For a long time, fruit and vegetable cuts have been considered an integral part of both festive and everyday meals. After all, this is a dessert, an appetizer for wines, and a light lunch snack.
It is necessary
- - vegetables and fruits;
- - dish;
- - a sharp knife (or shredder).
Instructions
Step 1
First of all, you need to pay attention to the appearance of fruits and vegetables, because they have to lie on the table for quite a long time, and they must withstand this test with dignity. In other words, fruits and vegetables should be very fresh, not bruised and not damaged in any way. So, for slicing, you must select the freshest, but at the same time elastic and dense fruits.
Step 2
It is necessary to correctly calculate the cutting time, and even better, cut fruits and vegetables right before serving. After all, the less vegetables and fruits come into contact with the air, the longer they will retain their appetizing appearance. If this is not possible, then prepare a lemon in advance and periodically sprinkle the slices with lemon juice. This will help prevent browning of fruits and vegetables.
Step 3
To make the slicing as thin as possible, you need to prepare a sharp knife in advance, or preferably several. The fact is that the knives very quickly become dull on the skin when cutting fruit. Sharpening your knife every time instead of changing it to another sharper one will waste a lot of time, which is undesirable, especially if you have to cut a lot of fruits and vegetables.
Step 4
Fruits are cut into slices, thin slices, cubes. One of the serving options: circles of oranges and apples are laid out on the bottom of the dish in a spiral, in the shape of a "turret", so that a hole is left in the center of the dish, into which pieces of hard apples or pears cut into cubes or strips are inserted.
Step 5
Another popular variation of cutting vegetables and fruits is curly. This will require a special shredder grater, which can be found at any hardware store. And due to a variety of special devices, fruits can even be depicted in the form of flowers. The name of such a decorative cut is carving.
