Do it yourself chrysanthemum from a bulb + Photo

Quite simply, you can make an original decoration for salads, vegetables, fish and meat dishes - create a chrysanthemum of their onions.

To create a chrysanthemum from a bulb you will need:

Onion

Bowl of cold water

Pink beets (optional)

Thin knife

The process of creating chrysanthemum from a bulb:

1. To create a chrysanthemum, take a small round bulb (you can use both white and red onions). The smaller the size of the bulb, the more beautiful the flower is (fig. 1). It is also advisable to choose a thin-walled bulb, then the petals will be thinner and more beautiful to open.

3. Using a thin knife, start cutting the onion from the upper side (Fig. 2). It is important not to cut to the end about 1.5-2 cm . It is possible to cut both gradually and simply in half, then in half, into as many parts as possible. It is advisable to make the maximum number of cuts. If the cuts are not deep enough, the flower may not bloom well, and if too deep, the flower may completely fall apart.

4. Put the whole bulb in cold water (fig. 4). For disclosure, it may take from 20 minutes to 1.5 hours - it all depends on the onion variety.

5. If you come to give the flower a bright pink tint, then dip the tips of the blossoming chrysanthemum in beetroot juice (rub the raw beets and squeeze through a cloth). And you can also immediately chop the beets and put them in a bowl with chopped onion (Fig. 5). Coloring time will depend on the desired color of the chrysanthemum.

Bulb chrysanthemum is ready!

You can also use any other food coloring - brightly colored juice (for example, cherry, blackcurrant), yellow saffron solution, cahors or other red wine, pickled beet brine, etc.You can color the whole flowers.

Very easy to make onion chrysanthemum for decorating salads, meat, fish and vegetable dishes
1. To make chrysanthemum, take a small round onion.
You can take both white and red onions.
The smaller the bulb, the more beautiful the flower.
Try to choose a thin-walled bulb, then the petals are thinner and more beautifully open.
2. Peel the onion and cut off the top and bottom by approximately 0.5 cm.
3. With a thin sharp knife, carefully cut almost in half, without cutting to the end about 0.5 cm.
An incision is made from the upper side - where the feather grows.
4. Then cut again in half in the same way.
5. Next, cut into as many parts as possible. It is advisable to make as many cuts as possible.
If the cuts are not deep enough, the flower will bloom poorly, and if too deep, the flower will fall apart.
6. Put the onion in room temperature water - the water should cover the onion completely.
In an hour and a half, the chrysanthemum should “blossom”.
The time to “bloom” a chrysanthemum depends on the variety of onions. 40 minutes are enough for some varieties, and some need a couple of hours.
7. To give the flower brightness, dip the tips of a blossoming chrysanthemum in beetroot juice (rub raw beets and squeeze through a cloth).
Coloring time - until the desired color is obtained.
You can use any other food coloring - brightly colored juice (for example, cherry, blackcurrant), yellow saffron, cahors or other red wine, pickled beet brine, etc.
You can color the whole flower.

Food should be not only tasty, but also beautifully designed. After all, first we eat with our eyes, and then proceed to the meal itself. You can simply decorate a particular dish with a sprig of greenery, but flowers from whole vegetables will look much more beautiful. Bright roses, chrysanthemums, daisies will turn any meal into a celebration.

Any taut vegetables are suitable for flowers: cucumbers, daikon, radishes, tomatoes, onions, sweet peppers. It is not necessary to own perfect carving to get a beautiful floral craft. It is enough to learn a few lessons on the formation of flowers and each 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 bunch of beetroot or carrot roses flaunts on top. Next, we will step by step look at how simple vegetable flowers are made.

An ordinary bulb can easily turn into a chic white chrysanthemum. You can decorate a salad or a second dish with such a flower.

You will need:

• 1 small onion;
• water at room temperature.

Manufacturing process:

1. For a chrysanthemum, a small dense bulb is suitable. It is desirable that the onion was thin-walled. You can take white, pink or blue onions. Accordingly, flowers of different colors will turn out.
2. Remove the husk from the onion, cut off the top and spine. With a sharp knife, we cut the onion along, not cutting to the bottom edge of the onion 0.5 cm. To cut, we begin from the upper edge, where the feather usually grows. Now we make another longitudinal incision perpendicular to the first. It turns 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, not cutting to the end). We try to make cuts carefully so as not to damage neighboring petals.
   

   The notches must be deep enough to make the flower magnificent. 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 an hour and a half. Gradually, the onions in the water bloom 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 unfold. 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

You can decorate any salad with a beautiful rose or place it in the center of a plate with meat or vegetable slices. Anyone can make such a flower, even very far from cooking and carving.

You will need:

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

Manufacturing process:

1. With a washed, dried cucumber, we begin to cut thin longitudinal stripes with a peeler, from which we will subsequently form the petals. The very first strip with a skin we will not need.
2. Slowly cut the stripes until we reach the core with seeds. Because details cut with seeds will fall apart, then we turn the vegetable over the other side. Again, cut the strip after the strip. One medium cucumber produces 16-20 pieces.
3. Choose the narrowest and shortest strip, fold it with a tube with a small spiral offset, forming the middle of the flower.
4. Now form the first petal. Without releasing the center of the bud from our hands, we take with a free hand a strip of cucumber, we wind one end of it for a spiral tube. A little lower we bend from ourselves, lowering the second end to the base of the bud. Wrap the remaining end of the strip the base of the rose as low as possible. The petal is ready.
5. We apply the following strip to the base of the first petal, bend it in the same way from ourselves and wind the bottom of the flower with the tip. We try to form subsequent petals in a checkerboard pattern so that the base of the previous petal is covered by the next. Because the vegetable strips are covered with sticky cucumber juice, the petals will easily stick together. If you get too long blanks, then in the course of work we shorten them.
6. Do not 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 need about 11-12 petals.
7. At the end of the work, the flower can be fixed with a toothpick, supplemented with several leaves of the same cucumber or several sprigs of parsley.

According to the same scheme, roses can be made from daikon, carrots, pickles, etc.

From the orange root, very beautiful bright flowers are obtained that do not need additional staining. Without difficulty, from a small carrot you can make a beautiful lily in a matter of minutes. You can decorate salad, jellied or snack cake with it.

You will need:

• 1 long carrot;
• sharp knife.

Manufacturing process:

1. Wash carrot, peel it. Make sure that the carrots are not damaged and wormholes. We trim the upper and lower parts of the root crop to make a barrel. Cutting off excess, we form a pentagon from carrots.
2. Armed with a sharp knife, from each face we cut a thin strip of petal, not slightly cutting to the very bottom. We sharpen each petal from the ends, cutting off the excess in the corners.
3. Cut off the next row of petals, but not from the place where the first was cut off, but slightly shifted to the side. Petals should be staggered. Thus, we cut 3-4 rows of petals, depending on the thickness of the carrots.
4. We round the remaining central part to get a cone. On this, our lily is ready. The same white lily can be cut from a daikon.

Pink beetroot bud

If you need to beautifully decorate the 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 root vegetable beetroot;
• small kitchen knife with a thin blade.

Manufacturing process:

1. First, prepare the vegetable for work. Carefully wash the beets, peel. Now we give it the desired shape. On the one hand, we outline the base of the bud. We give it a conical forum, cutting off everything unnecessary. The petals will be cut along the cone, the second part will remain rounded.
2. We outline the place where the first lower petal will be located. Firmly holding the root crop, 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 the excess 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. So we create additional space between the rows of petals. We walk in a circle, cutting off the petals - the first row is ready.
4. Now we begin to cut the second row, we only form the petals in a checkerboard pattern relative to the first row. Also remove excess flesh. If necessary, trim and round the edges of the petals.
5. Similarly, we make the third level, only gradually reducing the size of the petals and changing the angle of their inclination, because the cone will be truncated more and more. Handle the petals very carefully, as they are very fragile and can break off from one careless movement.
6. After making 4 levels, we begin to manufacture the middle of the bud. From it, we also cut the petals, only they turn out quite small.
7. The last time we inspect the bud, align the petals. The pink beetroot bud is ready.

Sweet pepper flower

Using peppers of different sizes and colors, you can get a beautiful floral bouquet, which you can even have a bite to eat.

You will need:

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

Manufacturing process:

1. Taking pepper by the tail, 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. We cut the whole pulp of pepper into thin strips, moving in a circle.
2. Each narrow petal formed is cut lengthwise into two more parts. Therefore, it is better to take fleshy pepper. If we cut only the peel, then it will curl up in a circle. And if a little pulp remains on the peel, then both petals will be straight.
3. When the slicing of the vegetable is finished, immerse the pepper in cold water for a quarter of an hour. The petals in the water will open, disperse to the sides, making the flower voluminous and beautiful. If we left only the skin, then it will curl like 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

Blanks for this fabulous flower are cut very simply. Then they gather for a toothpick and the decoration is ready. And for the flower to be tasty to eat, the petals are aged in the marinade.

You will need:

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

Manufacturing process:

1. Wash carrot, peel, make a slanting cut. On this slice with the help of a peeler we cut thin petals.
2. Each petal from one edge is cut in half to the center of the workpiece. At this point, the petal will fold and bite onto the toothpick during assembly.
3. On the opposite side, along the edge to the center of the workpiece, cut off narrow strips on both sides of the petal apex. For one flower, we make 4 large petals and 4 slightly smaller ones.
4. So, we begin to collect the flower. On the edge of the toothpick we put on first large petals. To do this, take the first workpiece, string on the edge of the toothpick, first one half of the part cut in half, and then the other. Thanks to this, the petal takes on the shape of a boat. Cut off antennae stick out. We string all 4 large petals, placing them, opposite each other.
5. Now we also put on smaller petals, we only arrange them in a checkerboard pattern. At the end of the toothpick we put on a piece of white onion to mimic the core of the flower.
6. To make the flowers taste better, add table vinegar and salt to the boiled chilled water. We mix everything well, lower our flowers there for an hour. Decorated in this way, jewelry can be stored in the refrigerator for several days.

Bright red hot pepper antarium looks very impressive on the table. A dish decorated with such a flower will not go unnoticed. And to make 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 burns when working with hot pepper. Wash and dry pepper.
2. With a sharp knife along one of the walls we make a longitudinal incision. Around the stalk, cut the flesh, cut the tail together with the core, on which the seeds are attached. You need to act carefully so that the seeds do not sprinkle, because they will occupy a central place in our craft.
3. We unfold the pepper on board, give it the shape of an antarium. To do this, it is enough to round the lower part of the workpiece and slightly level the apex so that it becomes a pyramidal shape with a rounded edge.
4. There is the final touch. Stepping back from the base of the workpiece 2-3 cm, in the center from the front shiny side we make a puncture. We insert a tail of pepper into it, and the core with seeds remains on top, turning into a flower pestle. Antarium is ready.

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

You will need:

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

Manufacturing process:

1. Daikon mine, remove the peel. Cut off the lower tapering part and the apex. You should get a blank in the form of a barrel 10-12 cm high.
2. Separately, in a bowl, we prepare a cool saline solution, put there a blank of daikon for an hour. After this, the flesh of the radish will soften and will be easily cut.
3. Now put the barrel on its side on a cutting board. We start in a circle to cut with a sharp knife a strip 2 mm thick and 10 cm long.
4. The resulting tape is folded in half along. We take a sharp knife and begin to make cuts from the bend side, 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 off with a toothpick.
6. We perform the same operation with carrots to get a fringe to form the center of the papillot. In the center of the flower we attach an orange detail with a toothpick. The flower is ready.

A very effective decoration for any leek dish.

You will need:

• 1 stalk of leek;
• toothpick.

Manufacturing process:

1. We take a fresh stem of onion, wash it thoroughly, separate one outer sheet. We fold it in half over the entire length.
2. With a sharp knife, we make notches from the bend side, without cutting to the edge of 1 cm. We make cuts every 0.5 cm.
3. We turn the workpiece into a spiral, starting from the light green part of the sheet. Then the flower will turn out to be light inside, and will gradually darken to the edges.
4. From the wide part of the stem we make the petals, bending the same segments of the stem in half.
5. We attach 6 petals to the twisted spiral core with toothpicks. At this work on the flower can be considered finished.

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

Video:

Soon a series of delicious holidays. It's time to prepare for them, hone your skills in decorating dishes. I make such flowers tasty: in addition to sugar and vinegar, I pour salt into the water so that the solution is pleasant. Then the onion becomes crisp and very delicate. For this chrysanthemum is an eternal battle: all at once they want to eat it))))

Structure:

• red onion ~ 1 pc.
• vinegar and sugar optional

Cooking:

Take a peeled onion, cut off the top and bottom (approximately 0.5 cm).

Cut the onion into 16 parts, without cutting about 0.5 cm to the base.

Put the onion in any deep container, pour in room water
  temperature. The bulb should be completely covered with water. Add vinegar
  and sugar to taste. In an hour or two, depending on the variety of onions, chrysanthemum
  should "open up."

Onion chrysanthemum can be used both for decorating salads,
  and as an independent snack.

Decorate and even the simplest dishes to prepare will certainly not be left without attention!

Onion chrysanthemum is made from a small round onion. Both white and red onions are suitable. From a small bulb, the flower is more beautiful.
  It is better to choose a thin-walled bulb, in this case the petals are thinner and more beautifully open. We clean the onion and cut off its top and bottom by about 0.5 cm.

Carefully cut the onion from the upper side with a sharp thin knife almost in half, without cutting to the end about 0.5 cm.
  Then again in the same way - in half.

We continue to cut the onion into as many parts as possible. Of course, it is better to make as many cuts as possible. You need to keep in mind that the quality of our flower depends on the depth of the cuts: if the cuts are not deep enough, the chrysanthemum will not bloom well, and if the cuts are too deep, it will fall apart.

We put the onion in room temperature water so that the water completely covers the onion. On average, somewhere in 1-1.5 hours, our   should "blossom". Depending on the type of onion, this time can range from 40 minutes to a couple of hours.

To give brightness to the chrysanthemum, you can dip its tips in beet juice, squeezed from raw mashed beets. Depending on the desire and purpose, the flower can be colored with any other food coloring - brightly colored juice, say, blackcurrant or cherry, yellow saffron solution, red wine, etc.

Here she is, our beauty -