Festive beautiful salad. Ornaments for salads from vegetables and eggs

A beautiful salad is made quite easily. To do this, you only need to buy the right ingredients and show creative imagination.

Today we will tell you how to make a beautiful salad with fresh cucumbers and tomatoes, as well as boiled carrots and eggs.

Decorate a snack

How to do it? A beautiful salad can include completely different ingredients. However, decorating such a dish with unusually sliced vegetables is permissible only if it is flaky. If you have prepared a mixed snack, it is best for her to buy fresh parsley leaves and, having formed a thick bunch of them, place them in the center of the product.

Beautifully sliced vegetables

For salads, the decoration of cucumbers and tomatoes should be used only if the snack contains them. So the guests will immediately understand what this dish is made from.

So, to decorate the salad, you should use only the most fresh and elastic vegetables. They must be washed thoroughly in hot water. In this case, it is not recommended to clean them from the peel. After all, thanks to her we will be able to create a contrast.

We make a hedgehog

Decoration from vegetables for salads can have absolutely any form. The most popular are "roses" (from tomatoes) and "petals" (from cucumbers). Today we decided to tell you about how the "hedgehog" can be made from the presented ingredients. This "character" will perfectly decorate the dish for the children's holiday. For him we will need:

• Large round tomatoes - 2 pcs .;
• Fresh cucumbers - 2 pcs .;
• Red radish - 2 pcs .;
• Olives and olives - a few pieces;
• Mayonnaise or sour cream - a little.

Cut vegetables

Decorations for salads with their own hands should be done in stages. To begin with, all the ingredients must be washed and cut. Fresh tomatoes should be divided in half, and then staggered to make cuts on the skin. After this, it is required to cut into thin circles cucumbers and radish. As for olives and olives, they need to be chopped into circles. They are useful for us to form a "peephole".

We form a "hedgehog"

"Hedgehog" from cucumbers and tomatoes is formed quite easily. To do this, halves of tomatoes should be laid on a flat plate with a convex piece up. Further in their notches it is required to place circles of cucumbers and a radish. By the way, it is from the last ingredient that you need to make a "hedgehog" face. To do this, radish should be divided in half and attached to a tomato. On it it is necessary to put two mayonnaise points and make a spout from olives and olives.

This "hedgehog" is well placed on the salad "Senor Tomato". It is prepared from the following layers:

• Boiled beef, chopped straws;
• Half-rings of onion soaked in vinegar;
• Boiled potatoes, ground on a grater;
• Hard cheese;
• A thick layer of mayonnaise;
• Chopped fresh tomatoes.

Also this dish can be decorated with "roses" from tomatoes and "petals" from cucumbers.

Make decorations from eggs for salads

Make jewelry out of eggs for such salads as "Mimosa", "Sunflower", "Herring under a fur coat" and so on. For the presented snacks, egg "chamomile" is the best choice. For her, we need only three large chicken eggs, which should be boiled in advance.

After the preparation of the components, they must be cooled and cleaned. Next, the eggs need to be carefully divided into proteins and yolks. The first ingredient must be cut into thin longitudinal strips. As for the yolks, they should either be grinded on a small grater, or kneaded with a normal fork.

Decoration process

After the eggs are prepared, and the layered salad is formed, you can safely proceed to its decoration. To do this, you need to lay out the yolks in the center of the snack, and arrange the strips of protein along the edges. As a result, you should get a kind of chamomile. If desired, on the surface of a salad, you can make a few egg flowers. So that they do not lose their beautiful appearance, the dish should be immediately presented to the table.

Decoration for salad with chicken

If you want to make a beautiful salad with chicken and eggs, then you can decorate it in the following way. Eggs must be boiled, cooled and gently cleaned. Next, the protein should be divided in half (you can make a relief cut), and then remove one half, but so that the yolk remains in its entirety. With the help of pieces of olives and thin slices of boiled carrot, the yolk needs to make "eyes" and "beak". In this form, the "chicken" can be mixed on the surface of the salad, forming a kind of nest from the French fries.

Making flowers from carrots

Decoration of carrots in the form of a flower is very popular with housewives. After all, making it easy and simple. However, the use of such products is recommended only for those salads that contain boiled carrots.

So, to decorate the snack, you need to buy a fresh vegetable of thin and long form. It needs to be thoroughly washed, and then in the whole form boiled in salt water. After that, carrots must be cooled and gently peeled off. Then you can proceed to cut flowers. To do this, along the vegetable should be made a few triangular incisions depth of not more than 4 millimeters. In this case, cut out parts must be carefully removed.

In the end, the processed carrots should be chopped with rings 5 mm thick. As a result of such actions, you should get beautiful and bright flowers that can be immediately put on the surface of the salad. To complete the picture, you need to add parsley or dill sprigs to them.

In addition to the usual flowers, cooks often make carrots of rosettes, cedar cones, butterflies and so on. But this requires more experience and skill.

Let's sum up the results

As you can see, there are quite a few ways to decorate the layered salads. Using these techniques, you can not only beautifully cover the festive table, but also surprise all invited guests.

By the way, in addition to eggs, carrots, cucumbers and tomatoes, Bulgarian pepper, beets, red fish, various berries, nuts, fruits, etc., are often used to decorate snacks.