Decoration and decoration of salads.

New Year's salad decoration

Father Frost

New Year's salad decoration in the form of Santa Claus for a winter salad or Russian salad is also suitable for decorating a herring under a fur coat.

Prepare the salad and arrange it in an even layer on a plate.

Grate the boiled carrots on a medium grater and cover the salad with a thin layer, except for the place for the face of Santa Claus.

Cover the face with grated protein. Cut the olive in half and spread on the face.

From half a cherry tomato, make a nose and a mouth. Grate the cheese on a coarse grater and spread it around the face, decorate the coat and make a pom-pom on the hat.

Christmas trees

Winter salad sprinkled with egg white and decorated with cucumber Christmas trees.

Salad decoration with chicken breast

Put the salad in a slide on a flat plate covered with Chinese cabbage leaves. Cut the chicken breast into slices and arrange on the salad in a circle.

egg salad dressing

How to decorate a salad with eggs? This is easy and fast to do. Due to their shape and properties, eggs can be cut into flower petals, and the yolk can be used as the center of the flower.

It is desirable that the eggs are combined in taste with the ingredients that make up the salad. This is ideal decoration for salads with eggs, for example, such as Olivier or winter salad.

Chamomile

Arrange the salad in a bowl on a plate. Decorate the salad with egg petals along the edge of the plate. Decorate the middle of the chamomile with grated yolk. Decorate the chamomile with green parsley leaves.

Simple decoration of vegetable salad with eggs

Put the salad on a plate. Egg slices are laid out along the edge of the salad plate and on top.

winter salad decoration

Making a salad slide

Put the salad in a salad bowl. Cut the egg into slices, which are laid out on a salad. Decorate the salad with sausage strips and green peas.

Making a winter salad or Olivier as an appetizer

Cut cucumber strips with a special knife.

Twist a ring from a cucumber strip.

Lay lettuce leaves at the bottom of each ringlet.

Arrange the winter salad or Olivier and sprinkle grated egg yolk on top.

Salad decoration with mushrooms

Mushroom

Cut the mushrooms lengthwise and fry in vegetable oil until fully cooked. Chilled mushrooms are placed on the cap of our salad mushroom.

We lay out the strips of fresh cucumber at the bottom of the mushroom.

"Cone"

You can beautifully and simply arrange champignon mushrooms in the form of a cone. Mushrooms can be taken fresh and fried, or pickled. Each subsequent layer of champignons covers the previous one in a checkerboard pattern. Finish the salad with a sprig of dill.

Salad decoration Herring under a fur coat

Decorate the top of the salad with grated potatoes, strips of egg white, for the eye of the fish - a circle of eggs.

Salad decoration "Monomakh's Cap"

Decoration of vegetable salad with olives, tomatoes and cucumbers "Berry"

A vegetable salad dressing with simple ingredients can be made easily and simply from olives and cherry tomatoes, and a delicious salad will look like a delicious berry.

salad ingredients

• 1 fresh cucumber
• 200 gr green peas
• 1/3 small fresh cabbage
• 5-9 pitted olives
• 2-3 eggs
• mayonnaise or vegetable oil

Ingredients for decorating salad "Berry"

• 5-6 olives
• 12-15 cherry tomatoes
• some fresh cucumber

To prepare the salad itself, cut the olives into four parts, chop the cabbage, chop the eggs not coarsely. Add green peas and mix everything. Dress the salad with mayonnaise. You can also dress the salad with vegetable oil. And then the eggs can be excluded from the salad. Both salads are delicious.

Put the salad in a salad bowl. To decorate the salad, cut the tomatoes and olives in half, cut the cucumber into small slices. Spread the berry halves of cherry tomatoes, alternating them with halves of olives. On top of the berries we lay the slices of cucumbers in a row.

Decoration for vegetable salads "Basket"

How to make a vegetable salad decoration with your own hands. We offer to make a beautiful vegetable salad "Basket with berries".

Actually, the salad itself is easy and quick to prepare from fresh vegetables (cabbage and cucumber) with the addition of grated cheese. You can decorate such a salad even faster and effectively with the help of cherry tomatoes and pitted olives.

Ingredients

• 1/2 small fresh cabbage
• 100 gr hard cheese
• 1 cucumber

To decorate a salad

• Cherry tomatoes
• 1 small can of pitted olives

Shred the cabbage. Cut fresh cucumber into thin strips. Cheese grate on a coarse grater. Mix cheese, cabbage and cucumber, season with vegetable oil.

We spread the salad in a salad bowl and level the surface with a spoon, compacting slightly from the sides.

We make a basket of olives. To do this, cut the pitted olives in half.

Arrange the olive halves on half of the lettuce. And also lay out the handle of the basket of olives as in the photo.

Cut cherry tomatoes in half. Put the tomato halves in the basket. A beautiful basket of berries is ready.

Simple salad dressing with cucumbers

Lay the lettuce in a salad bowl. Cut the cucumbers in half and arrange the salads along the edge, make a flower in the center of the salad. Finish the salad with sweet corn.

Salad decoration for March 8

To lay the salad you will need a flat plate, two narrow glasses. We put the salad on a plate around the glasses, compacting and leveling it along the edges of the salad with a spoon. That is, we form the number 8. Carefully remove the glasses. Using a damp cloth, we remove the excess lettuce that protrudes beyond the contour of our figure eight. Sprinkle the eight with grated egg or cheese. Spread out the parsley leaves.

Decoration for salad Olivier "Butterfly"

Mix all salad ingredients and season with mayonnaise. We spread the salad on a flat plate and form a round shape at the same time, lightly compact with a spoon. The salad turns out viscous and easily retains its shape.

Cut the egg into slices lengthwise. Spread four egg circles on the surface of the salad - these are butterfly wings. Spread the sweet corn around the edge of the egg circles.

Grate boiled carrots on a coarse grater. Arrange the strips of carrots on the wings, and with the help of strips of carrots, you can decorate the salad from the sides. Put the raisins in place of the body and antennae of the butterfly.

Making and decorating salads for children

Lamb

Salad is laid out on a flat plate in the form of a body with a head and tail. Sprinkle the salad with grated egg. Decorate the head, ears, paws with prunes. From egg white and prunes make eyes, mouth.

Section: TABLE SETTING, DECORATION OF DISHES, ETIQUETTE
2nd page of the chapter "DISH DECORATION - design specialties"

The section helps with minimal effort to decorate a variety of dishes and beautifully set the table.
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DECORATION OF HOME DISHES
Design specialties-2
Recipes, step by step photos
Decoration of salads, vinaigrettes and appetizers
(continuation)

Design option:

:
can of salmon - 1 pc.
hard-boiled eggs - 5 pcs.
hard cheese
butter
onion - 2 pcs.
mayonnaise, salt to taste
greens

Layer one - squirrels, cut into small pieces + mayonnaise.
Layer two - grated cheese + mayonnaise.
Layer three - salmon mashed with a fork.
The fourth layer is butter chilled in the refrigerator.
Layer five - finely chopped onion + mayonnaise.
Layer six - yolks of 4 eggs mashed with mayonnaise (save one yolk for sprinkling).
Remove for a couple of hours in the refrigerator.
When serving, put on lettuce leaves, sprinkle with one mashed yolk and garnish with herbs.

We lay out the top layer of grated proteins and place decorations from sprigs of greens and grated egg yolks on them, as indicated in the photo.

Lilac salad decorations
Basis - fish salad "Mimosa" or meat "Olivier", or other suitable salad

The basis can be any salad or pate according to the taste and discretion of the home cook.
We spread the white inflorescences of "lilac" from grated egg white on a coarse grater, lilac inflorescences - from grated egg white, colored with beet juice (the color will turn out to be lilac). And decorate with sprigs of greenery.

Put on a dish in layers, lubricating each layer (a substitute from the store in any salads is undesirable):
- potatoes, boiled in their skins (even better - baked) and grated on a coarse grater
- coarsely grated egg white
- grated cheese
- well-mashed canned fish (drain the liquid beforehand)
Lubricate on all sides with mayonnaise and sprinkle with grated egg yolk.
Make mice of different sizes from hard-boiled chicken and quail eggs - cut ears and tails from cheese, make spouts and eyes from black pepper grains.

The basis, laid out by the figure eight, can be any suitable

Salad garnish is an important part of the whole serving. You can decorate dishes not only with the usual greens, but also with a variety of cuts, mayonnaise patterns, and figures. Dishes that have been given worthy attention during the presentation are always much tastier and more beautiful than the rest.

Salad "Shuba" is one of the favorite salads of our people because it consists of simple and affordable ingredients, and their combination gives a unique and delicate taste. "Fur coat" is often prepared for the New Year and Christmas holidays, and it always, even on the most ordinary weekday, makes a person feel a sense of triumph and joy.

The herring under a fur coat got its name only because the fish is covered with many “fluffy” vegetable and mayonnaise layers with which it is covered on a serving platter. But how boring the same salad bowl can look at every holiday with this dish. Nowadays, it is popular and relevant to create an unusual and original presentation for everything, and the “fur coat” is no exception.

The most common and "boring" serving salad "Shuba" from herring

The original serving of the standard salad "Herring under a fur coat":

• One of the ways involves giving the salad the shape of a fish, it is not necessary to imitate the herring itself, but the figure of a funny even a little baby fish can provoke joy and a smile in everyone
• To do this, the salad should be laid out on a plate in advance in a specific form: an oval with a tail
• All the details that are characteristic of a fish can be created from improvised materials: scraps of vegetables, olives, herbs, onion rings, mayonnaise drawings

original serving of salad "herring under a fur coat" in the form of a fish

Unusual serving of salad "Herring under a fur coat":

• One of the most unusual variations of serving “fur coat” salad on the table is serving in the form of a roll.
• Such a salad contains a set of standard ingredients, which differ only in that all layers are stacked on cling film and in reverse order: beets, carrots, eggs, fish, onions, potatoes (focus on your recipe)
• Then all the contents are carefully twisted with the help of a film and a roll is formed.
• The roll should be put in the refrigerator for hardening, and only after a sufficient amount of time has elapsed, when the mayonnaise holds all the layers together, carefully put it on a plate

unusual serving of salad "fur coat" in the form of a roll

You can decorate the “fur coat” salad roll with bright greens and mayonnaise “mesh” pattern.

Beautiful serving of salad "Herring under a fur coat":

• This serving involves the design of the salad in the form of a ring.
• To do this, you will need a special hard or silicone baking dish.
• In order for the salad to keep its shape, all layers must be laid out a little by tamping and pressing tightly against each other
• Lettuce in the form of put in the refrigerator for several hours to "grab"
• After the time has elapsed, it is necessary to cover the form with a serving plate, sharply turn the form with the plate upside down and tap the form a little so that the salad falls behind it.
• Garnish the finished salad with herbs and sliced ​​​​vegetables

beautiful serving of salad "herring under a fur coat"

Olivier salad decoration, original ideas for serving a familiar dish

Olivier is the most popular and most frequent dish on holiday tables. Like Shuba, they are very fond of preparing it for the New Year and Christmas, and the taste of this salad will certainly evoke pleasant associations for everyone. But no matter how tasty and beloved this salad is, its standard and usual serving in the form of a “heap” can be boring and uninteresting.

An original and non-standard serving of a familiar dish will help to correct the situation and decorate, as well as diversify the table. There are several winning variations for this.

Regular and standard serving of salad "Olivier" on the table

Original serving salad "Olivier":

• Salad "Olivier" in the original should include pickled chopped cucumber
• Not everyone knows a delicious and very balanced combination of pickled pickled and fresh cucumber
• Try to decorate the salad with slices of fresh cucumber, which will not only add festiveness to the dish, but also make it more “fresh” and juicy.
• In order to do it beautifully, you should use either a wide, well-sharpened knife or a special vegetable peeler (which is much more convenient, faster and easier)
• Cucumber slices should be cut lengthwise. You can lay them out in the form of a fan, in the form of ruffles or curls.
• If you wish, you can decorate the salad with potato chips (this is important, since potatoes are also present in the recipe itself)

original serving of the usual Olivier salad garnished with fresh cucumber and potato chips

An unusual serving of a standard Olivier salad:

• The unusual serving of the usual salad "Olivier" involves a small "game" with the ingredients of the dish
• In order to give it a beautiful shape, you will need to use either a special salad mold or any round jar.
• Prepare the salad as you usually do, the only condition is not to add peas
• Pack the lettuce tightly into the mold to keep it in shape.
• Beat the liquid-free peas with a blender until a paste forms.
• Put the resulting paste in an even layer on top of the salad, level with a knife
• Remove the form. On top of the green hat, you should put a decoration: a boiled quail egg, cut in half and a spoonful of red caviar
• Be sure that such a dish will “play” in a new way and give you completely different taste sensations.

unusual serving salad "Olivier" on the table

Beautiful serving of Olivier salad on the festive table:

• As mentioned earlier, Olivier is a real New Year's dish.
• A beautiful presentation involves decorating this salad in the shape of a Christmas tree and it is not at all difficult to do this.
• For this design, you will need a two-liter plastic bottle.
• Cut the bottle in half and place the salad in dense layers in its narrow part (where the neck is)
• Let the salad rest for a few hours in the refrigerator.
• After that, cover the salad with a plate and turn it over, pull the bottle up, the salad will remain on the plate
• The resulting "slide" should be decorated with dill sprigs, pomegranate seeds can act as toys

beautiful serving of the usual Olivier salad on the festive table

Mimosa salad is one of the simplest dishes for a festive and everyday table. It can always be prepared with inexpensive ingredients, because its highlight is canned sardines. Salad is always eaten with pleasure: both at lunch and on a holiday. Its unusual design can distinguish it from other dishes and make it your "calling card" on the table.

regular serving of traditional sardine mimosa salad

The original serving of Mimosa salad:

• The original serving of "Mimosa" in a humorous style will help to surprise guests and please everyone at the festive table.
• You can create decorations for a beautiful presentation using the ingredients themselves: boiled eggs that will become “mice”
• In principle, the creation of such a feed is not at all laborious, but it requires patience and accuracy.
• Salad should be prepared in the standard way - a "slide", a bit like a cheese ball
• Decorate the salad with grated yolk, which will add color and brightness
• Three boiled eggs should be decorated with cheese, olives and sprigs of greenery, forming ears, eyes, nose and antennae
• Mice should be evenly distributed over the entire area of ​​\u200b\u200bthe "head of cheese"

original decoration of Mimosa salad for the festive season

Unusual serving of Mimosa salad:

• This serving involves serving a salad in portions.
• It looks like several peculiar mounds, each of which can be taken and put on your plate.
• We can say that these are several small Mimosa salads at once.
• Such a salad is prepared traditionally, each layer is laid out after another and at the end sprinkled with yolk or yellow cheese
• You can place such mounds on lettuce leaves that line the bottom of the serving dish.
• Such a “hilly” serving will distract from the standard one and arouse the interest of guests to try the dish.
• Decorate the mounds with parsley sprigs and black olives

unusual serving of Mimosa salad on the festive table

Beautiful serving of Mimosa salad:

• One of the simplest, but nevertheless beautiful ways of serving a salad is the image of the mimosa flower itself.
• The salad got its name due to the fact that its top layer of yolk is very reminiscent of fluffy mimosa blossoms.
• That is why you can decorate the salad by “drawing” twigs, the basis of which will be dill tassels
• The salad should be decorated in this way just before serving, because the greens during the time spent in the refrigerator can “weather” and lose their decent appearance
• For the background, it is proposed to lay out a layer of grated egg white, and make flowers and a frame from the yolk

beautiful serving of salad "Mimosa" with the image of blooming mimosa

Pepper dressing? How to beautifully decorate a salad with bell pepper?

Bulgarian pepper is a fairly suitable material for decorating salads and other dishes. It has a good color palette: yellow, orange, red, light green, green. Not unimportant is its elasticity, thanks to which you can set the desired shape and outline of the pattern.

There are some of the most popular ways to decorate a salad with bell peppers:

One of the ways suggests you to create certain figure for example, a dragon. This is especially true in the year of the Dragon according to the eastern calendar or for a party in a certain medieval style. From bell pepper it is easy to cut out the shape of the dragon's muzzle, its spikes on the back, wings and paws. Eyes and some fine details can be carved from olives.

decorating salads with bell pepper, creating figures with bell pepper

Otherwise, bell pepper perfect form for serving the salad itself. You can use absolutely any salad. The pepper is carefully cut in half, cleaned of seeds. In the lower part, a salad is folded from the remnants of pepper and skewers, the sail of the boat is formed. It should be remembered that for serving you need a perfectly even pepper without external damage.

original serving of salad and decoration of salads with pepper

An easier way is stuff peppers with a specific salad. This is a neat and pretty way to serve a salad that will refresh the lovely and light taste of the peppers.

pepper stuffed with salad for serving

The color palette of pepper allows give your any salad a certain color, therefore, this vegetable gives you a huge scope for creativity and decorating salads according to the type of fruits, flowers and other interesting items. To do this, it is enough to chop the pepper very finely and lay out in an even layer.

how to decorate a salad with bell pepper?

Even and beautiful bell pepper rings can be a beautiful decoration for any salad, no matter how you place them, the main thing is to do it with taste and soul.

pepper salad dressing. How to decorate a salad with pepper?

How to decorate a salad with pineapples? Pineapple salad decorations

Pineapple is one of the most popular salad dressings for modern salads. Sweet canned pineapple goes well with meat, chicken and mushrooms. Pineapple jewelry is always original and unusual.

Most often you can find an ornament symbolizing an opened flower. As a rule, it is complemented by other elements: currant or pomegranate berries, greens.

standard and traditional salad dressing with canned pineapple

You can also decorate the salad with simple cubes of canned pineapple mixed with bell peppers and cranberries: sweet, sour and fresh tastes will mix at the same time, which will give the dish a special impression and exclusivity.

salad dressing with canned pineapple cubes

Canned pineapple rings can be easily transformed into a flowering carnation, you just need to apply diligence and accuracy.

salad dressing with canned pineapple rings

Do not also forget about the usual pineapple, half of which can become not only a decoration, but also a form for a salad.

salad decoration with pineapple, beautiful serving in half a fresh pineapple

Salad garnished with tomatoes. How to decorate a salad with tomatoes?

Tomato is one of the best "materials" for decorating and decorating any salad. From an elastic vegetable, you can cut various figures of various shapes:

• mugs
• hearts
• stripes and more

Tomato can be blashed (peeled), or can be used in its usual form. When decorating a salad with a tomato, remember that you will need only the soft part of it, the seeds should be completely removed.

The easiest way to give a salad an interesting look is to create a ladybug. To do this, you will also need black olives to create specks and muzzles.

decorating any salad with a tomato in the shape of a ladybug

An unusual and rather complicated way to decorate a salad is to make tulips from tomatoes. For this, some subtleties must be observed:

• You should choose and buy only elastic elongated tomatoes
• Each tomato is carefully de-seeded.
• To clean the tomato from the seeds and the inside, you need to cut it into four petals, if it turned out unsuccessfully, don't worry. You can always hide the “unsuccessful” side by putting it on a plate, and opening the beautiful side
• Each tulip is stuffed with lettuce, be careful: the lettuce must be finely grated or chopped enough to “keep its shape” and not make the flower crumpled
• The flower stem can be made from greens or green onion feathers

how to decorate a salad with a tomato? unusual ways to decorate salad with tomatoes

If the skin of a tomato is cut thinly enough and carefully with a sharp knife along, then a beautiful rose can be made from the resulting “ribbon”.

how to decorate a salad with a tomato in an unusual, original and beautiful way?

In a peculiar way, you can decorate a cherry tomato salad. To do this, slightly oblong tomatoes need to be cut a little obliquely and combine the two halves of two tomatoes in the form of a heart.

how beautiful and unusual to decorate a salad with tomatoes?

The standard and traditional way to decorate a salad with tomatoes is to stuff them with lettuce. Olives and mayonnaise will help create a certain pattern.

decorating salads with tomato figurines

Salad decorated with cucumber, how beautiful to decorate a salad with cucumber?

Just like a tomato, a cucumber is an excellent material for decorating absolutely any salads. Thinly sliced ​​cucumber slices can always become a flower, where each slice imitates a separate petal. Moreover, you can use both fresh and pickled vegetables.

original and unusual decoration of salads with cucumber

From the skin and the middle of the cucumber, you can always cut the leaves of any plant of various shapes. Decorating salads with such leaves is a pleasure.

decorating salad with cucumber, creating patterns and “leaves” of cucumber

salad dressing with pickled cucumber

In order to create figures and patterns from a cucumber, it must be cut very thinly with a wide, sharp knife, a vegetable peeler, or a special cucumber cutter that makes a spring out of it.

How to decorate a salad with an egg? egg salad decorations

Eggs are not only beautiful, but also delicious salad decorations. You can use the most common chicken eggs for salad, or you can use quail eggs, which, due to their miniature size, are neat and aesthetic. Salad should be decorated exclusively with boiled eggs.

One of the most common ways involves cutting flower petals from protein and creating a center from grated yolk. With such flowers you can decorate "Mimosa" and any other salad that contains eggs.

how beautiful and original to decorate a salad with an egg?

Even just halved quail eggs can give any salad a festive and very “delicious” look. To do this, place the halves throughout the dish or lay them out along the edge, repeating a certain pattern. Quail eggs can be garnished with a "bead" of red caviar, if it is a fish salad, and a black olive ring with any other salad.

Small halves of quail eggs also perfectly embody the petals of a flower, for example, chamomile. From large halves, you can make boats, animal faces, the image of a snowman or Santa Claus for certain holidays.

salad garnished with quail eggs stuffed with yolk and mayonnaise

Easter salad garnished with halves of quail eggs dyed with food coloring

salad decorated with egg white flowers salad can be decorated with eggs in the form of mushrooms, the second half of the fungus is colored with onion peel

you can decorate the salad with a snake made up of egg rings

How to decorate a salad with mayonnaise?

Mayonnaise is the easiest way to quickly and beautifully decorate any salad. Mayonnaise is part of almost every salad, and therefore decoration and drawings from it are always relevant. Mayonnaise decoration is drawings on a salad with a thin stream of sauce. You can apply them in three ways:

• making a small hole in the package of sauce squeezing it onto the surface of the dish gently
• by placing the sauce in a plastic bag (shaping it into a bag similar to a pastry bag) and making a small hole in it
• By placing the sauce in a pastry bag or syringe

You can decorate the salad with mayonnaise in several ways:

• drawing a neat grid on it
• drawing on it lace or curls from a mayonnaise stream
• by drawing certain details of the figures on the lettuce and vegetable figurines

There are several rules for decorating salad with mayonnaise:

• for decoration, purchase only the highest percentage of fat mayonnaise so that it “holds its shape”
• apply the mayonnaise pattern right before serving the salad to prevent the sauce from darkening, turning yellow, dripping, or spoiling
• do everything with special care and then your work will not go unnoticed

simple traditional salad dressing with mayonnaise

"mesh" of mayonnaise - a simple and unusual salad decoration with mayonnaise

How beautiful to decorate salads with herbs?

Greens are a good and practical material for decorating salads. As a rule, you can always create patterns from greenery that repeat vegetation:

• twigs
• bushes
• saplings
• grass
• leaves

Absolutely any greenery can be suitable for decoration, which you only need to use with creativity. Most often, chopped greens create a green background on which you can plant fungi from an egg, ladybugs from a tomato, or simply make the green part of the watermelon rind in the Watermelon Slice salad.

Violet salad - an unusual decoration of a salad made from thinly sliced ​​radish slices and green basil leaves

herringbone salad, where the shape and color of the tree can be made from chopped parsley

salad "Mushroom Glade", where chopped greens are laid out in the background - grass in a clearing where fungi grow

How to decorate a salad with dill?

Dill, by virtue of its small branches, becomes a wonderful decoration for a salad. Especially if it's finely chopped. It can be conveniently distributed over the entire area of ​​the layer, it will create a uniform and non-translucent background. Often it is used to "draw" sprigs of spruce on your salad. This is true when preparing festive New Year and Christmas salads.

Before you decorate the salad with dill, try to follow a few important rules:

• choose only fresh dill in rich green color for decoration
• decorate the salad with dill right before serving so that it does not lose its appearance during long-term storage
• By choosing fresh dill, you guarantee not only the color, but also the taste of your dish.

salad "Christmas wreath" decorated with dill on the festive table

Ideas for decorating and decorating holiday salads for the holiday and every day

Decorating salads is a noble deed. So, you get incredible aesthetic pleasure from the dish before you taste it. Ornaments require ordinary everyday and especially festive salads for the New Year, Birthday and even March 8th.

How much time and effort you spend on decorating a salad affects the overall perception of the dish and even how long the salad stays on the table. Do not be afraid to experiment and try to decorate the salad with any edible items at hand:

• sliced ​​vegetables
• cut from different types of cheese
• sliced ​​​​smoked and dried meats
• black olives
• green olives
• pickled and boiled vegetables
• boiled chicken and quail eggs
• red caviar
• common and leafy greens

festive salad decoration with grated boiled vegetables and boiled egg

salad decoration with boiled egg halves and sliced ​​carrots

salad dressing with herbs and orange peels

Unusual edible decoration of children's salads from figurines

Children are real gourmets, they often eat only what suits them. And not much suits them. It is for this reason that caring mothers increasingly have to invent unusual decorations from edible materials so that their children show interest in food. Boiled eggs and vegetables, greens, cheese and meat are used.

Creating a beautiful and even voluminous pattern on a salad or from a snack for your baby is not difficult. However, you should show no small perseverance, be patient and be careful.

children's salad "bunny", made from boiled eggs

children's salad "Tiger", made from boiled eggs, boiled carrots and sausage

children's salad "Strawberry" decorated with chopped tomato and cucumber

Original design and decoration of snacks on the festive table

An appetizer is the first thing that guests try at the festive table. It should always be distinguished by its special delicate taste and external aesthetic appearance in order to attract everyone. The appetizer usually consists of boiled eggs, vegetables, olives, sausage and cheese. It is not uncommon for appetizers to include delicious seafood.

You can beautifully decorate any appetizer - fish or meat - with the help of boiled quail egg halves filled with various dill - red, black, capelin.

appetizer decoration with boiled quail eggs

salad decoration with shrimp and swan-shaped tomato rugs

appetizer decoration with thinly sliced ​​vegetables

Video: " How to decorate salads and snacks on the festive table in an original way?

Every hostess knows how important a beautiful serving of dishes is, especially when you are preparing to receive guests. And when setting the table, it is important not to forget about salads. The very design of salads is not so much a complicated process as it takes time and patience. But one has only to approach this creatively, and your culinary masterpieces will surprise guests not only with taste, but also with all their interesting appearance.
And really, how can one forget about one of the most important and popular dishes when decorating a festive table? Don't underestimate them.

Whether you're celebrating an important event or just wanting to dine with your family, all you have to do is put on a bright, decorated salad and it will instantly transform a regular meal.

And despite the fact that in any kitchen there are festive and everyday dishes, this is one of those that always fits perfectly into the menu. Many of them do not even need to be decorated, they themselves show a riot of colors and elegant brightness, and the rest are in no way inferior to their “holiday” counterparts, one has only to show imagination.

Remember how much the hostess has to do before an important feast: buy groceries in advance, and think over all the dishes, and cook, and set the table, and don’t forget about yourself. And how can you serve cooked food beautifully at such a frantic pace?

And in this case, salads will come to your aid. Their design will not take much time, especially if you find a couple of options the day before, with photos and descriptions.

Over time, you will get used to it so much that serving even the simplest dish will amaze guests and your family with its sophistication. And each time it will take less and less time. And then you definitely have time to do both manicure and makeup before the holiday.

How can you decorate a dish so that even a real gourmet is interested in your creation? To get started, stock up on greens - they will help the dish look fresh.

For decoration, it is better to use those ingredients that are already included in its composition, or those that you are sure of, since everything should be combined with each other not only in color, but also in taste.

But, if with salads without dressing (or dressed with oils) everything is simple - they do not require additional decoration, then what about others? After all, many others imply the presence of mayonnaise or other sauce that hides the bright color of the products.

Here, take a boat (also called a round cut) into service: it will help you serve an appetizer in the form of a neat ring. Such a device can also be found in a square shape. If there is no time left to go to the store, do not despair.

An ordinary cropped plastic bottle or baking molds can also cope with this task. Simply place them on a plate and scoop a portion of the salad inside, crushing it well with a spoon to keep it from falling apart. Then remove the "frame" and - voila! - the dish is ready for further serving.

On top, you can put a chopped egg, mushrooms, bell peppers, olives, olives or greens. With this serving, the dish will look very stylish and neat. And you can make such a basket, as in the photo.

There are moments when time is so short that even such simple details have no time to be distracted. Then again you have to postpone for the next time both serving and decoration. But there are options for such cases. They do not require any preparation and absolutely do not depend on the composition or dressing.

If you are planning several options at once, then do not decorate them the same way, it will be boring. It is better to diversify the decor, but so that they all look harmonious with each other and the main dishes. Do not forget that everything is good in moderation: an excessive passion for decoration will nullify all your efforts, the table will look awkward, and the dishes will look unappetizing.

It will not be superfluous to remember some tricks. For example, products and colors:

• If you need a burgundy color - take beets;
• red - pomegranate, tomatoes, bell pepper will help you;
• need green? Take peppers, canned peas, cucumbers and any greens;
• if you want to add blue - mix the juice of red cabbage with rice or boiled egg;
• corn, yolk and pepper will give you a yellow color;
• cranberry juice - pink;
• missing white? To help you, peeled radish cottage cheese, cream, boiled egg and rice;
• if you rub the protein and mix it with beet juice, you get purple. Such a small mastery of the laws of artistic mixing of colors right in the kitchen.

If you have enough time, and you want to learn the art of table decoration in full, then pay attention to carving. This is a kind of decorative decoration of vegetables and fruits, in fact, it is an artistic carving.

Carving has been on the wave of popularity for many years, many famous chefs even arrange competitions in this discipline. To do this, you will need a curly knife. Now on sale you can even find special sets with many devices.

Remember a few tips on what and from what you can cut. For example, cucumbers can be decorated with a spiral (using a special tool from the carving set), serpentine, stripes and ribbons. Large fruits and vegetables can be made into baskets.

Flowers can be cut from tomatoes, eggs, and even radishes! The only thing, do not forget to first immerse it in cold water - this will remove the bitterness.

Ordinary lettuce leaves can be added to the “picture” of carved decorations: line a serving dish with them or add a couple of leaves on top. Mint, lemon balm and basil leaves are also used for decoration.

Seasonings will also help to change the color: paprika, curry, parsley, ground black pepper. Even ordinary tomato paste can bring a touch of originality to the design of the salad.

Thus, you can decorate absolutely any vegetable option. But there are a couple of tricks with fruit. Buy a noisette at any dishware store. This is a special spoon for "cutting" balls and hemispheres of different sizes from the pulp of fruits. It looks like an ordinary spoon, but with metal hemispheres of different diameters around the edges.

You can cut out balls of watermelon and peaches, melons and apples in the manner of ice cream balls, and serve them in waffle cups, dough baskets or crystal bowls. Don't forget to decorate the top with berries and mint leaves. It is perfect for dessert and even kids will love it.

In addition to all of the above, there are a few more points:

• First, the main point, of course, is the compatibility of products with each other. Usually there are no questions about this, the main thing is not to use incompatible components, such as, say, meat and kiwi. It is better to pay attention to lemons, olives with olives, eggs and bright vegetables.
• Secondly, decoration requires no less sense of style than any other art. It is important to clearly think over the composition, choose accents, determine the center.
• If you decide to decorate dishes, then you should also choose suitable dishes that will not distract attention from the main elements. For example, bright dishes combined with complex decor will turn your dish into a fractional and gaudy something.

Do not forget that the final look of the dish depends only on you, so it’s worth practicing. Give preference to clear lines and even cubes. Use well-sharpened knives. Your accuracy in cutting vegetables and fruits is already 50% success.

Don't forget about color balance. You, like an artist, must see and feel the most winning combinations. Add some contrast for the lighter versions with a tomato and bright bell pepper, and for the darker ones, use greens and cucumbers. You can even use the colored zest of citrus fruits like oranges or lemons.

Make sure that the decor does not divert attention from the main dish, but only complements it. It is better not to get carried away with excessive decoration, let everything be modest, but tasteful.

If you need to use any non-edible ingredients, be sure to let your guests know, especially if you need wooden skewers or toothpicks for canapes and decorations.

You can also use raw vegetables. But still, it is worth striving to ensure that all the decor is not only beautiful, but also edible.

beautiful decoration video

Separately, it is worth talking about decorating the table for children's parties. Any children's holiday, especially if it's a birthday, requires careful preparation from parents. You must create such a cheerful and joyful atmosphere so that the holiday is remembered not only by the hero of the occasion, but also by all his invited friends.

It would seem that there is no place for salads on the table at all, because most children do not eat them. But no matter how! If you show originality and prepare delicious options with an unusual design, then the children will definitely appreciate them. It all depends on your imagination: you can create whole plot compositions on plates! Children's joy and surprise is definitely worth the effort.

In addition to decor, pay attention to the following points:

• Avoid spicy, salty and fatty foods. On the children's table there is no place for fried, smoked and snacks with mayonnaise and an abundance of spices.
• Avoid bold experiments: do not replace the products familiar to your child and add something new. Give preference to traditional dishes, choosing ingredients that children will definitely not refuse.
• If you have a holiday with the participation of very young kids, then exclude citrus fruits, as well as bright fruits and vegetables. Remember, they can trigger an allergy attack!
• The same attention should be paid to any fish if you plan to put it on the table or add it to dishes. It should not contain any bones.
• Take on "armament" a couple of recipes for canapes. Children eat them with great pleasure: they are small and on convenient skewers. For their preparation, give preference to neutral fruits and vegetables, berries, cheeses, eggs and mushrooms.

Examples of decorating children's salads

Decoration for children's birthday: beautiful, fun and edible!

Little tricks

Any home celebration creates an upbeat and joyful mood, immersing everyone in an atmosphere of genuine fun. Especially if you don't have to spend a lot of time preparing meals and setting the table.

And any hostess wants not only to demonstrate her culinary skills, but also to surprise guests with a beautifully decorated table. And here salads will come to your aid again. Easy to decorate, they will become a bright highlight that will certainly be remembered.

Holiday table decoration

We are especially careful when choosing what we will cook for the festive table. We look at the recipes in advance, decide on the final version of the menu, and make a list of the necessary products.

And, of course, every housewife has a couple of recipes that must be prepared for a gala dinner. But even if these are the most common olivier and vinaigrette, you don’t need to give up the idea of ​​​​preparing them if you decide to amaze everyone with an original serving.

You only need to decorate them slightly, and you can be sure that your guests will definitely appreciate even these familiar dishes.

To make them not only tasty, but also spectacular, show your imagination and ingenuity. Don't forget to be careful! Registration will not take much time, which will definitely play into your hands. If there is enough time, then you can try ways of more complex decoration.

From the first time, such decorations can take more than twenty minutes, so it is better to try them out in advance and get used to it, especially if you are planning a complex composition. After several workouts, even complex elements will not take you more than ten minutes.

Pay attention to recipes with carved flowers and other figurines from the pulp of fruits and vegetables. To create them, you need some preparation, but the result is worth it.

You can give preference to simpler methods:

• you can even make a voluminous “rose” from bacon or ham;
• for fruit dishes, use figuratively cut kiwi or peeled citrus zest;
• Another way to effectively serve salads is to focus not on the top decorations, but on the ingredients themselves. So, if it does not require mandatory mixing, then you can experiment with this.

For example, vegetable dishes will look advantageous if they are laid out in layers. The dressing can be put side by side in a separate gravy boat or spread over the formed dish on top and sides. Use not only mayonnaise for this, both sour cream and unsweetened yogurts are perfect.

From above, the composition can be completed with almonds, hazelnuts or pine nuts.

If the nuts do not fit your dish at all, then pomegranate seeds also perfectly replace them.

And you can do without them, adding carved flowers from vegetables or laying out an edible drawing to the dish. Using sprigs of parsley, radishes and chopped olives, you can create a fish and a penguin, as in the next photo.

You can also experiment with volume molding. For example, winter dishes can be served in the form of forest cones, and seafood dishes in the form of fish.

All of the above ways of decorating dishes are not at all the limit. It all depends on your imagination!

Get creative and you'll end up with a variety of designs for the same salad but for different occasions. Change shapes and come up with new unique recipes for decorating New Year's and everyday dishes. Each hostess will have it all differently, because everyone has their own vision of beauty.

One thing remains unchanged - the atmosphere of the holiday and the good mood that beautifully decorated dishes bring. Use these skills in everyday life or just on holidays - it's up to you.

Learning how to decorate not only salads, but also other foods in an interesting and unusual way is not at all difficult: just be patient and spend some free time. Together with a great desire, this will be enough. Having mastered even the simplest elements, you can already combine them in different ways and create many bright compositions.

There is no “ceiling” in this art, even after learning how to perform the most difficult things, you can continue to go further, improve your skills and come up with new original ways of serving both salads and all other dishes for any occasion.

And you can at least every day pamper your family with a spectacular serving of a regular dinner, bringing the mood of celebration and magic into everyday life!