Beautiful, aesthetically designed table setting is a real art. After all, the hostess needs to take into account many nuances: the selection of dishes, which should be in harmony with the tablecloth and napkins, decanters and glasses; convenient arrangement of dishes, so that everyone sitting at the table was comfortable to reach them; the color gamut of vegetables displayed, etc. Here we will talk about vegetable slices.
Garden carving
What can be a
vegetable cut? Its design depends on the season and on the products used. But, of course, cucumbers and tomatoes, naturally fresh, are always exhibited. Let's start with them.
- Cut the cucumbers oval, into thin slices. It is advisable to take tomatoes of two varieties - red and yellow. Just try to take hard fruits, fleshy and not very juicy - otherwise the vegetable cut, the design of which you make, will flow and lose its presentation. Cut tomatoes in circles or slices. Then fan the vegetables, alternating layers and colors. It will turn out very bright, rosy, cheerful. Of course, slicing should be done before serving. You can add a little salt to the vegetables and sprinkle with finely chopped dill or parsley.
- Vegetable slices will turn out interesting and tasty, the design of which will be supplemented with grated carrots, sprinkled with vinegar and pepper. It can be laid out on lettuce leaves and placed next to the tomato-cucumber blossom. Such a “salad” is prepared at any time of the year and is always eaten with pleasure.
- Vegetable slices look spectacularly and festively from radishes. Its design looks like this: the root crop is freed from its tails and cut with tape using special knives. Mugs of cucumbers are placed on the dishes, and on them, in the form of roses, radishes. It turns out a wonderful flower arrangement. No less beautiful vegetable slicing will be obtained if the radish is cut into circles and shifted with "rays" or petals of bell pepper - red and orange, yellow. Drop a little mayonnaise on them or squeeze out a strip of tube. Very tasty and appetizing!
- As decorative elements for the decoration of dishes , onion feathers and other greens are used very widely. For example, chop the cabbage with a thin straw, crush a little and put it on a plate with a slide. Lightly season with vinegar. To stick parsley branches - you get a cheerful tender green hill, like a clearing in the forest.
- When imagining how to arrange a vegetable cut, do not forget about olives and olives. They not only stimulate appetite and promote digestive processes, but are also very suitable for different types of vegetable carving. You can lay out slices of vegetables in a circle, spiral, imitating starfish, in the form of small flower beds, etc. And slides of olives and olives can be picturesquely arranged between them. Everyone who sits at the table will gladly send a “berry” —other, and at the same time chop vegetable ingredients onto the fork.
- Do not forget the main rule of table design: near dishes and plates with slices, there must be standing solnitsa, pans with seasonings, vinegar, mustard, horseradish. You can make special dressing sauces, put mayonnaise and ketchup. After all, the essence of cutting is that everyone wants to take exactly those vegetables that he wants, and then season them to his taste.
Think up your options for the design of dishes, create. And good luck!