A salad prepared according to the same recipe can look completely different. When needed, it will turn into a watermelon wedge, and another time into a white piano. A fabulous pond will fit on the surface of the salad, or a meadow with flowers will appear.
Watermelon design
Create a tropical paradise on your table by decorating your salads accordingly. One will look like a juicy slice of watermelon. On the other there will be palms with lush leaves. On the third, bright flowers will appear.
A juicy slice of watermelon just asks for a mouthful. Guests will not immediately understand that this is not a piece of a giant berry, but a salad. The components for it may be different. And for decoration, red and green vegetables are taken. For the light part of the crust of the watermelon - cheese or protein. Here is one of the options that will become the basis of the "Watermelon Slice" salad. Take:
- 400 g chicken fillet;
- 1 onion;
- 300 g of champignons;
- 3 boiled eggs;
- 150 g of cheese;
- 1 red bell pepper;
- 1 fresh cucumber;
- 5 pitted olives;
- 1 tbsp. vegetable oil;
- 4 tablespoons mayonnaise;
- salt to taste.
Boil the chicken breast. It should boil in water for 25 minutes. Cool, cut it not coarsely. Grate cheese and eggs (separately) on a coarse grater. Grind the cucumber in the same way and put it in a separate bowl as well. Peel the seeds and chop finely.
Cut the champignons into medium pieces and the onion into small pieces. Fry them in a skillet in vegetable oil for 15 minutes.
Take a large flat dish. Start making your salad. Arrange the chicken flesh in a crescent shape. Apply a thin layer of mayonnaise on it in the form of a mesh. Put mushrooms on it. Add 2 tablespoons to the eggs. mayonnaise, stir. This will be the third layer of the lettuce. The fourth is grated cheese.
Now the fun begins. Place the crushed peppers in the form of watermelon pulp. It should cover most of the salad, leaving 2cm of the outer edge intact. This is the lighter part of the watermelon rind. The green outer will consist of a cucumber. Place small pieces of it on the side of the watermelon rind.
Cut the olives into strips, put them on the flesh of the watermelon in the form of its seeds. Refrigerate for 3 hours. After this time, it can be served.
Palm trees, lilies
Make a second salad. The palm tree decoration will transform it. Place 3 kebab sticks in the center of the snack, string on them pitted olives. Take 3 peppers of any color, remove the seed pods, cut their edges in a zigzag pattern. Place each pepper on top of the palm tree.
Take 2 small sturdy tomatoes, round radishes, and boiled eggs. Start decorating with tomato. With a small sharp knife in the center of the vegetable, in a circle, make a zigzag cut so that the tomato splits into halves as a result. So cut all of these foods. Place 4 small lettuce leaves with egg lilies on top of the finished snack. In a circle, through one - flowers of radish and tomato. The fabulous pond is ready.
Old salad will play in a new way, thanks to the piano
The recipe above can be quickly tweaked. To do this, instead of a layer of eggs, put some yolks. Hide the squirrels for now. Start laying out the layers in a square. Soon they will turn into a white piano. Spread the top layer of cheese with mayonnaise. Put coarsely grated proteins on it. This salad does not need a pepper and cucumber decoration. It will be replaced by slices of cheese. Cut rectangular pieces out of them. Arrange them in a row on one of the piano halves. Cut each of the olives in half and place them over the cheesy rectangles in the form of the black tool keys. After cooling for 3 hours, the food can be served.
