Food should not only be tasty, healthy and safe - food should be appetizing. That is, beautiful. Since ancient times, mankind has been honing the art of beautifully serving a variety of dishes. There is even a special class of cooks in Japan who specialize in decorating food. Any housewife with the help of imagination and a sharp knife can turn the simplest snacks - fruits, vegetables, sausage - into exquisite and mouth-watering delicacies.
It is necessary
- Melon salad bowl:
- - small fruits, berries;
- - melon.
- Tomato "ladybug"
- - a tomato;
- - lettuce leaf;
- - cheese pate;
- - olive.
- Fish slicing:
- - olives;
- - parsley;
- - lemon;
- - a fish.
- Meat platter
- - greens;
- - Cherry tomatoes;
- - meat delicacies;
- - carrot
Instructions
Step 1
How to make beautiful fruit slices
When planning to become a fruit carving master, it is better to get a special set for carving (carving is the art of decorating dishes). Although, if you wish, you can get by with one sharp thin knife.
Try cutting a salad bowl out of melon. The melon should have a round shape and be pre-peeled from the skin (ornaments in the form of leaves can be cut out of the skin). Inside such an impromptu salad bowl, you can put strawberries (the aromas of strawberries and melons are perfectly combined), halves of peaches, apricots, and grapes.
The easiest way is to arrange the sliced fruit nicely on a flat plate. For an even more spectacular look, they can be decorated with apple "tulips", mint leaves and powdered sugar.
Step 2
How beautiful to cut vegetables
Vegetable cuts are the tastiest and healthiest dishes in the world. You can simply cut the rings of cucumbers, tomatoes, bell peppers into a flat dish, shifting them with sprigs of greens. Or you can dream up. For example, try slicing tomatoes into a ladybug shape.
Core the tomato by cutting it in half. Put a leaf of lettuce on a plate, on it - stuffed with cheese or ladybug pate. Antennae, spots on the back can be made from chopped black olives.
Step 3
How beautiful to cut sausage, smoked meats, meat delicacies
Cold cuts can also be very original and appetizing. The easiest way to do this is simply to put thin slices of sausages of several varieties on a plate and decorate the dish with sprigs of herbs, flowers cut from carrots, olives and cherry tomatoes. But you can also play with such a plastic product as meat delicacies by depicting lilies from a ham, roses from thin plastic ham and cute butterflies with wings from boiled sausage.
Step 4
How beautiful to cut fish
Sliced fish is a frequent guest on the festive table. Try to carefully place thin slices of salmon, salmon and other fish on an oval fish dish and garnish with black olives, parsley sprigs and thinly sliced lemon semicircles.
