Decoration of festive dishes

Usually decoration of festive dishes is reduced to decorating desserts. This is understandable, because decorate a cake or piemuch easier than any other dish: you have at your disposal cream, icing, chocolate, mastic, various sprinkles ... Here only dessert is usually served at the very end of the meal, so that the decorated dessert is not enough to create a festive mood. Therefore, it is worthwhile to think about decorating all dishes or at least most of them.

Decoration of festive dishes is subject to certain rules. First, the products used to decoratedishes, should be combined with it to taste. Secondly, overdoing with the decoration is not necessary: ​​the dishes look more attractive not at the expense of the number of ornaments, but due to their bright color. Thirdly, the decorations should not compete in terms of brightness with the dishes: if you decorate dishes, the dishes should be as neutral as possible.

Decoration of festive dishes is often done of fruits and vegetables in carving technique. The bright color of fruits and vegetables is compulsorywill draw attention to your dish. It looks beautiful as an ornament bright juicy greens, orange carrots, red tomatoes, green cucumbers, green, red, yellow and orange sweet peppers ... You can cut out simple figures from them, or you can make real works of art. As an example, you can see our master class, devoted to how to make a leaf from a cucumber and a rose from carrots.

By the way, you can combine the decoration of festive dishes with the preparation of portioned salads and snacks. Portion baskets of vegetables and fruits beautifully look and perfect forfestive buffet table. You can stuff half of tomatoes, bell peppers, avocados or even pineapples with a salad. If you use avocados, keep in mind that its flesh is dark in the air, so it should be sprinkled with lemon juice.

Fruit salads can be laid in a cut pineapple, baskets of orange peel or grapefruit peel, "papaya" boats. Very original looks jelly "citrus lobules". Cut the oranges in half, remove the flesh, pour the jelly into the peel, and when it is cold, cut the jelly in the rind into slices and serve it to the table.

From the stuffed tomatoes you can make funny "fly agaric". To do this, cut the "cap" from the tomato, take out the pulp and stuff the vegetable with a salad. Then put the "cap" lightly obliquely and make on it specks of mayonnaise or sour cream. Also from stuffed tomatoes come out beautiful tulips. Cut the tops of the oblong tomatoes criss-cross, stuff the tomatoes and lay them on the dish, simulating a bouquet of tulips (stems make of green onions).

Often the decoration of festive dishes is made from boiled eggs. Their charm is that the protein can be colored in different colors with the help, for example, of beetroot juice, carrots, red cabbage or food colorings. You can, for example, make eggs funny frogs. To do this, in the acute part of the egg you need to doneckline - "mouth" - and insert into it "tongue" from the peel of a tomato. From the buds of a carnation, make eyes, and the legs can be cut out of a cucumber peel. Lower the bottom of the egg so that the frogs are more stable.

By a similar principle can be done bunnies or mice. The ears are made from pieces of protein and inserted into a small incision in the narrow part of the egg, the eyes are drawn with ketchup, and the mustache with mustard. And from eggs and tomatoes can be made mushrooms. Cut the top and bottom of the egg a little (forstability). Cut the tomato into halves, scrape the pulp and put on the "hat" from the tomato on the "leg" of the egg, and draw the specks with sour cream or mayonnaise.

Salads can be decorated grated protein. If you grate it on a large grater, you can lay out the protein "inflorescence", and from parsley, dill or other greens - stems, you will get a salad decoration in the form of a bouquet. A salad "mimosa" can be decorated flowers of mimosa, made from greenery and grated yolk. Salad in this case, it is better to sprinkle with grated protein, so that the yellow "flowers" stand out well on it.

Looks beautiful decoration of festive dishes in the form of roses. The rose can be made from thin slicesred fish, lemon, cheese, ham or pickled ginger. It looks nice and a rose cut from oil. It's better to cut it beforehand, put it in the fridge, and decorate the dish before serving. Decorating with such a rose is worth the dishes, which are supposed to be eaten immediately, because in a warm room the rose may begin to melt.

You can also decorate festive dishes from olives, dried fruits, with the help of various sauces. There are lots of options, the main thing is to use imagination, and then your New Year's table will be the most beautiful!