While preparing and laying the festive table, every housewife wants the dishes on it not only to please the guests with their taste, but also to strike with an unusual appearance. In recent years, in cooking, more and more preference has been given to simple, simple jewelry from improvised products that unobtrusively complement the taste of the dish, emphasizing its appetizing appearance with a light decor. Such ornaments are made from greens, feathers and onion rings, small cherry tomatoes, cucumber slices, boiled vegetables and eggs.
Before you start decorating a salad and a snack table, you need to know some rules. The main one is that the decor should consist of the same ingredients as the dish itself, except, of course, the greens, which is always appropriate. Another important rule is not to overload the dish with decorations, the design should be light, elegant, and most importantly, edible. You can’t use any foreign objects, for example, toothpicks for fastening decoration details, it’s advisable to save even the kernels of nuts for another, for example, cakes or pastries, as they may not be appropriate in salad and snacks.
How to decorate salads? During their preparation, do not forget to leave some of the products from their composition for decoration. The easiest way is to put a ready-made snack on a flat dish in the form of a figure, say, a turtle, fish, cancer or crab. From small vegetable chips, slices of olives, peas, in accordance with the idea, design the surface of the figure with a pattern that imitates scales, shell, stripes or specks. To make the salad mixture on the dish look more impressive, it is laid out on the leaves of green lettuce, which at the edges form a frill pleasant to the eyes.
How to decorate salads with green onion feathers? This material is very good for jewelry. For example, it is easy to make a meadow of lilies of the valley out of it. To do this, the surface of the salad is covered with onion greens cut into five- or seven-centimeter segments, placing them in the form of grass and lily of the valley leaves, and white balls from mayonnaise are squeezed in a bunch like flowers on some.
How to decorate a salad under a fur coat? The flat surface of lettuce, smeared with mayonnaise, is perfect as a “canvas” for a mosaic picture. It can be a New Year’s story: on a white background, Christmas trees made from pickles, cut with a sharp knife, or, if you try, you can make the Kremlin tower out of flat thin slices of beets and draw chimes on it with mayonnaise. From boiled carrots and beets, a chess pattern is beautifully obtained, in a word, the fantasy here is unlimited.
How to decorate salads for children? Children will be delighted with the little mice made from quail eggs. They can decorate a vegetable salad or sliced. The washed smooth radish needs to be peeled, cut into thin circles, leaving a tail. On two sides of the peeled egg, make two thin cuts and insert a circle of radishes into them - these are ears. The antennae of the mouse can be made from thin stalks of parsley, and eyes from cloves. Gently cut one third of the egg, and instead, with the help of mayonnaise, attach the tip of the radish with the tail. Children are unlikely to eat these mice, but they will greatly please them.
Beautiful decor is obtained from tomato and cucumber. How to decorate salads with a rose from a tomato? To do this, cut the tomato into thin slices, which are carefully shifted so that a sufficiently long strip is obtained. It is twisted into a flower in a spiral and laid on leaves of parsley or dill.
A gourmet crab salad is an expensive dish. It needs to be decorated gracefully and tastefully, without overloading with complex details. How to decorate crab salad? In order not to spoil its taste with additional ingredients, we select only those that are in the appetizer or go well with the taste of seafood. It can be slices of fresh cucumber, with a curved curved edge, lemon pans, egg circles.