Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, decorative cucumber. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Cucumber flower we can use to garnish vegetable platter, appetizers or just add touch to any plate where is cucumber appropriate for decoration. For the flower, the best is long cucumbers because this way we don't need to make many extensions. My mother made 'Bento' lunch for my sisters and me for many many years. One of the memorable things of her 'Bento' is Cucumber that she cut decoratively, and those Cucumber pieces stood out in the 'Bento' box.
Decorative Cucumber is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Decorative Cucumber is something that I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look fantastic.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have decorative cucumber using 1 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Decorative Cucumber:
- Take Cucumber *firm & thinner one with no seeds and no watery parts is ideal
Instead of using pita or chips, use sliced cucumber coins as a crunchy snack or vessel for your favourite dips. Cucumber Carving is a popular vegetable garnish in our life. Cutting Cucumber is used in our food decorations and plate decoration. English cucumbers, also called hothouse cucumbers, are best for this garnish.
Steps to make Decorative Cucumber:
- Crown - Cut 5-6cm in length. Using a pointy fruit knife, carefully make zigzag cuts in the middle part toward the centre all around, and divide into 2 pieces. You can add a little bit of Mayonnaise on top.
- Leaf - Cut 3-4cm in length and cut in half lengthways. Make ‘V’ cuts, and slide the V-shaped pieces and form into a leaf. You can keep the edges or trim them off.
- Cup - Make 4 or 5 diagonal cuts toward the centre, make same cuts 7-8mm above. Use the pointy end of the knife and cut the centre. You may wish to trim the bottom a little bit, so that the cup sits well. Cups are good to serve Wasabi for Sashimi Platter.
- Rings - Slice two 3-4mm thick discs, cut out the centre, and make them into rings. Cut one of them and connect the rings. You can connect multiple rings.
- Ball - Slice two 3-4mm thick discs, make cuts as shown in the picture, and connect the discs.
- Bamboo - Cut about 6cm in length. Cut the middle part in half about 2-3cm, cut one side diagonally, turn over and cut the other side diagonally, and divide into 2 pieces.
- Fan - Cut about 7-8cm in length, cut in quarters lengthways, and trim the edge. Cut 3/4 of each piece into 7 very thin slices and shape into a fan.
Cutting Cucumber is used in our food decorations and plate decoration. English cucumbers, also called hothouse cucumbers, are best for this garnish. If you use standard cucumbers, look for a straight cucumber of a thin and uniform diameter. Cut off both ends of a washed cucumber. With a potato peeler, peel one strip all the way down the cucumber Move over about the width of the strip you just peeled and leave the skin in tact.
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