Any feast will become more festive if you bring your own flavor when serving dishes to the table. Salad decorations are not hard to make. Roses made from a simple cucumber look very impressive.
It is necessary
- - medium-sized or large cucumber - 1 pc;
- - horizontal vegetable peeler - 1 pc.
Instructions
Step 1
Method 1
Take a long, but not very thin cucumber. Rinse thoroughly with water and dry well with a dry towel.
Step 2
Take a horizontal peeler and carefully cut the cucumber into thin slices. They will be the base of the flower.
Step 3
The first and last strip with skin for making a rose will not work - it is thicker than the others, the rose will not curl out of it. Take them away.
Step 4
Take the second strip, roll it into a tight tube about two-thirds of its length.
Step 5
Hold the twisted steering wheel with your left hand firmly enough with your thumb and forefinger. Twist the free part of the strip 180 degrees in the opposite direction from you. Slide the middle off its axis, wrap the steering wheel twisted with a strip around its axis.
Step 6
Flip the remaining end of the strip 180 degrees again and repeat the process.
Step 7
When the strip ends, take a new strip of cucumber and slide it between the remaining end of the first strip and the rose itself. Turn out another petal. When this strip is over, take the third one and repeat the whole process with it.
Step 8
As soon as the size of the resulting rose begins to suit you, feel free to start making a new rose. Usually, from three to four cucumber strips, one beautiful voluminous rose is obtained.
Step 9
When the rose has reached the desired size, take half of a toothpick and gently pierce the flower, trying to grab the middle.
Step 10
Method 2
Cut the cucumber into thin slices.
Step 11
Take one circle and roll it up as much as possible.
Step 12
Wrap the second ring around the twisted first, add the third and fourth.
Step 13
Carefully poke the resulting rose with a toothpick.
