No banquet, home feast, children's party can do without fruit. And they lie washed and rosy on a dish all evening. After all, no one will bite on a whole apple or peel an orange - this is inconvenient, it takes up a lot of precious holiday time, spoils makeup, manicure, leaves spots on the shirt and much more ...
Even if you spread, peel, cut, and simply put the sliced fruits in a plate, they will most likely not attract much attention. Moreover, without proper treatment, they will quickly fade, dry out, darken, and then, be sure, no one will touch them. What awaits them? Bin? Compote? But fruits are not cheap now ...
To save food, money and mood will help bright, beautiful and proper design of fruit slices!
Fruit sliced
Or a fruit plate, and also called fruit platter. If you give free rein to imagination, come up with and embody some kind of plot, then even without special decorative cutting skills your dish with light and such healthy fruits can become the “highlight” of the table and even replace the cake!
Beautiful design of fruit slices depends mainly on the idea. The plate can be absolutely abstract, fantasy or thematic. That is, on March 8, you can make a bouquet of fruits, on the New Year - a Christmas tree, and on a child’s birthday - a boat or teddy bears. Everything is very individual here.
But in any case, the design of fruit slices requires compliance with certain rules.
How to handle fruit
We list a few rules and recommendations, observing and applying which, you will be able to preserve the fruits, their attractive appearance and make a dish that will enjoy stunning success among the guests.
Making fruit slices begins with the acquisition of fruit. This is the very first and most important stage. Choose beautiful, healthy, ripe fruits and berries. If the festival will be in a day or two, then you need to buy slightly unripe fruits. Carefully inspect each fruit for its shape, integrity of the peel and the presence of spots on it - everything should be perfect. It’s like a selection for the guard at the Mausoleum, because your fruits have to stand on the table for several hours and at the same time not lose their “face”! Find worthy!
Making fruit slices should be the very last action. When everything is ready, even a table is served and bread is sliced. When a drop of perfume has already fallen on your wrist, and the guests will be just about, leave it for twenty or thirty minutes and go in for fruit. In contact with the air, the fruit pulp begins to quickly darken, so we cook the slices last, so as to preserve the "salable" appearance of the dish for as long as possible. To correct the situation and extend the life of fruits, lemon juice will help, getting to the surface, it inhibits the oxidation process. When everything is done, you need to sprinkle the fruit with lemon juice.
In order to cut the fruits thinly and delicately, you will need a very sharp knife, this should be taken care of in advance. If the dish is large or you are planning several fruit plates, then you will need several sharp knives to save time on sharpening. Despite the apparent fragility, the fruit peel quickly blunts the blade.
Remember about the pre-processing of berries and fruits, it must be very careful so as not to spoil your mood and health for you and your guests.
It is better not to cut all the fruits at once. Put one or two small plates with assorted dishes, as you empty, you will supplement them with fresh fruits.
Here are the basic rules, the careful implementation of which will require you to arrange fruit slices.
How to chop fruit
Methods and forms for slicing fruit mass. The main rule is, in addition to beauty, ease of consumption. That is, the slice from the cut should be such that it can simply be taken and sent entirely to the mouth. At the same time, a person should not look ridiculous or ridiculous (with a mouth full and a trickle of juice flowing from it). This is an ideal option.
The shape of the cut determines the density of the pulp. The harder it is, the more clear and tough the shape can hold. For example, cut into cubes, slices, flowers, leaves, you can apple, pineapple, hard varieties of pears, etc. This number will not work with an orange.
Citrus fruits (and other “soft” fruits) are often cut into slices, slices, or “torn” into slices when peeled.
If you enter into a rage, and your art requires deeper skills and knowledge, then you can use various devices for slicing, grater, chopping fruit. This process is called carving. Tools for it can be found in tableware stores. With the help of them you will be able to create real masterpieces. Making fruit cuts can be a wonderful hobby or a new profession.
Making sliced fruit. Photo
In order for the fruits on the table to look appetizing and spectacular, you need a little time, a lot of desire and imagination. Look at various examples, draw inspiration from them.
For example, we suggest you try to make such a spectacular Christmas tree. Take a large, strong carrot for the trunk, wash, peel and with a knife align (cut a little) the widest part. So that the carrots can be put on a plate. Then take the toothpicks and stick into the carrots on all sides (the more toothpicks, the fluffier the tree). String them with pieces of fruit and berries. Cut the star with a knife or using a mold. For greater resemblance to the Christmas tree, make the upper "branches" shorter, and the pieces of fruit smaller on them, gradually increasing them downwards.
Fruit slices for children. Photo
The abundance of sweets brought fruits for modern children to a very low level. But not one peanut will refuse the fruits and berries prepared in such an ingenious way! So, we begin to conjure ...
These wonderful magic wands from watermelon and pineapple can be made with only two shapes for clipping - stars of different sizes.
Using the cutters, cut the stars out of the pulp of the watermelon and pineapple. As many as you are going to make sticks.
Insert one star into another by combining colors. You can attract your child to this fascinating process. Then put the stars on bright sticks or straws for cocktails, which can previously be decorated with berries. Everything - a small miracle is ready for your table!