How to beautifully cut cucumbers and tomatoes - step by step photos
Cucumbers and tomatoes are excellent helpers for good digestion of food, and also promote proper metabolism. They contain a lot of water, sugar, fiber and various salts and trace elements.
Of course, these two types of vegetables are successfully usedin cooking, but you can use them not only as products for salads and other dishes, but also make beautiful cuts from them, which serve as an excellent decoration for the festive table.
The art of beautifully chopped cucumbers and tomatoes is the topic of this article. So, let's look at a few recipes for decorating dishes from tomatoes and cucumbers, but before about some useful tips when slicing vegetables.
Cutting tomatoes and cucumbers. Helpful Tips
1. For cooking "edible jewelry" always carefully choose cucumbers and tomatoes, it is best that they are hard, and the cucumber should have small grains.
2. Clean the skin from the skin immediately before cutting.
3. If you make complicated manipulations with vegetables, carving interesting shapes, spray them with water from time to time, preferably using a spray with a fine spray. This is done to prevent the drying and wilting of vegetables.
4. Ready-made vegetable decorations can be stored for about a week if placed in cold water with ice.
5. When you compose a composition of vegetables on a platter, use a paper napkin to remove excess moisture on cucumbers and tomatoes.
6. Before serving, tablets and ketchup are allowed to complement the decorations. The main thing here is to stick to the taste of the main dish. Well, now let's go directly to the recipes for cooking vegetable scraps.
How to cut cucumbers and tomatoes. Photo recipes
From cucumbers you can make the following figures: leaves, bells, circles, crow's feet, lilies, all kinds of beautiful ornaments. It is done extremely simply with the help of an ordinary kitchen knife of small dimensions. For cutting not only fresh cucumbers, butand marinated with lightly salted. Choose vegetables of medium size and with good density (especially for salted cucumbers). Supplement the green decoration can be twigs of greens and lettuce leaves, but make sure that the salad and greens do not completely cover the cucumbers.
How to make a rose from tomatoes
Take a ripe tomato, rinse it and dry it. Then cut in half, and each of the halves also cut into thin slices, while the slices should be divided into small, medium and large. Now fold the small slices so that the bud turns out. Then wrap the bud in a medium slice of tomato. And complete the flower in the same way with large pieces of tomato. To give the rose a more believable look, bend several petals off the rolled tomato slices. The rose is ready.
Cucumbers and tomatoes. How to make an ornament
1. Take a few cucumbers and a couple of tomatoes. We cut each cucumber along and divide, thus, into 2 halves.
2. Next, we cut off one of the sides of the cucumbers and gently remove the pulp with the seeds.
3. Tomatoes are simply divided into 2 halves.
4. Make the cutting of cucumbers as follows: cut across a thin layer of each half of the cucumber from the skin, but not to the end.
5. With a small effort, press the knife on the cucumber to give it a shape. 6. Lay the halves of cucumbers in a circle on the dish, and put 1/2 tomato between them.
How beautifully to cut a cucumber. Decoration "Veer"
1. Cut a portion of the vegetable from the tip itself diagonally, and then cut 5 thin slices at the same angle.
2. Now we need to put together the resulting circles and cut all the layers from the center to the edge.
3. Turn one end of the slices 180 degrees. And then expand any of the ends, like a fan.
Author: Katerina Sergeenko
