The festive table will not look elegant if we just serve treats, even if very tasty and unusual. We will consider options beautiful cutting   and decorations of cucumbers and tomatoes and acquire the necessary skills in decorating the table and individual dishes. We took these vegetables because of their availability at any time of the year, as well as their usual presence among the festive dishes as a cold snack.

These vegetables lead among the beautiful slices of cucumbers and tomatoes, as the contrast of their natural colors is pleasing to the eye. In addition to cuts, we can make various colors and design elements from their rind and flesh, with which we can decorate any salad, cold cuts and dishes.

Tomatoes rose

This beautiful red flower will decorate the food and attract the attention of all those present at the table.

If you have a family signature recipe, then a red rose in the center or around the edges of the dish will give even more applause in honor of the cook. Let's learn how to form it!

1. Prepare a very sharp knife. We begin to cut off the skin of the tomato, trying to grab a wider strip on the blade. We start at the top and end at the bottom.


2. We lay out our tape with the pulp down and begin to turn it from the narrow end, and form the opened petals from the widest part of the tape.


We set our roses on the edges of the plates or decorate them with hot meat dishes. And then proceed to the design of roses with green cucumber leaves.

Cucumber leaves

1. Cut the cucumber into two halves along its length.

2. The widest part in diameter is cut into oblique rings, but not completely, but leaving at least 5-7 millimeters. The number of records must be odd.



  3. Fold the leaf inside through one plate. Leaves are ready for a rose! Such a decoration of tomatoes and cucumbers will first be your favorite, and then the signature style of your table!


Our design elements of cucumbers can be made even more beautiful, and therefore we will study a simple technique, called carbing.

Carbation of vegetables

Carbing is the cutting of grooves on the surface of fruits. It's simple! Surface carbing is applied to vegetables that have dense pulp or thick skin. Cucumber goes well with this condition.



See how unusual and attractive you can make a dish around the edges!


You can also make a rose from a cucumber, and we have already offered you to watch this lesson. But it can be decorated with lovely “leaves”!

Master class: a rose from cucumber

1. Cut the third part along the vegetable and make small bilateral cuts on both sides of the cucumber plate.


Stuffed tulips

Another way to beautifully decorate a salad will be remembered by your guests, and your holiday meal will be unforgettable.

For stuffing tomatoes fit any meat salad   with mayonnaise. For stuffing it is necessary to use tomatoes of a grade "cream".

1. Make cross cuts at the top of the tomatoes. Use a teaspoon to carefully select the entire inner pulp of the tomato and fill the resulting void with lettuce.
  2. On the plate lay out a few feathers of green onions, collecting their basal part of the beam. Lay the tomatoes on the tops of the onion feathers, and fill the rest of the plate with vegetables or citrus slices.


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  "Tulips" with a salad can be supplemented with an unusual decoration - a "crocodile" of cucumber. "Graze" cucumber animals are drawn to the delicate red buds! Or you can arrange crocodiles in different parts of the holiday table. It will amuse adults, and children at a children's holiday will lead to uncontrollable delight!

To make a crocodile from a suitable fruit is, in fact, quite simple! All that is needed is a sharp knife, a narrowed dark edge of the cucumber on the side of the stem, and some skills.


This cute vertebrate impressively located on the side of any plate and will become an original element of the design of the dish. And make it very easy.

So, from the side of the stem we cut a long triangle - this is a crocodile's mouth. The rest of the fruit cut oblique plates and lay them on a dish with a slight offset.

In place of the peephole, we cut out small pits, insert viburnum or cranberry berry into them, securing them with a piece of toothpick. You can cut your teeth out of cheese or boiled protein and fix them in the “mouth”.

Look at another version of a crocodile from a cucumber. You can repeat any of them, if you put some effort and desire.


Creative - good mood at the table

Options for a beautiful cut - weight! It is impossible to unequivocally say that this dish is very easy to make - thinly chopped, evenly and originally spread out. We need not only a perfectly sharpened knife, but also a skill that is acquired if you chop vegetables correctly and carefully at every opportunity!

For example, you are preparing a salad, where vegetables can be chopped in any way. But in order to obtain a persistent skill, we must chop the vegetables delicately and tastefully, leaving suitable pieces of fruit for decoration. Gradually, all your dishes will begin to look creative and elegant. Agree, it increases the appetite and the degree of mood at the table, even without wine!

We can cut out various elements from the pulp, form flowers from vegetable peels, and spread them into unusual compositions. We advise you to always keep a toothpick in stock - this is an important tool in creating jewelry dishes. Also it would be nice to buy a special set of carving knives.

We are accustomed to thinking that slicing is equal rows of vegetable circles laid out on a platter in some order. But this is not so! Look at these creative options! This is also a beautiful slicing of cucumbers and tomatoes!

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  Decorating dishes using various products is a whole science that has been developing for more than one hundred years. In the last decade, this skill acquires the quality of art. This type of aesthetic cooking can be your hobby and help you relax after a day of work or a week. Why not?

We hope that we have convinced you that decoration is not only an attribute of a festive feast. The appeal of food is part of the rules. healthy eating, a sign of high quality of life. We can arrange it if we want! We will be helped by the skill of decorating cucumber and tomato dishes, which we will definitely acquire!

A huge selection of beautifully decorated salads on the holiday table is good, but often guests do not eat them for various reasons. Who is on a diet, and who is simply not using mayonnaise or other gas stations. There is a way out - this is a vegetable cutting of cucumbers and tomatoes. These vegetables help to absorb food, and also accelerate the metabolism and eliminate toxins from the body. In order to cut had a refined and beautiful look, you need to explore some options for decorating.
Most often in cuttings use exactly such vegetables as cucumbers and tomatoes. This is due to the contrast of their shades. In addition to all sorts of cuts, you can create flowers and various elements of the skin and flesh.

1) Beautifully chop cucumbers and tomatoes - a rose of tomatoes and a piece of cucumber

  • Rose decoration will decorate the table, which will be appreciated by all the guests. For the formation of this decorating element you need to prepare a sharp knife. Using it, cut a wide strip of tomato skin from the top to the bottom.
  • Then put the resulting tape pulp inside in a circle. It is necessary to begin from the narrow end, and the wide part should form the opened petals.
  • The resulting roses can be placed on the edge of the plate or to decorate hot meat dishes. A great addition to the rose would be a cucumber leaf.
  • For the next item you need to take a cucumber and cut it in half along the length.
  • Then make oblique cuts in the widest area of ​​the vegetable. Every second leaf roll inside. Thus, it turns out a leaf to the rose.

2) How beautiful it is to chop cucumbers and tomatoes - vegetable carbing

This technique will make design elements even more attractive. Carbing is the cutting of grooves on the surface of vegetables. This technique is suitable for vegetables with dense pulp or thick skinned.

So, consider how to make a decoration in the form of a ringlet. They can be ordinary and created by carbing. Then you need to cut the cucumber into slices of medium thickness, cut out the middle of the circles. Such jewelry can be used as a single decoration elements, and to connect them into a chain with the help of cuts for fastening.


3) How beautiful to cut cucumbers and tomatoes - butterflies from tomatoes

Tomatoes can be cut into a beautiful butterfly. To do this, you need a few medium sized tomatoes. Then cut them into 8 equal shares. Then, with each piece to remove the skin in half with a knife. The result is a share of tomato with curlicues. If you lay out two such parts next to it, then you can get the silhouette of this beautiful insect.


4) How beautiful it is to cut tomatoes - the flower and petals of tomatoes

To get the petals need to divide the tomato into two parts. Cut the side to put on the board. Then make a cut diagonally at the level of 1, 5 cm. Stick out this wedge and do the same operations with it. The resulting slices must be laid out on top of each other and slightly moved towards the axis.

And to make a flower, you need to divide the tomato into 8 parts. Pry off the skin from the center to half. In the end, should get a tomato with curls on the sides, which act as sunflower leaves. Additionally, you can decorate the resulting flower with poppy seeds.


5) How beautiful to cut cucumbers - cucumber boats

With the help of beautiful cutting, you can turn the most ordinary table into a festive one. To do this, you need washed elastic cucumbers without navels. Then cut each vegetable into cubes 6 — a centimeter-long length, which can also be divided into 2 parts. Then cut the slices parallel to the plane, but not completely. After that, make a notch in the vegetable, removing the pulp with seeds.

To give a finished look, you need to take an incised part of the vegetable and fix it in with a toothpick. opposite   to the side. The result should be a sail with a mast.

The excavation can be filled with any composition. This may be red caviar and salmon, a salad of crab sticks and cheese, as well as cheese with garlic and mayonnaise.


Today there are a lot of options for creative cutting. To obtain the original compositions will require a well-sharpened knife, which allows thinly chop vegetables. Over time, ordinary food will look creative.
Flowers can be cut from the pulp, and original compositions can be laid out from the peel. An important element in the decoration of such dishes are toothpicks. You can also purchase knives for carving.
Today, cutting is not only exactly lined circles, but also creative and original versions.

To decorate festive table, hostesses use vegetable and fruit cutting. But cutting vegetables into slices is too easy. But I would like to surprise the guests with their abilities and the beauty of the dishes. Such a versatile vegetable, like a cucumber, will make the table bright and beautiful. Today we want to tell and show how to cut it so that it becomes a real work of culinary art!

Most housewives are accustomed to chop cucumbers into slices or strips. Alas, you won't surprise anyone with such a design of vegetable slicing. To surprise the guests and improve their culinary skills, we recommend you to read our article.

How beautiful to cut a cucumber on the table?Nothing is easier, this is a fun and interesting process. You can use such cucumbers for decoration meat dishes, as a side dish. You will need to make only a few cuts with a knife! Everyone will cope with such a simple task.

Unusual combination of cucumber and carrot

It is unlikely that you or your guests have seen this before. In the center of each slice you will see a bright orange dot. First you need to pick cucumber and carrot suitable size, they should not be too small, or vice versa, large. Peel the carrot, if necessary, remove the top layer with a knife. Remove both edges from the cucumber, then make a hole in the center. We push carrots into this hole. It remains only to cut the vegetable with a sharp knife into slices 4-6 mm.

Surely you are interested in our publication on how to make a beautiful cheese cut

To make a hole in the cucumber, use a tube made of hard plastic, for example, from under a thin handle.

Photos of how beautiful cucumbers cut, you will see below. Serve a snack with your favorite sauce or sour cream, yogurt, and other vegetables.


Making a Cucumber Harmonica

We cut both edges, we do not need them. We string the cucumber on a skewer, and with the help of a small but sharp knife we ​​cut the vegetable in a circle, making this spiral. It remains only to remove the skewer and spread out the vegetables on a plate!

Unusual Vegetable Roses

This simple and elegant side dish can be added to any dish. You will need a large cucumber, which you need to cut into 14 thin slices. Attach them to each other as in the photo to create a line. Carefully begin to roll the slices, holding them with your fingers, so that our rosette does not fall apart.

When the rose is formed, cut the lower part with a knife. If this is not done, the flower will not be able to retain its shape, it will fall and disintegrate.



It turns out beautifully cut cucumber to decorate the table is not so difficult. We recommend making the cut no earlier than 1-2 hours before submission, as it will wear out and will not look very presentable.

Below we will introduce a few more. simple ideas   table setting cucumbers.

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The festive table will not look elegant if we just serve treats, even if very tasty and unusual.

   We will consider options for beautiful cutting and cucumber decorations and acquire the necessary skills in decorating the table and individual dishes.

We took this vegetable because of its availability at any time of the year, as well as their usual presence among the festive dishes as a cold snack.
In addition to cuts, we can make various colors and design elements from their rind and flesh, with which we can decorate any salad, cold cuts and dishes.

Flower of cucumber slices

Cut a 5 cm long piece of cucumber.

Cut along in half.

Make a knife longitudinal cutouts on the peel.

Cut the strips to use for the stem of a decorative flower.

Cut the cut cucumber into thin slices.

Split them in half and use them as petals for chamomile.

Complete the "flower" with cherry tomato halves.

Design option with the "rosettes" of salted fish

A variant of the design of Italian bread salad


The recipe for this salad can be viewed.

"Rose" from thin elongated slices
   cucumber, ham, bacon or salted fish




Cucumber Coil

Short spirals are a good decoration for both cold meats and salads.



   For the manufacture of spirals need small delicate cucumbers with a small number of seeds.

   1) Cut cucumbers into pieces of 5-7 cm, after cutting off the tips. Pierce each piece in the center with a wooden skewer.
   2) Holding a sharp knife at a slight angle, spirally cut the cucumber through to the center, turning the stick along the cut to the end.
   3) Then remove the wand and gently pull at one of the ends to make a “spring”. If you connect the ends, you get a little ring.
   4) Sprinkles of cucumber can be put curb around the dish. It is possible for a variety of colors to lay the spring slices of radish.

Cucumber Flower


We take the washed cucumber and make furrows on it with a fork. Then with a sharp knife in a circle we start to cut thin chips,