Tips for decorating dishes from the chef. Restaurant serving dishes: photo

17.04.2018

Powdered sugar icing

Ingredients: sugar, lemon juice

It is very simple and quick to make icing with icing sugar and lemon juice. I have detailed the recipe for you.

Ingredients:

- 8-10 tablespoons Sahara,
- 3-4 tablespoons lemon juice.

10.04.2018

Powdered sugar and water frosting

Ingredients: water, lemon juice, powdered sugar

When housewives bake Easter cakes, the question immediately arises of what glaze to use and prepare. We offer you a simple version of glaze on lemon juice.

Products for the recipe:
- water - 1 tbsp. l.,
- lemon juice - 1 tablespoon,
- powdered sugar - 150 g.

05.04.2018

White chocolate icing

Ingredients: white chocolate, milk, powdered sugar

Chocolate icing for Easter cake turns out to be very interesting and tasty. But to make the appearance of Easter baking traditional, let's make white chocolate icing. Believe me, this recipe deserves your attention, it is very successful!
Ingredients:
- white chocolate - 100 gr;
- pasteurized milk - 1 tablespoon;
- powdered sugar - 85 gr.

18.03.2018

Salad "Pig" for the New Year 2019

Ingredients: ham, corn, boiled sausage, pickles, cheese, potatoes, carrots, mayonnaise, salt, olives

The symbol of 2019 is the pig, so dishes decorated in this style will look good on the festive New Year's table. Therefore, we suggest you prepare a salad "Pig", which is very similar to a cute pig.
Ingredients:
- ham - 200 gr;
- canned corn - 150 gr;
- boiled sausage - 100 gr;
- pickles - 150 gr;
- hard cheese - 80 gr;
- potatoes - 150 gr;
- carrot - 100 gr;
- mayonnaise - 150-200 gr;
- olives for decoration;
- salt to taste.

30.01.2018

Mastic from condensed milk

Ingredients: condensed milk, powdered milk, powdered sugar

Fondant cake decorations simply transform any pastry - they look so wonderful! But at the same time, it is important to make such a mastic that will be both tasty and harmless. We offer you just such a recipe for condensed milk mastic - simple and very successful.

Ingredients:
- powdered sugar - 2 tablespoons;
- powdered milk - 2 tablespoons;
- condensed milk - 1.5 tbsp.

08.01.2018

Custard glaze for Easter cake

Ingredients: eggs, water, flour, lemon juice, salt, sugar

Many housewives are looking for a recipe for the perfect icing for Easter cake - so that it does not smear, but does not crumble, it is tasty and beautiful. There is a solution to this problem - custard glaze. This is exactly what you need, trust me!

Ingredients:
- eggs - 2 pcs;
- boiled water - 40 ml;
- wheat flour - 40 gr;
- lemon juice - 2 tsp;
- salt - a pinch;
- sugar - 0.5 cups.

25.12.2017

Icing on gelatin that does not sprinkle

Ingredients: sugar, gelatin, water, lemon juice

Today I will tell you how to cook a very tasty glaze that does not sprinkle. This icing is suitable for Easter cakes and other pastries.

Ingredients:

- sugar - 200 grams,
- gelatin - 1 tsp,
- water - 60 ml.,
- lemon juice - 1 tsp

15.12.2017

Salad "Gift"

Ingredients: potatoes, yolk, carrots, grapes, beets, green peas, chicken liver, mayonnaise

Layered salad "Gift" will undoubtedly become the main decoration at your festive feast, no matter what holiday you celebrate. The solemn decoration of this delicious dish will definitely not go unnoticed by your guests!

Ingredients:

- potatoes - 5 pcs.;
- 4 yolks (boiled);
- carrots - 2 pcs.;
- seedless grapes - 300 g;
- beets - 1 large;
- green peas - 100 gr.;
- chicken or beef liver - 300 g;
- some mayonnaise.

12.12.2017

Gingerbread house - photo recipe

Ingredients: powdered sugar, eggs, honey, sugar, margarine, cocoa, flour, baking powder, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg

There is very little time left before the long-awaited holiday - the New Year. And we are in a hurry to offer you the idea of ​​a dessert for the New Year or Christmas table. Namely, we offer to cook a gingerbread house with your children. There is nothing more wonderful than joint creative work. It develops the skills and abilities of children, it brings people together, it brings joy. And so, to make such a gingerbread house, the following products are needed:
For glaze:
- sugar or powder - 150 gr,
- egg - 1 piece.
For test:
- egg - 2 pcs,
- honey - 400 gr,
- sugar - 400 gr,
- cocoa - 50 gr,
- margarine - 300 gr,
- flour - 1000 gr,
- cinnamon - 1 teaspoon,
- baking powder - 2 teaspoons,
- nutmeg - a little,
- ginger - to taste.

12.12.2017

New Year's salad "Bullfinch"

Ingredients: eggs, bell pepper, potatoes, boiled sausage, marinated mushrooms, olives

Have you decided to cook a puff salad for the festive New Year's table? Decorate it in the form of a winter bird - a bullfinch. Your guests will be pleased with the treat.

For the recipe you will need:
- egg - 2 pcs.,
- sweet pepper - 1 pc.,
- boiled potatoes - 1 pc.,
- boiled sausage - 100 g,
- marinated mushrooms - 50 g,
- pitted olives - 1 can.

11.12.2017

Marshmallow mastic

Ingredients: marshmallow, starch, powdered sugar

To make the holiday bright and tasty, we prepare cakes and pastries according to a variety of recipes. And today, your attention is invited to a simple recipe for making marshmallow mastic to decorate homemade cakes.

Ingredients:
- marshmallow - 1 pc.,
- powdered sugar - 6 teaspoons,
- potato starch - 3 teaspoons.

09.12.2017

Salad in the shape of a Dog for the New Year 2018

Ingredients: beef, eggs, potatoes, onions, carrots, pitted prunes, cheese, parsley root, dill, mayonnaise, bay leaf, allspice, clove bud, salt

New Year 2018 is already very close, so it's time to think about snacks for the New Year's menu. We offer a recipe for a very hearty and tasty salad with meat in the shape of a dog - an original holiday dish.

Ingredients:
- 500 g of beef,
- 400 g potatoes,
- 150 g of hard cheese,
- 5 chicken eggs,
- 1 onion,
- 1 carrot,
- 250 g pitted prunes,
- 2 cloves,
- 5 peas of allspice,
- 5 cm parsley root,
- 2 sprigs of dill,
- 3 bay leaves,
- salt to taste,
- 160 g of mayonnaise.

13.11.2017

Candied ginger at home

Ingredients: ginger, water, sugar, powdered sugar, star anise

Candied ginger is used in baking, decorating dishes with them, adding to hot drinks: tea, coffee, mulled wine, milk. Candied ginger is great for fighting colds.

Ingredients:

- water;
- sugar;
- ginger;
- a few star anise;
- powdered sugar - 2 tbsp.

10.11.2017

Appetizer "Tangerines"

Ingredients: carrots, hard cheese, mayonnaise, peanuts, garlic, bay leaf, mandarin leaves

We continue to master the recipes for delicious, bright and easy-to-cook holiday dishes. Next in line is a snack, decorated in the form of tangerines. The combination of a cheese center with a carrot top makes the appetizer harmonious and unusually tasty.

Ingredients:
- 1-2 boiled carrots,
- 100 g of hard cheese,
- 3 tbsp. l. mayonnaise,
- 50 g roasted peanuts,
- 1 clove of garlic
- Bay leaf.

10.11.2017

Salad "New Year's candle"

Ingredients: chicken fillet, champignons, onion, salt, vegetable oil, potatoes, egg, mayonnaise, parsley, cheese, pomegranate, carrot, bell pepper, olive

The festive mood is created by the general atmosphere: decorating the house and the table. We offer to move away from everyday stereotypes and prepare an appetizer in the form of a New Year's burning candle - symbolically, tasty, beautiful.

Ingredients:
- 200 g chicken fillet,
- 2 tubers of potatoes,
- 200 g of champignons,
- 1 onion,
- 3 chicken eggs,
- 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil,
- 2 pinches of salt,
- 1 tablespoon of mayonnaise.
For decoration:
- hard cheese,
- pomegranate,
- olives,
- parsley,
- carrot,
- Bulgarian pepper.

04.11.2017

Shortbread cookies "Hearts"

Ingredients: wheat flour, butter, sour cream, chicken egg, powdered sugar, cinnamon, soda, red food coloring, lemon juice

How to express your feelings? And you bake delicious and beautiful cookies in the shape of hearts. Mom, sister and friend will be happy with such a gift. It is not difficult to prepare it.

For the recipe you will need:
- 200 g flour;
- 3 tbsp. tablespoons of butter;
- 1 tbsp. a spoonful of sour cream;
- one chicken yolk;
- 3 tbsp. spoons of powdered sugar;
- cinnamon - half a teaspoon;
- soda - a pinch.
For glaze:
- one chicken protein;
- 200 g of powdered sugar;
- red food coloring - 1 g;
- lemon juice - 4 g.

PAPILOTS(fr. papillote - paper wrapper). Used in restaurant cuisine, paper tubes with various cutouts and scallops, with which they hide the ends of animal or bird bones protruding from the meat. Papillots also play the role of a handle by which you can hold the portion without getting your hands dirty on the fat, and make it easier to cut the portion into smaller pieces.
Papillottes first appeared in the 19th century in French restaurant cuisine, from where they quickly spread to many cuisines of the world, incl. and Russian restaurant cuisine. Papillots were especially widely used in Soviet restaurants and in communist Kremlin cuisine.

To decorate fried game, cutlets and chops with a bone, hams on the bone, paper curlers and rosettes are used.
For papillots, a sheet of paper is folded three times in length, then the edge of the paper is folded 1-1.25 cm wide and strips are cut evenly over the entire width of the paper with a sharp knife or scissors. The paper is cut into 4 strips, wrapped around a round stick, giving the appearance of a flower, and its ends are folded.
To make a rosette, paper 12:12 cm in size is folded into 4 layers (in half and again in half), cut obliquely and corrugated with a thin cloth. Then the sharp tip of the rosette is cut off, the rosette is unfolded and put on the hairpin and on the bone (see below).

"... I have never written about how to cook fish in papilots. A papillot, dear stupid, in cooking is a twisted cut piece of paper, which is usually put on the bones of cutlets or fried poultry. Well, except that Giedrius managed to cook catfish in a papilot his lady, which was twisted into her hair."
(an excerpt from Lithuanian literature of the 20th century).

The scheme for making a simple papillot:

1. Paper should not be very thin - printer paper is best.
2. Take thick white paper and cut out a strip about 8 cm long and 4 cm wide.
3. Fold the strip along its middle along.
4. Cut the folded paper along the fold with scissors into uniform notches - you get something like a fringe.
5. Wrap a round stick with a cut paper in a spiral, the diameter of which matches the diameter of the bone.
6. Glue the end of the paper strip with edible glue made from brewed starch or flour, or gelatin, or attach with tape.
NOTE. Although recently, for simplicity, papillots are often glued with adhesive tape, but it must be admitted that adhesive tape does not agree well with edible products, therefore food glue made from flour or starch, or gelatin is always more preferable.
7. Trim the bottom of the cuff with scissors.
Use ready-made papillots to decorate the bird.
Photo of step-by-step production of the simplest papillot:

I have always been interested in how to turn a simply delicious dish into a truly magnificent, festive one. It is clear that decorations, serving and serving are needed. However, even the chefs of restaurants, who know how to cook delicious, delicious dishes, far from all can boast of the art of decorating them. What to say about family feasts? All these roses carved from vegetables, olives and sprigs of greens ... All this is already morally outdated and at times even evokes melancholy.

Therefore, when attending chef master classes in the best restaurants in Moscow, we chose one where each dish is a real masterpiece. James Reduta, the sous-chef of the Grand European Express restaurant, agreed to teach MIR 24 readers how to turn dishes into works of art.

The main thing here is not to be lazy and prepare the decor separately, - says James. - Carrot breading, and sun-dried tomatoes, and crispy rice paper fried in oil, which can be tinted with beetroot juice or turmeric at the cooking stage, and chips from the thinnest slices of bread, potatoes or sweet potatoes, and food combinations, and the finest vegetable slices, and drops of sauces.

According to him, it is very important what the color scheme of the dishes will be: for some dishes, warm colors are appropriate in the design, for others, a cold color palette is good. Before our eyes, James decorated several dishes, along the way explaining what he used in the decor.

Grilled Calamari with Kenyan Beans, Sun Dried Tomatoes and Thick Yellow Pepper Sauce

Boil mini-potatoes in their skins, then cut each potato into halves and fry them in oil with a little garlic. Separately fry the pods of Kenyan beans. We cook squid rings on the grill, pepper everything and add some salt.

Prepare a thick yellow pepper sauce. Heat olive oil in a frying pan, add onion and spices, fry them. Add the roasted bell pepper cut into strips and cook for 5 minutes. Then pour in white wine, chicken broth and cook for another 10 minutes until the pepper is completely soft. Add the cream, remove from heat, cool slightly and grind warm in a blender until a slightly watery homogeneous puree. Salt and pepper, mix.

Now let's start assembling the dish. Place the yellow pepper sauce in a deep bowl. We spread potatoes, bean pods and squid rings on it, which should drown in the sauce by a third. Then we decorate the dish with sun-dried tomatoes. You can buy them ready-made or make your own. James dries them for 6 hours in an oven at low temperatures, sprinkled with lemon zest and dry aromatic herbs.

Another spectacular move is a cap of milk foam, which is obtained by whipping milk with a small amount of sugar and food lecithin. The last ingredient ensures the persistence of a cloud of airy foam. It doesn't stay on for quite some time.

Then the thinnest slices of radish and small petals of spinach and chard (leaf beet) are sent to the dish, which, as if by chance, fell on the edges of the dish. They do not carry any taste load, this is just a decoration!

The finishing touch: James sweeps the dish with a stroke of orange carrot breading along with the plate, and the milk foam does not sag - it holds it. Breading unites all parts of the dish, makes it complete and echoes the ruddy color of the sauce.

Danish halibut with sweet potato sweet potato and mushroom and anise sauce

Halibut fillet fry in a pan, salt and pepper.

Slightly fry the mushrooms, add salt, pepper, and then add cream, anise and boil a little. It turns out a thick mushroom sauce. Then we prepare mashed potatoes from baked sweet potatoes. It turns out dazzling orange and sweet in taste.

Now we start assembling the dish: put mashed potatoes on a plate. James "draws" a sweeping orange drop with a decisive stroke. She puts some mushrooms in sauce on it, places the fish on top so that the mushrooms peek out a little from under it. On top of the fish again spreads the mushrooms. So that it all turns out to be wrapped in a brilliant appetizing sauce.

Around this composition are laid out several sun-dried tomatoes and radish slices, a pair of mini-spinach leaves and chard.

The final touch is a cap of milk foam whipped with lecithin (hello molecular cooking!).

All! Serve the dish hot until the mashed potatoes, mushrooms and fish have cooled down.

Duck leg "Confit" with polenta and crispy rice

First, let's prepare the duck leg: it must be salted, pepper and simmer in a pan over low heat until the meat is soft and all the fat is rendered.

When the duck is almost ready, we cook soft, non-cool polenta (this is a porridge made from finely ground corn grits, a denser version of which is called hominy in Moldova).

Then James takes a drop of balsamic cream on a wide, stiff brush and decisively draws a line across the entire plate from edge to edge. He lays the pallet in the middle, making a “pillow” out of it, on which he places an appetizing duck leg.

Now comes the turn of color and taste nuance: he uses a spoonful of tomato confiture, giving it a neat shape. To do this, James, using two tablespoons, "conjures" over the confiture, shifting it five times from spoon to spoon.

Making this exotic ingredient is not at all difficult, but it gives an interesting effect. To make jam, you need to dip the tomatoes in boiling water for a few minutes, cool, remove the skin, cut into quarters, remove the seeds, and put the pulp in a saucepan and slowly boil it with lemon juice. Then turn the mass into a puree with a blender and add sugar at the rate of 300 g of sugar per 500 g of tomato pulp. Boil to the desired consistency, cool.

And now comes the turn of the main decoration: a huge exotic “flower”, which is not even clear what it is made of. This is rice paper: James makes real miracles out of it. And all because it is not purchased, but home-made rice paper, which means that it can be tinted at the production stage by adding turmeric to the dough for yellow, or beetroot juice for bright pink.

It was precisely from such rice paper that he used decorations for a duck with a palette. Rice paper dough should be rolled out, put on a greased sheet of parchment and dried at very low temperatures until the paper hardens, and then cut into squares. In order for the dyed rice paper to take on the shape of an exotic flower, James lowers the square into deep-fried for a few seconds, where it instantly shrinks, arches and takes on an intricate three-dimensional shape.

We put this “flower” on top, add a spinach leaf and serve until all this splendor has cooled down and breathes the aromas of duck and palenta.

Lamb meatballs with salted cheese cream, tomato confiture and crispy flatbread

The name of this dish speaks for itself and includes almost all the ingredients included in it.

We prepare meatballs from lamb pulp: only minced meat, salt and pepper, nothing more! We fry them in a small amount of vegetable oil on both sides, having previously lined the pan with parchment.

Lightly salted feta cheese should be crumbled and ground, adding a little cream, until a homogeneous creamy state (not too liquid, because the cream should keep its shape!).

We dry half of the unleavened cake in a dry frying pan on both sides (a little bit so that it becomes crispy and acquires a slightly ruddy color). Mini-potatoes are first boiled to the skin, and then fried in oil, with the addition of finely chopped garlic.

We prepare tomato confiture in the same way as in the previous recipe.

Let's start assembling the dish. James draws a strip of balsamic cream on the plate with a wide brush, lays out one meatball, rests the cake on it, pressing its edge with the second meatball. As a result, the cake is fixed at an angle.

The sous chef puts the sous-chef cheese cream into a pastry bag with a figured nozzle and squeezes beautiful “roses” into the corners of the composition.

Fried, appetizingly sizzling potatoes and spinach petals complete the composition, settling on a plate in an artistic mess.

And the last thing: close to the top meatball, partially overlapping it, James lays an oblong slide of tomato jam. It not only gives the dish a bright color accent, but also favorably complements the taste of lamb meat.

The main thing is to do everything quickly so as not to let the meatballs cool down and serve the dish hot!

Arugula and Shrimp Salad with Balsamic Dressing and Crispy Sweet Potatoes

For this salad, peeled shrimp and mushrooms are quickly fried in vegetable oil, to which we add a little chopped garlic.

We lay the arugula in an appetizing slide, “shade” the greens with a thin stream of balsamic cream, then “stroke” the same stream of vinaigrette sauce on top (here is its composition: vegetable oil, soy sauce, maple syrup, Dijon mustard, garlic).

We spread the halves of cherry tomatoes, shrimp and mushrooms in a circle. The composition is completed with sweet potato chips and the thinnest slices of black bread. Both are cut on a slicer very thinly and deep-fried for several seconds. A secret from James: in order to cut brown bread so thinly, he pre-freezes it.

Caesar salad"

Classic Caesar salad James makes very simply, and still turns out very beautiful.

He fries chicken fillet pieces very quickly on both sides so that they remain juicy. Iceberg lettuce is torn into pieces and stacked in a slide, around this slide are cherry tomatoes cut in half and canned capers. The leaves are poured with classic Caesar sauce, and still warm pieces of chicken are laid on top. Finally, top everything with grated parmesan. And sets at an angle to each other two deep-fried rice chips, tinted yellow with turmeric.

Caprese

This appetizer is based on the classic caprese salad, but how different it is from its prototype!

James peeled the tomatoes, cut them into quarters, and before placing them on a dish, sprinkled with powdered sugar and caramelized it with a cooking gas burner.

Basil in the salad is completely present in the form of an airy mousse. Green basil should be cut very finely, but it is better to chop in a blender and add to the liquid biscuit dough. Pouring the dough into cups, put them in the microwave and after a few minutes we get a porous bright green “sponge” with the taste and smell of basil. Carefully cut it out of the glass with a knife, tear it into pieces and lay it on a plate. Between the pieces of airy mousse we lay out the mozzarella, which we also tear with our hands.

Then comes the turn of tomatoes with a caramel crust around the edge. He sets them in a geometric order, resting a little on the cheese, and sprinkles everything with a little fragrant olive oil.

James paints the rest of the plate with drops of balsamic cream. He does it this way: first, he squeezes out the balsamic cream in small circles, dotting the plate with them in a checkerboard pattern. And then he takes a wooden skewer and, dipping it into each circle, draws a stroke.

But what about the indispensable for caprese - the famous pesto sauce? His James squeezes out a few drops on either side of each piece of mozzarella. At the end, the geometric pattern of the dish is slightly diluted with slices of radish and spinach leaves, which the chef arranges with tweezers in an artistic mess. Agree that it turns out just a fantastic beauty!

Tatyana Rubleva

Decorating salads is a reason to write a separate article, because beautiful salads are an integral part of the festive feast, when each hostess comes up with something original to make the holiday special.

Beautiful salads are especially relevant when there are small children in the house - it is interesting for children to watch how their mother makes salad decorations, and then they gobble it all up together.

Read also: Decorating salads for the holiday: recipes with photos Examples of decorating salads for the New Year, birthday, anniversary, wedding. How to decorate salads for any celebration. Beautiful salads with descriptions and photos

Also, beautiful salads are relevant for children's matinees, and birthdays. Beautiful decoration of salads is not at all as difficult as it might seem, and it is enough to show a little imagination and your beautiful salads will surprise all guests.

Especially for the readers of the Home Restaurant, I made a photo selection of how to beautifully decorate salads, which I hope will come in handy.

Most of the salads in this article are layered, and to keep their shape, they are best done in a split baking dish, waiting for the salads to harden in the refrigerator, and then remove the ring, and only then proceed to decorate the salads.

Festive salad "Butterfly"

How to cook Butterfly salad with step by step photos you can see

New Year's Salad "Horse"

Ingredients:

• Chicken leg: 1 pc. (or chicken breast: 1 pc.)
• Fresh cucumbers: 2 pcs. (or sweet bell pepper: 2 pcs.)
• Mushrooms: 200-300 g
• Onion: 1 pc
• Vegetable oil: for frying
• Chicken eggs: 4 pcs.
• Mayonnaise: to taste
• Salt: to taste

Cooking:

Hard boil eggs. Cool down.

Boil the chicken leg (or breast) until tender in salted water (about 30 minutes after boiling). Cool down.

Peel the onion, wash and cut into small cubes.

Wash mushrooms and cut into small cubes.

Heat up a frying pan, add some oil. Place mushrooms and onion in skillet. Cook over medium heat, stirring, for about 10 minutes.

Separate the chicken meat from the bones and cut into pieces.

Wash cucumbers (or bell peppers) and cut into cubes.

Separate whites from yolks. Grate the protein on a fine grater.

Grate the yolk on a fine grater.

Cool mushrooms.

In a bowl, combine the prepared meat and cucumbers.

Salt to taste, season with mayonnaise.

Mix well until smooth.

Combine the yolks with mayonnaise, mix well. (Bring to the consistency of thick sour cream.)

Put the salad on a flat dish (black or burgundy will look more spectacular), forming a horse's head with a knife. You can prepare a pattern in advance.

Lubricate the silhouette of the horse with the yolk mixture. Lay out the mane from the mushrooms.

The last layer is proteins. Finally form the head and ears.

Make eyes and nostrils (for example, from olives), decorate the New Year's salad as you wish. Let the salad rest in the refrigerator for at least 1-2 hours. New Year's fat t "Horse" is ready.

Salad of crab sticks "Mouse"

Ingredients:

• 150 gr hard cheese (can be processed)
• 240 gr crab sticks
• 2 garlic cloves
• 250 gr mayonnaise
• 1 carrot
• parsley
• peppercorns

Cooking:

1. Grate cheese, crab sticks and garlic on a fine grater.

2. Cut carrots into circles.

3. Combine cheese and garlic with mayonnaise, mix well.

4. Put the finished mass in the refrigerator for 1 hour.

5. Form oval molds from the cheese mass.

6. Then roll them in grated crab sticks on all sides.

7. Make ears from carrots, tails from crab sticks, eyes from black pepper.

sakura branch«

Ingredientsfor salad:

300 grams of smoked chicken or pork, cut into strips;

2 small table beets, chopped on a grater;

Bank of pickled champignons;

Egg yolks 4-5 eggs;

Grated cheese 200 grams;

Grated squirrels.

You can add fried or pickled onions after the beets.

Preparing the salad:

Spread all layers with mayonnaise.

Sakura flowers are made from protein, colored with beet juice, branches from black and green olives grated on a fine grater, leek leaves.

Stamens are from the yolk.

The design depends on your taste.

flower pot«

The salad is made in a drop-down form for baking. If there is none, you can use a simple cardboard tape, fastening it in the form of a ring, and wrap it with foil. We lay out in this ring in layers, spreading each with mayonnaise:

1. grilled or smoked chicken, cut into pieces;

2. prunes, cut into strips;

3. champignon mushrooms fried with onions;

4. cucumbers, cut into strips (let them stand before laying out and drain excess liquid),

5. Korean carrots.

For decoration: radish is used, which is soaked in beetroot juice.

If you want lilac flowers - in the juice of red cabbage.

Release the salad from the contour, put unsweetened crackers around the “pot”, decorate with green leaves, which will be at hand. In the photo, the salad is decorated with sorrel.

Lay out the flowers, decorate the middle with yolk, and spread the protein grated on a fine grater between.

Keep in refrigerator until serving.

Salad "Pansies"

Salad "New Year cracker"

The recipe for the New Year's cracker salad with step-by-step photos can be viewed

Salad "Snake" for the New Year 2013

Recipes for the New Year's salad "Snake" (7 pcs) with a photo can be viewed

Salad "Crab"

The recipe for the salad "Crab" can be viewed

Salad "Goldfish"

The recipe for the preparation of the salad "Goldfish" and decoration options, you can see

Salad "Pearl"

The recipe for the salad "Pearl" can be viewed

Salad "White birch"

The recipe for the White Birch salad and decoration options, you can see

Salad "Royal"

Preparation of the Tsarsky salad and decoration options, you can see

Salad "Cornucopia" №1

The recipe for the Horn of Plenty salad No. 1 can be viewed

Salad "Violet"

salad ingredients: smoked legs, prunes, champignons fried with onions, fresh cucumber, Korean carrot, mayonnaise.

cooking : Lay out all the ingredients for the salad in layers, smearing with mayonnaise in a salad bowl, or a detachable form. Cut the radishes into slices, and soak in red cabbage juice so that the violet petals turn lilac. Put spinach leaves on the salad, and then make flowers from radish circles. Make violets from egg yolks. Lay out the sides of the lettuce with crackers.

Salad "Fox coat"

Salad preparation and decoration options, you can see

Salad "Spider line"

salad ingredients: sprats, butter, onions, hard cheese, boiled eggs, mayonnaise. Fresh cucumber, black olives, ketchup, herbs for decoration.

cooking : Mash sprats with a fork and put on a plate, then put finely chopped onion with mayonnaise. The next layer is grated cheese with mayonnaise, then three creamy little, and at the end of the egg.

To decorate, mix 1 tablespoon of mayonnaise with ketchup, and draw a cobweb. Make a spider out of a black olive. Decorate the sides of the salad with cucumbers and herbs.

Eggplant appetizer "Peacock's tail"

Cooking snacks with step by step photos can be viewed

Salad "Fireworks"

salad ingredients: ham, boiled eggs, yellow, red and green bell pepper, tomato, mayonnaise, onion

cooking : Cut all salad ingredients into thin slices. On a plate, lay out the first layer of ham, with strips of onion. Next, bell peppers of three colors, alternating them with egg whites. Top with tomatoes and mayonnaise, which we hide under grated egg yolks. Mayonnaise can be served separately in a gravy boat.

Salad "Lady's Hat"

salad ingredients: is based

ingredients for decoration : suluguni rope cheese, tomato, black olives

Salad "April Olivier"

salad ingredients: boiled eggs, boiled carrots, boiled potatoes, pickles, fresh cucumbers, boiled sausage, green onions, smoked sausage, parsley, dill, mayonnaise.

ingredients for decoration : radish, fresh cucumbers, lettuce, curly parsley, salami sausage for rosette, olives, egg white.

cooking : Cut the salad ingredients into cubes and season with mayonnaise. Arrange the lettuce leaves on a plate to garnish the salad. Lay the lettuce on top of the leaves. Cucumber cut in half and cut into slices. Cut the radish in half. Arrange radish and cucumber alternately on the sides. Put curly parsley on top around the edges. Before preparing the salad, cut off a piece of boiled eggs and cut it in half. Lay the halves around. Put the salami rose in the middle. It turns out it's very easy to do. Cut into 7 thin pieces of salami, wrap the first piece in a tube, and put the rest on top of each other and secure with toothpicks.

Cut the olives into thin slices and decorate the salad with them in the area of ​​​​the eggs.

Salad "Green Rose"

salad ingredients: boiled chicken fillet, processed cheese, fresh cucumbers, boiled eggs, pitted olives, red Crimean onion, mayonnaise.

cooking : Cut the salad ingredients into cubes and season with mayonnaise. Decorate the salad with plates or slices of fresh cucumber in the form of a rose.

Salad "Mexican"

salad ingredients: boiled chicken fillet, radish, fresh cucumbers, boiled eggs, green onions, boiled potatoes, chili peppers, lettuce, pickled cucumbers, lemon juice and vegetable oil

cooking : Cut the salad ingredients into cubes and season with lemon juice and vegetable oil. Arrange lettuce leaves on a plate and top with lettuce. Using toothpicks, collect a cactus from pickled cucumbers.

Salad "White crocuses"

salad ingredients: boiled eggs, Beijing cabbage, canned corn, pickled champignons, green onions, fresh cucumbers, mayonnaise.

preparation: Beijing cabbage, pickled champignons, green onions, fresh cucumbers cut into cubes, add corn and season with mayonnaise. Put the salad on a plate, and sprinkle with finely chopped eggs on top.

For decoration, we take 7-8 small seedling bulbs (they are sold at grandmothers in the bazaar), a bunch of green onions and 1/4 carrots. We clean small bulbs. Now take a sharp knife and cut the cloves along the top of the onion. We take out the “insides” of the onion and, using a toothpick and green onions, insert the stalks into the “onion cups” and put a small piece of carrot in each onion.

Liver cake "Chamomile"

preparation: Cooking liver cake according to the recipe. We decorate with chopped dill, spread chamomile from egg white and yolk.

Salad "Championship"

salad ingredients : green peas (young or frozen), canned. corn, boiled potatoes and carrots, salmon, eggs, green onions, dill, mayonnaise, quail eggs.

cooking : cut all the ingredients into cubes and put the layers on a square plate, smearing with mayonnaise in the following sequence: potatoes, green onions, eggs, salmon, corn, carrots, potatoes. Decorate the salad with green peas and dill. Mark the field with mayonnaise, and make a soccer ball from a quail egg.

Salad "Snowdrops"

salad ingredients : boiled beef, onion marinated in lemon juice and sugar, eggs, mayonnaise, hard cheese

cooking : the salad is laid out in layers in the following order: pickled onions, boiled meat, boiled eggs. Spread each layer not too thickly with mayonnaise, including the top one. Take it lightly. Sprinkle the salad with grated cheese, make snowdrop stems from green onion feathers, and cut the petals from thinly sliced ​​daikon radish slices.

salad ingredients : unsweetened round crackers, canned salmon, saury or tuna, boiled eggs, garlic, green onions, mayonnaise

cooking : arrange crackers on a plate in a circle in the shape of a flower. Next, a layer of eggs with mayonnaise, then a layer of crackers, then canned food with mayonnaise and green onions, and grease the last top layer of crackers with mayonnaise and sprinkle with finely grated eggs. Decorate the salad with tomato slices, olive halves and sprigs of herbs.

Salad "Vegetable with garlic"

salad ingredients : tomatoes, cucumbers, garlic, vegetable oil, herbs

cooking : cut vegetables into slices, and arrange in rows on a round dish. Sprinkle with crushed garlic, herbs, and pour vegetable oil.

Salad "Crab Spring"

salad ingredients : crab sticks, or crab meat, fresh cucumbers, eggs, grated hard cheese, Beijing cabbage, olives. Sauce: mix equal parts mayonnaise and sour cream, seasoning with a little mustard.

cooking : cut crab sticks, cucumbers, eggs, and olives into cubes, tear Chinese cabbage into small pieces. Add cheese, and season with sauce, put in a mold, and refrigerate for 30 minutes. Take out the salad, transfer to a dish, and garnish with green onions and crab stick flowers.

Mimosa salad with mice

salad ingredients : boiled eggs, boiled carrots, boiled potatoes, onions, canned fish (sardines in oil), mayonnaise, greens

ingredients for decoration : pieces of cheese (for the ears and tail of mice), black peppercorns (use as eyes for mice)

Salad "Aquarium"

salad ingredients : sea cocktail, onion, canned red beans, pickled champignons, pickles, grated hard cheese, mayonnaise

ingredients for decoration : seaweed, red bell pepper (to make fish and star), mayonnaise, a few mussels to make crabs

Salad "Sunflower"

salad ingredients : boiled chicken fillet, onion, fried champignons, boiled eggs, mayonnaise

ingredients for decoration : Pringls chips and olives

Salad "Gate"

salad ingredients : avocado, shrimp, fresh cucumbers, boiled eggs, onions, mayonnaise

ingredients for decoration : green onion feathers, salty straws, a piece of black bread to make the bottom

Salad "Corn"

salad ingredients : boiled chicken breast, pickled cucumbers, onions, fried mushrooms, boiled eggs, parsley and dill, mayonnaise, canned corn

ingredients for decoration : leek leaves and canned corn

Salad "Hedgehog"

salad ingredients : boiled chicken breast, pickles, boiled carrots, green onions, dill, parsley, canned corn, eggs, mayonnaise

ingredients for decoration : Put the salad on a dish in the shape of a hedgehog.

Rub the eggs on a fine grater, mix with mayonnaise, and coat the hedgehog. For needles, use potato chips, and for the eyes and nose, squeeze circles from the skin of a pickled cucumber.

Salad "Crab Paradise"

salad ingredients : crab sticks, pickled mushrooms, processed cheese, canned corn, garlic, mayonnaise, greens

ingredients for decoration : red caviar, olives, curly parsley

Salad "Watermelon slice"

salad ingredients : smoked chicken fillet, fried champignons, boiled carrots, boiled eggs, grated cheese, garlic, mayonnaise

ingredients for decoration : red bell pepper (watermelon pulp), olives (stones), fresh cucumber (peel)

Salad "Gift"

salad ingredients : boiled veal, boiled carrots, boiled beets, steamed prunes, walnuts, boiled eggs, grated hard cheese, mayonnaise, parsley

ingredients for decoration : cut ribbons from boiled carrots and garnish with parsley.

Salad "Capercaillie Nest"

salad ingredients : boiled chicken fillet, ham, marinated champignons, eggs, mayonnaise

ingredients for decoration : julienned potatoes fried in vegetable oil, lettuce, for bird eggs: processed cheese, egg yolks, dill, mayonnaise, garlic.

Salad "Starfish"

salad ingredients : crab meat, or crab sticks, canned corn, boiled eggs, slightly salted salmon, grated hard cheese, garlic, dill, mayonnaise

ingredients for decoration : shrimps, red caviar, lettuce is laid out in layers.

Salad "Hares in the garden"

salad ingredients : smoked fish fillet, such as butter, boiled potatoes, boiled eggs, boiled carrots, pickles, herbs

ingredients for decoration : in the middle make a "bed" of carrots, put egg bunnies on the sides

Salad "Orange slice"

salad ingredients : boiled eggs, boiled carrots, onions, chicken fillet, marinated champignons, grated hard cheese, mayonnaise

ingredients for decoration : lay the salad in layers, shape into orange slices, garnish with grated carrots and egg white.

Salad "Cornucopia" No. 2

salad ingredients : boiled chicken fillet, boiled potatoes, pickles, canned corn, eggs, mayonnaise

ingredients for decoration : lettuce, vegetables, slightly salted salmon, herbs, and cheese

Salad "Pineapple"

salad ingredients : smoked chicken, boiled potatoes, boiled eggs, grated hard cheese, pickles, onions, mayonnaise

ingredients for decoration : walnut halves, green onion feathers

Salad "Tiger"

salad ingredients : smoked or fried pork, onions, boiled carrots, eggs, grated cheese, prunes, fresh cucumbers, paprika, garlic, mayonnaise

ingredients for decoration : salad is laid out in layers, garnish with grated carrots, olives, olives, and egg white

Salad "Grapes"

salad ingredients : canned fish (cod liver, for example), green onions, boiled potatoes, eggs, grated hard cheese, mayonnaise

ingredients for decoration : blue seedless grapes

Salad "Male caprice"

salad ingredients : smoked chicken fillet, boiled beef, eggs, Crimean onion, grated hard cheese, mayonnaise

ingredients for decoration : Sandwich cheese for the calla flowers, green onions for the stems, and yellow bell peppers to make the pestle

Modern people are becoming demanding: they want to be surprised. Therefore, catering establishments go to different tricks to attract the client with an original serving of dishes.

At the time of the huge number of catering establishments, many of them, in order to stand out from others, use an unusual serving of dishes. It adds zest and serves as a kind of entertainment. Let's take an express tour of different restaurants and see how they surprise customers.

1. Heaven for the sweet tooth

Recently, it seems that the owners of restaurants and pastry shops are competing to see who can create the biggest milkshake. It is decorated with berries, confectionery powder is used, sweets, cookies and even whole pieces of cake are inserted. In general, the more the better - the ideal scenario.

2. Shoes instead of plates

Many restaurants use the principle of home cooking. This is not only expressed in the dishes, but also in the way they are served. For example, in one establishment bread is brought not in a basket, but in slippers, strange, isn't it?

Think about how unusually you can serve a fish dish? It is unlikely that the idea will come to mind to do it on a brick. Interestingly, one of the visitors to this institution said that construction was taking place not far from it. Maybe the "dishes" are just from there?

4. Pyramid of tables

Where do people get their inspiration from when they come up with such weird ways of serving food? The client will certainly be surprised when another table with benches will be placed on the table, on which sandwiches, cakes, drinks and other snacks will be placed. It's a whole picnic.

5. A piece of oasis on the table

Traditionally, olives are served in bowls in a restaurant, but this is so banal and uninteresting. Just imagine, you place an order, and the waiter brings a pot with a small olive tree, where there are silver spoons with olives. A very beautiful presentation.

6. Petite Lady Gaga

Millions of people were shocked by the appearance of the famous singer Lady Gaga in a dress made of raw meat at the MTV ceremony in 2010. A chef from Beijing decided to pick up the idea and designed a dish of marbled beef, copying the image of the singer. As a result, visitors to the establishment were served a Barbie doll dressed in a meat dress. The dish became very popular.

7. A glass is not only for drinks

The menu of almost all restaurants has salads, and in order to increase the number of sales and please customers, chefs come up with various tricks. The latest trend was the serving of salads in a glass, and it is upside down. In some establishments, first courses are served in the same way.

8. Plates are a waste

Another cunning who decided not to spend money on buying dishes. Yes, and then you have to wash it ... In general, some worries. This place serves food on napkins folded in several layers. Very practical: wash it - and you're done.

9. Here is a cocktail!

In the cocktail list of many bars you can find Bloody Mary, but usually this drink is served only with pickled cucumbers. There is also a unique serving, which, to put it mildly, looks strange - a whole bunch of different snacks is inserted into the cocktail. For example, here you can see all the same cucumbers, a sandwich, onion rings and - just imagine - a whole pizza.

10. Gastronomic attraction

Fast food has already become so commonplace in people's lives, and there is little to surprise. One of the English restaurants began to use the original serving of the traditional dish - Fish "n" chips. Can you imagine that a small Ferris wheel that can be rotated is brought to your table? This is a great solution for the whole company.

11. It's very nasty

The Chinese are known for their out-of-the-box thinking, but this establishment is a shock to tourists. Affordable catering is stylized as a toilet. Food is served ... in toilet bowls, drinks in urinals, and bread is baked in the form of feces. What a nightmare! Could it really give you an appetite?

12. Rustic Idea

It is impossible not to be surprised when you come to a cafe for breakfast and get it on an ordinary shovel. Strange, unusual, but memorable.

13. Sports to the masses

Serving food on trays is so boring and familiar. This is exactly what the owners of this restaurant thought and decided that the waiters would bring food on tennis rackets. They fit everything: snacks, sandwiches, drinks and so on. This is truly original.

14. Original tea party

In order not to force the table with numerous plates with different snacks, one of the restaurants came up with an original trick - to use a small bookshelf in which various treats are arranged.

15. Incompatible is compatible

What is really strange is the idea of ​​serving coffee not in ordinary cups, but in carrots. Yes, it didn’t seem to you, small cups are made from root crops, which are served to visitors.

16. Glass in custody

How else can you surprise and cheer people in a cafe? Here is one unusual idea - serving a cocktail closed in a cage. Beautiful, original and immediately want to take a photo for memory.

17. This, perhaps, will remain without comment.

Get ready. Now it will be worse than a Chinese restroom restaurant. The next pitch is not for the faint of heart, and it's hard to imagine who doesn't get disgusted by it. Wow! Berry jelly is brought to the client not in cups, but on sanitary pads.

18. Ice serving salad

Thought you'd never have to eat out of hand? So, you were wrong. The chef of one restaurant decided that he would serve a salad in an ice hand in an original way. It is made very simply using a medical glove, which is filled with water and frozen.

19. Real eco-style

In one of the restaurants, mushroom lovers have to collect them themselves (this is not a joke). Visitors receive a deep box stylized as a forest clearing, where mushrooms “grow”.

20. Rewarding an egg is weird, isn't it?

A popular dish in many restaurants, which is served as an appetizer, is the Scotch egg. Cooks are trying to come up with an original serving. For example, in one institution it is served (attention!) in a goblet. By the way, useful information: an egg wrapped in minced meat and deep-fried is a British dish, not Scottish cuisine.

21. This is a restaurant, not a prison

At Rachel Hichinson's restaurant, it was decided to surprise customers with oatmeal for breakfast. It is brought not in a plate, but in an aluminum pot, like in a prison. Weird, but very popular.

22. Tourist breakfast

People are used to the fact that food in cans is not very tasty, but the chef decided to prove the opposite. The customer receives a plate with the contents spilled out of a tin. It is clear that this is a staged composition, but associations with a camping trip still arise.

23. Unexpected, but very beautiful

What people who order a fruit platter don't expect is to get it strung on a hairbrush. To complete the composition, fruits are decorated with cotton candy on top.

24. Return to the past

Old Russian cuisine is popular, and unusual ways are used for serving: the usual pancakes are served in an old iron. Well, how can you not be surprised?

25. Back to the Middle Ages

Are you sure that you have already seen everything and there is nothing more to surprise you with? Then here's another weird way of serving food that makes you laugh and really surprises at the same time. In Austria, you can order a simple dish for a company - meat and potatoes, but they only serve it unusually - on a sword.

26. Waste-free production

Wine is the most popular drink ordered in catering establishments. This leaves a large number of bottles that can be used, for example, to serve salads and other dishes.

27. Rubric "Do it yourself"

When ordering orange juice, few people expect to receive a juicer and orange slices. The slogan is: if you want juice, squeeze it yourself! Bold, but still original.

28. Cheap and cheerful

In one American restaurant, a very popular dish is served (by now you will certainly smile) in a bowl of dog food. For lovers of our smaller brothers - this is it.

29. Familiar becomes original

Who can be surprised with salad "herring under a fur coat"? Chefs try to come up with different ways of serving. Just look at how you can use a small wooden box instead of a plate.

30. Do you want land?

A popular dessert is Tiramisu, and everyone is familiar with its original presentation. Visitors to one establishment were very surprised by ordering such a dessert. First, the waiter spread a newspaper on the table, then placed a gardening glove and a small shovel filled with earth next to it. It is shocking, but in fact it is a dessert, and very tasty.