To make a whole baked or fried chicken look beautiful on the festive table, it is necessary to decorate it. To do this, you can use fresh vegetables, fruits, side dishes. You can make jewelry out of paper - papillots.
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Instruction manual
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Use the same products that make up the dish to decorate the chicken. For example, a bird stuffed with mushrooms can be decorated with mushroom caps arranged in a circle.
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Garnish fried chicken with a mesh of mayonnaise or ketchup. Instead of a grid, you can draw curls or even make an inscription.
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Make a chicken dish with a side dish. Cut the potato tubers into large pieces, boil them until half cooked, and then fry them in boiling butter. Place the chicken on a large plate and lay the potatoes around it. Add greens, it will go well with any chicken dish.
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Cut the cucumbers into rings, and cut the tomatoes into halves, lay them on a dish around the chicken. Cucumber can also be cut into long thin strips. Double each of them and lay tightly along the edge of the serving dish to get a beautiful wavy border. You can put olives and olives - whole or chopped into rings.
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Make roses from tomatoes. Select a ripe tomato and cut the peel with a sharp knife so that it peels off with a long strip. You need to move from the base of the tomato to the petiole. Twist the resulting spiral and form a rose.
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Fruits can be used for decoration instead of vegetables: chicken goes well with citrus fruits (lime, lemon, orange), which need to be cut into rings and put on greens.
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Make papillots to decorate fried chicken. Take plain white paper, cut strips from it the entire length of the sheet, 8 cm wide. Fold them in half lengthwise.
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Cut with scissors the notches on the bend side with an interval of 0.5-0.7 centimeters, without cutting to the edge of 1-1.5 centimeters. It is advisable to make markup on the workpiece so that the papillots turn out neat. Garnish with the fringed chicken legs. Glue the edge of the papillotok with glue from flour or starch.