A festive feast with your friends and relatives is always a pleasant pastime. To make this event more vivid, it is important not only to prepare delicious dishes, but also to decorate and serve them in such a way that they immediately cause all those present to have an appetite and a great desire to try everything soon.
Salad can be either part of a dish, or separately served. Different ideas for decorating holiday salads will help you prepare not only a delicious dish, but also an eye-pleasing one.
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Instruction manual
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The most important step is to decide whether the salad will be part of a dish, or independent. Remember: a festive salad should always look colorful, so use ingredients in a wide variety of colors. More commonly used are green, red and yellow.
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The way the salad is served is very important. Try to come up with some unusual ways, for example, serve it in halves of a pumpkin or melon, having previously removed all the flesh from them. Use glass or wooden decorative bowls if desired to serve the salad in a beautiful and exotic way.
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An unusual decoration must be invented for a salad. Salads can be made more attractive by sprinkling them with nuts, capers, finely chopped green pepper or grated cheese.
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All ingredients used for decoration should be pre-chilled. The greens must be washed in cold salted water, then dried thoroughly, packaged in a bag and put in the refrigerator before use.
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Some fruits, such as apples, peaches, bananas, and pears, tend to darken after you chop them. This can be avoided by sprinkling them lightly with vinegar or lemon juice.
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Fruit salad can be decorated with slices of fruit and sprigs of mint. An unusual solution is to serve fruit salad in half of a coconut shell, or the peel of an orange or grapefruit.
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And finally, when decorating, make sure that the salad does not “peek” over the edges of the dish and that decorations will not fall on the tablecloth.
Useful advice
If you use carrots or beets to decorate, steam them and cut them into thin circles, so it will be easier to eat.
Salt the salad only during serving, otherwise the ingredients will become raw, and the cucumbers in the salad will give juice.