Salad is a dish that can be seen on the festive table in any time of the year, and an ordinary lunch rarely goes without it. However, it is widely known that salad is an additional dish, and besides him, you need to put on the table a few more basic dishes.
Thus, the time to decorate the salad is usually not stays. But what if you want your salads They looked aesthetically pleasing, but is there very little time for this? From this review you will learn how to effectively decorate a festive salad, as well as how to decorate various salads.
Decoration of salads using natural “dishes”
Salad, not properly decorated, usually looks like a mixture of foods seasoned with oil or sauce. Naturally, such a mixture does not have the best appearance. But if it’s a salad for festive table, its appearance must match holiday.
There are several ways to decorate salads that are not require a lot of time, but give excellent result.
One of these quick ways to decorate is natural “dishes”. Indeed, many salads have ingredients that can be used as a container. These salads look spectacular and perfect for any celebration, and the process decoration is limited to mixing the ingredients and laying out in a natural “dish”.
The following options can be such decoration methods:
- Coconut. If you know how to handle coconut, you can open it correctly, leaving a small lid on top, then coconut is perfect for placing salad in it, and he will become a great decoration for himself.
- A pineapple. Another option for a great salad dressing. A pineapple it is necessary to cut along, remove the core (it can be used as a salad ingredient or served separately), after Why put the salad in the resulting space. This option allows you to use as large pineapples for serving salad in general dish, and small pineapples, using which, you can thus create small portions.
- Tomatoes, oranges or grapefruits. Any fruit should be large size, which allows you to create a beautiful salad, and besides appearance, this capacity will also be eaten.
Salad Basket
Salad decoration can be created not only with vegetables or fruits, as many are used to, but, for example, from bacon. So, if you want to create a spectacular salad basket, you will need to do this:
- bacon;
- paper towels;
- form for baking;
- heat-resistant dishes.
The main stages of the preparation of the basket:
Take a paper towel and roll it in half to cover it baking dish. Take heat-resistant dishes (wide glass or bowl), and wrap it with paper towels that pre-fold three times. Turning packed into towels dishes, set it on a baking dish. Take advantage pieces of bacon, which lay crosswise on the bottom of the bowl or glasses. Next, a few more pieces need to be placed on crockery, interlacing with already laid. Repeat this until until the whole container is wrapped in pieces of bacon. Put the baking dish in the microwave for three or four minutes, depending on the capacity of the furnace. After the bacon is baked, and the slices will be fixed, should be carefully remove a glass or bowl from paper that has absorbed excess fat.
This method of making baskets cannot be done without paper, as excess fat will prevent sintering of pieces bacon among themselves, which will prevent them from drying out.
Simple ways to decorate
In those moments when it is necessary to decorate the salad quickly, to the rescue nuts can come (a handful of which you will probably find in any housewives) and some greens (which is usually stored in each fridge). These simple ingredients are enough to beautifully decorate the salad, which contains nuts in the composition.
After mixing the ingredients of the salad, put it on the dishes in the form cones. Use almonds by sticking each nucleolus into the salad so that it resembled scales. And rosemary branches easily replace “conifers twigs “that complete your culinary picture. The process transforming salad mass into such beauty takes no more than a few minutes, and the aesthetic effect is unusual, guests will Amazed at your abilities.
You can decorate many salads very simply, focusing on their name. For example, a salad whose contents and appearance do not corresponds to the name – this is “Mimosa”. The decoration of this salad is very simple task, since it can be transformed with a twig “mimosa”, which will be made from branches of dill and egg yolk, which should be grated with fine grain.
Salads with winter and cold names, can be decorated with using penguins built on them (for example, Polyus salads, “Penguin”, “Polar”). This is done very simply, but it looks bright and spectacularly. For such decoration you will need:
- carrot;
- mozzarella in small balls;
- olives of different sizes;
- green onions;
- beans or beans;
- toothpicks.
Carrots should be cut into circles, in each of which you need to cut a small sector. Next, cut in half mozzarella balls, and for large olives cut a corner. Halves of cheese balls need to be inserted into large olives, after why put them on a toothpick that sticks into a carrot. Small olives also need to be trimmed a little, in order to to insert a previously cut piece of carrot into them. On top of the cheese in large olives, plant small olives. Try to make the toothpick pierce the carrots. Attach on top beans or beans (canned can be used), which will serve as hats. Then tie a green onion around that will look like a scarf.
