Elegant vegetable cutting: decoration of the festive table

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

Beautiful, aesthetically mature table setting is a real art. After all, the hostess needs to take into account many nuances: the selection of dishes that should be in harmony with the tablecloth and napkins, decanters and glasses; convenient arrangement of dishes so that it is convenient for everyone sitting at the table to reach them; the color scheme of the displayed vegetables, etc. We'll talk about vegetable slices.

Garden carving

What can be cut vegetables? Its design depends on the season and on the products used. But, of course, cucumbers and tomatoes, naturally fresh, are always exhibited. Let's start with them.

• Cucumber cut into oval, thin slices. Tomatoes are desirable to take two varieties - red and yellow. Just try to take hard fruits, fleshy and not very juicy - otherwise the vegetable slices, the design of which you are doing, will flow and lose their presentation. Cut tomatoes into circles or slices. Then spread the vegetables in a fan, alternating layers and colors. It will turn out very bright, iridescent, cheerful. Of course, cutting should be done before serving. You can s alt the vegetables a little and sprinkle with finely chopped dill orparsley.



• Vegetable cuts will turn out interesting and tasty, the design of which will be complemented by grated carrots sprinkled with vinegar and pepper. It can be laid out on lettuce leaves and placed next to the tomato-cucumber variety. Such a "salad" is prepared at any time of the year and is always eaten with pleasure.
• Vegetable cut from radish looks spectacular and festive. Its design looks like this: the root crop is freed from the tails and cut with the help of special knives in a ribbon-like manner. Circles of cucumbers are placed on the dishes, and on them, in the form of roses, radishes. It turns out a wonderful flower arrangement. No less beautiful vegetable cutting will turn out if the radish is cut into circles and shifted with "rays" or petals of bell pepper - red and orange, yellow. Drop some mayonnaise on them or squeeze “stripes” out of the tube. Very tasty and appetizing!

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  Onion feathers and other greens are widely used as decorative elements for decorating dishes. For example, chop the cabbage into thin strips, crush a little and put it on plates in a slide. Season with a little vinegar. Stick sprigs of parsley - you get a cheerful pale green hill, like a clearing in the forest.

• When fantasizing how to arrange vegetable cuts, do not forget about olives and black olives. They not only stimulate appetite and promote digestive processes, but are also very suitable for various types of vegetable carving. You can spread the pieces of vegetables in a circle,spirally, imitating starfish, in the form of small flower beds, etc. And hills of olives and olives can be picturesquely placed between them. Everyone who sits at the table will be happy to put a "berry" or two in their mouths, and at the same time prick vegetable ingredients on a fork.
• Do not forget the main rule of table design: near dishes and plates with cuts, there must be s alt bowls, vessels with spices, vinegar, mustard, horseradish. You can prepare special dressing sauces, set mayonnaise and ketchup. After all, the essence of slicing is for everyone to take exactly the vegetables that he wants, and then season them to his liking.

Come up with your own options for decorating dishes, create. And good luck to you!