The hostess can serve the salad “like in a restaurant” - 3 step-by-step methods with photos

What to do if you don’t have a serving ring at home, but you want to make the salad presentation spectacular? How to replace such a useful device? Let's look at all the possible methods using scrap materials that are easy to do yourself.

From a plastic bottle

Almost all of us have a certain amount of plastic bottles accumulated in our kitchen. You can use them to make a ring for beautiful presentation of salad.

Using this method, you can get an exclusively round lettuce ring.

Step-by-step instruction:

We will need a bottle of any drink and scissors:

The ideal bottle volume is 2 liters or 1.5 liters. When using liter (or even smaller volume) bottles, the salad ring turns out to be very small.

Carefully cut out the ring from the bottle with scissors:

It is best to do this in the place where the label is, having first removed it.

We made a ring about 4 cm high. The culinary ring comes without a bottom, which is very convenient when you need to remove the mold.

We check by placing the salad inside the ring:

A homemade serving ring did the job perfectly. The salad holds its shape:

Advantages of the method:

• Due to the lack of a bottom, the ring is easy to remove
• The ring is easy to wash
• An easy-to-follow method
• No bottom for lettuce to stick to
• Reusable

Disadvantages of this method:

• Can only be “taken out” in the vertical direction

From plastic or tin packaging

One of the easiest ways is to use a form of packaging, such as cream cheese, butter or canned food. If there are no plastic bottles in the kitchen because you don’t buy bottled drinks, then there will probably be some packaging that is no longer needed to use this method.

Many people use canning jars to make a serving ring. We do not recommend using this method, and here's why:

• Very easy to cut, even after numerous uses as a serving ring;
• Tin cans most often have only a round shape;
• When “removing” it from the salad, it can get caught on the sharp edge and ruin the salad layout;
• Often cans have to be washed for a long time to get rid of the smell.

Step-by-step instruction:

We used plastic packaging from eaten curd cheese:

It has an oval shape with smoothly rounded edges and a depth of about one and a half to two centimeters.

Fill the plastic form with salad so that there are no empty cavities:

Cover the top with a plate. Turn it over. And remove the plastic packaging:

Happened! The shape of the salad holds perfectly and does not crumble in different directions.

Advantages of the method:

• Almost nothing needs to be done - just wash the plastic mold
• Reusable

Disadvantages of this method:

• There is a bottom to which the lettuce can “stick”

Made from aluminum foil

You can also make a serving ring using ordinary foil. It is always present in the kitchen of housewives who love to bake various dishes or baked goods in the oven. To do this, we only need foil and a mold around which we will wrap our ring.

You can use any shape: round, triangular, oval, square, rectangular.

For variety, we'll take a square shape.

Step-by-step instruction:

So, we need the actual foil and form:

We took foil about 50 centimeters long. Fold the foil to a strip 5 centimeters wide and leave a “seam” in the middle:

We begin to wrap the square shape with foil so that the “seam” is on the outside:

The seam on the outside is needed to hide the remaining length of the foil there:

The foil serving ring should fit snugly around the pan itself:

Let's check. We release the foil ring from the mold around which we wrapped the mold. Place the puff salad into the resulting serving ring:

Carefully remove the ring. This can be done in two ways:

• Carefully pull up;
• “Untie” using the seam we made from the outside.

The shape of the salad is maintained:

This means that this method can be used successfully.

Advantages of the method:

• Can be opened in any direction, maintaining the salad look

Disadvantages of this method:

• Relative difficulty of execution
• One time use only

Due to the lack of a serving ring, and if you want to serve the salad no worse than in a restaurant, you can resort to several methods and make it yourself. Which method to choose for you personally is decided by assessing the advantages and disadvantages of the method, as well as the availability of the necessary tools.