Without delicious salads, it is difficult to imagine a traditional feast, and even more so. New Year. The beautiful design of dishes pleases the eye, stimulates the appetite and generally creates a special festive mood. To surprise guests, to bring aesthetic pleasure to themselves and their loved ones, hostesses come up with and look for the most different ways salad decorations - simple and complex. Find out how to decorate salads for the New Year 2018.

Salads with dressing and slice ornaments

One of the easiest ways to decorate salads is to sprinkle. What could be easier than sprinkling a ready-made salad with one of the ingredients, grated on a fine grater. For sprinkling use grated:

  • eggs, both white and yolk;
  • cucumbers;
  • boiled carrots;
  • beets;
  • sausage.

The topping can be used in its pure form or mixed with mayonnaise.

In addition to grated ingredients, finely chopped greens are used, as well as small products, such as peas, corn, red and black caviar, and pomegranate seeds. Fantasizing and using ingredients of different colors, they create drawings and ornaments.

Video: decorating a herring under a fur coat

If you set out to do something more original, then an interesting effect is obtained by combining sprinkles and thinly sliced ​​\u200b\u200bpieces of vegetables and fruits. Often they make a background of sprinkles, and put circles of cucumbers, rings of olives on top, cover the salad with thin slices of red fish. Look at the photo, how to make callas from cheese squares, put pineapple from mushrooms, and form a starfish from lettuce and red fish.

with mayonnaise

An additional decorative effect is created using mayonnaise. Since most salads are already made with mayonnaise, some do not use this option, trying not to overdo it with the sauce. However, subtle patterns look very attractive and appetizing.

If you buy mayonnaise in a tube, then you can draw just like that. But if really thin lines are needed, you need to put the mayonnaise in a pastry bag or in a regular plastic bag and draw like a cream on a cake. Of course, combination with other decoration options appearance Lettuce doesn't hurt at all.

Puff salads

There is nothing complicated in the technique of puff salads. However, alternately laid out layers of green cucumbers, orange carrots, red fish, yellow corn make the salad truly elegant. Use transparent bowls, vases, cocotte makers for layered salads, then they will not need additional decoration. But on the other hand, if there is a desire, why not decorate them from above using already known methods?

Animals

Salads decorated in the form of animals are relevant if you want to attract the attention of children to food. In addition, in the New Year, a bullfinch laid out of a salad, a dog (after all, 2018 is the year of the Dog), a hare - all this will be in the theme of the holiday. Those who are bored of summer are advised to take the opportunity and enjoy the summer landscapes, the view of multi-colored butterflies, bees, ladybugs.

Note! Many decorations, including animals, are cut from thin slices of vegetables using cookie cutters.

Ideas for decorating salads in the form of birds, animals, insects, see below.

new year design

The most profitable for New Year's table Salads decorated in the New Year's style will look like: in the form of bells, Santa Claus, a snowman, a Snow Maiden, Christmas trees, chimes, cones.

How to make such beauty? Also, as already described. Lay out the salad, give the mass the desired shape, sprinkle, decorate, grease with mayonnaise. Look at the photo, everything is clear here.

Carving

The technique of decorating dishes has been elevated to the rank of a special art. One of the well-known techniques is carving. It is the art of making figurines and decorative curls from vegetables and fruits, which subsequently serve to decorate salads, second courses or as an independent decor. There are so many options for jewelry that it is simply not possible to imagine everything, but you can learn how to make basic elements.

Carrot cones

Cones are immediately associated with Christmas trees and the New Year. Let's decorate salads with carrot cones, and make fir branches from dill.


 You will need a sharp, narrow knife to cut the bump. It is necessary to give the carrots the shape of a cone.

If there is, it is convenient to cut with carving knives, but they are optional.

Cut the petals in a circle with a knife, trying to fit the whole number of petals, and under the petals cut the flesh a little. Continue row by row.

When you reach the end, sharpen the tip of the carrot.

You get these bumps. Moreover, when using different tools, they will be slightly different.

Pancake and beetroot roses

Pancakes are not a very common product for carving, but this is where the beauty of this decoration is manifested. It's hard to tell right away what it's made of.


 Grate boiled beets and mix with mayonnaise.

Distribute the beetroot over the pancake.

Roll up and cut into pieces about 5 cm.

From the side of the cut, from one edge, you need to make several small cuts in the form of petals.

Arrange the pancakes as shown in the photo, and close the gaps with parsley leaves.

roses from tomato

How real roses are made from the skin of a tomato. Even special practice for cutting is not required.


 Take any tomato with a nice, even, intact skin. Cut off the top of the hat, but do not cut it off completely.

Continue to cut the skin in a spiral, being careful not to accidentally cut.

Then unroll the spiral cutting board. And roll up into a roll, starting from the tip, towards the "hat".

Decorate the salad with the resulting roses. You can make several and collect a "bouquet". You can make one large and place it in the center.

In the same way, a rose is made from an apple.

cucumber leaf

Cucumbers are often used in carving. They have several valuable properties: they are dense, so it is convenient to cut them out, their skin and pulp different color for a decorative effect. Try cutting cucumber leaves. One cucumber will produce at least two leaves.


 First, cut a piece of cucumber, as shown in the photo.

Cut the flesh from the inside, but not too close to the peel.

Give the cucumber a leaf shape. Cut off more pulp from the pointed edge.

In the center along the sheet, make two cuts converging to the tip.

From the sides, cut perpendicular cuts to the first two and remove these fragments.

Cut through holes in the pulp in the form of leaflets.

If you did everything right, you get such a cucumber leaf.

Bulb water lily

To carve a water lily, you will need a purple bulb, such a flower will not need to be dyed to give color.


 Take an onion and peel it off.

Make zigzag cuts in the middle, moving in a circle.

Separate the two halves.

Disassemble the half into separate parts and assemble again so that the cloves do not match.

One bulb produces two water lilies.

banana dog

Although a banana is not very suitable for decorating a savory salad, it is worth making a dog out of a banana, because the year of the Dog is coming. And from this fruit a charming dachshund is obtained.


 Freehand draw on paper a template in the form of a banana with legs. Attach to a banana and circle the outline with a sharp knife, cutting through the peel.

Bend the legs.

In addition to the template with legs, you will need a template with ears, draw it by hand too.

Cut only the ears and bottom according to the template.

Between the ears, make such an arcuate incision.

Cut the banana pulp and discard. Bend down the loose peel that has formed between the ears from above.

Make indentations for the eyes with a knife and insert black peppercorns.

Insert a pair of toothpicks into the base of the head.

Attach the "head" to the "torso".

Spirals

When you see ready-made vegetable spirals, it seems that making them at home is either impossible or expensive tools are needed. But everything, as it turns out, is much simpler.


 All you need is a cucumber, a slicer and a sharp knife. Although you can do without a slicer.

First of all, cut the cucumber into thin slices. Then diagonally cut off the edges on both sides.

Make several parallel cuts along.

Twist a piece of cucumber with a pencil.

Carefully remove the spiral and decorate the salad.

radish flower

You have already seen how to make roses from pancakes and beets, tomatoes, but there is another way to make a carving flower. Let's try to cut it out of a radish, or rather, not even cut it out, but fold it from pieces.

Swan their apple

It's original enough easy way garnish salad or fruit cuts. Carefully repeat all the steps, according to the master class.


 Cut the apple into two halves with a diagonal cut.

Take the part with the sepals. Remove bones.

Lay as shown in the photo. Place a knife on top and bottom - they will serve as limiters.

With another knife, make an incision slightly to the right of the center.

Then cut the apple on the side.

Then repeat the steps on the left side of the apple.

Lay the cut section again between the two knives. Stepping back from the edge, make cuts on the top and side.

You will get several of these pieces.

Lay them out.

Put the "wings" in the main half of the apple on the sides. Cut out a piece of apple in the center.

Take the other half of the apple that we haven't used yet.

Cut off a thin piece of apple.

Now cut out the part that is covered with a knife in the photo.

And trim off the edge.

Press the seed into the pulp. Give the piece a more rounded shape.

Insert the swan's head into the center notch.

bulbous dahlia

At first glance, it’s hard to believe that a dahlia is made from an onion with your own hands in just 8 cuts. She looks so beautiful and sophisticated.


 Take a sharp and thin knife.

We do not cut anything from the side of the root, on the other hand we make an even cut.

Take the onion in your hand or put it on the board. Cut the onion in the middle, but not completely. We do not cut about 1 cm.

Perpendicular to the first incision, make a second incision. Now cut each piece in half.

And again in half: we cut two parts at once or each separately.

Take a bowl of water and put the onion in the water for a couple of hours.

After two hours, remove the bulb, it will turn into a chrysanthemum.

If you want to make a red chrysanthemum, dip the bulb in beetroot juice and let it sit for a while. The longer you keep the onion in the juice, the more intense it will be colored.

Beautiful and impressive decoration.

See the video for some more interesting master classes.

Video: carrot flower

Video: cucumber butterfly

Video: tomato and cucumber decorations

Photo carving jewelry will inspire you to be creative.

Salad garnish is an important part of the whole serving. You can decorate dishes not only with the usual greens, but also with a variety of cuts, mayonnaise patterns, and figures. Dishes that have been given worthy attention during the presentation are always much tastier and more beautiful than the rest.

Salad "Shuba" is one of the favorite salads of our people because it consists of simple and affordable ingredients, 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, makes a person feel a sense of triumph and joy.

The herring under a fur coat got its name only because the fish is covered with many “fluffy” vegetable and mayonnaise layers with which it is covered on a serving platter. But how boring the same salad bowl can look at every holiday with this dish. Nowadays, it is popular and relevant to create an unusual and original presentation for everything, and the “fur coat” is no exception.

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

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

  • One of the ways 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 baby fish can provoke joy and a smile in 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 improvised materials: scraps of vegetables, olives, herbs, onion rings, mayonnaise drawings


original serving of salad "herring under a fur coat" in the form of a fish

Unusual serving of salad "Herring under a fur coat":

  • One of the most unusual variations of serving “fur coat” 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 (focus on your recipe)
  • Then all the contents are carefully twisted with the help of a film and a roll is formed.
  • The roll should be put in the refrigerator for hardening, and only after a sufficient amount of time has elapsed, when the mayonnaise holds all the layers together, carefully put it 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 of salad "Herring under a fur coat":

  • This serving involves the design of the salad in the form of a ring.
  • To do this, you will need a special hard or Silicone molds for baking
  • In order for the salad to keep its shape, all layers must be laid out a little by tamping and pressing tightly against each other
  • Lettuce in the form of put in the refrigerator for several hours to "grab"
  • After the time has elapsed, it is necessary to cover the form with a serving plate, sharply turn the form with the plate upside down and tap a little on the form so that the salad falls behind it
  • Garnish the finished salad with herbs and sliced ​​​​vegetables


beautiful serving of salad "herring under a fur coat"

Olivier salad decoration, original ideas for serving a familiar dish

Olivier is the most popular and most frequent dish on holiday tables. Like Shuba, they are very fond of preparing 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 beloved this salad is, its standard and usual serving in the form of a “heap” 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.



Regular and standard serving of salad "Olivier" on the table

Original serving salad "Olivier":

  • Salad "Olivier" in the original should include pickled chopped cucumber
  • Not everyone knows a delicious and very balanced combination of pickled pickled and fresh cucumber
  • 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 it 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. You can lay them 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 the usual Olivier salad garnished with fresh cucumber and potato chips

An unusual serving of a standard Olivier salad:

  • The unusual serving of the usual salad "Olivier" involves a small "game" with the ingredients of the dish
  • To give it nice 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
  • Pack the lettuce tightly into the mold to keep it in shape.
  • Beat the liquid-free peas with a blender until a paste forms.
  • Put the resulting paste in an even layer on top of the salad, level with a knife
  • Remove the form. On top of the green hat, you should put a decoration: a boiled quail egg, cut in half and a spoonful of red caviar
  • Be sure that such a dish will “play” in a new way and give you completely different taste sensations.


unusual serving 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 it is not at all difficult to do this.
  • For this design, you will need a two-liter plastic bottle.
  • Cut the bottle in half and place the salad in dense layers in its narrow part (where the neck is)
  • Let the salad rest 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 dill sprigs, pomegranate seeds can act as toys


beautiful serving of the usual Olivier salad on the festive table

Mimosa salad is one of the simplest dishes for a festive and everyday table. It can always be prepared with inexpensive ingredients, because its highlight is canned sardines. Salad is always eaten with pleasure: both at lunch and on a holiday. Its unusual design can distinguish it from other dishes and make it your "calling card" on the table.



regular serving of traditional sardine mimosa salad

The original serving of Mimosa salad:

  • The original serving of "Mimosa" in a humorous style will help to surprise guests and please everyone at the festive table.
  • You can create decorations for a beautiful presentation using the ingredients themselves: boiled eggs that will become “mice”
  • In principle, the creation of such a feed is not at all laborious, but it requires patience and accuracy.
  • Salad should be prepared in the standard way - a "slide", a bit like a cheese ball
  • Decorate the salad with grated yolk, which will add color and brightness
  • Three boiled eggs should be decorated with cheese, olives and sprigs of greenery, forming ears, eyes, nose and antennae
  • Mice should be evenly distributed over the entire area of ​​\u200b\u200bthe "head of cheese"


original decoration salad "Mimosa" for the festive season

Unusual serving of Mimosa salad:

  • This serving involves serving a 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 after another and at the end sprinkled with yolk or yellow cheese
  • You can place such mounds on lettuce leaves that line the bottom of the serving dish.
  • Such a “hilly” serving will distract from the standard one and arouse the interest of guests to try 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 a 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 fluffy mimosa blossoms.
  • That is why you can decorate the salad by “drawing” twigs, the basis of which will be dill tassels
  • The salad should be decorated in this way just before serving, because the greens during the time spent in the refrigerator can “weather” and lose their decent appearance
  • For the background, it is proposed to lay out a layer of grated egg white, and make flowers and a frame from the yolk


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

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

Bulgarian 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 pattern.

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

One of the ways suggests you to create certain figure for example, a dragon. This is especially true in the Year of the Dragon. Eastern calendar or to a party in a certain medieval style. From bell pepper it is easy to cut out the shape of the dragon's muzzle, its spikes on the back, wings and paws. Eyes and some fine details can be carved from olives.



decorating salads with bell pepper, creating figures with bell pepper

Otherwise, bell pepper beautiful shape to serve the salad. You can use absolutely any salad. The pepper is carefully cut in half, cleaned of seeds. IN lower part a salad is formed from the remnants of pepper and skewers, a sail of a boat is formed. It should be remembered that for serving you need a perfectly even pepper without external damage.



original serving of salad and decoration of salads with pepper

An easier way is stuff peppers with a specific salad. This is a neat and pretty way to serve a salad that will refresh the lovely and light taste of the peppers.



pepper stuffed with salad for serving

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



how to decorate a salad with bell pepper?

Even 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.



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

How to decorate a salad with pineapples? Pineapple salad decorations

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

Most often you can find an ornament symbolizing 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

Canned pineapple rings can be easily transformed into a flowering 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 decoration with pineapple, beautiful serving in half a 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. From an elastic vegetable, you can cut various figures in a variety of ways. different shapes:

  • mugs
  • hearts
  • stripes and more

Tomato can be blashed (peeled), or can be used in its usual form. When decorating a salad with a tomato, remember that you will need only the soft part of it, the seeds should be completely removed.

The easiest way to make a salad interesting view- create a ladybug. To do this, you will also need black olives to create specks and muzzles.



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

Unusual and enough hard 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 de-seeded.
  • To clean the tomato from the seeds and the inside, you need to cut it into four petals, if it turned out unsuccessfully, don't worry. You can always hide the “unsuccessful” side by putting it on a plate, and opening the beautiful side
  • Each tulip is stuffed with lettuce, be careful: the lettuce must be finely grated or chopped enough to “keep its shape” and not make the flower crumpled
  • The flower stem can be made from greens or green onion feathers


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

If the skin of a tomato is cut thinly enough and carefully with a sharp knife along, then a beautiful rose can be made from the resulting “ribbon”.

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

In a peculiar way, you can decorate a cherry tomato salad. To do this, slightly oblong tomatoes need to be cut a little obliquely and combine the 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 to decorate a salad with tomatoes is to stuff them with lettuce. Olives and mayonnaise will help create a certain pattern.



decorating salads with tomato figurines

Salad decorated with cucumber, how beautiful to decorate a salad with cucumber?

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



original and unusual decoration of salads with cucumber

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



decorating salad with cucumber, creating patterns and “leaves” of cucumber

salad dressing with pickled cucumber

In order to create figures and patterns from a cucumber, it must be cut very thinly with a wide sharp knife, a vegetable peeler, or a special cucumber cutter that 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 decorations. You can use the most common chicken eggs for salad, or you can use quail eggs, which, due to their miniature size, are neat and aesthetic. Salad should be decorated exclusively with boiled eggs.

One of the most common ways involves cutting flower petals from protein and creating a center from grated yolk. With such flowers you can decorate "Mimosa" and any other salad, included which has eggs.



how beautiful and original to decorate a salad with an egg?

Even just halved quail eggs can give any salad a festive and very “delicious” look. To do this, place the halves throughout the dish or lay them out along the edge, repeating a certain pattern. Quail eggs can be garnished with a "bead" of red caviar, if it is a fish salad, and a black olive ring with any other salad.

Small halves of quail eggs also perfectly embody the petals of a flower, for example, chamomile. From large halves, you can 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 quail eggs dyed with food coloring

salad decorated with egg white flowers salad can be decorated with eggs in the form of mushrooms, the second half of the fungus is painted onion peel

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

How to decorate a 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 is drawings on a 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
  • by placing the sauce in a plastic bag (shaping it into a bag similar to a pastry bag) and making a small hole in it
  • By placing the sauce in a pastry bag or syringe

You can decorate the salad with mayonnaise in several ways:

  • drawing a neat grid on it
  • drawing on it lace or curls from a mayonnaise stream
  • by drawing certain details of the figures on the lettuce and vegetable figurines

There are several rules for decorating salad with mayonnaise:

  • for decoration, purchase only the highest percentage of fat mayonnaise so that it “holds its shape”
  • apply the 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 decoration with mayonnaise

How beautiful to decorate salads with herbs?

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
  • saplings
  • grass
  • leaves

Absolutely any greenery can be suitable for decoration, which you only need to use with creativity. Most often, chopped greens create a green background on which you can plant fungi from an egg, ladybugs from a tomato, or simply make the green part of the watermelon rind in the 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 clearing where fungi grow

How to decorate a salad with dill?

Dill, by virtue of its small branches, becomes a wonderful decoration for a salad. Especially if it's finely chopped. It can be conveniently distributed over the entire area of ​​the layer, it will create a uniform and non-translucent background. Often it is used to "draw" sprigs of spruce on your salad. This is true when preparing festive New Year and Christmas salads.

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

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


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

Ideas for decorating and decorating holiday salads for the holiday and every day

Decorating salads is a noble deed. So, you get incredible aesthetic pleasure from the dish before you taste it. Ornaments require ordinary everyday and especially festive salads for the New Year, Birthday and even March 8th.

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

  • sliced ​​vegetables
  • sliced ​​from different types cheese
  • sliced ​​​​smoked and dried meats
  • black olives
  • green olives
  • pickled and boiled vegetables
  • boiled chicken and quail eggs
  • red caviar
  • common and leafy greens


festive salad decoration with grated boiled vegetables and boiled egg

salad decoration with boiled egg halves and sliced ​​carrots

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 not much suits them. It is for this reason that caring mothers increasingly have to invent unusual jewelry from edible materials so that their children show interest in food. Boiled eggs and vegetables, greens, cheese and meat are used.

Creating a beautiful and even voluminous pattern on a salad or from a snack for your baby is not difficult. However, you should show no small perseverance, be patient and be careful.



baby salad"bunny" made from boiled egg

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

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. She should always be distinguished by special tender palatability and external aesthetic appearance in order to attract everyone. The appetizer usually consists of boiled eggs, vegetables, olives, sausage and cheese. It is not uncommon for appetizers to include delicious seafood.

You can beautifully decorate any appetizer - fish or meat - with the help of boiled quail egg halves filled with various dill - red, black, capelin.



appetizer decoration with boiled quail eggs

salad decoration with shrimp and swan-shaped tomato rugs

appetizer decoration with thinly sliced ​​vegetables

Video: " How to decorate salads and snacks on the festive table in an original way?

Even the simplest salad, but beautifully and unusually decorated, will make you a reputation as a master chef. And among various ways Salad decorations are so simple and uncomplicated that you simply marvel and understand how simple everything ingenious is.

Date added: 2013-11-15 04:57:45

So, we cook salads regularly. And it is important to remember that an originally decorated salad will attract the eyes of your guests and family members like a magnet. This article contains very simple ways salad decorations. These methods do not take much time, but the effect is amazing. Your salads will be devoured by the eyes. In this list, we have collected only the most simple ideas Salad decorations that even a child will surely cope with, and at the same time, these are very interesting ideas. So, sharpen your knife and let's get started.

1. HOW TO DECORATE SALAD - SPIDERS FROM OLIVES

Plant such a spider on your salad - it will surprise everyone. As you can see from the picture, it is very easy to prepare. You only need a few olives. Cut one olive in half - and one of the halves will become the body of a spider. Cut the second half lengthwise into strips - here you have the legs. The spider has eight legs. Such spiders need to be planted on salads with a uniform surface, for example, I planted them on a chicken salad and walnuts(300 gr. Boiled chicken fillet, 200 gr. Peeled walnuts, mayonnaise, salt and black pepper. Skip the chicken and nuts through a meat grinder, season with mayonnaise, salt and pepper). See how well these spiders are visible on the surface of the salad? And from olives you can make not only spiders. These round black berries look so much like black eyes...

2. HOW TO DECORATE A SALAD - BASKET FROM HARD BOILED EGGS

Hard boil the eggs. Take a sharp knife (not corrugated) and a peeled egg in your hand. Make such oblique cuts around the perimeter (I would say “along the equator”) of the eggs as in the photo and divide the egg into 2 halves. One half (like a basket) can be filled green peas or sweet corn, or herbs, and the other half can be filled with chopped and mixed with finely chopped dill yolk.

3. HOW TO DECORATE SALAD - LILYS FROM PROCESSED CHEESE PLATES

You will need several slices of melted cheese (the kind you put in cheeseburgers, each cheese is wrapped separately in cellophane) and boiled carrots. A little more dill and parsley for decoration. So, boiled carrots need to be cut into long stripes - these will be the pistils of our flower. And make the lilies themselves from curdled cheese squares. Insert carrot pistils inside, and green stalks of dill or parsley will be thick stalks of our lilies. Around these stems and you need to wrap our "bags" of cheese.

4. HOW TO DECORATE A SALAD - FORM SCREEN FROM PAPER

The idea is simple: you need to cut a stencil out of paper in some interesting form. For example, a star, or a bell, or some geometric figure, a circle, for example. Put this stencil on the salad and fill it with a uniform color on top, for example, mashed yolks, or finely chopped greens, but this should be a color that contrasts with the background of the salad so that it is clearly visible. Then remove the paper, and our drawing will remain on the salad. Only if you are not an artist, and generally not very experienced in these matters, it is better to work with a really simple, uncomplicated figure, for example, a star. Everyone will recognize it for sure, and it can be decorated around the edges, for example, with pomegranate seeds, to make the boundaries of the star brighter, clearly defined. I have a cake in the photo (I decorated the cake with a star like that), and not a salad, but the very idea from the photo is clear :)

5. HOW TO DECORATE A SALAD - ROSE FROM TOMATOES

The tomato rose is a classic. Such a rose can be planted on almost any salad - the tomato is quite neutral and goes well with many salads. It is especially important to decorate vegetable summer and spring salads with such a tomato rose. With such salads, you cannot make a perfectly flat surface on which you can draw whatever you want - they are a shapeless, uneven mass. Plant a tomato rosette in the middle of such a salad - and the salad is decorated. It is clear that the first time you will not get a rose from a tomato, but sooner or later your rose will become like a real one, the main thing is practice. There are two ways to make a tomato rose, both of which require a very sharp knife. The first way is to simply peel off all the skin from the tomato with a spiral and form a rose from this skin. The rose from the skin is going straight by itself, the main thing is not to tear it, the ribbon of the skin should be solid. And the second way - we just cut the tomato into very very thin slices, without cutting it to the end, and slightly shift, rotate these slices. The second method is a little more complicated, but the whole tomato is involved in it. In any case, from now on, if you add a fresh tomato to your salad, and you usually peel it off, now you know what to do with this peel ... you can make a rosette and decorate the salad!

6. HOW TO DECORATE A SALAD - FIGURES FROM BOILED VEGETABLES CUT WITH COOKIE MOLDS

These molds are available at any hardware store. Here is a mold, as in the photo, it costs only ten rubles. And any material from which you can cut can be taken, you can cut it from boiled sausage or ham, from boiled beets, from boiled carrots, from boiled potatoes (unless it is a potato with a low starch content, that is, it does not fall apart and does not boil soft during cooking and retains its shape well). If there is no such mold at hand, use glasses, glasses .. for example, you can make rings by first cutting a large circle with a glass from a plate of boiled beets, and then a small one inside. Pay attention to the photo below: in order to lay out individual portions of the salad, it is convenient to have such a mold that does not have a bottom. With such a mold, the salad can be molded perfectly round, already on a plate.

7. HOW TO DECORATE A SALAD - A NET FROM MAYONNAISE AND PETALS FROM CHIPS

A net of mayonnaise can be very simple and quick to decorate a salad. It is necessary to make a very thin hole in the mayonnaise bag with scissors so that the mayonnaise bag looks like a pastry bag, from which you can draw anything with mayonnaise (even write a text) by squeezing mayonnaise. But do not rush with the text, it may not work out, but the mayonnaise mesh will always work out. In addition, you can put red caviar or greens, or other colorful greens-fruits-vegetables in the mesh cells, in a checkerboard pattern, and it will turn out very beautifully. And the chips around the perimeter of the salad look like petals. And something like chips, snapped up in the first place :)

8. HOW TO DECORATE SALAD - PALMS FROM OLIVES

Thread the olives onto a skewer or toothpick. Decorate the tops of palm trees with greenery (dill or green onion) and stick these palms in your salad. Original and quite simple.

9. HOW TO DECORATE A SALAD - LAY OUT KOLEIDOSCOPE PATTERNS FROM PEA, BERRIES OR CORN

In fact, half a can of canned corn, or pineapple rings, or a few green peas is enough to make a rather original, eye-catching pattern - a pattern on a salad. You can just chop the radish very thinly and come up with an interesting pattern from these circles. Pomegranate berries - also very good material to post a drawing. Pomegranate pairs especially well with chicken salad. For example, simply boiled chicken fillet mixed with mayonnaise and laid out on a flat plate can be decorated with pomegranate seeds, and it will be very delicious salad that everyone will love.

10. HOW TO DECORATE A SALAD - STRIPES OF MULTI-COLORED PEPPER OR CUCUMBER, COMPOSED INTO A PICTURE

There is no particular need to describe this method - and so everything is clear. Even flowers, even a person's face, even just geometric figures: all this is easily assembled from simple bright colorful bell peppers, cut into strips.


This second pattern is, of course, much simpler, but everything is in your hands. You can take bright yellow, bright green and bright red bell peppers. This colorful trio will brighten up any salad with just the brightness of its colors.

Try to make your salads bright, combine ingredients of different colors in them - green, red, yellow, orange. This will give not only beautiful view dish, but will also affect the appetite, increasing it.

The main rule: the decoration of the salad should be in harmony with the taste of the main components of the recipe. Ideally, the decoration should be from the same ingredients that are part of the salad.

The exception is such decoration details that are easily removed from the salad and do not mix with it. For example, "mushrooms" from halves of cucumber and tomato or "flowers" from boiled carrots. Typically, such removable "decorations" are located in the center of the salad and stand out strongly above its surface.

In some photographs posted by hostesses on the Internet, you can see that even meat salads are placed with a central decoration of strawberries or grape seeds. Of course, such decorations look bright and impressive, but their use is far from always appropriate. Therefore, before you decorate the crab salad with your favorite composition of vegetables and fruits, you need to carefully check the ingredients of the decoration and replace those that can give juice and spoil the taste of the salad.

The second rule in the design: "curly" salads in the form of fish, snakes, crabs, etc. obtained only from salads with finely chopped products and a sticky consistency.

How can you decorate salads?

How you can decorate salads, fantasy will tell. Crab salad can be laid out on a dish in the form of a fish with a striped color of "scales" of boiled egg or rice and contrasting yellow corn. Such a salad will appeal not only to adults, but also to children.

Meat salad, salad with beans and ham can be turned into a cake. For this arrange the ingredients better, without mixing, and each top layer should be slightly smaller in coverage area than the previous one: this way the “cake” does not crumble and keeps its shape. With dressing (usually mayonnaise), the finished salad is covered like a cake with icing. And a walnut, which is part of the salad itself, can become a decoration. When serving, such a cake is cut into pieces and mixed already in a plate.

Shrimp salad can be arranged in the form of a flower and decorated with shrimps, placing each on a separate petal, and place a “rose” of lemon in the center of the flower.

How to decorate a winter salad so that none of the guests recognizes a familiar dish in a culinary masterpiece? The first option - curly design. A winter salad will make a perfect snowman with a carrot nose and pea eyes.

The second option is cake., the surface of which will be completely covered with finely chopped greens, decorated with peas and mayonnaise patterns. In such a cake, there is no need to arrange the ingredients in layers, the main thing is to simply lay it in the form high circle on a dish and properly "camouflage".

Vegetables

Cucumbers are the most magnificent material for decorating salads, and they are used both pickled, salted, and fresh cucumbers. Cucumbers can be cut into slices, slices, cubes, circles, rings, a fan - whatever you like.

Carrots are commonly used to garnish salads due to their bright, persistent color. In this case, you can also take both fresh and boiled carrots. You can cut carrots into bars, circles, stars, tulips, vases.

Tomato is also one of the commonly used vegetables in salad dressing. Tomatoes can be cut in half, remove the ovary from both halves, and then fill them with green peas, mushrooms, cheese and other products suitable for salad.

Greenery

Salads are decorated with onion rings, cutting the onion into thin slices. On the surface of a large bulb, you can make a cross-cut incision - you get a chrysanthemum flower. Almost all salads are decorated with dill, green onions, parsley. Small green leaves can be put whole.

Fruits

Lemons, as a rule, decorate salads made from fish. Stripes are made on the peel of a lemon with a carved knife, and then the lemon is cut into thin slices and decorated with a salad. Pomegranate seeds spice up any salad due to their size.

Meat products

Slices of sausage or ham are twisted into rolls. A cross-shaped incision is made on the sausage, which opens in the form of a rosette after heating it in hot water.

Eggs

Hard-boiled eggs are cut into slices or finely chopped. Various figurines are made from a whole egg. Separately grated yolk and protein are suitable for small portions of salad; they are sprinkled on top of salads.

Thus, salads should be decorated so that the main composition of the salads is visible, but at the same time, the decoration should be simple and tastefully decorated. We talked about 5 ways to decorate salads, you can also see photos in the article.

Carving

Decorative carving of fruits and vegetables - carving, has become popular in last years. Decorations for salads can be made from different products, for example: cheese, if it is cut with a curly knife into pieces of various shapes - triangles, squares, rhombuses, and so on. On the peel of a lemon, you can make curly cuts, and then cut it into thin slices.

You can make bells from cucumbers, cut them into ribbons and make roses out of them, and water lilies out of cucumbers and eggs. Thick cucumbers can be turned into baskets and filled with sour berries or small radishes.

Tomatoes are useful as fly agarics and roses, and radishes for cones and tulips. Just hold them in cold water so that bitterness comes out. A chrysanthemum made from radish will look just amazing.

And the eggs! What only of them do not. Mushrooms, petals, flowers. They are rubbed, cut, cut. Here's how to decorate flower-shaped potato salad with them.

Or this salad with smoked chicken and pineapple.

Mushrooms are an excellent decoration for salads. Champignons, chanterelles, boletus mushrooms, butter mushrooms, boiled and pickled look beautiful. What is the view of mushroom meadow salad worth, from which your guests will definitely be delighted.

Lettuce leaves line a salad bowl or put it in a separate bunch. They not only decorate dishes, but are also very useful themselves.

Photo how to decorate salads

Most salads contain boiled eggs, with which you can decorate any salad in an original way, showing fiction and imagination. As a basis for such a decoration, you can take protein and yolk grated on a fine grater, which are contrasting in color and make an original topping. To do this, the entire surface of the salad must be leveled and smeared with mayonnaise on top, and then sprinkle according to the intended pattern. For example, sprinkle the middle of the salad with yolk, and around the edges - protein. But this is the easiest option, but you want to surprise and please loved ones with something more original. In this case, you can lay out the protein and yolk in the form of flowers, and this will most likely turn out to be chamomile, with dill or parsley stalks.

And it is better to decorate the spring version of the salad with a sprig of mimosa, which is easy to make if you put a dill stalk in the middle of the salad and sprinkle it with grated yolk like mimosa balls. On a white mayonnaise background, it will look very gentle and beautiful.

Vegetable salads are decorated with vegetables, carving flowers, ornaments and other decorations from them. The art of carving out of vegetables even stood out in a separate line of creativity called carving. Of course, like any art, carving requires certain knowledge, skills and special tools, so it is unlikely to suit every housewife, but you can decorate the salad with vegetables in an original way without carving. For example, lay out the top of the salad with slices of tomatoes and cucumbers in the form of a flower, small flowers can be made from small red onion rings, and green onion arrows will be the stems. If the salad has canned corn, then you can put the salad on a dish in the form of two or three cobs and stick corn kernels on top of the mayonnaise, and put green onion feathers on the bottom to simulate the stem.

If cheese is included in the salad, then this is a very plastic material for decoration, which can be used both in grated form and in plates rolled up in the form of petals, from which you can make a magnificent flower or several callas.

Small pickled cucumbers, intricately connected with toothpicks, will become a real cactus planted in the center of the salad, and if there is fresh tomatoes or bell pepper, then the cactus can be made blooming by decorating curly slices of cherry tomatoes or peppers.

Plot motifs in the decoration of salads look very original, which can be associated with the hobby of the birthday man or. It is clear that one of the New Year's salads must be laid out with a Christmas tree, decorating it with toys made from all the ingredients of the salad, and for Women's Day, a salad with decoration in the form of flowers will be appropriate.

A huge scope for imagination is given by children's holidays, when kids need to be interested in the type of dish, but it is better to make a salad for children in the form of portioned figures so as not to destroy the overall decoration. These can be baskets shortcrust pastry, egg halves filled with lettuce, spread with lettuce and garnished with crackers.

Figures are best made in the form of muzzles of familiar animals, which delights kids or in the form of their favorite fruits.

Will be appropriate fairy tale characters like a bun or cheburashka. Koloboks can be fashioned from any dense salad and roll them in grated yolk, protein or crab sticks, and draw eyes and mouth with ketchup or stick peas.