Making dishes for the festive table at home: interesting ideas

Every family has many reasons to celebrate. When inviting guests, the hosts try to cook a lot of delicious treats, set an elegant table and decorate the house. But even the most uncomplicated dishes can be decorated with your own hands in such an interesting way that simple ingredients will “play out” in a new way.

In modern cooking, the design of dishes has already managed to turn into an art and a replicated business. It is difficult to surprise acquaintances simply with layers of fruit, cheese and sausages laid out on plates. People are already slightly spoiled by alluring pictures from magazines and Internet sites with images of real works of culinary art.

For curly cutting of fruits and vegetables, a whole direction has already been invented - carving. Special kits make it easy to cut and shape various compositions.

To implement ideas you will need:

• several thin sharp knives of various shapes and sizes;
• grater;
• spoons;
• scissors;
• paper napkins;
• tight packages;
• skewers and toothpicks.

An important step is the correct serving. Cutlery can be laid out directly on the table or beautifully wrapped in cloth napkins. The color of the tablecloth and other decorations should be combined with the table service. If you have a lot of colorful colorful dishes on your menu, serve the table is better with light or plain dishes. This will allow guests not to be distracted from looking at edible masterpieces.

It is not necessary to prepare many main dishes. Cold snacks can always help you out. The more interesting and varied they are, the more elegant the table will look.

One of the most common snacks is cheese plate. The number of varieties of cheese depends on your preferences and wallet. The easiest way to decorate is to arrange the cheeses in rows in the shape of a semicircle, overlapping each other.

If you have a firm, flexible cheese that can be cut into rectangles, try rolling it into a calla-like shape. Such bundles can be distributed over the entire plate or put 3-5 pieces on top of the cuts.

Cheeses are often served with honey and nuts. A bowl of honey can be placed in the center or at one of the edges of the dish, making it the focus of the composition. Rows of cheeses will “diverge” from the bowl. Nuts can be laid out symmetrically in several places or arranged randomly on a dish.

Cheeses go well with fruits, especially grapes and citrus fruits. This nuance can also be used in the design. Arrange the grape clusters on one side of the plate, or spread individual grapes over the top of the platter.Pieces of cheese with fruit can also be put on skewers and filled with them all or part of the plate.

For greater originality, products can be given an interesting shape. Cutting identical patterns with a knife is not easy. It is better to use special tools for this. So cheese mugs, stars, squares or months can appear on your plates.

When laying out meat, you can use the same techniques. Wrap the cut with a tube, a horn, or simply fold it beautifully in half. Instead of fruits, in this case, it is better to dilute the composition with vegetables. Red berries (lingonberries, currants, grapes) are suitable as unusual and spectacular decorations.

Assorted fish traditionally decorated with lemon slices. They can be bent in the form of spirals and laid out in rows or in the center of the composition. The black color of the olives will also beautifully shade the red fish. Salmon or salmon can be rolled into roses or loops.

For the formation effective vegetable compositions tomatoes, radishes, thinly sliced ​​cucumbers are suitable. The most common here is also a floral theme. Other vegetables can also be used for decorative purposes.

The easiest way to arrange bread in rows on platescovered with paper napkins. Sliced ​​bread in a basket with a lined cloth napkin or a beautiful towel will look cozy and appetizing.You can put several varieties of loaves, buns and other pastries in the stand.

There are many options for decorating salads. Thanks to decorations, any recipe can be “tailored” to the theme of the holiday or simply made it original.

Herring under a fur coat can be effectively laid out in the form of a fish. Give any dish a royal touch with a pomegranate. A very popular layout is in the form of a ring, decorated with small pomegranate seeds. Red and green grapes are also suitable for these purposes. Any patterns are easily formed from its halves.

Thematic decorations for the New Year's table can be dials made of olives on a white layer of mayonnaise. An imitation of Christmas tree branches made of dill, cilantro and parsley looks interesting. Wreaths decorated with berries and tangerine slices can be laid on top of the products. Vegetable patterned compositions can also decorate the surface of any dish.

Second courses usually do not require grandiose decor. It is fashionable and non-trivial to serve hot in separate portions. Of the decorations, it is enough to add some vegetables: circles of cucumbers, herbs and cherry tomatoes.

The bird is best viewed as a whole on a large flat dish placed in the center of the table. Chicken can be effectively supplemented with curls of oranges, an abundance of greens or pineapple slices. A goose for a Christmas feast can be decorated with pine needles, adding red, purple and green hues to it. It is better to decorate the duck with citrus fruits, sliced ​​\u200b\u200band round slices. You can also use whole pears and apples, red berries for contrast.

Sweets generally do not require additional decoration. This applies to cakes, pastries, sweets.It remains only to put them in a beautiful dish. But if you're serving portioned desserts, you can garnish them with liquid chocolate, icing, powdered sugar, flowers, or fruit.

Fruit slicing can be done in a certain form, in the form of canapes or compositions laid out in rows. In the design, you can use types of cuts similar to the design of vegetables: roses, lilies, figurines in the shape of hearts and stars.

Children's holidays are a unique atmosphere of carelessness, fun and sincerity. Such a festive table should be perky and unusual. Toddlers usually do not eat complex dishes; it is also difficult to surprise them with exotic foods. What is on the table is often eaten by children because of the interesting presentation.

Meat cuts, vegetables and fruits can be decorated in the form of any animals. A multi-colored table filled with hedgehogs, ladybugs, fish, bears and other characters will undoubtedly please the little ones. Sliced ​​fruit can also be placed on a palm, flower or butterfly shaped plate. You can also make voluminous figures with skewers and toothpicks.

See the next video for how to cut vegetables beautifully.