Making a beautiful salad is easy enough. To do this, you just need to purchase the right ingredients and show creative imagination.
Today we will tell you about how to make a beautiful salad with fresh cucumbers and tomatoes, as well as boiled carrots and eggs.
Decorate the appetizer
How to do it? A beautiful salad can include completely different ingredients. However, decorating such a dish with unusually chopped vegetables is permissible only if it is layered. If you have prepared a mixed snack, then it is best for her to purchase fresh petals of parsley and, having formed a dense bunch of them, put in the center of the product.
Beautifully cut vegetables
For salads, the decoration of cucumbers and tomatoes should be used only if the snack contains them. So guests will immediately understand what this dish is made of.
So, to decorate the salad, you should use only the freshest and most elastic vegetables. They must be washed thoroughly in hot water. At the same time, it is highly recommended not to peel them. After all, thanks to her we can create contrast.
We make a "hedgehog"
Decoration of vegetables for salads can have absolutely any shape. The most popular are "roses" (from tomatoes) and "petals" (from cucumbers). Today we decided to tell you about how you can make a "hedgehog" from the presented ingredients. Such a "character" will perfectly decorate a dish for a children's holiday. For him we need:
- large round tomatoes - 2 pcs.;
- fresh elastic cucumbers - 2 pcs.;
- red radish - 2 pcs.;
- olives and olives - a few;
- mayonnaise or sour cream - a little.
Chop vegetables
DIY jewelry for salads should be done in stages. To begin with, all the ingredients must be washed and chopped. Fresh tomatoes should be divided in half, and then in a checkerboard pattern make cuts on the skin. After that, you need to cut cucumbers and radishes into thin circles. As for olives and olives, they must be chopped into circles. They are useful to us for the formation of the "eye".
We form a "hedgehog"
"Hedgehog" from cucumbers and tomatoes is formed quite easily. To do this, halves of tomatoes must be laid out on a flat plate with the convex part up. Next, cuts of cucumbers and radishes are required in their incisions. By the way, it is from the last ingredient that you need to make the face of a hedgehog. To do this, radish should be halved and attached to the tomato. It is necessary to apply two mayonnaise points on it and make a nose of olives and olives.
It is good to place such a "hedgehog" on the salad "Senior Tomato". It is prepared from the following layers:
- boiled beef chopped in strips;
- half rings of onion soaked in vinegar;
- boiled potatoes, chopped on a grater;
- hard cheese;
- a thick layer of mayonnaise;
- Shredded Fresh Tomatoes.
Also, this dish can be decorated with "roses" of tomatoes and "petals" of cucumbers.
We make egg decorations for salads
Egg decorations should be made for salads such as Mimosa, Sunflower, Herring under a fur coat, and so on. For the presented snacks, egg chamomile is best suited. For her, we need only three large chicken eggs, which should be boiled hard-boiled in advance.
After preparing the components, they must be cooled and cleaned. Next, the eggs must be carefully divided into proteins and yolks. The first ingredient must be cut into thin longitudinal strips. As for the yolks, they should either be crushed on a small grater, or knead with an ordinary fork.
Decoration process
After the eggs are prepared and the puff salad is formed, you can safely proceed to decorate it. To do this, put grated yolks in the center of the snack, and arrange strips of proteins at the edges. As a result, you should get a kind of daisy. If desired, several egg flowers can be made on the surface of one salad. So that they do not lose their beautiful appearance, the dish should be immediately presented to the table.
Chicken Salad Decoration
If you want to make a beautiful salad with chicken and eggs, then decorate it as follows. Eggs must be boiled, cooled and gently cleaned. Next, the protein should be divided in half (you can make a relief incision), and then remove one half, but so that the yolk remains in its entirety. With the help of slices of olives and thin slices of boiled carrots, the yolk must be made “eyes” and “beak”. In this form, “chickens” can be placed on the surface of the salad, forming a kind of nest from french fries.
Making carrot flowers
A carrot decoration in the shape of a flower is very popular among housewives. After all, making it easy and simple. However, it is recommended to use such products only for those salads that contain boiled carrots.
So, to decorate a puff snack, you need to purchase a fresh vegetable of a thin and long shape. It needs to be washed thoroughly, and then boiled in its entirety in salt water. After this, the carrots must be cooled and gently peeled. Next, you can start cutting flowers. For this, several triangular incisions should be made along the vegetable with a depth of not more than 4 millimeters. In this case, the cut out parts must be carefully removed.
In conclusion, the processed carrots should be chopped with rings 5 mm thick. As a result of such actions, you should get beautiful and bright flowers that can be immediately laid out on the surface of the salad. For completeness, sprigs of parsley or dill should be added to them.
In addition to the usual flowers, culinary experts very often make carrots of roses, cedar cones, butterflies and so on. But this requires more experience and skill.
To summarize
As you can see, there are quite a few ways to decorate puff salads. Using these techniques, you can not only beautifully cover the festive table, but also surprise all invited guests.
By the way, in addition to eggs, carrots, cucumbers and tomatoes, peppers, beets, red fish, various berries, nuts, fruits, etc. are very often used to decorate appetizers.