Make flowers from vegetables. The easiest way to make any dish festive: flowers from vegetables

Decorating dishes is a real art! If you want to give your table a festive look, the best option is to cut out decorative elements from vegetables and fruits. This technique, originally from Japan, is called carving - artistic carving of vegetables.
In ancient Japan, dishes were served in earthenware, covered with leaves for beauty. The Japanese realized that fresh green leaves, harmoniously combined with food, make the dish much more attractive in appearance, and began to experiment with vegetables. Nowadays, little Japanese children learn carving from the age of 11. I can’t believe that these exquisite flowers are made from various vegetables: such delicate work. It's actually easy and looks amazing!
1. You can make a water lily from an onion.
2. Transforming an ordinary bulb into a lotus: for a beautiful shade, you can sprinkle the tips of the flower with beetroot juice.

3. Incredibly lush flower from Chinese cabbage.

4. Another option for onion lotus. The center can be made from carrots; bell peppers will also look beautiful.

5. Onion lotus. The yellow center can be made from carrots, yellow bell peppers, or egg yolks.

6. This is the kind of flower you can make from an ordinary radish!

7. Cucumber and red cabbage will make a rose.

8. This cucumber flower is very easy to make, just by cutting the cucumber into thin slices. Looks great!

9. Onions and carrots are ideal vegetables for carving.

10. From chili peppers you can cut flowers that look amazingly like red anthurium.

11. A nice bonus - a strawberry flower. Decoration for any dessert!

To decorate the table beautifully, you can use a variety of vegetables - large radishes, smooth-skinned cucumbers, pumpkin; The best cut fruits are apples, oranges and lemons, watermelons and melons. To make a carrot flower beautiful, choose a vegetable without a pronounced core. The cabbage should stick well to the stalk; a dense head of cabbage will look better. Bell peppers, thanks to their rich color, perfectly complement any flower vegetable.

Any dishes on the table, especially on a holiday, evoke an appetite, but when there are decorations on it, the rest of the dishes seem even more appetizing. You can often see decorations made from vegetables and fruits in a cafe or restaurant, and many housewives think that they won’t be able to make them with their own hands.

In fact, this is not so; if you wish, you can do it yourself, thereby delighting both your household and guests at the holiday table. Children really like such beautiful dishes, so caring mothers decorate the table with them for children's parties.

"Roses" from cucumber

This is a fairly simple method that will help you gain some skills in creating decorations from vegetables and fruits served on the table.

Ingredients:

• Cucumber;
• Special knife for chopping vegetables.

Cooking method:

"Ladybugs"

This dish is not only beautiful, but also very tasty. Children really like its appearance, so you can prepare it for a child’s birthday or other holiday. On an adult table, such a snack will also be very popular.

Ingredients:

• Cheese – 50 g;
• Mayonnaise – 2 tbsp. l.;
• Tomatoes – 4 pcs.;
• Greenery;
• Garlic – 1 clove;
• Egg – 2 pcs.

Cooking method:

If you are preparing a dish for a child's birthday, you can use less garlic. It is better to take the “cream” variety of tomatoes, because they are oblong.

As a filling for this dish, which is usually served on a festive table, you can use any salad, for example, fish, eggs and herbs, or olives, bell peppers and feta cheese, etc.

Fruit pizza "Peacock"

A tasty, very beautiful, colorful dish that does not require baking and is very healthy. Children are very happy with this treat, so when looking for a beautiful dish that can be prepared for a children's party, you can safely stop at this one.

If you are going to prepare a fruit decoration in the form of a Peacock pizza for a children's birthday, you can do it together with the kids - they will really like this entertainment.

Ingredients:

• Juice – 250 ml;
• Muesli – 0.5 kg;
• Condensed milk – ½ can;
• Sour cream – 0.5 l;
• Gelatin – 3 g;
• Grapefruit – 1 pc. (large);
• Any fruit.

Cooking method:

Our pizza with fruit is ready, you can delight the kids with it. If you cook with your children, distribute the work between them.

You should eat the delicacy with a spoon so that it does not crumble.

"Fruit basket"

We will make it from watermelon. This is an excellent summer decoration for any table - even when going outdoors, you can put fruit in such an impromptu basket.

It’s not difficult to create a table decoration such as a watermelon basket with fruit at home.

Ingredients:

• Watermelon – 1 pc. (preferably large);
• Mint;
• Fruits (assorted).

Cooking method:

With these decorations your table will always be colorful. Roses and other flowers can be used as decoration for dishes or placed on the table as an independent dish, like other culinary masterpieces.

Food should not only be tasty, but also beautifully presented. After all, first we eat with our eyes, and then we start the meal itself. You can simply decorate this or that dish with a sprig of herbs, but flowers made from whole vegetables will look much more beautiful. Bright roses, chrysanthemums, and daisies will turn any lunch into a celebration.

Any hard vegetables are suitable for flowers: cucumbers, daikon, radishes, tomatoes, onions, sweet peppers. You don’t have to be perfect at carving to make a beautiful flower craft. It is enough to learn a few lessons on the formation of flowers and every housewife will be able to aesthetically serve any ordinary dish. Even the usual “Herring under a fur coat” or “Olivier” will play differently if a bouquet of beet or carrot roses is on top. Next, we will take a step-by-step look at how simple vegetable flowers are made.

An ordinary bulb can easily turn into a gorgeous white chrysanthemum. This flower can be used to decorate a salad or main dish.

You will need:

• 1 small onion;
• water at room temperature.

Manufacturing process:

1. For chrysanthemums, a small, dense onion is suitable. It is desirable that the onion be thin-walled. You can take white, pink or blue onions. Accordingly, you will get flowers of different colors.
2. Remove the peel from the onion, cut off the top and root. Using a sharp knife, cut the onion lengthwise, not cutting 0.5 cm to the bottom edge of the onion. When cutting, we start from the top edge, where the feather usually grows. Now we make another longitudinal cut perpendicular to the first one. The result is an onion almost cut into 4 parts.
3. We cut each quarter into several petals, moving the knife in the same direction (from top to bottom, without cutting to the end). We try to make the cuts carefully so as not to damage the adjacent petals.
   

   The notches should be deep enough to make the flower lush. But if you cut too much, the bud will simply fall apart and will not hold its shape.

4. Pour water at room temperature into a deep bowl, place the onion in it so that the liquid completely covers it. Leave for one and a half hours. Gradually the onion will bloom in water and turn into a lush chrysanthemum, as in the photo
5. Depending on the type of onion, it may take more or less time to open. If time is running out, you can carefully spread the petals with your fingers, then the flower will be ready even earlier.

Fresh cucumber rose

A beautiful rose can decorate any salad or place it in the center of a plate with sliced ​​meat or vegetables. Anyone can make such a flower, even those very far from cooking and carving.

You will need:

• 1 long fresh cucumber;
• vegetable peeler;
• toothpicks.

Manufacturing process:

1. From a washed, dried cucumber, we begin to cut thin longitudinal strips with a vegetable peeler, from which we will subsequently form petals. We won't need the very first strip of skin.
2. Slowly cut the strips until we reach the core with the seeds. Because the cut parts with seeds will fall apart, then we turn the vegetable over on the other side. Cut strip by strip again. One medium cucumber yields 16-20 pieces.
3. We select the narrowest and shortest strip, roll it into a tube with a slight spiral offset, forming the middle of the flower.
4. Now we form the first petal. Without letting go of the center of the bud from your hand, take a strip of cucumber with your free hand and wrap one end of it behind the spiral tube. A little lower we make a bend away from ourselves, lowering the second end to the base of the bud. We wrap the remaining end of the strip around the base of the rose as low as possible. The petal is ready.
5. We apply the next strip to the base of the first petal, bend it in the same way away from ourselves and wrap the tip around the bottom of the flower. We try to form subsequent petals in a checkerboard pattern so that the base of the previous petal is covered by the next one. Because Since the vegetable strips are covered with sticky cucumber juice, the petals will easily stick together. If we come across blanks that are too long, we shorten them as we work.
6. Don't worry if somewhere the flower turns out to be asymmetrical or crooked, this will give the rose a more natural shape. To form one bud we will need about 11-12 petals.
7. At the end of the work, the flower can be secured with a toothpick, supplemented with several leaves from the same cucumber or several sprigs of parsley.

Using the same scheme, you can make roses from daikon, carrots, pickles, etc.

The orange root vegetable produces very beautiful bright flowers that do not require additional coloring. You can easily make a beautiful lily from a small carrot in a matter of minutes. It can be used to decorate a salad, aspic or snack cake.

You will need:

• 1 long carrot;
• sharp knife.

Manufacturing process:

1. Wash the carrots and peel them. We make sure that there are no damage or wormholes on the carrot. We cut off the top and bottom parts of the root vegetable to make a barrel. Cutting off the excess, we form a pentagon from the carrots.
2. Armed with a sharp knife, we cut off a thin petal strip from each edge, not cutting a little to the very bottom. We sharpen each petal at the ends, cutting off the excess at the corners.
3. We cut off the next row of petals, but not from the place where the first ones were cut off, but slightly moving to the side. The petals should be staggered. Thus, we cut out 3-4 rows of petals depending on the thickness of the carrot.
4. We round the remaining central part to form a cone. At this point our lily is ready. The same white lily can be cut from daikon.

Pink beet bud

If you need to beautifully decorate a dish with roses, then the most beautiful rose comes from table beets. The root crop has a bright color that smoothly changes shades.

You will need:

• 1 large beetroot;
• small kitchen knife with a thin blade.

Manufacturing process:

1. First, let's prepare the vegetable for work. Wash the beets thoroughly and clean them. Now we give it the desired shape. On one side we outline the base of the bud. We give it a conical forum, cutting off all excess. The petals will be cut along the cone, the second part remains round.
2. We outline the place where the first lower petal will be located. Holding the root vegetable firmly, we cut off the first petal, not cutting 1-0.5 cm to the end. Moving from the center along the wall of the cone to its base. Closer to the base, the petal should thicken, and we try to make the edge very thin.
3. We cut out all the excess from under the petal. To do this, place the knife at an acute angle to the inside of the cut petal and cut off what is unnecessary. This way we create additional space between the rows of petals. We go around the circle, cutting off the petals - the first row is ready.
4. Now we begin to cut the second row, only forming the petals in a checkerboard pattern relative to the first row. We also remove excess pulp. If necessary, trim and round the edges of the petals.
5. We make the third level in the same way, only gradually reducing the size of the petals and changing their angle of inclination, because the cone will become increasingly truncated. The petals must be handled with extreme caution, because... They are very fragile and can break off with one careless movement.
6. Having made 4 levels, we proceed to making the center of the bud. We also cut out petals from it, only they turn out to be quite small.
7. We inspect the bud for the last time and straighten the petals. The pink beet bud is ready.

Sweet pepper flower

Using peppers of different sizes and colors, you can get a beautiful floral bouquet that you can even snack on.

You will need:

• 1 pod of sweet pepper with a tail;
• cold water;
• small kitchen knife.

Manufacturing process:

1. Taking the pepper by the tail, we make cuts with a sharp knife. We move from the top of the pod to its base, without cutting a couple of centimeters to the tail. Cut all the pepper pulp into thin strips, moving in a circle.
2. We cut each resulting narrow petal lengthwise into two more parts. Therefore, it is better to take meaty peppers. If we cut off only the peel, it will curl into a circle. And if a little pulp remains on the peel, then both petals will be straight.
3. When chopping the vegetable is finished, immerse the pepper in cold water for a quarter of an hour. The petals in the water will open and spread apart, making the flower voluminous and beautiful. If we leave only the skin, it will curl into a ring, forming beautiful curls along the radius of the flower. Such an elegant flower will become a real decoration of the festive table.

Edible carrot flower

The blanks for this fabulous flower are cut out very simply. Then they are collected with a toothpick and the decoration is ready. And to make the flower tasty to eat, the petals are kept in a marinade.

You will need:

• 1 large thick carrot;
• salt and vinegar to taste;
• water;
• sharp knife;
• toothpick;
• vegetable peeler;
• 1 small onion.

Manufacturing process:

1. Wash the carrots, peel them, and make an oblique cut. Using a vegetable peeler, cut thin petals along this cut.
2. Cut each petal in half from one edge to the center of the workpiece. At this point, the petal will fold and prick onto a toothpick during assembly.
3. From the opposite side along the edge to the center of the workpiece, we cut off narrow strips on both sides of the top of the petal. For one flower we make 4 large petals and 4 slightly smaller ones.
4. So, let's start collecting the flower. First we put the large petals on the edge of the toothpick. To do this, take the first piece, string first one half of the part cut in half onto the edge of a toothpick, and then the other. Thanks to this, the petal takes on the shape of a boat. The cut off antennae stick out. We string all 4 large petals, placing them opposite each other.
5. Now we also put on smaller petals, but we arrange them in a checkerboard pattern. Place a piece of white onion on the end of a toothpick to imitate the core of a flower.
6. To make the flowers tastier, add table vinegar and salt to taste to boiled chilled water. Mix everything well, put our flowers in there for an hour. Decorations marinated in this way can be stored in the refrigerator for several days.

The bright red hot pepper antarium looks very impressive on the table. A dish decorated with such a flower will not go unnoticed. And making such a decoration is not at all difficult.

You will need:

• 1 pod of hot pepper;
• scissors;
• sharp knife.

Manufacturing process:

1. We wear rubber gloves to avoid getting burned when working with hot peppers. Wash and dry the pepper.
2. Using a sharp knife, make a longitudinal cut along one of the walls. We cut off the pulp around the stalk, cut out the tail along with the core on which the seeds are attached. You need to act carefully so that the seeds do not fall out, because... they will occupy a central place in our craft.
3. We unroll the pepper on a board and give it the shape of an antarium. To do this, it is enough to round the bottom of the workpiece and slightly trim the top so that it becomes pyramidal in shape with a rounded edge.
4. The final touch remains. Having retreated 2-3 cm from the base of the workpiece, we make a puncture in the center on the front shiny side. We insert the tail of the pepper into it, and the core with the seeds remains on top, turning into a flower pistil. The antarium is ready.

A white papillot made from daikon with a bright orange core looks very bright in spring. Therefore, it is good to decorate holiday dishes for March 8 and Easter.

You will need:

• 1 daikon;
• 1 carrot;
• salt;
• water;
• sharp knife.

Manufacturing process:

1. Wash the daikon and remove the peel. Cut off the lower tapering part and the tip. You should get a barrel-shaped piece 10-12 cm high.
2. Separately, prepare a steep salt solution in a bowl and place the daikon preparation there for an hour. After this, the radish pulp will soften and will be easy to cut.
3. Now place the barrel on its side on a cutting board. We begin to cut a strip of 2 mm thick and 10 cm long in a circle with a sharp knife.
4. Fold the resulting ribbon in half lengthwise. We take a sharp knife and start making cuts from the side of the bend, without cutting to the end of 1 cm. We make cuts in increments of 0.5-0.7 cm.
5. We twist the fringe into a flower and chop it off with a toothpick.
6. We perform the same operation with carrots to obtain a fringe to form the center of the curler. We attach the orange part to the center of the flower with a toothpick. The flower is ready.

A very effective decoration for any leek dish.

You will need:

• 1 leek stalk;
• toothpick.

Manufacturing process:

1. Take a fresh onion stalk, wash it thoroughly, and separate one outer leaf. Fold it in half along its entire length.
2. Using a sharp knife, make cuts from the side of the bend, not cutting 1 cm to the edge. We make cuts every 0.5 cm.
3. We roll the workpiece into a spiral, starting from the light green part of the sheet. Then the flower will be light inside, and will gradually darken towards the edges.
4. We make petals from the wide part of the stem by bending equal sections of the stem in half.
5. Attach 6 petals to the spiral-twisted core with toothpicks. At this point, the work on the flower can be considered completed.

To ensure that your own vegetable flowers do not disappoint you, choose fruits with a dense structure. Also, many vegetables tend to dry out quickly when cut, so you should not make vegetable flowers long before serving. As a last resort, store the flowers in the refrigerator until ready to serve. If you follow these simple rules, your dishes and decorations will impress even the most picky guest. Bon appetit everyone!

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How to make the prepared dish even more attractive? How to create an atmosphere of joy and beauty?

There are simple and accessible techniques for decorating holiday dishes. You will need the most common products, minimum costs and minimum time. Vegetable flowers are a win-win.

Difficulty level: for beginners. Start right now to make the world around you brighter and more interesting!

• Follow the basic rules for combining color palettes and products. Feel free to use contrast.
• It is preferable to decorate salads (and dishes in general) with those products that are part of the salad itself or combined with its components.
• If the decoration is intended for cutting, then it is better to take a plain plate, without a pattern, so that it does not interrupt the composition.

Master class “Do-it-yourself flowers from vegetables”

Attention! Flowers can be made in advance and immersed in water, and then, just before serving the dish, used to decorate a salad or salad.

Take a tin can (for example, a beer can), cut a rectangle with scissors and bend it in half (see photo). This simple device will help you create a cabbage flower.

Move from the outer layer to the center.

Dip the finished flower into water for better preservation.

The lush aster is ready!

Divide the peeled carrots into 2 parts. The smaller part is the base of the future flower; curly petals are made from the long part. It is convenient to use a special knife for channeling - it applies decorative grooves to vegetables, fruits, mushrooms, and cuts cucumbers, radishes, and carrots into thin shavings.

Petals are inserted into the notches in the base in a circle. This can be done in any order.

A bright fantasy carrot flower will decorate any dish!

Use a sharp knife.

Simple, cheap and beautiful!

I really hope that my advice will be useful and in demand!

Turn dishes on a festive or everyday table into an artistic painting. Let bright flowers bloom on their surface. If you know how to make a flower out of vegetables, it will not be difficult at all. Then you can quickly turn an ordinary carrot into a lily, an onion into a chrysanthemum, and a tomato into a rose.

The tomato becomes a rose

You can start with the simplest decorations, talking about how to make a scarlet rose from a tomato. Take a tomato and, using a sharp knife, cut a thin strip of it in a spiral 1 cm wide, starting from the top.

After this, take the resulting curl, twist it in the shape of a rose and place it on the salad. You can make not just one such flower from vegetables, but several. Then the dish will bloom with scarlet roses. If you have yellow, black, white tomatoes, cut out roses from them; such variegated flowers look great on the table.

The pulp can be used in salad or using it to take another photo will help with this.

More ideas that a tomato will help implement

Cut as many tomato slices as you want to make fun little flowers. You can also use whole fruits with peel. Place spinach or small lettuce leaves on a plate in a semicircle. Place a tomato slice in the middle. The flower will be mischievous - with eyes and a mouth. Make eyes from two small circles of cucumber, and pupils from an olive cut in half.

Form a mouth from a semicircular piece of carrot, and place sweet corn in the form of teeth. The flower stem can be a branch of celery, parsley or dill. You can put the same flower next to it on the plate. Serve the salad to your child: even if he didn’t like it before, he will eat it with pleasure.

If you want to make a vegetable flower in 30 seconds, use a small, sharp knife. Stick it into the center of the tomato and make a zigzag cut in a circle. Separate the two halves, place each on a lettuce leaf - and the exotic red lily is ready!

Blooming carrot rose

This vegetable also gives limitless scope for imagination. To create flowers from vegetables with your own hands (in particular, from carrots), take a fairly large root vegetable. Clean it, if the crown has a slightly greenish core, cut off this part. Below it, cut a piece that will be 6-8 cm in diameter, and the height of this piece will be 5 cm.

If you have special knives for carving, take one called Thai. If not, take a regular small one with a thin tip. Turn the workpiece with the thick end towards you. To round a sharp corner, cut a thin ring at the top edge. It won't be needed. Next, cut out a semicircular petal on the base. Using a knife, remove some of the pulp from under it. This will make the petal look more distinct.

In the same way, cut out 3 more petals nearby at the same level. In this case, each subsequent element should extend beyond the previous one by approximately 5 mm. Hold the knife at 45 degrees. Cut the petals of the second row so that they are staggered relative to the first. Now hold the knife in a more vertical position.

Before completing the third row, cut off the pulp in the form of a ring from the edge of the workpiece and remove it. Using this technology, perform 8-9 rows. Turn the rose over and admire its splendor.

Simpler options for orange vegetable decorations

You can make carrot flowers in an easier way. If you want orange daisies floating in the soup, place the peeled carrots vertically. Cut 4 strips symmetrically from top to bottom. Lay the workpiece horizontally and chop it into thin circles. Each one will look like a flower. If you wish, you can make its petals rounded. A child will also eat soup with such decoration with pleasure. You can place carrot daisies along the edge of the plate, put a second dish in it, which both the child and even the adult will greet with a bang.

Make a rose out of this vegetable as well. To do this, cut the shavings from it in a spiral. Then, just like with the tomato, arrange it in the form of a rose. To make the shavings more pliable, you can immerse them in warm, slightly salted water for 15 minutes.

Beetroot charm: decorating dishes

The photo will help you understand how to cut directly on the beets. To do this, first wash, dry the fruit and peel the peel.

Next, start making the core. To do this, insert the thin sharp tip of the knife into the middle part of the fruit 2 cm. Draw a circle with a diameter of 1.5 cm around this place. Step back 2 cm beyond this ring, use the tip of the knife to draw a circle with a diameter of 1.7 mm. Using the same point, remove the resulting 2 mm wide ring. Step back another 5mm outwards, draw a circle and remove the 2mm rings.

The middle is ready, it’s time to make the next flower from vegetables, in particular its petals. From the outer circle outward, draw a petal with a knife, then the next one. Complete the entire first row in this manner. Poke the point of the knife 2 cm and carefully cut the outline of all the semicircular petals. Then cut out 2 veins on each of them.

Step back 1 cm from the edges of the petals, draw a circle, cut out the flesh at this place with a 5 mm indentation. Then the petals will become more distinct. In a checkerboard pattern, cut out the second row of petals, which are 1.5-2 times larger than the first. Also mark the veins on them.

Finally, cut off the beet pulp along the edge, and the vegetable flower is ready.

Celery will give room for creative imagination

A real masterpiece can be made in a matter of minutes from the stems. Usually its stems are eaten, and a small piece near the root zone is thrown away. And in vain, make a fabulous flower out of it. Dilute your favorite color of food coloring according to the instructions. Holding the root part, dip a cut of celery into the paint. Turn it over, put it on a plate, let it dry and you can decorate the holiday table.

If you don't have celery, the bottom of the bok choy will do. If you do not plan to use this flower later, you can dip it in ink or paint and make an original stamp on the invitation envelope. After the paint has dried, give or forward the invitation to those you want to invite to visit. They will never guess what kind of print it is. And when they come, they will see original flowers made from vegetables; you can make a whole composition out of them with your own hands.

Festive bouquet: first touches

Guests will be even more enchanted if the center of the festive table is dazzling with a colorful bouquet. When they look closely, they will understand that instead of buds there are flowers from carrots, peppers, tomatoes, white cabbage, and lettuce leaves play the role of greenery.

Start by preparing a vase of a suitable diameter; it should not be narrow and transparent. In the center, place a piece of white foam rubber of the same diameter as the vase, but it should not reach 7 cm from its edges.

Take wooden skewers. Put carrot roses on some of them. To do this, you just need to pierce the flower from the back with the end of a skewer. In the same way, attach cone- and barrel-shaped sweet bell peppers.

We continue to create a miracle bouquet

A quick master class will show you how to make other elegant edible decorations. Flowers from vegetables (tomatoes, cabbage) are not difficult to create.

Thread 2 small red and yellow (drop-shaped) tomatoes onto skewers. Take a leaf of white cabbage and cut out a star with not very thin rays. Fold 2-3 corners so that they meet each other halfway. Pin them together with a skewer at this point. The remaining 2-3 corners will be positioned freely, like blossoming petals.

In the same way you can make from

As you make each flower, insert the free end of the skewer into the sponge. Moisten it with cool water to prevent the greens from wilting. Drape the gap between the skewers with basil sprigs and lettuce leaves. You can use parsley, dill, whatever you have on hand.

Cucumber to the rescue

When covering the question of how to make a flower from vegetables, we can also mention the cucumber. In addition to the common method - spiral chips, there are many others.

Chop the cucumber into 7mm thick slices. If you have small flower cookie cutters, place them on the cookie cutters, press and cut out. You can do this with a knife.

If you don’t have extra time, cut the cucumber into thin slices and place them in the shape of a flower on a plate or finished dish.

Flowers made from vegetables and fruits will decorate any table or room, and will help turn even a weekday into a festive one!