Beautiful Serving Ideas

We all know that after long hours of cooking in the kitchen, there is neither strength nor imagination to decorate them.

We all know that after long hours of cooking in the kitchen, there is neither strength nor imagination to decorate them. It is for this situation that we have selected for you some interesting ideas for decorating dishes - salads, vegetable and meat cuts.

Salad Serving Ideas

Even classic salads can be served in such an original way that no one will recognize them. For example, salad "Olivier" can be served in the form of a cylinder using a culinary ring, then wrap it with thin strips of cucumber, decorate with quail eggs and herbs. Any other salad can be served in cups of Chinese cabbage leaves. Looks great and keeps its shape well.

 

Instead of Chinese cabbage cups, you can make pita bread molds - carefully place it in a muffin pan and dry it slightly in the oven.

Layered salads like the classic "Shuba" are best served in transparent portioned forms - they can be easily replaced with glasses.

Many salads can be arranged in the form of a bouquet - for example, put a thinly sliced ​​​​cucumber or a bunch of green onions as stems.

Some salads do not need to be kneaded - just put all the ingredients separately on a plate, and place a bowl with dressing in the middle. In this case, guests will be able to choose what their portion of salad will consist of.

 

Ideas for serving vegetable slices

You don’t need a lot of imagination to decorate vegetable slices - just use special knives or a vegetable peeler to cut vegetables in the shape of different figures.

We advise you to arrange the vegetables separately without mixing them on a plate - this way you can create a whole composition (for example, from thinly sliced ​​​​cucumber, strips of red pepper, cut in the form of a radish flower and lettuce leaves).

Remember to combine contrasting colors - for example, put a tomato and yellow bell pepper on lettuce leaves.

Fill the space between vegetables - this can be done with dill, parsley, green onions, basil or lettuce.

Play with the shape of vegetables - snacks look interesting in which all the ingredients are small: small cucumbers, red and yellow cherry tomatoes, olives and small mushrooms.

 

Ideas for serving meat dishes

Meat is difficult to spoil, especially if it is already deliciously cooked. The best option would be to either serve the meat with cooked vegetables, or immediately with a side dish and sauce. By the way, the color of the sauce also plays an important role - the green sauce with horseradish, creamy garlic and honey mustard sauce looks beautiful.

Meat snacks can be served in several ways:

carefully place the thinly sliced ​​meat in rows or rings on a plate, garnishing with a bunch of greens and olives on top; cut the meat into cubes or thin slices and stick on skewers - looks interesting with olives, cherry tomatoes and thinly sliced ​​​​lettuce; thinly slice the meat and roll it into a roll or tube - then it is more convenient to prick it, and it takes up less space on the plate.

And you can also combine cold cuts with vegetables - alternate layers of meat with chopped cucumber or tomato.