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Decorating salads and the most beautiful salads. Beautiful salads

Decorating salads is a reason to write a separate article, because beautiful salads are an integral part of a festive feast, when every housewife comes up with something original to make the holiday special.

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

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

Also, beautiful salads are relevant for children's matinees and birthdays. Beautifully decorating salads is not as difficult as it might seem, and all you need to do is show a little imagination and your beautiful salads will surprise all your guests.

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

Most of the salads presented in this article are layered, and to keep their shape, it is best to make them in a springform baking dish, wait for the salads to set in the refrigerator, and then remove the ring, and only then start decorating the salads.

Festive salad “Butterfly”

You can see how to prepare Butterfly salad with step-by-step photos

New Year's salad "Horse"

Ingredients:

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

Preparation:

Boil the eggs hard. Cool.

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

Peel the onion, wash and cut into small cubes.

Wash the mushrooms and cut into small cubes.

Heat a frying pan, pour a little oil. Place mushrooms and onions in the pan. Fry over medium heat, stirring, for about 10 minutes.

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

Wash cucumbers (or sweet peppers) and cut into cubes.

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

Grate the yolk on a fine grater.

Cool the mushrooms.

Combine prepared meat and cucumbers in a bowl.

Add salt to taste, season with mayonnaise.

Mix well until smooth.

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

Place the salad on a flat dish (black or burgundy will look more impressive), using a knife to form a horse’s head. You can prepare a pattern in advance.

Brush the horse silhouette with the yolk mixture. Lay out the mane of mushrooms.

The last layer is proteins. Finalize the head and ears.

Make eyes and nostrils (for example, from olives), decorate the New Year's salad as you wish. Let the salad sit in the refrigerator for at least 1-2 hours. New Year's Salad "Horse" is ready.

Crab stick salad “Mice”

Ingredients:

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

Preparation:

1. Grate cheese, crab sticks and garlic on a fine grater.

2. Cut the carrots into slices.

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

4. Place the finished mixture in the refrigerator for 1 hour.

5. Form oval molds from the cheese mass.

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

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

Sakura branch«

Ingredientsfor salad:

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

2 small beets, chopped;

A jar of pickled champignons;

Egg yolks 4-5 eggs;

Grated cheese 200 grams;

Grated whites.

You can add fried or pickled onions after the beets.

Preparing the salad:

Coat all layers with mayonnaise.

Sakura flowers are made from protein colored with beet juice, branches from finely grated black and green olives, and leek leaves.

The stamens are from the yolk.

The design depends on your taste.

flower pot«

The salad is prepared in a pop-up baking dish. If there is none, you can use a simple cardboard tape, fasten it in the form of a ring, and wrap it in foil. Place in this ring in layers, coating each with mayonnaise:

1. grilled or smoked chicken, cut into pieces;

2. prunes, cut into strips;

3. champignon mushrooms, fried with onions;

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

5. carrots in Korean.

For decoration: Radishes are used that are soaked in beet juice.

If you want lilac flowers, add them to red cabbage juice.

Free the salad from the outline, place unsweetened crackers around the “pot”, garnish with whatever green leaves are on hand. In the photo, the salad is decorated with sorrel.

Lay out the flowers, fill the middle with yolk, and place the egg white, grated on a fine grater, in between.

Keep in the refrigerator until serving.

Salad "Pansies"

Salad "New Year's cracker"

You can see the recipe for the New Year's cracker salad with step-by-step photos

Salad “Snake” for New Year 2013

Recipes for New Year's salad “Snake” (7 pcs) with photos can be viewed

Crab Salad

You can see the recipe for Crab Salad

Salad "Goldfish"

You can see the recipe for the “Goldfish” salad and decoration options

Salad “Pearl”

You can see the recipe for the “Pearl” salad

White Birch Salad

You can see the recipe for White Birch salad and decoration options

Salad "Tsarskiy"

Preparation of the Tsarsky salad and decoration options, you can see

Salad “Cornucopia” No. 1

You can see the recipe for the Horn of Plenty salad No. 1

Salad "Violet"

salad ingredients: smoked chicken leg, prunes, fried champignons with onions, fresh cucumber, Korean carrots, mayonnaise.

cooking : Lay out all the ingredients for the salad, spreading it with mayonnaise in a salad bowl or springform pan. Cut the radishes into slices and soak in red cabbage juice so that the violet petals turn lilac. Place spinach leaves on the salad, and then make flowers from radish circles. Make the centers of violets from egg yolks. Line the sides of the salad with crackers.

Salad “Fox coat”

Salad preparation and decoration options, you can see

Salad "Spiderweb"

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

cooking : Mash the sprats with a fork and place on a plate, then add finely chopped onion with mayonnaise. The next layer is grated cheese with mayonnaise, then three pieces of butter, and finally eggs.

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

Eggplant appetizer “Peacock tail”

You can see the preparation of snacks with step-by-step photographs

Fireworks Salad

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

cooking : Cut all salad ingredients into thin slices. On a plate, place the ham in the first layer, with onion strips. Next, add three colors of bell pepper, alternating them with egg whites. Top with tomatoes and mayonnaise, which we hide under grated egg yolks. Mayonnaise can be served separately in a gravy boat.

Lady's Hat Salad

salad ingredients: is based on

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

Salad "April Olivier"

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

ingredients for decoration : radishes, fresh cucumbers, lettuce, curly parsley, salami for roses, olives, egg white.

cooking : Cut the salad ingredients into cubes and season with mayonnaise. To decorate the salad, place lettuce leaves on a plate. Place the salad on top of the leaves. Cut the cucumber in half and cut into slices. Cut the radish in half. Place radishes and cucumbers on the sides one by one. Place curly parsley on top around the edges. Before preparing the salad, cut a piece from the boiled eggs and cut it in half. Place the halves in a circle. Place a salami rose in the middle. It turns out it's very simple to do. Cut 7 thin pieces of salami, wrap the first piece in a tube, and place the rest next to each other and secure with toothpicks.

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

Green Rose Salad

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

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

Mexican salad

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

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

Salad "White Crocuses"

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

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

For decoration, we take 7-8 small seeded onions (they are sold by grandmothers at the market), a bunch of green onions and 1/4 of a carrot. We clean the small onions. Now take a sharp knife and cut out the cloves along the top of the onion. We take out the “insides” of the onion and, using a toothpick and green onions, insert the stems into the “onion cups” and place a small piece of carrot in each onion.

Liver cake “Chamomile”

preparation: Let's prepare liver cake according to this recipe. Decorate with chopped dill, add chamomile from egg white and yolk.

Salad "Championship"

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

cooking : cut all the ingredients into cubes and place layers on a square plate coated with mayonnaise in the following sequence: potatoes, green onions, eggs, balyk, corn, carrots, potatoes. Garnish the salad with green peas and dill. Make the field markings with mayonnaise and the soccer ball with a quail egg.

Salad "Snowdrops"

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

cooking : The salad is laid out in layers in the following order: pickled onions, boiled meat, boiled eggs. Do not coat each layer too thickly with mayonnaise, including the top one. Press lightly. Sprinkle the salad with grated cheese, make snowdrop stalks from the feathers of green onions, and cut the petals from thinly sliced daikon radish slices.

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

cooking : Place the crackers on a plate in a circle in the shape of a flower. Next is a layer of eggs with mayonnaise, then a layer of crackers, then canned food with mayonnaise and green onions, and grease the last top layer of crackers with mayonnaise and sprinkle with finely grated eggs. Garnish the salad with tomato slices, olive halves and sprigs of herbs.

Salad “Vegetable with garlic”

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

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

Crab Spring Salad

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

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

Mimosa salad with mice

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

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

Salad "Aquarium"

salad ingredients : sea cocktail, onions, canned red beans, pickled champignons, pickles, grated hard cheese, mayonnaise

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

Sunflower salad

salad ingredients : boiled chicken fillet, onions, fried champignons, boiled eggs, mayonnaise

ingredients for decoration : Pringls chips and olives

Salad "Wicket"

salad ingredients : avocado, shrimp, fresh cucumbers, boiled eggs, onions, mayonnaise

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

Salad "Corn"

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

ingredients for decoration : leek leaves and canned corn

Salad "Hedgehog"

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

ingredients for decoration : Place the salad on a hedgehog-shaped plate.

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

Salad "Crab Paradise"

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

ingredients for decoration : red caviar, olives, curly parsley

Salad "Watermelon slice"

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

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

Salad "Gift"

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

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

Salad "Gill wood grouse's nest"

salad ingredients : boiled chicken fillet, ham, pickled champignons, eggs, mayonnaise

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

Starfish salad

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

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

Salad “Hares in the garden”

salad ingredients : smoked fish fillets, such as butterfish, boiled potatoes, boiled eggs, boiled carrots, pickles, greens

ingredients for decoration : make a “bed” of carrots in the middle, put bunnies made of eggs on the sides

Orange slice salad

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

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

Salad “Cornucopia” No. 2

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

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

Salad "Pineapple"

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

ingredients for decoration : walnut halves, green onions

Tiger salad

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

ingredients for decoration : The salad is laid out in layers, garnished with grated carrots, black olives, and egg whites.

Salad "Bunch of Grapes"

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

ingredients for decoration : blue seedless grapes

Salad “Male whim”

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

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

Ingredients:

Rice - 100 gr.
Chicken breast - 1 pc.
Eggs - 4 pcs.
Cheese - 100 gr.
Garlic clove - 1-2 pcs.
Prunes - 100 gr.
Mayonnaise
Green onions
Ketchup - 1 tsp.
Greens for decoration

Description and method of preparation:

Its very name and appearance speak eloquently about the purpose of this salad. However, this colorful salad cake may well become a worthy decoration for any other celebration.

We will lay the salad in layers on a wide dish and soak each layer with mayonnaise.
SUBSEQUENCE:

The 1st layer consists of boiled rice;
2nd layer – boiled chicken fillet, cut into small pieces;
3rd layer – pre-steamed chopped prunes, mixed with garlic;
4th layer – finely grated cheese;
The 5th layer is the top layer, consisting of crumbled egg yolks. (no need to lubricate with mayonnaise).

FOR DECORATION:

Cut egg whites into petal shapes;
color the center with drops of ketchup;
decorate flower stems artistically using green onions;
Decorate the sides of the salad with chopped herbs.

Place the finished salad in the refrigerator for a while so that all layers are evenly saturated with mayonnaise.

Salad "White Horse"

I have been preparing a very tasty salad with the aroma of smoked chicken and a sweet note of pineapple for several years. This time I posted it in the form of a running horse, the symbol of 2014. This salad serving will decorate your New Year's table.

Ingredients
Smoked chicken legs - 2 pcs;
Canned pineapples - 1 jar;
Hard cheese - 200 g;
Chicken eggs (boiled) - 3 pcs;
Walnuts - 50 g;
Olives - 10 pcs;
Mayonnaise;

Separate the chicken meat from the bone and cut into small cubes.

Cut the pineapples into small cubes.

Cut the cheese into small cubes.

Chop walnuts.

Cut the yolk into small cubes. Combine all ingredients and season with mayonnaise. Mix well.

Place on a plate in the shape of a running horse.

Grate the egg whites on a fine grater and decorate the salad horse with them. Finely chop the olives and place them on the mane and tail. Finely chop the parsley and arrange it in the form of herbs. Salad ready!

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Strawberry Salad

For preparation we will need the following ingredients:

1. Boiled chicken fillet – 250-300 g
2. Champignons – 200 g
3. Tomatoes – 300 g
4. Onions – 1 pc.
5. Hard cheese – 150 g
6. Cucumber – 1 pc.
7. Vegetable oil for frying – 2-3 tbsp. spoons
8. Olive mayonnaise - 5 tbsp. spoons
9. Salt - to taste

Wash the mushrooms and cut into small pieces.

Cook them in a frying pan, frying them in vegetable oil.

Finely chop the chicken fillet.

Finely chop the peeled onion.

Layer the ingredients in the following order: meat and onions.

Grease the layer with mayonnaise, add salt, then sprinkle with finely grated cheese and mushrooms on top.

Mayonnaise again.

Finely diced tomatoes will be the top of the salad. Make leaves and seeds from cucumber.

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By layers:
1 - boiled rice, mayonnaise
2 - crab sticks, mayonnaise
3 - tomato and red pepper in equal proportions, mayonnaise
4th layer - salted red fish, sliced. Lay the fish overlapping, as it plays the role of Santa Claus’s fur coat.
Decoration:
top of red pepper cap;
face from a slice of Hochland cheese
cheeks and nose - pieces of red bell pepper;
mouth - also a thin piece of red bell pepper;
Grandfather's hair, mustache and beard - egg white grated on a fine grater;
eyes - black peppercorns;
fur on a fur coat made of grated Russian cheese.
Before sprinkling with cheese, coat the strips with mayonnaise so that the cheese sticks well.
Mittens and belt of Santa Claus made of red pepper.

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Pansy salad with squid.

Here is his recipe: 1 squid, 2 pcs. onions, 4 pcs. pickled cucumber, 4 eggs, 2 potatoes, 1 carrot, 1 jar of olives, mayonnaise, vinegar and parsley.
It's completely easy to prepare! It is necessary to boil the squid in salted water (we do not cook it for long, as it tends to harden strongly from prolonged heat treatment - 3-4 minutes is enough. Let the squid cool, remove the skin and finely chop.
Finely chop the onion, pour boiling water over it to remove the bitterness and marinate in vinegar. Boil potatoes and eggs. Separate the yolk from the white and grate coarsely.
Carefully cut the pickled cucumbers into small cubes. Cut the olives into graceful slices. The salad should be laid out in layers, spread with mayonnaise.
So, layers: chopped squid, pickled onions, olives, pickled cucumber, boiled grated potatoes, yolks, grated egg white. Decorate the top of the salad with olives, herbs and make flowers from boiled carrots.

Alat "Finger lickin' good"

Ingredients:
- 300 g cabbage
- 200 g boiled meat (pork or beef)
- 3 small beets
- 2 carrots
- 1 medium onion
- 4-5 potatoes
- 2 cloves of garlic
- 1 cucumber
- 2 tomatoes
- hard cheese
- mayonnaise
- salt
- soy sauce
- vegetable oil

Boil carrots (one), beets and meat and cut into strips separately. Cut the potatoes into strips, then fry (make French fries). Cabbage and cucumber - into strips.

Next, place the ingredients on a dish in layers (dress each ingredient with mayonnaise in a separate bowl):
1 layer - cabbage (salt, lightly squeeze and pepper, mayonnaise);
2 - carrots (1 fresh + 1 boiled, soy sauce and a little mayonnaise);
3 - beets + garlic and mayonnaise;
4 - meat + mayonnaise;
5 - finely chopped onion;
6 - potatoes + mayonnaise.

Place sliced tomatoes on top, salt them, put a little mayonnaise, sprinkle with grated cheese and garnish with herbs.

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"Hedgehog with Korean carrots"

Ingredients:
-Fry mushrooms 200g (can be marinated)
-Boil 200g chicken breast with spices, finely chop
-Lubricate with mayonnaise
-Fry onion
-Grate 3 eggs
-Lubricate with mayonnaise
-Grate 250g cheese
-Korean carrots 400g

Preparation:
1. Place everything in layers and form a hedgehog. The nose and eyes of an olive.
2. Needles - Korean carrots, sprinkle the face with cheese.
3. We make a fungus from an egg. We make a cap for the porcini mushroom from half an egg and put it in the tea leaves. IN
4. The greenery around the hedgehog is parsley, maybe dill.

Recipe from Maria Ryazanskaya

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Layered salad with chicken, raisins and walnuts. Raisins in the salad go very well with chicken and walnuts. The salad is truly incredibly tasty, tender, fresh, crispy!
Ingredients:
Boiled chicken fillet – 1 pc.
Cucumbers – 2 pcs.
Carrots – 3 pcs.
Beijing cabbage – 200-300g
Eggs – 3 pcs.
Cheese – 200g
Raisins – 150g
Walnuts – 150g
Bunch of dill, mayonnaise

Preparation:
Wash the carrots without peeling them, boil until tender, cool, and grate on a coarse grater.
Boil the eggs, cool, peel and grate on a fine grater.
Wash cucumbers, Chinese cabbage, dill and dry. Cut the cucumbers into cubes, Chinese cabbage into thin strips, finely chop the dill or separate it into small sprigs.
Cut the chicken fillet into cubes.
Grate the cheese on a fine grater, chop the walnuts into small pieces.
Wash the raisins, pour boiling water for 10 minutes, drain the water, dry the raisins on a paper towel.
Lay the salad on a plate in layers:
1. Boiled carrots, mayonnaise
2. Beijing cabbage, mayonnaise
* It is more convenient to first mix the cabbage and mayonnaise in a separate bowl, and then put it in the salad.
3. Chicken fillet
4. Walnuts
5. Raisins
6. Cucumbers, mayonnaise
7. Eggs, mayonnaise
8. Cheese, mayonnaise
Decorate the salad with dill on top (I decorated it with dill, roses of boiled carrots, slices of radish and cucumber).
Place the salad in the refrigerator for 2 hours.

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Salad "Offside for husband"

Would need:

Green peas - young, in pods - 1 liter jar (canned)
- canned corn - 1 can - 220 gr.
- balyk or meatloaf - 150 gr.
- eggs - 3 chicken and 5 quail
- mayonnaise - 250 gr.
- green onions - 3-4 bulbs with green feathers
- potatoes - 3-4 pcs. - medium in size
- salt to taste
- carrots - 2-3 - medium
- dill - 200 grams, depending on the size of your plate

How to do:

Boil potatoes and carrots in their skins :) until tender, cool, peel
- boil the eggs (in principle, you only need one quail egg, it will represent a soccer ball), cool and remove the shell
- we catch green peas from the pods :)
- chop the ingredients (meat, potatoes, eggs, green onions, carrots and dill)

We begin to cover the football field:
Layer 1 - potatoes, add a little salt (use half of what was prepared)
Layer 2 - mayonnaise
Layer 3 - green onions
Layer 4 - chicken eggs mixed with quail eggs, you can use only one type
Layer 5 - mayonnaise
Layer 6 - smoked meat
Layer 7 - corn
Layer 8 - mayonnaise
Layer 9 - carrots
Layer 10 - Layer 10 - potatoes (all that is left:)
Layer 11 - mayonnaise
We cover all sides of our field with mayonnaise, including the sides.
The lawn for our field is alternately covered with green peas and dill.
In the center of the field we place a soccer ball - also known as a quail egg :)

We draw the field markings with mayonnaise (pour 20 grams of mayonnaise into a bag, make a hole with a diameter of 2-3 mm and draw :).
On the gate is a piece of corn and a piece of shank.
You can line up the football players too :)!
Place the football field in the refrigerator for 12 hours.
After 12 hours everything is ready...

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Salad "Favorite"

Ingredients:
- Smoked chicken breast – 350 gr
- fresh champignons – 300 gr
- prunes – 200 g
- chicken eggs – 6 pcs.
- onion head
- fresh cucumber
- olives - several pieces
- mayonnaise

Preparation:
1. “Favorite” salad is very similar in appearance to a cake. Undoubtedly, such food will always decorate the holiday table.
2. I recommend taking note of the culinary recipe for a holiday salad, the preparation of which requires any type of shape.
3. Add the salad components into it in layers, covering it with mayonnaise.
The first layer is smoked chicken breast cut into strips.
The second layer is pureed yolks of 6 eggs.
The third layer is prunes cut into strips (pre-soaked for several hours in boiling water).
The fourth layer is champignons fried with onions (sprinkle with salt and pepper). 0

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Salad - cracker cake

Ingredients:
~250 gr. salted round crackers,
-1 b. any canned fish (saury, tuna, pink salmon),
- a bunch of green onions,
-4 hard-boiled eggs,
-150 gr. hard cheese,
-1 clove of garlic,
-mayonnaise.

Recipe:
We will lay the salad in layers on a large plate or dish.
1st layer: crackers (I had 12 pieces in each layer);
2nd layer: eggs, grated and mixed with mayonnaise (set aside two yolks for decoration);
3rd layer: crackers;
4th layer: canned fish, mashed with a fork and mixed with mayonnaise;
5th layer: finely chopped green onions;
6th layer: crackers;
7th layer: finely grated cheese + garlic through a press, mix with mayonnaise;
8th layer: crackers. Grease with mayonnaise and sprinkle with finely grated yolks.
Decorate as desired. Let the salad stand for 2 hours at room temperature and 1 hour. in a refrigerator. But it’s better to let the salad sit overnight. Bon appetit everyone!

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Every housewife knows how important it is to present dishes beautifully, especially when you are preparing to receive guests. And when setting the table, it is important not to forget about salads. The process of preparing salads itself is not so much complicated as it requires time and patience. But you just have to approach it creatively, and your culinary masterpieces will surprise guests not only with their taste, but also with their interesting appearance.
And really, how can you, when decorating a festive table, forget about one of the most important and popular dishes? Don't underestimate them.

It doesn't matter if you're celebrating an important event or just want to have dinner with your family, all you have to do is put on a bright, decorated salad and it will instantly transform an ordinary meal.

And despite the fact that in any cuisine there are holiday and everyday dishes, this is one of those that always fits perfectly into the menu. Many of them don’t even need to be decorated; they themselves display a riot of colors and elegant brightness, while the rest are in no way inferior to their “festive” counterparts, you just have to show your imagination.

Remember how much a housewife has to do before an important feast: buy food in advance, think through all the dishes, cook, set the table, and don’t forget about yourself. And how can you present cooked food beautifully at such a frantic pace?

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

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

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

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

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

Here, use a cutter (also called a round cutter): it will help you serve the appetizer in the shape of a neat ring. Such devices can also be found in a square shape. If you don’t have time to go to the store, don’t despair.

An ordinary cut plastic bottle or baking molds can cope with this task. Just place them on a plate and spoon a portion of the salad inside, pressing it down well with a spoon to prevent it from falling apart. Then remove the “frame” and, voila! – the dish is ready for further serving.

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

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

If you are planning several options at once, then do not decorate them the same, it will be boring. It’s better to diversify the decor, but so that they all look harmonious with each other and the main dishes. Don’t forget that everything is good in moderation: being too keen on decoration will ruin all your efforts, the table will look awkward, and the dishes will be unappetizing.

It wouldn't hurt to remember some tricks. For example, products and colors:

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

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

Carving has been riding the wave of popularity for many years; many famous chefs even organize competitions in this discipline. For this you will need a figured knife. Nowadays you can even find special kits with many accessories on sale.

Remember a few tips on what you can cut and from what. For example, cucumbers can be decorated with a spiral (using a special tool from the carving set), serpentine, stripes and ribbons. Large fruits and vegetables can be made into baskets.

Flowers can be cut from tomatoes, eggs, and even radishes! The only thing is, don’t forget to immerse it in cold water first - this will remove the bitterness.

You can add regular lettuce leaves to a “picture” of cut out decorations: line a serving dish with them or add a couple of leaves on top. Mint, lemon balm and basil leaves are also used for decoration.

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

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

You can cut out balls of watermelon and peaches, melon and apples, like ice cream scoops, and serve them in waffle cups, pastry baskets or crystal bowls. Don't forget to decorate the top with berries and mint leaves. It is perfect for dessert and even children will love it.

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

Firstly, the main point, of course, is the compatibility of products with each other. Usually there is no question about this; the main thing is not to use incompatible components, such as, say, meat and kiwi. It is better to pay attention to lemons, olives, eggs and bright vegetables.
Secondly, design requires no less a sense of style than any other art. It is important to clearly think through the composition, choose accents, and determine the center.
If you decide to decorate your dishes, then you should choose suitable dishes that will not distract attention from the main elements. For example, bright dishes in combination with complex decor will turn your dish into a fractional and tacky something.

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

Don't forget about color balance. You, like an artist, must see and feel the most winning combinations. Add a little contrast for light options with tomatoes and bright bell peppers, and for dark ones use greens and cucumbers. You can even use colored zest from citrus fruits like orange or lemon.

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

If you need to use any non-edible ingredients, be sure to let your guests know, especially if you need wooden skewers or toothpicks for canapés and holding decorations together.

You can also use raw vegetables. But you should still strive to ensure that the entire decor is not only beautiful, but also edible.

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

It would seem that there is no place for salads on the table here, because most children do not eat them. But be that as it may! If you show originality and prepare delicious options with an unusual design, then children will definitely appreciate them. It all depends only on your imagination: you can create entire plot compositions on plates! The childlike joy and wonder is definitely worth the effort.

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

Avoid spicy, salty and fatty foods. Fried, smoked and snacks with mayonnaise and lots of spices have no place on the children's table.
Avoid bold experiments: do not replace your child’s usual products and add something new. Give preference to traditional dishes, choosing ingredients that children will definitely not refuse.
If there is a holiday with the participation of very young children, then exclude citrus fruits, as well as bright fruits and vegetables. Remember, they can cause an allergy attack!
The same attention should be paid to any fish if you plan to put it on the table or add it to dishes. There shouldn't be any bones in it.
Take a couple of canapé recipes into service. Children eat them with great pleasure: they are small and on convenient skewers. To prepare them, give preference to neutral fruits and vegetables, berries, cheeses, eggs and mushrooms.

Examples of decorating children's salads

Decoration for a children's birthday party: beautiful, fun and edible!

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

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

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We are especially careful when choosing what we will prepare for the holiday table. We review the recipes in advance, decide on the final menu option, and draw up a list of necessary products.

And, undoubtedly, every housewife has a couple of recipes that must be prepared for a gala dinner. But even if these are the most ordinary Olivier and vinaigrette, you don’t need to give up the idea of preparing them if you decide to amaze everyone with an original presentation.

You just need to slightly decorate them, and you can be sure that your guests will definitely appreciate even these familiar dishes.

To make them not only tasty, but also spectacular, show imagination and ingenuity. Don't forget to be careful! Registration will not take much time, which will definitely work to your advantage. If you have enough time, you can try more complex decoration methods.

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

Pay attention to recipes with carved flowers and other figures made from the pulp of fruits and vegetables. Creating them will require some preparation, but the result is worth it.

You can give preference to simpler methods:

You can even make a voluminous “rosette” from bacon or ham;
for fruit dishes, use figuratively chopped kiwi or removed citrus zest;
Another way to effectively serve salads is to focus not on the top decorations, but on the ingredients themselves. So, if it does not require stirring, then you can experiment with this.

For example, vegetable dishes will look advantageous if they are laid out in layers. The dressing can be placed nearby in a separate sauce boat or coated on top and sides of the formed dish. Use not only mayonnaise for this; sour cream and unsweetened yogurt are also great.

On top the composition can be completed with almonds, hazelnuts or pine nuts.

If nuts don’t suit your dish at all, then pomegranate seeds are an excellent substitute.

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

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

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

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

One thing remains unchanged - the festive atmosphere and the good mood that beautifully decorated dishes bring. Whether you use these skills in everyday life or just on holidays is up to you.

Learning how to decorate not only salads, but also other foods in interesting and unusual ways is not at all difficult: just be patient and spend a little free time. Coupled with a great desire, this will be enough. Having mastered even the simplest elements, you will be able to combine them in different ways and create many bright compositions.

There is no “ceiling” in this art; even after learning how to perform the most complex things, you can continue to move forward, improve your skills and come up with new original ways to serve both salads and all other dishes for any occasion.

And you can pamper your family every day with a spectacular serving of a regular dinner, bringing the mood of celebration and magic into everyday life!

Examples of salad design, with photos and short descriptions.

Dishes on any table should not only be tasty, but also appetizing to look at. A salad that is not neatly decorated looks unsightly on the table and raises doubts about its taste.

A bright colorful salad, on the contrary, decorates the table and evokes delight and admiration both for the salad itself and for the culinary abilities of the hostess. To make the salad look beautiful, we select contrasting colors for decoration.

Important: The taste of the decoration must match the products in the salad.

You can decorate with other products only if they can be removed from the dish.

How to decorate a salad under a fur coat?

The main ingredient of the salad is herring. The top layer, as a rule, is made of bright beets. Therefore, the salad can be decorated with the yolk or white of a boiled egg, herbs, and cucumber.

The most common way:

Grate the yolk of a boiled egg on a fine grater
Gently sprinkle the surface of the salad

Salad under a fur coat decorated with boiled yolk

A very original decoration in the shape of a fish:

We make a beautiful shape of fish from salad on a platter
Cut the onion into half rings
Place on salad like scales
Cut triangles from boiled carrots
We form the fish's tail, fins, flippers, nose
Boiled egg cut in half
Place the yolk side up on the head of the resulting fish - this will be the eye.
Place peppercorns or black caviar on the yolk
Making eyelashes around the eye using caviar or pepper

Decorating the salad under a fur coat

You can make a simple and beautiful drawing with mayonnaise:

We use a culinary syringe and apply beautiful parallel lines along the surface of the salad

Decorating the salad under a fur coat

Dress the salad using herring fillets:

Place boned and skinned fish in the center of the salad.
Using onion greens we make a hut from bright crossed sticks

Decorating the salad under a fur coat

A bright salad decorated with dill sprigs looks beautiful.

Decorating the salad under a fur coat

Video: Herring under a fur coat in potato boats

How to decorate Olivier salad?

The main composition of the salad is cucumber, potatoes, carrots, boiled eggs, green peas.

We use them for decoration.

Cut fresh cucumber lengthwise into thin strips
Carefully fold the strips in half
We lay it out around the perimeter of the salad, so that each strip slightly overlaps the next one.
In the center you can put a Christmas tree shaped like a Christmas tree cut from a cucumber. Add roses cut from raw potatoes and then baked in the oven.

How to decorate Olivier salad?

Distribute green peas along the edges of the salad
Place a lily carved from a boiled egg in the center
Cut boiled carrots into slices
From which we form by cutting out any beautiful shapes, in the form of Christmas trees, stars, flowers
We beautifully decorate the lily with parsley leaves
Arrange the dill greens between the carrot patterns

How to decorate Olivier salad?

Decorate with a fresh tomato rose and cucumber leaves

How to decorate Olivier salad?

Video: How to decorate Olivier salad?

How to decorate mimosa salad?

The yolk of a boiled egg crumbled on the surface will add brightness to the salad.

How to decorate mimosa salad?

The salad sprinkled with yolks can be additionally decorated with egg mice

Peel boiled eggs
Cut out ears and tail from hard cheese
The egg has slits for ears and a tail. Insert the cheese ears and tail into the prepared places.
We make eyes and a nose from peppercorns, cloves or cut from olives

How to decorate mimosa salad?

Decorate with a beautiful green tree:

Grate the hard cheese and yolk separately on a fine grater.
First spread the cheese over all surfaces of the salad.
Then place the yolk around the edges of the salad
Place a sprig of dill in the center of the lard
Sprinkle dill with yolk in places to imitate flowers

How to decorate mimosa salad?

Another very beautiful decoration option:

Sprinkle finely chopped green onions around the salad laid out on a platter.
Salad sprinkled with grated yolk and decorated with a sprig of parsley
Cut lilies from the white of a boiled egg
Which we place on the tips of a sprig of parsley, so that we get a sprig with flowers
Place any bright berry in the center of the flower

How to decorate mimosa salad?

Video: How to decorate mimosa salad?

Garnishing salad with pepper?

Decorations with pepper are bright and rich due to the variety of its colors.

But it is worth remembering that pepper has a very specific taste. So that it does not interrupt the main taste of the salad, it should be added to decorations very carefully. Basically, as removable elements.

Bell Pepper Lily:

Wash the pepper well
Cleaning the core
Without bringing the knife to the end of the pepper by 1-2 cm, cut the pepper into wide strips
Blanch the pepper in hot water for 3-5 minutes so that the petals become flexible and a beautiful lily can be formed.
You can decorate a salad with this flower or fill it with salad and serve as a separate dish.

Salad decoration with pepper

Bell pepper cloves:

Cut the pepper in half
We do not remove the core
Use scissors to make narrow strips 2-3 cm long
To make the petals look more impressive, place the pepper, cut side down, in boiling water for a few minutes.

Salad decoration with pepper

Original octopuses:

Cut the pepper into strips not reaching half a centimeter to the edge
We place one half of the pepper, bending the sliced strips down, and bend the other half inward.
You can put some prepared salad inside

Salad decoration with pepper

You can get such a beautiful chick using pepper

Salad decoration with pepper

Video: Pepper flower

How to decorate a salad with pineapples?

Pineapples are not a very bright color; without contrasting additions of other elements, you won’t get much decoration.

Cut the pineapples into rectangles 1.5 cm by 2 cm
Place it on the surface of the salad in the shape of a flower.
Place pomegranate seeds in the center