One would like to serve a delicious and beautifully decorated dish at any festive table. Today we will show you how easy and simple, using the simplest products and your imagination, to create a decoration of the festive table dishes with your own hands. For clarity, we will attach a photo to make it clearer for you how to beautifully decorate a plate at home and give it a restaurant look, elegant and attractive.

Ordinary cold cuts can be served in such a way that you want to stand and admire the culinary masterpiece. If you just cut the fish and serve it on the table, it will not be festive and everyday at all, but if you show a little imagination, decorate it with a lemon, add greens, then the already simple food turns into a festive dish.

How to decorate a fish dish

Serving herring on the table, you can complement the dish with boiled shrimps, add herbs and lemon wedges. For example, here's how in this photo, the process of laying out the products is as follows: (herring and shrimp)

• 2 herrings
• 400 g shrimp
• Purple lettuce and some regular green
• 8 eggs
• Black caviar, if any, can be done without it

As you can see, there are a lot of products, but you can reduce them, it all depends on how many guests will be present at the festive table. Put salad green leaves in the center on the dish, and curly purple leaves around the edges. You should always start forming the dish from the center. Put the chopped herring, place peeled shrimp with a tail on top between each piece.

The next circle will be halved eggs. If caviar is available, place half a teaspoon on each egg. And now you need to lay out two circles of shrimp, placing them tightly one next to the other, with their backs up and with their tails facing the boiled eggs. At the same time, lettuce leaves must be visible. It turned out to be a very beautiful dish, look carefully at the photo and everything will immediately become clear to you.

The festive decoration of dishes with the photos that you will find on this page will help you decorate and decorate salads, you will learn how to serve fruits beautifully, how to serve cooked dishes for a children's party, how to arrange them so that children will be interesting and fun.

A beautiful presentation of dishes does not require special knowledge; you do not have to be a professional to surprise guests with beautifully decorated dishes. A little bit of effort and desire to surprise the guests, that's all. For example, here is how you can simply and beautifully serve tomatoes with soft cheese:

we begin to lay out the products from a small circle, alternating between tomato slices and circles of cheese. Then we lay out a larger circle, the third, and finally a circle of cherry tomatoes. In the center of the dish, place a rose cut from a tomato; it is not at all difficult to make it, decorate with fresh basil leaves. That's all. How beautiful and appetizing the most ordinary tomatoes look.

Decorating children's dishes

All mothers prepare the most delicious for their birthday, dishes for a children's party should be not only tasty, but also beautiful. The food itself is not very attractive for children, but if it is served bright, colorful, with children's characters, then the children will certainly sit and feast on the table.

An excellent decoration of children's dishes can be a "fruit palm" made of fruits, because we all know that many children are difficult to get them to eat. But, in this way, cut and served fruits will certainly attract the attention of the kids. They will gladly absorb the "trunk" or "crown" of a palm tree.

Fruit slicing can be done like this:

• cut two bananas into small pieces, cut off the noses and bend one slightly to the left and the other to the right to create the appearance of a palm tree trunk.
• Instead of sand, peel a couple of tangerines and put slices under the trees.
• Peel and chop the kiwi, put on top, they will replace the green crown of the palm trees for us. What a beauty it turned out, the kids will be delighted.

And this is how you can decorate the fish under a fur coat for a children's party.

The salad is laid out in the shape of a fish and decorated as follows:

in the first photo, carrots and beets are used for decoration, which play the role of scales. Cut out and make a tail from beets, whole olives will be eyes, and cut into strips - cilia. That's all.

In the second option, instead of scales, cut a pickled cucumber and put, placing one piece on top of another, make a fish tail and fins from dill. Not a salad, just a picture.

Cucumber and tomato salad dressing

The simplest salad can be turned into a gorgeous dish if you decorate it skillfully. Many housewives who prepare great treats do not want to decorate the dishes, citing their inability. Believe me, there is nothing complicated, a little imagination, desire and everything will work out. See the photo, and we will tell you in detail how to decorate the salad.

Option 1: tomato, cucumber, herbs

You will need one large cucumber, one tomato, parsley leaves, that's probably all. Put sprigs or parsley leaves on any salad with mayonnaise. Cut the cucumber thinly into slightly oblong pieces. Cut the tomato into not very thin slices. Put chamomile-shaped cucumber on one side and tomato on the other. Put the edge of the tomato in the center of the cucumbers, and the edge of the cucumber to the tomatoes. Perfectly.

Option 2: "Bouquet of tulips"

Another beautiful dish of cucumbers and tomatoes, standing still in execution.
To prepare it, you will need very few products, your imagination and a little time.

• Bunch of green onion
• A dozen fresh tomatoes, cream
• 60 g cottage cheese
• 2 cloves of garlic
• 2 fresh cucumbers
• A spoonful of canned peas

1. Make two shallow cuts on top of the tomatoes - crosswise.
2. Mix cottage cheese with crushed garlic, add salt and put in a teaspoon on the tomatoes.
3. Cut the cucumbers into thin oblong pieces and put on the bottom of the dish, halfway.
4. Put a bunch of green onions with the white part down, tie it with one arrow, spread the greens over the entire oval dish from above.
5. Arrange the tomatoes as if creating the appearance of tulips. Sprinkle a spoonful of peas casually.

A beautiful bouquet, it will even be a pity to eat it.

Option 3: tomatoes, olives, parsley

1. We need a small tomato, a few sprigs of parsley and a couple of black olives. Let's make a "ladybug", this salad turns out to be very cute and can be easily served on a children's party. The kid will be delighted.
2. Cut a small tomato into two parts, cut off the top part, make a small cut on the bottom. Looking at the photo, you will understand how to do it correctly.
3. Put parsley twigs in different directions in the corners, make several punctures on the back of the tomato and stick in small pieces of chopped olives.
4. Use one fourth of the olive as the head of the insect, and cut into small strips that replace the legs. That's all.

Beautiful dishes, their design with a photo will help you turn the most ordinary salad into something very beautiful. For example, salad "Olivier", the most common dish that everyone always prepares for any festive table. But if you decorate it a little differently, you get a very attractive and festive salad.

How to decorate salad "Olivier"

Put the salad in a small slide in the center of the plate, cover the empty edges of the plate with finely chopped parsley.

• Cut the red and yellow bell peppers into thin rings, arrange around the salad slide, alternating color and lightly placing on top of each other.
• Where the salad ends, put the chopped olives in a ring, put the chopped cucumber slices in the top ring.

Place a few olives on top of the salad. That's all, just a feast for the eyes.

The products with which you decorate the dish should not conflict with the main components, but only complement them and enrich the taste. Today we will talk about decorating dishes not only on the festive table with our own hands, but also touch on everyday dishes.

Do-it-yourself highlights of decorating festive table dishes

The first dish is best decorated with greens - finely chopped parsley, cilantro, green onions will give it a summer flavor and, most importantly, enrich it with vitamins.

The second course, decorated with vegetables of bright, contrasting colors, looks attractive. For example, a chop or rump steak can be served in a wide plate, decorated with a handful of green peas, radish semicircles, sauerkraut, and a sprig of greens. As a side dish, potatoes, cut into strips and deep-fried, look appetizing.

Vegetable plate decoration

In spring and summer, lettuce leaves, celery leaves, various types of cabbage, both in whole and in chopped form, are an excellent decoration for dishes.

Tomatoes and cucumbers look beautiful, cut and laid out on plates, covered with large green lettuce leaves.

Vegetable slicing - home decoration

The first course will look like a crushed meadow if you cut the carrots into flowers and sprinkle the soup with chopped green onions. Carrots should be taken medium in size, peeled, washed and cut into 3-4 pieces across. From the resulting blocks of different diameters, cut out, before reaching the core of the sector, from the narrowest part - three sectors, from the next - four, etc. As a result, at the end of the block you will get "flowers" with a different number of "petals".

Tomatoes will decorate your table in an original way, if you remove the core from them and fill it with cubes of unpeeled cucumbers or green peas.

It is very fun to see the fly agarics made from eggs and tomatoes, especially loved by children, on the table - “fly agarics in the meadow”. Boil the eggs hard-boiled, peel them and cut off the blunt part of the egg for stability on the plate. Sprinkle chopped herbs, green onions or lettuce leaves into a plate and set the eggs. Then take a tomato, cut off a segment and take out a little pulp with a knife, just enough so that you can put the “hat” on the “leg”. After all the mushrooms are assembled, put white dots of sour cream on the caps.

Vegetables can be decorated decoratively for the festive table. When decorating a dish, it is good to use both fresh and canned vegetables. Natural cucumbers can be cut into fan, feathers, and thin long strips that roll easily into cones and petals.

If you took care of salted cabbage in a timely manner, then all winter you will have not only excellent pickles, but also an excellent decoration for any meat dish.

Finely chopped red cabbage adds a special flavor to the entire table.

Do-it-yourself beautiful design of second courses and snacks

If rice is a side dish for the second course, you can color it in different colors: tomato - pink, saffron - yellow, and if you mix rice with finely chopped dill - green.

Fish dishes can be decorated with lemon slices by cutting out corners from their rind, resulting in gear wheels of different diameters.

A beautiful contrast to lemons and oranges when decorating meat and fish dishes are the whole fruits of pickled plums, gooseberries, olives and pickled apples.

If you have some kind of spicy snack in small quantities, it is convenient to distribute it in portions. For this purpose, you can take boiled eggs, cut them in half lengthwise, take out the yolk, which is useful as a decoration for another dish or for a salad, and fill the egg white with a "pile" of black, red caviar, pollock roe, herring forshmak, etc.

Try to decorate the fish as follows. Take a beautiful sprig of parsley or cilantro, green peas, a "flower" of carrots, a cogwheel of lemon or radish, a circle of hard-boiled eggs and fill the dish with jelly made from broth (based on the proportion: 5 g of swollen gelatin per 100 g of heated broth). An excellent addition to fish is kefir jelly with chopped herbs and horseradish.

Leaves of beet leaves or red cabbage can be a spectacular background for salad or cold cuts. For an egg, an unpeeled cucumber, obliquely and often cut on one side and fanned out.

A chrysanthemum can be made from an ordinary bulb if it is cut often in sectors, not reaching the base, and immersed in cold water overnight. Multicolor is also possible here. If you tint the water with beetroot juice or saffron infusion, then by the morning you will “bloom” a pink, white, or yellow “flower”.

Salad dressing is an important part of the entire serving. You can decorate dishes not only with the usual greens, but also with various cuts, mayonnaise drawings, and figurines. Dishes, which were given worthy attention during the presentation, are always much tastier and more beautiful than the others.

Shuba salad is one of the favorite salads of our people because it consists of simple and accessible components, and their combination gives a unique and delicate taste. "Fur coat" is often prepared for the New Year and Christmas holidays, and it always, even on the most ordinary weekday, causes a person to feel a sense of triumph and joy.

Herring under a fur coat got its name only due to the fact that the fish is covered with many "fluffy" vegetable and mayonnaise layers that cover it on a serving dish. But how boring the same salad bowl can look at every celebration with this dish. Nowadays, it is popular and actual to create an unusual and original presentation for everything and the "fur coat" is no exception.

The most common and "boring" serving of herring "Shuba" salad

Original serving of the standard salad "Herring under a fur coat":

• One of the methods involves giving the salad the shape of a fish, it is not necessary to imitate the herring itself, but the figure of a funny even a little child's fish can provoke joy and a smile from everyone
• To do this, the salad should be laid out on a plate in advance in a specific form: an oval with a tail
• All the details that are characteristic of a fish can be created from scrap materials: scraps of vegetables, olives, herbs, onion rings, drawings with mayonnaise

original serving of “herring under a fur coat” salad in the shape of a fish

Unusual serving of “Herring under a fur coat” salad:

• One of the most unusual variations of serving "fur" salad on the table is serving in the form of a roll
• Such a salad contains a set of standard ingredients, which differ only in that all layers are stacked on cling film and in reverse order: beets, carrots, eggs, fish, onions, potatoes (be guided by your recipe)
• Then all the contents are carefully rolled with a film and a roll is formed.
• The roll should be put into the refrigerator for hardening and only after a sufficient amount of time has passed, when the mayonnaise will hold all the layers together - carefully put on a plate

unusual serving of salad "fur coat" in the form of a roll

You can decorate the "fur coat" salad roll with bright greens and mayonnaise "mesh" pattern.

Beautiful serving salad "Herring under a fur coat":

• Such a presentation involves the design of a salad in the form of a ring.
• To do this, you need a special solid or silicone baking dish.
• In order for the salad to keep its shape, all layers must be laid out by tamping a little and pressing tightly to each other
• Put the salad in the refrigerator for several hours to "grab"
• After the time has elapsed, it is necessary to cover the form with a serving plate, abruptly turn the form with the plate upside down and knock a little on the form so that the salad lags behind it.
• Garnish the finished salad with herbs and cut vegetables

beautiful serving of herring under a fur coat salad

Decorating Olivier salad, original ideas for serving a familiar dish

Olivier is the most popular and most frequent dish on festive tables. Like "Shuba" they love to cook it for the New Year and Christmas, and the taste of this salad will certainly evoke pleasant associations for everyone. But no matter how tasty and loved this salad may be, its standard and usual serving in the form of a "pile" can be boring and uninteresting.

An original and non-standard serving of a familiar dish will help to correct the situation and decorate, as well as diversify the table. There are several winning variations for this.

Plain and standard serving of Olivier salad on the table

Original serving of Olivier salad:

• Olivier salad in the original should contain pickled chopped cucumber
• Not everyone knows the delicious and very balanced combination of pickled pickles and fresh cucumbers.
• Try to decorate the salad with slices of fresh cucumber, which will not only add festiveness to the dish, but also make it more "fresh" and juicy
• In order to do this beautifully, you should use either a wide, well-sharpened knife, or a special vegetable peeler (which is much more convenient, faster and easier)
• Cucumber slices should be cut lengthwise. They can be laid out in the form of a fan, in the form of ruffles or curls.
• If you wish, you can decorate the salad with potato chips (this is important, since potatoes are also present in the recipe itself)

original serving of ordinary salad "Olivier", garnished with fresh cucumber and potato chips

Unusual serving of the standard Olivier salad:

• Unusual serving of the familiar salad "Olivier" involves a little "play" with the ingredients of the dish
• In order to give it a beautiful shape, you will need to use either a special salad mold, or any round jar
• Prepare the salad as you usually do, the only condition is not to add peas
• Place the lettuce tightly in the tins to keep it in shape
• Whisk the peas without liquid with a blender until a paste forms.
• Put the resulting pasta in an even layer on top of the salad, level with a knife
• Remove the mold. On top of the green hat, lay out the decoration: a boiled quail egg, cut in half and a spoonful of red caviar
• Be sure that such a dish will "sparkle" in a new way and will give you completely different taste sensations

unusual serving of salad "Olivier" on the table

Beautiful serving of Olivier salad on the festive table:

• As mentioned earlier, "Olivier" is a real New Year's dish
• A beautiful presentation involves decorating this salad in the shape of a Christmas tree and this is not at all difficult to do.
• For this design, you will need a two-liter plastic bottle.
• Cut the bottle in half and lay the salad in dense layers in the narrow part (where the neck is)
• Let the salad sit for a few hours in the refrigerator.
• After that, cover the salad with a plate and turn it over, pull the bottle up, the salad will remain on the plate.
• The resulting "slide" should be decorated with sprigs of dill, pomegranate seeds can act as toys

beautiful serving of the usual salad "Olivier" on the festive table

Mimosa salad is one of the simplest dishes for a festive and everyday table. It can always be made from inexpensive ingredients, as its highlight is canned sardines. Salad is always eaten with pleasure: at lunchtime and on holiday. Its unusual design will be able to distinguish it from the rest of the dishes and make it your "calling card" on the table.

the usual serving of the traditional "Mimosa" sardine salad

Original serving of Mimosa salad:

• The original serving of "Mimosa" in a humorous style will help to surprise the guests and please everyone at the festive table.
• You can create decorations for a beautiful presentation using the ingredients themselves: boiled eggs, which will become "mice"
• In principle, creating such a feed is not at all laborious, but it requires patience and accuracy.
• The salad should be prepared in a standard way - "slide", a bit reminiscent of a bun of cheese
• Garnish the salad with grated yolk, which will add color and brightness
• Three boiled eggs should be decorated with cheese, olives and sprigs of herbs, forming ears, eyes, nose and antennae
• The mice should be evenly distributed over the entire area of ​​the "cheese head"

original decoration of the "Mimosa" salad for the festive season

Unusual serving of Mimosa salad:

• Such a serving involves serving salad in portions.
• It looks like several peculiar mounds, each of which can be taken and put on your plate.
• We can say that these are several small Mimosa salads at once
• Such a salad is prepared traditionally, each layer is laid out one after another and at the end sprinkled with yolk or yellow cheese
• You can place such mounds on the lettuce leaves, which lined the bottom of the serving dish.
• Such a "hilly" serving will distract from the standard one and will arouse guests' interest in trying the dish.
• Decorate the mounds with parsley sprigs and black olives

unusual serving of "Mimosa" salad on the festive table

Beautiful serving of Mimosa salad:

• One of the simplest, but nevertheless beautiful ways of serving salad is the image of the mimosa flower itself.
• The salad got its name due to the fact that its top layer of yolk is very reminiscent of the fluffy flowering of mimosa
• That is why you can decorate the salad by "drawing" twigs, the basis of which will be dill brushes
• The salad should be decorated in this way before serving, because the greens during the time spent in the refrigerator can "wind up" and lose their decent appearance
• For the background, it is proposed to lay out a layer of grated egg white, and make the flowers and the frame from the yolk

beautiful serving of "Mimosa" salad with the image of blooming mimosa

Salad dressing with pepper? How to decorate a salad with bell pepper beautifully?

Bell pepper is a fairly suitable material for decorating salads and other dishes. It has a good color palette: yellow, orange, red, light green, green. Not unimportant is its elasticity, thanks to which you can set the desired shape and contour of the picture.

There are several of the most popular ways to decorate a salad with bell peppers:

One way invites you to create a certain figure, for example - a dragon. This is especially true in the Year of the Dragon according to the Eastern calendar or for a party in a certain medieval style. It is easy to cut out the shape of a dragon's face, its spines on the back, wings and legs from bell pepper. The eyes and some precise details can be carved from olives.

decorating salads with bell peppers, creating figures with bell peppers

In another case, bell pepper - an excellent form for serving the salad itself. You can use absolutely any salad. The pepper is carefully cut in half, peeled from the seeds. In the lower part, a salad is folded from the remnants of pepper and a skewer, the sail of the boat is formed. It should be remembered that for serving, you need a perfectly even pepper without external damage.

original salad serving and salad dressing with pepper

An easier way is stuff the pepper with a certain salad... This is a neat and beautiful way of serving salad, which will refresh the fine and light taste of the pepper.

pepper stuffed with salad for serving

The pepper color palette allows give your any salad a certain color, therefore, this vegetable gives you a lot of room for creativity and decorating salads like fruits, flowers and other interesting objects. To do this, it is enough to chop the pepper very finely and lay it out in an even layer.

how to decorate a salad with bell pepper?

Smooth and beautiful bell pepper rings can be a beautiful decoration for any salad, no matter how you place them, the main thing is to do it with taste and soul.

salad dressing with pepper. How to decorate salad with pepper?

How to decorate a salad with pineapples? Pineapple salad dressings

Pineapple is one of the most popular salad dressings with modern salads. Sweet canned pineapple goes well with meat, chicken and mushrooms. Pineapple jewelry is always original and unusual.

Most often, you can find a decoration that symbolizes an opened flower. As a rule, it is complemented by other elements: currant or pomegranate berries, greens.

standard and traditional salad dressing with canned pineapple

You can also decorate the salad with simple canned pineapple cubes mixed with bell peppers and cranberries: sweet, sour and fresh tastes will mix at the same time, which will give the dish a special impression and exclusivity.

salad dressing with canned pineapple cubes

Pineapple canned with rings can be easily transformed into a blooming carnation, you just need to apply diligence and accuracy.

salad dressing with canned pineapple rings

Do not also forget about the usual pineapple, half of which can become not only a decoration, but also a form for a salad.

salad dressing with pineapple, beautiful serving in half fresh pineapple

Salad garnished with tomatoes. How to decorate a salad with tomatoes?

Tomato is one of the best "materials" for decorating and decorating any salad. Various figures of various shapes can be cut from an elastic vegetable:

• mugs
• hearts
• stripes and much more

The tomato can be blasted (peeled) or used as it is. When decorating a salad with a tomato, remember that you only need the soft part of it, the seeds should be completely removed.

The easiest way to make a salad look interesting is to create a ladybug. To do this, you will also need black olives to create specks and faces.

decorating any salad with a tomato in the shape of a ladybug

An unusual and rather complicated way to decorate a salad is to make tulips from tomatoes. For this, some subtleties must be observed:

• You should choose and buy only elastic, elongated tomatoes.
• Each tomato is carefully peeled from seeds
• To clear a tomato from seeds and the inside, you need to cut it into four petals, if it turned out unsuccessfully, do not worry. You can always hide the "bad" side by putting it on a plate, and opening the beautiful side to your gaze
• Each tulip is stuffed with salad, be careful: the salad should be finely grated or chopped enough to "keep its shape" and not make the flower crumpled
• The stem of the flower can be made from greens or green onion feathers

how to decorate salad with tomato? unusual ways to decorate salad with tomato

If the tomato skin is thinly and neatly cut long enough with a sharp knife, then from the resulting "ribbon" you can make a beautiful rose.

how to decorate a tomato salad in an unusual, original and beautiful way?

You can decorate a cherry tomato salad in a peculiar way. To do this, slightly oblong tomatoes must be cut a little obliquely and combine two halves of two tomatoes in the form of a heart.

how beautiful and unusual to decorate a salad with tomatoes?

The standard and traditional way of decorating a salad with tomatoes is stuffing them with salad. Olives and mayonnaise will help create a certain pattern.

decoration of salads with figurines of tomatoes

Cucumber salad, how to decorate a salad with a cucumber beautifully?

Just like a tomato, a cucumber is an excellent material for decorating absolutely any salad. Thinly sliced ​​cucumber slices can always become a flower, where each slice mimics a separate petal. Moreover, you can use both fresh and pickled vegetables.

original and unusual decoration of salads with cucumber

You can always cut leaves of any plant of various shapes from the skin and the middle of a cucumber. Decorating salads with such leaves is a pleasure.

decorating salad with cucumber, creating patterns and cucumber "leaves"

salad dressing with pickled cucumber

In order to create figures and patterns from a cucumber, it must be very thinly cut using a wide sharp knife, a vegetable peeler or a special cutting for a cucumber, which makes a spring out of it.

How to decorate a salad with an egg? Egg Salad Decorations

Eggs are not only beautiful but also delicious salad dressings. You can use the most common chicken eggs for salad, or you can use quail eggs, which are neat and aesthetic due to their miniature size. The salad should be decorated exclusively with boiled eggs.

One of the most common methods involves cutting the flower petals out of the protein and creating the center from the grated yolk. These flowers can be used to decorate "Mimosa" and any other salad containing eggs.

how to decorate a salad with an egg beautifully and in an original way?

Even quail eggs, simply cut into halves, can give any salad a festive and very "tasty" look. To do this, place the halves throughout the dish or place them along the edge, repeating a specific pattern. Quail eggs can be decorated with a "bead" of red caviar, if it is a fish salad, and a ring of black olive to any other salad.

Small halves of quail eggs also perfectly embody the petals of a flower, chamomile for example. Large halves can be used to make boats, animal faces, the image of a snowman or Santa Claus for certain holidays.

salad garnished with quail eggs stuffed with yolk and mayonnaise

Easter salad garnished with halves of colored quail eggs

salad decorated with egg white flowers salad can be decorated with mushroom-shaped eggs, the second half of the mushroom is painted with onion husks

you can decorate the salad with a snake made up of egg rings

How to decorate salad with mayonnaise?

Mayonnaise is the easiest way to quickly and beautifully decorate any salad. Mayonnaise is part of almost every salad and therefore decoration and drawings from it are always relevant. Mayonnaise decoration - these are drawings on the salad with a thin stream of sauce. You can apply them in three ways:

• making a small hole in the package of sauce, squeezing it onto the surface of the dish gently
• placing the sauce in a plastic bag (forming a bag like a pastry bag out of it) and making a small hole in it
• By placing the sauce in a piping bag or syringe

There are several ways to decorate the salad with mayonnaise:

• by drawing a neat mesh on it
• by drawing lace or curls from a trickle of mayonnaise on it
• by drawing certain details of the figures on the salad and vegetable figurines

There are several rules for decorating salad with mayonnaise:

• for decoration, purchase mayonnaise only with the highest percentage of fat so that it "keeps its shape"
• apply a mayonnaise pattern right before serving the salad to prevent the sauce from darkening, turning yellow, dripping or spoiling
• do everything with special care and then your work will not go unnoticed

simple traditional salad dressing with mayonnaise

"Mesh" of mayonnaise - a simple and unusual salad dressing with mayonnaise

How to decorate salads with herbs beautifully?

Greens are a good and practical material for decorating salads. As a rule, you can always create patterns from greenery that repeat vegetation:

• twigs
• bushes
• trees
• grass
• leaves

For decoration, absolutely any greenery can be suitable, which only needs to be used with creativity. Most often, a green background is created from chopped greens on which you can plant fungi from an egg, ladybugs from a tomato, or simply make a green part of a watermelon rind in a "Watermelon Slice" salad.

"Violet" salad - an unusual decoration of a salad made from thinly sliced ​​radish slices and green basil leaves

herringbone salad, where the shape and color of the tree can be made from chopped parsley

salad "Mushroom glade", where chopped greens are laid out in the background - grass in a meadow where fungi grow

How to decorate a salad with dill?

Dill, due to its small twigs, becomes an excellent decoration for salad. Especially if it is finely chopped. It can be conveniently distributed over the entire area of ​​the layer, it will create a uniform and non-translucent background. It is often used to "paint" spruce twigs on your salad. This is important when preparing festive New Year and Christmas salads.

Before decorating the salad with dill, try to follow a few important rules:

• choose only fresh, rich green dill for decoration
• decorate the salad with dill right before serving so that it does not lose its appearance during long-term storage
• choosing fresh dill, you guarantee not only color, but also taste to your dish

salad "Christmas wreath" decorated with dill on the festive table

Design ideas and decoration of festive salads for the holiday and every day

Decorating salads is a noble cause. So, you get incredible aesthetic pleasure from the dish before you taste it. Decorations require ordinary everyday and especially festive salads on the occasion of the New Year, birthday and even March 8th.

How much time and effort you spend decorating the salad affects the overall perception of the dish and even how long the salad lasts on the table. Do not be afraid to experiment and try to decorate the salad with any edible details at hand:

• cut vegetables
• slicing from different types of cheese
• cuts of smoked and cured meats
• black olives
• green olives
• pickled and boiled vegetables
• boiled chicken and quail eggs
• red caviar
• greens and leafy

decoration of a festive salad with grated boiled vegetables and a boiled egg

salad dressing with boiled egg halves and carrot slices

salad dressing with herbs and orange peels

Unusual edible decoration of children's salads from figurines

Children are real gourmets, they often eat only what suits them. And they are not satisfied with much. It is for this reason that caring mothers increasingly have to invent unusual decorations from edible materials so that their children show an interest in food. Boiled eggs and vegetables, herbs, cheese and meat are used.

It is not difficult to create a beautiful and even three-dimensional pattern on a salad or from a snack for your baby. However, you should show no small perseverance, be patient and be careful.

baby bunny salad made from boiled egg

children's salad "Tiger" made from boiled eggs, boiled carrots and sausages

children's salad "Strawberry" decorated with chopped tomato and cucumber

Original design and decoration of snacks on the festive table

An appetizer is the first thing that guests try at the festive table. It should always be distinguished by its special delicate taste and external aesthetic appearance in order to attract everyone. The appetizer usually consists of boiled eggs, vegetables, olives, sausages and cheese. It is not uncommon for a snack to include delicious seafood.

You can beautifully decorate any appetizer - fish or meat, with the help of halves of boiled quail eggs filled with a variety of coverings - red, black, capelin.

decorating a snack with boiled quail eggs

salad dressing with shrimps and tomato rugs in the shape of swans

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Salad decoration is a reason to write a separate article, because beautiful salads are an integral part of the festive feast, when each hostess comes up with an original one to make the holiday special.

Beautiful salads are especially relevant when there are small children in the house - it is interesting for children to watch how mother decorates salads, and then they gobble it all up together.

Read also:Examples of decorating salads for the New Year, for Birthday, anniversary, wedding. How to decorate salads for any celebration. Beautiful salads with descriptions and photos

Also, beautiful salads are relevant for children's matinees and birthdays. A beautiful salad dressing is not at all as difficult as it might seem, and it is enough to show a little imagination and your beautiful salads will surprise all guests.

Especially for the readers of the Home Restaurant, I made a photo selection of how you can beautifully decorate salads, which, I hope, will be useful to you.

Most of the salads presented in this article are flaky, and to keep their shape, they are best done in a split baking dish, wait for the salads to freeze in the refrigerator, and then remove the ring, and only then start decorating the salads.

Festive Butterfly salad

You can see how to cook Butterfly salad with step by step photos

New Year's salad "Horse"

Ingredients:

• Chicken leg: 1 pc. (or chicken breast: 1 pc.)
• Fresh cucumbers: 2 pcs. (or sweet bell pepper: 2 pcs.)
• Mushrooms: 200-300 g
• Onions: 1 pc
• Vegetable oil: for frying
• Chicken eggs: 4 pcs.
• Mayonnaise: to taste
• Salt: to taste

Preparation:

Boil eggs hard-boiled. Refrigerate.

Boil the chicken leg (or breast) until tender in salted water (about 30 minutes after boiling). Refrigerate.

Peel the onion, wash and cut into small cubes.

Wash the mushrooms and cut into small cubes.

Preheat a frying pan, pour in some oil. Put mushrooms and onions into a frying pan. Fry over medium heat, stirring occasionally, for about 10 minutes.

Separate the chicken meat from the bones and cut into pieces.

Wash the cucumbers (or bell peppers) and cut into cubes.

Separate the whites from the yolks. Grate the protein on a fine grater.

Grate the yolk on a fine grater.

Cool the mushrooms.

Combine prepared meat and cucumbers in a bowl.

Salt to taste, season with mayonnaise.

Mix well until smooth.

Combine the yolks with mayonnaise, mix well. (Bring to the consistency of thick sour cream.)

Put the salad on a flat dish (black or burgundy will look more impressive), shaping the horse's head with a knife. You can prepare a pattern in advance.

Lubricate the silhouette of a horse with a yolk mixture. Lay out the mane from the mushrooms.

The last layer is proteins. Finally shape the head and ears.

Make eyes and nostrils (for example, from olives), decorate the New Year's salad as you wish. Let the salad sit in the refrigerator for at least 1-2 hours. New Year's bacon t "Horse" is ready.

Crab stick salad "Mice"

Ingredients:

• 150 gr of hard cheese (can be processed)
• 240 gr crab sticks
• 2 cloves of garlic
• 250 gr mayonnaise
• 1 carrot
• parsley
• peppercorns

Preparation:

1. Grate cheese, crab sticks and garlic.

2. Cut the carrots into slices.

3. Combine cheese and garlic with mayonnaise, mix well.

4. Put the prepared mass in the refrigerator for 1 hour.

5. Form oval molds from the curd.

6. Then roll them in grated crab sticks on all sides.

7. Make ears from carrots, tails from crab sticks, eyes from black pepper.

Sakura branch«

Ingredientsfor salad:

300 grams of smoked chicken or pork, cut into strips;

2 small table beets, chopped on a grater;

Jar of pickled champignons;

Egg yolks 4-5 eggs;

Grated cheese 200 grams;

Grated proteins.

You can add sauteed or pickled onions after the beets.

Salad preparation:

Coat all layers with mayonnaise.

Sakura flowers are made from squirrel colored with beet juice, branches from black and green olives grated on a fine grater, leek leaves.

The stamens are from the yolk.

The design depends on your taste.

Flower pot«

The salad is prepared in a drop-down baking dish. If there is none, you can use a simple cardboard tape, fastening it in the form of a ring, and wrap it with foil. In this ring we lay out in layers, smearing each with mayonnaise:

1. grilled or smoked chicken, cut into pieces;

2. prunes, cut into strips;

3. champignon mushrooms, fried with onions;

4.cucumbers, cut into strips (let them stand before laying out and drain the excess liquid),

5. Korean carrots.

For decoration: radish is used, which is soaked in beet juice.

If you want lilac flowers - in red cabbage juice.

Free the salad from the contour, put unsweetened crackers around the "pot", decorate with leaves of greenery, which will be at hand. In the photo, the salad is decorated with sorrel.

Lay out the flowers, decorate the middle with yolk, and in between spread the white grated on a fine grater.

Keep in the refrigerator until serving.

Pansies salad

Salad "New Year's cracker"

The recipe for the "New Year's firecracker" salad with step-by-step photos can be viewed

Snake salad for New Year 2013

Recipes for New Year's salad "Snake" (7 pieces) with a photo can be viewed

Crab salad

The recipe for the "Crab" salad can be viewed

Salad "Goldfish"

The recipe for the "Goldfish" salad and decoration options, you can see

Pearl salad

The recipe for the "Pearl" salad can be viewed

White birch salad

The recipe for the White Birch salad and decoration options, you can see

Tsarsky salad

Preparation of Tsarsky salad and decoration options, you can see

Cornucopia salad # 1

The recipe for making cornucopia salad # 1 can be viewed

Violet salad

ingredients for salad: smoked legs, prunes, mushrooms fried with onions, fresh cucumber, Korean carrots, mayonnaise.

cooking : Lay all the ingredients for the salad in layers, smearing with mayonnaise in a salad bowl, or in a split form. Cut the radish into slices and soak in red cabbage juice to turn violet petals lilac. Put spinach leaves on the salad, and then make flowers from radish circles. Make the middle of the violets from egg yolks. Line the sides of the lettuce with crackers.

"Fox fur coat" salad

Salad preparation and decoration options, can be viewed

Gossamer salad

ingredients for salad: sprats, butter, onions, hard cheese, boiled eggs, mayonnaise. Fresh cucumber, black olives, ketchup, herbs for decoration.

cooking : Mash sprats with a fork and put on a plate, then put finely chopped onion with mayonnaise. The next layer is grated cheese with mayonnaise, then three creamy little, and finally eggs.

To decorate, mix 1 tablespoon of mayonnaise with ketchup and draw a spider web. Make a spider out of a black olive. Decorate the sides of the salad with cucumbers and herbs.

Eggplant appetizer "Peacock's tail"

Cooking snacks with step by step photos can be viewed

Fireworks salad

ingredients for salad: ham, boiled eggs, yellow, red and green bell peppers, tomato, mayonnaise, onions

cooking : Cut all the ingredients for the salad into thin flat slices. On a plate, lay out the first layer of ham, with strips of onions. Then there are three colors of bell peppers, alternating with egg whites. Top with tomatoes and mayonnaise, which we hide under grated egg yolks. Mayonnaise can be served separately in a gravy boat.

Ladies' hat salad

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ingredients for decoration : rope cheese suluguni, tomato, black olives

April Olivier salad

ingredients for salad: boiled eggs, boiled carrots, boiled potatoes, pickles, fresh cucumbers, boiled sausage, green onions, smoked sausage, parsley, dill, mayonnaise.

ingredients for decoration : radish, fresh cucumbers, lettuce, curly parsley, rosette salami sausage, olives, egg white.

cooking : Cut the ingredients for the salad into cubes and season with mayonnaise. To decorate the salad, place the lettuce leaves on a plate. Put the salad on top of the leaves. Cut the cucumber in half and cut into wedges. Cut the radish in half. Lay radish and cucumber in turn on the sides. Put curly parsley on top along the edges. Before preparing the salad, cut a slice of boiled eggs and cut it in half. Lay the halves in a circle. Put a salami rose in the middle. It turns out to be done very simply. Cut 7 thin pieces of salami, wrap the first piece in a tube, and apply the rest to each other and secure with toothpicks.

Cut the olives into thin slices and decorate the salad with them in the area of ​​\ u200b \ u200bthe eggs.

Green Rose salad

ingredients for salad: boiled chicken fillet, processed cheese, fresh cucumbers, boiled eggs, pitted olives, red Crimean onions, mayonnaise.

cooking : Cut the ingredients for the salad into cubes and season with mayonnaise. Decorate the salad with slices or slices of fresh cucumber in the form of a rose.

Mexican salad

ingredients for salad: boiled chicken fillet, radishes, fresh cucumbers, boiled eggs, green onions, boiled potatoes, chili peppers, lettuce, pickled cucumbers, lemon juice and vegetable oil

cooking : Cut the ingredients for the salad into cubes and season with lemon juice and vegetable oil. Put the lettuce leaves on a plate, and the salad itself on top. Using toothpicks, collect a cactus from pickled cucumbers.

Salad "White crocuses"

ingredients for salad: boiled eggs, Chinese cabbage, canned corn, pickled mushrooms, green onions, fresh cucumbers, mayonnaise.

preparation: Chinese cabbage, pickled mushrooms, green onions, fresh cucumbers cut into cubes, add corn and season with mayonnaise. Place the salad on a plate and sprinkle with finely chopped eggs on top.

For decoration, we take 7-8 small seedling bulbs (they are sold by attendants in the bazaar), a bunch of green onions and 1/4 of carrots. We clean small onions. Now we take a sharp knife and cut out the cloves along the top of the bow. We take out the "insides" of the onion and with the help of a toothpick and green onions insert the stalks into the "onion cups" and put a small piece of carrot in each onion.

Liver cake "Chamomile"

preparation: prepare a liver cake according to the recipe. Decorate with chopped dill, spread chamomile from egg white and yolk.

Championship salad

ingredients for salad : green peas (young or frozen), canned. corn, boiled potatoes and carrots, balyk, eggs, green onions, dill, mayonnaise, quail eggs.

cooking : cut all the ingredients into cubes and lay out the layers on a square plate, smearing with mayonnaise in the following sequence: potatoes, green onions, eggs, balyk, corn, carrots, potatoes. Decorate the salad with green peas and dill. Make the marking of the field with mayonnaise, and the soccer ball from a quail egg.

Snowdrops salad

ingredients for salad : boiled beef, onions marinated in lemon juice and sugar, eggs, mayonnaise, hard cheese

cooking : The salad is laid out in layers in the following order: pickled onions, boiled meat, boiled eggs. Not too thickly coat each layer with mayonnaise, including the top one. Slightly crush. Sprinkle the salad with grated cheese, make snowdrops from the feathers of green onions, and cut the petals from thinly sliced ​​daikon radish.

ingredients for salad : unsweetened round crackers, canned salmon, saury or tuna, boiled eggs, garlic, green onions, mayonnaise

cooking : Arrange the crackers on a plate in a flower-shaped circle. Then a layer of eggs with mayonnaise, then a layer of crackers, then canned food with mayonnaise and green onions, and grease the last top layer of crackers with mayonnaise and sprinkle with finely grated eggs. Decorate the salad with tomato slices, halved olives and sprigs of herbs.

Salad "Vegetable with garlic"

ingredients for salad : tomatoes, cucumbers, garlic, vegetable oil, herbs

cooking : Cut vegetables into slices and arrange in rows on a round dish. Sprinkle with crushed garlic, herbs, and pour over with vegetable oil.

Crab Spring salad

ingredients for salad : crab sticks, or crab meat, fresh cucumbers, eggs, grated hard cheese, Chinese cabbage, olives. Sauce: mix equal parts mayonnaise and sour cream, seasoning with a little mustard.

cooking : cut crab sticks, cucumbers, eggs, and olives into cubes, tear Chinese cabbage into small pieces. Add cheese and season with sauce, put in a mold and refrigerate for 30 minutes. Take out the salad, transfer to a platter, and garnish with green onions and crab stick flowers.

Mimosa salad with mice

ingredients for salad : boiled eggs, boiled carrots, boiled potatoes, onions, canned fish (sardine in oil), mayonnaise, herbs

ingredients for decoration : pieces of cheese (for ears and tail of mice), black peppercorns (use as eyes for mice)

Salad "Aquarium"

ingredients for salad : seafood cocktail, onions, canned red beans, pickled mushrooms, pickles, grated hard cheese, mayonnaise

ingredients for decoration : seaweed, red bell pepper (to make fish and a star), mayonnaise, some mussels to make crabs

Sunflower salad

ingredients for salad : boiled chicken fillet, onions, fried mushrooms, boiled eggs, mayonnaise

ingredients for decoration : Pringls chips and olives

Salad "Gate"

ingredients for salad : avocado, shrimps, fresh cucumbers, boiled eggs, onions, mayonnaise

ingredients for decoration : green onion feathers, salted straws, a slice of black bread to make the bottom

"Corn" salad

ingredients for salad : boiled chicken breast, pickled cucumbers, onions, fried mushrooms, boiled eggs, parsley and dill, mayonnaise, canned corn

ingredients for decoration : leek leaves and canned corn

Hedgehog salad

ingredients for salad : boiled chicken breast, pickles, boiled carrots, green onions, dill, parsley, canned corn, eggs, mayonnaise

ingredients for decoration : Put the salad on a hedgehog-shaped platter.

Grate eggs on a fine grater, mix with mayonnaise, and brush over a hedgehog. Use potato chips for the needles, and squeeze circles out of the pickled cucumber skin for the eyes and nose.

Crab Paradise salad

ingredients for salad : crab sticks, pickled mushrooms, processed cheese, canned corn, garlic, mayonnaise, herbs

ingredients for decoration : red caviar, olives, curly parsley

Salad "Watermelon slice"

ingredients for salad : smoked chicken fillet, fried mushrooms, boiled carrots, boiled eggs, grated cheese, garlic, mayonnaise

ingredients for decoration : red bell pepper (watermelon pulp), olives (seeds), fresh cucumber (peel)

"Gift" salad

ingredients for salad : boiled veal, boiled carrots, boiled beets, steamed prunes, walnuts, boiled eggs, grated hard cheese, mayonnaise, parsley

ingredients for decoration : cut ribbons from boiled carrots and garnish with parsley.

Capercaillie's nest salad

ingredients for salad : boiled chicken fillet, ham, pickled mushrooms, eggs, mayonnaise

ingredients for decoration : potatoes cut into strips, fried in vegetable oil, lettuce, for poultry eggs: processed cheese, egg yolks, dill, mayonnaise, garlic.

Salad "Starfish"

ingredients for salad : crab meat, or crab sticks, canned corn, boiled eggs, lightly salted salmon, grated hard cheese, garlic, dill, mayonnaise

ingredients for decoration : shrimp, red caviar, salad laid out in layers.

Hares in the Garden Salad

ingredients for salad : fillet of smoked fish, such as butter, boiled potatoes, boiled eggs, boiled carrots, pickles, herbs

ingredients for decoration : make a "bed" of carrots in the middle, put bunnies from eggs on the sides

Orange Slice Salad

ingredients for salad : boiled eggs, boiled carrots, onions, chicken fillet, pickled mushrooms, grated hard cheese, mayonnaise

ingredients for decoration : Lay the salad in layers, shape into an orange wedge, garnish with grated carrots and egg white.

Cornucopia salad №2

ingredients for salad : boiled chicken fillet, boiled potatoes, pickles, canned corn, eggs, mayonnaise

ingredients for decoration : lettuce, vegetables, lightly salted salmon, herbs, and cheese

Pineapple salad

ingredients for salad : smoked chicken, boiled potatoes, boiled eggs, grated hard cheese, pickles, onions, mayonnaise

ingredients for decoration : walnut halves, green onion feathers

Tiger salad

ingredients for salad : smoked or fried pork, onions, boiled carrots, eggs, grated cheese, prunes, fresh cucumbers, paprika, garlic, mayonnaise

ingredients for decoration : lettuce lay out in layers, garnish with grated carrots, olives, olives, and egg white

Grape bunch salad

ingredients for salad : canned fish (cod liver, for example), green onions, boiled potatoes, eggs, grated hard cheese, mayonnaise

ingredients for decoration : blue seedless grapes

Salad "Man's whim"

ingredients for salad : smoked chicken fillet, boiled beef, eggs, Crimean onions, grated hard cheese, mayonnaise

ingredients for decoration : sandwich cheese for calla flowers, green onion feathers for stems, and yellow bell pepper to make pistil

Lovers' salad

ingredients for salad : boiled shrimps, Korean carrots, grated hard cheese, eggs, mayonnaise

ingredients for decoration : olives and red caviar

You can watch a few more beautiful ideas for decorating salads in this video.

Salad decoration: original ideas for the festive table

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Every hostess knows how important a beautiful presentation of dishes is, especially when you are preparing to receive guests. And when setting the table, it is important not to forget about salads. The very design of salads is not so much a complicated process as it takes time and a lot of patience. But one has only to approach this creatively, and your culinary masterpieces will surprise guests not only with their taste, but also with all their interesting appearance.
And indeed, how can you forget about one of the most important and popular dishes when decorating a festive table? Don't underestimate them.

It doesn't matter if you are going to celebrate an important event or just want to have dinner with your family, just put on a bright, decorated salad and it instantly transforms your everyday meal.

And while there are festive and casual meals in every kitchen, this is one that always fits perfectly on the menu. Many of them do not even need to be decorated, they themselves are a riot of colors and elegant brightness, and the rest will not give way to their "festive" brothers, you just have to show your imagination.

Remember how many things the hostess has to do before an important feast: to buy food in advance, and think over all the dishes, and cook, and set the table, and not forget about yourself. And how can you serve cooked food beautifully at such a frantic pace?

And in this case, salads will come to your aid. Their design will not take much time, especially if you find a couple of options the day before, with photos and descriptions.

Over time, you will get so used to it that serving even the simplest dish will amaze guests and your family with its sophistication. And time will take less and less each time. And then you will definitely have time to do both manicure and makeup before the holiday.

How can you decorate a dish so that even a real gourmet is interested in your creation? To get started, stock up on herbs - they will help the dish look fresh.

For decoration, it is better to use those ingredients that are already included in its composition, or those in which you are sure, since everything should be combined with each other not only in color, but also in taste.

But, if everything is simple with salads without dressing (or dressed with oils) - they do not require additional decoration, then what about others? After all, many others imply the presence of mayonnaise or other sauce that hides the bright color of the products.

Here, take on board a boat (also called a round cut): it will help you serve a snack in the shape of a neat ring. Such a device can also be found in a square shape. If you don't have time to go to the store, do not despair.

An ordinary cut plastic bottle or baking dish can also cope with this task. Simply place them on a plate and place a serving of salad inside, crushing it well with a spoon to keep it from falling apart. Then remove the "frame" and - voila! - the dish is ready for further serving.

On top you can put a chopped egg, mushrooms, bell peppers, olives, olives or herbs. When served this way, the dish will look very stylish and neat. Or you can make a basket like in the photo.

There are times when time is so short that there is no time to be distracted even by such simple details. Then again you have to postpone for the next time and serving, and decoration. But there are options for such cases. They do not require any preparation and are absolutely independent of the composition or dressing.

If you are planning several options at once, then do not decorate them in the same way, it will be boring. Better to diversify the decor, but so that they all look harmonious with each other and the main dishes. Do not forget that everything is good in moderation: excessive enthusiasm for decoration will nullify all your efforts, the table will look awkward, and the dishes will be unappetizing.

It will not be superfluous to remember some tricks. For example products and colors:

• If you want a burgundy color, take beets;
• red - pomegranate, tomatoes, bell peppers will help you;
• do you need green? Take peppers, canned peas, cucumbers and any greens;
• if you want to add blue - mix the juice of red cabbage with rice or a boiled egg;
• corn, yolk and pepper will give you a yellow color;
• cranberry juice - pink;
• not enough white? You will be helped by peeled radish cottage cheese, cream, boiled egg and rice;
• if you rub the protein and mix it with beet juice, you get purple. Such a little mastery of the laws of artistic color mixing right in the kitchen.

If you have enough time and you want to learn the art of table decoration in full, then pay attention to carving. This is a type of decorative decoration for vegetables and fruits, in fact it is artistic carving.

Carving has been on the wave of popularity for many years; many famous chefs even organize competitions in this discipline. To do this, you will need a curly knife. Now on sale you can even find special kits with many accessories.

Here are some tips on what to cut and from what. For example, cucumbers can be decorated with a spiral (using a special tool from the carving kit), serpentine, stripes and ribbons. Large fruits and vegetables can be made with baskets.

Flowers can be cut from tomatoes, eggs, and even radish! The only thing, do not forget to first immerse it in cold water - this will remove the bitterness.

Ordinary lettuce leaves can be added to the "picture" of cut out decorations: line them on a serving dish or add a couple of leaves on top. Leaves of mint, lemon balm and basil are also used for decoration.

Seasonings will also help to change the color: paprika, curry, parsley, ground black pepper. Even ordinary tomato paste can add a touch of originality to a salad design.

Thus, you can decorate absolutely any vegetable option. But with fruit, there are a couple of tricks. Buy a noisette at any crockery store. This is a special spoon for "cutting" balls and hemispheres of different sizes from fruit pulp. It looks like an ordinary spoon, but with metal hemispheres of different diameters at the edges.

You can cut watermelon and peach balls, melon and apples, like ice cream balls, and serve them in waffle cups, dough baskets or crystal bowls. Don't forget to garnish with berries and mint leaves on top. It is perfect for dessert and even children will like it.

In addition to all of the above, there are a few more points that can be highlighted:

• First, the main point, of course, is the compatibility of products with each other. Usually there are no questions about this, the main thing is not to use incompatible components, such as, say, meat and kiwi. It is better to pay attention to lemons, olives with olives, eggs and bright vegetables.
• Secondly, decoration requires no less sense of style than any other art. It is important to clearly think over the composition, choose accents, and determine the center.
• If you decide to decorate your dishes, then it is worth picking up suitable dishes that will not distract attention from the main elements. For example, bright dishes combined with sophisticated decor will turn your dish into a fractional and lurid thing.

Do not forget that the final appearance of the dish depends only on you, so it is worth practicing. Give preference to clear lines and even cubes. Use well-sharpened knives. Your accuracy in cutting fruits and vegetables is already 50% of success.

Don't forget about color balance. As an artist, you must see and feel the most winning combinations. Add some contrast for lighter options with tomato and bright bell pepper, and for darker options use herbs and cucumbers. You can even use the colored zest of citrus fruits - orange or lemon.

Make sure that the decor does not divert attention from the main dish, but only complements it. It is better not to get carried away with excessive decoration, let everything be modest, but tasteful.

If you need to use any inedible ingredients, be sure to warn guests about this, especially if you need wooden skewers or toothpicks for canapes and fastening jewelry.

The use of raw vegetables is also possible. Still, you should strive to ensure that the entire decor is not only beautiful, but also edible.

Beautiful video decoration

Separately, it is worth talking about decorating the table for children's parties. Any children's holiday, especially if it is a birthday, requires careful preparation from the parents. You must create such a cheerful and joyful atmosphere so that the holiday will be remembered not only by the hero of the occasion, but also by all his invited friends.

It would seem that there is no place for salads on the table, because most children do not eat them. But no matter how it is! If you show originality and prepare delicious options with an unusual design, then children will definitely appreciate them. It all depends only on your imagination: you can create whole plot compositions on plates! Children's joy and surprise are definitely worth the effort.

In addition to the decor, pay attention to the following points:

• Avoid spicy, salty and fatty foods. On the children's table there is no place for fried, smoked and appetizers with mayonnaise and an abundance of spices.
• Avoid daring experiments: you should not replace products that are familiar to your child and add something new. Give preference to traditional dishes, choosing ingredients that kids will surely love.
• If you have a holiday with very young kids, then exclude citrus fruits, as well as bright fruits and vegetables. Remember, they can trigger an allergy attack!
• The same attention should be paid to any fish, if you plan to put it on the table or add it to dishes. There should be no bones in it.
• Adopt a couple of canapé recipes. Children eat them with great pleasure: they are small and on comfortable skewers. For their preparation, give preference to neutral fruits and vegetables, berries, cheeses, eggs and mushrooms.

Examples of decorating baby salads

Kids birthday decoration: beautiful, fun and edible!

Little tricks

Any home celebration creates an upbeat and joyful mood, immersing everyone in an atmosphere of genuine fun. Especially if you don't have to spend a lot of time preparing dishes and setting the table.

And any hostess wants not only to demonstrate her culinary skills, but also to surprise guests with a beautifully decorated table. And here salads will come to your aid again. Simple to decorate, they will become a bright highlight that will certainly be remembered.

Table decoration for the holiday

We are especially careful in choosing what we will cook for the festive table. We look through the recipes in advance, decide on the final version of the menu, make a list of the necessary products.

And, undoubtedly, each hostess has a couple of recipes that must be prepared for a gala dinner. But even if these are the most ordinary Olivier and vinaigrette, you do not need to give up the idea of ​​making them if you decide to amaze everyone with an original presentation.

It is worth only slightly decorating them, and you can be sure that your guests will definitely highly appreciate even these familiar dishes.

To make them not only tasty, but also spectacular, show your imagination and ingenuity. Don't forget to be neat! The design will not take long, which will definitely play into your hands. If you have enough time, you can try more sophisticated decorating methods.

From the first try, such decorations can take more than twenty minutes, so it is better to try them out in advance and get used to them, especially if you are planning a complex composition. After a few workouts, even complex elements will not take you more than ten minutes.

Look for recipes with carved flowers and other figurines from the pulp of fruits and vegetables. Some preparation is required to create them, but the result is worth it.

You can give preference to simpler methods:

• you can even make a voluminous "rose" from bacon or ham;
• For fruit dishes, use sliced ​​kiwis or skimmed citrus zest.
• Another way to effectively serve salads is to focus not on the top decorations, but on the ingredients themselves. So, if it does not imply mandatory mixing, then you can experiment with that.

For example, vegetable dishes will look great if laid out in layers. The dressing can be placed side by side in a separate gravy boat or you can coat the formed dish on top and on the sides. Use not only mayonnaise for this, sour cream and unsweetened yoghurts are perfect.

From above, the composition can be completed with almonds, hazelnuts or pine nuts.

If the nuts do not suit your dish at all, then pomegranate seeds are also excellent substitutes.

And you can do without them by adding carved flowers from vegetables to the dish or by laying out an edible drawing. Using sprigs of parsley, radishes and chopped olives, you can create a fish and a penguin, as in the following photo.

You can also experiment with 3D molding. For example, winter dishes can be served in the form of forest cones, and seafood dishes can be served in the form of fish.

All of the above methods of decorating dishes are not at all the limit. It all depends on your imagination!

Get creative and you have all sorts of different designs for the same salad, but for different occasions. Change shapes and come up with new unique recipes for decorating New Year's and everyday dishes. Each housewife will have it all in different ways, because everyone has their own vision of beauty.

One thing remains unchanged - the atmosphere of the holiday and the good mood that beautifully decorated dishes bring. Whether these skills are used in everyday life or only on holidays is up to you.

It's not difficult to learn how to decorate not only salads, but also other food in an interesting and unusual way: just be patient and spend some free time. Coupled with a great desire, this will be enough. Having mastered even the simplest elements, you can already combine them in different ways and create many bright compositions.

There is no "ceiling" in this art, even after learning how to perform the most difficult things, you can continue to go further, improve your skills and come up with new original ways of serving both salads and all other dishes for any occasion.

And you will be able to pamper your household with a spectacular serving of an ordinary dinner at least every day, bringing the mood of celebration and magic into everyday life!