Habitually sliced snacks are no longer surprising, no matter how expensive they are. Today, ingeniously designed cuts of fish and meat have become fashionable, which, with a skillful approach, turn a festive table into a culinary masterpiece. To create such compositions, it is enough to turn on your imagination and get acquainted with some design secrets.
Fish slicing
To create a beautiful fish cuts, it is advisable to use white and red fish at the same time - this will allow the dish to look as impressive as possible. Also, a very original look will have a cut of fish of different colors, which is laid out in sectors, paths or patterns and decorated with "small pouches" of thin circles of lemon, in which black olives are embedded. A beautiful rose rolled from lace salad leaves, as well as butter petals, which can be spread on bread, look no less presentable in fish slicing.
Traditionally, fish cuts are made using multi-colored skewers, which are convenient for taking fish from a plate.
One of the popular ways to decorate fish beautifully is the following recipe. Crab meat, lightly salted herring and salmon should be cut into diagonal strips (4-5 cm in thickness) and insisted in a marinade of 0.5 glass of soft cottage cheese, 1 teaspoon of mustard, 0.5 cup of mayonnaise, 0.5 tablespoon of grated horseradish, 50 g of chopped greens, a pinch of salt and ground black pepper. The seasoned fish is placed in the refrigerator for one and a half to two hours, after which it is laid out on a plate surrounded by cherry tomatoes, olives, curly parsley, cucumber slices and fresh lettuce leaves.
Cold cuts
For a beautiful design of meat cuts, you can roll the balyk into a roll or a tube, lay it out beautifully on a plate in a circle, put a bowl of sauce in the center and sprinkle the meat with pomegranate seeds with a serpentine of green onions. You can also cut carrots, celery, red and yellow bell peppers into strips, and peel the fresh cucumber and cut diagonally into thin slices. The serving dish is covered with green lettuce, olives, cherry tomatoes, vegetable strips and cold cuts are laid out on top of the sector, and a beautiful curly parsley border completes the design.
For exotic cold cuts, decorate your serving plate with vibrant, fresh flowers.
Flowers carved from tomatoes and radishes, rings of olives and pillows made from fresh herbs are also used as decorations for slicing meat. An excellent design is long thin cucumber plates, laid in a circle with an overlap, folded into an accordion and decorated with a stick of greenery or a colored skewer. In the center of the cucumber accordion, there is a beautifully cut meat cuts, consisting of different types of meat.
