Everyone will agree with the statement that food should be not only tasty, but also attractive. Dishes served to the table should cause interest and appetite, prompt them to try it immediately. That is why design is so important in culinary art. Beautiful design of sliced vegetables is the topic of this article.
Learning to chop
The first way to serve a beautiful dish that will decorate the festive table, as well as bring solemn notes on weekdays, is very simple. It is based on the use of different methods of cutting vegetables and putting them on a plate with alternating colors. For example, slices of cucumbers and tomatoes, decorated with sprigs of dill, parsley, lettuce, look great. Sweet pepper rings of different colors enrich the palette. This design of vegetable slices does not take much time. In addition, vegetables can be cut with curly knives, cut them not only into rings, but also into cubes and strips.
Decoration of vegetable cuts: everything ingenious is simple
How to give an ordinary dish a beautiful appearance? How to make a capricious child eat healthy food and not look at bad food? For example, lay out a dish in the form of some kind of animal, a funny face, a favorite character, or something abstract at all. It used to be popular to shape the cakes with a teddy bear, a snowman, a Christmas tree, or a toy car. But this can be done in the case of salads. Arrange the cucumbers on a plate in a circle, make the eyes of olives, a mouth of tomato, a nose of carrot, yellow pepper. Hair perfectly replaced by a sprig of dill or curly parsley. Carrots can be cut in the form of flowers on which the bees sit (rings of olives and olives, alternating in color, create a little body.)
Making vegetable cuts with roses
Each sliced plate, whether it is vegetable, meat or cheese, can be decorated with outlandish flowers from improvised products. For example, you can make a white rose from turnips or potatoes, and a scarlet one from beets. In addition, this decor is edible, which will delight the children.
So, a vegetable (if it’s a potato, then take a middle-aged one), cut into thin slices (1-1.5 mm). These will be the petals and they should be thin and translucent. One plate should be a little thicker: we cut cubes from it (the square at the base) for the middle. Soak the future design of vegetable slices in cold water with a pinch of salt for two to three hours. Soak the small toothpicks together with the potato slices. Next, we take the petals in turn and gently twist them around the central bud (block), each in the other direction. We fix with a toothpick, slightly unscrew the edges of the petals and let the water drain. It is necessary to fry this work of art in a large amount of hot vegetable oil. We lower the rose head down and do not let it lie on the barrel. We take out from deep fat when the petals open and acquire a golden hue. We put on a paper towel, salt, take out a toothpick. Such a masterpiece will surely attract the attention of guests to your dish.
Other decorative elements
Having at hand a special set of knives for cutting figures from fruits and vegetables (this art is called carving), you can really create something extraordinary. The basics of it originated in the seventeenth century, and now it is a very fashionable hobby. Making vegetable slices for carver is a pleasure. You can create dahlias from carrots, turnips or potatoes, chrysanthemums from Beijing cabbage, lilies from cucumbers, feces from hot peppers, and even an entire aquarium with colorful fish.
Try and you decorate your table with colorful figures, unusual colors, intricate patterns. You will like not only the result, which will be better with each next time, but also the process of work. After all, this is real creativity, requiring inspiration and imagination.