Fruit and vegetable slices have long been considered an integral part of both a festive and everyday table. After all, this is a dessert, and an appetizer for wines, and a light lunch snack.
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You will need
- - vegetables and fruits;
- - dish;
- - a sharp knife (or shredder).
Instruction manual
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First of all, it is necessary to pay attention to the appearance of fruits and vegetables, because they have to lie on the table for quite a long time, and they must pass this test with dignity. In other words, fruits and vegetables should be very fresh, not beaten and not have any damage to the skin. So, for slicing you must select the freshest, but at the same time elastic and dense fruits.
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It is necessary to correctly calculate the cutting time, and even better to cut fruits and vegetables right before serving. After all, the less vegetables and fruits will come in contact with the air, the longer they will remain appetizing. If this is not possible, then prepare the lemon in advance and periodically sprinkle the cut with lemon juice. This will help avoid darkening of fruits and vegetables.
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To make the cutting as thin as possible, you need to prepare a sharp knife in advance, or rather a few. The fact is that the knives are very blunt on the skin when slicing fruit. If you sharpen a knife every time instead of changing it to a sharper one, you will lose a lot of time, and this is undesirable, especially if you need to cut a lot of fruits and vegetables.
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Fruits are cut into slices, thin circles, cubes. One of the serving options: circles of oranges and apples are laid out at the bottom of the dish in a spiral, in the shape of a "turret", so that in the center of the dish there is a hole into which pieces of hard apples or pears cut into slices or straws are inserted.
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Another popular variation of slicing vegetables and fruits is curly. To do this, you need a special grater shredder, which can be found in any hardware store. And due to a variety of special devices, fruits can even be represented in the form of flowers. The name of such decorative cutting is carving.
note
Vegetables and fruits must be thoroughly washed before slicing, because they will not undergo heat treatment before serving.
Useful advice
If it seems to you that the guests cannot eat the whole cut, then use only half of the prepared vegetables and fruits, because it is better to cut later, if not enough, than to throw out the darkened and weathered goodies.