Ornamental Vegetable Cutting: Decorating a Festive Table

A beautiful, aesthetically seasoned table setting is a real art. After all, the hostess needs to consider a number of nuances: the selection of dishes, which should be in harmony with the tablecloth and napkins, decanters and glasses; A convenient arrangement of dishes that all sitting at a table it was convenient to reach them; Color range of vegetables exhibited, etc. Here we will talk about vegetable cuttings.

Garden carving

What can be a vegetable sliced? Its design depends on the season and on the products used. But, of course, cucumbers and tomatoes, naturally fresh, are always exhibited. We'll start with them.

• Cut cucumbers oval, thin slices. Tomatoes it is desirable to take two varieties - red and yellow. Just try to take firm fruits, fleshy and not very juicy - otherwise the vegetable sliced, the design of which you do, will flow and lose its presentation. Cut tomatoes with mugs or slices. Then spread the vegetables with a fan, alternating layers and colors. It will turn out very brightly, radiantly, cheerfully. Of course, you need to cut before serving to the table. You can sprinkle vegetables and sprinkle with finely chopped dill or parsley.
• Interesting and delicious will be a vegetable sliced, the design of which will be complemented by a grated carrot, sprinkled with vinegar and pepper. It can be laid out on salad leaves and placed next to the tomato cucumber varicoloured. This "salad" is prepared at any time of the year and is always eaten with pleasure.
• Effectively and festively looks from a radish vegetable slicing. Its appearance looks like this: the root crop is released from the tails and cut with special knives ribbon-like. For the dishes put a coterie of cucumbers, 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 transferred with "rays" or petals of Bulgarian pepper - red and orange, yellow. Drop a little mayonnaise on them or squeeze out "stripes" from the tube. Very tasty and appetizing!
• As decorative elements for decorating dishes are used very widely feathers onions and other greens. For example, chop the cabbage with thin straws, squeeze a bit and put it on the plates. Slightly lightly vinegar. To stab twigs of parsley - you will get a fun, gentle, green slide, like a clearing in the forest.
• Fantasizing how to make a vegetable cut, do not forget about olives and olives. They not only stimulate the appetite and promote the digestive processes, but also are very suitable for different variants of vegetable carving. Spread out pieces of vegetables can be in a circle, spiraling, imitating sea stars, in the form of small flower beds, etc. And the slides of olives and olives can be picturesquely placed between them. Everyone who sits at the table will gladly send a "berry" into his mouth, another, and at the same time he will pick up vegetable ingredients.
• Do not forget the main rule of the design of the table: near the dishes and plates with cuts, there must necessarily be solyonets, sirloin with spices, vinegar, mustard, horseradish. You can make special dressing sauces, put mayonnaise and ketchup. After all, the essence of slicing is that everyone who wants takes exactly those vegetables that he wants, and then tucked them into his own taste.

Come up with your own design options, create. And good luck to you!