Decorate salads with your own hands. But there are other interesting options.

The younger generation will not be able to appreciate fine china, elegant tablecloths, or intricately elaborate treats. But the decorations and the beautiful, original design of salads and other dishes for a children's holiday will be appreciated by the kids with a good appetite and exclamations: “Wow, tyyy!” Your task is not to prepare a myriad of treats, but to make them attractive and appetizing so that your child's guests have fun.

We hope that our selection of ideas for beautiful decoration of dishes for children will help you arrange a fun children's belly party for your child! So that your baby can appreciate all your efforts, be sure to involve him in decorating salads and decorating dishes with interesting design elements.

Usually for a children's party we prepare light salads, one or two hot dishes and, of course, a cake and pastries. Don't forget the fruit cut! Kids need vitamins! Let's see what design we can do!

Very often it is difficult to feed children at a holiday with something else than sweet water and cake. The task of the adult part of the host is to feed the children with real food. We need to serve healthy salads in such a way that fidgets are interested!

For the design of salads, we use fresh and boiled vegetables and eggs, olives and lemon. All we need is a sharp knife, a grater and some time. Moreover, your small and active assistant is already standing next to you!

This original salad decoration is carried out using canned olives and black olives, suluguni cheese or long strings of Korean carrots. At the same time, you can tell the children about spiders, right?

Entrust these ladybugs to your assistant - they are so easy to make! We cut out the heads of the insect from olives, the antennae - the stalks of greenery, the dots on the red shell - from green parsley leaves, and the “cows” sat down on the parsley! Beautiful, is not it?

This vegetable "cake" is wonderful! As you can see, a very simple option! Carrots, cucumbers and cranberries! If there is no cranberry, both viburnum and mountain ash will do. Even the corn looks good!

Decorate the vegetable flower on a separate plate, and fasten the entire structure with a pair of toothpicks. While you are making out the salad, the plates of flower vegetables will “remember” their shape. After placing the flower in the center of the “cake”, carefully remove the toothpicks, because restless guests will immediately want to taste the “petals”!

Carrots and cheese shredded on a cheese grater are our tried-and-tested tools for decorating salads. Look at these tempting dishes! A tiger cub, a mushroom, a mouse... Decorating a dish with these products is very easy!

Fungus

In the design of the mushroom, not hard cheese is used, but grated egg whites and boiled carrots. Chopped dill or parsley perfectly performs the function of the herb, and the ground on the stem is a row of olives. You can “plant” a couple of ladybugs on the mushroom, which are easy to make from a small tomato and olives.

It is often very difficult for children to feed healthy food, so take the idea of ​​\u200b\u200bbeautiful decoration of a dish in the form of a mushroom and for serving vegetables daily to your child.

Rabbit

Salad mixture, laid out in the form of a rabbit, as a rule, delights not only children, but also adult guests. To keep the salad dressed with mayonnaise in shape, try to slightly reduce the amount of dressing (mayonnaise). Thin cheese chips also help hold the folded lettuce structure. The ears are the inner leaves of Chinese cabbage.

Workaholic "Bee"

Your little helper can lay out such a bee too! Just pre-cut the olives for this mosaic! Alternate olives on a salad with bright corn kernels. Dense sheets of white cabbage will serve as “wings” of the bee - you only need to cut out the necessary elements from them with culinary scissors.

The smile of the sun

This smiling sun will cheer you up even on a cloudy day, and making such a salad is as easy as shelling pears! In the same way, you can decorate the salad and in portions! Well, how can a baby not try the bright smiling sun!

wise snake

But with the snake you have to tinker! The challenge is to make the serving dish look clean and fresh. And since this is quite difficult to achieve, let's arrange it in grass that will cover the surface of the serving dish. Any greenery can serve as grass. As you can see in our pictures, the appearance of the "snake" salad can be different.

To convey all the beauty of snake scaly skin, you can use products of different colors. It all depends on the availability of suitable products and your imagination. Tools for cutting cheese (with a wavy knife) and for cutting apple cores can help you.

boats

But this decoration of salad compositions is a little different from the previous ones! The salad is laid out in portions in halves of cucumbers. You can beat this with sweet peppers as well.

In conclusion, I would like to note that decorating salads and other dishes for a children's holiday should cause excitement in children, so that children eat food along with decor elements and be full before playing! And the recipe is not important - what is important is a beautiful and original design. Children love with their eyes, they are not yet gourmets, but little fidgets!

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.

Video: decorating a herring under a fur coat

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 colorful 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 out 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.

	Take an onion and peel it off.
	Make zigzag cuts in the middle, moving in a circle.
	Separate the two halves.
	Disassemble the half into separate parts and assemble again so that the cloves do not match.
	One bulb produces two water lilies.

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.

	All you need is a cucumber, a slicer and a sharp knife. Although you can do without a slicer.
	First of all, cut the cucumber into thin slices. Then diagonally cut off the edges on both sides.
	Make several parallel cuts along.
	Twist a piece of cucumber with a pencil.
	Carefully remove the spiral and decorate the salad.

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.

Video: carrot flower

Video: cucumber butterfly

Video: tomato and cucumber decorations

Photo carving jewelry will inspire you to be creative.

Sunday, December 15, 2013 10:32 am + to quote pad

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 salted 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"

Inviting guests to the house, each housewife tries to show her culinary skills and not lose face. However, it is not enough to cook a delicious dish, it is important that the appearance attracts attention and is appetizing.

Salad decorations for the festive table can be very diverse, you just need to turn on your imagination, add a little skill to this and the result will not be long in coming. To do this, it is not at all necessary to have a carving technique or have a culinary education. On the Internet platform, you can find many simple examples with photos and information on how to decorate salads on a festive table.

Reincarnation of a classic herring under a fur coat

The well-known, seemingly already bored salad can be presented in a completely new way, which will not leave indifferent even the most fastidious guest. Many have repeatedly wondered how to beautifully decorate a herring salad under a fur coat at home. There are many options for decorating a salad under a fur coat:

And this salad, decorated with red caviar and fish, is a real aquarium with marine life. It looks very impressive, and the execution technique is simple and minimalist. It is very convenient when you have fish trimmings or the remains of caviar and greens. Drawing scales and eyes with mayonnaise is much easier and faster than cutting them out of vegetables with a knife.

Another simplified version of the fish, which is perfectly diluted with a bright carrot rose on a lettuce leaf. Olives also look harmonious, which resemble pearls from the depths of the seabed.

A carnival mask that fills New Year's Eve with mystery and a sea of ​​mysteries will decorate your feast. For competent design, draw a sketch on cardboard or use a special form.

Everyone's favorite and long-awaited Santa Claus will be the hero of the occasion, such an unusual performance will surprise your guests and give them a charge of positive emotions. To complete this picture on a salad, you will need the following products:

• Grated egg yolk.
• Red caviar.
• Boiled beets.
• Olives.
• Mayonnaise.
• Dill.

Good advice: red caviar can be replaced with grated carrots, outwardly this will not affect the dish in any way, but it will save the budget perfectly.

1. If you don't want to stick to a particular theme, then you can work from your arsenal of ingredients.

Pomegranate seeds, corn, flowers from vegetables, olives, any greens, eggs can serve as decorative elements.

Among housewives, decorating salad under a fur coat with lemon is popular. Beautiful swans are done quickly and easily, and if you take the time and practice, you can make more difficult options for lemon decorations.

Experiment with shapes by imagining this salad as an animal or a bouquet of flowers.

Crab Salad Decorating Options

Dishes from crab sticks are loved by many for their accessibility, ease of execution and unusually amazing taste. If you still don’t know how to decorate crab salad, then the following photos show examples of what you can do yourself without the need to hone special skills.

The crab sticks themselves can also serve as a salad decoration, for example, you can make a crab out of them or simply lay them beautifully on the surface.

In decorating crab salad, any ingredients will help you, from red fish to cherry tomatoes. The most important thing is to decide how you want to decorate the crab stick salad, highlight the useful photo from the photo you like, and then proceed with the implementation.

Interesting design options for salads for children

Decorating children's salads plays an important role in organizing events such as a children's birthday, a themed party or a friends' reception. To know how to properly decorate salads for a child, you need to understand that not only taste is important for young connoisseurs, but also the attractive appearance of the dish you have prepared. Therefore, to please your child, you have to work hard.

The most popular decorations for salads for children, such as their design in the image of famous cartoon characters or cute animals that resemble your child's favorites.

Examples from these photos can be easily reproduced by yourself, because they use a minimum list of products, you can make beautiful salad decorations especially for a children's birthday.

The filling under such an interesting decor can be varied, both meat and fish, vegetable and fruit.

Try to carefully cut out all the necessary details with a sharp, pre-sharpened knife. If you doubt your accuracy, you can use special kitchen scissors.

Important: if the child is very small, then try to avoid large pieces, and it is also not recommended to season the salad with mayonnaise.

Vegetable decorations

Salad vegetable decorations are in great demand, but not everyone can master this and repeat the example of do-it-yourself carving masters. Indeed, in order to understand how to make unusual and beautiful decorations from vegetables, you need to study a lot of information, watch videos with master classes and get a good hand.

However, there are quite a few simple techniques that an amateur can master, it is not necessary to cut complex elements from vegetables, you can resort to some tricks that will allow your dish to look five plus with minimal effort.

Any meat and fish salad can be decorated with cucumber, tomatoes, or herbs.

From tomatoes, you can make ladybugs or fly agaric mushrooms, which will become an original salad decoration. The legs are easily made from olives, and sprigs of parsley, dill or green onions will beautifully complement the overall picture and add freshness.

From a cucumber you can make delicious, like a real rose. Take pickles and fresh cucumbers to add a variety of colors to your flower arrangement.

Using a skewer or a toothpick (depending on the desired size), you can independently make a Christmas tree-shaped cucumber decoration (as in the photo) for your salad.

Cucumber strips can become grass in your composition, they are often used as a decoration for birch salad.

If you cut the cucumber into thin layers, then they can serve as an elegant frame for the dish, which will look worthy on the festive table.

To stand out with originality and impress guests, you can make such cute cucumber boats by putting absolutely any salad in portions (except puff and fruit ones).

From tomatoes, you can make a lot of options for decorating salads, if you connect fantasy to this business. Tomatoes stuffed with lettuce will look like a real bouquet of tulips if you make stems from green onions.

Flowers, carefully carved from tomatoes, turn the dish into a real work of art.

Tomato ladybugs are one of the main decorations for everyone's favorite sunflower salad, which is a flower of the same name. It is surprisingly easy to prepare and decorate, and on the table it looks simply incomparable. If you have been thinking for a long time how else you can decorate your "sunflower", then the following photos will give you some fresh ideas.

And such an interesting and cute dragon will decorate the festive table at a children's birthday or a theme party.

Carrot decorations are very popular among those who want to beautifully decorate a salad simply and quickly, and most importantly - at no extra cost. Carrots are a vegetable that is always in the refrigerator and has a low cost, and the decor made from it will transform any salad, even the most boring one.

An ideal option for those who do not know how to slice thinly, twist flowers and do not want to spend a lot of time decorating dishes is a salad in the form of carrots. In order to make such a carrot decoration for a salad, you will need grated carrots (boiled) and a few sprigs of parsley.

This, already more complicated, option will allow you to plunge into a fairy tale and put a goldfish on the table. Who knows, maybe she will grant a wish.

Very often, carrots serve only as an additional attribute for decorating salads, thereby diluting faded colors. In the design of complex compositions, carrots are used to make elements such as hair, eyes, mouth, interior items and many others. Carrot roses look just as beautiful as those made from tomatoes and cucumbers.

Good to know: if you decide to decorate a salad with roses from vegetables, then carrots (or beets) would be preferable, due to the fact that the vegetable is boiled, it is much easier to roll carrot slices than from a tomato or cucumber.

You can arrange a salad in the form of a gift box (as in the photo) and present it to a loved one for a birthday.

Traditional Olivier

In Russia, not a single holiday can do without this dish. It can be cooked with sausage or boiled meat, fresh cucumbers can be replaced with salted ones. Everyone loves a salad, without exception, but only a few know how to decorate Olivier beautifully.

Decorations for Olivier can be very diverse, the salad recipe allows you to give free rein to your imagination when decorating it. In the presented photos you can see examples of how it is customary to decorate this salad for festive feasts, such as birthday, new year, March 8th.

Making such a figure eight is very simple, you need to put two glasses and spread the salad according to their shape.

Such a snake will leave your guests in a pleasant shock, because it looks very natural and spectacular.

Such themed decorations will be an excellent attribute of any holiday, including children's.

If you think this decor is pretentious and clumsy, do not change the classic version, then you can experiment with the way the salad is served.

Have you tried substituting some of the ingredients and trying layering rather than mixing? This cooking and serving option will not leave anyone indifferent, and to make the salad look neat and even, use a detachable form for its preparation.

Favorite mimosa

Mimosa salad is a favorite dish of those who prefer fish instead of meat. Someone prepares it on the basis of canned fish, others boil red fish - there are many variations. The following photos show how you can beautifully decorate a mimosa salad.

Modest elegance and simplicity in execution, the salad can be decorated with grated yolk and sprigs of any greens can be added.

Salad decorations made from eggs will be the highlight of the dish. Eggs can decorate absolutely any salad, including mimosa.

For the Christmas holiday table, you can make such a snowman.

Graceful egg swans will fit amazingly into any composition.

If you don’t know how to decorate the famous Caesar salad, then use quail eggs, as in the photo.

"Birch"

A popular champignon salad that looks just magical. You can decorate the birch salad in the same way as in the photo using:

• Green onions (if finely chopped, they will act as leaves of a tree, and as a whole they will act as grass).
• Eggs and olives (you can use them to make a birch trunk, you can also cut flying birds from olives).
• Corn (for flowers).
• Carrots or egg yolk (for decoration of the sun).

fruit salad decoration

Fruit salads are very fond of both adults and children, this is a very tasty and healthy treat. Low-fat yogurts, light curd puddings, whipped cream are used as dressings.

And yet, the question remains, how to beautifully decorate a fruit salad? First of all, a lot depends on the way the dish is served: you can use beautiful dishes, or you can fill the orange bottom with salad with yogurt, which already looks very elegant.

An excellent decoration for fruit salad (see photo) can be made from grapes and pears using an ordinary toothpick.

It also looks interesting salad, simply decorated with grapes and other fruits, poured with delicious topping.

Easter salads

You can beautifully decorate the Easter salad by arranging it in the form:

To beautifully decorate the Easter salad, you can use improvised ingredients, namely:

• mayonnaise.
• Vegetables (boiled carrots and beets, fried potatoes, cucumbers and tomatoes).
• Quail and regular eggs, separately taken with protein and yolk.
• Any greenery.
• Cheese-pigtail.
• Olives and olives.
• Green peas and corn.
• Cherry tomatoes.

How to effectively serve a layered salad

Puff salads have a delicate taste, because each layer is smeared separately, which allows its components to be better soaked. At festive feasts, you can often see layered salads with interesting decorations. So, for example, the famous turtle salad is decorated with walnuts and mayonnaise. You can let your imagination run wild and come up with your own design using this idea.

No less delicious salad with pineapple and chicken has a completely different serving options. How to decorate it? Try to make it in the form of a pineapple, it will look very unusual and attractive.

If you want something more traditional, but no less beautiful, then you can make small portions of the salad and decorate it with canned pineapples.

This method of registration will take more time, but it's worth it. The most important thing is to give the desired shape to the salad.

If you decide to make your salad a table decoration, then you should not try to immediately complete complex compositions that include carving flowers and animals. Start small, it is better to do something simple, but it will look neat, than to perform a complex element of poor quality.

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Aesthetic pleasure from the appearance of any salad has an impact on taste perception. So it is desirable that in relation to dishes the definitions of “attractive” and “tasty” always go side by side. It is not enough just to cook a delicious appetizer, you also need to think about decorating salads, and for this it is useful to consider a few successful design ideas.

General principles

If the question arose of how to decorate salads with your own hands, then you first need to decide on the occasion for which the dish is being prepared. It can be the New Year, the birthday of a child or an adult, a wedding. And for each occasion, a certain theme is required. If it is enough to simply diversify the everyday table, then the design may consist in an interesting technology for laying out products and choosing a more original dressing. One has only to remember the beautiful design of salads from restaurants - they do not have excessive decor, but both in the photo and in reality they look very appetizing.

1. A very simple way is to find a suitable "capacity". And I mean not an ordinary plate, but a half of bell pepper, zucchini or pumpkin.
2. You can choose a recipe that involves a combination of shapes and colors - this will be a beautiful decoration for salads.
3. Cheese and meat slices can be used as a substrate for a salad slide - this is easy to do, but such an appetizer looks interesting.

For the New Year

You can decorate salads with your own hands for such a long-awaited holiday very simply: just give the salad mass the shape of a Christmas tree. A good idea for a classic olivier, the green color is completely optional with a recognizable silhouette, but garlands of corn or olives will be a beautiful addition. Many housewives prefer to build on the patron of the coming year:

1. If this is a dog, then you can lay out the muzzle: cover the circle with ears with grated yolk, make eyes from proteins and olives, and tongue from milk sausage. The basis can serve as a simple salad of pate with cucumbers and eggs.
2. Until the year of the Snake is still a long time, but when it approaches, you can form this symbol from any salad with mayonnaise, and lay out the scales with thin semicircles of a cucumber, eyes with corn grains.
3. And when the year of the Dragon approaches, this majestic creature can be laid out similarly to a snake and dill sprigs can be added as a mustache, and powerful wings can be formed from Chinese cabbage.

And you can do this every year! Each salad is a symbol of the coming year. At home, it is not difficult to form such an appetizer and serve it to the table.

For a birthday

Usually the central dish is supplemented with a verbal congratulation. And if it was a salad that became such a dish, then it can be arranged even more effectively than a cake. Here it is worth listening to the following tips:

If the child's birthday is approaching, then they start from the interests and individual preferences of the birthday man - this is a win-win option.

For a children's holiday, you can decorate salads in different ways:

1. Unusual shape. This move is usually used when making a cake. You can do the same with the salad, laying out the ingredients in the form of the necessary figure - a bear cub, cars, a bunny, a bow. But this method is only suitable for snacks, which contain mayonnaise or sour cream - a fastening component. Without a dense and thick consistency of the salad mass, the figure will not keep its shape for a long time.
2. Painting. And it is not at all necessary to try to depict a masterpiece on the surface of the salad. Even simple flowers and a small sun will attract the attention of children. Favorite cartoon characters are also a good solution.
3. Volumetric decor. This is where skill is required. But the easiest option is to spread the salad in portions among the "boats" of zucchini, cucumbers, peppers and supplement them with skewers with thin slices of cheese - this will turn out real boats.

Color spectrum

Professional chefs have no doubt that you can decorate a salad beautifully with any product, be it ordinary cucumbers or sausage. Even if the salad includes only a jar of canned fish and an onion, you can create an original design. In order for the appetizer to take on a finished look, you only need to stock up on imagination, a grain of skill and have free time. Particular attention should be paid to dyes, which are easy to obtain from available products:

• red color: cranberries, cranberries, pomegranate seeds, tomatoes, red bell peppers;
• raspberry: beets;
• orange: oranges, sea buckthorn, carrot juice;
• yellow: egg yolk, saffron, corn;
• blue: juice from ordinary red cabbage;
• green: spinach and any greens;
• black: pitted olives.

With these multi-colored products, it is so easy to create the desired color scheme on the finished salad.

Decoration of vegetables, nuts, eggs

The selected products must keep their shape, so vegetables are usually taken from those that have not been heat-treated. Different figures are cut out of the products with the help of a curly knife and laid out on a dish in a pre-planned or random order.

But you can also use simple decoration options that are already considered classics in cooking:

Snacks are also often decorated with nuts. The usual basic topping with crushed nuts makes the salad more appetizing, but you can think over the shapes of the kernels and create a complete picture from them. A classic of the genre is a winter salad garnished with walnut kernels. And for dietary cuts, sesame seeds are often chosen. Just roast the nuts first.

And if eggs are taken as a decoration, then they must first be properly cooked so that the yolk does not fall apart during operation. To do this, professionals cook them in a special way: they put the product in cold water so that it completely covers it, wait for it to boil, count nine minutes, pull it out and quickly cool it.

Egg decoration is usually the creation of single flowers or bouquets on the surface. To do this, you need to cut the egg lengthwise, lay the resulting halves in the desired shape and in the required direction.

But there are other interesting options:

1. Petals are made from "slices": the egg is cut vertically, into a couple of plates half a centimeter thick.
2. Egg yolk is turned into crumbs and simply sprinkled with ready-made salads. It is also used to create yellow mimosa balls when preparing the salad of the same name.
3. If you pull out the yolk, then the halves of the protein can be used as boats. You can put a toothpick with a slice of cheese or a bent circle of cucumber in them to get a boat. Or you can just stuff the halves with any ready-made salad.

original design

There are more unusual options that are used to decorate salads less often, but this does not make them look less impressive. With original ideas, decorating an appetizer will become very pleasant:

1. Ice. Make a bowl of ordinary frozen water, inserting pieces of vegetables into it. It also serves salad.
2. Jelly. They can pour prepared ingredients and serve a snack, cut into portions. An alternative method is to create dense figures from jelly to decorate the dish.
3. Carving. Very often this design is found in restaurants. Carving decoration involves beautiful curly cutting of fruits and vegetables, but is also used with sausage or cheese. Home carving can be turned into an interesting family pastime. Boiled sausage, cut into thin circles, can be used to form a bouquet, and with a vegetable peeler, you can cut a cucumber into long flexible layers and arrange a blossoming bud.

You can also consider full-fledged compositions, the creation of which is also not difficult. Here are simple step-by-step options for decorating snacks:

1. Christmas wreath. As a basis, take any salad and spread it with a ring. Dill sprigs are used as the main decoration. Stars cut from bell peppers, carrots or cheese are laid out on top.
2. Mimosa. Even a novice cook will cope with the task. The salad is laid in layers in a glass container: first, salted fish, then squirrels, carrots, onions, potatoes. Each layer is smeared with mayonnaise. And on top is a decoration - crumbled egg yolks.
3. Garnet bracelet. A glass is placed in the center of the serving dish, and ingredients are laid out in layers around: boiled chicken, carrots, mashed potatoes, nuts, beets, nuts, onions and again nuts. The top layer of mayonnaise is abundantly covered with grated beets, and pomegranate seeds are already laid out on top.
4. Rubik's Cube. Each dense ingredient is cut into small squares and folded into colored cubes. Usually, beets, carrots, cucumber and cheese are taken to prepare such an appetizer.

In general, there are a lot of ideas for decorating salads. You can use proven and classic options or come up with something completely unique. Here you can safely trust your imagination and not be afraid to experiment, because the taste of the finished salad will not lose from this.

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