How beautiful to cut apples?

Every hostess wants to cook delicious dishes for the holiday table and decorate them beautifully. Fruit slicing is the perfect way to surprise guests.Wonderful figures of a swan or a crab, images of a star or a fir-tree will not leave indifferent any person.

Carving - art carving for fruits and vegetables. He originated in Thailand and came to Russia along with Asian dishes. Masters of carving turn any fruit into real objects of art.

Apples are perfect for creating decorations. Their flesh allows you to cut amazing elements of decor for salads, first and second courses, desserts.

For Russians, apples are the most affordable and favorite fruits. Their presence on the holiday table is especially important. After abundant high-calorie food, an apple is useful to eat to improve digestion.

You can use fruits of the same color, or create a composition of apples of different shades:

• take the red fruit of Red Delicious with glossy shiny skin;
• golden ginger gold;
• bright green granny smith.

If you cut an apple, you can see how after a while the delicious snow-white flesh gets an unsightly brown shade. So that the decorations do not darken and retain their natural color, several methods are used.

• Sprinkle with squeezed juice of lemon, orange, lime.
• Prepare a solution at the rate of 1 teaspoon of citrus juice for 1 cup of water, and soak large decorations in it.
• Dip apples in citrus-flavored lemonade.
• Immerse the fruit in salted water - a pinch of salt for 1 liter. Remove and rinse with plain water after 5 minutes.
• Use powder from ascorbic and citric acid. Sliced ​​apples are sprinkled with this mixture before cooking. Remove it from the fruit is not necessary.

For slicing apples into slices - thin slices or slices, you can use a sharp stainless steel kitchen knife. From other metals apples can darken.

Professionals of carving use in their work an entire arsenal of various knives and accessories:

• Thai and sickle knife - the main tools of the master;
• knives for cutting grooves and intricate floral ornaments with blades of different shapes: from round to rectangular;
• spoons to remove the pulp and core.

To create the first works of the master advised to use the most common table knife. Unlike kitchen knives, it is more flexible and convenient for work.

To make a beautiful cut of apples on a plate is very simple.

The first method is "Rows".

• Wash well and dry the apples.
• Cut the fruit into 2 identical halves.
• Remove the stem and core.
• Put the apple with the cut part down and cut into slices no more than 5-6 mm thick.
• Connect the sliced ​​slices together as if they were a single half of an apple.
• Carefully transfer the sliced ​​lobule to a plate, trying not to move the pieces, and place it on the edge of the dish.
• Hold the slices with your hand on one side, preventing them from moving. Slices from the other edge of the slice evenly stretch your fingers in a row behind each other, so that the pieces lay overlapping.
• Sprinkle the finished row with lemon juice and start making the next one.
• You can continue to make rows of apples of a contrasting color, or alternate with other fruits: oranges, kiwi, bananas.

The second way - "Rose".

• Take the apples.
• Cut some of the apples into round slices 2 mm thick, and cut the halves from the other part.
• Treat the petals with citrus juice and begin to stack in a circle on a plate.
• First overlap large petals, one row to another.
• Closer to the center of the "rose" laid halves.
• The bottom of the previous row gently close the following.
• The middle of the "rose" make of several slices, rolled into a roll.
• To the petals of apples in the middle of the flower were more flexible and took the desired shape, you can drop them for 2 minutes in boiling water.

Wonderful dessert is ready. Do not forget to sprinkle with lemon juice. Before serving, you can lightly powder the “rose” with powdered sugar. Petals will look velvety and become a welcome treat.

Handmade apple figurines will not leave guests indifferent.

• Take the correct shape apple.
• Cut the fruit in half.
• Each half cut again into 2 equal parts: it turned out 4 identical slices.
• Carefully remove the core.
• Take a quarter. Put a slice on the cut side, retreat 5 mm from the edge. Make a cut along at a right angle, without cutting the apple to the end.
• Put the lobule on the other side of the cut and make just such an incision on the other side. The result was a smaller slice. Carefully remove it from the quarter.
• We work with a new slice on. Just put on the cut side and make a shallow incision, departing 5 mm from the edge, at an angle of 90 degrees from one and the other side.
• New item gently shift and remove. Cut the following.
• Get 4 details. If the apple is large, perhaps more.
• Now ready elements need to be collected. We take the biggest detail, put the second one on it, shifting approximately 1 cm from the edge of the first one. Put the third and last part in the same way, shifting to the previous slices. The first wing of the swan is ready.
• Making the second wing.
• Finished parts - wings, spread on a dish. Sprinkle with juice.
• Cut the neck from the remaining quarters - an arched strip 5 mm wide and insert it between the wings.

The way with which the wings were cut, called "leaves." Using this technique, you can create a cutting of fruit in the form of a fantasy flower or a star.

No children's holiday is complete without fruit. And if these are not just ordinary slices, but original decorations or funny figures of little animals, the children will eat the fruit with pleasure. Consider the step-by-step preparation of unusual figures.

• Apple put tail up, cut along into 3 equal round pieces.
• From the middle part of the apple will make the front claws. To do this, cut the fruit into three bars. Medium - stub, throwing out. Leave two seeds for the eyes. The remaining 2 cubes on the inside, stepping back from the edge, cut two broad teeth in the middle. The resulting detail resembles the letter M.
• Making rear claws. Half an apple put cut side down and cut into thin slices. We divide the lobules into two equal handfuls, put parallel to each other on a plate. Slices are laid out compactly, in a fan, connecting the ends on one side.
• Put the front claws on a plate.
• Place the head on top, closing the ends of the slices.
• Eyes make of seeds, pressing them into the flesh.
• Crab is ready. You need to refresh it with lemon juice.

Herringbone harvested from apple slices will delight children not only in the New Year, but will be a welcome decoration of the table at any time of the year.

• Prepare cleanly washed apples, grapes, long carrots, toothpicks.
• Apples of different colors cut into cubes with a thickness of 10-15 mm and sprinkle with juice.
• Separate the grapes from the branches.
• Making the basis for the "Christmas tree": a large apple cut off the lower part for stability.
• We stick toothpicks into the bottom of the carrot, and with their help we connect it to the apple base. The barrel is ready.
• Stringing cubes of apples and grapes on toothpicks, alternating them in color.
• We stick fruit mini-kebabs into the base of the “Christmas tree”, and then, gradually climb along the carrot stem up to the crown.
• Fruit "herringbone" is ready.

Sticking a toothpick into the pulp of an apple and carrot is not worth it. It will be difficult for children to get a treat. Enough to keep the decor in place.

Children will not only appreciate the decorations made by the mother’s hands from their favorite fruits, but will also take part in their creation with great pleasure.

• Take a bright red apple.
• Put the tail up, cut off your favorite side.
• The slice thickness must be at least 4-5 cm.
• Choose a cookie cutter in the shape of a flower.
• Squeeze a flower out of a piece of apple.
• Using the cap from the marker, mark the middle.
• Toothpick from the middle, scratch the line to the edges of the groove, exposing the bright flesh.
• For the stem, take the straw from the cocktail, and stick it on the inside of the flower.
• You can use a skewer, inserting it from the side.

• Cut a large, clean and dry apple into halves.
• Remove the core.
• Cut halves into large slices.
• At each lobule we cut off a corner from one edge.
• Cut the remaining peel of the apple in the shape of a triangle.
• Cut the corner removed. There are long sharp ears.
• With the help of a skewer, gently bend the ears upward.
• Behind the knife round the back of the figure.
• Zaychata are ready. Put lettuce leaves on a dish and plant on top of the figures.

Making decorations for the holiday table is an exciting experience. You can enjoy your family and friends with an exquisite apple serving for Christmas, New Year, Easter.

In August, on the Apple Savior, be sure to arrange an apple feast. Remember that the apples on your table are a symbol of fertility, wealth and love.

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