Beautifully presented dishes stimulate the appetite, promote better digestion, and provide a festive atmosphere. Fresh, pickled and boiled vegetables, herbs, boiled eggs, fruits, olives and olives add brightness and color to salads. The main thing is that the decorations do not completely cover the dish itself.
It is necessary
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- cucumber (fresh or canned),
- fresh tomato;
- boiled beets;
- green onions;
- salad;
- zest;
- lemon;
- boiled egg;
- ham.
Instructions
Step 1
"Flower" of cucumber slices
Cut a piece about 5 cm long from the cucumber. Cut in half lengthwise. Make longitudinal cuts in the peel. These strips can be used for the flower stem. Cut the processed cucumber into thin slices. Separate them and use them as chamomile petals. Place half a cherry tomato in the middle of the flower.
Step 2
Tomato "roses"
Spirally cut the skin of the tomato in one strip down to the petiole, starting at the base. The thinner the strip, the more evenly it can be wrapped. The tomato should be ripe but firm. Unwind the strip in a flat spiral with the pulp down on the table. Then assemble the strip into a rose, using the wider part as the base. Such "roses" can also be prepared from the skin of a cucumber, strips of boiled beets, carrots, salted fish.
Step 3
Beetroot hearts
Boil medium beets, chill and peel gently. Cut it into thin slices, and then cut out the hearts using a cookie cutter. Finely chop the remaining trimmings and use for coloring mayonnaise or sour cream. These beetroot hearts will be very appropriate for salads prepared for Valentine's Day.
Step 4
"Serpentine"
Cut along the arrowheads of the green onions, they will curl themselves into beautiful "curls". You can immerse them in cold water for a few seconds for extra curliness. Use a cutter to cut the citrus zest. Such stripes will not only decorate the dishes, but also give them an additional flavor.
Step 5
Citrus Butterfly
For butterflies, select firm lemons with few seeds. Cut them into thin slices with a sharp knife and remove the seeds. Make butterfly wings out of the two halves. From thin strips of pepper, make her antennae. Lemon can be substituted with orange.
Step 6
Sausage "Kulechki"
Cut the sausage or ham into very thin slices. Lay them on top of each other and make cuts from the middle to the edge. Then roll each slice into a "bag".
Step 7
Egg "fungus"
Cut off the egg a little from the bottom for stability, put a half of a tomato on top and apply drops of mayonnaise or sour cream on it - you get a fly agaric.
