The main attribute of any celebration, of course, is a festive table that should be beautifully served and decorated in the best modern traditions of culinary art.
And an important component of the festive table is various kinds of cuts - from meat and fish to vegetable, fruit and cheese, which should be performed in the best possible way, in order to please and perhaps pleasantly surprise guests.
It is a beautiful table setting and amazing table decoration for the holiday that will say a lot about the hostess's hospitality and its culinary skills.
And when performing holiday cuts, not only the beauty of the served cold appetizers matters, but also the deliciousness of the holiday cuts in all their diversity. Different types of meat, sausages, cheese, vegetables and fruits should be used in table setting for a special occasion.
And it doesn’t matter what kind of holiday it is - New Year, Birthday or any other celebration that is of particular importance to you. Complete your holiday table with incomparable cuts, which will in themselves become pleasant goodies and perfectly complement the main dishes.
The best cuts in modern culinary traditions will become indispensable and in demand everywhere and always. Therefore, having studied and picked up for yourself the beautiful table setting options that are most suitable for your type of celebration, you can begin to make holiday cuts.
In festive cuts, you can use all kinds of meat and vegetables, composing them, and at the same time creating the most unique dishes in the form of a beautiful cut on the festive table.
It’s not difficult to make beautiful holiday cuts, even if you haven’t dealt with the unusual design of the holiday table before: a little patience, knowledge and skill - the best holiday cuts are ready!
To begin with, let's decide what cuts can be made on the holiday table:
- meat holiday cuts;
- sausage slices;
- cheese slices (or cheese plate);
- fish slices and fish snacks;
- vegetable holiday slices;
- fruit slices.
In addition to the holiday slices listed above, you can also highlight carving, which is the art of slicing fruits and vegetables, when you can observe all kinds of figures, animals, flowers made from fruits and vegetables, effectively decorating the table.
To make amazing slices in a festive style, you should look at the most beautiful variations of slices and the design of exquisitely chopped meat, sausages, fish, cheese, vegetables and fruits.
No matter how trite it may sound, but when slicing at home, it is important that the cutting knife is practical and sharp, so as not to spoil the products, but to get beautiful slices and slices of the products.
You can lay out the cut in different ways: with a fan, with an overlap, in rows in equal parts, on which the result obtained in the form of a festive cut in different styles will depend.
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Meat cutting on a festive table
The main among many cuts on the festive table that we used to observe with you on the table was and will be meat cutting. Any celebration begins with meat cutting, therefore it is important to pay the most attention to its design.
Meat slicing can be created only from meat, as well as using greens and vegetables in its design, which will make cold dishes more attractive and mouth-watering.
Adding beautiful cuts to the festive table made of meat with sausage, greens and vegetables, you can get amazing cuts of assorted foods that will help replace several cuts at once at the celebration.
To create meat slices is made of thin pieces of meat, laid out in sectors, in even rows (if the plate is square), fan. You can also create envelopes if the pieces of meat are large in size, using the center of each olive. If desired, use greens on top to complete the slicing.
Beautiful sausage slices for the holiday
Sausage slices are the easiest to make, as the sausage is more malleable and at the same time retains its fresh look and original shape longer.
A great idea of sausage slicing is a flower made of several layers of sausage slices, in the center of which should be a sausage tube, and around - carefully lay out the remaining slices of sausage.
In addition, you can simply lay out different types of sausages in sectors and rows because the principle is the same as meat. Halved pieces of sausage can be supplemented with small cucumbers, olives, cheese.
Do not also forget about greens and slices of vegetables, such as bell peppers, with which you can finish the wonderful sausage slices on the festive table.
Festive vegetable slicing
At first, it may seem that slicing vegetables does not require a special approach and it is simple to carry out. But starting to execute it, quite often there are problems with the design of vegetables on the festive table.
So that everything is in the best possible way, and the vegetable slicing was performed at a height, it is worth adhering to several simple, and at the same time important rules.
All vegetables should be thoroughly washed and cooled before slicing. It is also worth choosing the vegetables that are the most uniform in size to get a particularly beautiful vegetable cut.
The knife with which you will perform vegetable slicing is also important - it should be sharp and with a thin blade so that the vegetables are not squeezed and easily cut. Be sure to use greens in the performance of vegetable slicing, as well as its decoration.
Stunning vegetable noodles for the festive table can be made with slices and slices, straws and curly sliced vegetables, using special tools that will make beautiful vegetable slices especially attractive.
Beautiful cheese cutting on a festive table
Cheese slices or, in other words, a cheese plate is always made using several types of cheese, which is beautifully cut into a plate or a special board.
You can make cheese slices, either with an ordinary knife, or with a special knife with a fishing line, cloves or a shovel for cheese. This will depend primarily on the type of cheese.
Do not cut the cheese into thin slices: cubes and cheese cubes look like cheese slices on the festive table, complemented by grapes, nuts and figs, which are so in harmony with the cheese.
If you want to serve cheese as a dessert, then by all means complement the excellent holiday sliced cheese with honey, putting it in the center of the cut.
Fish party cut
Like other types of slices, the fish should be on the festive table in the form of amazing slices. Choose several varieties of fish, which will make the fish slices more colorful and mouth-watering.
Fish slices can be made from herring, pickled mackerel, salmon. To begin with, the herring should be removed from the peel and milled, and after that - laid out on a pre-chilled plate.
Fish platter always looks great with slices of lemon, different types of pickles, for example, mushrooms, which can be layered or dividing the plate into sectors, allowing you to make interesting fish slices for the holiday.
Above, fish slices can be beautifully decorated with olives, as well as using greens and caviar, and possibly other goodies.
Beautiful fruit slices on the festive table
Fruit slices are a favorite delicacy of all, without exception, both adults and children. And if you want to surprise your guests with pleasant goodies, then by all means follow the festive cuts.
You can use a variety of fruits, creating beautiful fruit slices in the form of slices, in rows, as well as various shapes in the form of laid out sliced fruits.
It is pre-washed and cooled fruit, peeled if possible. If you want to use apples in slices, so that they do not darken the sliced pieces of apples, sprinkle with lemon juice, and then put on a fruit plate.
For practicality, you can use skewers or toothpicks to hold the fruit together. Slicing itself can be very different - from slices, cubes, straws, to balls (watermelon), triangles. To a large extent, it all depends on the fruit you have chosen to create a beautiful festive fruit cut.
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