Charming onion chrysanthemum will undoubtedly become the best decoration many dishes! It looks especially good on salads, such as a fur coat and Russian salad, and also perfectly decorates meat and fish meals, meat pies, snacks and many other dishes. The most curious thing is that it will not be difficult to make such a chrysanthemum, as well as paint it in the future so that it accurately imitates a flower. Look at the two onion chrysanthemums below, yellow and pink, both dyed with natural ingredients. And how they look like a real flower!
And even a simple white onion chrysanthemum also looks very, very festive, wonderfully decorating a salad with itself:
The work is quite simple, you can do it in a matter of minutes:
1. First, cook large onions.
2. Peel it, cut off both the bottom and the top about half a centimeter (even a little less). Then start cutting the onion in half, but not all the way through. If you cut it incompletely, the bow will not open, and if it is cut to the very end, it will fall apart. Cut with a sharp knife into as many divisions as possible - then the flower will be fluffy and very beautiful.
Ideally, you should get such a blank as in the photo below. Put the cut onion for an hour in warm water- it, like a flower, will gradually open. The opening time depends on the type of onion. It may take 30 minutes to 2 hours.
3. At the end, the still white chrysanthemum can be painted. For red or pink chrysanthemums, use fresh beetroot juice and dip the onion chrysanthemum tips down (or whole, if desired). The intensity of staining depends on the duration of exposure in the juice - check every 10 minutes to get the right color.
1. First, clean the bulb, wash, dry. Cut about half a centimeter from the top and bottom of the bulb.
2. Using a thin sharp knife, cut the onion almost into two parts, without cutting about half a centimeter to the end. It is best to make an incision on the upper side, in the place where the feather grows.
3. Make another similar cut, perpendicular to the first.
4. Next, cut the onion into as many pieces as possible. Be careful, because with insufficiently deep cuts, the flower will not bloom well, and, conversely, with very deep cuts, the flower will simply fall apart.
5. Now the bulb must be completely immersed in water 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 beetroot juice by dipping the entire flower or the tips of its petals. Any other food coloring can be used for coloring.
Delicate flower from a white bulb.
1. We clean, wash, dry the white onion. Try to clean the bulb so as not to cut off the root seal.2. Throughout the bulb, we make four or five cuts two or three layers deep.
3. We bend the extreme layers, these will be the flower petals. We remove the internal incised layers with a knife. Since the petals are brittle, everything must be done with extreme caution.
4. We make the following cuts in a checkerboard pattern. And we repeat the steps from the previous paragraph: we bend the first layer, we eliminate the inner one.
5. Repeat these steps until you reach the middle of the bulb.
6. After that, the bulb must be placed in hot water for a few seconds.
7. Then put the onion in a marinade of water, vinegar and sugar for ten minutes.
*Add the amount of ingredients for the marinade to taste.
8. Optionally, the flower can be painted food coloring. We take out the flower from the marinade, shake off excess liquid, straighten the petals and decorate the dish.
Unusual leek flower
1. Cut off a piece of stem about 15 centimeters long. 2. With a sharp knife, we 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 tuck it to the center.
4. Petals can be made 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 incisions.
Green leek flower
1. Fold a wide stem in half
leeks. From the side of the fold, make frequent cuts. 2. Roll up this will be the core of the flower.
3. Now you need to make petals from the wide parts of the onion by folding them in half.
4. Secure the flower with toothpicks and put on a dish.
We hope that you will be able to repeat the proposed color options for your festive dishes. It is best to first practice on a normal day, and on a holiday to surprise all the guests with your new creativity. Don't forget what to do culinary masterpieces in the style of carving will only help you.
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Excellent design option holiday 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 be. It is desirable that the walls of the bulb were quite thick. This will allow the petals to fully open. The color of the bulb does not matter, you can take a red or white vegetable.
To do chrysanthemum from onion , you need to do the following steps:
- The bulb should be carefully cleaned, trying not to break the integrity of the walls. After that, 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 do not need to cut it completely, leaving 0.5 cm from the end. To do this, it is advisable to use a convenient knife with a thin blade. The incision should start from the top edge of the bulb, that is, the root should remain intact.
- Then you need to make the same incision, it should be perpendicular to the first.
- The number of cuts can be any. You need to cut the onion while it turns out, as a large number of lines will make the flower more magnificent. It is necessary to control the depth of the incisions. If you make them too deep, the future flower will fall apart in your hands. However, too small incisions will not allow it to bloom.
- The resulting workpiece must be placed in a container with water at room temperature. In this case, the vegetable should completely disappear in the liquid. You need to leave the flower in this position for a while. During this period, it should fully open up. The time of "blooming" of the flower depends on the variety of the selected onion. For some vegetables, 40 minutes is enough, while others need to lie in the water for more than an hour.
- The advantage of onion is that it can be easily stained under the influence of strong dyes. The most common natural dye is beetroot juice, which will give the petals a nice pink color. In order to get such juice at home, you need to squeeze the grated vegetable through a cloth. Coloring time depends on the desired shade.
In addition to beets, you can use berry juices, cherry nectar or blackcurrant juice is ideal. Yellow color can be obtained with a solution of saffron. The flower can be dyed completely or the petals can be dipped in the dye. A variety of colors allows you to combine chrysanthemums of different shades with each other
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Carving in translation from English means "cutting". Cooking is an art artistic cutting on fruits and vegetables. This interesting view creativity in Southeast Asia. Japanese cooks lined pottery in which food was served with leaves. They understood that the beautiful arrangement of the leaves gives the dish an additional appeal and began to artistically cut fruits and vegetables.
Later, carving penetrated Europe, but at first it did not have much popularity here. However, with the advent of restaurants, this art has become in high demand.
There are kits for artistic cutting for every budget and taste. But carving for beginners can be carried out without the use of special equipment for this type of creativity.
If desired, you can turn sets for wood cutting, for linocut into tools for carving.
The most important knife used in this type of creativity is Thai. That's what he is.
With the help of such a tool, you can perform various carving elements from vegetables and fruits. Therefore, if you have a similar narrow knife with a thin blade, on initial stage only one can be used. As you master this technique, you can purchase additional equipment to create more and more complex and interesting compositions. For these, the following types of knives are used:
- Thai - sickle-shaped curved and wedge-shaped knives also belong to the group of these tools.
- Karbovochnye are V-shaped tools, as well as oval and round.
- Flute. Used to remove thin strips from fruits and vegetables. Flutes are the decorative grooves on such instruments.
- Noisettes are notch knives that are used to cut shapes out of fruit. They have different shape(rhombus, round, clouds, etc.).
- Engraving and other carving knives with replaceable blades are used if you need to peel, remove the core; clean vegetables, etc.
- Culinary tools such as our domestic cookie molds.
Here is a sickle-shaped knife, which is used, like the Thai one, but they cut larger parts with it.
The fluting knife makes it easy to groove fruits and vegetables. First, longitudinal strips are made with this tool, and then, for example, a lemon is cut across in circles and flower-shaped figures are obtained.
Carving knives for carving come in various diameters. They can be V-shaped and U-shaped. The first is easy to cut out the leaves, to carry out engraving images on the fruit bark.
With the help of U-shaped knives, ornaments with rounded cuts are created.
Also included in the carving tools are small scissors. With the help of them, flat straight, oblique or other cuts are made along the edge of the fruit.
Another interesting tool for carving is a double-sided noisette spoon. It is used for extracting pulp from large fruits, cutting balls, hemispheres.
The noisette spoon is often used in french cuisine. Cooks use this tool to cut balls from raw potatoes and then deep fried.
If you have not acquired such tools yet, you can replace them by carving vegetables and fruits with a scalpel, a fruit peeler.
Decoration from vegetables - a flower from a radish
The dish looks much more attractive if such an edible flower flaunts in its center or side. Even those who have never done this before will be able to cut it out of a radish. For this decoration, you can use ordinary small scissors and a sharp knife. In addition to them, you will need radishes. The root crop should be even, rounded. In the photo it is red, but now those who grow this vegetable in their backyards know that radish varieties of various colors have been bred. Therefore, a lily from this vegetable can be red, pink, yellow and even purple.
Cut off the top of the radish and mentally draw a 5-gon here. Now lead from this place down with a knife (but not all the way) so that the first petal is indicated. So complete all five.
To make the next, inner row of petals clearly visible, cut around the layer of pulp that is located between the first and second row of petals.
Now take the scissors and process all 5 petals of the outer row with them, sharpening the top of each, as shown in the photo.
This is how you can make salad dressings from vegetables. Try to cut not only a lily, but also a rose from a radish.
To make it so multi-petalled, wash the root crop, cut off the green part from it. On the opposite side, make several parallel cuts in the center and then on the side of the root. Take another radish, chop it into thin circles. Insert them into the slots of the first root crop. Here is such an elegant flower you got. Find out what other salad dressings you can cut out quickly.
How to make a lily from an onion?
Here is such a wonderful chrysanthemum you will get in just 5 minutes of work.
For this carving you will need:
- large onion;
- sharp knife;
- a bowl of water;
- beetroot juice.
Now make a cut perpendicular to this, and then a few more. The more of them, the more fluffy the flower will turn out.
Pour water at room temperature into a bowl, lower the workpiece into it, let the onion soak in the liquid for 40-120 minutes. During this time, the petals will "bloom", and you will succeed beautiful flower in carving technique.
The time for soaking onions in water depends on the variety. Some will begin to “bloom” in as little as 40 minutes, while for others, the waiting time for this process will be longer.
Now soak the workpiece in beetroot juice, and you will get such a wonderful flower.
You can, by turning the chrysanthemum over, moisten only the tips of its petals in the juice, or place the entire flower in the food coloring liquid.
How to cut a delicious carrot decoration?
Don't these bumps look bright, realistic and festive? You can make them using carving knives, or by taking a regular kitchen knife with a narrow blade.
Take a root crop with a diameter of at least 3 centimeters. Cut upwards so that the length of the carrot is 8–12 cm. Remove the extreme pulp at the wide end of the root crop so that a square “tail” remains.
Now process the workpiece from the same side along the turn, rounding its hangers from all sides. Then visually divide this top of the carrot into 6 parts, which will turn into scales of a do-it-yourself cone.
Deepening the tip of the knife by 2–3 mm, mark these scales. To prepare the area for the second row of scales, cut the carrot pulp in a circle just below the first. In the same way, but in a checkerboard pattern, complete the second row of scales. Under it, again remove a little along the cone carrot pulp to make the third row of scales, which will be staggered in relation to the second.
In the same technique, you can make a few more cones to create a beautiful vegetable bouquet.
To harden the carrots and open the scales, place them in ice water for 15 minutes.
If you were making this salad dressing, then put the cones in the center of the dish or place them around the edge of it. If you want to create such an amazing bouquet, as in the photo, then string the processed carrots on a wire wrapped in green floral tape. You will stick the second end of the wire into a pumpkin, the flesh of which is also carved using the carving technique. It remains to cut the petals from the cucumber, decorate the composition with dill, after which you can put it in the most prominent place in the house or in the center of the festive table.
If you have carving knives, then use a V-shaped knife to make pointed scales. A U-shape will help create rounded ones.
Today you learned how carving is made from vegetables. Follow the publications and soon you will learn how to artistically cut fruits that will turn into a firebird, a basket, and become colorful flowers.
In the meantime, check out the videos from which you will learn how to cut a rose from carrots, see what ordinary vegetables can be turned into with carving:
Onion - 1 pc.
Water (room temperature)
Onion Chrysanthemum Recipe:
- To prepare a chrysanthemum, take a small round onion. You can take both white and red onions. The smaller the onion, the more beautiful the flower turns out. Try to choose a thin-walled bulb, then the petals turn out thinner and more beautifully open.
- Peel the onion, cut off the top and bottom by about 0.5 cm. With a thin, sharp knife, carefully cut the onion, not cutting to the end of about 0.5 cm. The incision is made from the upper side where the feather grows. Then, cut in half again , also not cutting to the end of 0.5 cm.
- Then cut into as many pieces as you can. 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 deep enough, the flower will not bloom well, and if they are too deep, the flower will fall apart.
- Put the bulb in water, at room temperature, the water should cover the bulb completely. After 1.5 hours, the chrysanthemum should bloom!
- The blooming time of the chrysanthemum depends on the type of onion. Some varieties need only 50 minutes, and some need a couple of hours. See for yourself how long it takes you! To help the flower bloom faster, help it! Spread the petals right in the water with your fingers, but don't break them!
Another little advice, if you squeeze the juice from the red beets and paint the tips of the chrysanthemum, it will be generally lovely!)))
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