Oven-baked chicken is a dish that is often the centerpiece and decoration of the entire festive table. But the exquisite decoration of this mouth-watering bird with a fried crust can only add to its appetizing.
The easiest recipes
To decorate baked chicken, you can take ketchup and mayonnaise available in almost every refrigerator, using the colors of which a mesh, intricate curls or any other patterns or inscriptions are drawn on the chicken.
Fruits are perfect for this, especially citrus fruits - limes, lemons and oranges, which need to be cut into even slices or rings and placed on both sides of the baked chicken, then put on top of a sprig of fresh herbs.
Chicken decorating products work well with those you used to stuff the bird. For example, if inside the chicken there are mushrooms with buckwheat, then you can lightly fry the mushroom caps until a golden color appears on them and place the mushrooms in a circle next to the bird.
The simplest and most familiar vegetables for Russians - tomatoes and cucumbers - are also suitable for decorating chicken. The first ones are best cut into four parts, and the second ones - into thin rings, then put all the vegetables around the finished poultry. Another way to cut cucumbers is into thin strips or strips. The latter method of decorating will be very effective if using long varieties of cucumbers, the strips of which can then be bent to make a wavy border around the chicken. Pickled olives or olives, whole or chopped, will complement this picture.
More sophisticated ways to decorate chicken
A side dish for baked chicken is a wonderful decoration for it. You can do the following: cut the potato tubers into large pieces, which are then boiled until half cooked and fried in hot butter. The baked poultry will look especially impressive in a round large plate surrounded by vegetables sprinkled with herbs.
From ripe, juicy and aromatic tomatoes, if desired, with a small but very sharp knife, you can cut delicious roses from whole fruits or in another way. So you need to hook a piece of skin, like peeling a potato, and then move to the base in a circle until you get a tomato spiral.
Suitable as an exquisite decoration for baked poultry and papillotes. The latter are prepared as follows: a sheet of plain white paper must be cut into long strips with a width of 2-3 centimeters, then fold them in half several times and make notches on the paper. Such a rather simple, but very graceful fringe will be very useful on chicken legs and will accentuate the taste of the dish, because half of the "goodness" is transmitted through the eyes.
