Even such a simple appetizer salad, like vinaigrette, can diversify your holiday table if you add boiled or smoked meat, salted fish, mushrooms, beans, as well as decorate it with flowers and carved figures of boiled eggs or vegetables.
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Ornaments from vegetables. In order to decorate the vinaigrette with roses from vegetables, peel a thin and wide strip from a peeled beet or carrot. Roll out the roses from the strip. For leaves, use dill or parsley. Peel a small boiled beet, cut into quarters. On the round side, chop the beets to make convex petals. From the resulting petals, lay a flower on the branches of dill or parsley. In the center of the flower, put olive, olive or green peas. Peel the boiled beets, cut into circles and cut flowers, stars, hearts and decorate them with vinaigrette. Peel red or red onion, cut in half. Make a longitudinal section on the bulb and carefully separate all the layers. With a knife, cut the edges of each layer so that sharp petals are obtained. Insert a smaller layer into a larger layer to make a flower. Cut the remaining onion into petals. On the vinaigrette, convex side up, lay out the petals in a circle, put a flower in the center of the circle. Put green peas in the middle. Cut the ends of the pickled cucumber and cut the longitudinal strips at an angle with a sharp knife. Cut the cucumber into circles and decorate the resulting vinaigrette with the resulting stars. The same stars can be made from carrots, potatoes or small beets.
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Decorations from boiled eggs. Cut the boiled egg across, pull out the yolk. In both halves of the egg, cut at an acute angle of the edge to make petals. Crush the yolk, mix with mayonnaise and put in the center of each flower. For leaves, use fresh parsley or dill. Cut the boiled egg along. Crush the yolk. Cut the protein lengthwise into thin strips. On the branches of greenery, lay out the chamomile petals. In the middle of the chamomile, lay the crumbled yolk.
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Ornaments of salted fish. Cut herring fillet along at an angle into thin strips and roll roses from them. Put roses on the petals of fresh herbs. Narrow strips of herring can be laid out on a vinaigrette in the form of spirals or rings. Finely chopped greens or spring onions can be placed in the center of the ring.