How to Serve a Salad

Salad is an integral part of almost any feast, and it does not matter whether you are preparing for a celebration with a large number of guests or just having dinner with your family, a salad is something you can not do without. Acting as a perfect addition to the main course, the salad can be served as an appetizer before the "heavy artillery" of the festive table or as a concomitant. It is believed that salad is an indispensable helper for our stomach in digesting the main dish. Each hostess chooses independently which salad to cook and at which point the feast is served, the main thing is that the contents are to the taste of the guests. However, it is possible to impress not only excellent taste qualities and unusual salad dressing, but also beautiful, properly selected dishes for this dish. A variety of options - individual salad bowls, large salads for a common table, kits for serving salad assortment or assorted pickles, as well as various dishes. In this porcelain-glass variety it's enough just to catch the harmony, and a set of the style you like will be selected depending on the culinary skills.

Before the preparation of cut salad (from raw or boiled vegetables, meat and fish ingredients), which will subsequently be filled with butter or mayonnaise sauce, it is necessary to take care of a large bowl in which it will be convenient to combine the ingredients and then mix them thoroughly. This goal is perfectly served by a large bowl of porcelain or thick glass. Fresh vegetables do not change their color in it, as it can happen in a metal bowl. In an unofficial and not particularly solemn atmosphere, it will be quite acceptable to serve salad on a common table. Make sure that every guest has a place where this salad can be put - in most cases, it is a dining plate, the size of which allows you to place both the main course and the snack. With a particularly lavish feast it will be appropriate to serve the table in such a way that each guest has a separate salad plate or bowl.

Perhaps all the winter festivities, and especially the celebration of the New Year, can not do without such famous salads as herring under a fur coat and olivier. Herring under the fur coat refers to a variety of layered salads, and for its supply requires a flat dish of porcelain or glass. The shape of the salad will depend entirely on the dish on which it will actually form - it can be a round or oval dish. The appearance of the salad itself is sufficiently bright due to the last beetroot layer, so it is appropriate to have a white or transparent dish. Interesting variants of corrugated glass. Usually salad herring under a fur coat is done on a large dish and placed it in the center of the table, like a king's feast. On smaller flat dishes serve other types of layered salads, for example Mimosa, another delicate salad with a "fish" character.

Olivier salad is a classic of the New Year's table. Salad is loved by everyone, that's why the feed deserves a decent one. The New Year's table will be decorated with a crystal salad bowl with such tasty contents. It should be noted that the crystal dishes spend most of their lives in the sideboard on the shelf, since it is suitable only for solemn festivities, but the New Year is one of them. The meeting of the new year can not do without sparkling champagne in crystal, so the crystal setting of salads and cuts will harmoniously harmonize on the festive table.

If the herring under the fur coat, olive and vinaigrette are "Soviet" classics, then a salad such as Caesar or Greek recently conquered the hearts of our compatriots. Undoubtedly, a delicious new product will be enjoyed by all guests, but only the supply should be appropriate. Caesar salad must be prepared immediately before consumption, or at least refuel and sprinkle with croutons right before serving. With a small number of guests Caesar in individual porcelain salad bowls will be the most successful option. If you decide to serve a salad on a common table, it will suit both an in-depth dish and a deep salad bowl. The same goes for Greek salad: with individual serving, the ingredients should not be stirred, but in a common deep dish, the salad will be more like a vegetable with cheese or feta cheese.

Whatever salads and serving dishes for them you choose, you should not forget that all the dishes on the festive table should be combined with each other, be in the same style. White porcelain comes to any celebration, and if there is any doubt that it will look very banal, you can experiment with the form of salad bowls and dishes. The trend is the square shape of the dishes. Originality in the design of the table and serving of salads is the key to the success of the celebration and an extra reason to hear complement in the direction of the hostess.