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

Salad decoration by March 8

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

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

It will turn out very effectively if the edible flowers are in the "basket". You can draw it with mayonnaise or cheese sauce at the bottom of the dish. Also, an intertwined basket is easily laid out from thin strips of smoked cheese, feathers of green onions, boiled chicken fibers.

Birthday, anniversary

Especially bright and appetizing should be a salad for a birthday. With its design, you can endlessly experiment. There is no single topic for this.

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

  • The whole surface of such an appetizer (be sure to choose the puff option) should be covered with chopped herbs, grated cheese or an egg, fried potato sticks, Korean or boiled grated carrots.
  • “Cream” roses are easy to create from mayonnaise, soft cheese or any thick sauce. A confectionery bag or a cut corner of a regular bag will help with this housewife.
  • On the surface of such a “cake” one can place both real candles and those made of cheese blocks and pieces of red pepper imitating a flame.

On birthday salads, you can lay out the birthday of any birthday with any mouth-watering ingredients or write wishes for him.

Original vegetable decorations

Numerous vegetable decorations can be made interesting and unusual.

There are several such options:

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

For children's parties

Decorating salads for children's parties, it is worth using your favorite cartoon characters, fairy tales and just funny animals in their design.

  • A very simple and popular design option is “Mouse Fuss”. To do this, any salad is first filled with finely grated cheese or egg yolk. Appetizing edible “mice” sit down from above. You can make them from a boiled egg. The tail and cheese are made from slices of cheese, and the eyes and nose are made from black pepper.
  • No more complicated is a salad made in the form of a hedgehog. For this, it is laid out in the form of an animal body and completely covered with grated protein. Spines are made from slices of olives. Nose and eyes - from pieces of olive. On the resulting delicious thorns, you can also place cherry or miniature apple.
  • The salad design in the form of a watermelon slice looks very impressive. The salad can be any that can be shaped accordingly. From above, the appetizer is first filled with grated cucumber, and the next layer forms grated cheese. And finally (closer to the middle of the plate) small pieces of tomato are distributed. Thin slices of olives will imitate the bones.
  • If you don’t plan on filling the mayonnaise salad with anything, you can easily turn it into a funny crab. For this, the body of the marine inhabitant, as well as lower and upper claws, are laid out on a large plate from the snack. They are decorated with slices of boiled carrots or bell peppers. The muzzle is drawn from a piece of any bright vegetable (mouth) and egg circles with peas of sweet pepper (eyes).

Decoration of eggs for salads of a festive table

You can even use ordinary boiled eggs to decorate salads for the festive table.

 

There are a lot of options for the details of decorating snacks from such products. Both chicken and quail eggs are suitable. Previously, they must be cooked to a solid yolk.

  • To make a swan, two eggs are used at once. One is left intact (body), the other is cut into pieces (head, wings and tail). On a rounded whetstone, black pepper represents eyes, and a beak is made from a piece of carrot. All additional parts in the right places are inserted into the first egg.
  • To make delicious mushrooms, half the protein should be soaked in tea for 15 to 20 minutes. When the food stains, it should be laid on whole white boiled eggs. It will remain to supplement the composition with a lot of greenery. The resulting delicious hats can also be decorated with droplets of mayonnaise.
  • A variety of characters are easily created from eggs - chickens, fish, penguins, snowmen, piglets. Their body becomes a whole boiled egg or its half. Additional parts of the characters are created from slices of olives, boiled carrots, cucumber, cheese.
  • A boiled egg cut into pieces easily turns into a flower. On a salad from it you can put chamomile, lily, chrysanthemum.

For a man on February 23

If you want to quickly and simply decorate the salad on February 23, then you can cover it with grated protein, sprinkle with chopped herbs in a circle, and put the corresponding numbers from canned green peas / corn in the middle. Another option is to put the starter appetizer and cover it with slices of red bell pepper, slightly salted red fish or caviar.

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

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

DIY Salad Decorations for Beginners

It is easy to effectively decorate a salad with your own hands, even for those who are far from cooking. The easiest way to design a snack is in the form of a gift. For this, the salad is simply laid out in the form of a square and covered with "ribbons" of cucumber. You can make a bow out of strips of cooked carrots. Or complement the middle of a delicious gift with a rose from any vegetable.

You can always simply put the resulting treat on lettuce leaves. This will give it a festive look. It will remain to complement the appetizer on top with any pattern of sauce or vegetable dressing.

If the holiday is timed to a specific date, then it will be enough to lay out the salad in the form of an appropriate figure to surprise guests. For example, by March 8, eights are served. Finished design will help grated cheese / yolk or canned corn, as well as a large amount of fresh herbs.

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