Teach You to Use Cucumbers for Dish Decoration, No Need to Carve, No Need to Paint, Dipping Sauce

Teach You to Use Cucumbers for Dish Decoration, No Need to Carve, No Need to Paint, Dipping Sauce

1. First, make the rim, wash a cucumber, and cut out the bevel with a kitchen knife or fruit knife.

2. Along the slope, we cut the first cut, about 1.5 to 2 mm wide, and keep 5 or 6 mm on the cucumber without cutting it.

3. The second knife is completely cut off as shown in the figure, and a pattern like a small clip is obtained. Cut each petal as much as possible to a symmetrical point.

4. The cut flower shapes are clipped one by one.

5. Finally form a circle in the plate. I used an 8-inch white disc and used about 26 pieces to make a circle.

6. Then make flowers. Use a scraper to scrape the cucumber section. You can scrape a little longer, try to be thinner and evenly. Cut the peeled cucumber into thin slices.

7. Use a knife to arrange the cucumber slices into petals. Cut out 5 to 6 slices wider to make the outer petals. Cut out 5 to 6 narrower pieces and make the petals inside. The elliptical shape of the petals does not have to be exactly the same. If they are exactly the same, the whole flower will be a bit dull.

8. Cut a section of cucumber about 1.8 cm in length, trim off the green outer skin, and dig out the inner flesh with a knife to form a hollow. With more petals, the round holes can be wider. With fewer petals, the round hole should be smaller.

9. Cut a slice of carrot, a little thinner, and arrange it into a flower center. Take the peeled cucumber skin and cut out the shape of the leaf with scissors. Get all the petals, flower cores, leaves, etc. you need, and start to assemble the flowers.

10. First take four wider petals and fix them in the cucumber section with toothpicks.

11. Fix the second piece, the third piece and the fourth piece one by one. The petals inside need not be fixed. (Because cucumbers are watery, the water oozing from the cucumber skin will cause adhesion between the petals.) As the number of petals increases, the holes become smaller and smaller. At this time, we can help with toothpicks.

12. After all the petals are assembled, use a toothpick to press the stamen in.

13. Flowers with leaves are more beautiful!

14. The biggest advantage of this dish is that it doesn't waste any ingredients. It is more suitable for serving with meat. Cucumber slices can be eaten with meat, refreshing and relieving greasy!
It can also be served directly as a cold dish, served with a dipping sauce dish, it is a beautiful and delicious cold dish.

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Tips:

Not all disc decorations need to be carved, this is an assembling flower. You can also use red radish and white radish to make it, but the texture of the radish is a bit hard, so you need to cut it thinly when making it, and soak it in light salt water for a while to make it softer.
Pick cucumbers that are tender, and it is best not to have cucumber seeds on the petals. The number of petals is about 10 or 12 petals, and the number can be adjusted according to your preference. When making the first cut, cut out the slope so that the cut flower shape will look slender.
Pick cucumbers that are slightly tender and slender. There should be no cucumber seeds on the trimmed petals. If you can see the unripe cucumber seeds clearly on the petals, the petals will look rough when they are done.
Put the flowers in a small container with a lid, sprinkle with a little water and put them in the refrigerator for 2-3 days.