In order for a baked or whole roasted chicken to look beautiful on the holiday table, you need to decorate it. For this, you can use fresh vegetables, fruits, side dishes. You can make paper decorations - papillotes.
Instructions
Step 1
Use the same ingredients as in the dish to decorate the chicken. For example, a bird stuffed with champignons can be decorated with mushroom caps laid out in a circle.
Step 2
Garnish the fried chicken with a net of mayonnaise or ketchup. You can draw curls instead of a grid, or even make an inscription.
Step 3
Decorate the chicken dish with a side dish. Cut the potato tubers into large pieces, boil them until half cooked, and then fry in boiling butter. Place the chicken on a large plate and place the potatoes around it. Add greens, it goes well with any chicken dish.
Step 4
Cut the cucumbers into rings and cut the tomatoes into halves and place them on a platter around the chicken. The cucumber can also be cut into long, thin strips. Fold each of them in half and place them tightly around the edge of the serving platter to create a beautiful wavy border. You can put olives and olives - whole or cut into rings.
Step 5
Make roses out of tomatoes. Select a ripe tomato and use a sharp knife to cut the skin so that it comes off in a long strip. You need to move from the base of the tomato to the stalk. Twist the resulting spiral and form a rose.
Step 6
For decoration, instead of vegetables, you can use fruits: chicken goes well with citrus fruits (lime, lemon, orange), which need to be cut into rings and put on greens.
Step 7
Make papillotes to decorate fried chicken. Take plain white paper, cut strips from it to the full length of the sheet, 8 cm wide. Fold them in half lengthwise.
Step 8
Use scissors to cut the notches from the fold side at an interval of 0.5-0.7 centimeters, not cutting to the edge of 1-1.5 centimeters. It is advisable to make markings on the workpiece so that the papillots are neat. Decorate with the resulting fringed chicken legs. Glue the edge of the papillotes with flour or starch glue.
