Decoration of dishes for the new year with their own hands. How to decorate a New Year's salad, general principles

Without delicious salads, it is difficult to imagine a traditional feast, and even more so the New Year. The beautiful design of dishes pleases the eye, stimulates the appetite and generally creates a special festive mood. To surprise guests, to bring aesthetic pleasure to themselves and their loved ones, housewives come up with and look for a variety of ways to decorate salads on the net - simple and complex. Find out how to decorate salads for the New Year 2018.

Salads with dressing and slice ornaments

One of the easiest ways to decorate salads is to sprinkle. What could be easier than sprinkling a ready-made salad with one of the ingredients, grated on a fine grater. For sprinkling use grated:

• eggs, both white and yolk;
• cucumbers;
• boiled carrots;
• beets;
• sausage.

The topping can be used in its pure form or mixed with mayonnaise.

In addition to grated ingredients, finely chopped greens are used, as well as small products, such as peas, corn, red and black caviar, and pomegranate seeds. Fantasizing and using ingredients of different colors, they create drawings and ornaments.

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If you set out to do something more original, then an interesting effect is obtained by combining sprinkles and thinly sliced ​​\u200b\u200bpieces of vegetables and fruits. Often they make a background of sprinkles, and put circles of cucumbers, rings of olives on top, cover the salad with thin slices of red fish. Look at the photo, how to make callas from cheese squares, put pineapple from mushrooms, and form a starfish from lettuce and red fish.

with mayonnaise

An additional decorative effect is created using mayonnaise. Since most salads are already made with mayonnaise, some do not use this option, trying not to overdo it with the sauce. However, subtle patterns look very attractive and appetizing.

If you buy mayonnaise in a tube, then you can draw just like that. But if really thin lines are needed, you need to put the mayonnaise in a pastry bag or in a regular plastic bag and draw like a cream on a cake. Of course, the combination with other decoration options does not hurt the appearance of the salad at all.

Puff salads

There is nothing complicated in the technique of puff salads. However, alternately laid out layers of green cucumbers, orange carrots, red fish, yellow corn make the salad truly elegant. Use transparent bowls, vases, cocotte makers for layered salads, then they will not need additional decoration. But on the other hand, if there is a desire, why not decorate them from above using already known methods?

Animals

Salads decorated in the form of animals are relevant if you want to attract the attention of children to food. In addition, in the New Year, a bullfinch laid out of a salad, a dog (after all, 2018 is the year of the Dog), a hare - all this will be in the theme of the holiday. Those who miss the summer are advised to take the opportunity and enjoy the summer landscapes, the view of multi-colored butterflies, bees, ladybugs.

Note! Many decorations, including animals, are cut from thin slices of vegetables using cookie cutters.

Ideas for decorating salads in the form of birds, animals, insects, see below.

new year design

The most advantageous on the New Year's table will look like salads decorated in the New Year's style: in the form of bells, Santa Claus, snowman, Snow Maiden, Christmas trees, chimes, cones.

How to make such beauty? Also, as already described. Lay out the salad, give the mass the desired shape, sprinkle, decorate, grease with mayonnaise. Look at the photo, everything is clear here.

Carving

The technique of decorating dishes has been elevated to the rank of a special art. One of the well-known techniques is carving. This is the art of creating figures and decorative curls from vegetables and fruits, which later serve to decorate salads, main courses or as an independent decor. There are so many options for jewelry that it is simply not possible to imagine everything, but you can learn how to make basic elements.

Carrot cones

Cones are immediately associated with Christmas trees and the New Year. Let's decorate salads with carrot cones, and make fir branches from dill.

	You will need a sharp, narrow knife to cut the bump. It is necessary to give the carrots the shape of a cone.
	If there is, it is convenient to cut with carving knives, but they are optional.
	Cut the petals in a circle with a knife, trying to fit the whole number of petals, and under the petals cut the flesh a little. Continue row by row.
	When you reach the end, sharpen the tip of the carrot.
	You get these bumps. Moreover, when using different tools, they will be slightly different.

Pancake and beetroot roses

Pancakes are not a very common product for carving, but this is where the beauty of this decoration is manifested. It's hard to tell right away what it's made of.

	Grate boiled beets and mix with mayonnaise.
	Distribute the beetroot over the pancake.
	Roll up and cut into pieces about 5 cm.
	From the side of the cut, from one edge, you need to make several small cuts in the form of petals.
	Arrange the pancakes as shown in the photo, and close the gaps with parsley leaves.

roses from tomato

How real roses are made from the skin of a tomato. Even special practice for cutting is not required.

	Take any tomato with a nice, even, intact skin. Cut off the top of the hat, but do not cut it off completely.
	Continue to cut the skin in a spiral, being careful not to accidentally cut.
	Then unroll the spiral on the cutting board. And roll up into a roll, starting from the tip, towards the "hat".
	Decorate the salad with the resulting roses. You can make several and collect a "bouquet". You can make one large and place it in the center.

In the same way, a rose is made from an apple.

cucumber leaf

Cucumbers are often used in carving. They have several valuable properties: they are dense, so it is convenient to cut them out, their skin and pulp are of different colors, due to which a decorative effect is achieved. Try cutting cucumber leaves. One cucumber will produce at least two leaves.

	First, cut a piece of cucumber, as shown in the photo.
	Cut the flesh from the inside, but not too close to the peel.
	Give the cucumber a leaf shape. Cut off more pulp from the pointed edge.
	In the center along the sheet, make two cuts converging to the tip.
	From the sides, cut perpendicular cuts to the first two and remove these fragments.
	Cut through holes in the pulp in the form of leaflets.
	If you did everything right, you get such a cucumber leaf.

Bulb water lily

To carve a water lily, you will need a purple bulb, such a flower will not need to be dyed to give color.

banana dog

Although a banana is not very suitable for decorating a savory salad, it is worth making a dog out of a banana, because the year of the Dog is coming. And from this fruit a charming dachshund is obtained.

	Freehand draw on paper a template in the form of a banana with legs. Attach to a banana and circle the outline with a sharp knife, cutting through the peel.
	Bend the legs.
	In addition to the template with legs, you will need a template with ears, draw it by hand too.
	Cut only the ears and bottom according to the template.
	Between the ears, make such an arcuate incision.
	Cut the banana pulp and discard. Bend down the loose peel that has formed between the ears from above.
	Make indentations for the eyes with a knife and insert black peppercorns.
	Insert a pair of toothpicks into the base of the head.
	Attach the "head" to the "torso".

Spirals

When you see ready-made vegetable spirals, it seems that making them at home is either impossible or expensive tools are needed. But everything, as it turns out, is much simpler.

radish flower

You have already seen how to make roses from pancakes and beets, tomatoes, but there is another way to make a carving flower. Let's try to cut it out of a radish, or rather, not even cut it out, but fold it from pieces.

Swan their apple

This is an original, fairly easy way to decorate a salad or fruit cuts. Carefully repeat all the steps, according to the master class.

	Cut the apple into two halves with a diagonal cut.
	Take the part with the sepals. Remove bones.
	Lay as shown in the photo. Place a knife on top and bottom - they will serve as limiters.
	With another knife, make an incision slightly to the right of the center.
	Then cut the apple on the side.
	Then repeat the steps on the left side of the apple.
	Lay the cut section again between the two knives. Stepping back from the edge, make cuts on the top and side.
	You will get several of these pieces.
	Lay them out.
	Put the "wings" in the main half of the apple on the sides. Cut out a piece of apple in the center.
	Take the other half of the apple that we haven't used yet.
	Cut off a thin piece of apple.
	Now cut out the part that is covered with a knife in the photo.
	And trim off the edge.
	Press the seed into the pulp. Give the piece a more rounded shape.
	Insert the swan's head into the center notch.

bulbous dahlia

At first glance, it’s hard to believe that a dahlia is made from an onion with your own hands in just 8 cuts. She looks so beautiful and sophisticated.

	Take a sharp and thin knife.
	We do not cut anything from the side of the root, on the other hand we make an even cut.
	Take the onion in your hand or put it on the board. Cut the onion in the middle, but not completely. We do not cut about 1 cm.
	Perpendicular to the first incision, make a second incision. Now cut each piece in half.
	And again in half: we cut two parts at once or each separately.
	Take a bowl of water and put the onion in the water for a couple of hours.
	After two hours, remove the bulb, it will turn into a chrysanthemum.
	If you want to make a red chrysanthemum, dip the bulb in beetroot juice and let it sit for a while. The longer you keep the onion in the juice, the more intense it will be colored.
	Beautiful and impressive decoration.

See the video for some more interesting master classes.

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On the New Year's table 2020, everything should be solemn and conducive to the holiday. It is not enough to cook delicious snacks. It is also necessary to correctly arrange them, and most importantly, decorate them in an original way. This is what will be discussed. After all, to make the table festive, it is not necessary to cook something unusual. You can beautifully and unusually decorate even a simple Olivier or a herring familiar to everyone under a fur coat.

Delicious and simple salad "Mouse" - a symbol of the coming year, will decorate the table. But, it is also very tasty, first of all my household members eat it. Detailed recipe with step by step photos.

Options for decorating salads in the form of a Mouse

assorted photos with original decoration of New Year's salads

How to decorate a New Year's salad, general principles

There are not so many ways to decorate salads. The easiest way is with puff snacks. Firstly, they look so beautiful in transparent portioned salad bowls. Secondly, puff salad can be laid out in any form, for example: a crescent, Christmas trees, a snowman, a heart. It will already look unusual and beautiful. In this case, the upper part can simply be decorated with a pattern or an inscription made of mayonnaise or other dressing sauce.

Penguins or snowmen made of eggs, olives and carrots strung on a toothpick will be a great decoration for your New Year's salad.

Christmas trees from vegetables, fruits and sweets.

But an example of New Year's carving from carrots is a Christmas cone.

And here is how the hostess decided to present it to the New Year's table in an original way, only instead of traditional cabbage or fresh cucumber, rice was added to the salad.

An equally original option for serving puff salad can be wrapping it in a roll. In this form, any snack will look very unusual, even an elementary herring under a fur coat. By the way, making a roll is quite easy if you collect the salad not on a plate, but on cling film.

"Bullfinch on a spruce branch", another original decoration for a New Year's salad of tomatoes, eggs, green onions and olives. On the second salad, a walnut was used as a cone, and a spruce twig was decorated with pomegranate seeds.

You can work a little more by preparing a decoration from halves of eggs and Korean carrots. Of these ingredients, it is easy to lay out, for example, a watch dial. But it's really quite simple. In fact, whole artistic compositions can be depicted from ordinary boiled eggs.

In general, the best option for decorating any salad is sprinkling. This design does not take much time, but the scope for imagination here is almost unlimited.

Here is an example of how you can decorate a fruit salad for the New Year. Such Christmas canapes can simply be laid out on the table as an appetizer.

However, it should be understood that the products that will be used to decorate the salad must be in harmony with the ingredients of the appetizer itself. In fact, it is not very good if a salad with red fish is decorated with pieces of sausage. Although there are exceptions. For example, balls made from low-fat cottage cheese mixed with chopped herbs and crushed garlic can be an excellent addition to a vegetable salad with tomatoes.

Christmas tree made from onion feathers.

An interesting design option is the unusual serving of the dish. Salads containing vegetables or fruits can be served in salad bowls made from the same vegetables. An excellent portioned salad bowl is obtained from a pod of sweet bell pepper or from half a large apple, if all the pulp is removed from it. A salad plate in the form of a boat can be made from a slice of cucumber. Well, half a pineapple will make a whole salad ship.

Bags of salad folded on one dish will look quite unusual. It's not hard to make them either. A couple of tablespoons of salad are laid out on pre-baked pancakes. The pancake is wrapped in a bag and tied with a green onion stalk.

Ideas for decorating New Year's salads 2020

Now it's time to go directly to the ideas. Of course, no one says that it is necessary to arrange salads in the ways described below. Here are just a few examples. So you should not limit your own imagination. But perhaps these options will become the basis for creating your own masterpieces.

And how do you like such a culinary masterpiece of boiled beets and carrots and pickles. The author of the salad is a true artist!

Decoration "Christmas balls"

An ordinary salad can be turned into a New Year's composition if you put a "spruce branch" of fresh herbs on its surface and decorate it with balls made from halves of cherry tomatoes and olives. Additional decorations can be cut from colored bell peppers. The background for such a "pattern" can serve as grated egg white or fresh cucumber. It all depends on what ingredients the salad itself consists of.

And you can make a composition of different salads on one dish, laying them out in the form of all the same Christmas balls. You can decorate them with boiled carrot figures or simply paint them with mayonnaise. Well, the spruce branch is again made from fresh herbs.

Decoration of New Year's salad "Candles"

Candles - perfectly emphasize the New Year's mood. So such a decoration would be quite appropriate. Almost any salad can be decorated in this way, since the main products for decoration are greens, cheese for sandwiches, and canned corn.

To begin with, the finished snack must be laid out in the form of a ring or garland. Lay thin sprigs of dill and rosemary on top. Sprinkle some corn over the greens. It will look good if the yellow corn kernels are "diluted" with a small amount of pomegranate seeds. And the finishing touch is evenly spaced candles made from rolled cheese. Flames can be made from boiled carrots, pieces of crab sticks, Korean-style carrots, or small pieces of sweet bell peppers.

You can simplify the task somewhat and simply “draw” a candle. To do this, the salad must be laid out in the form of a truncated triangle with a rounded base. Align the top of the salad and grease with mayonnaise. Sprinkle the entire surface with grated cheese, and in the upper part pour a small oval of grated egg white. A candle wick can be made from a piece of prunes, and a flame from cheese, egg yolk, boiled carrots and a piece of red bell pepper. Put the lower part of the composition with dill sprigs and decorate with a bow and balls, cut again from sweet pepper.

Christmas wreath

For a similar design, the salad should be laid out on a large plate in the shape of a ring. It is quite simple to depict this by placing a glass in the center of the plate, lay out the ingredients or a ready-made snack, and then remove the glass. The surface of the salad must be leveled and coated with mayonnaise.

Sprinkle the workpiece with finely chopped herbs and decorate with halves of cherry tomatoes. Imitation of ribbons tying the resulting wreath can be made from strips of daikon, radish or boiled carrots.

Salad decoration "Christmas bell"

You can decorate a salad on a dish in the form of a bell in almost the same way as in the previous case. First, the dish is laid out in the desired form, and then the salad is sprinkled with grated carrots. The drawing on the resulting bell is laid out with black caviar or finely chopped olives.

If desired, the composition can be supplemented with a bow of red bell pepper. Well, a spruce branch can be modeled from dill.

Decoration "Watermelon slice"

Not only fresh fruits can perfectly decorate the table, but also salads made in their form, for example: in the form of a slice of watermelon. This design option is well suited for vegetable or meat salads, the ingredients of which are cut into not very large pieces.

Put the finished salad in the form of a slice of watermelon, level the surface and grease it a little with mayonnaise. Cover the entire surface of the salad with a thin layer of carrots grated on a fine grater (both boiled and fresh root crops can be used). Make a watermelon crust from finely chopped greens, for example: dill, parsley and green onions. Pour a thin strip of grated cheese between the “crust” and “pulp” - this will make the appearance of the salad even more like a real watermelon. Well, small pieces of olives can become seeds.

Fish salad can also be presented in the form of a watermelon crust. But in this case, instead of carrots, it is better to use red caviar (and not necessarily real) or finely chopped red parts of crab sticks.

Decoration "Flowers and Bouquets"

That's what is usually missing on the New Year's table, so it's flowers. However, despite the frost outside the window, no one bothers to bring a little warmth to this wonderful winter holiday. Even if the flowers are just a decor for one of the New Year's salads.

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The December race for gifts, New Year's outfits and all kinds of delicacies to the table is in full swing! It's time to flip through the cookbooks, scour the gigabytes of Runet in search of the New Year's menu. We decided to make your life easier, save time and collect original ideas for decorating the festive table in one article. We have treats for every taste!

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The symbol of 2018 is the Dog, so there must be dishes decorated in her honor on the table.

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Bake dog cookies with the kids. With such delicious treats, you can visit all year round! Test different recipes and choose the best one.

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Almost any puff salad can be laid out on a dish in the form of a puppy. Show your imagination!

Nobody canceled breakfast on December 31, and on all other days too. Treat your little one to a true dog treat - meatballs and macaroni and cheese. Do not forget to add vegetables so that the dish is not only beautiful, but also healthy.

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Sweets are bad for dogs, but kids can't do without it. Make pies in the form of small Yorkies or Westies.

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A la beard made of cotton wool ...

Who are the kids looking forward to? Who is the main character of the holiday? That's right, Santa Claus. We will give him and his granddaughter Snegurochka a place of honor at the festive table, so that she looks after her grandfather, you never know ... suddenly a beard in a salad.

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It doesn’t matter what kind of salad “under a fur coat”, the fur coat itself is important! Red beets or peppers will help create a robe for Santa Claus, and an egg (protein) tinted with blue food coloring will help to create a coat for Snegurka. Fur - boiled protein, rice or grated cheese (which is more suitable for the recipe).

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Fruits are present on any table. Take the time to serve - and the children will definitely get a portion of fresh vitamins here and now.

Sweet strawberry dessert with whipped cream 100% will go with a bang for little sweet teeth. A minute's work, but how beautiful!

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Another delicious and beautiful dessert is Banana Santas. Chocolate eyes, strawberry caps… Mmmm…

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Now she's pretty...

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A gray wolf trotted somewhere, they say ... But he didn’t touch our beautiful Christmas tree, because he doesn’t like dill! Here!

Red cranberries or pomegranate seeds will perfectly serve as Christmas balls and decorate your salad. A five-pointed star can be cut from red pepper and put on a skewer.

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A Christmas tree made from canned green peas will decorate not only Olivier, but also other salads.

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If there is a lot of greenery in the salad, then you can simply lay it out in a slide and decorate it with a star-shaped top - very similar to an elegant Christmas tree.

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Lay out the puff curls in the shape of a triangle. Top is stuffing. A tomato garland and a yellow pepper star - the New Year's dish is ready.

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Turn triangular pieces of pita into edible Christmas trees with your favorite sauce and pepper.

Christmas tree-shaped cucumber sandwiches diversify the New Year's menu. Pieces cut with a curly knife look original.

Ordinary pancakes, so loved by many children, will appear in a new light, one has only to fold them into a pyramid, add berries and fruits in sweet syrup. Why not a New Year's Eve breakfast?

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A vegan Christmas tree made from celery and carrots is not at all the only option for New Year's decoration. Anything can be mixed!

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But the wolf-sweet tooth will definitely not disdain these Christmas trees. Coconut shavings and fresh cream - yum yum.

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Believe it or not, fresh strawberries are hiding under a layer of green cream! Here is a treat!

Homemade custard cookies in the form of Christmas trees. A star can be cut from canned pineapple.

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Smear round cookies of different sizes with cream and fold in the form of a Christmas tree pyramid. Children can take an active part in making this sweet New Year's dessert.

Fruit trees - vitamin decoration of the New Year's table. The kids are the best! Cheese lovers - sour-milk platter.

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At the heart of this fruity Christmas tree is carrots. Toothpicks with orange slices, kiwi, and berries are inserted into it, as into a trunk.

Wafer rolls will instantly become Christmas trees - colored sweets, sweet fudge and coconut flakes will do their job.

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You can simply draw a Christmas tree with chocolate icing!

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Children will be happy to make snowmen from tangerines. You will need toothpicks, fragrant cloves for the eyes, twigs for hands and bottle caps as hats. Invite your little helpers to decorate the holiday table themselves - the invasion of citrus snowmen is guaranteed!

This snowman just melted... Poor guy out of luck. Well, nothing, they will eat it in this form with appetite!

Sweet snowmen are a treat for a sweet tooth of any age. Show your imagination, there are no tasteless snowmen!

Salad can be laid out on a dish in portions in the form of small snowmen. Don't add too much mayonnaise, or spring will come early on your plate.

Cut off the tops of boiled eggs and stick them on a wooden skewer - this is another option for decorating New Year's dishes. Decorate with buttons, cloves or pepper eyes, carrot noses and hats. Even the most capricious kids will be happy to eat such a dish.

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If little Nehochuha is still hungry, try a win-win option - potatoes! Roll the mashed potatoes into balls and “blind” them into a snowman! Wouldn't he eat?

Sandwiches are a familiar dish, but even they can be served at the festive table if you experiment a little with the design.

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Christmas wreath

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Put the salad on a wreath-shaped flat dish, garnish with fresh herbs, olives, olives, boiled carrot circles.

Dill looks like spruce branches, and pomegranate seeds look great as beads.

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Simple foods: beets, carrots, cheese, mayonnaise, eggs, dill. If you approach the decoration of the salad creatively, then the most banal "Herring under a fur coat" will become a favorite of the New Year's table.

Blind balls - and a snack for the holiday is ready! Icicles, houses… Everything is edible and very beautiful!

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Any salad can be laid out in the form of a mitten. The decor can be anything: cheese, boiled vegetables, an egg.

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Colored icing can turn any gingerbread into a delicious souvenir. Don't be ashamed to visit with such a gift!

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"Cones" of delicious salad and nuts! Looks unusual.

Snack cake from beef liver. Why not arrange it in the form of a cone?

My best gift is ... a cake!

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Surprise your guests with an unusual design of familiar dishes.

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The chimes are an important part of the holiday. Let the clock be always at hand!

Dear readers. Surely you have your own original ideas for decorating New Year's dishes. Share them in the comments, someone will surely benefit from your experience.

What worries housewives most of all on the eve of the winter holidays? That's right - a spectacular and original decoration of New Year's dishes. After all, you want to not just prepare delicious salads and snacks for the festive table. Many culinary specialists dream of making a lasting impression on their household and guests on New Year's Eve, so that the table decoration and the design of dishes will be talked about for the next 12 months. In fact, there is nothing impossible! Moreover, many options have already been created and a sea of ​​\u200b\u200bideas has been proposed on how to arrange and serve holiday delicacies for the New Year in a more non-trivial way. You can perform any of the proposed options for decorating New Year's dishes “from” and “to” or beat it in your own way, making certain adjustments to your taste.

Decoration of Christmas dishes in the form of a Christmas tree

Since the Christmas tree is the invariable symbol of the New Year, it is worth playing around with this theme. In the form of a green beauty, you can arrange not only numerous salads, including the simplest ones, for example, Olivier, but also all kinds of snacks and even desserts. Below are just a few possible options for decorating New Year's dishes in the form of a Christmas tree:

Fruit slicing "Herringbone"

By the way, fruit cuts, decorated in the form of miniature trees, are no less relevant at the New Year's table. In order not to clutter up the table and not interfere with communication, which becomes especially open during the celebration of the New Year, you should not make compositions that are too high.
On a note! Keep fruit trees small and compact, but lush. You can make several of them if you plan to celebrate the New Year in a large company. For a close circle, one copy will be enough.

To decorate a New Year's fruit tree, you can use a variety of fruits:

• peaches;
• apples;
• pineapples;
• pears;
• sweet cherry;
• plums;
• oranges;
• strawberries and others.

In the process of the culinary sacrament itself, you will need to use a knife and several toothpicks. You can take skewers. This option is stronger. So you can not worry about the integrity of the miniature masterpiece.

1. The optimal basis for a New Year's fruit tree is an apple. The fruit should be washed, after which its top must be cut off.

Cut down, the apple is placed on a flat plate. This will make the foundation more stable and stable.

Then you need to prepare other fruits by washing them and cutting them into triangles. The resulting fragments are fixed to the apple "frame" with toothpicks or skewers.

To make the composition look complete, it is worth cutting out an asterisk. For this, everything is also an apple or pineapple.

As an imitation of Christmas balls, you can use strawberry slices, cherries or sweet cherries.

On a note! So that the fruit tree for decorating the New Year's table does not darken, you should sprinkle the composition with lemon juice.

Thematic options for decorating New Year's dishes

How can you decorate New Year's dishes? There are many other options as well.

Decoration of New Year's dishes with a Christmas wreath

Salads and appetizers, played up in the format of a Christmas wreath, look very impressive. Such a performance is relevant regardless of who will lead the next year. By the way, desserts can also be decorated in the form of a Christmas wreath. The decoration is formed from both mastic and cream.

Decoration of festive dishes in the form of candles

Among other attributes of the holiday, one cannot fail to note candles. Traditionally, they are considered a symbol of the hearth, comfort and warmth. They bring light and give harmony. That is why you can use this idea when decorating holiday dishes. Its appeal lies in the fact that candles are always relevant. They do not go out of fashion and are perfectly combined with the design of snacks in a different format.

Other options for decorating dishes for the New Year

You can decorate salads - even the most simple and familiar ones - boldly and creatively. To make the dishes fully consistent with the New Year theme, you can present them in the form:

• Christmas balls;
• mittens;
• Snow Maiden or Santa Claus;
• snowman.

You can even beat the very images of your favorite wizard and his granddaughter. It turns out very appetizing and effective.

Among other options for decorating New Year's delicacies, it is worth noting other always relevant solutions:
images of a clock with an arrow approaching 12;

• bullfinches;
• calendars;
• penguins;
• fir cones;
• masquerade mask.

The attractiveness of all these design options lies in the fact that, as a rule, no delicacies are needed for decoration. Olives are used for almost all black elements. Red details can be laid out from tomatoes, bell peppers, protein or natural caviar, crab sticks. Greens are formed from dill, parsley, cilantro.

Note! If you want to paint over the protein, then you can always use beets or red cabbage.

There would be a desire - and there will always be options for decorating festive dishes.

Decoration of dishes for the New Year with fruits, nuts and spices

The New Year's table is usually laid especially hospitably and plentifully. The generosity of hostesses concerns not only the preparation of hot dishes and cold snacks. Close attention is also paid to the addition of nuts or spices. So, they become an excellent thematic decoration by themselves:

• cinnamon sticks;
• powdered sugar imitating snow;
• anise;
• nuts;
• raisin.

Original New Year's dessert in a festive setting

This combination of products can be combined and diluted with apples. You will get an excellent winter dessert in the traditions of the New Year and Christmas.

1. So, you can wash the apples and cut off their tops.

With a sharp knife, you will need to cut out the middle with seeds and hard partitions.

Walnuts need to be crushed and mixed with raisins. You can separately cut the apple pulp and add to them.

The filling is seasoned with cinnamon and honey.

It should be put in apples and covered with cut "lids".

A serving plate with such a fruity snack should be decorated with anise, a handful of raisins, and cinnamon sticks. Star anise can be added. From above, all this New Year's miracle is sprinkled with powdered sugar.

By the way, cinnamon, cloves and anise can perfectly decorate many other dishes at the festive New Year's table. Such accents look very beautiful and impressive. In addition, they bring cozy notes and a warm aroma to the room, which is especially appreciated during family holidays.

Beautiful winter drinks for the New Year with spices and fruits

Dried clove buds are a wonderful decoration not only for orange cups. This spice is perfect for decoration and other New Year's dishes. It is especially good in the composition of truly winter drinks:

• mulled wine;
• grog;
• glögga;
• fruit compote.

Anise and cloves go well together. If you decide to cook compote for serving on the New Year's table, then by all means combine it with dried apricots, pears, and prunes. This combination can be diluted with cinnamon and star anise. You will get a unique drink that is a hundred times better than all kinds of alcoholic beverages.

Such a compote should be poured into tall glasses made of transparent glass. Place a cinnamon stick in each of them, which can be tied with a bright ribbon. You can also decorate such a drink with dried citrus slices or dried orange peel. It will look very bright and appetizing.

Design options for New Year's snacks

Many consider snacks to be a primitive breakfast or snack option. In vain! Such miniature dishes can become a worthy decoration of the New Year's table. If you decide to cook them for the holiday, then do not forget to decorate in an original way. After all, it is quite simple and incredibly exciting.
A miniature appetizer can become a real “hit” of the table if you “arm yourself” with herbs, tomatoes, cheese slices and bell peppers. The most primitive toasts will turn into a real culinary masterpiece if you cover them with cream cheese and put the same green Christmas tree on top.
You can decorate sandwiches with cute snowmen or stars, reminiscent of the main decoration of a green beauty, around which it is customary to dance. Such a non-trivial snack will be remembered for a long time by both you and your guests.

Decoration of New Year's baking

It is impossible to imagine a luxuriously laid New Year's table without baking. On the eve of this holiday, the hostesses pay special attention to her. The most popular baking options for the New Year are cookies and gingerbread. In order for the confectionery products to fit perfectly into the theme of the celebration, a variety of figures can be cut out of the dough: stars, mittens, houses, little men, deer, etc. Ready-made gingerbread cookies and cookies can be decorated with sugar icing (white and colored), sprinkled with powdered sugar, painted icing. At the same time, sweets tied with a ribbon in several pieces at once look very beautiful.

bettycrocker.com

Ingredients

• 800 g cream cheese;
• 450 g grated cheddar cheese;
• 2 tablespoons of pesto sauce;
• ¼ small onion;
• ¼ teaspoon mustard;
• 1 pinch of paprika;
• 2 tablespoons of milk;
• 1 cucumber;
• 1 olive;
• 1 small piece of carrot;
• 1 small piece of red pepper;
• 2 raisins;
• 2 salty sticks;
• 1 pack of crackers.

Cooking

Mix 700 g cream cheese and grated cheddar. Divide the cheese mixture into three equal portions. Then combine the two of them, add the pesto and stir. Add the chopped onion, mustard and paprika to the rest of the cheese mixture and stir to combine. Cover with cling film and refrigerate for 4 hours.

When the cheese mixture is firm, shape it into large and small balls. Wrap them in cling film and put them in the freezer. Such balls can be made even a month before the holiday itself!

12 hours before serving, move the balls from the freezer to the refrigerator. Just before serving, put a large cheese ball on a dish, put the snowman's head on top - a small ball.

Whisk together 100g cream cheese and milk and brush over the snowman. Cut 2-3 thin strips of cucumber and make a scarf out of them. Cut the olives and make buttons. From carrots and peppers form a nose and mouth, and from raisins - eyes. Stick salty sticks on the sides - the hands of a snowman. Serve with crackers.

menu123.club

Ingredients

• 4 tablespoons of rice;
• 250 g crab sticks;
• 1 sweet and sour apple;
• 1 tablespoon lemon juice;
• 2 tomatoes;
• 50 g grated hard cheese;
• 4 tablespoons of canned corn;
• salt - to taste;
• 100 g of mayonnaise;
• 1 bunch of dill;
• 1 bunch of green onions.

Cooking

In salt water. Drain the water, rinse the rice and set aside.

Cut the crab sticks into small cubes, reserving five sticks to decorate the wreath. Peel the apple, remove the core and cut into small cubes. Drizzle the apple with lemon juice to keep it from browning. Cut one tomato in half and save half for garnish. 1.5 tomatoes cut into cubes.

Combine cooled rice, crab sticks, apple, tomatoes, grated cheese, 3 tablespoons corn, salt, pepper and mayonnaise. Arrange the salad on a serving platter, shaping it into a Christmas wreath. To make a hole in the middle, place a small jar in the center of the dish and spread the salad around it.

Stick whole crab sticks into the wreath. Cut out the lights from half of the tomato and insert them into the candles. Chop half a bunch of dill and a bunch of onions. Sprinkle the salad with chopped herbs, and top with whole sprigs of dill. Garnish the dish with the remaining corn.

thekitchn.com

Ingredients

• 900 g potatoes;
• 120 g butter;
• salt - to taste;
• ground black pepper - to taste;
• 1 large egg;
• 2 large yellow peppers

Cooking

Peel the potatoes, cut them into large cubes and boil for. Drain potatoes, add room temperature oil, salt and pepper. Mix well and leave for 10-15 minutes. When the puree has cooled slightly, beat in the egg and mix well again. To make green Christmas trees, you can add a little pesto sauce.

Transfer the puree to a piping bag fitted with a star tip. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and spread the puree on it in the shape of Christmas trees.

Place the baking sheet in an oven preheated to 200 ° C for 15-20 minutes until the Christmas trees are browned. Decorate them with asterisks cut from peppers and serve hot.

diy-enthusiasts.com

Ingredients

• 250 g of champignons;
• 1 onion;
• a little vegetable oil;
• salt - to taste;
• ground black pepper - to taste;
• 300 g smoked chicken breast;
• 1 bell pepper;
• 2 pickles;
• 2 carrots;
• 5 eggs;
• 300 g of mayonnaise;
• 1 beet;
• ½ bunch of parsley.

Cooking

Fry chopped champignons and chopped onions in vegetable oil. Season with salt and pepper to taste.

Cut the smoked breast, bell pepper and cucumber into cubes. and carrots until cooked and grate them, reserving one carrot for decoration.

Put the ingredients in the form of a square on a serving dish in this order: chicken, cucumbers, carrots, eggs, mushrooms and onions, peppers. Coat each layer with mayonnaise. Cover the salad with it on top and sides.

Cut four long, thin strips from the remaining boiled carrots. Put them on the salad as shown in the photo. Boil the beets, peel, cut into thin slices, form a rose from them and place it in the center of the “gift”.

Garnish the salad with parsley leaves and refrigerate for several hours.

thepeachkitchen.com

Ingredients

• 5 sausages;
• some cream cheese;
• several sprigs of parsley;
• a small piece of red bell pepper.

Cooking

Cook sausages: they are enough for 10 canapes. Cut the sausages in half. Then cut each half in half again, but at an acute angle.

Lay the sausage pieces side by side and secure with skewers.

Using a pastry syringe or bag, decorate the edges of the socks with cream cheese. In the middle, fasten a small sprig of parsley and a tiny piece of red pepper.

v-2018.com

Ingredients

• 200 g prunes;
• 2 beets;
• salt - to taste;
• 200 g grated hard cheese;
• 4 eggs;
• 250 g mayonnaise;
• 1 bunch of dill;
• 1 piece of red bell pepper;
• a few pomegranate seeds.

Cooking

This salad is laid out in layers in the shape of a Christmas tree. Each layer must be greased with mayonnaise.

Cut the prunes into small pieces and arrange around on a serving platter. , grate, put on prunes and salt The next layer is grated cheese. Then lay out the grated boiled eggs and salt a little.

Lubricate the resulting Christmas tree with mayonnaise. From top to bottom, cover with dill sprigs, garnish with a star carved from red pepper and pomegranate seeds. By the way, instead of pomegranate seeds, you can use canned corn.

www.intheplayroom.co.uk

Ingredients

• 12 slices of bread;
• 200 g cream cheese;
• ½ bunch of green onions;
• 1 red bell pepper;
• 1 large cucumber.

Cooking

To make these sandwiches, you will need metal cookie cutters in the form of a large and small star. If two large stars can be cut from a piece of bread, then you will get 12 sandwiches from the indicated amount of bread. Therefore, adjust the amount of ingredients depending on the size of the molds.

Toast the slices of bread lightly to brown them. Cut them out into big stars. Spread half with cream cheese. And in the other half, cut out small stars in the middle.

Sprinkle one third of the sandwiches smeared with cheese with chopped onions, the second with chopped bell pepper, and cover the third with thin strips of cucumber. Put the prepared stars with the middle cut out on top.

By the way, you can choose the filling for sandwiches to your taste. It can be thin slices of sausage, fried pieces of bacon, tomatoes and other ingredients.

tasteofhome.com

Ingredients

For brownie:

• 180 g butter;
• 120 g unsweetened chocolate;
• 3 large eggs;
• 400 g of sugar;
• ¼ teaspoon salt;
• vanillin - on the tip of a knife;
• 120 g flour;
• some vegetable oil.
• a few M&M's.

For glaze:

• 500 g of powdered sugar;
• 60 g butter;
• 4 tablespoons of milk;
• vanillin - on the tip of a knife;
• green food coloring.

Cooking

Melt the butter and chocolate in the microwave. Mix until smooth and leave to cool.

Whisk eggs, sugar and salt in a separate bowl. Add vanilla and chocolate mixture. Gradually add flour, mixing thoroughly.

Line a 30 x 20 cm baking dish with foil and brush with vegetable oil. Put the dough into the form and place in the oven preheated to 180 ° C for 25-30 minutes.

While the brownies are cooling, combine the icing sugar, butter, milk and vanilla and beat with a mixer until smooth. Use food coloring to color the icing green.

Cut a Christmas tree out of the cake, spread the icing over it and decorate with sweets.

womansday.com

Ingredients

For the cake:

• a little vegetable oil;
• 370 g flour;
• 100 g cocoa;
• 1 teaspoon baking powder;
• ½ teaspoon salt;
• ½ teaspoon of soda;
• 240 ml sour cream;
• vanillin - on the tip of a knife;
• 1 pinch of cinnamon;
• 250 g butter;
• 400 g of sugar;
• 2 large eggs;
• 240 ml milk.

For decoration:

• 1 orange;
• 200 g of sugar;
• 3 sprigs of rosemary;
• a few cranberries or cherries (frozen or fresh);
• some ;
• 3 caramel canes.

For glaze:

• 3 large eggs;
• 150 g of sugar;
• 1 pinch of salt;
• vanillin - on the tip of a knife.

Cooking

Grease a cake tin with vegetable oil and dust lightly with flour, shaking off excess. In one bowl, mix 360 g flour, cocoa, baking powder, salt and soda. In the other - sour cream, vanilla and cinnamon.

Beat butter and sugar with a mixer until smooth. Add eggs one at a time and beat well. Enter sour cream seasoned with spices. Then gradually add the flour mixture and milk, constantly beating the dough with a mixer.

Put the dough into a cake mold and bake in an oven preheated to 160 ° C for 40-50 minutes. Check doneness with a toothpick: it should come out completely clean.

Orange for decorating the cupcake must be prepared in advance. Cut it into thin circles (you will need 3-4 circles for a cake), put it on a baking sheet covered with parchment and bake for a couple of hours at 100 ° C.

In the meantime, the cake is cooling, pour a glass of water into the pan, add 100 g of sugar, put on a slow fire and wait until the sugar dissolves. Add heat, cook for another minute and remove from heat. Dip the rosemary sprigs in the syrup, shake off, roll in the remaining sugar and place on a plate to dry. Repeat the same with the berries.

Glaze should be done in a water bath. Pour 2.5 cm of water into a saucepan and bring to a boil. In a bowl, mix egg whites, sugar and salt. Place the bowl over the saucepan and beat the mixture with a whisk for 3-5 minutes until the sugar dissolves. Then remove the bowl, add vanilla and beat the icing with a mixer for another 7-10 minutes.

Spread frosting over cooled cake. Garnish with oranges, candied rosemary sprigs and berries, hard candy and gingerbread cookies.

thereciperebel.com

Ingredients

For cookies:

• 120 g butter;
• 250 g of powdered sugar;
• 2 tablespoons of milk;
• 280 g coconut flakes;
• vanillin - on the tip of a knife;
• green food coloring.

For decoration:

• 100 g of white chocolate;
• 1 teaspoon of butter;
• 1 tablespoon of milk;
• a few M&M's.

Cooking

Melt the butter. Add powdered sugar and milk to it and mix. Then add the coconut flakes, vanilla and food coloring. Mix well again. Shape this mixture into small cones.

Put the Christmas trees in the refrigerator for 2-3 hours. Then, stirring constantly, melt the chocolate, butter and milk over low heat. Dip the tops of the Christmas trees in the icing, decorate with candy, place in a container and refrigerate.