Great option registration festive table will be a composition of chrysanthemums, complemented by green cabbage leaves.
To make a chrysanthemum you will need a small onion and a knife with a thin blade. How less vegetable, the more beautiful the flower will turn out. It is desirable that the walls of the bulb are quite thick. This will allow the petals to fully open. The color of the onion does not matter; you can take a red or white vegetable.
In order to do chrysanthemum from onions , you need to do the following steps:
- The bulb should be carefully peeled, being careful not to damage the integrity of the walls. After this, you need to carefully cut off the top and bottom of the vegetable at a distance of 0.5 cm from the beginning.
- Next, you need to cut the onion in half, but you don’t need to cut it completely, leaving 0.5 cm from the end. To do this, it is advisable to use a comfortable knife with a thin blade. The cut should start from the top edge of the bulb, that is, the root should remain intact.
- Then you need to make the same cut, it should be perpendicular to the first one.
- The number of cuts can be any. You need to cut the onion while you can, because a large number of lines will make the flower more magnificent. It is necessary to control the depth of the cuts. If you make them too deep, the future flower will fall apart in your hands. However, cutting too small will prevent it from unraveling.
- The resulting workpiece must be placed in a container with water. room temperature. In this case, the vegetable should be completely hidden in the liquid. You need to leave the flower in this position for some time. During this period it should open completely. The time for the flower to “bloom” depends on the type of onion chosen. Some vegetables need 40 minutes, while others need to sit in water for more than an hour.
- The advantage of onions is that they can be easily colored by strong dyes. The most common natural dye is beet juice, which will give the petals a pleasant pink color. In order to get this juice at home, you need to squeeze the grated vegetable through a cloth. The dyeing time depends on the desired shade.
In addition to beets, you can use berry juices, cherry nectar or blackcurrant juice are ideal. The yellow color can be obtained using a saffron solution. The flower can be painted completely or the petals can be dipped into the dye. The variety of colors allows you to combine chrysanthemums of different shades with each other
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To make a chrysanthemum, you will need a small bulb. At your discretion, you can use a white or red onion. A flower from a small bulb turns out more beautiful. The thickness of the onion walls also affects the quality of the flower. Petals from a thin-walled bulb are more elegant.1. First, peel the onion, wash and dry. Cut about half a centimeter off the top and bottom of the onion.
2. Using a thin, sharp knife, cut the onion almost in half, leaving about half a centimeter short. It is best to make the cut from the top side, in the place where the feather grows.
3. Make another similar cut, perpendicular to the first one.
4. Next, cut the onion into as many pieces as possible. Be careful, because if the cuts are not deep enough, the flower will not bloom well, and, conversely, if the cuts are very deep, the flower will simply fall apart.
5. Now the bulb must be completely immersed in water at room temperature. Depending on the type of onion, it will take from 40 minutes to several hours for the bulbous chrysanthemum to bloom.
6. Such a flower can be painted with beet juice by dipping the entire flower or the tips of its petals. You can use any other food coloring for coloring.
Delicate flower from a white bulb.
1. Clean, wash and dry the white onion. Try to peel the bulb so as not to cut off the root seal.2. We make four to five cuts throughout the bulb, two to three layers deep.
3. Bend back the outer layers, these will be the petals of the flower. Remove the inner cut layers using a knife. Since the petals are fragile, everything must be done with extreme caution.
4. We make the next cuts in a checkerboard pattern. And we repeat the steps from the previous paragraph: bend the first layer, remove the inner one.
5. Repeat these steps until you reach the middle of the onion.
6. After this, the onion must be placed in hot water for a few seconds.
7. Then place the onion in a marinade of water, vinegar and sugar for ten minutes.
*Add the amount of ingredients for the marinade to taste.
8. If desired, the flower can be painted with food coloring. We take the flower out of the marinade, shake off excess liquid, straighten the petals and decorate the dish.
Unusual leek flower
1. Cut a piece of stem about 15 centimeters long. 2. Using a sharp knife, make longitudinal cuts no more than 1.5 centimeters wide.
3. We make petals from cut out thin strips. To do this, bend the strip and then fold it towards the center.
4. Petals can be made in up to three or four rows.
5. After the petals are formed, it is necessary to cut off the excess part of the stem approximately at the level of the petals.
6. You can add volume to the stem using cuts.
Green leek flower
1. Fold the wide stem in half
leeks. Make frequent cuts on the fold side. 2. Roll it up to form the core of the flower.
3. Now you need to make petals from the wide parts of the onion, folding them in half.
4. Secure the flower with toothpicks and place on a plate.
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Step 1. Making a lily from an onion.
Take a flat onion (preferably not a very large one) and peel it. We take a sharp knife, place the onion up with the side where the stems grew, down with the root and carefully cut the onion across - without cutting about a centimeter to the end. Rotate the onion 90 degrees and cut again.
And thus, we turn the onion and cut it without cutting it to the end. The more often the cuts are made, the more beautiful the petals will turn out. Just don't overdo it ;) 
So we have a cut onion. Where is the lily, you ask:) In order for our flower to bloom, it needs to be placed in water for an hour or two.
If you add it to water Apple vinegar and salt, then the flower will also be pickled and quite tasty. 
We take the bulb out of the water and begin to straighten the petals a little with our hands. Try not to pull too hard to avoid tearing it off. Do it carefully.
Step 2. Color our lily.
You can dye with natural and artificial dyes. Natural dyes are beets and turmeric. They give pink and Orange color. Onions colored with beet juice come out very beautiful color. And the lily turns out just like a real one.
To color the flower, pour 1-2 tablespoons of beet juice. You can get juice like this: grate the beets and squeeze them lightly. We take the onion out of our water and move the leaves through the juice. Then we put it back into the water and add juice there. And let it lie there for 10 minutes.
When you remove the flower, lightly straighten the petals again and place the lily on a paper towel to drain excess water.
That's it, our onion lily is ready! It's time to go decorate the dishes!
DIY chrysanthemum from a bulb + Photo
Quite easy to do original decoration for salads, vegetables, fish and meat dishes- create a chrysanthemum from onions.
To create a chrysanthemum from a bulb you will need:
Onion
Bowl of cold water
Beetroot for added pink (optional)
Thin knife
The process of creating a chrysanthemum from a bulb:
1. To create a chrysanthemum, take a small round onion (you can use either white or red onions). How smaller size bulbs, the more beautiful the flower turns out (Fig. 1). It is also advisable to choose a thin-walled bulb, then the petals will be thinner and open more beautifully.
3. Using a thin knife, start cutting the onion from the top side (Figure 2). It is important not to cut to the end about 1.5- 2 cm . You can cut it either gradually or simply in half, then in half again, into as many pieces as possible. It is advisable to make as many cuts as possible. If the cuts are not deep enough, the flower may not bloom well, and if the cuts are too deep, the flower may completely fall apart.
4. Place the whole onion in cold water(Figure 4). Opening may take from 20 minutes to 1.5 hours - it all depends on the type of onion.
5. If you want to give the flower a bright pink tint, then dip the tips of the blossoming chrysanthemum in beet juice (rub raw beets and squeeze through the fabric). You can also immediately cut pieces of beets and put them in a bowl with chopped onions (Fig. 5). The coloring time will depend on the desired color of the chrysanthemum.
The chrysanthemum from the bulb is ready!
You can also use any other food coloring- brightly colored juice (for example, cherry, blackcurrant), yellow saffron solution, Cahors or other red wine, pickled beet brine, etc.You can color the whole flowers.
Onion - 1 piece
Water (room temperature)
Recipe for “Onion Chrysanthemum”:
- To prepare a chrysanthemum, take a small round onion. You can take either a white or a red onion. The smaller the onion, the more beautiful the flower turns out. Try to choose a thin-walled onion, then the petals will turn out thinner and open more beautifully.
- Peel the onion, cut off the top and bottom by about 0.5 cm. Using a thin, sharp knife, carefully cut the onion, not cutting about 0.5 cm to the end. An incision is made on the upper side where the feather grows. Then cut in half again , also without cutting to the end 0.5 cm.
- Then cut into as many pieces as possible. It is advisable to make as many cuts as possible. But in such a way as not to spoil the neighboring petals. If the cuts are not made deep enough, the flower will not bloom well, and if the cuts are too deep, the flower will fall apart.
- Place the bulb in water, at room temperature, the water should cover the bulb completely. After 1.5 hours, the chrysanthemum should bloom!
- The time it takes for a chrysanthemum to bloom depends on the type of onion. For some varieties, 50 minutes is enough, and for others, a couple of hours are needed. See for yourself how long it takes you! To make the flower bloom faster, help it! Move the petals apart in the water with your fingers, just don’t break them!
Another little advice, if you squeeze the juice out of red beets and paint the tips of the chrysanthemums, it will be absolutely lovely!)))
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