How to decorate salads? Beautifully and originally decorated dishes create a festive atmosphere. You can decorate them not only with the usual greens. Figures and drawings made of mayonnaise, vegetables, fruits, eggs and so on are also suitable for this. The choice is limited only by the imagination of the cook.
How to decorate a salad under a fur coat originally
There are dishes without which it is difficult to imagine a festive table. Delicate taste, affordable and simple ingredients are the reasons why many people like herring under a fur coat. How to decorate a salad so that it looks original and festive?
- Salad can be shaped like a fish. Of course, imitating the herring itself will not be easy, but this is not required. The figure of a funny fish, even a little childish, can become the highlight of the festive table. The salad is laid out on an oval plate. Details that are peculiar to the fish are created from improvised materials. Allowed to use onion rings, herbs, olives, trimmed vegetables. A fisheye can represent half an egg.
- What else can be done with herring under a fur coat? How to decorate a salad to impress guests? For example, you can submit it in the form of a roll. All layers are stacked in reverse order on the cling film - beets, carrots, eggs, fish, onions, potatoes (the exact list depends on the recipe). Next, the contents are carefully twisted, a roll is created, which should be left in the refrigerator until hardened. When all the layers are securely fastened with mayonnaise, the herring under the fur coat can be carefully laid out on a plate.
Experiments with Olivier
One cannot fail to mention another dish, which is a frequent guest at the holiday tables. Olivier - salad, without which it is hardly possible to celebrate the New Year. Its taste causes pleasant associations in many people. However, standard serving will ruin the dish, no matter what benefits it has.
- How to decorate olivier salad? For example, it can be issued in the form of a New Year tree. To do this, stock up on a two-liter plastic bottle. It is cut in half, then the salad is laid out in its narrow part in dense layers. The dish should be kept in the refrigerator for several hours. Then you need to cover the salad with a plate and turn it over, pull the bottle up. The resulting slide is made using dill branches, which will take on the role of Christmas needles. Pomegranate seeds can become toys.
- Transform the appearance of the dish will help slices of fresh cucumber or carrots, which emphasize its juiciness and freshness. They must be cut along, and then laid out in the form of curls, quilling or fans. You can also use potato chips instead of cucumber slices.
What can be done with Mimosa
There is a simple and tasty dish, which is suitable not only for the festive, but also for the everyday table. It is easy to make from affordable ingredients. Of course, we are talking about Mimosa. How to decorate a salad to present it in an unusual light?
- The dish must be prepared in the usual way - a slide, which looks like a bun of cheese. The salad is decorated with grated yolk, thanks to which it will gain color and brightness. Then you need to cook three eggs, arrange them with sprigs of greens, olives and cheese. Using these ingredients, eyes, nose, ears and antennae should be formed. The resulting "mice" are evenly distributed over the entire area of the salad.
- How to decorate Mimosa salad in a different way? This can be done easily using twigs formed from dill and parsley brushes. You need to decorate the dish immediately before serving, as the greens will lose their attractive appearance in the refrigerator. From the yolk you can create a frame and flowers, and a layer of grated protein acts as a background.
Bell pepper
How to decorate salads beautifully? Bulgarian pepper will help to cope with this task. It is famous for a variety of color palette, has elasticity, which allows you to experiment with the shape of the picture.
From bell pepper, you can create a figure, for example, a fairy dragon. This solution is ideal for a party in the spirit of the Middle Ages. You can make a dragon's face out of pepper, cut wings, legs, and thorns on the back. Olives are suitable for creating eyes and other small details.
Bell pepper can be used for the original serving of salad. It is cut in half, freed from seeds. Salad must be put in the lower part, and ship sail can be easily created from the remnants of pepper and skewers. Of course, only an impeccably smooth pepper without external damage is suitable.
Pineapples
How to decorate salads beautifully? It is also easy to do with sweet canned or regular pineapple. This product goes well with meat and mushrooms.
- With the help of a pineapple, you can depict an opened flower. Pomegranate or currant berries, greens are also used.
- Cubes of canned pineapple can be mixed with cranberries and bell peppers. All this is laid out on top of the salad.
- Ordinary pineapple can become a creative form for salad. It is only necessary to cut off half and put a dish on it.
Tomatoes
How to decorate salads? It is difficult to imagine a more suitable product for this than a tomato. The elasticity of this vegetable provides a wide scope for the imagination of the cook. You can cut out figures of various shapes, for example, it can be stripes, hearts, circles, and so on.
The tomato can be used in its usual form or peeled. It is important to completely remove the seeds. It is easy to create a ladybug from a tomato, you just need to decorate its half with olives, making with their help a muzzle and specks.
Tulips can also be made from tomatoes, which will transform the appearance of the salad. To do this, vegetables must be cleaned of seeds and the inside, cut into four petals. Each resulting tulip is stuffed with a salad, which should be finely chopped or grated. Otherwise, the dish will not keep in shape. Feathers of green onions are ideal for creating flower stems.
Cucumbers
How to decorate salads with cucumbers? This product is an excellent material for decorating dishes. Pickled and fresh vegetables are suitable for decorating salads.
- From cucumber slices, it is easy to create a flower. Each piece will depict a separate petal.
- From the skin and middle of the vegetable it is easy to cut leaves of almost any plant. If you put such a work of art on a salad, its appearance will be transformed.
The egg
Decorate salads with your own hands easily and with eggs. They can be not only chicken, but also quail, which are famous for their aesthetics. Of course, only cooked products are used to decorate the dish.
You can cut flower petals from protein, and use the yolk to create a center. This option is ideal for transforming the appearance of Mimosa. Also, with the help of egg flowers, you can arrange any salad, among the ingredients of which there are eggs.
Quail eggs can simply be cut into halves and put on a dish, this will give it a festive look. They are laid out on the salad over the entire area or along the edge, a specific pattern is created.
Mayonnaise
Festively decorated salads will make a pleasant impression on guests. Mayonnaise is a suitable product for decorating dishes. There are several ways to apply drawings, they are listed below:
- Mayonnaise can be put in a plastic bag and make a small hole in it. The package will look like a pastry bag.
- You can fill the syringe with sauce or use a pastry bag.
- In the packaging of mayonnaise, you can make a neat hole that will squeeze it onto the surface of the dish.
What can be the drawings? Curls, lace, mesh, figures - the choice of options is limited only by the imagination of the chef. It is also important to consider that only high-fat mayonnaise is suitable for creating patterns. Apply them immediately before serving, otherwise the sauce may leak, turn yellow or darken.
Birthday
Obviously, the design of dishes depends on which holiday is planned to be celebrated. Suppose a culinary decorates salads for a birthday. To do this, you can apply:
- Figures telling about the age of the birthday. It is easy to create them, armed with an ordinary mayonnaise. How to create drawings using this product is described above. Also, numbers can be made from vegetables, fruits, herbs.
- Name, initials of the hero of the occasion. They are also created using vegetables, fruits, herbs, mayonnaise.
- Candles It’s not necessary to decorate the birthday cake with these attributes. The creative solution is to stick them in the salad. It is only necessary to ensure that the birthday man does not forget to make a wish before proceeding with the tasting of a beautiful dish.
Greenery
How to decorate a table with salads? For this dish it is necessary to make out in an original and beautiful way. Easy to cope with this task will help greens. From it you can create various patterns depicting vegetation, for example trees, bushes, branches, flowers, grass, leaves. You can use almost any greens, there are no restrictions.
What are some interesting options? For example, you can make the green part of the watermelon rind in the salad “Watermelon Slice”. Or use greens as a background on which fungi created from tomatoes and eggs are planted.
Mice
What can prepare those who are interested in recipes for decorated salads? There are many options. A mouse salad of crab sticks is just a godsend for those who want to quickly create a dish that can decorate a festive table. The following ingredients are required:
- crab sticks (240 g);
- hard cheese (150 g);
- mayonnaise (250 g);
- parsley greens;
- carrot;
- 2 cloves of garlic;
- peppercorns.
The cooking technology is simple. It is necessary to grate crab sticks, hard cheese and garlic on a fine grater, cut carrots into circles. Garlic and cheese are mixed with mayonnaise, mixed thoroughly. The finished mass is kept in the refrigerator for an hour, and then oval molds are formed from it, which must be rolled from all sides in grated crab sticks.
Ponytails are made from crab sticks, eyes from black pepper, ears from carrots. Spectacular decoration for the festive table is ready.
"Sakura branch"
How to decorate a table with salads? “Sakura branch” - this is the name of another simple cooking dish.
The following ingredients will be required:
- smoked chicken (300 g);
- a can of pickled champignons;
- 2 beets;
- cheese (200 g);
- 5 eggs;
- bow.
How to cook this holiday salad? Smoked chicken must be cut into strips, chop the beets, grate the eggs and cheese. All layers are gently smeared with mayonnaise. Sakura flowers are made from protein, which is given the right color with beetroot juice. Branches are made from green and black olives, grated on a fine grater. Leaves are easy to make from leeks and stamens from yolk.
Dill
Beautifully designed salad will help ordinary dill. The product must be fresh, with a rich green color. Decorate the dish immediately before serving. Long-term storage will cause dill to lose its attractive appearance.
If you distribute it over the entire area of the layer, you get a uniform background. Also dill can be used in order to "draw" spruce twigs on the salad. This dish can be the highlight of the New Year's table. Of course, with its help you can create something else.
Other options
How to decorate salads in an original way? For these purposes, almost any improvable edible parts will fit. For example, it could be:
- vegetable, cheese, meat slices;
- olives;
- olives;
- boiled, pickled vegetables;
- Red caviar;
- boiled eggs.
The main thing is not to overdo it. If you spend too much time on the design of the dish, you can be upset because they ate it so quickly.