How beautiful to cut kiwi on the table?

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

A fruit plate is served with the dessert table, after the main meal. The guests had already eaten by that time, and you need to try to re-spur their appetite. A person is still ready to absorb food with his "eyes", so you need to decorate a fruit plate beautifully, appealing to aesthetic feelings. As for kiwi, this fruit can hardly be called attractive. Bronze in color, fleecy, it resembles a dirty tennis ball. And if you serve kiwi as a whole, then, most likely, guests will leave it on a dish, preferring to feast on more beautiful bunches of grapes, bright strawberries and cherries, juicy citrus fruits. Yes, and it is difficult to eat Chinese gooseberries (as this berry is also called) without a knife and a spoon. In this article, we will talk about how to beautifully cut kiwi on the table so that the hands of the guests themselves reach for pale green or amber slices.

The easiest way is in the peel

Chinese gooseberries are edible whole. But many people do not like the "hairy" peel of this fruit. This method is suitable if you are thinking of treating your friends only to kiwi. Then you need to provide each eater with a dessert plate and a teaspoon. Despite the fact that the peel is not supposed to be eaten, before cutting the kiwi beautifully, the fruits must be thoroughly washed, dried with a towel and allowed to dry. We put the Chinese gooseberry on the board and cut it in half crosswise with a sharp knife. This is how we deal with all fruits. We lay the halves on a flat dish with cuts up and serve. Each guest takes a piece on his plate and eats away the pulp with a spoon, like a soft-boiled egg. Cups of skins remain on the plate.

Fruit slices

Now consider the option when other fruits will coexist with kiwi. Is it appropriate to lump everything together? What fruits do and do not go with Chinese gooseberries? In this case, color compatibility must be observed. To make the sliced dish look aesthetically pleasing, you should lay out green pieces of kiwi next to fruits of a warm range - red or yellow. Thus, a red apple, oranges, tangerines, bananas, papaya, mango and pomegranate seeds are suitable for the nearest neighbors to the fruit. You should not put blue grapes and green fruits - pear, melon next to kiwi.

Possible neighborhood of white fruits - peeled banana, apples, pineapple. How to cut beautifully kiwi for a fruit plate? Peelyou can leave. The bronze rim will add color to the overall picture. And if you want to get rid of the peel, you should know a few secrets.

Pulling out the pulp

Of course, the first thing that comes to mind is to peel a kiwi with a knife, like an apple or a potato. But in this case, you will leave a lot of pulp. And the surface of the fetus will not be smooth. How to cut kiwi beautifully? Dip each fruit in very hot water for 30 seconds. Or just pour boiling water over the fruit. This will kill the bacteria on the skin, and the pulp will be better separated from the skin. With a sharp knife, cut off both ends of the fruit. We take a spoon and squeeze it between the pulp and the skin. We begin to drive it in a circle, separating more and more fruit from the skin. We make several longitudinal cuts from one cut tip to the other. We bend the skin to make it easier to extract the pulp. And here we have a whole peeled kiwi that looks like a green egg. Carvers prefer to leave the rind in the form of leaves arranged around an exotic greenish-pale fleshy flower.

Canape decoration

The fruit has a delicious sour taste. Therefore, they are often decorated with canapes, which are served on skewers. For such a dish, kiwi is peeled. To decorate a canape, you should know a few rules. The juicy flesh of the kiwi should not touch the sandwich itself. The buffer between them is often hard cheese or grapes. And on top, at the handle of the skewer, it is appropriate to put some kind of orange fruit to give the dish a bright, catchy look. Most often thisorange is the citrus. Its sweet taste harmonizes with kiwi. The cheese is cut into large cubes. The grape is pierced with a skewer lengthwise. And how beautifully cut an orange and kiwi? If you do not have a slider that guarantees even pieces that are even to the millimeter, use an ordinary knife. Peel the orange and kiwi. Cut them into thin circles. Divide each kiwi disk into four parts. From the orange, moving as far as possible along the fibers, cut the same segment.

Cheese plate

The French love these desserts! But it is important to know which fruits are suitable for cheeses. Grapes are suitable for blue varieties. Blue cheeses love the orange neighborhood. Brie and Camembert are served with crispy apples. Pear is a versatile fruit and fits any variety. But kiwi, as well as pineapple and soft berries, want to see only hard cheeses next to them. Serve it with gouda, edam, parmesan, maasdam. How beautifully cut kiwi for a cheese plate? You can just serve thin slices of unpeeled fruit. And if you freed the kiwi from the skin, then cut it into eight pieces. There is another option for how you can effectively serve cheese - “kebabs”. By the way, fruit slices can also be placed on these skewers.

How beautiful to cut a kiwi on a cake

Chinese gooseberry pulp is ideal for decorating confectionery. She does not let juice, like berries, and does not crunch on her teeth, like apples. The green color of kiwi gives the cakes an exotic and elegant look. It's only important to knowhow to cut a kiwi beautifully. Photos of culinary masterpieces will help to get an idea about this. Unpeeled thin slices of kiwi are appropriate on the cake only when you are going to make a rose out of the fruit. Then a dark stripe at the tips of the petals will make the flower more voluminous. In all other cases, the kiwi must be peeled.

The peel is allowed to decorate the top of the cake. So, it can serve as the foot of the calyx of a flower or as leaves. But if the cake is made for children, it is better to remove the hard peel altogether. Kids are very fond of unusual shades in dishes. Therefore, green kiwi will be very useful. You can decorate the “crown of a palm tree” with fruit. Chinese gooseberries are also suitable for creating green animals - a crocodile, a frog.

How beautifully cut kiwi for a holiday

To give the dish an elegant look, it is not enough to chop the fruit into even slices. You can create whole compositions from fruits. Are you ignorant of the art of carving? You can start with simple figures. And plastic kiwi will help you take the first steps in carving. This is how the flower is made.

Unpeeled fruit cut across. In each half, we make eight deep straight cuts from the center to the edges. Then - eight more, but already a little obliquely. This is how petals are made. At the center, the incisions should be slightly visible, and deep at the skin. When something that faintly resembles a flower lies in your palm, do not be alarmed. Gently peel back the skin on the edges of the petals. This will be another layer of the flower. The center of the kiwi is whitein black grains. With a light movement of the knife, we make a cone-shaped recess in the pulp and insert red cranberries there.