Salad "Tulips" for the festive table

Salad "Tulips" will be an excellent decoration of any festive table and will give a good mood. From this article you will learn the secrets of cooking an unusual snack, as well as some of the most popular recipes of fillings.

Salad "Tulips" from tomatoes

The original snack, simulating spring flowers, looks very bright and attractive. To make it, you need these products:

• Small tomatoes (calculated by the number of servings).
• A bunch of green onions and dill.
• Four boiled eggs.
• One packet of processed cheese (perfectly suited, for example, "Friendship").
• One small bulb.
• Four cloves of garlic.
• Mayonnaise.
• Spices to taste.

First prepare the filling. For this, grind eggs, cheese and garlic on a grater, add chopped onions to them. Season with mayonnaise. When the salad is ready, you can do tomatoes:

• Wash them under running water and dry with a tissue.
• Using a knife, make incisions crosswise until the middle of the fruit.
• Extract the pulp and juice from a tomato with a teaspoon.
• Slightly bend the "petals" and fill the core with stuffing.

"Tulips" salad is almost ready. It remains to put on the dish feathers of green onions and dill so that they resemble stems and leaves of tulips. Over the greenery, place the stuffed tomatoes, giving the composition a bouquet of flowers.

Salad "Tulips". The recipe for a snack

This delicious and beautiful dish will surely attract the attention of your guests, and its taste will please even the most demanding gourmets. To prepare a filling, you will need to do the following:

• Take chilled crab sticks (240 grams) and cut them into thin rings.
• 200 grams of hard cheese, grate on a fine grater.
• Peel three cloves of garlic and pass them through the press.
• Mix all ingredients with mayonnaise.

Cut the tomatoes with a knife, remove the pulp from them and fill with salad. On the dish lay out the resulting buds, decorate them with herbs, sliced cucumber and smoked sausage.

Spring salad with shrimps

A beautiful and light dish will please the fair sex. For its preparation you need:

• Prepare tomatoes as described above.
• Boil three eggs and cut them into small cubes.
• 100 grams of soft cheese and fresh cucumber are also cut into cubes.
• Cut the boiled shrimp in half, and chop three cloves of garlic with a knife.
• Season the prepared ingredients with mayonnaise and mix well.

Fill the resulting tomato stuffing, put them on a dish and decorate with green onion feathers. "Tulips" salad is ready!

Appetizer with cottage cheese stuffing

To prepare for the festive table an original salad with spicy stuffing, you need:

• Select small elongated tomatoes, cut them and remove the core with a spoon.
• For a filling mix 200 grams of cottage cheese with greens of dill, salt, pepper and chopped garlic.
• Fill the workpieces.

Salad "Tulips" is made in various ways. For example, you can put it on a dish, having decorated with greens and vegetable slicing. But the most original variant of filing is in the form of real tulips in a small vase. For this you will need wooden skewers and green onion feathers according to the number of tomatoes. Gently place the skewer inside the arrow of the bow and nourish the "bud" on it. Do the same operation with the rest of the tomatoes and place the resulting flowers in a suitable bowl.

We hope that you and your guests will enjoy this original salad. If desired, you can make changes to your prescription or come up with a completely different stuffing. By the way, instead of red tomatoes yellow is quite suitable. You can generally replace them with small fruits of sweet pepper.