A puff salad prepared in bowls will decorate not only a festive table, but also an everyday one. By mixing the most common ingredients in a bowl, you can achieve the most unexpected results, because such a salad can turn into a bright and non-standard dish.
Choosing a bowl
The bowl, created initially for serving sweet dishes, primarily ice cream, turned out to be a worthy dish for salads as well. There are glass and metal bowls. But for a hostess who wants to decorate the table with a bright flaky salad, which, as a rule, is boring on top, but bright on the inside, it is advisable to choose a glass bowl. Make sure that the vessel is not only deep, but also voluminous. You can also choose decorative bowls for use: with different patterns on the walls or curving along the edges. Match the spoon to the bowl. If the dishes are deep, then it is better to purchase a spoon with a long tail.
Salads for bowls
The best solution for filling the bowls will be the so-called puff salads, when the ingredients are not mixed, but laid out in layers one on top of the other, while smearing with sauce (mayonnaise or sour cream). But you should be extremely careful with the sauce, the main thing is not to overdo it and not to smear it on the walls of the bowl.
The festive table differs not only in the set of dishes and serving. A traditional table with Olivier or Crab salad should be filled with other dishes, as well as sparkle with new bright colors. Spare no money: choose truly delicious and bright ingredients for beautiful dishes, combine what you have not combined before - be it chicken with prunes, pineapples, carrots and leeks. With bowls in your arsenal, be sure that any experiment with color will be successful.
For example, try making a shrimp salad. To do this, you will need shrimp itself - both frozen and pickled are suitable; two chicken eggs; green apple; hard cheese and pickled cucumber. Pre-boil frozen shrimps, then cool and peel. Boiled eggs should be peeled and separated from the yolk. Finely chop the whites and yolks (you can also grate them), as well as cucumbers, an apple. Start laying out the layers. Put the shrimp down. Lubricate the layer with mayonnaise on top, then lay out the apple and grease with mayonnaise again (each layer will require this action). Next - a layer of grated cheese, egg whites, pickled cucumbers, shrimp and egg yolk again. If you have the rest of the ingredients, start laying out the layers again. At the end, garnish the salad with herbs, olives or olives can be used.
Another salad option: chicken with green peas, cucumber, onion and egg. An inexpensive set of ingredients, but a delicious and spectacular salad will delight you in full. Boil chicken and eggs and cool. Prepare all the ingredients for laying out the layers. Do not forget to separate the protein from the yolk, finely chop the rest. Lay out the layers according to your color preferences, smearing each layer with mayonnaise. Mayonnaise can also be mixed with spices such as Provencal herbs and peppers.
