It’s not enough to cook a delicious dish, it’s important to be able to serve it! Firstly, eating beautiful food is twice as pleasant, and secondly, if you decide to participate in a culinary show, then without the skill of serving, you will fly out at once. These cucumber roses are extremely simple to manufacture, but very effective decoration for salads and snacks.

All you need is a cucumber, onion and knife. By the way, you can take onions both red and white - it all depends on your taste and desire.

First, cut the cucumber into rings with a thickness of a little less than 0.5 cm. For each rose, 6-8 pieces will go.

Now peel the onions and cut them into wide rings (2-3 cm) and divide them into separate “rings”.

For each rose you will need 2 rings - one will hold the rose together, the other will serve as a stand.

Now that the preparatory phase is completed, we begin the assembly. Each flower will take less than a minute.

Roll one circle of cucumber into a “cone” - this will be the middle petal of the rose.

Wrap the next circle on top so that it covers the junction of the cone. Repeat all the same with each subsequent circle, not forgetting to overlap the joints.

The size of the rose usually ends within 6-8 circles, but then you yourself decide what splendor you want to see.

Take two onion rings - one larger, the other smaller. And insert into each other to get a stable “vase”. Gently fix the “flower” in it.

If the flower is loose, add more cucumber petals. To enhance the effect in the already fixed rose, you can open the petals.

Serve with such flowers you can and salad, and sauce, and a side dish!

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Amazing products can be made from vegetables, possessing only the initial skills of carving. Mistress who knows how to do cucumber flowers  and other vegetables, will be able to surprise its guests with a beautiful festive table. Such flowers can decorate any (except fruit) slices, salads and even hot dishes.

Making roses from cucumbers

A rose from cucumbers looks very beautiful, which is easy to do with your own hands.

First of all, it is important to chop the cucumber correctly. Long longitudinal thin plates should be obtained, so it is better to cut the cucumber with a vegetable peeling machine.

To make 1 rose you will need 3-4 strips (depending on its intended size). The first strip can be thrown away, since it is not needed for making roses.

The 2nd strip should be twisted into a tight tube 2/3 of its total length.

The tube should be in your left hand. It must be held tightly with the thumb and forefinger. 1/3 of the strip, which remained free, must be turned 180 ° away from itself. Then, the future flower of the cucumber should be slightly shifted around its axis. Repeat this action until a small tip remains from the strip.

Next, you need to take the next strip, its edge must be inserted between the tip of the previous strip and the flower of the cucumber. Now you can turn out another petal. These manipulations must be repeated until the last strip (3rd or 4th) ends.

Very important during manufacture cucumber flowers  hold the middle tightly. This is necessary so that the flower does not open.

When the flower of the cucumber reaches the desired size, it should be turned over and stick a half of the toothpick, capturing the central part of the rose.

Cucumber flowerready, now they can decorate salad or vegetable slices.

Simple ideas for making cucumber flowers

Quickly make beautiful cucumber flowersyou can, using a special metal mold in the form of a flower. Cucumber should be cut across into circles with a thickness of 0.7 cm and using a mold, cut a flower in each mug.

It is very easy to make a flower from a cucumber as follows: cut the cucumber into 2 parts, the length of one of them should be about 15 cm. From this part of the cucumber we cut a strip 1 cm thick of the same length. In it we make 2 longitudinal cuts, not reaching 7 mm to the lower edge. Then, perpendicular to these cuts, we make others whose thickness is about 4 mm.

The green part must be carefully cut, retreating the same 7 mm from the bottom edge. Next, you need to bend the strips in the 1st row in one direction, and then fasten them with a toothpick in the 2nd. The resulting flower from the cucumber must be refrigerated in a cup of cold water. After 10 minutes, the flower can be pulled out and not worry that it will lose shape.

With these simple fabrication tips   cucumber flowers  myou can make a festive table in an original way.

If there is a need to beautifully design a dessert, you can make roses from apples, using the principles shown in this article or special

Any feast will become more festive if you bring your own highlight when serving dishes on the table. Decoration for salads is easy to make. Roses made from a simple cucumber look very impressive.

You will need

1. - medium or large cucumber - 1 pc;
2. - peeler horizontal - 1 pc.

Instruction manual

• Method 1 Take a long but not very thin cucumber. Rinse thoroughly with water and dry well with a dry towel.
• Take a horizontal peeler and gently cut the cucumber into thin slices. They will be the base of the flower.
• The first and last strip with a skin for making roses will not work - it is thicker than the others, the rose will not curl from it. Take them away.
• Take the second strip, roll it into a tight tube about two-thirds of its length.
• Hold the twisted steering wheel with your left hand firmly with your thumb and forefinger. Twist the free part of the strip 180 degrees in the opposite direction from yourself. Move the middle from your axis, wrap the rudder twisted by a strip around its axis.
• Turn the remaining end of the strip 180 degrees again and repeat the procedure.
• When the strip ends, take a new strip of cucumber, wrap it between the remaining end of the first strip and the rose itself. Turn out one more petal. When this strip ends, take the third and repeat the whole process with it.
• As soon as the size of the received rose starts to suit you, feel free to start making a new rose. Usually from three to four cucumber strips you get one beautiful voluminous rose.
• Upon reaching the desired size of the rose, take half a toothpick and gently pierce the flower, trying to capture the middle.
• Method 2: Cut the cucumber into thin circles.
• Take one circle and roll it up as far as possible.
• Wrap the second ring around the twisted first, add the third and fourth.
• Carefully pierce the resulting rose with a toothpick.

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The festive table will not look exquisite if we just serve refreshments, even if they are very tasty and unusual. We will consider options for beautiful cutting and decorations from cucumbers and tomatoes and acquire the necessary skills in decorating the table and individual dishes. We took these vegetables because of their availability at any time of the year, as well as their usual presence among the festive dishes as a cold appetizer.

Cucumber and tomato decoration

These vegetables lead among beautiful slices of cucumbers and tomatoes, as the contrast of their natural colors pleases the eye. In addition to cuts, we can make various flowers and design elements from their peel and flesh, with which we can decorate any salad, cold cuts and dishes.

Tomato rose

This beautiful red flower will be the decoration of the dish and will attract the attention of everyone present at the table.

If you have a family specialty recipe, then the red rose in the center or along the edges of the dish will cause even more applause in honor of the cook. Learn to shape it!

1. Prepare a very sharp knife. We begin to cut off the skin of the tomato, trying to grab the strip wider on the blade. We start from the top and end with the base.

2. Spread our tape with the pulp down and begin to fold it from the narrow end, and from the widest part of the tape forming open petals.

We set our roses on the edges of the plates or decorate them with hot meat dishes. And then we proceed to decorate the roses with green cucumber leaves.

Cucumber leaves

1. Cut the cucumber into two halves along its length.

2. We cut the widest part in diameter with oblique rings, but not to the end, but leaving at least 5-7 millimeters. The number of records should be odd.

3. Turn the leaf inward through one plate. The leaves for the rose are ready! Such a decoration made of tomatoes and cucumbers will first become your favorite, and then the signature style of your table!

Our design elements from cucumbers can be made even more beautiful, and therefore we will study a simple technique called carbohydrate.

Carbohydrate vegetables

Carbination is the cutting of grooves on the surface of fruits. It's simple! Surface carbing is used for vegetables that have a dense flesh or thick peel. Cucumber fits this condition perfectly.

See how unusual and attractive it is possible to arrange a dish around the edges!

You can also make a rose from a cucumber, and we already suggested that you look at this lesson. But it can be decorated with lovely "leaves"!

Master Class: Cucumber Rose

1. Cut the third part along the vegetable and make small bilateral cuts on both sides of the cucumber plate.

Stuffed tulips

Another way to beautifully decorate the salad will be remembered by your guests, and your festive meal will be unforgettable.

Any meat salad with mayonnaise is suitable for stuffing tomatoes. For stuffing, it is necessary to use tomatoes of the "cream" grade.

1. We make cross cuts in the upper part of the tomatoes. With a teaspoon, carefully select the entire inner pulp of the tomato and fill the resulting void with salad. 2. Put several feathers of green onions on a plate, collecting their basal parts in a bunch. On the tops of onion feathers we spread the tomatoes, and fill the rest of the plate with vegetable or citrus slices.

* Advice Cook “Tulips” with salad can be supplemented with an unusual decoration - a “crocodile” made from cucumber. The “mouths” of cucumber animals are drawn to delicate red buds! Or you can arrange crocodiles in different parts of the festive table. It will amuse adults, and children at a children's holiday will lead to uncontrollable delight!

Cucumber Crocodile

Making a crocodile out of a suitable fruit is actually quite simple! All you need is a sharp knife, a narrowed dark edge of the cucumber on the side of the stalk and some skills.

This cute vertebral impressively sits on the side of any plate and will become an original element of the dish design. And to make it very simple.

So, from the side of the stalk we cut out a long triangle - this is a crocodile's mouth. We cut the rest of the fruit with slanting plates and put them on a dish with a slight offset.

In place of the peephole, we cut out small pits, insert the berries of viburnum or cranberries into them, fixing them with a piece of toothpick. Teeth can be cut out from cheese or boiled protein and fixed in the “mouth”.

See another version of a crocodile made from cucumber. You can repeat any of them if you make some effort and desire.

Creative - good mood at the table

There are plenty of options for beautiful slicing! It is impossible to say unequivocally that this dish is very easy to make - thinly cut, evenly and originally spread out. We need not only a perfectly sharpened knife, but also a skill that is acquired if you correctly and diligently chop vegetables at every opportunity!

For example, you are preparing a salad where vegetables can be chopped in any way. But to obtain a persistent skill, we must cut the vegetables thinly and tastefully, leaving the appropriate parts of the fruit for decoration. Gradually, all your foods will begin to look creative and elegant. Agree, this increases the appetite and the degree of mood at the table even without wine!

We can cut out various elements from the pulp, form flowers from the vegetable peel, lay them out in unusual compositions. We advise you to always keep toothpicks in stock - this is an important tool in creating decorating dishes. It would also be nice to buy a special set of knives for carving.

We are used to thinking that slicing is even rows of vegetable circles laid out on a dish in some order. But this is not so! Check out these creative options! This is also a beautiful cut of cucumbers and tomatoes!

* Cooking Tip  Decorating dishes using various products is a whole science that has been developing for more than one hundred years. In the last decade, this skill has acquired the qualities of art. This type of aesthetic cooking can be your hobby and help you relax after a hard day or week. Why not?

We hope that we have convinced you that decoration is not only an attribute of a festive feast. The attractiveness of food is part of the rules of healthy eating, a sign of a high quality of life. We can arrange it if we want! The skill of decorating dishes from cucumbers and tomatoes, which we will definitely acquire, will help us!

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Figured cucumber

Fresh, pickled, pickles play a big role in human nutrition. Today, not a single table is complete without pickled or pickled cucumbers. Well-prepared meat and fish dishes lose in many respects if they are not served pickles. Having a pleasant, delicate taste, aroma, with small seeds and thin skin, fresh cucumbers not only decorate dishes, but also increase the nutritional value. They complement the main dishes, increase their taste.

Cucumbers promote metabolism and better absorption of food, as they are a source of water, sugar, fiber, mineral salts, vitamin C, and essential oils.

Cucumbers are widely used in cooking throughout the year: for salads, side dishes, various dishes, as well as for decoration.

From cucumbers, lilies, bells, fences, crow's feet, leaves, circles, etc. are cut out with a simple small kitchen knife.

For slicing take even, medium-sized cucumbers, "Zelenets", dense pickled or pickled cucumbers. Cucumber decorations are supplemented with sprigs of parsley, dill, lettuce, etc.

The dish is decorated in such a way that the main product is not too covered with decorations.

1. In the center of the vegetable with a sharp knife we \u200b\u200bmake deep vertical triangular cuts to the center - from top to bottom, without cutting 3-5 mm to the base of the vegetable.

2. We divide the workpiece into two halves - lower and upper.

3. The resulting acute-angled petals are cut several times into thin plates across the petal.

4. Then lower it into cold water to seal the petals for 15-20 minutes.

LILY FROM Cucumber

Lilies make out cold snacks, sophisticated side dishes for main dishes, and large culinary products.

Cut from fresh and pickled cucumbers.

1. At an angle of 45 °, cut off the upper part of the cucumber in the form of a spiral.

2. We cut the spiral with the right hand, with the left, we simultaneously turn the cucumber around its axis and cut it to the middle or the entire length of the vegetable.

3. Turn the spiral in the opposite direction so that the beginning of the cut is located in the middle of the flower.

4. In the center of the flower, you can put viburnum berries, peas, etc.

They serve cold dishes and snacks, as well as main dishes with a complex side dish with the addition of greens.

1. A flower is cut from the upper and lower parts of medium-sized cucumbers.

2. On the sides, cut off three equally elongated segments.

3. At the place of the cut, cut three thin petals without cutting to the base 2-3 mm. In the middle we remove the pulp.

4. The resulting flower in the middle is cut with a cone-shaped cut. In the middle, you can insert stamens on sandwich sticks.

We make a dish with the addition of greens.

SPIRAL FLOWER

1.Knife at an angle of 45 ° we cut off in the form of a spiral the top layer of cucumber 1-2 mm thick.

2. Then we continue to cut off the second layer of the spiral.

3. The resulting spiral is untwisted in the opposite direction and we get two cone-shaped cups, in the middle of which we lay currants, viburnum, slices of carrots or onions.

CARBONED BELL

1. Through the entire length of the vegetable, we cut the grooves with a knife with a depth and width of 2-3 mm, at equal intervals - carbohydrate.

2. Using a knife, cut off the top layer of cucumber 1-2 mm thick in a spiral form at a 45 ° angle.

3. Then we continue to cut off the second layer of the spiral.

4. The resulting spiral is untwisted in the opposite direction and we get two cone-shaped cups, in the middle of which we lay currants, viburnum, slices of carrots or onions.

PLATES

1. Along the cucumber, along its entire length we cut long plates 2-3 mm thick.

2. Carefully, bending in half the obtained segments of the plate, we lay the plate when decorating the dish in the form of bows, fences or a bouquet.

3. We supplement cucumber plates with other figuratively chopped vegetables and green

Cut from raw, lightly salted and pickled cucumbers.

1. Cut off the segments from the surface of the cucumber, as shown in the figure.

2. The resulting segments are cut into thin vertical plates, not cutting to the round edge of 2-3 mm.

3. Lightly press down on top with a knife or fingers, give the shape of a fan.

4. Dip in cold water for 20-30 minutes to seal the product. The semicircular fan is cut in the same way, only the vertical part of the segments is cut with vertical cuts, without cutting 2-3 mm to the acute-angled edge.

Fresh Cucumber Salad

Cucumbers are cut into slices, onion and bell pepper in half rings, parsley, dill finely chopped, seasoned with salad dressing, sour cream or mayonnaise. You can add finely chopped boiled egg. Everything is mixed, salted, sprinkled with pepper to taste, laid out in a vase or salad bowl and decorated with curly cut cucumber, egg and herbs.

Mustard Cucumbers

Medium-sized cucumbers are washed, cut lengthwise, halved with mustard and salt, and decorated with greens.

Natural cucumbers

Small smooth cucumbers are selected. Cut on both sides and stacked on small plates, complement the greens.

A beautiful dish will be if you figuratively cut cucumbers with a fan, circles, stars, sprinkle with salt and pepper on top. This creates certain conveniences when eating them.

Garlic Cucumbers

Small, firm, even cucumbers are selected, washed in running water, peeled, cut in half and greased with a mixture of chopped garlic with vegetable oil and grated horseradish based on 15 g of garlic - 1 hour. tablespoon of vegetable oil and 1 teaspoon of horseradish.

Stacked figured chopped cucumber, greens.

Salted Cucumbers

Small cucumbers are taken, washed thoroughly under running water. Then they prepare (wash and chop) the greens necessary for salting - horseradish leaves, currants, cherries - for fortress, raspberries, dill, onion, garlic, sliced.

Prepared greens are laid at the bottom of enameled or glassware, cucumbers are placed on it, then again a layer of greens and cucumbers, etc.

Prepared cucumbers are poured with warm boiled water seasoned with a mixture of 1 tsp. salt per 1 liter of water, 3 cm above the laid products. Leave for 3-5 days without a refrigerator.

Use as an independent dish and side dish.

It is better to add finely chopped pickled cucumbers to salads from meat and fish.

For salads, vegetables should only be fresh. Snacks should be prepared as needed.

When preparing snacks, you must strictly follow the rules of personal hygiene, as the products are not subjected to heat treatment.

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Decoration of cucumber dishes.

Even a beginner in cooking can make such a flower.

1. Cut the cucumber along thin plates.

2. Fold 2-3 plates together, slightly sliding relative to each other along.

3. Twist in the form of a flower, decorate the edge of the plate.

Chain of cucumber.

1. Take a washed cucumber and make cuts on it. It is better to take cucumber so that it is approximately the same thickness along the entire length, so that the rings turn out to be the same.

3. We take one ringlet and cut it on one side. We cling this ring to another whole. The result is a chain - a notched ring, a whole, notched, a whole, etc.

Cucumber petals

Cut the cucumber lengthwise into two halves.

Option 1

1. Make one incision, not cutting through to the end, cut the forked plate with the second movement.

2. Wrap one leaf inward. Dip in ice water for 5 minutes.

Option 2

1. Cut the cucumber into plates 1-1.5 mm thick, without cutting up to
  the end. Separate "packs" with an odd number of plates.

2. Bend the petals as shown. Dip in ice water for 5 minutes.

Option 3

1. Along the cucumber make grooves on the skin.

2. Cut the cucumber into slices 1-1.5 mm thick without cutting to the end.

Divided into "bundles". Fan out.

Short spirals are a good decoration for both cold meat dishes and salads.
  To make spirals, you need small tender cucumbers with a small amount of seeds.

Decoration of dishes: Roses from tomato and cucumber, butterflies, flowers ...

DECORATION OF DISHES: Recipes, step by step photos - 10

Roses from Tomato

Similar "roses" can also be prepared from the skin of a cucumber, cut into strips of boiled beets and carrots, strips of salted fish, etc.

"Roses" and other jewelry from different products:

"Butterfly" made of citrus

Lemon "butterflies" are decorated with sliced \u200b\u200bin flour and fried slices of salmon, sea language.
  One small butterfly is placed on small plates. Several such "creations" may "sink" into large pieces or a dish with paste.