A striking accent of any table is vegetable slicing. There are many ways to serve this tasty and healthy snack, which both a novice cook and a carving master can handle.
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Vegetable cutting: basic recommendations
To arrange a vegetable cut, it is worth considering some recommendations:
- You should choose beautiful flat plates.
- Aesthetically and appetizingly look vegetables on a lettuce leaf.
- Before you start cooking, you need to make sure that the knives are sharp.
- It is better to cut vegetables before serving at the festive table so that they look juicy and fresh.
- Give preference to seasonal products.
- Do not neglect vegetables such as radish and cauliflower.
- Boiled vegetables are suitable for serving dishes.
There are some more tips that relate to certain vegetables:
- Tomatoes are picked with thin skin and with a sprig of green.
- For slicing take dark green cucumbers with thin skin.
- Cabbage should have dense leaves.
- Carrots fit orange, without dots.
- Before chopping, do not keep the pepper in water for a long time.
- Radish should be solid and plain.
Observing these rules, it will turn out to cook an excellent assortment of vegetables.
Beautiful design of vegetable slicing: ideas
At any celebration, a vegetable cut, designed in an original way, looks beautiful.
The following ideas are popular:
- Bouquet. It is made from greens and lettuce, on top lay rows of tomato and radish, cucumber and pepper.
- Herringbone. On the New Year's table, the composition of green vegetables in the form of a Christmas tree looks great. It is made from cucumbers and herbs, peppers and tomatoes play the role of decorations.
- Rainbow.Brightly cut, which is laid out in rainbow colors. It will require purple onions, red, orange and yellow peppers, cucumbers, tomatoes.
- Boats with a sail. Cucumber is cut lengthwise into two halves, the middle is taken out and filled with salad. A skewer is inserted through which a “sail” is inserted - a thin cucumber slice.
- Peacock feathers. Mugs of tomatoes and cucumbers are laid out in the form of a bird's tail and decorated with halves of olives.
For a children's holiday, vegetable slicing is laid out in the form of animals or cartoon characters. Children are happy to eat foods in this form.
Vegetable canapes on skewers
Skewered vegetables are an easy and quick snack.
For its preparation, the following components are taken:
- cherry tomatoes;
- olives or olives;
- cucumber;
- feta cheese.
The number of products depends on the number of guests. Skewers should be as many as tomatoes.
Canapes are prepared in several stages:
- cut the cheese in the same pieces (squares);
- put them on a skewer;
- the second layer is the cube of cucumbers;
- then string olives;
- the skewers are decorated with cherry.
Pieces of bell pepper can be added to vegetables. Serve canapes on a flat dish, laying out in a row.
How to make beautiful assorted snacks
You can dilute the plate with vegetables using the following products:
- green onions;
- parsley;
- cilantro;
- dill;
- basil;
- olives or olives;
- lettuce;
- cheese cubes;
- canned peas;
- slices of lemon;
- mushrooms;
- beans;
- corn.
Vegetable slices are often combined with a cheese and meat plate. Combining tomatoes, radishes, cucumbers and peppers with more satisfying foods, you can get a beautiful and original appetizer.
Making and serving a vegetable plate for beginners
The easiest way is to cut the fruit in half and arrange them in a certain order on a plate. At the end they can be decorated with greens or olives. Such a design of vegetable slices takes little time and even young cooks can afford.
Looks nice vegetables, laid out in rows on a square tray. You can serve food in cups. To do this, solid vegetables are cut into long sticks and put in glass containers, which are arranged in a circle. In the center place sour cream and garlic sauce.
A beautiful vegetable cut is obtained using cookie cutters. Cucumbers, radishes and tomatoes are cut into round slices, and then various flowers, suns, hearts, etc. are squeezed out of them. The only negative is that the remaining parts of vegetables will no longer be needed.
DIY carving of fruits and vegetables
Carving is an unusual carving of products. This is a real art, thanks to which you can enchantingly present any dish. To create a vegetable composition, you will need special tools. If they are not, use a knife to clean the fruit or a scalpel.
A vegetable composition looks attractive if there is a flower or a cone of carrots in its center. A wonderful chrysanthemum is obtained from onions.
For her you will need:
- large onion;
- beetroot juice;
- a plate of water;
- sharp knife.
Make a chrysanthemum as follows:
- the bulb is peeled and cut off its upper part (about five millimeters);
- cut the head in half, not reaching the lower border of about 10 millimeters;
- make an incision perpendicular to the previous one;
- then a few more notches, the more there are, the more fluffy the chrysanthemum will be;
- dip the onion in a bowl of water and leave it for 1-2 hours;
- the finished flower is soaked in beetroot juice.
Some varieties of vegetables “bloom” in forty minutes.
Vegetable combination for slicing
It is important to take into account the taste preferences of the guests and pre-think the menu for compatibility products. Vegetable slices must be on the table if guests will be served meat or fish.
Before preparing snacks, you should consider the color scheme of the dish. Slicing looks more attractive if the products have contrasting tones. However, they must match in shape and size.In any case, the composition is performed in the same style as the serving.
Too artsy vegetable plate does not look presentable. Let it be simple but original. Vegetables should not overlap the main course.
Today on the Internet there are many recipes and examples of dishes where you can see which products are ideally combined with each other. It is not difficult to find carving workshops for beginners and professionals.
