To make a chrysanthemum, you need a small onion. At your discretion, you can use a white or red onion. A flower from a small onion turns out to be more beautiful. Also, the thickness of the onion walls affects the quality of the flower. The petals from a thin-walled bulb are more graceful.
1. First peel the onion, wash, dry. Cut about 1/2 inch from the top and bottom of the onion.
2. Using a thin, sharp knife, cut the onion in almost two parts, without finishing cutting about half a centimeter to the end. It is best to make the cut from the top, 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 if the cuts are not deep enough, the flower will not bloom well, and, conversely, with very deep cuts, the flower will simply fall apart.
5. The bulb should now be completely immersed in water at 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 beet juice by dipping the whole 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 peel the bulb so that you do not cut off the root seal.
2. Throughout the onion, make four to five cuts, two to three layers deep.
3. Fold back the outer layers, these will be the flower petals. Remove the inner cut layers with a knife. Since the petals are brittle, everything must be done with utmost care.
4. The next cuts are made in a checkerboard pattern. And we repeat the actions from the previous paragraph: bend the first layer, remove the inner one.
5. Repeat these steps until you reach the middle of the onion.
6. After that, the onion must be placed in hot water for a few seconds.
7. Then place 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 colored with 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 the stem approximately 15 centimeters long.
2. With a sharp knife, make longitudinal cuts no more than 1.5 centimeters wide.
3. Make petals from the thin strips cut out. To do this, bend the strip and then tuck it towards the center.
4. Petals can be made up to three to four rows.
5. After the petals are formed, it is necessary to cut off the excess part of the stem at about the level of the petals.
6. You can add volume to the stem using incisions.

Leek flower

1. Fold the wide stem in half leeks. Make frequent cuts on the side of the fold.

2. Roll it up to be the core of the flower.

3. Now you need to make petals from the wide parts of the onion, folding them in half.

4. Secure the flower with toothpicks and place on a dish.

We hope that you will be able to repeat the suggested color options for your holiday dishes. It is best to first practice on a regular day, and on a holiday to surprise all guests with your new creativity. Do not forget that only carving-style culinary masterpieces will help you to create.
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An excellent option for decorating a festive table will be a composition of chrysanthemums, complemented by green cabbage leaves.

To make a chrysanthemum, you need a small onion and a knife with a thin blade. The smaller the vegetable, the more beautiful the flower will be. It is desirable that the walls of the bulb are quite thick. This will allow the petals to open fully. The color of the bulb does not matter, you can take a red or white vegetable.

In order to do chrysanthemum onion, you need to do the following steps:

1. The bulb should be carefully peeled, taking care not to disturb 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.
2. Next, you need to cut the onion in half, but you do not need to completely cut it, leaving 0.5 cm from the end. For this, it is advisable to use a convenient knife with a thin blade. The incision must be started at the top of the bulb, which means that the root must remain intact.
3. Then you need to make the same cut, it should be perpendicular to the first.
4. The number of cuts can be any. You need to cut the bulb while it works, as a large number of lines will make the flower more magnificent. The depth of the cuts must be controlled. If you make them too deep, the future flower will fall apart in your hands. However, cuts that are too small will prevent it from blooming.
5. The resulting workpiece must be placed in a container with water at room temperature. In this case, the vegetable must completely disappear into the liquid. You need to leave the flower in this position for a while. During this period, he must fully open up. The “blooming” time of the flower depends on the variety of the selected onion. Some vegetables need 40 minutes, while others need to sit in the water for more than an hour.
6. The advantage of onions is that they can easily be colored under the influence of strong dyes. The most common natural color is beet juice, which will give the petals a pleasant pink color. In order to get such juice at home, you need to squeeze the grated vegetable through a cloth. The dyeing time depends on the desired shade.

In addition to beets, you can use berry juices, cherry nectar or blackcurrant juice is ideal. A yellow color can be obtained with a saffron solution. 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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The adorable onion chrysanthemum will undoubtedly be the best decoration for many dishes! It looks especially good on salads such as a fur coat and Olivier; it also perfectly decorates meat and fish dishes, meat pies, snacks and many other dishes. The most curious thing is that making such a chrysanthemum will not be difficult, as well as painting it in the future so that it accurately imitates a flower. Look at the two onion chrysanthemums below, one yellow and one 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:

The work is quite simple, you can do it in a matter of minutes:

1. First, prepare large onions.

2. Peel it, cut off both the bottom and the top by about half a centimeter (even a little less). Then start cutting the onion in half, but not until the very end. If you do not cut it completely, the onion will not open, and if 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 have a blank like the one in the photo below. Put the cut onion in warm water for an hour - it will gradually open like a flower. The opening time depends on the type of onion. It may take 30 minutes to 2 hours.

3. Finally, the still white chrysanthemum can be dyed. For red or pink chrysanthemums, use fresh beet juice and dip the onion chrysanthemum with the tips down (or whole, if desired). The intensity of the color depends on the duration of exposure in the juice - check every 10 minutes to get the desired color.

Today we will manufacture carving red onion flower... Decorating a finished dish is half of its success with guests. After all, it is known that a person perceives food not only with the help of taste buds, but also with the help of smell, sight and even touch. That is, practically by all organs. So if you want to surprise your guests, go ahead and decorate your dishes with carving. Is the art of fruit and vegetable carving.

Ingredients and tools:

• Red onion - 1 pc.
• Triangle knife, Thai knife
• Cold water

Carving red onion flower - recipe

Peel the bulb, being careful not to damage the rhizome.

To avoid crying when cutting, soak the onion in cold water for thirty minutes.

Trim off a small portion of the onion from the tail side.

Take a triangular carving knife and make cuts around the rhizome. The depth of the cuts must match the thickness of the top layer of the onion. The petals should be about two centimeters long.

Cut the first row of petals in a circle.

Now we need to remove the rest of the top layer of the onion. To do this, very carefully, using a Thai knife, cut only the top layer of the onion in several places.

Carefully, piece by piece, peel off the rest of the top sheet.

Discard any unnecessary leftovers.

Cut through the second row of the exact same petals. At the same time, make the petals longer than in the first row.

Place the petals in a checkerboard pattern relative to the first row of petals. Remove the excess of the second leaf from the surface of the bulb in the same way as the first.

The third row of petals is best cut with a larger triangular knife. But, if there is no second triangular knife, you can cut them out with the same triangular knife.

Cut the remaining onion layers in the same way. You will end up with a pretty cute flower that you can use to decorate any salad or cold cuts.

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

Any tight vegetables are suitable for flowers: cucumbers, daikon, radishes, tomatoes, onions, bell peppers. It is not necessary to be proficient in carving to get a beautiful flower craft. It is enough to learn a few lessons on the formation of flowers and each hostess 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 beetroot or carrot roses flaunts on top. Next, we will take a step-by-step look at how simple vegetable flowers are made.

A regular bulb can easily turn into a chic white chrysanthemum. This flower can be used to decorate a salad or main course.

You will need:

• 1 small onion;
• water at room temperature.

Manufacturing process:

1. For chrysanthemums, a small, dense onion bulb is suitable. It is desirable that the bow be thin-walled. You can use white, pink, or blue bows. Accordingly, you get flowers of different colors.
2. Remove the husk 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. To cut, we start from the top edge, where the feather usually grows. Now we make another longitudinal cut perpendicular to the first. It turns out the onion is 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 neighboring petals.
   

   The notches should be deep enough for the flower to appear lush. But if you cut too much, then 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. We leave for an hour and a half. Gradually, the onions bloom in the water and turn into a lush chrysanthemum, as in the photo
5. Depending on the type of onion, the opening time may take longer or less. If time is running out, you can gently spread the petals with your fingers, then the flower will be ready even earlier.

Fresh cucumber rose

You can decorate any salad with a beautiful rose or place it in the center of a plate with meat or vegetable cuts. Any person can make such a flower, even those who are very far from cooking and carving.

You will need:

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

Manufacturing process:

1. From the washed, dried cucumber, we begin to cut thin longitudinal stripes with a peeler, from which we will subsequently form petals. We will not need the very first strip with the skin.
2. Slowly cut the stripes until we reach the core with the seeds. Because parts cut with seeds will fall apart, then we turn the vegetable on its other side. Cut off strip by strip again. From one medium cucumber, 16-20 blanks are obtained.
3. Choose the narrowest and shortest strip, roll it up with a small spiral displacement, forming the middle of the flower.
4. Now we form the first petal. Without letting go of the center of the bud, we take a cucumber strip with our free hand, we wind one end of it behind a spiral tube. Slightly lower we make a bend away from ourselves, lowering the other end to the base of the bud. We wrap the base of the rose with the remaining end of the strip 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 from ourselves and wrap the bottom of the flower with the tip. We try to form the subsequent petals in a checkerboard pattern so that the base of the previous petal is covered by the next one. Because the vegetable strips are covered with sticky cucumber juice, then the petals will easily stick together. If too long blanks come across, then we shorten them in the course of work.
6. Don't worry if the flower is asymmetrical or crooked somewhere, this will give the rose a more natural shape. To form one bud, we need about 11-12 petals.
7. At the end of the work, the flower can be fixed with a toothpick, supplemented with several leaves from the same cucumber or several sprigs of parsley.

In the same way, you can make roses from daikon, carrots, pickles, etc.

From the orange root, very beautiful bright flowers are obtained that do not need 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, jellied or snack cake.

You will need:

• 1 long carrot;
• sharp knife.

Manufacturing process:

1. Wash carrots, peel them. We make sure that the carrots are free of damage and wormholes. Cut off the top and bottom of the root crop to make a barrel. Cutting off the excess, we form a pentagon from the carrot.
2. Armed with a sharp knife, we cut off a thin strip-petal from each face, slightly not cutting to the very bottom. We sharpen each petal from 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 shifted 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. Round the rest of the central part to make a cone. On this 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 is obtained from beetroot. The root crop has a bright color, smoothly changing shades.

You will need:

• 1 large beet root vegetable;
• small kitchen knife with a thin blade.

Manufacturing process:

1. First, let's prepare the vegetable for work. Wash the beets thoroughly, peel them. Now we give it the desired shape. On one side, outline the base of the bud. We give it a conical forum, cutting off all unnecessary. The petals will be cut along the cone, the second part remains rounded.
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 to the end 1-0.5 cm. 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 unnecessary from under the petal. To do this, put the knife at an acute angle to the inside of the cut petal and cut off the unnecessary. This creates additional space between the rows of petals. We go in a circle, cutting off the petals - the first row is ready.
4. Now we begin to cut off the second row, just form 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 do the third level in a similar way, only gradually reducing the size of the petals and changing the angle of their inclination, since the cone will truncate more and more. The petals must be handled with extreme caution, as they are very fragile and can break off with one careless movement.
6. Having made 4 levels, we proceed to making the middle of the bud. We also cut out petals from it, only they turn out to be small enough.
7. We examine the bud for the last time, level the petals. The pink beet bud is ready.

Sweet pepper flower

Using peppers of different sizes and colors, you can get a beautiful flower bouquet that you can even eat.

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 the entire pulp of the pepper into thin strips, moving in a circle.
2. We cut each formed narrow petal lengthwise into two more parts. Therefore, it is better to take fleshy pepper. If we only cut off the peel, it will curl up into a circle. And if a little pulp remains on the peel, then both petals will be straight.
3. When the vegetable is finished, immerse the pepper in cold water for a quarter of an hour. The petals in the water will open, spread apart, making the flower voluminous and beautiful. If we left only the skin, then it will twist into a ring, forming beautiful curls along the radius of the flower. Such a graceful flower will become a real decoration of the festive table.

Edible carrot flower

Blanks for this fabulous flower are very easy to cut. Then they are going to 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;
• peeler;
• 1 small onion onion.

Manufacturing process:

1. Wash carrots, peel, make an oblique cut. Using a vegetable peeler, cut thin petals along this cut.
2. Cut each petal from one edge in half to the center of the workpiece. At this point, the petal will fold and prick onto the toothpick during assembly.
3. From the opposite side along the edge to the center of the workpiece, cut off narrow strips on both sides of the petal tip. For one flower we make 4 large petals and 4 slightly smaller.
4. So, we begin to collect the flower. First put on the large petals on the edge of the toothpick. To do this, we take the first blank, string on the edge of a toothpick, first one half of the part cut in half, and then the other. Thanks to this, the petal takes the shape of a boat. The cut antennae stick out. We string all 4 large petals, placing them opposite each other.
5. Now we also put on smaller petals, just arrange them in a checkerboard pattern. At the end of the toothpick we put on a piece of white onion to imitate the core of the flower.
6. To make the flowers tastier, add table vinegar and salt to the boiled chilled water to taste. Stir everything well, put our flowers 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 difficult at all.

You will need:

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

Manufacturing process:

1. We put on rubber gloves so as not to get burned when working with hot peppers. Wash the pepper and dry it.
2. With a sharp knife, make a longitudinal incision along one of the walls. 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 are not sprinkled, because they will be central to our craft.
3. We unfold the pepper on the plank, give it the shape of an antarium. To do this, it is enough to round off the bottom of the workpiece and slightly trim the top so that it becomes pyramidal with a rounded edge.
4. The final touch remains. Having stepped back from the base of the workpiece 2-3 cm, we make a puncture in the center on the front shiny side. Insert the tail from the pepper into it, and the core with the seeds remains on top, turning into a flower pistil. Antarium is ready.

The white papillote made of daikon with a bright orange core looks very bright in spring. Therefore, it is good to decorate festive dishes for March 8 and Easter with it.

You will need:

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

Manufacturing process:

1. My daikon, peel it off. Cut off the lower tapering part and the tip. You should get a blank in the form of a barrel 10-12 cm high.
2. Separately, in a bowl, prepare a cool saline solution, place the daikon blank there for an hour. After that, the radish pulp will soften and it will be easy to cut.
3. Now place the keg on its side on a cutting board. We begin to cut a strip 2 mm thick and 10 cm long with a sharp knife in a circle.
4. Fold the resulting tape in half lengthwise. We take a sharp knife and begin to make cuts from the side of the bend, not cutting to the end of 1 cm. We make notches in increments of 0.5-0.7 cm.
5. Twist the fringe into a flower, chop it off with a toothpick.
6. We do the same operation with carrots to get a fringe to form the center of the papillote. We attach an orange piece 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 stalk of leeks;
• toothpick.

Manufacturing process:

1. We take a fresh onion stalk, wash it thoroughly, separate one outer leaf. Fold it in half along its entire length.
2. With a sharp knife we ​​make notches from the side of the bend, without cutting to the edge of 1 cm.Cuts are made every 0.5 cm.
3. We turn the blank into a spiral, starting from the light green part of the sheet. Then the flower will turn out light inside, and gradually darken towards the edges.
4. We make petals from the wide part of the stem, bending equal segments of the stem in half.
5. We attach 6 petals to the core twisted in a spiral with toothpicks. This completes the work on the flower.

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

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