A fruit plate is served at the dessert table, after the main meal. The guests were already full at that time, and you need to try to re-boost their appetite. A person is still ready to absorb food with his “eyes”, so you need to beautifully arrange a fruit plate, appealing to aesthetic feelings. As for kiwi, this fruit can hardly be called attractive. Bronze-colored, fleecy, it resembles a dirty tennis ball. And if the whole kiwi is served, then most likely the guests will leave it on the platter, preferring to enjoy more beautiful clusters of grapes, bright strawberries and cherries, juicy citrus fruits. Yes, and it’s hard to eat Chinese gooseberries (this is also called this berry) without a knife and a spoon. In this article, we will talk about how to beautifully cut kiwi on the table so that the guests' hands themselves reach for soft green or amber slices.
The easiest way is to peel
Chinese gooseberries are edible whole. But many people do not like the “shaggy” peel of this fruit. This method is suitable if you are thinking of treating your friends only to kiwi. Then you need to provide each eater with a dessert plate and a teaspoon. Despite the fact that the peel is not supposed to be eaten, before you cut the kiwi beautifully, the fruits need to be thoroughly washed, dried with a towel and allowed to dry. We put the Chinese gooseberries on the board and use a sharp knife to cut it in half across. So do with all the fruits. We put the halves on a flat dish with the cuts up and serve. Each guest takes a piece on his plate and eats up the pulp with a spoon, like a soft-boiled egg. Cups of skins remain on the plate.
Fruit sliced
Now consider the option when other fruits will coexist with kiwi. Is it appropriate to pile everything together? What kind of fruit is combined with and what kind of Chinese gooseberry is not? In this case, color compatibility must be observed. In order for the sliced ​​dish to look aesthetically pleasing, green kiwi slices should be laid out next to the warm gamut fruits - red or yellow. Thus, a red apple, oranges, tangerines, bananas, papaya, mangoes and pomegranate grains will be suitable for the fetus in the nearest neighbors. You should not put next to kiwi blue grapes and green fruits - pear, melon.
Perhaps the neighborhood of white fruits - peeled banana, apples, pineapple. How to chop beautifully kiwi fruit plate? The peel can be left. A bronze bezel will add color to the overall picture. And if you want to get rid of the peel, you should know a few secrets.
Pull out the flesh
Of course, the first thing that comes to mind is to peel a kiwi with a knife, like an apple or potato. But in this case, you will leave a lot of pulp. And the surface of the fetus will not be smooth. How to chop kiwi beautifully? Dip each fruit in very hot water for 30 seconds. Or just pour boiling water over the fruit. This will kill the bacteria on the skin, and the flesh will be better separated from the skin. With a sharp knife, cut off both ends of the fetus. Take a spoon and squeeze it between the pulp and the skin. We begin to drive it in a circle, separating more and more fruit from the skin. We make several longitudinal cuts from one cut tip to another. We bend the skin so that it is easier to remove the flesh. And here we have a whole peeled kiwi that looks like a green egg. Carving masters prefer to leave the peel, giving it the shape of leaves located around an exotic greenish-pale pulp flower.
Canapes decoration
The fruit has a delicious sour taste. Therefore, they are often decorated with canapes, which are served on skewers. For such a dish, kiwi is peeled. To decorate canapes, you should know a few rules. Kiwi juicy flesh should not touch the sandwich itself. The buffer between them is often hard cheese or a grape berry. And on top, at the handle of the skewer, it is appropriate to put some orange fruit to give the dish a bright, catchy look. Most often, such an citrus is an orange. Its sweet taste is in harmony with kiwi. The cheese is cut into large cubes. The grape is pierced lengthwise with a skewer. And how beautifully cut an orange and kiwi? If you do not have a slider that guarantees you even pieces that are verified to a millimeter, use an ordinary knife. Peel an orange and kiwi. Cut them into thin circles. Divide each kiwi disc into four parts. From the orange, moving along the fibers, if possible, cut the same segment.
Cheese plate
The French love these desserts! But it is important to know which fruits are suitable for cheeses. Grapes are suitable for blue varieties. Blue cheeses love the orange neighborhood. “Brie” and “Camembert” are served with crispy apples. Pear is a versatile fruit and fits any variety. But kiwi, as well as pineapple and soft berries, only want hard cheeses next to them. Serve it with gouda, edam, parmesan, maasdam. How to beautifully cut a kiwi for a cheese plate? You can simply serve thin plates of unpeeled fruit. And if you freed the kiwi from the skin, then cut it into eight parts. There is another option of how to effectively serve the cheese - “kebabs”. By the way, fruit slices can also be placed on such skewers.
How beautifully cut a kiwi into a cake
The pulp of Chinese gooseberries is ideal for decorating pastries. She does not let juice like berries, and does not crunch on her teeth like apples. The green color of kiwi gives the cakes an exotic and elegant look. It is only important to know how beautifully chop the kiwi. Photos of culinary masterpieces will help to make an idea about this. Unrefined thin slices of kiwi are appropriate on the cake only when you are going to make a rose from the fruit. Then the dark strip at the tips of the petals will make the flower more voluminous. In all other cases, the kiwi must be cleaned.
The participation of the peel in decorating the top of the cake is allowed. So, it can serve as the foot of a calyx or leaves. But if the cake is made for children, it is better to remove the hard peel completely. Kids are very fond of unusual shades in dishes. Therefore, green kiwi will be very useful. Fruit can decorate the "crown of the palm." Chinese gooseberries are also suitable for creating green animals - a crocodile, a frog.
How beautifully chopped kiwi for the holiday
To give the dish an elegant look, it is not enough to chop the fruit in even slices. You can create whole compositions from fruits. Are you ignorant of the art of carving? You can start with simple figures. And a plastic kiwi will help take the first steps in carving. Here's how to make a flower.
The raw fruit is cut across. In each half, we make eight deep straight cuts from the center to the edges. Then - eight more, but already a little diagonally. So the petals come out. At the center, the incisions should be slightly visible, and at the skin deep. When something weakly resembles a flower lies in your palm, do not worry. Gently bend the skin at the edges of the petals. This will be another layer of flower. The middle of a kiwi is white in black grains. With a light movement of the knife we ​​make a cone-shaped recess in the pulp and insert the red cranberries there.