Carving from vegetables and fruits: where to start. Photo-lessons of carving

Chrysanthemum from Chinese cabbage

1. Remove loose leaves from a head of Beijing cabbage weighing from 300 to 700 g and cut off the upper part of the head, leaving about 12-15 cm.		2. We work with an oval or triangular carbide groove knife.
3. Let's make cuts of different lengths along the thick veins of the leaves, directing the knife from the top cut of the leaf to the base of the cabbage. We make the beginning of the cut thinner. As we approach the stump, we deepen the knife into the cabbage.		4. Without cutting 1.5-2 cm to the stalk, remove the cut out large leaves. If the sheet is held tight, make a few notches with a small knife.
5. We cut the subsequent rows of leaves in the same way, shortening the length of the chrysanthemum petals to the middle. If the edges of the petals are thin enough, then in cold water they will curl up into rings or curve beautifully.
6. Put the "chrysanthemum" in ice water for half an hour. The product will take on an elegant shape. Let's cut a couple of green "leaves" from a cucumber and make a composition on a dish with salad or various cuts.

Ready dahlias		1. Let's make a slightly flattened rounded blank with a diameter of 5-6 cm from a homogeneous product.
2. Cut out 7-9 petals with a medium oval knife, deepening the knife towards the core.		3. We cut off the excess pulp under the petals of the first row, forming a platform for the next row.
4. Cut out the petals of the next row with knives of different sizes, similarly to the first row. We place them between the petals of the previous row. We make as many rows as possible.		5. We cut to the end and make out the middle.

Faces can be made better: Tomato flower

Make 8 deep cuts on the tomato, as shown in the photo. Carefully separate the skin so that a little pulp remains on it.
Cut cucumber slices of a suitable size into halves and insert into the cuts.
Decorate the top of the "flower" with an olive or herbs. Santa Claus from vegetables You will need: red bell pepper (larger), Chinese cabbage (head lettuce), a piece of cucumber, toothpicks for fastening.

1. Remove the leg from the pepper and give it a stable position with the hole down. 2. Fasten a piece of cucumber on top with a toothpick. 3. Choose small lettuce leaves, preferably internal ones. Try on their size on the figure of Santa Claus: one sheet is longer - for the beard, three sheets are shorter - for the hair. Cut off the excess parts of the cutting. Pick up a cup-shaped sheet for the top layer of hair. 4. During the fitting, mark with a toothpick those places on a large sheet where the eyes, nose and mouth should be. 5. Make details of the face from pieces of olives and peppers by inserting them into small slots. Strengthen your mustache. 6. Attach with toothpicks (you can use their halves), first a long sheet with a face and a beard, then three short ones around the entire head. Put a top sheet on top. 7. Make a cap from the top of a pepper or a small tomato. Take a large leaf of head lettuce (outer) and cut a long strip 1.5-2 cm wide from the top of the petiole with a knife. Try to cut along the direction of the fibers. This will be the edge of the hat. Fasten the hat on the head and wrap it with a cut-out strip.

		Capricorn (22.12 - 20.01) Required: 1 red and 1 green apple Take a whole red apple. Cut off a slice and two slices from it. Lay the slices on top of each other. This is the "torso." Cut the remaining slice into two halves. Cut out two triangles from them - "horns". Attach the cut off sector to the horns. Cut off two pieces from it. These are the "ears". The remaining part is the "head". Lay "ears". Lay the "head", "horns" and "ears" on the body. Cut circles from the peel of a green apple - "eyes". "Pupils" of green bones. Cut another slice from the remaining apple. Cut out four stripes from it - "legs". Add "legs". Cut a beard from a piece of green apple peel.
		Aquarius (21.01 - 20.02) You will need: 1 pitted green olive, 1 corn kernel, 1 salami slice Take one pitted olive. Cut it lengthwise into two halves. Cut off a sector from one half. Expand and attach this sector to the slice. This is a "jug". Cut off a small sector from the second half. Attach it to the bottom of the "jug". Cut a small slice from the remaining olive. Cut it into two halves. These are the "handles" of the "jug". Attach the "handles" to the "jug". Place half a grain of corn at the "neck" of the "jug" in the form of pouring water.
		Pisces (21.02 - 20.03) You will need: 1 green olive, 4 corn kernels, 1 black olive, 1 slice of salami. Take one pitted green olive. Cut it lengthwise into two halves. One of them cut across into 2 parts. One part is the "head". From the second part, cut the "tail". Lay out the "scales" from the corn kernels. Attach a "head" to it. Make an "eye" from a piece of black olive. Cut the other half of the olive in half lengthwise. One of them cut across into two halves. These are "fins". Attach "fins". Add another grain of corn. Attach "tail".
		Aries (03/21 - 04/20) You will need: 1 pitted green olive, 1 black olive, 1 corn kernel, 1 salami slice. Cut the olive into two halves. Cut two thin slices from the second half. Make cutouts out of them. These are "horns". Insert the "horns" into the half of the olive. This is the "head". Place the remaining piece of olive cut side down. Cut it in half. Attach this piece to the "head". Cut the corn kernel lengthwise. Unfold the grain halves. These are the "eyes". Lay the "eyes" on the "head". "Pupils" are made from pieces of black olives. Lay on a slice of salami or canapé sandwich.
		Taurus (21.04 - 21.05) You will need: 2 pitted green olives, 1 black olive, 1 corn kernel, 1 salami slice. Take two pitted green olives. Cut one of them lengthwise into two halves. One half is the "head". Cut the second olive in half crosswise. Cut off a slice from the second. Make a cutout on it. These are "horns". Place the other half cut side down. Cut out two pieces from it. These are the "ears". Lay out the "muzzle" from the remaining pieces. Cut the corn kernel lengthwise. Unfold the grain halves. These are the "eyes". "Pupils" are made from pieces of black olives. Lay the "eyes" on the "head".
		Gemini (22.05-21.06) You will need: 1 pitted green olive, 1 black olive, 2 corn kernels, a piece of red sweet pepper, 1 slice of salami. Cut the olive into two halves. Cut out “handles” and “legs” from half an olive. From the second half of the olive, cut the same "torso". "Head" to make from a grain of corn. "Mouth" - from a piece of red sweet pepper. "Eyes" - from tiny pieces of black olive. Attach the "head" to the "torso". Make another "twin". Lay them on a slice of salami or on a sandwich - canape.
		Cancer (22.06 - 22.07) You will need: 1 pitted green olive, 1 black olive, 1 salami slice. Cut a pitted green olive into two halves. Cut off two sectors from one of them. Make incisions in these sectors. These are "claws". Cut the remaining middle part into two halves. One half is the "torso". Cut the other half into pieces. This is the "neck". Lay on the "torso" "eyes" - tiny pieces of black olives. Attach "claws".
		Leo (23.07 - 23.08) You will need: 1 pitted green olive, 1 black olive, 1 corn kernel, 1 pea, 1 salami slice. Cut a small slice from a green olive. Cut a sector out of it. Cut a thin slice from the remaining olive. Lay the first slice on it. This is a "muzzle". Attach the cut sector. This is the mouth. Cut two more thin slices from the remaining olive. Cut one of them into two pieces. Cut out of them "mane". From another slice, cut out two more details of the "mane". Attach "mane". Cut the corn kernel lengthwise. Unfold the grain halves. These are the "eyes". "Pupils" - from pieces of black olive. Lay the "eyes" on the "head". Make a nose out of canned green peas.
		Virgo (24.08 - 23.09) Take a whole red apple, cut off a slice from it. Cut it into two halves and cut off 2 small sectors from each. These are "hands". The remaining parts are the "body". On the other side of the apple, cut another slice. Cut a circle out of it. This is the "head". From a thin slice of apple, cut out the "nose" and "mouth". Cut out "eyes" from pieces of green apple peel. "Pupils" cut from the peel of a red apple. Cut a thin slice from the remaining apple. Cut a circle out of it. Using the same notch, cut this circle into thin slices. It's "hair". Attach two parts of the "torso" to the head. Attach "hands" to the "torso".
		Libra (24.09 - 23.10) You will need: 1 pitted green olive, 1 corn kernel, 1 pea, 1 salami slice Take a whole green olive without a stone. Cut it crosswise into two halves. Cut one of the halves into two more pieces. Lay them cut side up. These are the "bowls" of the scales. Cut a thin slice from the other half of the olive. Cut it into two pieces. Attach these parts to the "bowls". Lay a pea between them. Decorate with a grain of corn. Lay on a slice of salami or on a canapé sandwich.
		Scorpio (24.10 - 22.11) You will need: 1 pitted green olive, 1 black olive, 1 corn kernel, 1 salami slice Take a whole green olive without a stone. Cut off a slice from it. Cut it into slices. This is the "body". Put the rest of the olive cut side down and also cut into slices. Three medium slices will be needed to make the "tail" and "claws". Cut one slice into pieces. Lay out of these pieces "tail". From the remaining two slices lay out two "claws". Attach them to the scorpion. Make a "head" out of a grain of corn. "Eyes" cut out of black olives.
		Sagittarius (23.11 - 21.12) Required: 1 whole green apple Take a whole green apple. Cut off a slice from it. Cut off a small section from this slice, then cut off another section of the same size. Cut a thin slice from the rest of the apple. Cut out the middle from this piece. This is "bow". Cut a thin slice from the apple. Cut an arrow out of it. Lay the "bow" and "arrow" on the apple slice. "Bow" to make from the cut off sections.

Figured cutting and carving of vegetables and fruits "Delicious flower fantasy".

Simple cutting of vegetables and fruits step by step with a photo

Progress.

1) The first vegetable to start with is a tomato. Cut it in half and cut off the unnecessary part.

Content

Serving a dish can be a real art if you use your imagination and learn a few tricks of one of the types of needlework - carving. Carving various shapes, flowers, animals and other elements from fruits and vegetables can not only end with a spectacular result, but is also an exciting process. And although from the outside it seems that it is difficult, with a certain perseverance and a desire to learn carving, everything will definitely work out.

Culinary carving for beginners at home allows you to make unusual and entertaining figures from vegetables and fruits. To start working on this type of needlework, you can first take a few sharp knives of different sizes and try your hand. Professional craftsmen who have been carving for many years have a whole set of tools to help them create real culinary recipes.

Carving lessons for beginners, which explain step by step the nuances and subtleties of the whole process, will allow you to learn how to make culinary masterpieces that will decorate any holiday table.

Preparing for the cutting process

Before you start learning and practicing cutting out fruits and vegetables, you need to prepare. The entire set of a specialist is not needed at the initial stages of development, however, some tools must still be present.

In addition to carving knives, scissors, a spoon with round and sharp edges, tools for cutting out the middle of fruit, slicing eggs, nozzles and molds, as well as a brush, can come in handy. To date, there are special kits for beginner carving masters. They contain all the necessary tools that may come in handy during the learning phase. In the process, each craftswoman will decide for herself whether she wants to continue carving, and then decide on the purchase of a complete set.

If you want to create a beautiful and unusual dish that will stand out on the festive table, you will have to make a lot of effort and spend some amount of time. The more hours spent on training cutting their fruits and vegetables, the faster and better the process itself will turn out.

Another important factor that every beginner carving master will need is a good detailed master class. Today, finding carving lessons for beginners is not difficult at all. After watching several specialized videos, each beginner will determine for himself the complexity of this art and the degree of his desire to master the basics of carving.

Educational fruits and vegetables

Even a novice carving master understands that not all fruits and vegetables are equally amenable to cutting: some are easier to work with, others are complex material. Experts name several vegetables and fruits, on which it is easiest to learn how to cut patterns and figures. These include:

• cucumber or zucchini;
• carrot;
• apple;
• watermelon.

Most often, beginner carving masters train on apples. This fruit is quite common, in case of failure, you can safely eat it and take the next apple for further training. However, it is best to use pumpkin for the first time. Pumpkin carving for beginners is a large surface, soft body and ease of working with the flesh of the pumpkin, which will allow you to work out several important and basic techniques of this technique.

The vegetable for the first carving lesson should be moderately ripe, washed cleanly and without any bumps or bumps. After that, you need to cut off a small hat (or bottom) of the pumpkin and get the pulp, seeds and liquid with a spoon. The vegetable should remain hollow. While the pumpkin dries up from the inside, you need to think about the pattern that you want to cut on its surface. To begin with, it should be something simple, for example, an ordinary flower or a funny face, which even a novice master will be able to do. The thick peel of the pumpkin allows you to "fill your hand" and practice carving skills.

Even if the first time it was not possible to cut out the desired picture, the pumpkin can be turned the other way. And continue learning. The main thing is not to give up and not despair.

Watermelon carving for beginners can be just as fun, albeit challenging. But if you use step-by-step master classes, you can learn everything.

Step by step master class. Chinese cabbage chrysanthemum

White chrysanthemum looks rich, unusual and attractive. And to make it is not as difficult as it might seem at first glance. To make it, you need one Beijing cabbage, a special sharp knife and a carving spatula. If you do everything carefully and consistently, the chrysanthemum will be cut out the first time, since this is an easy task for beginners.

1. First of all, the cabbage is cut in half. It remains a basal piece of such length, which petals should be in the future chrysanthemum. Almost the entire green part will be cut off, only thin white stripes will remain.

A sharp spatula is used to cut chrysanthemum petals. If you don't have one yet, you can try to do it with an ordinary thin knife, but for a beginner it will be a difficult task. You need to have skill and confidence in your hands so as not to spoil a single petal, otherwise there will be empty spaces inside the chrysanthemum, and it will not have a magnificent volumetric appearance.

Excess parts of the green leaf can be carefully cut off with scissors. It is important to hold the base of each cabbage leaf so as not to turn it the other way.

Similarly, you need to cut each cabbage leaf, moving towards the center of the head and removing the excess. Cabbage carving for beginners is considered one of the simplest and most well-trained.

The first leaves of cabbage will be given the easiest. The closer to the center of the head, the more difficult it is to hold the entire structure and maintain accuracy in work. But you have to make an effort to make the flower beautiful. Slow and consistent cutting of all the petals is the key to obtaining the desired result.

Chrysanthemum is ready. To make such a flower smaller, you can first remove the top sheets. And from three or four chrysanthemums located on green lettuce leaves, a beautiful flower arrangement is obtained.

For the first practice of carving a chrysanthemum, you can use the training video.

Step by step master class. Water lily

You can decorate some dishes of the festive table with the help of lilies made using the carving technique with your own hands, which will be easy to make from carrots even for novice craftsmen. To make them, it is enough to have a basic set of carving for beginners with basic knives and shovels. The basis for carving a lily will be a carrot, preferably a large one, so that you can not worry about poor quality work and make a large voluminous flower.

1. The first step to create a lily using the do-it-yourself carving technique is to make a polygonal geometric figure from round carrots. Gently with a sharp small knife, it is necessary to cut off the vegetable from five sides. Even beginners will find this easy to do.

2. The next parts of the carrot are cut parallel to these sides, but not completely. These will be the petals of the lily, which should be fixed at its base, so you need to cut the sides slowly and carefully.

3. The next step is to make a beautiful pointed shape of the petals. They are cut with well-sharpened scissors. In this case, the entire figure must be held carefully so as not to tear off the petals. And although it may seem difficult for a novice master, with a certain effort, everything will work out in the best way.

4. When the outer layer of the petals of the future lily is ready, you can proceed to the next one. With the help of a thin sharp knife, an incision is also carefully made to obtain the second layer of the lily using the carving technique.

5. Other layers of the petals of the future lily are cut out in a similar way. Each next will be smaller than the previous one, so the work will become a little harder than the first. However, the skill gained during cutting will be the key to accurate cutting and getting the same petals even for a novice master.

6. Lastly, the middle of the flower is formed. This is done using a special tool, the use of which allows you to make a beautiful and complete look of a real lily.

You can decorate a salad with one hand-made lily using the carving technique, and put several flowers into a beautiful composition that will become the main decoration of the festive table.

Thus, carving for beginners will become an exciting process and will give unforgettable minutes of painstaking work with vegetables and fruits. And the finished result will not only allow you to be proud of yourself, but will also please the master and everyone who can see this magic with an unusual and attractive appearance. The main thing is not to be afraid to experiment and make every effort to learn how to make really beautiful works of culinary art.

Carving is the art of artistic cutting of vegetables and fruits. The technique came to Europe from Southeast Asia, thanks to local women and European tourists. The first traditionally consider it a duty to dress up and decorate everything that comes to hand, the second, under the impression, bring home exotics from distant corners of the world.

Carving vegetables and fruits

You can carve products in different ways: cut patterns and inscriptions on the surface or make compositions from slices of different shapes, use one or more types of material in one craft. The video will show how to build structures from fruits and vegetables, assemble mosaics, cut out drawings. The examples from the video tutorial are enough to decorate the entire table.

fruity bouquet

The secrets of carving are revealed by master Zhanna Dyatlova. To build a bouquet, you will need tangerines, kiwi and large berries. The design is assembled on the basis of an apple and fastened with wooden skewers and toothpicks. In the absence of a special carving knife, you can use an ordinary small kitchen knife with a thin elastic blade and a sharp tip. At the end, beginners will learn a useful life hack to preserve the original appearance of fruits without browning. You can do the work in parallel with the online master class and get a finished masterpiece in 10-12 minutes.

Cucumber ornaments. Master Class

Cucumber is an ideal vegetable for carving. Available, easy to cut, keeps fresh for a long time, has a pleasant taste and aroma, looks bright on the table. Due to its rounded oblong shape, the vegetable can be cut in many ways: rings, slices, slices, cubes, straws, plates. Hence the large number of variations of finished jewelry. The video demonstrates two dozen ways to beautifully cut and decorate a cucumber.

butterflies from orange

The usual way to serve citrus fruits is to cut into slices or rings. A short video from the Culinary Fantasies channel will replenish the treasury of novice carvingists with an outstanding option - an orange butterfly. The mini-sculpture is guaranteed to surprise guests with originality. Up to 10 crafts can be cut from one orange. A similar method is suitable for lemon and grapefruit.

Making a rose out of potatoes

Useful online carving lesson for beginners. The work is painstaking, and it may take several attempts to get an accurate result.

Drawings on products

With the advent of carving, food ceased to be a means to satisfy hunger and turned into a canvas for art. Craftsmen are able to surprise any sophisticated gourmet. An informative lesson about carving art showcases masterpieces and simple crafts for beginners. Spectators will learn how to make leaves from cucumbers and carrots, flowers from beets and zucchini, carve a dragon on a watermelon and cats on a pumpkin, make marine life from a banana and a swan from an apple.

Butterfly from carrots. Easy and fast

The channel "Carving from vegetables and fruits" contains lessons for beginners and professionals. Beginners will find videos with valuable tips on choosing professional knives and making tools on their own, learn how to quickly and easily craft, make inscriptions. The video shows how to make an unusual butterfly from carrots. The technique is reminiscent of figured paper cutting.

bulb chrysanthemum

Ordinary onions make excellent table decorations. The video gives step-by-step instructions for making a chrysanthemum flower in two versions: white and burgundy. The second option can be done immediately from a colored onion or you can paint the finished flower yourself using beetroot juice.

Orange table decorations

Oranges are well-known antidepressants among fruits. The bright orange color creates high spirits and awakens the appetite. Using a fun fruit to decorate your table is a great idea! The training video is designed for the entry-level knife skills and demonstrates exquisite crafts: a shell box with an olive pearl and an openwork star resembling an anise flower.

How to cut apples beautifully

An apple is unlikely to be able to compete in beauty with exotic fruits and serve as a table decoration. But decorated in the technique of carving - quite. The video will teach you how to create compositions and mini-sculptures from large apples with a knife.

Carving a bird out of an apple

A smart apple will become both a decoration and an edible snack at the same time. A festive table decorated with the help of carving looks much richer and more solemn.

Kiwi flower. Master class for beginners

The online lesson will teach you how to carefully cut smooth lines of petals, separating the skin from the pulp, creating a 3D volume. The craft can serve as the center of the composition or be an independent decoration.

radish flowers

By itself, the radish is a little attractive in taste and appearance of the fruit. However, the bright red color and snow-white core allow you to make chic flower decorations. For crafts, it is important to choose a radish of the correct round shape. Radish flowers are used to decorate cold meat dishes, salads, fried fish, plates with cold cuts.

Carving a bird out of a tomato

Beginners should definitely try the shown technique, which takes only a couple of minutes of time and gives amazing results. Crafts will make a great subject for food photography.

Christmas tree of vegetables for the New Year

Herringbone from radish is simple and fast. It is enough to cut the vegetable into thin plates and chop them together with a toothpick. The video shows how to properly fold the radish strips and assemble them into a single composition. Based on the technique shown, you can create Christmas trees from carrots, cucumbers, zucchini. Use long skewers instead of toothpicks for a taller figure. In the lesson you will also find interesting options for decorating the space around the Christmas tree.

Overview of carving tools

Carving is used by chefs of expensive restaurants, creative housewives, food bloggers. The lesson is popular at creative gatherings for ladies and developing lessons for children.

Simple home carving with step by step photos.

Chrysanthemum from Chinese cabbage

1. Remove loose leaves from a head of Beijing cabbage weighing from 300 to 700 g and cut off the upper part of the head, leaving about 12-15 cm.

2. We work with an oval or triangular carbide groove knife.

3. Let's make cuts of different lengths along the thick veins of the leaves, directing the knife from the top cut of the leaf to the base of the cabbage. We make the beginning of the cut thinner. As we approach the stump, we deepen the knife into the cabbage.

4. Without cutting 1.5-2 cm to the stalk, remove the cut out large leaves. If the sheet is held tight, make a few notches with a small knife.

5. We cut the subsequent rows of leaves in the same way, shortening the length of the chrysanthemum petals to the middle. If the edges of the petals are thin enough, then in cold water they will curl up into rings or curve beautifully.

6. Put the "chrysanthemum" in ice water for half an hour. The product will take on an elegant shape. Let's cut a couple of green "leaves" from a cucumber and make a composition on a dish with salad or various cuts.

Cucumber LILY

1. Cut off a piece of cucumber 7-8 cm in size, cutting off the tail. Let's make a cut in the form of a leaflet, without cutting to the bottom edge of the workpiece.

2. Make other leaves, with a small distance between them, bypassing the workpiece in a circle.

3. Using a knife, make a cut in a circle 1-2 mm thick, creating a platform for cutting the next row. petals.

4. With an oval knife, we make the next row of petals in a checkerboard pattern relative to the previous row. Again we cut the platform for the next level of petals. Make as many rows as the size of the workpiece allows.

5. With a noisette or a knife, scrape the core of the cucumber, creating enough space to place the core in the center of the flower.

6. Cut the leaves with scissors, create a triangular shape at the ends. Dip the flower for a few minutes in ice water - and it will open beautifully.

7. From carrots, pumpkins or radishes, we will make a core of a suitable size. Decorate it with cuts.

8. Insert the core into the flower. Can be fixed with a toothpick.
Let's put a lily on a twig with leaves or on a painted wooden barbecue stick. Leaves for it can also be cut from a cucumber.

CONE from carrots

1. Peel a dense carrot with a diameter of at least 3 cm, cut off a straight piece 8-12 cm in size. Use a knife to make a square “tail” for the future cone. Next, give it an oval shape.

2. Having processed the workpiece in a circle with a knife, we will give the thick end of the cone a rounded shape and prepare a platform for cutting the first row of scales.

3. Visually divide the thick end of the workpiece into 6 parts, cut out 6 petal scales in a circle. The depth of the cut is 2-3 mm.

4. With a knife, make a cut along the cone (deepening the end of the knife by 2-3 mm) under the scales, making out the three-dimensional pattern of the first row, thus creating a platform for the next row of scales.

5. In a checkerboard pattern with respect to the previous row, cut out the next row. Again we cut the platform for the next row of scales. We make as many rows as the size of the workpiece allows.

6. We lower the cone for 10-15 minutes in ice water - it will open a little and harden.

hot pepper callas

ADVICE. If the pepper burns your hands after work, wash them thoroughly and wipe them with vegetable oil.

1. Take red or green hot chili peppers.

2. Cut along the length from the stem to the tip.

3. Carefully cut the pulp around the stalk. Seeds should remain on the stem.

4. Expand the pepper, rinse in cold water and give the workpiece the shape of a calla flower.

5. We make a hole on the spread of the future flower and carefully insert the stalk with seeds into it.

6. Cut out the leaves from any green product (cucumber or others) and create a curly composition.

1. We give the carrots the shape of a cylinder. We pierce along the center line with a thin wooden skewer.

2. Soak the vegetable in a salt solution for 2 hours (1 tablespoon of salt per glass of water). The product must be sufficiently soft and not break when thinly cut.

3. Visually divide the vegetable into four sides. We make the same cuts on the upper and lower sides, cutting through to the skewer. The distance between the cuts is 0.5 cm. Let's make cuts on both sides - between the cuts on the upper and lower sides.

4. Carefully cut the fruit in a circle with a long thin ribbon to the skewer. We cut off the skewer with the "stump" and straighten the net.

5. 6. Cut out several different colorful fish from a wide variety of products.

LILY from carrots

1. We give the vegetable the shape of a cone and a pentagon, cutting with a long knife in a circle from five sides.

2. On each of the 5 cut sides, cut through the petal.

3. Shape the petal with scissors.

4. Remove part of the pulp from under the petals of the first row (make the cone thinner). We cut out five more petals, placing them in a checkerboard pattern relative to the petals of the first row. Do the same for the third row.

5. With a knife, shorten the remaining core and cut it into a cone

6. We split the core into stamens with a knife.

DAHLIA

1. Let's make a slightly flattened rounded blank with a diameter of 5-6 cm from a homogeneous product.

2. Cut out 7-9 petals with a medium oval knife, deepening the knife towards the core.

3. We cut off the excess pulp under the petals of the first row, forming a platform for the next row.

4. Cut out the petals of the next row with knives of different sizes, similarly to the first row. We place them between the petals of the previous row. We make as many rows as possible.

5. We cut to the end and make out the middle.

Chrysanthemum from onions
for decorating salads, meat, fish and vegetable dishes

1. To prepare chrysanthemum, take a small round onion.
You can take both white and red onions. The smaller the bulb, the more beautiful the flower turns out.
Try to choose a thin-walled bulb, then the petals turn out to be thinner and open more beautifully.

2. Peel the bulb and cut off the top and bottom by about 0.5 cm.

3. With a thin sharp knife, carefully cut almost in half, without cutting to the end about 0.5 cm.
The incision is made from the upper side - where the feather grows.

4. Then cut in half again in the same way.

5. Next, cut into as many pieces as you can. It is desirable to make as many incisions as possible.
If the cuts are not deep enough, the flower will not bloom well, and if it is too deep, the flower will fall apart.

6. Put the bulb in water at room temperature - the water should completely cover the bulb.
After an hour and a half, the chrysanthemum should "bloom". The time of "blooming" of the chrysanthemum depends on the variety of the onion. Some varieties are enough and 40 minutes, and some need a couple of hours.

7. To give the flower brightness, dip the tips of the blossoming chrysanthemum into beetroot juice (rub raw beets and squeeze through a cloth). Coloring time - until the desired color is obtained. You can use any other food coloring - brightly colored juice (for example, cherry, blackcurrant), yellow saffron solution, Cahors or other red wine, pickled beetroot brine, etc.
You can paint the whole flower.

Orange colored "chrysanthemum" on lettuce.

onion flower

1. We clean the bulb without cutting off the root seal, but only after cleaning it well from the roots.

2. We make 4-5 cuts (in this example we make 4 cuts) to a depth of 2-3 layers (in this example - 2 layers).

3. We bend the extreme layers (petals), and remove the inner incised layers with a knife. We do all this with caution, because. petals are very brittle.

4. Again we cut the layers of the bulb, shifting the cuts in a checkerboard pattern relative to the first petals. The first incised layer is left, and the inner layers are removed again.

5. Repeat these steps until we reach the middle of the bulb.

7. Then put in a vinegar marinade of water, vinegar and sugar (vinegar and sugar to taste) for 10 minutes or more to obtain the desired taste.
If you want to get a colored flower, add food coloring to the marinade (see previous recipe).

We take out the "flower" from the marinade, slightly shake off the liquid, beautifully straighten the petals and place on a dish.

leek flower

1. Fold a wide leaf of leek in half lengthwise and make frequent cuts from the side of the fold, as shown in the photo.

2. Roll up into a roll - this will be the core of the flower.

3. Make petals from the wide parts of the onion.

4. Fasten the flower with toothpicks and put on a dish.

Leek bow

1. Peel young fresh leeks, cut off the white dense part of about 20 cm. At the same distance from each other, cut the onion lengthwise with several cuts to the full depth (to the center).

2. Bend the “petals” of the first row and cut them approximately in the middle, giving them a triangular shape.

3. Fold the petals of the next row inward with a “bow”.

4. Continue row after row to fold the petals. If the bow does not hold well, you can strengthen it with pieces of wooden toothpicks.

Festive "bouquet" of Beijing cabbage

1. Take an average head of Chinese (Beijing) cabbage.

2. Cut off the top loose part.

3. Traditionally, vegetable carving (carving) is performed using special knives of various shapes. For example, such chrysanthemums are cut with a carving knife in the shape of a groove. But you can adapt a simple tool at hand - an olive can lid, which you need to bend in half to make an oval groove. The edges of the resulting groove are not too sharp, but you still need to be careful. We must adapt to hold it as comfortably as possible, without touching the edges.

4. Take the groove as indicated and cut long grooves along the hard part of the head. At first, the groove should not go very deep. Closer to the base, you need to direct it deeper inward.

5. Before reaching about 2 cm to the end of the sheet, you must stop. Remove the groove and cut out the petal next to it. First, 3-5 petals are placed on one sheet.