Beautifully cut vegetables can be not only for a festive feast. You can also please your family during a family dinner. Everyone knows how hard it is to make children eat healthy vegetables. However, if the dish is brightly and unusually decorated, then even the most capricious kid will surely try a product rich in vitamins.
To cut vegetables nicely, you do not have to be a carving master. Simply put the pieces on a large plate, creating the shape of an animal or fish, place the slices in a circle, laying out circles of vegetables in a color scheme. To create masterpieces you will need a sharp knife and creative ideas.
The article presents several options for how to beautifully cut vegetables to the table. The photographs show how the finished dishes should look. So get to work with us.
Cucumber flowers
Before you cut the vegetables nicely on the table, you need to thoroughly wash them, clean the stalk. The photo below shows that the cucumbers are cut into thin slices. In each element there are 7 cuts, but they are performed without reaching the lateral edge so that the flower does not fall apart into separate parts.
Before creating such flowers, you need to cut the cucumber in half in length. And when all the details are prepared, thin layers are bent through one. The first remains in place, and the 2nd, 4th and 6th slices are folded with a loop. Flowers are laid out on a dish, and the stems and leaves for them can be created from the feathers of green onions.
Vegetable carving
You can beautifully cut vegetables with a special carving knife. The photo below shows that roses are cut from carrots, radishes and white large radishes. Cut vegetables figuratively - this is a painstaking and tidy business that requires perseverance.
If you don’t have any special knives on the farm, you can search the husband’s tools for a corner chisel or a tool for carving wood. Some even use a sharp small knife.
It is easy to create beautiful elements by cutting small leaves on the peel of a cucumber. Petals on vegetables are not cut in a semicircle to the end, so that the part does not fall off. You can practice in advance, before the arrival of guests. Even if you do not succeed right away, you can eat unsuccessful crafts.
Fish shaped dish
If you do not consider yourself a master of carving, then do not worry that you do not know how to cut vegetables beautifully. The photo posted in the article proves that you can make a salad beautiful without artistic abilities.
Prepare a large oval dish. Just wash the small vegetables, such as cherry tomatoes and carrots, and peel the carrots as well. After processing, divide the broccoli cabbage into inflorescences. Cut the remaining vegetables in even circles.
You need to lay them out in layers on a dish, as shown in the photo. The tail of the fish is made from thin strips of salad pepper.
Serving children
For children, you can beautifully serve vegetables in the form of a train. His trailers are made from large peeled salad peppers. Wheels can be cut from any rounded vegetables - radishes, carrots or cucumbers. Vegetables cut into thin strips are placed in the "trailers". You need to choose your favorite foods for children.
It can be tomatoes, radish, strips of carrots or cucumber, green peas.
There are many ways to fantasize with vegetables. The main thing is to want to surprise your guests and family members.