Fruit slicing on the festive table: many options

Compulsory decoration of any festive feast is fruit. Assorted from them serve for cold appetizers at the very beginning of the gala dinner, and for dessert, and for cognacs and wines. Very good fruit together with cheeses. Will add beauty fresh flowers. Fruit slicing on a festive table, served with a fantasy, improves appetite improves and improves mood. And, of course, a big plus is that any food in combination with fruits is digested much better.

It is not so difficult to prepare fruit sliced. Photos in culinary publications will certainly awaken your imagination. Experience here is not so important as ordinary accuracy. If the makings of a sculptor and a designer is not enough, you can simply string pieces of various fruits and berries on skewers. It will be original and beautiful.

The main thing is to feel the combination of shape, color and taste. In addition, you can sprinkle fruit sliced with powdered sugar, pour a thin stream of melted chocolate, apply ice cream balls to this, use mint sprigs to decorate it, which is perfectly combined with any fruit.

Selection of fruit for slicing

Fruits and berries should be absolutely fresh and ripe. Fruit slicing is prepared on the festive table just before the arrival of guests. From contact with the air, many fruits lose their original and festive appearance. Apples, pears, avocados can be sprinkled with lemon juice, so as not to darken. Sugar powder in this case will help neutralize the acid.

How to cut fruit

For full picturesqueness, the plate, in which the fruit sliced on the festive table is served , should be quite spacious. And the fruit in it is better to put a variety of shapes, contrasting colors and taste. To cut them it is necessary in every possible way: slices, brusochki, circles, asterisks, hearts, slices and so on. For example, you can Mug orange and grapefruit lay flat on the edge of the plate, and inside the circle pour berries of raspberries, strawberries, blueberries, blueberries. This is the simplest. More interesting is another fruit slicing, decoration (photo attached) which is made in the form of a fairy-tale tree, where fruits and berries are used most accessible by our times: pears, apples, grapes, raspberries and blueberries. Inexpensive, and the effect is stunning. It's not so important whether it's a pompous banana-pineapple palm tree two meters high or a modest ceramic vase (photo attached too), in which, with simplicity bordering on naivety, fruit and berries are laid out without any landscapes and portraits. In any form, a good variety of fruit sliced on a festive table is good, it can contain kiwi, orange, banana, grapefruit, peach, green, yellow, red apple. Perfectly complemented by a plate of strawberries and strawberries, grapes and blueberries, nuts.

Fruit slicing on a festive table: practical advice

First we'll cut pineapple . To make it beautiful, you need to twist gently tailgate, cut pineapple in half, carefully cut the edible middle, so as not to damage the very inedible "boat." Seretinka cut into pieces, return them to the cleaned cavity of pineapple, adding some other berries and pieces of other fruits.

Now cut the orange. There are lots of options for effective filing. But most of them are concerned with the processing of the peel, from which, with the help of a knife, baskets, flowers and so on are made. Many people think that the orange is the most delicious in lobules cleared from the films. These lobules can also be a component of decorating a fruit plate. It is most convenient, of course, to work with apples, they do not have as much juice as in orange, pineapple, pear, but one thing is bad - they darken. Sprinkling sliced apple apples with lemon juice, you can be calm for appearance. But they taste lemon.