How beautiful to cut fruit on the festive table?

Probably, there are no such people who are indifferent to fruit.Therefore, at any festive event, fruit plates are very popular: someone loves grapes, someone likes tangerines, someone is crazy about kiwi and bananas. How to make cutting of fruit not only tasty, but also attractive in appearance?

In our article, we will look at several design options for fruit plates: from simple ones that even beginner housewives can handle, to complex ones that require dexterity and the use of special kitchen utensils.

What fruits to choose for cutting design, everyone decides for himself. Of course, all components of the plate must be fresh, not overripe and not unripe. If it is oranges or grapefruits, then there should not be any soft areas on them, but kiwi, on the contrary, you cannot choose hard ones.

Before you begin cutting, all fruits should be thoroughly washed. If there is a pile on the skin (peaches or apricots), you need to wash it with a soft brush, citrus fruits can also be doused with a hot shower. It is important to remember that washing happens just before cutting begins.

So, your fruit is washed and dried with a clean cloth or paper towel. They should not remain a single drop of moisture. Time to start cutting.

To date, there is a huge amount of carving kits for sale, using which even an aspiring cook can turn oranges and bananas into a work of art. If for some reason you do not have kitchen tools for carving, do not despair - A sharp knife and imagination combined with dexterity and the desire to surprise their guests can help in cooking at home amazingly beautiful and appetizing cuts.

• The easiest ways to cut fruit are in slices, slices, halves and straws. You can arrange the resulting figures in color, you can put on a dish of composition - a rainbow or palm trees (this is especially true for children's holidays), and you can form canapes and put them on skewers. It always looks spectacular, well, and it’s not necessary to talk about taste.

• If you do not want banal options, and you want to arrange cutting more original, you will be helped by a huge amount of video materials on the Internet. So, from a half apple you can easily create a beautiful flower or a swan, and for this you will not need any tools other than a sharp knife. Using a knife with a thin and sharp blade, you can turn oranges and grapefruits into elegant lotuses and decorate them with strawberry slices. It is very beautiful, but not at all difficult.
• From the fruits of kiwi, you can also make beautiful flowers with pointed petals or, using a figured knife, originally cut them in half.
• It is a bit more difficult to make a rose from large strawberries, but the result is worth it - it can be used both for decorating sliced ​​fruit and for decorating a cake. For making roses, you need to take a knife with a narrow long blade and make small cuts, moving in a spiral. After the formation of each "petal" it must be very carefully removed, giving the appearance of a flower to the berry.

• A banana figure - a dolphin, an octopus or a palm tree - can be a decoration for your fruit plate.

• If you need to spread out fruits and berries beautifully for a children's holiday, there is a place where fantasies can roam: hedgehogs made of pear, a duck made of banana with feathers made of grapes or raspberries, a butterfly with wings made of slices of orange will delight the children!
• As for such delicious things as watermelon or pineapple, here the chessboard will be the simplest and most effective layout. The watermelon is cut into four slices, each one carefully cutting off the flesh (repeating the shape of the rind). After that, the flesh is cut into equal slices. Sliding the resulting pieces in a staggered manner, you can put them on the holiday table right in the crusts. Pineapple is served in the same way.

If you want to surprise your guests with a complex, multi-tiered, filigree fruit composition, then you can not do without tools for carving. Yes, and step-by-step tutorials, in excess of existing on the Internet, should not be neglected.

• So, in the presence of figured knives it is quite possible to make a basket of watermelon and put any fruit into it: both strung on skewers and cut into slices.
• Fruit bouquet can be made with your own hands, without spending a lot of time. You will need a stable vase with a fairly wide bottom, where you put your "flowers". Lettuce leaves quite successfully replace the greens, and the roses and daisies themselves can be created from mangoes, oranges and apples.

• It is not necessary to make a bouquet from “flowers”, strawberries are a wonderful option. To make your composition look more impressive, some of the berries can be glazed with dark chocolate, some with milk, and some with white. A bunch of fruit is a great opportunity to practice in the art of carving, gradually moving from simple shapes to truly complex ones.
• Using the tools for carving, you can create both small fruit compositions, and huge buffet or wedding "sculptures". Of course, in the absence of experience, it is better to start small, for example, a vase of apples, in which we put balls of banana, melon and watermelon. It looks very impressive "pineapple", cut from watermelon. Well, shake the imagination of your guests will be able to "palm" of fruit canapes with pineapple, which is easy to put on its top.

Finally, we offer some useful recommendations for to avoid unpleasant situations: the fruit darkened, gave juice, did not manage to cut them exactly.

• So, to serve both vegetable and fruit platter is best on a white flat plate without any prints or embossing. A smooth porcelain or ceramic dish fits perfectly.
• Cut the fruit must be strictly before serving. The knife must be very sharp. It is better if there are several of them: with a narrow long blade and with a wider one. If you plan to serve a melon, you will need a spoon-knife to form beautiful balls of its pulp.

• Serving slicing implies the presence of skewers - short and longer, as the fruit is inconvenient and not very hygienic to take hands. In addition, you should take care of a sufficient number of paper napkins next to the dish.
• So that the fruits of your labors do not darken and do not lose their attractive appearance before they are submitted to the festive table, at the end of the calculation of the entire composition, you need to sprinkle it with lemon juice. So neither apples nor bananas will lose their freshness.
• Another tip: creating a composition of fruits and berries, remember that it should be quite stable, and the guest could safely take an element from it without violating its integrity. Otherwise, your fruit palm or a three-tiered slide can fall apart from the loss of one strawberry.

See the next video for a master class of beautiful fruit cutting.