juice and ground pepper gives the dish a finished look, soft aroma and appetizing color.

In the Slavic culinary tradition, thick mayonnaise sauces are widespread, healthy competition for which today is white unsweetened yoghurts and low-fat sour cream. But it is quite difficult to distinguish what is hidden under a delicious white blanket, and it is not always possible to give a beautiful shape to the salad mass.

To help hardworking and hospitable hostesses - dozens of tricks for different occasions. And we remember a lot from the cozy mother's kitchen.

Classic salad dressing

• Egg crumb or shavings.
• Pieces (slices) of chicken or quail eggs.
• Hard cheese, chopped on a coarse or fine grater.
• Grated boiled sausage without fatty inclusions.
• Slices of cucumbers, radishes and tomatoes.
• Black olives, whole or cut in half.
• Finely chopped herbs (parsley, dill).
• Branches of greenery.
• Boiled or fried shrimp.
• "Spider line" from mayonnaise.
• Green peas and corn.

Decorating salads with shredders

Sets of graters, thanks to which the Olivier basin is prepared in fifteen minutes, appeared with our hostesses back in the early nineties. Cubes, straws, shavings, the thinnest slices and rings - all this can be used to give the dish an unusual and appetizing appearance. Given the high speed of cutting and the frightening sharpness of the knives, you have to be extremely careful not to damage your fingers. But the result will undoubtedly pay off all the efforts, especially if painstaking design of portioned salads laid out in individual dishes is required.

A lot of absolutely identical cubes allows you to collect the perfect "Rubik's cube" in shape. This spectacular arrangement is suitable for small portions of fruit salads or vinaigrettes, for example, a romantic dinner for two.

Beautiful salads with curly slices

The easiest, fastest and most effective way to serve beautiful salads is to use slicing cutters. As they say, colorful elements of various shapes are made with a slight movement of the hand: flowers, circles, stars, hearts, butterflies. As a starting material, you need to choose products that retain their shape well and do not change color when exposed to air (for example, potatoes are not an option, because they darken even when boiled).

• Boiled and fresh pumpkin, carrots, beets.
• White and red cabbage.
• Fresh or pickled cucumbers and not very juicy tomatoes.
• Pulp of sweet pepper of any color: red, orange, green.
• Sausages.

Bread (wheat or rye) fits well with the recipe of some salads. From yesterday's loaf it will be possible to cut cute figures. Sometimes among the ingredients of unsweetened salads there are apples and pears. From these fruits, neat figures are also obtained, appropriate as decoration. Only the apple needs to be cut right before serving the dish to the guests, as it darkens. With purchased from the supermarket, this, alas, happens infrequently: there is little iron in them.

If the task is to decorate a sweet mix with slices, then the list of suitable products increases: kiwi, pears, watermelons, strawberries, melons, persimmons, bananas, etc.

To get hearts / stars, use metal cookie cutters or the now fashionable Pop Chef set. Plastic nozzles and a rubber bulb - this simple device is really safe, affordable and understandable even to a child.

There is another option on how to decorate a salad in an original way with the help of kitchen utensils. Curly graters will turn a dense vegetable into an elastic spring that will look tempting on any of your salads. Only "raw materials" should have a cylindrical shape: carrots, zucchini, carved beets.

Decorative cutting of vegetables and fruits can be used to create a compositional center of salads. From cabbage, pumpkin, carrots, beets with the help of carving knives, an amazing decoration appears. Most likely, no one will eat this beauty, and it can be chopped for tomorrow's soup or vegetable stew. Carving is considered an expensive hobby, because, in addition to a set of tools, money is also spent on creating prototypes. But on a budget carrot on a day off, everyone can work out. A lot of video tutorials on carving for beginners are published on the network, and good step-by-step instructions can be found in thematic books. Curly cutting is also a good antidepressant.

And now the decoration of the holiday salads is completed, but the question remains: what to do with the leftovers, which turned out to be a decent slide? A profitable solution is to cook a couple of impromptu salads from them on your own or with the hands of guests who came to the fire early. Finely chop, mix, generously season and salt. Snack is never too much.

Decoration of salads with "icicles" and "crystal"

Not very common, but always spectacular is the decoration of the salad with pieces of jelly. The gelatin mass can be cut into cubes (rhombuses) with a knife or turned into other geometric shapes with molds. Combine with carrots and parsley sprigs, curly is better.

Well-deserved admiration is caused by salads in jelly. They are prepared sweet from fruits or unsweetened - from pieces of vegetables, legumes, meat, poultry, fish, sausages. In addition to the usual transparent jelly, try white, milk-based.

Lettuce bouquet and flower meadow with your own hands

Making flowers for salads is a very rewarding activity. First, they are almost impossible to mess up. Secondly, they are laid out quickly and can even be in any order. After the petals and cores have taken their places on the salad hill, all that remains is to decorate the free field with finely chopped greens, grated egg yolk, canned sweet corn, green peas from a can. This is how a flower meadow appears - a real lifesaver for snacks that are served in large volumes. By the same principle, it is easy to decorate a mushroom clearing decoration.

To make a delicious bouquet, you will have to tinker with both the design and the selection of ingredients of the desired shape. This design will be appropriate on the spring table, for example, on the occasion of International Women's Day. A bouquet of lilacs, roses, tulips, mimosa twigs - there are no limits to the culinary imagination. The simplest decoration is calla flowers, the buds of which are rolled up from slices of cheese, and the stems “grow” from green onion feathers.

Scarlet tulips are obtained from long tomatoes without pulp, roses - from everything that can be rolled into a roll. Clusters of lilac - from egg white, natural white or tinted with beetroot juice. Of course, you need to photograph the decoration of salads with such gastronomic pictures before the admiring crowd of guests empty all the dishes.

Beautiful salads in the children's menu

Toddler appetizers are usually prepared in small quantities, so it's easier to shape the salad than to put something on top. At children's parties with a large number of guests, of course, everything is served in a decent amount, so the scope for design is wider.

Bears, penguins, hedgehogs and ladybugs, hares, cows, octopuses, snowmen - whatever picture appears on a children's plate, it almost guarantees interest and, therefore, excellent appetite.

It is worth noting that impressionable children may refuse to eat living creatures, even though they are decorative, not real. In this case, we lay out pyramids, bicycles, suns, stars and flowers, mushrooms, soccer balls, bows, flags and other items that will interest a particular child from the allowed products. A good example is given in the Peppa Pig cartoon for preschoolers, where the little piggy George was laid out a dinosaur from lettuce leaves.

How to decorate a salad with a Christmas wreath

A wreath is appropriate not only on Christmas Eve, but also at any celebration. If the mix is ​​poured with a gelling mixture, then it is immediately laid out in a round cake pan with a recess in the center, preferably silicone, so that it is easier to get it out.

When you want to give the shape of a wreath to a dense mayonnaise salad (such as Olivier), use the same baking dish turned upside down. We just immerse it in the center of the salad bowl and press it - an empty middle is formed by itself and the edges are aligned. It is even easier to take a glass jar of the desired diameter and spread the salad on a dish around it. When the decoration is completed, the jar is carefully removed.

Decorating salads is a wonderful family activity that guarantees a great mood for all participants in the process. And if you imagine how many pieces you and your children will eat between times, it remains only to rejoice at such a generous vitamin gift to your body.

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The festive decoration of salads can become a work of art, even a few strokes transform an ordinary dish, adding attractiveness and originality. Soon the New Year, I want to decorate salads in an unusual, original way.

A completely simple design - a few leaves of green lettuce, an egg yolk in the core of a flower, and a protein - its petals. Lovely daisies!

Design idea by Yulyasha Kopylova (Vkontakte website)
Great New Year's idea! In this way, you can decorate the traditional salad "Olivier". Cut out stars from cheese and bell pepper, snow and grated cheese, and Christmas decorations - olives.

Wonderful, wonderful bees from olives and olives! There is nowhere easier, but the effect! Olives and olives are cut into rings and collected alternately, onion wings. Beauty!

Basket made of cheese plastics. Carrot and bell pepper flowers. White flowers from egg white, core - yolk. Elegant design and reminiscent of summer. Great!

The original design of the salad in the form of a gift was created by chefs at Wedding.ru. The usual boiled carrots and a few pomegranate seeds are simple, but the mood is festive!

Nice decoration of salad "Mimosa"

This is another version of the design of the Mimosa salad. Elegant and gentle.

I really liked these magnificent "pansies": carrots, radishes and red cabbage.

This idea can be used when decorating "Korean-style carrots". Wonderful hedgehog!

Design option for salad "Herring under a fur coat"

The following two images are real paintings!

"Snowman"

"Wheel of Love"

and this is the usual "Mimosa", only everything is not mixed, but stacked in layers and without mayonnaise.

"Lilac"

We put the usual salad in a salad bowl, and on top the decoration in the form of lilac branches is done as follows: three non-fine grater egg whites, divide them in half. We lay out part of it with white, and tint the second part with beetroot juice (very little), "lilac" is laid out with a dessert spoon.

"Chamomile"

Chamomiles are squeezed out with a cream nozzle made from boiled egg protein.

"Football"

"Garnet bracelet"

"Valentines"

On the first photo, the usual herring "under a fur coat", on the second meat salad with chicken. And how beautiful..

"Snowman"

Salad "Pineapple" served in the pineapple

"Piano in the bushes"

"Pine cone"
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"Salad in an onion basket"

Buns or toasted bread, longer green onions, sausage or ham and salty sticks. Cut the top off the buns. We also cut out pucks from the sausage (you can find a ready-made one of this size) slightly smaller than the diameter of the bun. Then we insert 10-12 straws around the bun, the sausage remains in the center of the bun (this is so that when you fill it with salad, it does not get wet). And then we take a green onion and begin to twist between the sticks in a checkerboard pattern. So we weave to the very top, while we weave a basket. Next, fill it with your favorite salad. Anyone! with step by step photos.

Is it a cake or...

"Present"

Assorted salad "Fruit set" for children

Description
1 . Grape bunch - boiled beets, egg yolk, pickled herring, mayonnaise. Oranges - fresh carrots, fresh orange peppers, curd mass or processed cheese. Everything rubs on a fine grater and add thick sour cream to the mass.
2. Apricot - boiled carrots, egg white, hard cheese. Everything is rubbed on a coarse grater + garlic and a little mayonnaise. Place a walnut inside each apricot.
3. Apple-boiled rice, crab sticks, boiled egg, onion, pickled corn. Everything is twisted in a meat grinder, mayonnaise, salt. From the mass we form apples, put almond chips inside each and sprinkle with finely chopped greens - dill, parsley onion.

4. Cherry - boiled beets are rubbed on a fine grater + garlic, walnuts, prunes, mayonnaise, salt, pepper. We decorate everything with parsley, lemon balm or basil leaves.

Pepper kala

Cheese kala

cucumber decoration

"Bouquet of roses" from tomatoes

Divide the tomato in half, cut the half into slices (like a lemon in tea, only thinner) and twist all the slices into a rose!

Erotic dish. Serving chicken wings...

You can decorate any chicken salad like this.

"Birch"

Salad "Snow Maiden"

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I couldn’t understand how the protein is made so blue and what the braid-maiden beauty is woven from))) I found it! The protein is dyed with red cabbage, and the spit is made of Cheddar cheese. So original! And I even found a recipe and step by step photos. The recipe looked like it uses my favorite herring))) and "Cheddar" - it's interesting to try the combination)))

And here is a masterpiece from a man: "A house for a beloved"

I don’t really like salads that fit into a loaf of bread, but this is very original))) And here are a few words for the recipe:

We build a house: Cut off the top of the bread, select the crumb, leave thin walls (1 cm.) Fill to the top with salad filling (any of your favorite salads). The "room" is ready.
We build the roof: Put in the form of a slide "Salad for the "roof" (3 processed cheese, grate 3 boiled eggs, add garlic and mayonnaise) to the "room", decorate the roof with salted straws in the form of a reed. Using butter, attach to " walls" of the house are pieces of cheese in the form of windows and doors. Around the house, on a dish, put cucumber circles, make trees from greenery, make flowers from vegetables. Bon appetit!

Another valentine heart

or salad for the wedding table)))
Top layer: white half - squirrels from 3 eggs, grated on a fine grater, brown half - squirrels from 3 eggs, pass through a fine grater and boil for several minutes in strong tea, strain, put on a napkin, a strip - finely chopped olives.

"Beetroot"

For crab stick salads:

Simple but beautiful:

"Flower"

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. Roses will look spectacular on a salad (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 them 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

When serving dishes to the table, it is important not only how they taste, but also how they look.

After all, any hostess wants to surprise the guest with a truly exquisite treat, moreover, beautifully decorated.

Decorations for salads can not only make them look more appetizing, but also add new notes to the taste.

from eggs

Egg quarters, as if casually placed on top, will add elegance and a little minimalism. In addition to eggs, tomato slices or cherry halves are used, beets or green leaves can be added.

Boiled eggs are finely rubbed, and the dish is sprinkled with them; for this, you can use the whole egg, or separately the protein or yolk. It will be interesting to look and just circles or slices, if you make decoration from 2-3 on the edge.

From eggs, it is easiest to make various shapes using toothpicks, these can be:

• cockerel (carrot scallop on top);
• mouse (ears from sausage, radish or cheese);
• hare (ears are also made of protein);
• bug (antennae from greenery);
• hedgehog (needles from grated carrots or its slices).

The shape of the egg is most suitable for the body of the animal and has the optimal color for this. Such jewelry will become truly unforgettable due to its originality.

From vegetables

Roses from cucumbers or sausages, mushrooms from eggs and tomatoes will certainly be a very elegant addition to the dish. A lot depends on the consistency of the salad itself, because the components themselves can become its decorations. Most often, the alternation of large, small cuts and grated vegetables is used. With the help of them, you can lay out various patterns, against which figures and compositions are created. Laying out thin slices of radishes, tomatoes or cucumbers, we get beautiful patterns or flowers that can be used to make the middle or add something along the edges.

From broccoli and olives, you can create cute lambs, from tomatoes and cheese (suluguni or soft cheese) you get tulips. In fact, there is a huge selection of what can be created from vegetable pieces.

From the bow

The most suitable for decoration will be pinkish onions, its rings are used both raw and pickled. The white root of the onion should be cut and beautifully sprinkled around the edges.

And, of course, the simplest and most popular option, which is most often used for fur coats and vegetable salads, is chives. At your discretion, you can also finely chop it, or stick its greens into the dish. If you want to use onions, then starting at the top to open the circles and carefully trimming them around the edges, you will create a beautiful flower.

from mayonnaise

Mayonnaise is the basis of almost any sauce, but it can also be used as an independent element. With the help of sauces, you can draw any patterns, for example, a cell or just make zigzags in a thin stream. Chopped greens can also be sprinkled on top of the sauce.

Sauces can really make a salad unusually attractive, in addition, sauces will help to give specifics to the usual taste. The most ordinary vegetables will sparkle in a completely new way, in this combination a dish of even the simplest ingredients will become amazingly tasty.

Salad decoration options

Consider how you can decorate various salads.

Olivie

The most popular salad in Russia has long acquired its stereotypical look, but let's try to dispel it and figure out how to decorate it. Since Olivier is one of the main symbols of the New Year, this reference can also be used in the festive design of dishes.

From sweet pepper, you can cut arrows, numbers and assemble a dial indicating 12 hours. Also, with the help of dill, a Christmas tree or a spruce branch is easily folded, which can be decorated with bright vegetables in the form of Christmas toys. The salad itself can be laid out on a dish in a wide variety of forms, in the form of an animal, a Christmas tree, a wreath or a large flower. However, of course, Olivier is present at more than one holiday, and it is not at all necessary to always use just such a design.

Mimosa

Mimosa is traditionally egg-based and yellow (as the name suggests), so the most popular way to decorate mimosa is to sprinkle grated yolk on top of an even layer of mayonnaise. In addition, you can use the yellow counterparts and grate the cheese, this will make the taste very unusual, but will not spoil it at all. Taking an egg as the basis for decorating the salad, mice or bees of a suitable color can be placed on top of it.

Herrings under a fur coat

Herring under a fur coat is one of the most colorful salads at any feast, but the top layer can be further decorated. A beautiful diagonal pattern is laid out in small pieces of carrots or herring, which ends with dill leaves at the ends. On a dark background, nuts will look beautiful.

It is better to make decorations for a fur coat in white, yellow or green. Flowers or geometric patterns can be made from a bow or an egg. Fish drawn with mayonnaise or fish laid out from a grated egg will look very original and cute. Most often, halves of raw onion rings are laid out over the entire surface, which look like scales, and at the end they draw eyes and a mouth.

Crab

Crab salad can be sprinkled with corn on top, garnished with crab stick slices or roses made from them. As an appetizer, you can serve croutons or snacks, so they can be casually put on one side of the salad bowl. An addition in the form of seafood, for example, shrimp or a couple of pieces of red fish, will also be interesting, but only as an element of decor.

Vegetable

Vegetable salads can be sprinkled on top with some ingredients, for example, peas, corn, cucumber slices. The best decoration for vegetable dishes, of course, is greens: you can put a couple of sprigs of dill, parsley or lettuce on top. Finely chopped greens will look beautiful if you generously sprinkle the top layer with it.

The appearance will become much more interesting if you chop all the ingredients coarsely and add bright seasonings to them. Especially if some of the seasonings, nuts, herbs and small ingredients are left in the center and mixed just before serving. Large slices of citrus fruits (not only lemon, but even lime) will add an unusual accent not only to the design, but also to the taste of the ingredients.

In addition, the salad ingredients can be laid out symmetrically from the center to the edges, and the dish can also be mixed just before serving.

For a children's holiday

When decorating a table for a children's party, it is better to use simple and funny shapes, for example, on top of a salad, you can lay out a figure of a car or a flower from olives, tomatoes and vegetables. It will be very convenient for children to eat canapes on multi-colored skewers. In addition, with the help of skewers or toothpicks, you can create various shapes:

• fly agaric (egg - leg, tomato - cap);
• a ship with a sail (a thin slice of cucumber or lettuce put on a toothpick in the form of a sail);
• bees (alternating olives and olives, radish wings).

At children's holidays, fruit salads and snacks are especially relevant, since for children they are much more preferable than vegetables, moreover, such a dessert will be much healthier than ice cream or cakes. Fruits do not have to be mixed, they can be served cut on a dish, put skewers and sweet additives, jam, hot chocolate and honey around the edges.

Decorate snacks and cuts

Various snacks and cuts in themselves look very attractive if they are carefully laid out in a circle or in rows. But, of course, additions from little things will only add to their appetite and even make them tastier. Most often, products that form a delicious combination with them are used to decorate cuts. Olives and olives can be poured along the edges of the cold cuts, they can be taken together with a skewer, and so their taste will become much brighter. Greens, a handful of nuts, sauces around the edges - all this will give the dish elegance and new notes in taste.

salad serving

In fact, serving a dish is its presentation, and a lot depends on how beautifully it will be presented.

Choose a beautiful salad bowl

The most beautiful salad bowls have always been considered dishes made of thin material, such as porcelain. But just as bright ingredients will look beautiful in a glass salad bowl, both in an elegant shape with patterns, and in a minimalist style. It is better to pick up a salad bowl a little more than the volume of the salad itself, so that it does not fall out of the edges and does not bring any inconvenience to anyone. It will be much easier to cook it this way, and there will be room for decoration.

DIY salad bowl

Salad can be served in tartlets or on a lettuce leaf, a very unconventional way of serving, but quite beautiful, especially if you add vegetable slices on the edge.

For salads that are laid out in layers, for example, with fried champignons, mimosa, herring under a fur coat, "tenderness", there is another interesting way to serve. A cylinder is cut out of an ordinary plastic bottle, it is placed on a plate, a salad is made inside it, then the form is removed and a multi-colored cylinder of the dish remains, in which each layer is visible. Of course, this form does not have to be used specifically for puff dishes, but they will look the most interesting.

The shape can also be cut from vegetables: a pumpkin salad bowl or impromptu tartlets from halves of cucumbers; for fruit compositions, a shape can be created from orange peel.

Examples of decorating salads

Some examples of decorating salads at home and in a restaurant.

At home

Decorations that can be created at home are not as intricate as professional ones. However, this does not make them any less original or refined. The positive side of cooking at home is that you can make everything to your taste and let your imagination run wild.

After all, no restaurant will serve a dish decorated with a mouse from an egg or a fish, but it's so cool. At the same time, you can entrust the decoration of salads even to a child, it will be a wonderful activity for him to create animals from vegetables, and this will help the baby fall in love with healthy foods.

In restaurants

Of course, in restaurants, the beauty of serving a dish plays a much greater role, as it is appreciated by management, guests and critics. Therefore, professionals are obliged to make a work of art from any dish, and quickly, simply and tasty. In restaurants, it is important not only to have decorations, but also to make the dish itself look like decoration. Therefore, it is the details, sauces and seasonings that they pay a special role to in cooking.Conclusion

Decoration is an important part of salad preparation, because it is the appearance that makes the dish even more appetizing. In addition, the process of creating jewelry is very interesting and not at all complicated. They can be made from absolutely everything: from any vegetables, sauces, herbs. This will make life easier for the hostess, and finally she will have a favorite stage in preparing salads for the holidays.

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 will surely cope with, 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 INTO 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 stripes.

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.