As you know, eyes also eat. This means that you need to decorate the food that you serve on the table. What could be easier, cut the cucumbers into thin slices and decorate the salad so that they drooled. Salads should equally please the taste and eye. Of great importance is not only the taste of food, but also how the food is disintegrated, how it looks and how it is decorated. Different decorations will help to give the dish an attractive look, but you can not go too far, because you can spoil the most fantastic salad with excessive ornaments.
Decoration of a salad depends on its ingredients. For example, to decorate salads containing many different variegated ingredients, fresh enough greens. And salads of two - three components, for example cucumbers with tomatoes, can be decorated more brightly. Traditional hard-boiled eggs or red canned paprika from a can hardly be called a successful decoration of a good salad.
Decoration of salads opens rich possibilities for imagination, searches and finds. Any salad will only benefit if it's beautifully decorated. That it was not "overloaded" with ornaments, one should adhere to the following rule: the salad is more colorful and richer with components, the more modest it is adorned. The eye will please the very combination of different vegetables. However, the salad, which is not distinguished by the brightness of the ingredients, can be decorated more. We list below a few ideas that your guests will surely appreciate.
Tomatoes.
1. On a whole tomato with a sharp knife make 12 cuts to the middle. Carefully remove each second segment with a sharp knife. Top with a watercress or parsley.
2. Cut the tomato in half, put it on the notched side, make five cuts approximately to the middle. Insert a thin cut-out slice of radish into each incision.
3. Cut the tomato into four parts, extract the pulp and cut into the middle. Slightly open the tips.
4. With a mature, firm tomato, carefully peel the skin with a solid strip. Fold the strip with a loose roll and shape the rosebud. Decorate with parsley leaves.
Radish.
1. On a cleaned radish around the whole circumference, make small longitudinal incisions, tip tip-like to sharpen. From this end, cut thin circles, from which immediately folded kulechki. Put them in ice water. In the center put corn kernels or greens.
2. Cut into thin slices. Collapse the ringlets, roll in the ground paprika.
3. Clean the radish, spiral cut with a special knife.
Carrot
1. Cut out hearts from large circles of carrots with cut shapes. From 4 hearts form a clover leaf.
2. Cut the circles and cubes with a knife.
3. Cut out the radish with a wavy cut-out notch and fasten with a skewer with carrot slices and smooth parsley.
4. Cut the carrots in half and use a special carrot knife to cut thin strips.
Cucumbers
1. Make crocheted incisions along the entire circumference, cut into circles. In the middle of each circle put a watercress.
2. Cut a cucumber circle to half and unfold the tips in different directions.
3. Put small cucumber-cut circles of cucumber on a large circle with serrated edges.
4. On the cucumber slices, make incisions, insert the circles into each other.
5. Make deep cuts on thick slices of cucumber. Expand the ends and decorate with green onions.
6. Cut the cucumbers into thin slices.
Lemons.
1. On two circles of a lemon at the same distance from each other to make notches, to cut each circle approximately to the middle, to insert into each other and to bend in opposite directions.
2. Cut the peel of lemon with a special knife to make long strips, and roll up with small curls.
3. Cut the lemon into four parts, make a straight cut on the quarter to make the lobule stable, make uniform cuts on the surface, put cress-salad, parsley and other greens in them.
4. Cut the lemon into four parts, make uniform cuts and open the slice to make the crescents.
5. Cut the lobes of lemon with figured notches.
Radish.
1. Using a sharp knife, carefully cut the entire circumference, beginning with the tip.
2. Cut the radish into 4 parts almost to the top and open slightly.
3. Make incisions at an equal distance from each other to about the middle. Slightly fan out. It turns out a beautiful decoration, if in the cuts to insert parsley or watercress.
4. Cut the radish in half, cut out moldings with grooves of different shapes.
5. Radish cut at different heights with a sharp or special knife, to make a rose. Roses will be even more beautiful if you use a special cut-knife for a radish. Put the radish for a few minutes in ice water, then open the petals.
Onion.
1. Cut the medium-sized bulb into thick slices, divide into rings and roll in finely chopped greens, ground black pepper, paprika powder or curry. This will give the salad a beautiful color contrast.
As you can see, nothing complicated. Sometimes it is enough to give dishes an appetizing look, cutting cucumbers into thin slices and decorating the salad with the above ingredients.