Skillful housewives often think about preparing beautiful and original salads, which are quite difficult to give a rectangular, square or round shape. To achieve the desired salad configuration, you need to use improvised means in the form of a regular box, plastic bottle or canned food can.
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First of all, you need to decide on the form that the salad will have. To give the shape of a square or rectangle, you can use the box from under the cake or other products, having previously cut the bottom out of it. The inner walls of the box are neatly lined with cling film or foil, after which the home-made form is installed on the dish and filled with salad. Then one side of the mold is cut with sharp scissors and carefully removed from the salad, which can only be trimmed and decorated as desired. For the preparation of such salads, it is not recommended to use a lot of dressing or mayonnaise, as they will spill over.
To give the salad a round shape and a small height, you can use a tin can, a can of canned corn / peas or a regular plastic bottle. In the selected form, you need to trim the upper part and the bottom, leaving the middle of the required height, which is then filled with salad. If desired, you can cut off the conical top from another bottle to give the salad a Christmas tree shape. A salad in the shape of a heart, star or other non-standard item can be made using foil. To create a layered salad, put the salad on an oval dish, alternating its layers with vertical partitions of hard cardboard, which are then carefully removed.