Beautifully slicing fruit is a whole art.This is not only an ornament for the table, but also a joy for the eyes. After all, as you know, the dish is eaten not only with the mouth, but with a glance. In the Internet there are many pictures with whole bouquets of virtuosic sliced fruits. And it seems that it is incredibly difficult. But this is only at first glance.
A little practice, time, patience - and the result will not keep you waiting. Children will be full, and relatives and guests are happy.
Vase from fruit
A beautiful fruit slicing does not have to bebe complex. The easiest way to decorate a table with fruit is to make a vase. Guests will be pleasantly surprised by the culinary skills of the hostess. In order to make a melon basket, you will need:
- a small melon;
- Grapes and apples - for filling.
Recipe:
- It is necessary to take a small melona small watermelon can be used). Wash thoroughly and cut in half. Wipe dry. The inside of the melon and seeds should be cleaned, leaving two centimeters of pulp along the edge. It is most convenient to do this with a tablespoon or a spoon for ice cream. Try to leave edges of the same thickness along the entire diameter.
- After the flesh is cleaned, you need to find a thin kitchen knife, which will be convenient for making fruit cuts.
- It is worthwhile mentally marking denticles along the edge of the melon. Start to cut the teeth with a zigzag. If there is no confidence in the accuracy of the eye, it is recommended to mark the triangles (denticles) with a felt-tip pen.
- On the marks begin to cut out sharp denticles.
- Wash the grapes and separate them from the twigs. Wash the apple with slices.
- Put the fruit in a prepared vase of melon.
You can serve on the table. Guests will be delighted.
Exotic island
This option of slicing fruit especially will be to the taste of children, perfect for a children's holiday.
Ingredients:
- banana;
- two kiwis;
- tangerines.
Method of preparation:
- In this version of the feed, slicing fruit does not take much time.
- Bananas should be thoroughly washed and peeled. Extra white scraps are also better to remove. Cut the flesh in half and cut into small half-rings. Put on a plate in the form of a trunk of a palm tree.
- Kiwi is washed and gently peeled off. Cut first in half, then cut each half into three pieces and put on a plate in the form of leaves of a palm tree.
- Tangerines wash, peeled and divided into slices. Slices are laid out from below in the form of a small outlandish islet.
Dolphin
Sometimes it is very difficult to get children to eat healthy foods. Making a child eat a banana will help an interesting slicing fruit in the form of a dolphin.
To be precise, it's not even quite cutting, but rather a way of filing.
In order to make a dolphin, you will need:
- Wash the banana. Turn it over with a tail and slightly round it with a knife. So that the dolphin's nose turned out.
- Draw a felt-tip pen and dolphin's eyes.
- In the middle, carefully mark the fins with a felt tip. Cut them on the skin of a banana, trying not to touch the flesh.
- On the reverse side of the banana cut in half (about two centimeters), extract a neatly small part of the pulp, and turn the cuticle in two directions to make a tail.
Any child will like this feed and he will gladly eat a banana dolphin.
Apple owl
In order to make such simple fruit cuts, fruits will need very little.
Ingredients:
- two green apples (one more);
- a mandarin slice;
- sweet wand;
- Cream for making a peephole.
Recipe:
- Green apples should be washed gently, so as not to damage the peel, wipe dry.
- Cut the apples in half. Half a large apple put on a plate, put on top of a smaller one. It is better to take out the seeds and the core of the apple.
- Slice the mandarin cut in half, then again in half, put the legs in the form of a suven. Cut another small triangular piece of mandarin.
- From the cream make the eyes of an owl.
- The remaining half of a large apple is cut into slices and laid on top of each other in several layers with a fan in the form of the wings of an owl.
- Cut out a small half of an apple triangular ears owls.
Owl can be planted on a branch-stick of sweet straw.
Flowers from watermelon
Cutting fruit on the table can look quiteimpressively. Watermelons from flowers can decorate any holiday, even the wedding table. The easiest way to cut flowers on watermelon is for those who are familiar with carving wood. But others can master this technology. The main thing is a little patience and perseverance. And, of course, practice.
At the moment, the technique of cutting flowers from fruit has emerged as a separate hobby called carving.
In order to cut out a small flower, you will need to do the following:
- Thoroughly wash the watermelon. Peel a piece of watermelon. Cut in the middle circle. Inside cut wavy petals.
- Continue to cut small waves over the entire diameter of the circle. It should make a kind of rose.
- Around can do the same. Get a great bouquet of roses.
- The edges of the watermelon can be decorated as a basket, cloves.
Good luck!
