How to put the salad in the form. Beautiful salads

Today we will look at best options decorating salads with photos of step-by-step work, we will learn how to beautifully decorate children's birthday dishes, make edible decorations from different products with your own hands. For any holiday dish, not only taste is important, but also beautiful presentation. A salad for a holiday should be such that you want to admire it and then eat it immediately.

Decorating salads for the holiday is an entire art, but absolutely every housewife can learn the skills of decorating dishes at home. To decorate a dish with your own hands, we recommend using the ingredients that are present in the salad or, in extreme cases, those products that will only improve its taste.

Carrots, cucumbers, green onions and eggs are suitable for creating picturesque flowers and custom designs. Below you will find recipes with photos that will help you quickly a quick fix you will do holiday dish, and salad decoration in pictures with step by step instructions will help novice housewives prepare for the holiday.

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It is better to purchase several tools that will make the process of decorating salads and appetizers more interesting and easier. You will need the following equipment: scissors and sharp knives, semicircular spoons with pointed edges (noisettes), a tool that easily cuts the zest from citrus fruits, devices for cutting out the middle (from apples and other products) and creating dimples on a dish, a brush, a pastry syringe with nozzles, cookie molds. These tools will be enough for high-quality decoration of salads and appetizers with your own hands.

There should not be many decorative elements; in most cases, when decorating a salad, it is better to adhere to minimalism. It’s also not worth using a lot of magic to decorate all the dishes that will be present on the festive table.

If the “highlight of the program” looks excellent, then there is no need to distract the guests’ eyes with the decor of the remaining plates, this can only reduce the effect of the presentation. For the same reason, salad bowls with decorated appetizers should not be bright. IN Lately Decorating salads for birthdays is gaining more and more popularity among housewives. Let's talk about the most popular dishes that both children and adults will enjoy.

One of the most suitable for holiday decoration and the most beautiful when served is the Sunflower salad. You can put whatever your heart desires into the appetizer: carrots, garlic, corn and eggs, chicken fillet. The flower petals will serve as chips, we lay them out along the edge of the plate, and the olives will serve as seeds.

Olivier and Mimosa salad can be decorated with a hint of spring: a sprig of lilac. Chop the egg white on a coarse grater, set aside half and mix with beet juice (a little bit is needed, just to get the desired color). We arrange the protein in the form of purple and white flowers on the appetizer. Flowers are located on a branch of parsley and dill.

New Year theme. The salad components should be selected so that almonds go well with them. Mixed with mayonnaise dressing holiday salad put it on a plate in the shape of a pine cone, then carefully insert the scales (almonds), a spruce twig will be the finishing touch. Beautiful decoration salads for New Year- a wonderful addition to appetizers on the holiday table.

You can decorate a traditional salad on the festive table with your own hands - herring under a fur coat. You can draw a mushroom clearing on a herring under a fur coat: upper layer sprinkle with crumbled yolks. The eggs will turn into legs, and the tomatoes will either bell pepper in hats. Dill will become the grass in the clearing.

Beautiful salads are not only tasty, but also look great. More and more often, housewives are trying to surprise guests and loved ones with their culinary skills.

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

Most often, onions, herbs, cheese, eggs and a variety of vegetables are used for decoration. The main thing about these salads is that they not only have an excellent taste, but also an unforgettable appearance. You and your guests will definitely enjoy it.

How to prepare beautiful salads - 15 varieties

This salad will not be to everyone’s taste, as it contains prunes. The dish looks great on the holiday table. It will definitely attract the attention of your guests with its appearance and delight with its taste.

Ingredients:

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

Preparation:

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

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

Ingredients:

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

Preparation:

1. All salad ingredients must be chopped. Greens, olives, mushrooms and chicken - cut. Grate potatoes, eggs and cucumber on a coarse grater. Some olives must be set aside for decoration.
2. Lay out the salad in layers. Place the olives at the bottom of the bowl, then the meat and coat with mayonnaise. We lay out the mushrooms, grease with mayonnaise, lay out the potatoes and mayonnaise. Sprinkle with grated eggs. Place the next layer of cucumber and grease it with a little mayonnaise.
3. The salad is ready, all that remains is to decorate it; for decoration, we form a crown with chopped onions. Cut the olives into thin strips and place on top of the salad. The decoration is ready.

Before the holidays arrive, every housewife wants to surprise her guests. Flower salad with tomatoes is a wonderful treat. The appearance of the dish will decorate the festive table, and it will take half an hour to prepare it.

Ingredients:

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

Preparation:

1. Pour boiling water over prunes for 15 minutes. Leave some of the prunes for decoration, cut the rest into strips, place on the bottom of the salad bowl and coat with mayonnaise.
2. Cut the tomatoes into cubes, place them on the prunes, no need to coat them with mayonnaise.
3. Cut the chicken fillet into cubes, place on the tomatoes, brush with mayonnaise.
4. Grind the hard-boiled eggs on a fine grater and sprinkle on the salad.
5. To decorate, cut the boiled eggs lengthwise and remove the yolk. Form a flower glass from the protein, a stem from the green onion, and cut leaves from the cucumber peel. Cut the olives into circles and decorate the salad with them around the perimeter and make the center of the flower.

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

Ingredients:

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

Preparation:

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

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

Ingredients:

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

Preparation:

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

If the prunes are too hard, they should be immersed in boiling water for 15 minutes and then dried with a paper towel.

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

Place the salad on a flat dish shaped like a mouse.

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

Decorate the salad. Use prunes to make eyes, mouth and nose, and green onion feathers to make mustaches.

This salad design is perfect for romantic dinner. It can also be served with anyone festive table, be it a birthday or a wedding anniversary. Preparing the salad will take a little time and patience, but the results are worth it.

Ingredients:

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

Preparation:

1. Cut the fillet into small pieces, place on a dish, spread with mayonnaise.
2. Cut the cucumbers into cubes or strips, place them on a dish and cover with a mayonnaise mesh.
3. Separate the whites from the yolks, mash the yolks with a fork, and place on a plate.
4. Grate the cheese on a fine grater and place it on a dish, cover with a mayonnaise mesh.
5. Grate the whites on a coarse grater.
6. Grind the prunes.
7. Using a glass or glass, outline the outline of the circles. Post a drawing.

“Birch Grove” salad with pomegranate will suit true gourmets. This dish is not for everybody, since not everyone likes pomegranate, but it’s still worth a try. An unusual combination of products gives the salad an unforgettable exotic taste.

Ingredients:

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

Preparation:

1. Cut the meat into thin strips and place on the bottom of the salad bowl, lightly greased with mayonnaise.
2. Chop the mushrooms and place on the meat.
3. Separate the yolk from the white and grate on a fine grater. Place egg whites on mushrooms and spread with mayonnaise.
4. Spread pomegranate seeds evenly over the whites and sprinkle with yolk.
5. For decoration, we draw the trunk of birch trees from mayonnaise, we make stripes from prunes or olives, and foliage and grass from greenery. You can place several mushrooms on the “grass”.

The salad consists of simple ingredients, which makes it quick and easy to prepare if guests suddenly drop by without warning. If you dress the salad olive oil or lemon juice it becomes light and low-calorie, perfect for dinner.

Ingredients:

• Boiled chicken breast
• Pickled cucumbers - 5-7 pcs.
• Boiled eggs - 5 pcs
• Black olives - 3-5 pcs.
• Fried champignons
• Green onions

Preparation:

1. Cut chicken fillet and cucumbers into small cubes. Chop the onion.
2. Separate the yolks from the whites. Grate the yolks on a coarse grater, the whites on a fine grater.
3. Lay out the salad in layers - champignons, then chicken fillet, brush with mayonnaise. Place grated protein and cucumbers on top, brush with mayonnaise. Place the yolk as the last layer.
4. Using mayonnaise, draw a birch tree. Form leaves from chopped onions and dark strips using olives. In order for the salad to be more tasty, it needs to be allowed to brew for at least 2 hours. It's best to leave it in the refrigerator overnight.

The elegant and appetizing dietary salad “Festive” perfectly diversifies the menu. Used to prepare salad dietary products and gas station. This salad will definitely be to your taste.

Ingredients:

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

Preparation:

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

A bright salad for your table. The salad is hearty and tasty; its preparation requires simple ingredients and a little time to make it neat and beautiful, and the taste of this dish is delicate and juicy.

If you don't like black olives, you can replace them with green or prunes.

Ingredients:

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

Preparation:

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

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

Ingredients:

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

Preparation:

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

Very delicious salad for quick cooking. Guests don’t always notify you of their arrival, but you can prepare this salad in 10 minutes. The dish is also perfect for lunch or dinner.

Ingredients:

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

Preparation:

1. Cut the mushrooms into strips and lightly fry in vegetable oil.
2. Cut the chicken fillet and onion into small cubes.
3. Lay out the salad in layers, in the shape of a strawberry: meat, onion, mayonnaise, salt, add finely grated cheese and fried mushrooms. Place tomatoes chopped into small cubes on top of the salad. Cut a strawberry “cup” from a cucumber.

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

Ingredients:

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

Preparation:

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

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

Ingredients:

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

Preparation:

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

“Tender” salad with pineapple

Pineapple is familiar to us exotic product, with many vitamins. The combination of pineapple and meat is very successful, and this is the basis of this salad. In order for the taste of the dish to fully develop, you should leave it in the refrigerator for several hours.

When serving food, it is important not only what it tastes like, but also how it looks.

After all, any housewife would want to surprise a guest with a truly exquisite treat, which is also beautifully decorated.

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

From eggs

Quartered eggs, casually placed on top, will add elegance and a little minimalism. In addition to eggs, slices of tomatoes or halves of cherry tomatoes are used; you can add beets or green leaves.

Boiled eggs are finely grated and sprinkled on the dish; for this you can use either the whole egg or the white or yolk separately. Just circles or slices will also look interesting if you make a decoration from 2-3 on the edge.

The easiest way to make it is with eggs. various figures using toothpicks, these can be:

• cockerel (a carrot comb on top);
• mouse (ears made from sausage, radishes or cheese);
• hare (ears also made of protein);
• bug (antennae made of greenery);
• hedgehog (needles from grated carrots or carrot segments).

The shape of the egg best suits 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 made from cucumbers or sausage, mushrooms made 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, alternating large, finely chopped and grated vegetables is used. With their help, you can lay out various patterns, against which figures and compositions are created. By laying out thin slices of radishes, tomatoes or cucumbers, we get beautiful patterns or flowers that can be used in the middle or complemented with something around the edges.

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

From a bow

The most suitable for decoration would be onions with pinkish colors; their rings are used both raw and pickled. The white root of the onion needs to be cut and sprinkled beautifully 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, starting to open the circles at the top and carefully trimming them around the edges 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. Using sauces, you can draw any patterns, for example, a checkered pattern or simply make zigzags in a thin stream. Chopped herbs can also be sprinkled on top of the sauce.

Sauces can really make a salad extraordinarily attractive, in addition, sauces will help add specificity to the usual taste. The most ordinary vegetables will sparkle in a completely new way; in this combination, a dish made from even the simplest ingredients will become amazingly tasty.

Salad decoration options

Let's look at how you can decorate various salads.

Olivie

Most popular salad in Russia has long acquired its stereotypical appearance, 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.

You can cut out arrows and numbers from sweet peppers and assemble a dial indicating 12 o'clock. Also, with the help of dill, you can easily fold a Christmas tree or spruce branch that can be decorated bright vegetables as Christmas decorations. The salad itself can be placed on a platter 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 exactly this design.

Mimosas

Mimosa is traditionally made with an egg base and has yellow(in accordance with the name), therefore the most popular way to decorate a mimosa is to sprinkle grated yolk on top of an even layer of mayonnaise. In addition, you can use yellow analogues and grate the cheese; this will make the taste very unusual, but will not spoil it at all. Using an egg as the basis for decorating the salad, you can place mice or bees of a matching color 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. Small pieces of carrots or herring are used to lay out a beautiful pattern diagonally, which ends with dill leaves at the ends. Nuts will look beautiful against a dark background.

It is better to make decorations for a fur coat in white, yellow or green. Flowers or geometric patterns can be made from onions or eggs. Fish drawn with mayonnaise or laid out from grated eggs 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 and garnished with wedges crab sticks or roses made from them. Crackers or snacks can be served as an appetizer; therefore, they can be casually placed 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 a decorative element.

Vegetable

Vegetable salads can be topped with some ingredients, for example, peas, corn, or cucumber slices. The best decoration For vegetable dishes, of course, there are 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 (not only lemon, but even lime) will add an unusual accent not only to the design, but also taste qualities 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 party

When decorating a table for children's party It is better to use simple and funny shapes, for example, on top of the salad you can lay out the shape of a car or a flower from olives, tomatoes and vegetables. It will be very convenient for children to eat canapés on colorful skewers. In addition, using 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 leaf placed on a toothpick in the shape of a sail);
• bees (alternating olives and olives, radish wings).

Especially relevant at children's parties fruit salads and snacks, since for children they are much preferable to vegetables, and besides, such a dessert will be much healthier than ice cream or cakes. It is not necessary to mix the fruits; they can be served cut on a plate, with skewers and sweet additives, jam, hot chocolate and honey placed around the edges.

Decorating snacks and cuts

Various snacks and cuts themselves look very attractive if they are carefully laid out in a circle or in rows. But, of course, little additions will only make them more appetizing and even tastier. Most often, products that form a tasty combination with them are used to decorate slices. You can add olives and black olives to the edges of the sliced ​​meat; you can take them together with a skewer, and this way 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.

Serving salad

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

Choosing a beautiful salad bowl

The most beautiful salad bowls have always been considered to be dishes made of thin material, such as porcelain. But bright ingredients will also look beautiful in a glass salad bowl, either elegantly shaped with patterns or in a minimalist style. It is better to select a salad bowl that is slightly larger than the volume of the salad itself, so that it does not fall over the edges and cause inconvenience to anyone. It will be much easier to prepare it this way, and there will be room for decoration.

DIY salad bowl

The salad can be served in tartlets or on a lettuce leaf, a very unconventional way of serving, but quite beautiful, especially if you add some 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 submissions. From the usual plastic bottle a cylinder is cut out, it is placed on a plate, a salad is made inside it, then the mold 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 pastries, but they will look the most interesting.

The shape can also be cut out of vegetables: a pumpkin salad bowl or improvised tartlets from cucumber halves; for fruit compositions, the shape can be created from orange peels.

Examples of salad decoration

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

At home

Jewelry that can be created at home is not as intricate as professional ones. However, this does not make them any less original or sophisticated. Positive side cooking at home is that you can do everything to your taste and give free rein to your imagination.

After all, no restaurant will serve a dish decorated with an egg mouse or a fish, but it’s so cool. At the same time, you can even entrust the decoration of salads 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 larger role, as this is assessed by management, guests and critics. Therefore, professionals are obliged to make a work of art from any dish, quickly, simply and tasty. In restaurants, it is important not only to have decorations, but also that the dish itself looks like a decoration. That's why they pay attention to details, sauces and seasonings. special role during preparation. Conclusion

Decoration is an important part of preparing a salad, 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 anything: any vegetables, sauces, herbs. This will make the housewife’s life a lot easier, and she will finally have a favorite step in preparing salads for the holidays.

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Olive palms for decorating salads

Slice green onions long tubes - 3 pieces for each palm tree.
We cut the onion tubes into noodles, but do not cut them all the way through. It turns out to be a skirt with a long fringe.
In order for the onion to curl well, you need to buy freshly cut ones. Also, for better curling, the resulting “skirts” can be slightly chatted in warm water.
Then a “skirt” of a larger diameter is taken and a smaller one is inserted into it, then another and another... (the principle of a telescopic pipe is used).
Olives are strung onto skewers for kebabs, and greens are put on top. Instead of skewers, you can also use hard cocktail tubes cut obliquely at the ends.
To ensure that the palm trees stand steadily in the salad and do not fall, they should be inserted into half a large radish or into a cucumber cut lengthwise.

Design options with sweet pepper palm crowns:

“Palm trees” made from banana slices, kiwi and tangerine slices:

Flower made from cucumber slices

Cut a piece 5 cm long from the cucumber. Cut in half lengthwise. Use a knife to make longitudinal cuts in the peel (this is called “carbing”). Use cut strips for the stem decorative flower.
Cut the processed cucumber into thin slices. Divide them in half and use them as petals for a “daisy”.
Complete the “flower” with cherry tomato halves.

Design option with salted fish “roses”:

Not a single celebration, be it a birthday, wedding or New Year, is complete without a festive table, which should be beautifully served: tablecloth, napkins, cutlery. Usually the owners stop there. But in vain, because serving is also about decorating dishes. Of course, it’s difficult to decorate both hot and sliced ​​dishes at once. But salads that will be on the table all the time are definitely worth paying attention to.

Flower arrangements

What do you associate with beauty? Surely there was a place for flowers in the row you named. Floral motifs are used to decorate fabrics, clothing, and accessories. So why not think about how to decorate your salad with edible flowers?

To make the floral design look more impressive, do it on a plain background: a layer of mayonnaise, grated cheese, etc.

Bulk drawings

If you like to sprinkle on salads, then turn this process into creating some kind of picture or shape. So, arm yourself with a grater and a template:

If you don’t have a vegetable on hand, replace it with a product of the same color. For example, cucumber on green pepper.

Edible figures

If you are no longer a beginner when it comes to how to decorate a salad with your own hands, then pay attention to the shape of the dish. You just have to imagine a little, and suddenly on the table instead of Olivier there is a large orange slice!

This type of dish design requires serving without salad bowls, so prepare wide and shallow plates.

Decorating with seafood

Beautiful salad decorations can be made from other ingredients. In particular, those related to seafood:

Before decorating a dish with any seafood product, try them for taste compatibility. If everything is in order, then feel free to start decorating.

Instead of dishes

Beautiful salad design is not only about designs or shapes, it is also about the way the dish is served. Fight traditional salad bowls, make way for new solutions!

When you're waiting a large number of guests, it is better to call for help to prepare such portioned salads, because you will have to make a dish for each person. But this work will be rewarded: no dirty dishes there won't be any left after the holiday!

Decorating salads is a fascinating process, so it is likely that once you have tried to decorate an interesting dish for the holiday table, you will want to create on ordinary days. I wish you creative success!