When you celebrate a holiday at a party, you always pay attention to how the hostess tried to set the table. When inviting friends to your place, you also want to stand out and make everything more original. Not only the serving deserves attention. Do not forget about the beautiful design of dishes. The article will figure out how to do everything right, appetizingly and tasty.
Advice
So, first you need to make a sample menu and think over the serving. Now try to visually present the already laid table. Where will your snacks and salads stand? How is hot served: in the center of the table or on plates?
Everything is needed in order to determine which dish a beautiful design would not hurt. After all, if you take up everything, then the table will simply be full of colors. So make accents.
If you decide to make jewelry constantly, then you will need special tools. Visit the store and get what you need:
- special shredders for fruits and vegetables;
- sharp knives;
- curly cuts;
- notches.
You can start with something simple, gradually expanding your collection of kitchen utensils.
In the photo above, the beautiful design of the dishes is made from raw vegetables that can be eaten, but some are not recommended. Therefore, if you use this technique, you must warn the guests so that there are no incidents.
You will find some methods in this article.
Salads
Any salad that you usually cook can be unusually served. For example, make him an unusual figure. Top with decorations from herbs and vegetables. There are many options. You can just look at the pictures and apply to your recipe.
Try to put a salad “Herring under a fur coat” in the form of a snake, make a crown of boiled protein, and draw stripes with the yolk. “Winter” can be served in the same form, where thinly sliced ​​pickles are used as scales.
Beautiful decoration of festive dishes will attract attention and give positive emotions to guests. The New Year events and March 8 will help you to fully reveal your talents. There is a place to go for a fantasy. Make a Christmas tree from salad. In it, dill will help replace spruce branches, and berries - toys.
Use simple decorations. For example, you can make flowers on top. Here are simple ways:
- Take oval tomatoes, cut not completely into four parts. After pulling the pulp with a teaspoon, fill with the filling of grated cheese with garlic. Put it sideways. The stem can be replaced with your favorite greens.
- Chamomiles are easily made from boiled eggs. To do this, cut the protein into strips (these will be the petals) and spread around the grated yolk.
Know that a regular salad turns into a masterpiece if you turn on your imagination.
Crab Stick Salad Recipe
Let’s make a salad that looks simple, but we’ll make, as in the photo, a beautiful decoration of the dish.
For this we need:
- 2 packs of crab sticks;
- 2 medium potato tubers;
- 1 long cucumber;
- 3 boiled eggs;
- mayonnaise dressing;
- 0.4 kg of hard cheese;
- some butter
- dill.
First, we make beautiful baskets in which we will place our snack for each guest separately. To do this, slightly grease a flat plate with butter. On a coarse grater, evenly rub cheese on it so that holes remain. We put it in the microwave for 20-25 seconds so that the cheese melts.
Then you need to let it cool slightly so that it can be removed more easily. Puddle on either side and take off like a pancake. Put on a glass, giving the desired shape. Set aside to cool completely.
We begin the preparation and the beautiful decoration of the dish. Boil potatoes and eggs, cut into small cubes. Cucumber and crab sticks should be in the form of stripes. Mix all the ingredients, add salt and add mayonnaise. Arrange in baskets and garnish with sprigs of dill.
It is better to fill and fill cheese dishes before serving, until the salad gives juice.
Snacks and Slices
These plates are best left unadorned. Beautiful food design is a priority here.
As a snack, you can use various sandwiches. There is no limit to imagination. For example, put slices of various vegetables (tomatoes, cucumbers), seafood (for example, sprats), or meat pastes on toast greased with mayonnaise. You can make a variety of canapes, laying in rows on a wide plate.
Tomatoes or eggs stuffed with grated cheese and garlic look great on the table. They make great figures of mushrooms, snowmen, chickens, piglets, etc. Roll pancakes with some soft filling and cut them in the form of rolls (by the way, cucumbers in this form also look good).
Do not disregard sliced ​​plates. Usually they are fruit, vegetable, cheese, meat, fish and assorted. But this does not mean that it is all worth exhibiting. Fruits are enough to serve in a vase. Just don't jumble them randomly. If the holiday is in the summer, then make a basket of watermelon, inside, fold the slices without a crust.
It is easy to beautifully arrange the vegetable plate , as both tomatoes and cucumbers themselves go for decoration. Please note that if they are in abundance on other dishes, then they should not be set separately.
Making cheese is easy. Pick several varieties, thinly cut into identical slices and put in rows or a semicircle, on top - pigtails made of cheese and a little greens.
The meat is done in almost the same way, only it should be noted that boiled sausage will take away the smell of smoked meats. Therefore, laying out, take the sharpest species first. Some varieties can be beautifully curled. In the middle you can put a gravy boat.
It’s more complicated with fish. Each species has a peculiar taste and smell (it is impossible to combine, for example, salted salmon and herring on one plate).
Quite often, combined cutting of sausages and feta cheese is laid on one plate.
"Good plate"
Do everything as in the photo. The beautiful design of the dish (cold cuts) will help your table look solemn.
We will need:
- salami;
- bacon;
- sausage bread;
- 2 bunches of parsley;
- Cherry tomatoes;
- large red tomatoes;
- cheese.
Thinly cut all the products and proceed to lay on a large flat plate.
For convenience, cheese will go first. To them we divide the dishes into sectors. Their number depends on how many types of meat you will use.
Each cell should be filled in one grade. For beauty, you can, for example, grease slices of cooked sausage with a paste of cheese and mayonnaise and roll them into tubes. From some kind of flower to make flowers, fastening the middle. To do this, fold the circle in half, make small cuts in the fold, fold and fasten with a skewer along the edge.
Lay out the leaves of curly parsley in the middle, and chopped tomato on top. Instead of tomato, you can put stuffed small peppers or put a saucepan. Lay on a plate of cherry pierced with skewers.
Hot
Beautiful design of hot dishes deserves special attention. It all depends on how they are served. There are two options: separately in the center of the table or separately on plates.
If you use the first method, then always take into account not only the beauty of the presentation, but also that it is convenient for guests to take a serving for themselves. To do this, it is better to chop the whole fish into pieces or cut the meatloaf, and then proceed to the design. Of course, if it is a chicken, then it is better to leave it whole and break off pieces with your hands.
Everyone saw that large hot dishes are often accompanied by baked vegetables and fruits, pickled mushrooms, which not only give a peculiar taste, but also add color. Also used are slices of lemon inserted, for example, into pike cuts. Often, the recipes themselves provide for a beautiful decoration of the dish.
Fresh greens are also quite a popular option for decoration. Only here, keep in mind that it will quickly fade from heat. Therefore, put it all on the edge and just before serving.
Surround the dish with different sauces in the same bowl. So you emphasize the main dish on the table.
Even when serving a simple soup puree, fantasize. For example, pour a little ketchup in the light, and sour cream and mayonnaise in the dark and make a stick with a kind of stain. In the middle, stick a sprig of dill. Everything turned out to be a festive first course. Even just fried eggs fried in a slice of pepper cut across, or a sausage rolled up in a heart, will cheer you up.
When they decided to put each into plates, then you can not ignore anyone. And it’s easier to use the beautiful design of meat dishes. In this case, the option is often used when meat or fish is spread on lettuce leaves. Also originally watered with bright sauces. They make a small slide out of finely chopped pieces, because the little chaos on the plate looks more original.
For decorations, it is better to use baked, boiled or fried vegetables, green peas, corn, mushrooms. Do not forget about vitamins in the form of sliced ​​tomatoes and cucumbers.
Next we will give another recipe. The beautiful design of the dishes is also described there.
Entrecote crown and meat pigtail
The first option for serving hot is in the center of the table. If you do everything right, it will turn out original, and most importantly - delicious.
To do this, you need a large piece of pork with slightly sharpening ribs. At the bazaar or yourself, immediately remove the ridge so that you can make a circle.
The number of ingredients will not be indicated, as it all depends on the number of guests you are waiting for. Prepare:
- soy sauce;
- salt, seasonings;
- rice
- greenery;
- potatoes;
- Cherry tomatoes.
Now consider the beautiful design of the dish (recipe). The photo that you see below will help to assemble the design correctly.
So, pickle meat in soy sauce with spices, you can add garlic. Since this is a large piece, it is best left in the refrigerator all night. Then we wrap a piece in foil and send it to the oven. Leave on medium heat for 1-1.5 hours. At this time, boil rice. Fry the potatoes and wash the tomatoes.
We take out the pork and cut it with a very sharp knife (not completely, so as not to fall apart) into pieces between the bones. We expose in the form of a circle edges up. To prevent everything from falling, fasten the edge with toothpicks, and put boiled rice in the middle. Pour it with melted fat from the meat.
At the edges, put tomatoes, potatoes. A sophisticated garnish is made at the guest’s choice. You can pour sauce and garnish with herbs.
Try the following beautifully decorated hot dishes. The photo here is not even required for clarification, because everything is done very simply.
Calculation of ingredients for 6-7 persons:
- cutting your favorite meat - 1 kg;
- potatoes - 12 medium tubers;
- lettuce;
- soy sauce;
- Provencal herbs.
Prepare the pulp. To do this, cut into portioned pieces and, having beaten a little with a hammer, we send pickled with soy sauce for 45 minutes in a cold place. After cutting the meat lengthwise into 3 parts, but not completely. Braid the braids and secure the ends with toothpicks. Pepper and sprinkle with seasoning. We spread on a baking sheet, cover with foil and put in the oven.
We cut mushrooms from potatoes, which we cook until half ready. 40 minutes after the start of frying the meat, remove the “cover” from the sheet to add “mushrooms” there. Leave in the roasting pan to make a golden crust.
At this time, prepare plates for serving. On each stack of lettuce leaves. On them are our pigtails and “mushrooms”. You can pour it with any meat sauce or put pickled red onions.
Serving dishes on one plate
Here you immediately need to consider how you are going to organize this. There are popular ways:
- If you decide to use the example of restaurants and make a beautiful decoration of the dish, you must visually divide the plate as a dial. So, at "11 o’clock" always put side dishes (potatoes, pasta, rice, buckwheat), at "2 o’clock" - salad or chopped vegetables. The main meat or fish dish will go at 6 o’clock.
- The Japanese love to share dishes even on one plate. Bowls with different types of food and sauces are exhibited on the main one. This allows you to feel the taste of each and a different combination of products.
- Even fast food companies try to do everything more original and can, for example, put french fries in stacks.
Even a simple breakfast made with imagination will cause positive emotions in your family.
We cook for children
It is difficult to seat small family members and guests at the table, and even more so make them eat unwanted, but healthy cereal. Therefore, you should pay special attention to the beautiful design of children's dishes.
So, start with the appetizers. Here it is better to use the figures of the popular "cartoon" or animals. Try to surprise children as much as possible. Here are some examples:
- Prepare the Olivier salad, put it on a plate in the shape of a fish. Make scales from finely chopped pickles and head from boiled protein. Onions will go green onions. From canned peas, you get eyes.
- Sandwiches in the form of a cell phone are also suitable for a children's table. To do this, cut the bread into small rectangles. Cheese will become a display. Put a slice of sausage and green peas on top. This will be the keyboard.
- Slice a fresh long cucumber and small tomatoes (suitable in size). Pour sour cream on the bottom of the plate, lay out alternately vegetables in the form of a snake. Make weed from onion.
- Bake the pancakes. Lubricate them with a mixture of grated cheese and sour cream. Twist and cut into small sausages. Putting it on a dish, tell your child that these are baby rolls.
If there are first courses, then cook better mashed soup, on which it is easy to draw various faces. It will be a plus that the kids will not choose fried onions that they don’t like from the broth. For example, pour the finished dish into a plate. Take ketchup and draw a mouth, nose and eyebrows. From boiled yolk you get eyes, put fresh dill, which replaces the antennae.
When drawing up the menu for the smallest, it should be noted that sharp objects can not be used. Therefore, if there is meat, then chopped or minced. If fish, then without bones. You can build, for example, bears, make eyes from boiled yolks, and on a plate - a cover from mashed potatoes.
You can make a bug. To do this, carefully lay an oval of buckwheat porridge in the middle of the plate. Legs can be cut in half sausages. An egg will make a head. The child will become more interested, and he will eat everything with pleasure.
Beautiful decoration of dishes for the birthday of your child takes even more time than for any other holiday. You need to carefully consider the menu of not only salads and hot. Even in adults, the cake will be the main thing on this day. Of course, you can order it from a professional. But try to do it yourself:
- For a simple option, buy any cake and make additional fruit decorations; use the inscription with melted chocolate.
- Buy ready-made cakes, and make the cream yourself. To do this, beat the chilled fat cream with a little sugar, bring the butter to a curvy shape with a mixer and mix with condensed milk. Bonding each layer, assemble the cake. Upstairs it will be enough to lay out some berry, fill with icing, wait until it hardens, and make the inscription white chocolate.
- If you decide to take the whole process into your own hands, then it is better to do this in the evening in order to manage to cover the entire table. Pick up a photo with a recipe in advance. The beautiful design of dishes can be repeated or developed as you wish.
Also for dessert often served fruit jelly, yogurt, ice cream in a bowl. Imagine how beautiful it is to decorate or decorate.
Carving
That is the name of the art of carving various figures from fruits and various vegetables. When you look at already finished works, it seems that this is difficult to learn and it is necessary to attend master's courses.
Take your time to draw conclusions. If you have even a small drawing skill, patience, then quite in time you will make wonderful decorations for your dishes yourself.
The simplest options are:
- Watermelon and melon are well suited for fruit baskets. Cut leaving the handle.
- A beautiful salad bowl comes out of pineapple. Cut along, remove the pulp, return the fruit to its former shape and fold the finished salad inside.
- From the peel of an orange you get a wonderful ice cream bowl.
Now try to make flowers from vegetables, as in the bottom photo. Beautiful decoration of dishes at home such a chrysanthemum is not difficult. We take a small onion, peel and cut off the top and bottom for stability. Now we divide a very sharp and thin knife into four parts not completely, but as low as possible. And again also. For the leaves to straighten out, send the future flower to cold water. It can be tinted with beetroot juice.
Perfectly obtained lily from raw carrots. Clean it and cut into several pieces about 10 cm long. Take one and make a pentagon with a knife. Now we make incisions on each sharp side, but not to the end. So repeat in a checkerboard pattern. Scissor the petals into an oval shape.
It’s easy to make a swan for a fruit plate. First, cut into two equal parts, remove the seeds. Put each peel up. Do not completely cut two identical cuts in the middle and pull out the middle. Next, on each side with a knife, we cut the corners from above and from the side. Each time they will be less and less. Expose the wings with a slight offset, cut the neck from the removed piece and insert in the middle.
Always try to make beautiful dishes. Decorating for the holidays or on weekdays will add sophistication to your table.