Decoration of festive dishes: preparing for the New Year

Dishes to the New Year's table should be brightly decorated and very appetizing to look. Just put a twig of parsley and sprinklechopped green onions can not. After the decoration of the festive dishes becomes the center of attention during the feast. We invite you to surprise everyone with the original Christmas decoration of salads and other dishes.

Easiest to decorate New Year's dishes, which will be served as a dessert. Of course, you can bake a Christmas cakegingerbread house, but you can do without it. For example, you can simply simply serve any cookies. From simple homemade cookies in the form of stars of different sizes, you can collect a wonderful dessert in the form of a Christmas tree. To ensure that your tree does not fall apart, cookies should be fastened together with a conventional glaze with the addition of a green food color. We advise you not to use all the glaze for this purpose. Make a little glaze of other colors, from which you can make balls and garland for a sweet Christmas tree.

Also from simple square cookies it is possible to make original small houses, built in the whole city. From egg whites and powdered sugar makeglaze, which will fasten parts of houses. Also, the same glaze can be used to create snow-covered roofs. Above the roof of the houses can be decorated with various decorative elements.

Decoration of dishes for the New Year can also be formalized using symbolsthe coming year. Any salad can be put on a plate so that it resembles a wriggling dragon. It is not necessary to make out wings, especially since they can not always be made. The salad itself can be decorated with a thin sliced ​​fresh or salted cucumber, thus simulating the scales of the dragon.

To decorate festive dishes are always used various fruits and vegetables. But you can always go further. We suggest you to prepare from an excellent cheese snack, decorated in the form of snowmen. Grate cheese on a grater, mix it with mayonnaise. You can also add a little garlic to the snack. From this mass roll small balls, which are then rolled in coconut shavings. In each ball can put a small piece of walnut or hazelnuts. From the received balls you can build snowmen. To keep the balls from falling apart, they are fastened with toothpicks.

Of course, no one forbids doing decorating New Year's dishes with the help of flowers from vegetables or sausages. Small flowers from a fresh cucumber can beDecorate any salad. There are different options for doing this decoration: from simple laying on a plate of thin cucumber slices to create voluminous colors. If you are not sure that you can make an intricate flower from thin slices of this vegetable, you can use another option: cut a small piece of cucumber 3-4 cm long, cut out the middle. The rind is cut into long curly petals, which then bend a little. In the middle, you can put a small piece of fresh carrots.

Do not forget that decoration of festive dishes can be decorate as a New Year tree. For this purpose, any salad is perfect,consisting of several layers. Lay the salad in the form of a New Year tree. From above it should be well covered with chopped dill and parsley. If you are not a supporter of adding a lot of greenery to the dish, you can just do "tile" of fresh cucumber. From above it is possible to decorate a fur-tree with the red star cut out from a tomato or pepper. The final touch in decorating the salad can be done with a garland carved from boiled carrots.

Also you can try to imagine any cutting in the form of a small Christmas tree. String on a long wooden skewer cheeseor sausage slicing. Alternate a few slices of cheese or sausage with half an olive or olive. As a result, you will get a very beautiful and original Christmas tree. From above you can decorate it with a piece of Bulgarian pepper, carved in the form of a star.