Beautiful decoration of dishes at home: photos with recipes

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

When you celebrate some holiday at a party, you always pay attention to how the hostess tried, setting the table. When inviting friends to your place, you also want to stand out and make everything more original. It's not just the service that deserves attention. Do not forget about the beautiful design of the dishes. In the article we will figure out how to make everything right, appetizing and tasty.

Tips

So, first you need to make an approximate menu and think over the serving. Now try to visually imagine the already set table. Where will you have appetizers and salads? How is it served hot: in the center of the table or on plates?

Everything is needed in order to decide which dish would benefit from a beautiful design. After all, if you take on everything, then the table will simply be full of colors. So make accents.

If you decide to make decorations all the time, you will need special tools. Visit the store and get what you need:

• special shredders for vegetables and fruits;
• sharp knives;
• shaped cuttings;
• notches.

You can start with something simple, graduallyadding to your collection of kitchen utensils.

In the photo above, the beautiful decoration of the dishes is made of raw vegetables that can be eaten, but some are not recommended. Therefore, if you use this technique, you must warn the guests so that there are no incidental situations.

Some methods can be found in this article.

Salads

Any salad you normally make can be served out of the ordinary. For example, to make an unusual figure out of it. Top with decorations of greens and vegetables. There are many options. You can just look at the pictures and apply to your recipe.

Try to lay out the salad "Herring under a fur coat" in the form of a snake, make a crown of boiled protein, and draw stripes with yolk. “Winter” can be served in the same form, where thinly sliced pickled cucumber can be used as scales.

Beautiful decoration of festive dishes will attract attention and give positive emotions to guests. New Year's events and March 8 will perfectly help to reveal your talents. There is room for fantasy here. Make a Christmas tree out of lettuce. In it, dill will help replace spruce twigs, and berries - toys.

Use simple decorations. For example, you can make flowers on top. Here are the easy ways:

1. Take oval tomatoes, cut halfway into four pieces. After scooping out the pulp with a teaspoon, fill with grated cheese and garlic filling. Lay out sideways. The stem can be replaced with your favorite herbs.
2. Boiled eggs are easy to makechamomile. To do this, the protein is cut into strips (these will be petals) and laid out around the grated yolk.

Know that an ordinary salad turns into a masterpiece if you use your imagination.

Crab stick salad recipe

Let's make a simple-looking salad, but let's do, as in the photo, a beautiful design of the dish.

For this we need:

• 2 packs of crab sticks;
• 2 medium potatoes;
• 1 long cucumber;
• 3 boiled eggs;
• mayonnaise dressing;
• 0.4 kg hard cheese;
• a little butter
• dill.

First, we make beautiful baskets in which we will place our snack for each guest separately. To do this, lightly grease a flat plate with butter. On a coarse grater, we evenly rub the cheese on it so that holes remain. Put in the microwave for 20-25 seconds to melt the cheese.

Then you need to let it cool down a little to make it easier to remove. We hook it from any side and remove it like a pancake. We put on a glass, giving the desired shape. Set aside to cool completely.

Starting cooking and beautiful decoration of the dish. Boil potatoes and eggs, cut into small cubes. Cucumber and crab sticks should be in the form of strips. We mix all the ingredients, s alt and add mayonnaise. Arrange in baskets and decorate with dill sprigs.

It is better to season and fill the cheese dishes just before serving, until the salad has given juice.

Snacks and cuts

These plates are best left undecorated. Beautiful presentation of dishes is a priority here.

A variety of sandwiches can be used as snacks. There is no limit to imagination here. For example, spread slices of various vegetables (tomatoes, cucumbers), seafood (for example, sprats) or meat pies on a toast smeared with mayonnaise. You can make a variety of canapes by laying them in rows on a wide plate.

Tomatoes or eggs stuffed with grated cheese and garlic look great on the table. They make great figures of mushrooms, snowmen, chickens, piglets, etc. Roll pancakes with some soft filling and cut into rolls (by the way, cucumbers look good in this form too).

Don't leave sliced plates unattended. Usually they are fruit, vegetable, cheese, meat, fish and assorted. But that doesn't mean it's all worth posting. Fruit is enough to serve in a vase. Just don't throw them randomly. If the holiday is in the summer, then make a basket of watermelon, fold the slices inside without a crust.

Vegetable platter is easy to arrange beautifully, as both tomatoes and cucumbers go for decoration themselves. Please note that if they are in abundance on other dishes, then you should not set them separately.

Cutting cheese is easy. Pick a few varieties, thinly cut into identical pieces and lay out in rows or a semicircle, on top - pigtails of cheese and some greens.

Meat is done in almost the same way, only it should be noted that boiled sausagewill take away the smell of smoked meats. Therefore, laying out, be the first to take sharp views. Some varieties can be beautifully rolled up. You can put a gravy boat in the middle.

It's more difficult with fish. Each species has a peculiar taste and smell (it is impossible to combine, for example, s alted salmon and herring on one plate).

Quite often, combined cuts of sausages and cheese are placed on one plate.

Welcome Plate

Do everything as in the photo. Beautiful decoration of the dish (meat platter) will make your table look solemn.

We will need:

• salami;
• bacon;
• sausage bread;
• 2 bunches of parsley;
• cherry tomatoes;
• large red tomatoes;
• cheese.

Cut all the products thinly and start putting them on a large flat plate.

For convenience, cheese will go first. We divide the dishes into sectors with them. Their number depends on how many types of meat you will use.

Each cell should be filled with one variety. For beauty, you can, for example, grease pieces of boiled sausage with cheese and mayonnaise paste and roll into tubes. From some variety, make flowers, fastening the middle. To do this, fold the circle in half, make small cuts on the fold, fold and secure with a skewer along the edge.

Put curly parsley leaves in the middle, and chopped tomato on top. Instead of a tomato, you can put stuffed small peppers or put a gravy boat. Arrange on a plate cherry tomatoes, piercedskewers.

Hot

Beautiful design of hot dishes deserves special attention. It all depends on how they are served. There are two options: separately in the center of the table or separately on plates.

If you use the first method, then always consider not only the beauty of the serving, but also that it would be convenient for guests to take a serving for themselves. To do this, it is better to divide the whole fish into pieces or cut the meatloaf, and then proceed to the design. Of course, if it's chicken, it's best to leave it whole and break off the pieces with your hands.

Everyone has seen that large hot dishes are often accompanied by baked vegetables and fruits, pickled mushrooms, which not only give a peculiar taste, but also add color. Lemon slices are also used, inserted, for example, into pike cuts. Often the recipes themselves provide for a beautiful design of the dish.

Fresh greens are also quite a popular option when decorating. Only here, keep in mind that it quickly fades from high temperature. Therefore, put it entirely along the edge and just before serving.

Surround the dish with different sauces in the same dish. This will emphasize the main dish on the table.

Even when serving a simple puree soup, let your imagination run wild. For example, pour a little ketchup into a light one, and sour cream and mayonnaise into a dark one and make peculiar stains with a stick. Stick a sprig of dill in the middle. Everything, it turned out a festive first course. Even just scrambled eggs fried in a slice of pepper cut across or a sausage rolled into a heart will cheer you up.

Whendecided to put everyone on plates, then you can not ignore anyone. And it’s easier to use the beautiful design of meat dishes. In this case, the option is often used when meat or fish is laid out on lettuce leaves. Also originally watered with bright sauces. Finely chopped pieces make a small slide, because a little chaos on a plate looks more original.

For decorations, it is better to use baked, boiled or fried vegetables, green peas, corn, mushrooms. Do not forget about vitamins in the form of sliced tomatoes and cucumbers.

Next we will give another recipe. The beautiful design of the dish is also described there.

Entrecote crown and meat braid

The first option for serving hot is in the center of the table. If you do everything right, it will turn out original, and most importantly - delicious.

For this you will need a large piece of pork with slightly sharpened ribs. At the bazaar or on your own, immediately remove the ridge so that you can make a circle.

The number of ingredients will not be indicated, as it all depends on the number of guests you are expecting. Prepare:

• soy sauce;
• s alt, spices;
• rice;
• greens;
• potato;
• cherry tomatoes.

Now consider the beautiful design of the dish (recipe). The photo you see below will help you assemble the structure correctly.

So, marinate the meat in soy sauce with spices, you can add garlic. Since this is a large piece, it is better to leave it in the refrigerator for the wholenight. Then we wrap a piece in foil and send it to the oven. Leave on medium heat for 1-1.5 hours. At this time, boil the rice. Fry the potatoes and wash the tomatoes.

We take out the pork and cut it with a very sharp knife (not completely, so as not to fall apart) into pieces between the bones. We expose in the form of a circle with ribs up. To prevent everything from falling, fasten the edge with toothpicks, and put boiled rice in the middle. Drizzle it with rendered fat from the meat.

Put tomatoes and potatoes around the edges. A complex side dish is made at the choice of the guest. You can pour sauce and decorate with herbs.

Try the following beautiful hot dish decoration. A photo here is not even required for explanation, because everything is done very simply.

Calculation of ingredients for 6-7 persons:

• cut of your favorite meat - 1 kg;
• potatoes - 12 medium tubers;
• lettuce;
• soy sauce;
• Provencal herbs.

Preparing the pulp. To do this, we cut into portions and, having beaten a little with a hammer, send it to marinate with soy sauce for 45 minutes in a cold place. After cutting the meat lengthwise into 3 parts, but not completely. Braid the braids and secure the ends with toothpicks. Pepper and sprinkle with seasoning. Put on a baking sheet, cover with foil and put in the oven.

Cut out mushrooms from potatoes, which we cook until half cooked. 40 minutes after the start of frying the meat, remove the “lid” from the sheet to add the “mushrooms” there. Leave in the brazier until golden brown.

At this time, prepare plates forserving to the table. Lay lettuce leaves on each. On them - our pigtails and "mushrooms". You can pour any sauce for meat or put pickled red onions.

Serving food on one plate

Here you immediately need to consider how you are going to organize it. There are popular ways:

1. If you decide to use the example of restaurants and make a beautiful decoration of the dish, then you need to visually separate the plate like a dial. So, at "11 o'clock" they always put side dishes (potatoes, pasta, rice, buckwheat), at "2 o'clock" - salad or chopped vegetables. The main meat or fish dish will go at "6 o'clock".
2. Japanese love to separate dishes even on the same plate. Bowls with different types of food and sauces are placed on the main one. This allows you to feel the taste of each and a different combination of products.
3. Even fast food companies try to make everything original and can, for example, put out stacks of french fries.

Even a simple breakfast made with imagination will bring positive emotions to your family.

Cooking for kids

It is difficult to seat small family members and guests at the table, and even more so to force them to eat unwanted, but he althy porridge. Therefore, special attention should be paid to the beautiful design of children's dishes.

So let's start with snacks. Here it is better to use figures of popular "cartoons" or animals. Try to impress the kids as much as possible. Here are examples:

1. Prepare salad "Olivier", put on a plate in the shape of a fish. Make scales from thinly slicedpickled cucumber, and the head - from boiled protein. A green onion will go on the tail. Canned peas will make eyes.
2. Sandwiches in the form of a cell phone are also suitable for a children's table. To do this, cut the bread into small rectangles. The cheese will become the display. Put a piece of sausage, and on top - green peas. This will be the keyboard.
3. Cut fresh long cucumber and small tomatoes (suitable for size). Pour sour cream on the bottom of the plate, put the vegetables alternately in the form of a snake. Make onion weed.
4. Bake pancakes. Lubricate them with a mixture of grated cheese and sour cream. Twist and cut into small sausages. After placing on a dish, tell the child that these are baby rolls.

If there are first courses, then cook better puree soup, on which it is easy to draw various faces. It will be a plus that the kids will not choose fried onions they do not like from the broth. For example, pour the finished dish on a plate. Take the ketchup and draw the mouth, nose and eyebrows. Boiled yolk will make eyes, put fresh dill, which will replace the antennae.

When compiling a menu for the smallest, it should be taken into account that sharp objects cannot be used. Therefore, if there is meat, then chopped or minced meat. If fish, then without bones. You can build, for example, bears, make eyes from boiled yolks, and on a plate - a blanket of mashed potatoes.

You can make a turtle. To do this, carefully place an oval of buckwheat porridge in the middle of the plate. Sausages cut in half can become legs. The head will come out of the egg. The child will becomemore interesting, and he will eat everything with pleasure.

Beautiful decoration of dishes for the birthday of your child takes even more time than for any other holiday. It is necessary to carefully consider the menu, not only salads and hot dishes. Even for adults, cake will be the main thing on this day. Of course, you can order it from a professional. But try to do it yourself:

1. For a simple option, buy any cake and make additional fruit decorations, write the inscription with melted chocolate.
2. Buy ready-made cakes, and make the cream yourself. To do this, beat heavy chilled cream with a little sugar, bring the butter to a fluffy shape with a mixer and mix with condensed milk. Fastening each layer, collect the cake. It will be enough to put some berry on top, pour over the icing, wait until it hardens, and make an inscription with white chocolate.
3. If you decide to take the whole process into your own hands, then it is better to do it in the evening in order to have time to set the whole table. Pick up a photo with the recipe in advance. Beautiful decoration of dishes can be repeated or designed as you wish.

Desserts are also often served with fruit jelly, yogurt, and ice cream in bowls. Imagine how beautiful to decorate or decorate all this.

Carving

This is the name of the art of carving various figures from fruits and various vegetables. When you look at finished works, it seems that it is difficult to learn and it is necessary to attend the master's courses.

Take your timedraw conclusions. If you have even a small drawing skill, patience, then in time you will make wonderful decorations for your dishes on your own.

Easiest options:

• Watermelon and melon are good for a fruit basket. Cut out leaving the handle.
• A beautiful salad bowl will come out of a pineapple. Cut lengthwise, remove the pulp, return the fruit to its former shape and fold the finished salad inside.
• An orange peel will make an excellent ice cream bowl.

Now try to make flowers from vegetables, as in the bottom photo. Beautiful decoration of dishes at home with such a chrysanthemum is not difficult. Take a small onion, peel and cut off the top and bottom for stability. Now, with a very sharp and thin knife, we divide into four parts, not completely, but as low as possible. And again also. To straighten the leaves, send the future flower to cold water. It can be tinted with beetroot juice.

The raw carrot lily is excellent. Clean it and cut it into several pieces about 10 cm long. Take one and make a pentagon with a knife. Now we make incisions on each sharp side, but not completely. So we repeat in a checkerboard pattern. Cut the petals into an oval shape with scissors.

It's easy to make a swan for a fruit plate. First, cut into two equal parts, remove the seeds. Lay each skin side up. Make not completely two identical cuts in the middle and pull out the middle. Next, on each side with a knife, cut the corners at the top and side. With everyat the same time they will be smaller and smaller. Expose the wings with a slight offset, cut out the neck from the removed piece and insert it in the middle.

Always try to make beautiful dishes. Decorating for the holidays or weekdays will add sophistication to your table.