What is the most important thing in salads for children? The main thing is that they are tasty, healthy and always beautifully decorated.
For example, a child from one and a half to three years can be prepared for dessert salads for children with apples.
Salad one: the peeled apple is grated with a large lattice and mixed with a couple of three pieces of prunes cut into strips. Pour with two teaspoons of honey and mix.
Second salad: boil, cool and peel an egg and one potato. The peel is removed from the apple and seeds are removed from it, the fresh cucumber is washed. All the ingredients are cut into small cubes, add a tablespoon of canned peas and season with a small amount of sour cream.
Third salad: take three small apples and one pear. The fruits are washed and peeled from them, cut into rectangular cubes and mixed. Washed and sliced apricots are laid out on top. All fruits are poured with lemon juice, sprinkled with icing sugar and served as a dessert in this form.
Such salads for children look very bright and festive. The main thing is to put them in elegant plates and decorate.
Salads for children from white cabbage and ordinary vinaigrette are obtained in the same elegant and useful way. True, such dishes are more suitable for kids over 3 years old.
White cabbage salad: cut into small strips 100 g of fresh, crisp cabbage and knead it a little with your hands. Red or yellow bell peppers are cleaned from seeds and cut into strips. A small onion (it is better to take a red onion) is cut into half rings. Peel the apple, remove all the seeds from it and cut into narrow cubes. All ingredients are mixed, a pinch of salt and sugar, a little sunflower oil are added, the salad is mixed again and laid out on a plate lined with lettuce.
Vinaigrette: boil one small beets, carrots and medium-sized potatoes until cooked. Peel the vegetables and cut them into small cubes. A couple of tablespoons of sauerkraut is finely chopped, pickled cucumber is also divided into cubes. Onions are cut into quarters of rings, mixed with vegetables, salted, garnished with a pinch of greenery and seasoned with vegetable oil. To make the finished salad look better on the plate, you can not mix the onion with the rest of the mass, but decorate the finished vinaigrette with it. Greens, too, can not be cut, but stick small branches along the edges of the plate.
For a birthday or New Year, it is customary to prepare holiday salads for children. For example - assorted salad. To prepare it, you need to take one banana, a couple of kiwi, a small pineapple (or a can of canned), rinse everything and peel it. Dice the fruit and put it into a beautiful decorative salad bowl. Top them with three tablespoons of sweet syrup (any, you can take orange or cherry), sprinkle with vanilla sugar and a tablespoon of crushed walnuts.
Festive fruit salad for children can be made not only with sweet syrup, but also with ice cream. To prepare it, you need to take one banana, 2-3 kiwi, two tangerines and a large orange. Mandarin and orange are peeled, divided into slices, each cut into two or three parts. Bananas and kiwi are also peeled and chopped into cubes. All the fruits are mixed in a salad bowl, add a couple of tablespoons of slightly flooded ice cream and mix the salad again.
You can cook the simplest tomato salad and decorate it in the original way. It will take sour cream, a couple of tomatoes, onions. The peeled onion is cut into thin strips. With a tomato cut "butt" centimeter in two, all the rest is divided into slices. On a plate lay circles of tomato (eyes) on top decorate with onions (eyelashes). One slice is placed under the eyes, a mustache is laid out from the bow. The remaining tomatoes are placed on the edge of the plate and decorated with sour cream (beard).
Such simple, tasty, and most importantly healthy salads for children will surely appeal to kids and their parents.