A very important moment when preparing for the holiday is the beautiful design of dishes for a feast. You can create bright accents and give the table a festive look with the help of a beautifully and unusually decorated cut of vegetables.
What are the best vegetables to use for slicing
The standard is the presence of cucumbers, bell peppers and a tomato on a vegetable plate, only you need to choose dense tomatoes so that their pulp does not flow out onto the dish. These vegetables are great for kebabs from various types of meat, chicken.
But don't limit yourself to just these vegetables. Radishes, carrots will become bright accents of vegetable slices, and in combination with herbs, olives and onion rings, they can even become a full-fledged snack for the festive table.
In addition to fresh vegetables, you can use salted and pickled foods for cutting. From corn, tomatoes, cucumbers, pickled onions or cabbage, you can form a multi-component snack that is perfect as an addition to meat dishes, will be relevant at a table where there are strong alcoholic drinks.
Making vegetable slices
The simplest is to cut all the vegetables into slices, while they can be laid out on a plate in the form of piles, to form a kind of snail. This design method significantly saves space on the dish, allowing you to place the maximum amount of food on one plate.
If carrots, bell peppers, asparagus are used in the slicing, it is better to cut them out of thick strips. At the same time, on a plate, you can alternate the layout of straws and slices of vegetables (for this purpose, it is more convenient to use radishes, cucumbers, tomatoes).
To prevent vegetables from looking trite and boring on a plate, you can cut a semblance of flowers from radishes, cut cucumbers into long plates that can be twisted arbitrarily, securing all the beauty with toothpicks. As a decoration, lettuce leaves, parsley leaves, which can be placed between the main products, are suitable for cutting vegetables.
If there is no time for creative manifestations, and you want to create beauty on the table, you can use a plate with divisions for serving. Next to such a cut, you can put containers with olive oil, sauce, pepper and various spices.
You can put a bowl with sauce in the middle of a flat plate, around which it is better to place bright vegetables in the form of a circle, cut into circles, slices, strips.
Vegetables laid out in the form of a flower, a snake or a bright pattern will look especially interesting. Such cutting will give the table a festive and unusual look, improve the guests' mood with its bright colors.
