No celebration, especially New Year's, with family or friends, is complete without salads. Even the simplest salad dressing will delight the eye and bring an additional holiday atmosphere to the house.
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Decorations of boiled eggs In a boiled egg, cut off the top just above the middle. Take out the yolk. Cut the edges of the egg with a knife so that you get rounded or sharp “petals”. Crush the yolk, mix with mayonnaise and put in the middle of the egg. From finely chopped fresh herbs, form a round leaf of water lily on the salad. In the center of each leaf, plant a water lily flower from an egg. Cut the boiled egg along. Take out the yolk. Cut the protein lengthwise into thin strips. Crush the yolk. Put sprigs of greens on the salad. Where the daisy flowers should be, lay out strips of eggs in a circle. Place a crumbled yolk in the center of each chamomile. Cut the boiled egg into four parts. Crush the yolk. Lay out a butterfly from the egg slices on the salad. For the body, use crumbled yolk or a strip of sweet pepper. Make tendrils of feathers of green onions. Eyes can be made from black pepper grains or slices of black olives. For a pattern on the wings of the “butterfly” with mayonnaise, make dots and sprinkle them with crushed yolk. Cut the boiled egg in half. Take out the yolk. Grate the protein, crumble the yolk. Put lettuce feathers on the salad. Inflorescences form a grated protein and yolk. If you put the protein in a circle, you get a dandelion. To get mimosa, take a sprig of fresh dill and put the yolk on top not in a dense layer so that the greens shine through. For a lilac branch, add a little beet juice to the grated protein. Grate the boiled egg white. Form a “snowman” on the surface of the lettuce by laying out the squirrel in the shape of a circle. There can be 2 or 3 circles. Make eyes from small pieces of olive or from peas of black pepper. Make a nose out of a small piece of boiled carrot. The hat can be made from a slice of sweet pepper or tomato. Grate the boiled egg white and mix with grated processed or ordinary cheese. Add a little mayonnaise to the resulting mass and form small balls. Such "snowballs" can decorate almost any salad. You can also make a snowman out of them.
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Salted red fish ornaments: Salmon or pink salmon fillet thinly cut along the long side of the piece. From the resulting strips, roll the roses and put them on the salad along with sprigs of dill or parsley.
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Finely chopped dill or parsley. Cut the Christmas tree stencil from the cardboard (the Christmas tree should be in the center of the sheet). Place the stencil on the salad and cover it with chopped herbs. This design option is best suited for the Mimosa salad. Indeed, a crushed yolk is used from above to decorate this salad, and the stencil in this case does not stick to the surface of the salad. For a salad, the top layer of which is saturated with mayonnaise, for example, "herring under a fur coat", the Christmas tree can be folded from the feathers of green onions. Toys for the Christmas tree can be made from chopped olives, canned corn, tinted with beetroot juice of mayonnaise. Cut an asterisk from a piece of cheese. Make point-snowflakes from mayonnaise. From sprigs of dill, form a spruce foot on the surface of the salad. Garnish the spruce twig with a toy from the cut top of a tomato. Serpentine can be made from lemon peel, cut in the form of a spiral.
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Cooked Vegetable Ornaments With a peeled boiled beet or carrot, use a sharp knife to spiral cut a thin and wide strip. From the resulting strips, roll the rose. For leaves, use parsley or dill.
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