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Don’t lose sight of the recipe you made in the first place! Any garnish on the plate should be edible and should enhance the flavor of the main dishes. Grilled salmon might be served with a lemon wedge, for example. Garnishes, like the cut-up fruit with the fried egg below, are also a great way to add color or texture.
This Chicken Stir-fry with Broccoli looks more interesting because of the high mound of rice sitting next to it.
Don’t be strange, but things generally look more interesting when they’re in sets of odd numbers, rather than even numbers.
Scrambled egg in Manhattan plate
Deviled egg
Hard-boiled egg
Egg in sandwich
Fried egg with bacon and toasted bread
Scrambled eggs with herbs
Scrambled egg and bun on a plate with cereal bread
Boiled eggs on white plate with garnish
Just like with centerpieces, it’s good to have a little bit of height, but don’t overdo it or your guests won’t know how to proceed! If you have a mound of mashed potatoes (mid-height), you may want to lean your pork chop against it so that it is standing up (high), with a row of snow peas (low) in front. Or, top some rice (low) with sliced grilled chicken (cut into a few diagonal slices, and fan them out) (mid-height) and cross asparagus over top of it (high).
A fool proof way to arrange food on a plate is to place the carbohydrate (rice, pasta, bread, etc.) at “11 o’clock,” the vegetables at “2 o’clock,” and the protein at “6 o’clock” from the diner’s point of view.
Your day-today meals might be free-for-all, but if you’ve got guests coming over, it’s nice to have the knives and forks in the right places.
Make sure your serving plates are big enough to let each food item stand out, but small enough that the portions don’t look tiny.
- to identify simple ways of presenting dishes;
- to know different techniques in presenting egg dishes;