In modern cooking there is no concept of “baby salad”. Of course, many sources offer their readers sections with this name, but for the most part, the snacks presented there are simply funny designed, which, of course, attracts the attention of the younger generation, but does not make them favorite. That is why it is worth discussing, and then preparing, salads that children will like and at the same time will be beneficial for the growing body. And the most important thing is that the children eat them with pleasure, without adding gray hair to their parents by whining: “I don’t want it, it’s not tasty, I don’t like it...”. By the way, here’s an idea for you on how to feed your children healthy foods (in this canapé, before you get to the sausage, you need to eat the healthy stuff :-)
Carrot salad for children
The simplest and most delicious (according to children) salad can be prepared from ordinary carrots. You can serve it both for lunch/dinner and for breakfast. We will need:
- carrot - 1 root vegetable;
- any crushed nuts – 50 g;
- honey – 1 teaspoon.
Grate the carrots on a fine grater and mix with liquid honey. Sprinkle nuts on top. Ready.
Vegetable and cheese salad
Children do not eat vegetable snacks very readily. The exception, perhaps, is options with tomatoes. Well, to make such snacks even tastier and bring more benefits, you can add a little cheese to them. Ingredients:
- red and yellow bell peppers – 0.5 pcs.;
- fresh tomatoes – 2 pcs.;
- feta cheese or feta – 100 g;
- sour cream – 1 tablespoon;
- chopped greens – 1 teaspoon.
Cut the cheese and vegetables into small cubes, mix, add herbs, add salt to taste and season with sour cream.
You can add either feta cheese or feta cheese, depending on the child’s preferences and your own.
Briefly important tips for preparing children's salads
- The healthiest salads for children are prepared from fresh vegetables and fruits. If the gifts from gardens and vegetable gardens require heat treatment, then they should be boiled in lightly salted water and then cooled.
- Most baby recipes contain 2-3 main ingredients. A wide variety of products can be added to them: cheese, eggs, cottage cheese. But spices, with the exception of salt, should not be added to children's salads.
- Seasoning with mayonnaise is highly undesirable. It is better to use vegetable oil, sour cream or yogurt. For fruit options, you can use natural honey as a dressing.
- Children's salads should be prepared immediately before serving, a maximum of 10-15 minutes, if the dish needs to steep. There is no point in leaving “until next time.” It's better to cook fresh.
- The brighter and more interesting you decorate the dish, the more willingly the children will gobble it up. See design options.
Salad with seaweed
It’s rare that a child can be forced to eat seaweed. However, as part of the salad below, it goes with a bang! You need to prepare the following products for it:
- seaweed – 100 g;
- boiled potatoes – 2 pcs.;
- boiled egg – 2 pcs.;
- boiled meat or chicken – 100 g;
- grated hard cheese – 50 g;
- finely chopped onions and dill - to taste;
- sour cream – 3-4 tablespoons.
Grate vegetables, eggs and cheese on a shredder. Cut the meat into cubes and mix with onions and herbs. Add chopped vegetables. Add salt to taste and season with sour cream.
Bon appetit for both children and adults!
Fruit salad is a favorite on the children's table
Children will enjoy tasting a healthy fruit salad. But, however, it is more suitable as a dessert, so it is better to try it first so that the children eat vegetable and meat dishes, and then serve this one. Please note that it is better to add yogurt immediately before serving to prevent the ingredients from becoming soggy.
- bananas – 1 pc.;
- apples – 1 pc.;
- kiwi – 1 pc.
- orange – 1 pc.;
- natural yogurt - 2 tablespoons.
Cut the fruits into pieces, mix with each other and season with yogurt.
Little tricks
Any home celebration creates an upbeat and joyful mood, immersing everyone in an atmosphere of genuine fun. Especially if you don’t have to spend a lot of time preparing dishes and setting the table.
And any housewife wants not only to demonstrate her culinary abilities, but also to surprise her guests with a beautifully decorated table. And here salads will come to your aid again. Easy to decorate, they will become a bright highlight that will certainly be remembered.
Table decoration for the holiday
We are especially careful when choosing what we will prepare for the holiday table. We review the recipes in advance, decide on the final menu option, and draw up a list of necessary products.
And, undoubtedly, every housewife has a couple of recipes that must be prepared for a gala dinner. But even if these are the most ordinary Olivier and vinaigrette, you don’t need to give up the idea of preparing them if you decide to amaze everyone with an original presentation.
You just need to slightly decorate them, and you can be sure that your guests will definitely appreciate even these familiar dishes.
To make them not only tasty, but also spectacular, show imagination and ingenuity. Don't forget to be careful! Registration will not take much time, which will definitely work to your advantage. If you have enough time, you can try more complex decoration methods.
Such decorations can take more than twenty minutes the first time, so it is better to test them in advance and get used to them, especially if you are planning a complex composition. After several workouts, even complex elements will not take you more than ten minutes.
Pay attention to recipes with carved flowers and other figures made from the pulp of fruits and vegetables. Creating them will require some preparation, but the result is worth it.
You can give preference to simpler methods:
- You can even make a voluminous “rosette” from bacon or ham;
- for fruit dishes, use figuratively chopped kiwi or removed citrus zest;
- Another way to effectively serve salads is to focus not on the top decorations, but on the ingredients themselves. So, if it does not require stirring, then you can experiment with this.
For example, vegetable dishes will look advantageous if they are laid out in layers. The dressing can be placed nearby in a separate sauce boat or coated on top and sides of the formed dish. Use not only mayonnaise for this; sour cream and unsweetened yogurt are also great.
On top the composition can be completed with almonds, hazelnuts or pine nuts.
If nuts don’t suit your dish at all, then pomegranate seeds are an excellent substitute.
Or you can do without them by adding carved flowers from vegetables to the dish or laying out an edible design. Using parsley sprigs, radishes and chopped olives, you can create a fish and penguin, as in the following photo.
You can also experiment with volumetric molding. For example, winter dishes can be served in the form of forest cones, and seafood in the form of fish.
All of the above methods of decorating dishes are not the limit. It all depends only on your imagination!
Get creative and you'll come up with a variety of designs for the same salad, but for different occasions. Change shapes and come up with new unique recipes for decorating New Year's and everyday dishes. Each housewife will have all this differently, because everyone has their own vision of beauty.
One thing remains unchanged - the festive atmosphere and the good mood that beautifully decorated dishes bring. Whether you use these skills in everyday life or just on holidays is up to you.
On March 8
Learning how to decorate not only salads, but also other foods in interesting and unusual ways is not at all difficult: just be patient and spend a little free time. Coupled with a great desire, this will be enough. Having mastered even the simplest elements, you will be able to combine them in different ways and create many bright compositions.
There is no “ceiling” in this art; even after learning how to perform the most complex things, you can continue to move on, improve your skills and come up with new original ways to serve both salads and all other dishes for any occasion.
And you can pamper your family every day with a spectacular serving of a regular dinner, bringing the mood of celebration and magic into everyday life!
Vegetable salad with cauliflower
Even kids who don’t like cauliflower will eat this cauliflower option. He is good in appearance too. It will require the following ingredients:
- fresh tomato (can be replaced with sweet bell pepper) – 1 pc.;
- fresh cucumber – 1 pc.;
- boiled cauliflower – 50 g;
- lettuce leaves – 50 g;
- corn – 50 g;
- sour cream – 2 tablespoons.
Cut the vegetables into small cubes, chop the salad into thin strips. Mix the products, add corn, salt and sour cream.
Chicken salad for children
Little lovers of meat products will love this chicken salad. You can use boiled chicken breast or turkey fillet for it. In general, you need to stock up on the following products:
- boiled chicken breast or turkey fillet – 250-300 g;
- boiled carrots – 2 pcs.;
- boiled eggs – 2 pcs.;
- green peas – 2-3 tablespoons;
- chopped dill – 1 teaspoon;
- sour cream – 2-3 tablespoons.
Cut vegetables, eggs and meat ingredients into small cubes and mix. Add green peas to them and mix again. Salt the mixture, add dill and season with sour cream.
Fruit salads
Fruit salad is always a great snack idea. It will decorate any holiday table. In addition, the recipes for such salads are incredibly simple, and the ingredients can be found at any market or store. We offer you delicious fruit salad recipes that your guests will appreciate.
Fruit salad with persimmons
You will need one pear, two kiwis, one persimmon, three bananas, three hundred grams of blue grapes and two hundred and fifty milliliters of yogurt for dressing.
First, peel the kiwis, bananas and persimmons. Cut the pear in half and remove the core. All fruits are cut into slices. Grapes are added to them. Season the salad with yogurt. You can choose any yogurt you like. The salad is ready, bon appetit!
Fruit salad with pomegranate
You will need: two oranges, one banana, half a pomegranate, one apple, yogurt with any filling (two hundred grams). First, let's prepare the oranges, since they will serve as the “dishes” for the future salad. Cut the citrus fruits into two halves. Scoop out the pulp using a sharp small knife. Using scissors, you can beautifully shape the edges of the orange. When you have prepared the fruit “salad bowls”, let’s start cutting the ingredients. Remove the seeds and white membranes from the orange pulp. Cut it into cubes. Now peel the banana and cut it. Chop the apple last so that it does not have time to darken. Season the fruit slices with yogurt and mix all the ingredients. Transfer the salad to a fruit container. Decorate each serving with pomegranate seeds on top.
Fruit salad “Original”
Since all the recipes presented above are quite simple, we offer you one more complex one. To prepare this salad you will need one quarter cup of sugar, one teaspoon of chopped orange zest, one cup of orange juice, the pulp of one orange, a red apple, a large pear, a glass of seedless green grapes, a banana, half a glass of champagne or sparkling grape juice, leaves mint for decoration.
Combine sugar, orange zest and juice in a non-metallic bowl. Stir until the sugar is completely dissolved in the juice. Add finely chopped orange pulp, apple, pear and grapes to a bowl. Stir the fruit. Cover the bowl with cling film and place the salad in the refrigerator to cool. Leave it there for a few hours or overnight. Before serving, add champagne or grape juice to the salad (if the salad will be eaten not by children, but by their parents). Place the prepared salad among salad bowls. Decorate it with mint leaves.
As you can see, many recipes for a children's party are easy to implement. To do this you will need a little imagination and patience.
