Cooking Lessons: Designing Vegetables

With the statement that the food should not only be tasty, but attractive, everyone will agree. Dishes served to the table should cause interest and appetite, prompt immediately to try it. That is why design is so important in culinary arts. The beautiful design of vegetable slicing is the subject of this article.

Learning to cut

The first way to serve a beautiful dish that will decorate a festive table, and also bring solemn notes on everyday life, is very simple. It is based on using different ways of cutting vegetables and laying them on a plate with an alternating color. For example, look great slices of cucumbers and tomatoes, decorated with sprigs of dill, parsley, lettuce leaves. Rings of sweet peppers of different colors enrich the palette. Such decoration of vegetable cuttings does not take much time. In addition, vegetables can be cut with knives, cut them not only with rings, but also with cubes, stripes.

Vegetable cutlets decoration : all ingenious is simple

How to give an ordinary dish a beautiful appearance? How to force a capricious child to eat healthy food and not look at the harmful? For example, lay out a dish in the form of some little creature, funny face, favorite character or something abstract. It used to be popular to give cakes the shape of a bear, a snowman, a Christmas tree or a typewriter. But this can be done in the case of salads. Place on a plate on a circle cucumbers, make eyes from olives, a mouth - from a tomato, a nose - from carrots, yellow pepper. Hair perfectly replaces a sprig of dill or curly parsley. Carrots can be cut in the form of flowers, which sit down bees (ringlets of olives and olives, alternating in color, create a body.)

Decoration of vegetable scraps with roses

Each plate with a sliced, 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, scarlet - from beets. In addition, this decor is edible, which will delight the children.

So, vegetable (if it's potatoes, then take it no longer young) cut into thin slices (1-1.5 mm). These will be petals and they should be thin and translucent. One plate should be slightly thicker: from it we cut brusochki (square in the basis) for the middle. Soak the future design of vegetable scraps in cold water with a pinch of salt for two or three hours. Together with potato slices soak small toothpicks. Next, take a series of petals and twist them neatly around the central bud (brusochka), each in the other direction. We fasten the toothpick, slightly turn the edges of the petals and let it drain off. Fry this piece of art you need in a lot of hot vegetable oil. We drop the rose head down and do not let it lie on the barrel. We take out of the deep-fryer when the petals are opened and will acquire a golden hue. We put on a paper napkin, salt, we take out a toothpick. Such a masterpiece is sure to attract the guests' attention to your dish.

Other decor elements

Having at hand a special set of knives for carving figurines from fruits and vegetables (this art is called carving), you can create really something extraordinary. The foundations of it were born in the seventeenth century, and now it is a very fashionable hobby. Making vegetable cuttings for a carver is a pleasure. You can create dahlias from carrots, turnips or potatoes, chrysanthemums from Peking cabbage, cucumber lilies, hot pepper feces, and even a whole aquarium with colorful fish.

Try and you decorate your table with bright figures, unusual colors, intricate patterns. You will like not only the result, which will be better with each next time, but the very process of work. This is a real creativity, which requires inspiration and imagination.