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Original serving of salads for the new year. Salad decoration

While everyone is preparing for the New Year 2019 and running across culinary sites in search of the most the best dishes, we want to show what options for preparing and decorating salads. After all, the recipe can be anything, but how to decorate it in a festive way? Look, play with ideas and do not forget to capture your works in the photo. It continues. So, the options for decorating salads for the New Year, from masterpieces to the simplest.

Each caring housewife, in anticipation of the new year, composes holiday menu and wonders what is so tasty and interesting to cook this time? The main character upcoming 2019 - Pig! Watch and repeat interesting ideas from photos and videos.

Let's start with a simple and quick but effective option. Marina Shevchenko decided to cook original dish, a variation on the famous and beloved by all salad Olivier.Guests will be pleasantly surprised by such a cold snack!

Pig salad, variation of Olivier

Ingredients:

  • boiled sausage - 200 g
  • potatoes - 2 pcs.
  • pickled cucumber - 3-4 pcs.
  • egg - 2-3 pcs.
  • processed cheese - 1 pc.
  • green onions - 50 g
  • canned peas - 200 g
  • mayonnaise - 3 tbsp. l.
  • salt, pepper - to taste

for decoration:

  • olives - 2 pcs.
  • paprika - optional
  • fresh herbs

Cooking method

Boil several small potato tubers in their uniforms in advance. Then cool it, peel and cut into small cubes.

Choose boiled sausage from a trusted manufacturer, fresh and of high quality, then the salad will taste better. Cut out the ears, patch and stigma for the pig from a part of the sausage, and chop the rest of the sausage into a medium-sized cube.

This time I used pickled cucumbers, but they can also be replaced with pickled ones, because this will not affect the taste of the salad badly. Chop the cucumbers also into cubes. Drain the brine that formed after slicing the cucumbers.

Rinse a few green onion feathers in running water, wipe dry and chop finely with a sharp knife.

Combine all previously cooked ingredients in a deep plate. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Add two tablespoons of mayonnaise. Mix.

To a beautiful big plate, in which the dish will be served, lay out the salad with a hemisphere so that it resembles the "little body" of a pig.

Boil chicken eggs in advance (about 8-10 minutes), cool and peel them. Grind on a fine grater with melted cheese.

Mix the cheese and eggs thoroughly. You should get a homogeneous pasty mass. Cover the salad with this mass. Then make a net of mayonnaise and with clean hands spread the mayonnaise over the entire surface of the salad.

Decorate the salad with sausage ears, a patch and a stigma. Sprinkle paprika on top for color, and put fresh parsley around the salad.

The result is an incredibly beautiful and delicious New Year's dish - Pig salad!
Happy New Year!
You can see more options on how to decorate salads and snacks in the form of Piggy in these YouTube videos.

Piglet with a surprise:

You can decorate snacks and sandwiches in the same way.

Tartlets - pigs

They can be cooked both on the eve of the holiday itself, and after it, when you want to pamper your relatives original appetizer... You will get such wonderful pigs to please your loved ones and guests.


Ingredients:
- tartlets - 6-8 pcs.;
- hard or other cheese - 50 g;
- mayonnaise - 50 g;
- garlic - 1 clove;
- chicken eggs - 2 pcs.;
- sausages for decoration - 1-2 pcs.;
- salt, pepper - optional;
- lettuce leaves, olives or peppercorns - for decoration.

Preparation:

Three hard-boiled chicken eggs on a fine grater, we do the same with hard cheese. Rub the cheese and eggs into one container, where we will prepare the filling. For the filling, you can use any kind of cheese: hard or soft.

We squeeze a peeled clove of garlic into the filling, it will give the appetizer a piquant aroma and additional taste.

Fill the filling with fat mayonnaise and mix until homogeneous mass to get thick filling... Salt and pepper if desired.

We spread the filling in tartlets on a teaspoon and tamp it slightly, giving it an even shape. From above we decorate the tartlets with a piglet and ears cut from milk sausages.

We spread the eyes of the pigs: they can be cut out of an olive tree or use peppercorns or prune pieces for this.

We spread the finished tartlets on a dish and serve immediately for the holiday, decorating with lettuce leaves.
Bon appetit and Happy New Year!

Glamor Pig Snack:


Stuffed eggs with piglets:

Herringbone Salads

First of all, of course, the New Year is associated with a Christmas tree. Here the best way for the decoration of salads - dill.

Herringbone salad recipe with chicken and prunes

Recipe amazing salad for a festive table called "Herringbone". This is a very tasty, delicate and at the same time satisfying salad, with a harmonious combination of chicken and prunes, decorated in the form of a Christmas tree. Photo and description of the preparation by Marina Shevchenko.

In preparation, such a salad is not at all difficult, not costly either in terms of products or in time, but in the end it turns out perfect snack for the winter holidays!

Ingredients:

  • chicken fillet- 1 PC.
  • champignons - 300 g
  • onion - 1 pc.
  • prunes - 10-13 pcs.
  • hard cheese - 50 g
  • boiled egg - 2 pcs.
  • mayonnaise - 80 g
  • salt, pepper - to taste

for decoration:

  • fresh dill - 1 bunch
  • pomegranate seeds
  • prunes

Cooking method

Mushrooms and onion wash, peel and cut into thin slices.

Preheat a frying pan with vegetable oil... First put the onion in the pan, fry it lightly for 1-2 minutes, then add the mushrooms to it. Season with salt and pepper to taste, stir and continue to fry over medium heat for 5-7 minutes, until mushrooms and onions acquire a golden color. After that, transfer the ready-made mushrooms to a plate so that they cool completely.

Boil in advance chicken breast in salted water for 30 minutes. Then cool the meat and cut into thin slices or disassemble it into fibers.

Put chicken fillet in the first layer on a plate. Form a triangular shape that resembles a herringbone. Cover the meat with mayonnaise mesh.

The next layer will be - fried mushrooms with onion. Spread them around the entire perimeter of the salad and brush with mayonnaise.

Peel and finely grate boiled chicken eggs, also chop hard cheese.

Now add grated eggs to the salad, cover them with mayonnaise.

Transfer the prunes to a deep plate and rinse in running water. Pour boiling water over it and leave for 20 minutes, so that the prunes are thoroughly steamed. Then separate the prunes from the pits and cut into thin slices.

Place the prune slices on top of the eggs. Cover with mayonnaise mesh.

The last layer in this salad is grated cheese with mayonnaise.

Now, you need to make the decor for New Year's dishes... Wash fresh dill, dry and chop finely. Chop prunes (1-2 pieces) also finely. Prepare a meal of pomegranate seeds. Cut a star out of hard cheese onto a Christmas tree.

Cover the salad with herbs on all sides.

Decorate the "Herringbone" salad with pomegranate seeds and prunes, and make a "garland" on the herringbone with mayonnaise.
The result is a very tasty and nutritious holiday salad "Herringbone" with chicken, mushrooms and prunes!
Bon Appetit!

With dill, you can make a salad in the form of a Christmas wreath:

Other greens are also suitable for creating a Christmas tree, for example, parsley and onions.

Or lay out the green beauty from green peas:

And even a very simple version of the Christmas tree - from cucumbers:

And even - from cauliflower, cheese or citrus:

Kremlin tree 🙂

Original combination: winter herringbone ... from kiwi:

Spruce branches from lettuce leaves:

Fir-trees can be vertical:

Herringbone tartlets

We suggest you serve stuffed tartlets decorated in the form of Christmas trees in an original way. The appetizer is prepared from the most affordable products, and every housewife will be able to repeat it at home. Delicious and beautifully decorated tartlets will fly apart in an instant, so we advise you to immediately prepare a double or maybe triple portion if you expect a large number of guests.

What are good tartlets are convenient snack for 1-2 bites, so even those who follow the figure may not be afraid to overeat. The portion of the tartlets is quite small, so everyone can please. The filling can be absolutely anything to your taste. Today we propose to prepare the simplest and fastest filling of cheese, eggs and crab sticks.

Ingredients:

- chicken eggs - 2 pcs.;
- waffle or other tartlets - 8 pcs.;
- hard cheese - 70-80 g;
- mayonnaise - 80 g;
- crab sticks - 5 pcs.;
- dill - 3-4 branches;
- boiled carrots - 1 pc .;
- salt to taste.

Preparation:

Using a fine grater, rub hard-boiled chicken eggs and hard cheese. We immediately put the filling in a bowl, where it will be convenient to mix all the ingredients.

We either cut the crab sticks into small cubes, or three on the same grater.

Add mayonnaise and a little salt to the filling. Mix and you're done.

Filling the tartlets delicious filling and form like a herringbone, giving the shape of a cone. Tartlets can be waffle, sand or others.

We decorate the filling with fresh dill herbs - it's like spruce twigs.

Place a star or a snowflake cut from boiled carrots or hard cheese on the top. You can also use red for star decoration. Bell pepper or tomatoes.

We put pieces of crab sticks on the Christmas trees, imitating Christmas tree decorations. For decoration in the form of toys, you can take canned corn and peas.
We set the tartlets on the dish and decorate with fresh herbs. Immediately after preparation, we serve it to the festive New Year's table.

And how do you like such a masterpiece - a snack tree (video recipe):

Salads "Santa Claus"

With crab sticks

Do not know how to amaze guests in new year's eve? Try to cook this delicious and delicious salad, decorated in the form of Santa Claus. Bright and elegant, this salad will become a real decoration festive feast! Description of preparation and photos from Elena Petrushina.

In fact, it is very simple to prepare such beauty, you do not need special products, because for the design of the salad we will use only those ingredients that are indicated in the composition. We will make our grandfather's fur coat from the top of the crab sticks, and the edge and face from eggs.

Ingredients:
Crab sticks - 200 g;
Rice - 0.5 tbsp.;
Onions - 0.5 pcs.;
Corn - 0.5 cans;
Chicken egg - 4 pcs.;
Mayonnaise - 100-120 ml;
Salt to taste;
Peppercorns - 2 pcs. (for decoration).

Cooking time - 40 minutes.
Servings Per Container - 4.

Cooking recipe step by step:

Boil the rice until tender in lightly salted water.

For crab sticks, carefully cut off the red sides with thin slices. Cut the rest into cubes as usual. If the crab sticks have been frozen, then they must first be defrosted.

Boil chicken eggs, cool and peel. We put the whites from two eggs and one third of the yolk aside, they will be useful to us for decoration. Cut the rest of the eggs into cubes.

Peel half of the white onion and cut it into small cubes.

Combine all prepared ingredients in one bowl and add canned corn to them.

Season the salad with mayonnaise, add a small pinch of salt and mix everything thoroughly. It is better not to spare mayonnaise, the rice will absorb most of it and the salad can learn to dry.

Put the salad on a large flat dish, while forming the silhouette of Santa Claus. The head, collar, fur coat and arms should be clearly visible. We compact the salad and press it with a spoon, making the contours clearer.

Next, lay out the prepared crab sticks. From them we blind a fur coat and a cap at the hat. Hands should be completely closed. In the area of ​​the hands, you can trim the edges with scissors to make rounded palms.

Rub the yolk on the finest grater and sprinkle it on the salad in the face area. We also rub the protein on a grater and form the edge of the fur coat, cap and collar with it.

Using a confectionery syringe with a textured attachment, we create a beard and hair for Santa Claus with mayonnaise. Then the turn of the face - peppercorns will be the eyes, and a small piece of crab sticks will be the nose. We also decorate the fur coat with corn buttons. Our Santa Claus is ready! The salad can be chilled a little in the refrigerator before serving. Bon Appetit!


Ham salad

Let's prepare nutritious salad with ham with the addition of cheese, carrots and pickled cucumbers. In terms of the processes, everything is easy and simple, it boils down to the fact that all the products are cut into cubes, but the preparation of the dish will take some time, so be patient, you will get a wonderful New Year's salad in the form of Santa Claus or Santa Claus.

Ingredients:
- ham - 200 g;
- carrots - 100 g;
- eggs - 2 pcs.;
- pickled cucumber - 100 g;
- cheese - 70 g;
- sweet red pepper - 1 pc.;
- olives - for decoration;
- mayonnaise - 100-120 g;
- salt to taste.

Preparation:

Grate hard cheese, you can use coarse or small chips, no difference.

Boil chicken eggs, cool and peel. Divide into whites and yolks. One yolk will be used for decoration, the other for salad. Squirrels will go completely for decoration.

Send grated cheese to a salad bowl and grate egg yolk there.

Cut the ham into small cubes. Also cut the pickled cucumbers into cubes.
Add ham and cucumbers to the salad. If ham is not available, you can replace it with delicious sausage- semi-smoked or boiled.

Peel the pre-cooked carrots from the thin peel, cut into small cubes, add to the salad.

Mix everything and season with mayonnaise, if desired, you can slightly salt.

To lay out ready salad on a wide and flat plate, immediately giving it the shape of Santa's head in a cap.

Grate the yolk on a fine grater in the center of the salad, also put a piece of red pepper in the center - this will be the nose.

Make a beard and the edges of a hat from the squirrel. Cut out the eyes from the olives and place them in the center.

Chop the red bell pepper finely and lay out to form a hat.

The funny Santa Claus salad is ready, you can immediately serve it to the table, it looks elegant and appetizing.
Such a dish will become the highlight of the New Year's feast.

Bon appetit and good mood!

More Santas:

Here Grandfather's fur coat is made of smoked salmon, a hat, a belt and a bag of red sweet pepper, the edge is grated cheese:

And Grandfather's mitten made of salmon or caviar. Similarly, you can make a boot (sock) for gifts.

Stuffed eggs

The upcoming 2019 will be even more fun for you if you cook delicious stuffed eggs"Santa Claus" with cheese filling... Children will definitely like this dish.

Ingredients:
- chicken eggs - 3-4 pcs.;
- cheese - 100 g;
- mustard - 1 tsp. l .;
- mayonnaise - 1.5 tablespoons. l .;
- red bell pepper - 1 pc.;
- salt - to taste;
- peppercorns - for decoration.

Preparation:

Hard-boiled chicken eggs, cool and peel. Cut into equal halves.
We take out the yolks and use them for the filling, and we will stuff the proteins.

Grate cheese and boiled yolks on a fine grater. Lightly salt the filling. We use any type of cheese for the filling, according to your taste and preferences.
We fill the filling with mustard and mayonnaise, mix several times to achieve a uniform consistency.
Stuff boiled proteins with cheese filling. We spread 1-1.5 teaspoons of the filling.
Cut out triangular hats and round little noses of Santa Claus from red sweet pepper.

We spread the bell peppers on the eggs: on one side of the cap, and a nose slightly below. The hats can be additionally glued to mayonnaise.

Put the eyes out of peppercorns, lightly pressing into the filling. Eyes can be made from black olives, prunes, and other edible foods.

We will decorate the ready-made Santa Clauses with mayonnaise: we will make a fluffy beard.

We serve the finished appetizer to the table, decorating with fresh bright greens.

Elegant and tasty "Santa Clauses" will be a worthy treat on your festive table.

Clocks and calendars

Clocks and chimes are no less important symbols of the New Year, hands and numbers on them are drawn with mayonnaise or laid out with sliced ​​strips of bell peppers, carrots, sausages.

Holiday Salad - the first sheet of the calendar:

Snowmen

And what a winter without snowmen! Typically, the white base is grated egg white, cheese, or mayonnaise. Nose - boiled carrots, eyes - olives. And the outfit can be made from any product.

And here it looks like a New Year's card, a very dynamic picture:

Other options

Christmas tree gifts:

Only the Snow Maiden lost her kokoshnik:

An interesting option - in the form of a carnival mask, you can decorate as your heart desires:

Bullfinches:

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New Year's Eve is a time of miracles. Bright decorations, outfits and carnival costumes, a Christmas tree, all in balls and garlands - are indispensable attributes of the holiday. But it's not just a home that needs a festive design. You should also think about decorating dishes for the New Year. 2019 is the year of the Yellow Earth Pig according to the Chinese calendar. And she is a lover of the bright. Yellow and green tones will be relevant. Use them when decorating salads, and they will also become an element of decor and add a festive mood to your guests.

Decorating salads for the New Year can be very diverse. Photos and descriptions will help to make delicious salads original and beautiful.

Symbol of the year

Although the pork is New Year's table it is not recommended to serve in 2019, this does not mean that you will not be able to lay out salads in the form of a pig.

You can also use small edible piglets.

The attitude to such a design can be twofold: on the one hand, there is a symbol of the year on the table, on the other, everyone seems to be eating a pig. Here everyone will decide for himself, but the fact that such an option for decorating salads in the year of the pig will be interesting and original is guaranteed.

We spread in the shape of a pig

Olivier, fur coat, crab, any puff is suitable for this. First, we form the "body". It's simple: the head is smaller, the body is larger. Lettuce leaves can be used as a "substrate" or you can surround the "pig" with sprigs of dill. The laid out salad is coated with mayonnaise. And all that remains is to make ears, eyes and a patch. This will require a sausage. Two holes are made in one circle, two more need to be cut with a triangle - there will be ears. Black olive eyes will complete the picture. Pieces of olives can be used in a different way: insert them into a sausage (mark the nostrils) and place them on circles of boiled egg white - you get eyes. If you want to emphasize that in 2019 Pig Yellow - sprinkle the body and head with yolk grated on a fine grater.

Piglets

They can be made eggs: a patch of carrot is attached to the sharp end with the help of mayonnaise, and triangles are cut out of it - ears, eyes - pieces of olives.

A thick sausage is also suitable: it is cut off, a wider "penny" is attached to one end, and slots for the ears are made on top. Everything is cut out of sausage, for the eyes - slices of olives, black peppercorns. Piglets from squid carcasses will be original. It's quite easy: the carcasses are boiled and stuffed. Their shape is ideal - the narrow end will be a place for the heel, it can be designated with pomegranate seeds, ears - from forked pieces from the end of the squid carcass - perfect option... We already know how to make eyes.

New Year theme

New 2019 for decoration festive salad you can use traditional symbols. Our photos will convince everyone that the effort is worth it - the table will immediately change.

Christmas balls

It is easy to make them: lay out in the shape of a ball and coat with mayonnaise. And then everything depends on imagination. Sprinkle finely chopped greens on the sides and turn the middle orange with finely grated carrots.

A red ball will come out of chopped finely-finely red pepper, a yellow one from yellow. There is no limit to the combinations: to decorate a large salad bowl, you can use all kinds of stars from carrots, pineapple, protein, yolk. The carom will look original - the fruit has an interesting shape, it is enough just to cut it across to get a ready-made green or yellow star. The balls can be smaller if the serving is portioned. Use a thick branch of dill - it will imitate a spruce branch, make two small balls of different colors and decorate with mini-stars, guests will appreciate.


snowman

A large snowman is made according to the same principle: we form three balls on an oblong wide dish, coat with mayonnaise, you can sprinkle with grated protein. The hat and nose are made of carrots, the eyes, hands are olives. You can only make the head. Fill in the middle with yolk, mark the beard from below with the help of protein, and above - the same "hair".

A half of a large tomato will indicate a hat, a small nose, olives eyes, enliven the picture with the help of dill branches. If the menu contains crab with rice, then you can form balls out of it, "mold" snowmen and decorate your head with a carrot bucket (just cut a piece that fits the diameter) and, of course, a nose from its tip.

New Year's paintings

There are many ideas here. Use finely chopped peppers (red or yellow), grated eggs, carrots, beets, olives, and other brightly colored vegetables to lay out anything. Santa Claus, a clock, a bullfinch, mittens, a festive bell, Christmas trees and spruce branches are laid out without difficulty on the flat surface of any salad.

Christmas tree

A symbol of the New Year - a fluffy beauty is easy to make. Lay out the salad in the shape of a Christmas tree, sprinkle it with finely chopped herbs. It only remains to decorate: cut a star at the top, use thin threads for garlands Korean carrots and beets. They can also be lined with pomegranate seeds or corn. Cherry is suitable for balls. Small Christmas trees are made from pieces of cucumber, cheese, sausage. They are strung on a large wooden skewer.


Candles

If you sprinkle the surface with greens (large twigs), and sprinkle with pomegranate and corn grains, the finishing touch will remain - a candle. Roll a piece of cheese into a tube, insert a flame on top - a piece of red pepper and set a ready-made candle.

Original filing

Portion salads do not need to be served on a plate. Use a large bell pepper, large tomatoes (middle removed), cucumbers. Remove the middle of their cucumbers, put a portion, put a “sail” of a long thin cucumber slice and a red “flag” on the skewer.

One more original version- put salads in pre-baked thin pancakes... They are collected "in a bag" and the top is tied with a stalk of green onions. Korean carrot or beetroot strings are also suitable.

If almond grains are evenly inserted into the surface (sharp end up), you get a bump.

Put the salad on a large dish in the middle, make a hole - there will be a base for the wreath, greens, "garlands" and "balls" will make it elegant.

Use the proposed ideas or come up with your own options, the main thing is that your creativity will delight the guests and decorate the festive table!

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

The main rule: salad dressing should be in harmony with the main ingredients of the recipe. Ideally, the decoration should be composed from the same ingredients that make up 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 a cucumber and tomato or "flowers" from boiled carrots. Usually such removable "decorations" are located in the center of the salad and stand out strongly above its surface.

In some photos posted by hostesses on the Internet, you can see that even on meat salads the central decoration of strawberries or grapes is placed. Of course, such jewelry looks bright and impressive, but their use is far from always appropriate. Therefore, before decorating 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 food and a sticky consistency.

How can you decorate salads?

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

Meat salad, bean and ham salad can be made into a cake. For this the ingredients are better positioned, without stirring, and each top layer should be slightly smaller in area of ​​coverage than the previous one: so the "cake" does not crumble and keeps its shape. With dressing (usually mayonnaise), the prepared salad is covered with icing like a cake. And the decoration can be Walnut, which is part of the salad itself. When serving, such a cake is cut into pieces and mixed already on the plate.

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

How to decorate a winter salad so that none of the guests will recognize culinary masterpiece a familiar dish? The first option is curly design... From winter salad a snowman with a carrot nose and pea eyes will turn out great.

The second option is cake, the surface of which will be completely covered with finely chopped greens, decorated with polka dots 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 a high circle on a dish and properly “mask” it.

Vegetables

Cucumbers are the most excellent material for decorating salads, and both pickled, pickled and fresh cucumbers are used. Cucumbers can be cut into slices, wedges, cubes, circles, rings, fan - whatever.

Carrots are commonly used for salad dressing because of their bright, persistent coloration. 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 most commonly used vegetables in salad dressing. Tomatoes can be cut in half, ovary removed from both halves, and then filled green peas, mushrooms, cheese and other products suitable for salad.

Greens

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

Fruits

Lemons are usually used in salads made from fish. Stripes are made on the lemon peel with a carved knife, and then the lemon is cut into thin slices and decorated with salad. Pomegranate seeds add spice to any salad due to their size.

Meat products

Slices of sausage or ham are rolled into rolls. A cruciform 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 circles or finely chopped. Various figures are made from a whole egg. For small portions of salad, separately grated yolk and white are suitable, sprinkled on top of salads.

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

Carving

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

You can make bells from cucumbers, cut them into ribbons and make roses from them, and water lilies from cucumbers and eggs. Thick cucumbers can be made 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 keep them in cold water that bitterness would come out. A chrysanthemum made from radish will look amazing.

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

Or such a salad with smoked chicken and pineapple.

Mushrooms are an excellent decoration for salads. Champignons, chanterelles, boletus, boletus, boiled and pickled look beautiful. What is the only kind of salad mushroom clearing which your guests will definitely be delighted with.

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

Photo how to decorate salads

Most salads contain boiled eggs, with the help of which you can decorate any salad in an original way, showing invention and imagination. As a basis for such decoration, you can take white and yolk grated on a fine grater, which are contrasting in color and make original dressing... To do this, the entire surface of the salad must be leveled and coated with mayonnaise on top, and then sprinkle according to the intended pattern. For example, sprinkle with yolk in the middle of the salad, and white around the edges. But this is the easiest option, but you want to surprise and please your loved ones with something more original. In this case, you can lay out the white and yolk in the form of flowers, and this will most likely 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 stem of dill in the middle of the salad and sprinkle it with grated yolk like mimosa balls. On a white mayonnaise background, it will look very delicate and beautiful.

Vegetable salads are decorated with vegetables, cut flowers, ornaments and other decorations from them. The art of carving 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 rings of red onions, and the stems will be arrows of green onions. If the salad contains canned corn, then you can put the salad on a dish in the form of two or three ears and stick corn kernels on top of the mayonnaise, and put green onion feathers on the bottom to simulate the stem.

If cheese is a part of the salad, then this is a very plastic material for decoration, which can be used both in grated form, and in plates rolled in the form of petals, from which a magnificent flower or several calla lilies can be folded.

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

The plot motives in decorating salads look very original, which can be associated with the hobby of the birthday person or. It is clear that one of New Year's salads be sure to lay it out with a Christmas tree, decorating it with toys made from all the ingredients of the salad, and a salad decorated with flowers will be appropriate for Women's Day.

Children's holidays give a huge scope for imagination, 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 from shortcrust pastry, halved eggs filled with salad, spread with salad and garnished with crackers.

Figures are best done in the form of familiar animal faces, which delights kids or in the form of their favorite fruits.

Fairy tale characters such as kolobok or cheburashka will be appropriate. Koloboks can be molded from any dense salad and roll them in grated yolk, egg white or crab sticks, and draw eyes and mouth with ketchup or stick in peas.

It is impossible to imagine the New Year without salads on the table, but also to cook them deliciously. You need to know how to decorate them correctly and give them individuality. The ability to decorate a dish does not come immediately, but over the years, this is a kind of philosophy, a passion, and if you develop this ability, the guests will be amazed at the results of their work. Some are limited to the use of spices and herbs, but beautiful salads on New Year's Eve they create a warm atmosphere of celebration and fun, dispose to friendly conversations. Of course, there are many options, but we will consider the fastest and simplest ones. 1. The most common way to decorate salad in new year holidays- this is to lay out the date of the celebration, for example, 2016. What can be used for this? It depends on what kind of salad you want to serve. If you cooked "mimosa", then a Korean carrot is perfect as a decoration; it will look bright and beautiful on a yellow background.

2. The year of the Fire Monkey is approaching, you can use this fact for decoration. Apply for this original way you can do anything, such as cheese and boiled egg... Before proceeding directly to the decoration, you need to give the salad a certain shape. Do not be afraid to do something wrong, it is difficult to make a mistake in the process of decorating, and if this happens, then it is easy to fix it. 3. Since herring under a fur coat is very often served on New Year's, it can also be given interest and originality, for example, draw a winter Kremlin with a fluffy herringbone, for this the surface must be greased with mayonnaise. You need to lay out the Kremlin itself with boiled beets, and the tree with dill sprigs. 4. We decorate salads for the New Year with cheese. It can be used as a plate. Quite unusual, but worth your attention option. The cheese needs to be cut into thin rectangles and laid out as if you were weaving a basket, then give them a certain shape and fill the finished cheese plate with salad. Cheese can also be used in another serving option, which is suitable if you will be serving the salad not in a common plate, but in portions. We don't need regular cheese hard varieties, and Parmesan, it turns out much easier and faster with it, plus the finished products keep their shape better. Put the frying pan on a small fire, in no case grease with oil, put cheese, cut into very thin strips or grated on a special grater for Korean carrots. Wait for it to cook for 20 seconds and transfer it to the jar. This is done so that the cheese takes on the shape of a basket. It is very convenient to put any salad into such a product, it turns out to be strong and tasty. 5. Let's move on to the next method called "Christmas wreath". It is a little more complicated, but it turns out very beautifully. For it we need parsley, cheese, mayonnaise and sweet bell peppers of orange or red color. Lay out the greens around the edges in the form of a wreath, make a candle from cheese and pepper, paint with mayonnaise on the candle so that it looks like dripping wax, and decorate the salad with the remaining pieces of pepper. 6. For this method we only need an onion and nothing else. Such decoration will surprise both you and your guests. The onion must be peeled and cut in half first, without cutting to the end, then in two more parts and also several times. After that, you need to put the onion in warm water and wait about an hour and a half, during which time it will bloom and turn into a beautiful, white flower. Of course, flowers do not grow in summer, but it would be nice to add delicate, white shades to the table.

7. We decorate the salad for the New Year with vegetables. It would seem that you can build from the most ordinary carrots or tomatoes, it turns out such products will make the salad individual, beautiful and original. In this case, you can show your unlimited imagination yourself, cut out all the same flowers from vegetables, build a Christmas tree with Christmas decorations from a pomegranate and so on. 8. What is winter impossible without? That's right, no snowmen. This idea can be used to decorate salads. Food with dressing can be laid out on a plate in the shape of a large snowman, large enough to be enough for all guests, in addition, you can make a voluminous snowman if you decide to serve salad on portioned plates. Of course it will take longer, but the result will be worth it. Every hostess wants her table to look great, so that salads and main courses delight those present. It all depends only on your imagination, and we just threw a few good ideas.

It's always nice when holiday dishes on the table they are not only tasty, but also beautifully decorated, since in this case they become doubly appetizing and look aesthetically pleasing. A colorful bright dish will decorate the table and will undoubtedly delight the guests.

For decoration, you can use not only greens, which has already become a common thing, just for the presentation you need to show a little of your imagination and, of course, select products in accordance with the ingredients of the salad.

Korean carrot and chicken appetizer. Required Ingredients:

  • chicken meat - 200 grams;
  • soy sauce;
  • cucumber - 1 pc;
  • carrots - 2 pcs;
  • tomatoes (cherry) - 3 pcs;
  • greens;
  • seasoning.

Peel the carrots, chop, salt, then place the container in the refrigerator under pressure for 1 hour. Cut the meat into cubes and fry in a pan with sauce. Take out the carrots and drain the juice from them, then mix well with the meat. Heat 15 grams of oil in a frying pan and add the seasoning for the loin, stir and pour the mixture hot into a container with prepared foods. Mix all ingredients and refrigerate again for 1.5 hours.

Thinly sliced ​​along fresh cucumber(1 slice) place in a round rim-shaped form, then fill the form with the prepared mass, compact and turn onto a plate. Roll a rose from the rest of the slices and decorate the finished dish, complementing it with cherry tomatoes.










For a romantic dinner

Compliment salad. Required Ingredients:

  • boiled shrimp - 200 grams;
  • egg - 3 pcs;
  • medium lemon - 1 pc;
  • canned pineapple - 1 can;
  • red caviar - 100 grams;
  • cheese - 200 grams;
  • mayonnaise.

Grate cheese, chop pineapples, boil eggs. Then lay the food in layers in two forms. Lay the bottom with grated protein and season, then shrimp and again dressing, put pineapples on them, season and tart with grated yolk. Mix the mayonnaise and the prepared cheese until smooth, then fill the mold up to the edge, turn the molds over onto a dish and carefully remove. Fold two heart-shaped shrimps on the towers obtained and fill the space in the middle with caviar. You can use leftover shrimp and parsley for garnish, or you can make a lemon rose.











For birthday

Seahorse salad. Required Ingredients:

  • boiled shrimp - 300 grams;
  • onion - 1 pc;
  • boiled squid - 300 grams;
  • mayonnaise;
  • egg - 2 pcs;
  • canned corn - 200 grams;
  • red caviar - 50 grams;
  • cheese - 200 grams;
  • apple - 1 pc;
  • salmon (smoked) - 100 grams;
  • greens.

Chop the apple, chop the squid into thin strips, and dice the shrimp, grate the eggs, marinate the chopped onion (scald with boiling water). Combine all prepared ingredients with corn and season. Then draw the outline of the seahorse on a platter and carefully lay out the resulting mass on it. Sprinkle cheese on the dish; mayonnaise will be the last layer.

To give a festive look, lay out the scallop with shrimps with the addition of red eggs, and also make strips with fins. Make roses from salmon and decorate the dish, add lemon and herbs to the composition.







For children's birthday

"Fox fur coat" salad. Required Ingredients:

  • fried champignons - 400 grams;
  • herring - 300 grams;
  • boiled carrots - 2 pcs;
  • boiled potatoes 4 pcs;
  • egg - 4 pcs;
  • onion - 1 pc;
  • mayonnaise.

Thoroughly mix mushrooms with chopped onions. Chop the herring, grate the potatoes and carrots, pass the eggs through the mesh (leave 1). Draw the outline of the salad and start layering. The first will be the fish to be greased with the dressing, then potatoes, mushrooms, dressing again, eggs and finally carrots.

While decorating the salad, you need to draw the face and eyes, legs and tail with mayonnaise. For the eyes, cut off two round pieces from the protein, rub the rest and fill the tip of the tail and paws with them. Green eyes can be made with cucumber or olives. Fill the belly, muzzle and ears with grated yolk. The eyes are supplemented with circles of olives, the nose and cilia are also done with their help. Draw a butterfly from the ingredients.












For New Year and Christmas

Christmas wreath salad. Ingredients:

  • boiled sausage - 500 grams;
  • egg - 6 pcs;
  • canned peas 600 grams;
  • boiled potatoes - 4 pcs;
  • onions (feathers) - 100 grams;
  • boiled carrots - 2 pcs;
  • parsley;
  • pickled cucumbers - 700 grams;
  • mayonnaise.

Cut one carrot and all the potatoes into cubes, finely chop the cucumber and onion, cut the sausage into cubes, pass the eggs through the mesh. Mix the mass with peas and season, it is advisable to leave the tops of the eggs. You will need juice to paint Christmas tree decorations red cabbage, using a toothpick, lower the tops of the eggs into it for 5 seconds.

To lay out the salad, put a jar in the center of the plate and put the salad around it, then carefully remove the jar and draw a mayonnaise mesh on the salad, attach the parsley to it in a circle. You will get a wreath, which needs to be decorated with toys made and carrot bows.






Valentine's Day

Lover's Kiss salad. Ingredients:

  • cheese - 200 grams;
  • boiled beets― 2 pcs;
  • carrots - 3 pcs;
  • peeled garlic - 3 cloves;
  • steamed raisins - 100 grams;
  • walnuts - 100 grams;
  • mayonnaise.

Carrots, grated well, mix with raisins, season, then spread the mass in the form of lips on the selected dish. Grate cheese with garlic and season, put on top. Grate the beets and nuts, season and spread, giving the mass the shape of the lips. Decorate the salad with beet-dyed daikon roses and cucumber leaves.











Festive fur coat

Ingredients:

  • herring - 500 grams;
  • boiled carrots and potatoes - 5 pcs each;
  • onion - 1 pc;
  • boiled beets - 2 pcs;
  • mayonnaise.

Grate the potatoes and put on the selected dish â…” of the mass, after which the herring will go, which is cut into cubes, the chopped onions are marinated (scalded with boiling water) and spread on top of the fish, then grease everything with dressing. Grated carrots will be the fourth layer, then potatoes again, grease with dressing. Grate the beets and, leveling the salad, lay out, then coat the dish with dressing.

For decoration, draw a net of mayonnaise, decorate with buttons and carrot roses, add parsley to the decoration.








On March 8

Emerald salad. Ingredients:

  • chicken (fillet) - 500 grams;
  • cheese - 300 grams;
  • cucumber - 2 pcs;
  • nuts (walnuts) - 50 grams;
  • kiwi - 3-5 pcs;
  • mayonnaise.

Grind the meat into cubes and fry in a pan, spread the mass on the prepared dish, giving it the shape of an eight, then grease with dressing. Chop the cucumber into strips and place on top of the meat, then grated cheese, grease with dressing. Grind the nuts to a powder and sprinkle with the salad, cut the peeled kiwi into slices and spread on top.

Daikon roses, greens and canned corn can be used to decorate the dish.








Original salad

Sea star salad. Ingredients:

  • round rice - 200 grams;
  • olives;
  • cucumber (fresh) - 1 pc;
  • egg - 3 pcs;
  • lettuce leaves;
  • salmon (smoked) - 400 grams;
  • shrimp - 350 grams;
  • mayonnaise;
  • Philadelphia cheese - 175 grams.

Cook rice in a proportion of 350 milliliters of liquid per 200 grams of rice, reduce heat after boiling and cook until water is completely absorbed. Mix the cheese with dressing in the same proportion and beat with a blender. Cut the cucumbers into strips, then arrange the lettuce leaves on the selected dish and draw a star-shaped outline. Place the rice, then anoint it with the cooked dressing and top with the chopped boiled shrimp, which we cover with the dressing again. The next layer is a cucumber, on which put coarsely grated eggs and again a layer of dressing.

For decoration, we use strips of salmon, which must be laid out in the shape of a star, and rings of olives.











For a festive table

Tiffany salad. Ingredients:

  • grapes - 300 grams;
  • cucumber (fresh);
  • cheese - 200 grams;
  • egg - 3 pcs;
  • chicken breast (smoked) - 1 pc;
  • nuts (walnuts) - 100 grams;
  • mayonnaise.

Grind the breast into cubes, grate the cheese and nuts, halve the grapes and take out the seed, or take the seedless variety right away. With the first layer on â…” of the dish, you need to decompose the meat and attach a grape twig to it, then a layer of grated eggs and dressing, then sprinkle everything abundantly with nuts, and grind cheese on top. After greasing the mass with dressing, put the grape slices close to each other.

Cut leaves from a cucumber and attach them to a branch of grapes to decorate the dish.









For any occasion

Birch salad. Ingredients:

  • chicken meat (fillet) - 300 grams;
  • champignons - 300 grams;
  • egg - 5 pcs;
  • pickled cucumbers― 6 pcs;
  • onions (feathers) - 50 grams;
  • mayonnaise.

Fry mushrooms with onions, boil chicken and eggs, chop cucumbers. On a dish spread the mass in the shape of an oval, then the breast, crushed into cubes, grease everything with dressing. After that, lay out a layer of grated protein, and then cucumbers and again dressing. Sprinkle with finely grated yolk in the last layer.

To decorate the salad, you need to draw a birch with dressing, make the strips from slices of olives, and the leaves from onion feathers.