Even such a simple appetizer salad as a vinaigrette can diversify your holiday table if you add boiled or smoked meat, salted fish, mushrooms, beans to it as additional ingredients, and also decorate it with flowers and carvings of boiled eggs or vegetables.
Instructions
Step 1
Decorations from vegetables. To decorate the vinaigrette with roses from vegetables, cut a thin and wide strip in a spiral from peeled beets or carrots. Roll roses from the strip. Use dill or parsley for the leaves. Peel small boiled beets, cut into quarters. Slice the beets on the round side to form convex petals. From the resulting petals, put a flower on the dill or parsley twigs. Put an olive, olive or green peas in the center of the flower. Peel the boiled beets, cut into circles and cut flowers, stars, hearts and decorate with vinaigrette. Peel or red onion, cut in half. Make a longitudinal cut in the bulb and carefully separate all layers. Use a knife to cut the edges of each layer so that you get sharp petals. Nest the smaller layer within the larger one to create a flower. Cut the remaining onion into petals. On the vinaigrette, with the convex side up, put the petals in a circle, put a flower in the center of the circle. Place green peas in the middle, cut off the ends of a pickled cucumber and cut longitudinal strips with a sharp knife at an angle. Cut the cucumber into circles and decorate the vinaigrette with the resulting stars. The same stars can be made from carrots, potatoes or medium-sized beets.
Step 2
Decorating with boiled eggs Cut the boiled egg across, remove the yolk. In both halves of the egg, cut the edges at an acute angle to form petals. Chop the yolk, mix with mayonnaise and place in the center of each flower. Use fresh parsley or dill for the leaves and slice the boiled egg lengthwise. Chop the yolk. Cut the protein lengthwise into thin strips. Place chamomile petals on the sprigs of greenery. Place the crumbled yolk in the middle of the chamomile.
Step 3
Salted Fish Ornaments Cut the herring fillets lengthwise at an angle into thin strips and roll them into roses. Put the roses on the petals of fresh greenery. Narrow strips of herring can be laid out on the vinaigrette in the form of spirals or rings. You can put finely chopped greens or green onions in the center of the ring.
