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How beautiful to cut a cucumber into strips
Originality is important in decorating a festive dish. And if you know how to cut cucumbers beautifully, you can surprise guests with your skill. There are many ways to present a vegetable in an original way, for example in the form of a straw or a flower. A little imagination – and success is assured.
How to cut a cucumber into strips, slices or roses? It is not difficult to learn this at all.
How to cut a cucumber into a rose
The process is nothing complicated. In addition, the technique can subsequently be used to decorate other vegetables:
- without peeling the cucumber from the peel, carefully slide the knife in a spiral from top to bottom, peeling off the peel with a layer of pulp, as if peeling a potato. Make sure that the plate coming out from under the knife is not interrupted and is approximately the same width along its entire length;
- Lay the resulting tape on a rosette-shaped dish, rolling it in several layers like a roll.
The center can be decorated with black olives or cherry tomatoes.
How to cut a cucumber into strips
Another simple option for serving a cucumber. To cut a vegetable into beautiful thin strips, do the following:
- remove the tails from the washed vegetable and peel off the peel;
- cut the cucumber lengthwise into equal plates 4-5 mm thick each;
- then cut the greens again along, but perpendicular to the previous cut;
- Divide the resulting straw into equal parts.
Choose the length and thickness of the straws depending on the dish you want to decorate or complement.
How to cut a cucumber in an original way: “Cucumber leaves”
Another unusual option for serving a cucumber. But it will require certain skills.
Technology:
- cut the greens into two halves lengthwise;
- then cut each piece on the convex side with oblique circles 2-3 mm thick, but do not reach the end of about 5 mm. Make an odd number of such circles to make the pattern symmetrical;
- now bend the slices in a semicircle inside the cucumber, to the long part to which the circles are not cut, through one.
As a result, you will get an original addition to a cucumber rose in the form of leaves.
For laying out on a snack platter, the vegetable can be cut into classic oblique circles 5-6 mm thick, holding the knife to the surface of the greenery at an angle of about 45 degrees. This method works with both fresh and pickled cucumbers.
You can also cut the cucumber lengthwise into 4 long, equal slices: first in half, and then each half in half. Such cutting is convenient for side dishes.
If the cucumbers are short and thick enough, they can be cut in half across. Then carefully scrape the core out of each part with a thin knife, stuff with the filling and put the boats on a platter.
So, for slicing a cucumber, you can use different techniques and methods. The main thing is to observe symmetry and act carefully.