Almost every person who regularly cooks, sooner or later begins to try decorating their dishes. At first it can be a funny face painted with chocolate on top of semolina, then roses from boiled beets or cakes appear in the form of a huge iceberg with penguins. Perhaps the biggest open space for the manifestation of various culinary fantasies is the decoration of salads with their own hands. It’s so simple - mix the ingredients, season them with sauce, for example, sour cream or mayonnaise, and then try to make something magical out of this dish. And recently, decorating salads with your own hands has turned into a real art, which is becoming more and more beautiful and interesting every day.
Play of color
A selection of an interesting color composition will help to make the dish unusual and attractive. And immediately the question arises, what products can be painted. Egg white is ideal for these purposes . It can be dyed with beet, cranberry or raspberry juice, tomato paste, spinach juice. If you change the color saturation and exposure time, it is easy to get a lot of different shades. You can also color the mayonnaise - with the help of egg yolk, juice of herbs, mustard, beetroot juice or a small amount of red wine. However, the easiest way to make colorful dishes is to initially use products with bright colors. For example, yellow and red bell peppers, black olives, yellow lemons, festive orange oranges and tangerines.
Decoration of vegetable salads
The simplest decorations can be made from boiled or raw vegetables. For example, try cutting a long and narrow ribbon from beets or carrots. The longer, the better. Then roll the strip, and you get a beautiful bud. These flowers decorate the salad, and at the same time lay out green leaves with them. In the role of the latter, you can use any greens. Salad decoration, made of finely chopped red cabbage and laid out in the form of a magnificent aster, will look beautiful. And from a banal pickled cucumber, you can make a lily - the petals are cut along the vegetable and gently bent, and a carrot core is inserted inside.
Original Salad Decoration
The original culinary decor for dishes can be tied to a particular holiday. For example, on Christmas or New Year's Day, dill in the form of a wreath is laid out on the salad. On top of the greens, you can put berries of viburnum or lingonberry. And on Halloween, the salad is easy to make in the form of a skull with eyes and teeth made from olives or egg yolks. If, when decorating a dish, you strive for originality, get ready for a long and painstaking work. The most interesting ideas, for example, penguins from olives, amazing white lilies from radish, complex figures will require a lot of time and effort.
Decorating salads with your own hands is a great opportunity to be creative. Therefore, fantasize, and you will get such a decor from which all your guests will be delighted!