How to make a swan from apples?

Preparing to receive guests, each hostess wants to impress them with delicious and delicious dishes. Mandatory attribute of any holiday table - fruit. However, the usual halves of apples and orange slices are boring and unfashionable.An interesting idea would be to try to make unusual cuts and figurines from fruits.

Table decoration is an integral part of any holiday. After all, the first impression on the guests makes it. Most decorative items can become a feature of the feast, which will surely be remembered by all guests for a long time. It is very important not only to arrange the glasses, dishes and cutlery, but also to make a well-shaped fruit slicing.

You can arrange fruits on a plate by colors, by shape. Looks great dish in the form of a fruit basket. It is often made from watermelon or any other large fruit. Then they put other sweet ingredients into it. There is an option to perform fruit cutting in the form of a bouquet. But this option is more for a gift than for a treat to the table.

Fruits can be spread out on the table in the form of canapes on skewers. Children's table is usually decorated with different animals made from fruits. You can cut birds from apples or pears, you can also make a hedgehog with the help of toothpicks, grapes and pears.

To cut fruits in an original way, you can use a method such as carving (art of cutting vegetables and fruits). This art is very well known among the housewives who love to impress at their receptions.

This method of carving came to Europe from Asia. Asian carving is a hard way to cut fruits and vegetables. In this method, there are more hieroglyphs and oriental motifs.

European carving is an easier way to cut fruit for decorating a table that looks quite nice and neat. It uses the most simple fruit. Complicated ornaments and Asian carving figures are very rare here. It is easy to master this technique, but you will have to purchase some equipment - in order to cut the figures, you need to have a professional set of carving knives.

One of the variants of this fruit cutting method is the swan from apples. Below is a detailed look at how it can be done.

To prepare a pair of swans, you need 2 apples. They should be quite hard. Cut hard apples much easier, and cutting in the form of a swan turns out better. As already mentioned, you need a professional knife. The usual kitchen does not fit, the product will turn out to be sloppy.

The first step is to cut the apple into 2 parts. One will be equal to 2/3, and the second - 1/3 of an apple.

Then you want to take a larger piece of an apple. Further, slices of the same size are cut from two sides. Should remember that apple core must remain intact. The thickness of the center of the swan should correspond to approximately 1 centimeter.

Then it is required to cut a pair of similar, but smaller ones from each lobule. They need more than 3, but the number is always changing. It depends on the size of the apples. Next, collect them in two slices and put in that part of the wing of the swan from the apple, which is cut. From them we create wings, moving them from each other by 1 centimeter.

Next you should start to cut the tail of this decorative figure. To do this, take a smaller part of the apple. It is necessary to cut from this part of 3 pieces with a thickness of about 0.7 centimeters.

The rest of the use for the tail. First, cut along the edges of large lobules. Cut out the same slices from the rest in the middle as on the wings. Next, attach the tail to the desired part of the shape with the help of wooden thin sticks.

We perform a neck with a head from previously cut plates.This piece is required to be cut in the middle into several pieces (2/3 and 1/3 of the size of the piece). From the first part it is necessary to cut the neck with the head for a swan out of an apple. To connect the neck with the body, you need to cut a rectangular shape in it, the size of which will coincide with the size of the neck. In this recess should insert the neck.

Apple swan is ready. To make your composition look more interesting, It is recommended to cook two swans at once.

How else can you beautifully cut apples, see the following video.