haha ha sarada wo sara ni kirei ni moritukete kara, watasi ni dasimasu.

は marks 母 as the topic: As for my mother, ...

In this sentence, the speaker is talking about what their mother does, so 母は sounds natural.

If you used が, it would put more focus on mother as the specific doer of the action, as if answering Who does this?
So:

• 母は = speaking about mother as the topic
• 母が = emphasizing that mother is the one who does it

Both can be grammatical in the right context, but は is the more neutral choice here.

When Japanese speakers talk about their own family to someone outside the family, they often use plain forms like:

• 母 = my mother
• 父 = my father

Using お母さん for your own mother in this kind of sentence can sound less natural in standard usage, because お母さん is more often used:

• when addressing your mother directly
• when referring to someone else’s mother
• in casual family speech

So 母は is the normal way to say my mother in this kind of statement.

They do different jobs.

• 皿に: onto/on the plate
  Here, に marks the place/result location where the salad is arranged.
• 私に: to me
  Here, に marks the recipient of 出します.

So even though both are に, they are not the same meaning.

You can think of it like this:

• サラダを皿に盛り付ける = arrange the salad on a plate
• 私に出す = serve it to me

Because サラダ is the direct object of 盛り付けて.

The core action is:

• サラダを盛り付ける = to plate/arrange the salad

So を marks the thing being handled in that action.

Even though 出します also involves the salad, Japanese often does not repeat the object if it is already understood. So the salad is explicitly marked once with を, then understood again later with 出します.

Because きれい is modifying the verb 盛り付けて, not a noun.

• きれいな is used before a noun
  
  • きれいな皿 = a pretty/clean plate
• きれいに is used adverbially, to describe how something is done
  
  • きれいに盛り付ける = arrange/plate nicely

So here きれいに means something like:

• neatly
• beautifully
• nicely

It describes the manner of plating.

It is:

• 盛り付けて = the て-form of 盛り付ける
• から = after

Together, Vてから means after doing V.

So:

• 盛り付けてから、私に出します
• After plating it nicely, she serves it to me

This structure usually shows that the first action happens before the second action.

No. It is the same word in form, but a different grammar use.

Here, から comes after a て-form verb:

• 盛り付けてから

That pattern means after doing ...

Compare:

• お腹がすいたから、食べます。
  Because I’m hungry, I eat.
• 手を洗ってから、食べます。
  I eat after washing my hands.

So in your sentence, から is temporal, not causal.

The object is omitted because it is already obvious from context.

The sentence first mentions:

• サラダを ...

Then later:

• 私に出します = serves it to me

Japanese often leaves out words that are understood. Here, the omitted object is naturally the salad.

If you said everything explicitly, it could be something like:

• 母はサラダを皿にきれいに盛り付けてから、私にサラダを出します。

But that sounds repetitive, so the object is normally omitted.

In many contexts, 出す means to take out or to put out, but here it means to serve food.

Japanese verbs often have a range of related meanings depending on context. With food, 出す commonly means:

• to serve
• to bring out
• to place before someone

So:

• 私に出します = she serves it to me

This is a very natural use of 出す in meal-related contexts.

The Japanese non-past form can be used for several things, including:

• present/future
• habitual actions
• general descriptions
• narrative style

So 出します does not have to mean only will serve. Depending on context, it can mean:

• she serves it to me regularly
• she will serve it to me
• a neutral step in a described sequence

If the speaker were describing one completed past event, they might say:

• 母はサラダを皿にきれいに盛り付けてから、私に出しました。

That would clearly mean served in the past.

Yes, but the nuance changes a little.

• 皿に盛り付ける is the normal, natural expression for plate it on a dish/plate
• 皿の上に盛り付ける is more explicit: arrange it on top of the plate

In many everyday situations, 皿に is enough and sounds smoother. Japanese often prefers the simpler form unless extra emphasis on physical position is needed.

They are quite different.

• 入れる = put in / place into
• 盛り付ける = arrange or plate food attractively

So:

• サラダを皿に入れる = put the salad onto the plate
• サラダを皿に盛り付ける = plate the salad nicely

Because the sentence also has きれいに, 盛り付ける is especially appropriate: it suggests care in presentation, not just moving the food.

The comma is mainly there to make the sentence easier to read and to show a pause between the two actions:

• first: 盛り付けてから
• second: 私に出します

Japanese commas are often flexible. This comma helps separate the after doing X part from the main action. It is natural here, but in some writing styles it might be omitted.

No. Normal Japanese writing usually does not use spaces between words.

So this would normally be written as:

母はサラダを皿にきれいに盛り付けてから、私に出します。

The spaces in your version are probably just there to help learners see the parts more clearly.