Decorating salads and snacks with your own hands. DIY original salad dressing

27.07.2020

Today it is difficult to imagine any festive table without salads. Our Slavic people love salads: different, tasty, with vodka, traditional and original! A beautiful salads- this is such a pleasant addition to any salad that every housewife tries to implement in her kitchen.

Salad decorating is like religion and philosophy - each housewife has her own, and they have one common hobby - decorating dishes. Philosophizing on how to decorate salads can take a long time. And there are people who do not like dressing salads at all in our usual sense. In any case, beautiful salads are the atmosphere of a holiday, celebration, this is an opportunity to make ours brighter and more saturated.

Dear guests of the site, I bring to your attention original selection with examples of decorating salads, which I hope you will not only like, but will also appear on your festive table.

Sunflower salad

The recipe for the "Sunflower" salad and design options can be viewed

Salad with chicken and mushrooms "Mushroom"

How to cook and decorate the "Mushroom" salad see

Ingredients:

Chicken breast - 300-400 grams,
champignons - 300 grams,
onions - 1-2 heads,
eggs - 2-3 pcs.,
tomatoes - 2-3 pcs.,
fresh cucumbers - 2-3 pcs.,
green onions - 1 bunch,
hard cheese - 100-150 grams,
olives.

Preparation:

Boil the chicken breast - finely chop.

Cut mushrooms and onions into cubes, fry in vegetable oil, with the addition of butter.

Boil eggs, cut into cubes.

Lay out in layers: chicken breast- sour cream mushrooms fried with onions - sour cream - boiled eggs - sour cream.

Top decoration: tomatoes - finely chopped, cucumbers - in strips + dill, cheese - grated, olives.

Pink salmon salad "Camomile"

How to cook and decorate pink salmon salad "Camomile" look

Hedgehog salad with Korean carrots

Ingredients:

half chicken fillet - about 300 grams
marinated mushrooms whole from a jar
2 medium onions
3 chicken eggs
medium cucumber
about 200 grams of hard cheese
1 pack of mayonnaise
a handful of walnuts
a glass of korean carrots
3 medium pitted olives
a bunch of lettuce leaves
Salt and a little pepper

Preparation:

1. Boil the chicken fillet in salted water, cool and cut into small cubes.

2. Boil the eggs and grate them coarsely.

3. Peel and chop the onions.

4. Wash the cucumber and cut into small strips. You can, of course, grate, but then too much juice will come out and a mushy cucumber in this salad will not work.

5. Grate the cheese on a coarse grater.

6. Walnuts are very good to grind, you can in a blender and pepper them.

7. Leave a few fungi for decoration, and finely chop the rest of the mushrooms and fry in butter.

8. Even from this amount of products, a rather big hedgehog will turn out, so take a larger plate, lay it out on the bottom lettuce leaves and form the silhouette of a hedgehog, laying out the layers in turn: chicken - a layer of mayonnaise - onions - more mayonnaise - mushrooms - a layer of mayonnaise - eggs - again mayonnaise - cucumber - grated walnuts - cheese - mayonnaise.

9. Cover the body of the hedgehog Korean carrots, leaving the muzzle cheesy. Make the eyes and nose out of olives, spread the greens around and plant the mushrooms on top of the "needles".

I recommend this dish for a holiday. It seems to me that the Hedgehog salad is a purely masculine recipe, but if you remove the pepper, it is also suitable for children. Very adorable animal for the center festive table... And it is better to prepare mayonnaise yourself, for your own health!

Ladybug pomegranate salad

How to cook and decorate Ladybug salad with pomegranate look

Tulips salad

Preparation:

1. Making a tulip cut the petals at the top of the tomato, it is better if the tomatoes are firmer.

2. We remove what we cut. With a knife, neatly.

3. Then take out the core with a spoon, take out half of the tomato so that the taste of the tomato is also present, but as you like it, if you like more filling, take out more core.

4. For the filling cheese, boil two eggs, garlic, walnuts and mayonnaise.

Calla salad

How to cook decorate Calla salad look

"Birch Grove" salad

Ingredients:

300 gr. boiled chicken fillet,
300 gr. fried champignons,
Fry 3 onions,
200 gr. pitted prunes,
5 eggs (white, yolk separately)
2 small fresh cucumbers
mayonnaise, herbs.

Preparation:

1st layer — chicken — finely chopped fillet,

2nd layer - finely chopped prunes,

3rd layer - champignons with onions,

4th layer of protein,

5th layer cucumbers in small cubes.

The yolks are finely grated on top, on the sides the whites are also finely grated.

We decorate for every taste. Ready.

White Royal salad

Ingredients:

Chicken meat 500 gr.
Cucumber 2 pieces (fresh)
Eggs 3-4 pieces
Mushrooms 300 gr. (any to taste)
Hard cheese 100 gr.
Mayonnaise

Preparation:

The whole process of preparing a salad consists of layers, which are laid out in a certain sequence. Before we start laying out the layers of salad, we need to prepare everything for this required ingredients thus:

- chicken meat should be boiled;

- fry mushrooms in a pan;

- grate cucumbers with a grater, while using a coarse grater;

- also boil eggs and grate on a coarse grater.

Lay out the layers in a certain sequence:

1 layer - boiled chicken;

2nd layer - mayonnaise;

3rd layer - fried mushrooms;

4th layer - mayonnaise;

5th layer - fresh cucumbers;

6 layer - mayonnaise;

7th layer - boiled eggs;

8 layer - mayonnaise;

9 layer - cheese.

Decorate like a grand piano using hard cheese and black olives. You can also form a beautiful rose from lightly salted salmon, which will perfectly transform the whole landscape of the salad.

Ladybug salad with caviar

How to cook Ladybug salad with caviar see

There is very little time left before the onset of March 8 - International Women's Day. To make this spring holiday truly enjoyable, you need to spend it fun and tasty. Diversify holiday menu can be done in different ways: serve delicious delicacies - from shrimp to garlic sauce to almond ice cream, or just cook incredibly delicious and beautifully decorated it. We will now tell you exactly what to make delicious and how to serve it effectively.

Shrimp under a fur coat salad

Shrimp (boiled, peeled) - 500 gr.
Potatoes - 300 gr.
Processed cheese - 200 gr.
Chicken eggs - 4 pcs.
Dill - 25 gr.
Parsley - 25 gr.
Mayonnaise - about 200 gr.

For decoration you will need:

Red caviar - 140 gr.
Crab sticks - 2 pcs.
A sprig of dill.

Recipe:

The potatoes are washed thoroughly, boiled in a uniform until tender and allowed to cool.
Hard-boiled chicken eggs, peel and separate the yolks from the proteins.
The cooled potatoes are peeled, rubbed on a coarse grater, laid out on a dish in the first layer, well coated with mayonnaise.
The shrimps are spread over a layer of potatoes and are also coated with mayonnaise.
Egg white is rubbed on the largest grater, spread in the third layer and thoroughly coated with mayonnaise.
Parsley and dill are washed, dried, chopped finely and spread over the egg white.
The processed cheese is rubbed on a coarse grater, combined with the remaining mayonnaise and spread on a dish on top of a layer of greens.
The egg yolk is chopped on the finest grater and put on the dish with the final layer.
Decorated with caviar, crab sticks and dill sprigs.

Lilac Branch salad

For cooking you will need:

Beef - 400 gr.
Carrots - 200 gr.
Potatoes - 200 gr.
Peeled walnuts - 50 gr.
Garlic - 2 cloves.
Mayonnaise - about 300 gr.
Salt to taste.

For decoration you will need:

Eggs (large) - 4 pcs.
Beet juice - 1 tbsp. spoon.
Parsley greens - a few sprigs.

Recipe:

The potatoes are thoroughly washed and, without peeling, boiled until tender.
Boil the beef until cooked, let it cool and cut into thin strips.
Carrots are peeled, washed and grated on a coarse grater.
Carrots chopped with a grater are salted to taste and fried in sunflower oil until cooked.
Garlic is peeled, washed, crushed with a garlic press and combined with carrots.
Mix the beef, carrots and some of the mayonnaise and spread in a deep bowl in the first layer.
Peeled walnuts are chopped into small pieces and lightly fried in a dry frying pan.
The cooled boiled potatoes are peeled, rubbed on a coarse grater, salted to taste, combined with walnuts, the remaining mayonnaise and spread in a second layer.
, previously covered with cling film, put in the refrigerator for 3 hours.
While it is infused in the refrigerator, chicken eggs boiled hard, let them cool, peel and separate the yolks from the whites.
Egg whites are rubbed on a coarse grater, and the yolks - on the smallest one.
Some of the crushed proteins are combined with beet juice, mix well and leave for half an hour. During this time, the protein will acquire a beautiful lilac hue.
taken out of the refrigerator, removed cling film and spread the third - the final layer, evenly distributing the yolks grated on a fine grater over the entire surface.
Ready dish decorate with lilac and white squirrel, imitating lilac brushes.
Pre-washed parsley branches are also laid out on - they represent branches and leaves.

Mimosa salad"

For cooking you will need:

Canned fish in own juice(pink salmon or salmon) - 250 gr.
Hard cheese - 150 gr.
Mayonnaise - about 200 gr.
Bulb onions (large) - 2 pcs.
Butter (frozen) - 100 gr.

For decoration you will need:

Chicken eggs (large) - 3 pcs.
Dill - several branches.

Recipe:

Eggs (for salad and its decoration) are boiled hard-boiled for about 10 minutes, peeled and the whites are separated from the yolks.
The whites of 5 eggs are cut into thin strips, mixed with a little mayonnaise and put on a plate in the first layer.
The cheese is rubbed on a coarse grater, spread on a plate with a second layer, which is thoroughly coated with mayonnaise.
Peel onions, cut into small cubes, scald with boiling water and spread over a layer of cheese.
The frozen butter is rubbed on a coarse grater and evenly spread over the onion layer.
The yolks of 5 eggs are rubbed on a fine grater, combined with a part of mayonnaise and spread on a layer of butter.
Bones are removed from the fish, the pulp is kneaded (using an ordinary fork) and combined with liquid from canned food.
The chopped fish is laid out in the sixth layer, thoroughly coated with the remaining mayonnaise.
The whites of three eggs are rubbed on a coarse grater and spread on top of the fish layer, evenly distributing them over the entire surface.
The yolks of three eggs are rubbed on the finest grater and spread on a layer of proteins - depicting mimosa flowers.
Thoroughly washed dill branches are also spread on, imitating branches and leaves.

Advice: Before serving, it is better to keep it in the refrigerator for 3-5 hours - its taste will become more delicate and rich.

Fiery Heart salad

For cooking you will need:

Potatoes - 300 gr.
Carrots - 200 gr.
Pickled cucumbers - 150 gr.
Boiled sausage - 400 gr.
Chicken eggs - 5 pcs.
Pickled champignons - 150 gr.
Mayonnaise - about 350 gr.
Pomegranate - 1 pc.

Recipe:

The potatoes and carrots are thoroughly washed, boiled until tender and allowed to cool.
The cooled vegetables are peeled and cut into small cubes into separate plates.
The eggs are hard boiled (about 10 minutes), peeled and the whites are separated from the yolks.
The yolks are rubbed on a fine grater.
The sausage is cut into small pieces.
Finely chop the pickled cucumbers.
With the help of a special shape or simply by hand, they are shaped in the shape of a heart, laying out in layers: potatoes, sausage, cucumbers, protein, carrots, pickled mushrooms, smearing each layer with mayonnaise.
The crushed yolk is spread with the final layer.
Peel the pomegranate, take out the grains and decorate, laying them on top of the yolk layer.

Capercaillie's nest salad

For cooking you will need:

Chicken fillet - 0.5 kg.
Chicken eggs - 5 pcs.
Quail eggs - 3 pcs.
Potatoes - 0.5 kg.
Fresh cucumbers - 250 gr.
Bulb onions - 100 gr.
Dill - 100 gr.
Mayonnaise - about 250 gr.
Sunflower oil - 0.5 l.
Salt to taste.

Recipe:

Chicken fillet is boiled until tender, allowed to cool and cut into small strips.
Onions are peeled, washed, cut into small cubes and poured over with boiling water (to get rid of bitterness).
The cooled chicken eggs are peeled from the shell and cut into small strips or rubbed on a coarse grater.
The potatoes are peeled, washed, cut into thin strips and fried until golden brown in a deep frying pan using a large amount of sunflower oil.
Cucumbers are washed and cut into thin strips.
Quail eggs are boiled hard-boiled (about 5 minutes) and peeled.
The dill is washed, allowed to dry and finely chopped.
In a deep bowl, connect: chicken fillet, onions, chicken eggs, cucumbers and mayonnaise. All ingredients are mixed well, salted to taste and spread on a round dish so that a small depression forms in the middle.
Dill is laid out in the formed depression, on which 3 quail eggs are placed, and decorated with fried potatoes on the sides.

Pomegranate bracelet salad

For cooking you will need:

Smoked chicken fillet (brisket) - 400 gr.
Chicken eggs - 3 pcs.
Beets - 250 gr.
Potatoes - 200 gr.
Carrots - 150 gr.
Bulb onions - 1 pc.
Peeled walnuts - 50 gr.
Pomegranate - 1-2 pcs.
Mayonnaise - about 250 gr.
Vegetable oil - 3 tbsp. spoons.
Salt to taste.

Recipe:

Beets, carrots and potatoes are washed without peeling, boiled until tender and allowed to cool.
The eggs are hard boiled (about 10 minutes) and allowed to cool.
A glass is placed upside down in the center of the selected flat dish, after which they begin to lay out in layers.
Peel the potatoes, grate them on the coarsest grater, mix with some of the mayonnaise and put them on a dish around the glass in the first layer.
Smoked chicken fillet is cut into small strips, mixed with some mayonnaise and spread in a second layer.
Peel the onions, wash, cut into small pieces, fry until golden brown with a little sunflower oil and allow to cool.
The cooled onion is laid out in a third layer.
Eggs are peeled from the shell, rubbed on a coarse grater, mixed with a part of mayonnaise and spread in the fourth layer.
Peel the carrots, grate them on a coarse grater, salt, mix with some mayonnaise and lay them on top of a layer of eggs.
Walnuts are cut into small pieces, lightly fried in a dry frying pan (literally 1-2 minutes) and spread over a layer of carrots.
Peel the beets, rub on a coarse grater, combine with the remaining mayonnaise and spread in the seventh layer.
Peel the pomegranate and sprinkle the grains on the surface.

The finished dish is put into the refrigerator for 3-5 hours and only after it is thoroughly soaked, the glass is carefully removed. Decorate with beetroot flowers and parsley sprigs if desired.

For cooking you will need:

Canned tuna (in its own juice) - about 400 gr.
Fresh cucumbers - 300 gr.
Chicken eggs - 4 pcs.
Mayonnaise - about 150 gr.

For decoration you will need:

Tomato - 1 pc.
Parsley - a few twigs.

Recipe:

Chicken eggs are boiled hard-boiled for about 10 minutes, allowed to cool and the whites are separated from the yolks.
A special form is placed on the plate for. If there is no special form, you can make it yourself. To do this, you need a clean plastic bottle that needs to be cut on both sides to the size you want.
The cucumbers are thoroughly washed, cut into small cubes and laid out in a predetermined form in the first layer.
Cut the egg whites into small cubes.
From canned fish remove bones, knead the pulp, combine with liquid from canned food. Then it is mixed with crushed egg whites and laid out in a mold with a second layer.
Cut the egg yolks into small cubes and lay out the final layer, after which the mold is carefully removed.
The finished salad is decorated with mayonnaise, cut into two halves with tomato and parsley leaves.

"Original" salad

For cooking you will need:

Boiled sausage - 500 gr.
Crab sticks - 250 gr.
Fresh cucumbers - 100 gr.
Hard cheese - 200 gr.
Chicken eggs - 4 pcs.
Canned beans - 150 gr.
Mayonnaise - about 150 gr.
Parsley - a few twigs.

Recipe:

Chicken eggs are boiled and allowed to cool.
The cooled eggs are peeled from the shell and cut into small cubes.
Fresh cucumbers are washed and cut into small pieces.
Finely chop the crab sticks.
Hard cheese is cut into small pieces.
Mix in one bowl: crab sticks, cucumbers, cheese, eggs, beans and mayonnaise.
The sausage is cut into thin slices, in each of which a few spoons are placed and wrapped in a roll. You can fasten sausage rolls using ordinary toothpicks, and decorate with a few sprigs of parsley.

For cooking you will need:

Boiled sausage - 300 gr.
Hard cheese - 150 gr.
Fresh tomatoes - 200 gr.
Fresh cucumbers - 100 gr.
Chicken eggs - 3 pcs.
Mayonnaise - about 100 gr.
Parsley greens - 2 sprigs.
Tartlets.

Recipe:

Hard-boiled chicken eggs, let them cool and chop finely.
The cucumbers are well washed and cut into small cubes.
The tomatoes are also washed, one part is left for decoration, and the other is cut into small cubes.
Finely chop the hard cheese.
Cut into cubes boiled sausage.
In a deep bowl, mix: sausage, cheese, tomatoes, cucumbers, eggs and mayonnaise.
When finished, they are laid out on tartlets and garnished using the leftover tomatoes and parsley.

Liver salad with prunes

For cooking you will need:

Chicken liver - 600 gr.
Carrots - 300 gr.
Quail eggs - 10 pcs.
Hard cheese - 100 gr.
Pitted prunes - 100 gr.
Onions (medium size) - 1 pc.
Mayonnaise - about 250 gr.
Sunflower oil - 2 tbsp spoons.

For decoration you will need:

Boiled beets (medium size) - 1 pc.
Parsley - 2 sprigs.
Hard cheese - 30 gr.

Recipe:

Quail eggs are boiled hard-boiled (about 5 minutes), allowed to cool, peeled and rubbed on a coarse grater.
Peel the onion, cut into small cubes and fry until golden brown in vegetable oil.
Carrots are thoroughly washed, grated on a coarse grater, added to the onion when it turns golden, and fried until tender.
The finished mixture of onions and carrots is laid out on a dish with the first layer, which is coated with a part of mayonnaise.
Boil the chicken liver until tender, rub it on a coarse grater, mix with a part of the mayonnaise and spread it in a second layer.
The prunes are cut into small strips, laid out in the next layer and coated with mayonnaise.
The fourth layer is crushed quail eggs, which are also coated on top with the remaining mayonnaise.
Hard cheese is rubbed on a coarse grater and spread on a dish in the last layer.
Flowers are cut from beets and cheese, and they are decorated with them. Instead of leaves, parsley leaves are used.

Korean Beetroot Salad

For cooking you will need:

Beets - 1 kg.
Vegetable oil - 4 tbsp. spoons.
Sugar - 1 tbsp. spoon (no slide).
Garlic - 5 cloves.
Ground black pepper - 0.5 tsp.
Ground red hot pepper - 0.3 tsp.
Coriander (ground) - 0.5 tsp.
Vinegar - 5 tbsp. spoons.
Salt to taste.

For decoration you will need:

Lettuce leaves - 3 pcs.
Beets - 1 pc.

Recipe:

Beets are thoroughly washed, poured cold water and cook for 15 minutes (after boiling).
After a quarter of an hour, the beets are removed from the heat, drained hot water and immediately pour it cold, in which the beets are left to cool completely.
As soon as the beets have cooled, they are peeled and rubbed on Korean grater or cut into thin strips.
Sugar, salt, vinegar are added to the grated beets and everything is mixed well.
Garlic is peeled and minced with a garlic press.
Poured into the pan sunflower oil and very quickly, until the oil boils, add chopped garlic, all the spices to it. The finished mixture is added to the beets and everything is thoroughly mixed.
Cooked for several (3-5) hours, put in the refrigerator to brew.
Before serving, it is decorated with leaves. fresh salad and curly hearts carved from boiled beets.

Salad "O-la-la"

For cooking you will need:

Chicken fillet - 300 gr.
Chicken eggs (large) - 5 pcs.
Apple - 150 gr.
Hard cheese - 200 gr.
Mayonnaise - about 150 gr.
Salt to taste.
Parsley - 2 sprigs.

Recipe:

The chicken fillet is boiled until tender and allowed to cool.
Hard-boiled chicken eggs, peeled; 2 eggs are laid aside - they will be required for decoration, and the remaining eggs are separated from the yolks.
A special salad dish is placed on the dish. If there is no mold, a plastic bottle is used instead, cut on both sides to the desired size.
The chicken fillet is cut into cubes and laid out in the first layer in the mold.
The yolk of three eggs is kneaded with a fork, mixed with a part of the mayonnaise and laid out in the form in the second layer.
Peel the apple, take out the core, cut the pulp into small cubes, mix with a part of the mayonnaise and put it in a third layer in a mold.
The cheese is grated on a coarse grater, mixed with the remaining mayonnaise and spread in a mold on top of a layer of apples.
The white of three eggs is rubbed on a coarse grater or cut into small oblong strips and spread in the last layer.
Ready for 3-5 hours put in the refrigerator for impregnation, then remove the form and decorate with the remaining eggs and parsley sprigs.

For cooking you will need:

Ham - 500 gr.
Bulgarian pepper - 500 gr.
Canned corn - 100 gr.
Canned pineapple (in pieces) - 300 gr.
Canned champignons - 200 gr.
Olives (pitted) - 100 gr.
Mayonnaise - about 250 gr.
Parsley greens - 2 sprigs.
Tartlets - for serving salad.

Recipe:

Cut the ham into small cubes.
Bell peppers are thoroughly washed, peeled from seeds and cut into pieces.
Canned mushrooms are cut into thin slices.
The olives are cut into thin slices.
Combine all ingredients: ham, bell pepper, corn (after draining the liquid from it), pineapple, champignons, olives and fill the tartlets with the resulting mixture. Garnish with mayonnaise and parsley leaves.

For cooking you will need:

Crab sticks - 240 gr.
Canned corn - 430 gr.
Chicken eggs - 5 pcs.
Canned pineapple - 200 gr.
Hard cheese - 150 gr.
Mayonnaise - about 100 gr.
Salt to taste.

Recipe:

The eggs are hard boiled and allowed to cool.
The cooled eggs are cut into small cubes.
Pineapples are also cut into small cubes.
Finely chop the crab sticks.
The hard cheese is cut into small cubes.
In a bowl, combine and mix well: crab sticks, chicken eggs, pineapple, cheese, mayonnaise and canned corn, from which the liquid is first drained.
Ready-made, if necessary, salted and served in a beautiful salad bowl.

Salad "Spicy"

For cooking you will need:

Pork tongue - 500 gr.
Fresh cucumbers - 200 gr.
Bulgarian pepper - 400 gr.
Chicken eggs - 3 pcs.
Canned peas - 430 gr.
Mayonnaise - about 250 gr.

For decoration you will need:

Fresh cucumber - 1 pc.
Carrots - 2 pcs.
Olives - 1 can.

Recipe:

Eggs are hard boiled, peeled and cut into small pieces.
Boil the tongue until cooked and cut into small cubes.
Bell peppers are thoroughly washed, peeled from seeds and also cut into small pieces.
The cucumbers are well washed and finely chopped.
The eggs are mixed with some of the mayonnaise and put on the dish in the first layer.
The tongue is laid out on a dish with a second layer, well coated with mayonnaise.
Cucumbers are laid out in the third layer, which are pre-combined with part of the mayonnaise.
In a deep bowl, combine: bell pepper, peas (draining all the liquid from it) and the rest of the mayonnaise, after which the resulting mixture is spread with a final layer.
With the help of a special knife, flowers are cut out of carrots, they decorate the dish with them in a circle, inserting one olive oil into each such flower.
The cucumber is cut into thin long strips, from which a bow is formed on the surface.

And which one will you cook on March 8? Share it, or better yet, illustrate the preparations with a photo!

The original decoration of salads is an indispensable item in the design of the festive table. Snacks with an unusual bright design will help surprise guests and will look even more appetizing. Even the simplest budget salad with the most affordable ingredients after decoration will be a worthy addition to the festive table.

When deciding on the decoration of salads by March 8, special attention should be paid to the main figure of the holiday. It will be relevant to place an edible figure eight on the appetizer. You can make it from any vegetables, herbs, canned legumes, or draw with any sauces.

By March 8, any flowers can be placed on the salad. Finely grated cheese or the yolk of a boiled egg will help to depict fluffy mimosa, pieces of protein and yolk - chamomile, cherry with a cut tip - red tulips, and thin rolled slices of ham or red fish - roses of different shades.

It will be very impressive if the edible flowers are in the "basket". It can be painted with mayonnaise or cheese sauce at the bottom of the dish. Also, the woven basket is easily laid out from thin strips of smoked cheese, green onion feathers, and boiled chicken fibers.

For birthday, anniversary

A salad for a birthday should turn out to be especially bright and appetizing. You can endlessly experiment with its design. There is no single topic for this.

An interesting idea is to make a birthday salad in the form of a birthday cake.

The entire surface of such a snack (be sure to choose the layered option) should be covered with chopped herbs, grated cheese or an egg, fried potato strips, Korean or boiled grated carrots until golden brown.
"Creamy" roses are easy to create from mayonnaise, soft cheese or any thick sauce... A pastry bag or a cut corner of a regular bag will help the hostess with this.
On the surface of such a "cake" you can place both real candles and those made from blocks of cheese and pieces of red pepper, imitating a flame.

On birthday salads, you can lay out the age of the birthday person with any appetizing ingredients or write wishes for him with sauces.

Original vegetable decorations

Numerous vegetable decorations can be made interesting and unusual.

There are several such options at once:

Onion chrysanthemum. To make it, the peeled vegetable head is cut (not completely) first crosswise in the middle. Then shallow additional cuts are made - if you lower the knife too low, then the vegetable will simply fall apart. All that remains is to send the bulb into cold water for 1.5 - 2 hours and wait until it “blooms”. If this happens too slowly, you can gently help the vegetable with your hands.
Tomato tulips. For this purpose, oval elongated tomatoes are always used. At the end, they are cut crosswise to create sharp points. If desired, you can remove the core with a spoon and stuff the fruits, for example, with cheese, mayonnaise and garlic.
Roses. Mouth-watering roses can be created from many vegetables. The main thing is to cut the food into the thinnest possible slices. It can be radishes, cucumbers, beets and others.
Palm. This is a very quick decoration option. For him, the salad is pierced with two long skewers. Several whole pitted olives are planted on each one. Their top is formed by fluffy parsley.
Ladybugs and bees. Such guests for salads can be made from cherry, olives, olives. For example, to create "ladybugs" you need to put half a small tomato with a cut off tip for a snack, and the head of a beetle can easily be depicted as a half of an olive. The black dots are all created from the same cut olives or peppers. For "bees" olives and olives are cut into pieces and stacked, alternating, on a salad. "Wings" for them are made from thin slices of cheese or pickled cucumber.

For children's parties

When decorating salads for children's parties, you should use your favorite cartoon characters, fairy tales and just funny animals in their design.

A very simple and popular design option is "Mouse Fuss". To do this, any salad is first covered with finely grated cheese or egg yolk. Appetizing edible "mice" sit on top. You can make them from a boiled egg. The tail and cheese are made from slices of cheese, while the eyes and nose are made from black pepper.
It is no more difficult to make a salad in the form of a hedgehog. To do this, it is laid out in the shape of an animal's body and is completely covered with grated protein. The thorns are created from olive slices. The nose and eyes are made from pieces of olive. On the resulting appetizing thorns, you can also place a cherry or a miniature apple.
The design of the salad looks very impressive in the form watermelon wedge... The salad can be anything that can be shaped accordingly. From above, the appetizer is first covered with grated cucumber, and the next layer is formed by grated cheese. And finally (closer to the middle of the plate) small pieces of tomato are distributed. Thin slices of olives will mimic seeds.
If you don't plan on sprinkling with mayonnaise salad, you can easily turn it into a funny crab. To do this, the body of the sea inhabitant, as well as the lower and upper claws, are laid out from the appetizer on a large plate. They are made with pieces of boiled carrots or sweet bell peppers. The muzzle is drawn from a piece of any bright vegetable (mouth) and egg circles with sweet peppercorns (eyes).

Decorations from eggs for salads on the festive table

You can even use ordinary boiled eggs in decorating salads for a festive table.

There are a huge number of options for the design details of snacks from such products. Both chicken and quail eggs will do. Beforehand, they must be boiled to a hard yolk.

To make a swan, two eggs are used at once. One is left intact (body), the other is cut into pieces (head, wings and tail). Eyes are depicted on a rounded block with black pepper, and a beak is made from a piece of carrot. All additional parts in the right places are inserted into the first egg.
To make delicious mushrooms, you need to soak the halves of the protein in tea for 15 to 20 minutes. When the food is colored, they should be laid on top of whole white boiled eggs. It remains to add a lot of greenery to the composition. The resulting mouth-watering hats can also be decorated with mayonnaise drops.
A variety of characters are easily created from eggs - chickens, fish, penguins, snowmen, pigs. Their body becomes a whole boiled egg or its half. Additional parts of the characters are created from slices of olives, boiled carrots, cucumbers, and cheese.
A boiled egg cut into pieces easily turns into a flower. You can put chamomile, lily, chrysanthemum on a salad from it.

Portions of salad for the Defender of the Fatherland Day can be served in the form of shoulder straps. For this, the appetizer is laid out on a plate in a rectangle. Top with small pieces of kiwi or chopped herbs. It remains to draw even stripes on the salad with ketchup and add cheese stars.

You can also arrange the dish in the form of a tank. For this, the salad is laid out on a large flat plate. From it you need to form a tank with all the details. It remains to arrange it with fresh / pickled vegetables. For example, make a star from carrots, and wheels from slices of cucumber or olives.

DIY salad dressing for beginners

It will be easy to effectively decorate the salad with your own hands, even for those who are far from cooking. The simplest option decoration of snacks - in the form of a gift. To do this, the salad is simply laid out in the shape of a square and covered with cucumber "ribbons". You can make a "bow" from strips of boiled carrots. Or add a rose from any vegetable to the middle of an appetizing gift.

You can always just lay out the resulting treat on the lettuce leaves. This will already give it a festive look. It remains to complement the appetizer on top with any pattern of sauce or vegetable decoration.

If the holiday is timed to a specific date, then it will be enough to lay out the salad in the form of the corresponding figure to surprise the guests. For example, by March 8th, eights are served. Grated cheese / yolk or canned corn as well as plenty of fresh herbs.

Decorating dishes is akin to art. An originally decorated dish on a holiday (and even more so on weekdays) creates an atmosphere of joy, surprise and whet the appetite.

Tomato rose

Cut the tomato from top to bottom in a spiral, detach it from the central part with seeds.

It turns out a rose, which can be used to decorate a salad or other dish.

Flower from the "bottom" of a tomato

After cutting the spiral, we have an unused "bottom" of the tomato, to which the stalk is attached. We cut out the place where the stalk is attached with the tip of a sharp knife, and from the circle we make a flower, removing the triangles, and then rounding the petals.

Remove very thin petal circles with a vegetable peeler. Fold the petals in half, put one inside the other and insert into the prepared bases.

Place immediately in the salad, otherwise the petals will pop out of the slot.

Egg flowers

This is one of my favorite pieces of jewelry. Having mastered its manufacture in school, I still use it.

Flowers are cut with a narrow knife. The action is approximately the same as when peeling vegetables, but the steps for cutting the protein layer are small, due to this we get a slightly ribbed surface resembling chamomile petals. We fold the petals into a flower and decorate the middle with a piece of carrot.

And here are some more flowers on the "Malachite Flower" salad.

Hold the split onion in very cold water for a few seconds, shake off the water, you can use a paper towel to remove the drops, after which the onion will curl itself.

"Snowdrops" from eggs and onions

Cut the egg white into thin small slices, curl the onion. We lay snowdrops. To design a snowdrop receptacle, we use triangles from a cucumber peel.

Here's what bouquet comes from all our jewelry.

"Bunch of grapes" from green peas or grapes

Well, everything is simple here, we lay out a bunch of grapes with berries or peas, we supplement with parsley leaves.

Fresh cabbage salad

Decorated with two-color sectors, finely grated carrots are added in the first, giving an orange tint, in the second, blueberries, coloring in purple colour... Well, a few berries complete the picture.

Well, finally Drakosha salad - a symbol of 2012

The salad is arranged in the form of a written letter G. The muzzle is framed with a tomato and pieces of walnut. The shell is walnuts. Pieces are inserted along the ridge Chinese cabbage, it turns out a scallop.

Happy New Year!

Let him be joyful, happy and beautiful!

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