With snacks begins any festive feast. Beautifully decorated snacks create a first impression of the culinary skills and mastery of the hostess. Meat, fish and cheese cuts are especially popular. Of course, sausage cut in neat circles will not surprise anyone. But if you show a little imagination and patience, then from the cuts you can create real masterpieces.
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When creating a festive cut, it is important to remember that fish delicacies should not be combined on the same plate with meat and cheese. But cheeses and sausages can be combined. Also, all these products go well with some vegetables and fruits.
Cutting in the form of rolls looks very nice. It is better to make it from balyk, boiled pork, bacon, smoked sausages. All these products are cut into thin long slices, their thickness should be no more than 3-5 mm. For decoration you will need pitted olives and olives, thin strips of cucumbers and lettuce.
Salad is laid on a flat wide plate. Rolls are formed from slices of meat delicacies, olive or olive, a sprig of greens and a slice of cucumber are placed inside. If necessary, skewers can be used for fastening.
Formed rolls are laid out on a plate in the shape of a circle row by row. Each row is made up of the same type of meat. In the middle is a small saucer with sauce - it can be horseradish or mustard. Cutting is additionally decorated with sprigs of greens and olives.
If desired, the hostess and a sufficient amount of time such meat rolls can still be stuffed with salad. The method of decorating rolls is suitable for fish slices.
Canapes - this slicing method involves almost any combination of products. For canapes, meat delicacies, fish and cheeses of various varieties, bell pepper, cherry tomatoes, avocado, olives, slices of kiwi and orange, greens are used. All components are cut into neat cubes and put on a skewer.
To make the canapes look original, you can use special curly knives. Canapes stacked on lettuce leaves, decorated with greens.
Cuttings decorated in the form of flowers look very unusual. It is quite simple to make them from thin meat or cheese slices. In order to make feces from a flower, the slice must be round. It is folded with a cone, a thin strip of cucumber or bell pepper is placed inside - the middle of the flower. The calla base is fixed with a skewer.
Roses are best made from meat products, as their slices are more elastic. The middle of a rose is formed from one sausage or meat slice, then it is wrapped with petals, fixed with skewers crosswise. The base of the rosette must be trimmed so that it is flat. Petals need to give a beautiful bend and volume.
You can put such a rose in the microwave for a few minutes, then the sausage along the edges itself will curl beautifully under the influence of high temperature.
A composition of several cheese and sausage callas or roses, decorated with sprigs of greens and strips of vegetables, will look great on the table. Thinly sliced cheese and meat of other varieties in the form of a semicircle are neatly laid out around the flowers on a plate, and the dish is decorated with greens around the edges.
The above described cutting methods will not take much time when preparing a festive table. But guests will be delighted with beautifully decorated and delicious dishes.