A fruit plate is served at the dessert table, after the main meal. The guests had already eaten by that time, and you need to try to re-spur their appetite. A person is still ready to absorb food with his "eyes", so you need to decorate a fruit plate beautifully, appealing to aesthetic feelings. As for kiwi, this fruit can hardly be called attractive. fleecy, it resembles a dirty tennis ball. And if you serve kiwi as a whole, then, most likely, guests will leave it on a dish, preferring to feast on more beautiful bunches of grapes, bright strawberries and cherries, juicy citrus fruits. Yes, and it is difficult to eat Chinese gooseberries (as this berry is also called) without a knife and a spoon. In this article, we will talk about how to beautifully cut kiwi on the table so that the hands of the guests themselves reach for pale green or amber slices.
The easiest way is in the peel
Edible whole. But many people do not like the "hairy" peel of this fruit. This method is suitable if you are thinking of treating your friends only to kiwi. Then you need to provide each eater with a dessert plate and a teaspoon. Despite the fact that the peel is not supposed to be eaten, before cutting the kiwi fruit beautifully, the fruits must be thoroughly washed, dried with a towel and allowed to dry. We put the Chinese gooseberry on the board and cut it in half crosswise with a sharp knife. This is how we deal with all fruits. We lay the halves on a flat dish with cuts up and serve. Each guest takes a piece on his plate and eats away the pulp with a spoon, like a soft-boiled egg. Cups of skins remain on the plate.
fruit cut
Now consider the option when other fruits will coexist with kiwi. Is it appropriate to lump everything together? What fruits do and do not go with Chinese gooseberries? In this case, color compatibility must be observed. To make the sliced dish look aesthetically pleasing, you should lay out green pieces of kiwi next to fruits of a warm range - red or yellow. Thus, a red apple, oranges, tangerines, bananas, papaya, mangoes and pomegranate seeds are suitable for the nearest neighbors to the fruit. You should not put blue grapes and green fruits - pear, melon next to kiwi.
Perhaps the neighborhood of white fruits - a peeled banana, apples, kiwi for a fruit plate? You can leave the skin on. The bronze rim will add color to the overall picture. And if you want to get rid of the peel, you should know a few secrets.
We take out the pulp
Of course, the first thing that comes to mind is to peel a kiwi with a knife, like an apple or a potato. But in this case, you will leave a lot of pulp. And the surface of the fetus will not be smooth. How to cut kiwi beautifully? Dip each fruit in very hot water for 30 seconds. Or just pour boiling water over the fruit. This will kill the bacteria on the skin, and the pulp will be better separated from the skin. With a sharp knife, cut off both ends of the fruit. We take a spoon and squeeze it between the pulp and the skin. We begin to drive it in a circle, separating more and more fruit from the skin. We make several longitudinal cuts from one cut tip to the other. We bend the skin to make it easier to extract the pulp. And here we have a whole peeled kiwi that looks like a green egg. Carving masters prefer to leave the peel, giving it the shape of leaves, located around the exotic greenish-pale flower of the pulp.
canape decoration
The fruit has a delightful sour taste. Therefore, they are often decorated with canapes, which are served on skewers. For such a dish, kiwi is peeled. To decorate a canape, you should know a few rules. The juicy flesh of the kiwi should not touch the sandwich itself. The buffer between them is often hard cheese or grapes. And on top, at the handle of the skewer, it is appropriate to put some kind of orange fruit to give the dish a bright, catchy look. Most often, this citrus is an orange. Its sweet taste harmonizes with kiwi. The cheese is cut into large cubes. The grape is pierced with a skewer lengthwise. And how beautifully cut an orange and kiwi? If you do not have a slider that guarantees even pieces that are even to the millimeter, use an ordinary knife. Peel the orange and kiwi. Cut them into thin circles. Divide each kiwi disk into four parts. From an orange, moving as far as possible along the fibers, cut the same segment.
Cheese plate
The French love these desserts! But it is important to know which fruits are suitable for cheeses. Grapes are suitable for blue varieties. Blue cheeses love the orange neighborhood. Brie and Camembert are served with crispy apples. The pear is a versatile fruit and goes well with any variety. But kiwi, as well as pineapple and soft berries, want to see only hard cheeses next to them. Serve it with gouda, edam, parmesan, maasdam. How beautifully cut kiwi for a cheese plate? You can just serve thin slices of unpeeled fruit. And if you freed the kiwi from the skin, then cut it into eight pieces. There is another option on how to effectively serve cheese - “kebabs”. By the way, fruit slices can also be placed on such skewers.
The flesh of the Chinese gooseberry is ideal for decorating confectionery. She does not let juice, like berries, and does not crunch on her teeth, like apples. The green color of kiwi gives the cakes an exotic and elegant look. It is only important to know how to cut kiwi beautifully. Photos of culinary masterpieces will help to get an idea about this. Unpeeled thin slices of kiwi are appropriate on the cake only when you are going to make a rose out of the fruit. Then a dark stripe at the tips of the petals will make the flower more voluminous. In all other cases, kiwi must be peeled.
The participation of the peel in decorating the top of the cake is allowed. So, it can serve as the foot of the calyx of a flower or as leaves. But if the cake is made for children, it is better to remove the hard peel altogether. Kids are very fond of unusual shades in dishes. Therefore, green kiwi will be very useful. You can decorate the “crown of a palm tree” with fruit. Chinese gooseberries are also suitable for creating green little animals - a crocodile, a frog.
How beautifully cut kiwi for a holiday
To give the dish an elegant look, it is not enough to chop the fruit into even slices. You can create whole compositions from fruits. Are you ignorant of the art of carving? You can start with simple figures. And plastic kiwi will help you take the first steps in carving. This is how a flower is made.
Cut the unpeeled fruit crosswise. In each half, we make eight deep straight cuts from the center to the edges. Then - eight more, but already a little obliquely. This is how petals are made. At the center, the incisions should be slightly visible, and deep at the skin. When something that faintly resembles a flower lies in your palm, do not be alarmed. Gently peel back the skin on the edges of the petals. This will be another layer of the flower. The middle of the kiwi is white with black grains. With a slight movement of the knife, we make a cone-shaped recess in the pulp and insert red cranberries there.
Figured cutting and carving of vegetables and fruits "Delicious flower fantasy".
Simple cutting of vegetables and fruits step by step with a photo
Gest Ksenia Aleksandrovna, teacher of physical education, School No. 53, Oktyabrsky settlement, Lyuberetsky district, Moscow region.Goal and tasks:
- development of creative abilities, imagination;
- to form an aesthetic taste;
- to cultivate accuracy in the performance of work, caution;
- learn to cut vegetables using the "carving" technique
Purpose:
This master class is intended for high school students, teachers, parents and creative people. This design of dishes is suitable for any holiday, banquet and, simply, to improve the perception of food and good mood.
For decoration we need:
Tomato, cucumber, lemon, orange, pear, apple, kiwi, onion, cutting board, 2 knives (large and small with teeth), 2 flat plates, towel.
Progress.
Carving(from English carving - "cutting out") - the art of artistic cutting on vegetables and fruits, as well as on wood, ice and stones.Tips for a beginner "carvinger" Not every fruit, vegetable is suitable for carving. So, for example, a radish should be large and bright, a carrot should be even and smooth, an orange should be very fresh. It is better to take apples with a smooth skin, cucumbers - even and with dark skin, pumpkins with a rough skin have a denser and easier-to-handle pulp. Decorations should be combined with the dish in color, as well as in taste. It is better to decorate meat dishes with cucumbers, tomatoes, carrots, seafood - with lemons. Fruits will serve as an excellent decoration for a dessert, as well as an independent delicacy. When choosing food combinations, give preference to contrasting colors - the compositions will be more enchanting. Red, green, yellow are favorites. Fruits and vegetables for carving must be clean and dry. There must be a golden mean in everything. You should not over-decorate dishes - the measure is important in everything.
1) The first vegetable to start with is a tomato. Cut it in half and cut off the unnecessary part.
2) Then, with a sharp knife, thinly cut one of the halves of the tomato.
If it is small, then you can combine the two chopped halves into one. As in the photo.
3) After that, we “stretch” the tomato as thin as possible and begin to twist it into flowers.
4) To carefully transfer the finished flower to the dish, you need to clasp it with both hands, pressing it from all sides.
Ready! You can put a lettuce leaf on the bottom of the plate.
5) Our flower is missing something. You can add parsley or make cucumber bells. To do this, put the cucumber in the palm of your hand. With a sharp small knife, pointing it at ourselves, we cut the cucumber in the shape of a petal, plunging the knife blade to the middle. Then turning it, cut two more petals.
6) You should get a bell with three petals. To separate the flower from the cucumber, you need to turn it slightly and it will fall off by itself.
Then you can continue in the same order until the cucumber runs out.
In the middle of the bells, you can add strips of pepper or olives.
7) You can also cut thin strips of cucumber and, folding in half without breaking, complement our dish.
8) Gradually we move on to the bow. What can be done with onions? We can make a water lily out of it. To do this, the onion needs to be peeled, soaked in cold water so that we do not cry. Then you need to cut it evenly with cloves, plunging the knife only to the middle. Upon completion, it will easily break into two halves.
All parts of the onion must be removed and collected already forming a flower.
9) Our decoration for the dish is ready and you can add chopped vegetables or cold cuts.
If you want to treat guests with sandwiches, you can use the middle for a tomato flower.
10) Vegetable decoration is ready. Now you can start decorating the fruit plate. To do this, we need to cut half an orange as described above.
11) Do the same with the lemon.
By the way, a lemon flower goes very well with fish products.
12) Next, cut the kiwi, as in the photo. You can decorate a plate or arrange it in this form on fruit.
13) Now my favorite. Wings from apples and pears. We need fruit halves.
Visually divide the apple in half. I cut out a strip for you, for clarity. On one of the halves we find the middle and immerse the knife slightly deepening. To make it easier to imagine, we kind of cut off the peel. You need to get half a petal.
Then on the other side we do the same, but we cut exactly to the made corners. Care must be taken not to cut off the excess. Got a leaf.
Stepping back from the cut out 2-3mm, cut out the next leaf.
We cut until we reach our “border” of the apple.
Now we connect all the details and push them apart so that we get a wing.
14) Such wings look like petals, so they can be used in cooking when decorating any dishes. And so that the apple does not darken, it must be sprinkled with lemon or dipped in acidified water.
Peeling an orange can be a difficult and very frustrating experience, especially if you value your manicure or have cuts on your fingers. Peeling off the skin from the fruit with the help of nails is not too easy and pleasant.
How to peel an orange quickly, simply and without harm to nails?
Here are 4 ways to quickly peel an orange without damaging your manicure.
Method number 1. Knife+spoon
Presented in the video.
The peel of an orange is cut in a circle, as if you wanted to cut its slices across. But the knife does not reach them, but cuts only the skin.
With the help of a spoon, the peel is carefully separated from the pulp of the orange and removed. And only slices remain in the hands.
The method is good, but only for ripe oranges, from which the peel is very well behind. By the way, juicy fruits can squirt juice when you work with a spoon. So be careful!
Method number 2. Elementary
All you need is a knife and an orange. It is necessary to make two circular cuts on the skin so that they pass through the stalk and the bottom of the fruit. And then remove the four slices of the peel. Use a knife to pry them up, as you can ruin your nails if the orange peel adheres too well to it.
The disadvantage of the method is that you will have to additionally remove the white remnants of the peel from the fruit.
Method number 3. For salads
Peel oranges. But not in the way we usually clean them, by cutting the peel and peeling with our fingers. Oranges are best peeled like an apple.
Everything is simple here - the peel of an orange is cut with a knife, along with the upper films, the white part of the peel, grabbing a little juicy pulp with a knife. This method is most often used when they want to get slices for salad.
The disadvantages of the method are a lot of juice, all hands and the entire cutting board will be in it. You also need to consider that a large amount of pulp will remain in the orange and on the peel. You simply cannot cut everything so that the production is waste-free. But from the middle of the orange it will be possible to squeeze the juice.
Method number 4. Harmonic
A very quick way to get orange slices.
It's very simple: you need to cut off the top and bottom, then carefully cut the skin along one of the sides and carefully unfold.
Try not to trim too much when you remove the top and bottom, as if you touch the pulp, the juice will start to flow out and it will be more difficult to separate the tangerine or orange.
Citrus: How to Process Orange, Grapefruit, Lime and Lemon
Let's see how easy it is to process citrus fruits and what can be done with them
Beautifully cut and decorated fruit is an art called "carving". To turn a simple apple into a swan or a rose, you will need skill and special tools. If you don't have one or the other, don't worry! There are lighter and at the same time no less spectacular options suitable for non-professionals.
Apple
For slicing, large-sized paradise fruits are better suited, without damage to the peel:
- Cut the apple in half and remove the core. Slice one half thinly. Set aside the top piece with the peel, and cut the rest in the middle, not reaching the end by a few millimeters.
- Separate the halves of the pieces to the sides: the lower the tier, the wider the distance between the halves should be. Cover the top of the resulting pyramid with a cut top with a peel.
- Cut the reserved half of the apple into two equal parts. From a rectangular piece, cut out the profile of a swan neck, and from a rounded one - a tail. It remains to connect everything with the help of small skewers or toothpicks.
Another simple option is crab:
- Divide the apple into two parts, remove the seeds.
- Cut off the top from one of the halves, and cut the rest into thin slices.
- Lay them out on both sides in a fan, and on top cover the fruit with a cut-off hat with dried cloves eyes.
- The crab is almost ready to go to the table, you just need to take care of the claws. To do this, cut a round slice from the second part, divide it in half and cut out a zigzag shape on each.
Keep in mind that an apple quickly darkens when cut, but there is a way out: just grease the cut with lemon juice diluted with water.
Pear
Fruits of different varieties are oblong and rounded. Pears of the first type easily turn into hedgehogs! Peel the oblong part of the fruit from the peel, and decorate the half with the peel with toothpick needles with grapes. Make a nose in the same way, and use a carnation for the eyes. 
A rounded fruit can become a peacock if you add sliced \u200b\u200bfruits that are at hand to it:
- Cut the pear in half and place (skin side up) in the center of the plate. The body of the bird is already ready.
- Boiled carrots are excellent material for the beak and legs of a peacock, and dried cloves are excellent for the eyes. Although carrots are quite replaceable, for example, peach or apple.
- The tail is the dignity and pride of the bird. It is full of different colors and patterns. Therefore, use any fruit (strawberry, grape, plum, peach) to repeat this beauty. Try to cut the fruits (especially those with a stone) into small equal slices.
Choose firmer pears. Too soft will not keep their shape well, and it will not work to make a beautiful cut out of them. 
Citrus
Oranges, grapefruits, lemons, cut into thin slices, unlike other sweet fruits, can be bent without fear of breaking them. These fruits will make a magnificent rose!
- Citrus, without peeling, thinly cut into half rings and put in rows on a plate.
- Prepare a transparent plastic bottle (you can also use a colored one, but then it will stand out). Well, if it has narrowing in the middle. If not, then take two containers of different diameters. Cut out two rings a couple of centimeters high, one of which will be slightly larger in circumference. Place the small mold inside the large one in the center of the cut.
- Insert the remaining slices cut-side down into the mold, starting with the smaller circle. Pieces overlapped look beautiful.
That's all: a magnificent fragrant rose will be a worthy decoration of your holiday table.
watermelon and melon
A large and juicy watermelon is inconvenient to eat in large pieces, especially at a holiday: it is easy to stain the outfit with juice. Surely you have baking molds that can be used not only for their intended purpose.
Pieces of watermelon (about 1-2 cm), cut into circles, free from seeds. Use the mold like a curly knife, just immersing it in the pulp.
It is convenient to take such beautiful pieces with a spoon (if their size allows) or a skewer.
rainbow mix
If there is not enough time to process fruits at all, but you want something special, do not despair and prepare as many products for cutting as possible.
And first, open the photo of the rainbow to remember the sequence of colors:
- red (strawberry, watermelon, apple, raspberry);
- orange (orange, apricot, persimmon, tangerine);
- yellow (lemon, pineapple, banana, apple);
- green (kiwi, apple, lime, grapes);
- blue (alas, nature did not create any fruits or berries of this color);
- blue (plum, blueberry, blueberry);
- purple (grapes, plums, figs).
Cut the fruits into slices - not too small to be convenient to take, and arrange them in the correct color sequence. If you want, give the rainbow a semicircular shape or stretch food foil across the entire table, which will accommodate a fruit rainbow.
Each housewife has her own idea of how to serve fruits and how to arrange them beautifully. Let's describe some methods.
On the festive table you can arrange a real fruit carnival. Fruits are the sources of consumption of natural vitamins, they are so diverse in tastes and colors that they will become both a decoration for a treat and a delicious (and safe, low-calorie) independent dessert.
And you can draw with a fruit mosaic whatever your heart desires, for example:
Rainbow
For her, 7 types of fruits are cut into cubes or small slices. Strawberries will create red, orange, tangerine - orange, lemon - yellow, kiwi - green, blueberries - blue, plums - blue, dark grapes - purple.
Products can be changed to taste: if someone does not eat strawberries, they can be replaced with raspberries or cherries, and a pear can be used instead of lemon.
For example, like this:
tropical island
This picture is created more often for children. Halves of bananas cut along the length are laid out on a flat dish with bent tails in different directions. By the way, these "trunks" can be cut across into small pieces: to make it easier to eat. The lower parts of the bananas are covered with tangerine slices, peeled from the skin and white veins. They will imitate the island. Palmam leaves are laid out from kiwi, also peeled and cut into random pieces. You can do with simple triangles.
Or vice versa: an island of kiwi, and leaves of tangerines:
A fan that collects any components in itself
It is important that they do not merge in color or at least blend into one another with a gradient. Fruit slices are laid out from the conditionally tangent center (from the edge of the dish) with expanding rays to the sides. There will be grapes of different varieties and colors, and apples, and pears.
One fan options:
Bouquet
A bouquet of tangerine flowers, in which the peel is carefully cut with a sharp knife so as not to touch the slices. The resulting petals are not fully unfolded, separating from the pulp, the middle will serve as a delicious dessert.
Several of these “flowers” are laid out on a dish. Complement the composition with edible apple (green-skinned) leaves.
One big flower
Exotic, because different fruits will be used for it, sometimes not growing in the same region. Each fruit is cut with a sharp knife into thin circles, too large in diameter can be divided into semicircles. Oranges spread on the extreme edge of the dish. Finding a little on them, the next row lies - apples, then - kiwi, bananas. In the center, a hill of grapes is poured.
Something like this:
Fruit on skewers
The design of fruit slices for the festive table can be made in the form of "kebabs" by putting pieces on skewers in the form of assorted different types. This is very convenient than just taking slices from a common dish with your hands or picking it up with skewers yourself.
Fruit stripes
Chop the fruits into circles of the same thickness (1 - 1.5 cm). Swap them. For example, if you cut oranges, pears and apples, you should get an orange with an apple or an apple with a pear. You can also mix fruits of the same type, but different colors. Beautifully place the cooked fruits on a plate and serve.
fruit painting
From multi-colored beautifully cut fruit pieces, you can make a mosaic or a picture.
fruit canape
It is very convenient to eat fruits served in the form of canapes. A combination of fruit pieces (the options here are limitless) on a skewer takes up little space and can be put in the mouth as a whole, allowing you to enjoy the combined taste.
