You can decorate your fruit salad in a variety of ways. Suitable for decoration are fruits, berries, chocolate, nuts, whipped cream, mint. In addition to decorative ingredients, your guests may be surprised by the original form of serving the dish.
Portion salads
If you have planned to prepare fruit salad and arrange it in bowls or bowls in advance, then decorations should also be present on each serving. In the case when the salad will be laid out in glass bowls with legs or wide glasses, you can decorate them as follows. The edges of the dishes should be dipped first in lemon juice, and then the bowl should be lowered onto a dish with granulated sugar, turned over and allowed to dry.
You can also sprinkle the salad with chocolate, cocoa, crushed almonds, or garnish with whipped cream. On the edge of the glass, you can put a slice of lemon, orange or grapefruit if there are citrus fruits in the salad. Physalis fruit or a sprig of mint will look beneficial as a portioned decoration.
Decorating a large dish
The simplest decoration of a salad can be the same fruits that are included in the salad. Kiwi, strawberries or other fruits and berries that do not change their color under the influence of air can be laid out in thin slices over the entire area of the salad.
Decorating may not be necessary at all if you cut the salad into large uniform-sized cubes and arrange the ingredients in a random cube shape. The edges of the dish can be decorated with thin lines of jam, mint, cocoa powder. Dressing for such a salad would be appropriate to serve separately.
Roses from apples will look beautiful and voluminous on a fruit salad. To prepare them, you will need sugar syrup, which is boiled from water and sugar in a 1: 1 ratio. After dissolving the sugar, the fire must be kept to a minimum. At this time, you need to cut the apples into very thin slices without peeling off the peel. The apples are dipped in syrup in parts for 4-5 minutes (until they become slightly transparent) and laid out on a plate so that the excess liquid is glass. When the apples have cooled down, they must be twisted, starting from the middle, adding a "petal" with each circle.
Fruit salad can be served in an original way in an unusual dish. If pineapple is one of the components of the salad, then you can cut a large pineapple in half, remove the core and fill the resulting dish with salad. You can do the same with watermelon, melon, coconut, etc.
With a little practice, you can learn how to make carving jewelry. With the help of a thin small knife, patterns are modeled on the peel of the fruit, or the fruits themselves are figuratively incised, becoming works of art. One of the simplest decorations in this style is apple flowers. To do this, cut off the top with a twig from a large apple. Having put the workpiece on the table, it is necessary to cut 6-8 droplet-shaped grooves on the peel at an equal distance from each other and the branches, making cuts at an angle. Then, stepping back from the edge of each "droplet", you need to form petals along the contour, cutting off the excess. To prevent the apple from darkening, it should be sprinkled with lemon.
