Greens, vegetables, fruits, as well as boiled eggs, cheese and even colored butter are the best helpers in decorating sandwiches. This decoration should be combined with the main ingredients to taste and at the same time contrast with them in color. When you are laying out ready-made sandwiches on a dish, watch out for combinations: tomato decorations harmonize with egg, cucumber decorations with dill, etc.
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You will need
- butter
- cheese
- cucumbers
- tomatoes
- carrot
- egg
- fresh greens
- lettuce
- lemon
- knife
- vegetable cutter
- toothpicks
- ice water
Instruction manual
1
The easiest way to decorate any sandwich is to sprinkle them with finely chopped dill, parsley, celery or lettuce. You will have a little more complicated with the feathers of green onions. Cut off 2/3 of the greenery and the same amount of the white part of the onion arrow. Make as many cuts along the remaining green leaves. For 10 minutes, put the feathers in ice water: they curl.
2
Fresh, pickled or pickled cucumbers can simply be cut into rings. From them you can make spirals or baskets (and fill them with berries). Tomatoes are also cut into thin slices, combine them with fresh basil leaves. Still small tomatoes can be cut in a zigzag pattern across. From the peel of a tomato, you can put a flower. To do this, with a sharp knife in a continuous line in a spiral, you need to cut off the skin from the tomato.
3
Carrots are used for decoration in boiled and raw form. Boiled in salted water with the addition of vinegar, carrots are cut into cubes. Crude - cut with a vegetable cutter along the thin strips. Each strip is fixed with a toothpick and placed for 5 minutes in ice water. Then remove the carrot curl from the skewer.
4
Boiled eggs are cut into round pieces. Or - cut them in half so that later two “crowns” will turn out.
5
Lemon or orange can be cut into thin circles. On each piece an incision is made from the middle to the edge. Screw the wheel in two different directions.
6
The pieces of cheese are given different shapes: triangles, squares, cubes, cubes. Cut pieces of the same shape from apples or pears. String them on a skewer.
7
Colored butter (with the addition of greens or tomatoes) is placed in the freezer. Pulling it out, grate it and lay it on top of the sandwich.
Useful advice
To decorate a sandwich with red caviar, greens are best suited - dill or parsley. But there is a more effective option. Cut round slices from white bread with a glass. Put soft butter in a pastry bag with a nozzle. Squeeze the oil out of it around the circumference of the future sandwich. Put caviar in the middle.
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