How beautiful to cut cucumbers and tomatoes?

Accepting guests at home, I want to surprise them not only delicious, but also beautiful dishes. However, not everyone has a special inventory or a personal chef. If earlier vegetables were cut into slices or slices, then today's cutting may surprise any person. Therefore, I want to learn how to make jewelry on my own, even from simple vegetables, for example, tomatoes or cucumbers.

To cut it looked beautiful, you need to choose only fresh vegetables. If these are cucumbers, they should be hard and dark. Tomatoes can be any, but it is better to choose vegetables of bright red color. Products must be without any visible damage. They should not be stained or rot.

Also pay attention to the fact that vegetables are not processed with wax. This is evidenced by the characteristic shine and stickiness. In this case, it is necessary to cut off the skin from them, and this already spoils the appearance of the cut. In addition, in the skin there are many useful substances needed for the human body.

If the purchased vegetables are still waxed, the first thing to do is to peel them off. Then you need to work with them too.

Raw cucumbers should be well washed with running water. This is to ensure that all bacteria are removed from them. Then it is necessary to cut the ends on both sides of this vegetable. Also, if desired, you can remove all the seeds, the structure of which consists practically of water. This means that the dish can be filled with excess liquid. For perfect slicing, the cucumber is cut in such a way that all its sides are even.

Tomatoes are also washed under running water. After which they are dried using a paper towel. Then the fruit stalk is removed from them and the place where it is located is cut. If slices are needed for cutting, then the tomato should be cut into two parts. The field of this need to cut the edges so that the cutting was smooth.

Most often for cutting use cucumbers and tomatoes, which look beautiful and are characterized by contrast shades. To cut them beautifully, you need to know some rules for decorating a festive table and use the instructions step by step. Vegetables can be simply cut into strips and cubes, or you can create a whole flower field on a plate. Everyone can learn how to make such a beautiful cut.

For proper cutting of cucumber you need to put it on a cutting board. If it is necessary to cut a vegetable with ordinary slices, then the knife should be taken by the handle with three fingers. At the same time, the index finger and thumb should be located on both sides of the blade. In this way it is very easy to control all the processes. Cucumber must be taken in the second hand and place the knife in the place where there will be a cut. You can cut cucumbers in different ways. The easiest option - classic circles. They can also be twitched into strips or halves.

To make a straw, you need to cut the cucumber along. The tops should be removed, as they have jagged edges. Cut the remaining pieces into strips of the same size. For cutting by the “brunoise” method, it is necessary to gather the resulting straw into one pile and cut it into equal parts (cubes), the length, width and thickness of which is approximately 2 millimeters.

To beautifully chop a tomato, you must have a very sharp knife. To cut tomatoes into thin slices, you need to take a knife that has a blade notched at the end. To cut a tomato into slices, you first need to cut it in half. Then both halves must be divided into 3 or 4 parts. To get thinner pieces, you can still separate them.

To cut tomatoes into strips, it is necessary to cut each of them into four parts. Then from them it is necessary to remove the pulp and cut off uneven edges.After that, each piece needs to be cut lengthwise. Straws in length should be about 5 centimeters. Most often, tomatoes are cut into thin plates. To get them, you need to remove its extreme parts, and then cut it with a serrated knife into thin slices.

Modern people are no longer surprised by the usual cutting of cucumbers and tomatoes. Therefore, so that it does not look ordinary, it is necessary to consider several original options for decorating dishes.

To serve such a vegetable plate on the table it is necessary to prepare all the vegetables. Tomatoes and peppers are cut in halves to start with, and the end parts of cucumbers are removed. In addition, you will need pitted olives. Tomatoes should be cut into slices of medium thickness and put in a fan on half of a large plate. This must be done very carefully and beautifully. The next step is cutting cucumbers. They need to cut a little diagonally, so that the circles were beautiful.

Spread them in front of the tomatoes, in a semicircle. Halves of peppers should be divided into large, even cubes and put them in the middle of the plate, but only on one half. For the rest of it you need to lay a pile of olives. At the very center of the plate you must put a little strips of pepper cut into thin chips. This will give the dish a complete look.

This cutting option is very popular, because everything is done fairly quickly and easily. In addition, the composition looks very beautiful on the plate. To make it, you need a sharp and small knife. Tomato for this you need to take ripe, but tight, so it was convenient to cut it. First you need to very carefully cut out the place of attachment of the stem from the vegetable. Then, slightly prying one edge of the skin of the tomato, you need to cut it with a thin layer in a spiral, so as not to tear the skin.

Having finished with this work, you need to take one edge and start twisting a rose from it. However, this should not be done very tightly so that a combination resembles a barely blossoming flower. Next, you need to decorate it with any green leaves, be it parsley or salad. The same can be done with cucumbers. This rose can serve as a decoration for a salad, and an excellent snack. From tomatoes you can make a beautiful bouquet that will be a great addition to the meat dish.

It is better to make such a rose with a vegetable cutter; you can take the simplest one. For one rose, 3 or 4 cucumber circles will suffice. At the same time it should be very fresh, then the cucumber rose will look beautiful. From the smallest slice it is necessary to make the middle of a rose. Its bottom must be fixed with a toothpick to simplify your job. Then on both sides you need to add one circle each.

To make it silhouette, you need to take a few medium tomatoes. Then you need to divide them into 8 equal parts. With each piece it is necessary to remove the skin. If you clean only one half, leaving the edge, you get beautiful curls. To get a butterfly, you need to lay out next to two such curls. Antennae can be made from dill sprigs.

To create such a flower, you need to take yellow tomatoes. Each tomato should be divided into 8 parts and half peeled from each of them. It will turn out the same curlicues as for the butterfly. However, here they will look like sunflower petals. In the middle you can put chopped olives, which will replace sunflower seeds.

Cucumbers must be cut into 5-centimeter pieces. Then they need to be divided into 2 parts. Each of them should be cut in parallel, but this should not be done completely.Further it is worth cutting out in them dredging, having cleaned thus pulp and seeds. To give the idea a finished look, it is necessary to fix the incised part of the cucumber with a toothpick from the opposite part.

The end result should be a sailboat. The resulting groove can be filled with caviar or salad, for example, from crab sticks or any other salad. And from the carved pulp, you can make flowers in the form of water lilies and decorate with them the space between the boats.

Halves of tomatoes must be cut into two halves, and then each of them into very thin slices. Then they need to be expanded in one row and roll neatly into the ring. After you need to hand tighten and level the vegetables. In the center of such a pyramid, you can put an olive or a few basil leaves. For very hard and dense vegetables, you can use the carbing technique. It consists in cutting the grooves on their surface.

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