When the holidays come, I want the table to have not only delicious, but also beautiful dishes, as well as snacks. We offer you interesting dishes, the appearance of which you will really like. We will consider how to make Christmas trees from cucumbers.
With apples
To create such a Christmas tree, the following ingredients are needed:
• one apple;
• one long cucumber.
• long stick (as for cockerels);
• one bell pepper.
Cooking process
1. Cucumber and apple must be thoroughly washed.
2. Cucumber cut into thin rings diagonally.
3. The apple must be divided into two smooth parts.
4. Then it is worth preparing a portioned dish with a flat bottom. Put one half of the apple on it. Dip a wooden stick prepared in advance in the middle of the fruit.
5. In order to give the form of a Christmas tree a treat, you need to build a simple construction of cucumbers: we put slices of vegetables on a skewer, this must be done in a spiral. You need to start with larger pieces, so that the smaller ones are on top of the "tree".
6. After the base is ready, we form its top. Cut a small cone from the cucumber. Then we dress him on top of the whole structure.
7. Now the most pleasant and interesting thing remains - to decorate the dish. You need to take bell pepper, wash it and remove the seeds. After cutting out an asterisk and small stripes, triangles and hearts from it. Gently put on each cucumber.
It is recommended to make Christmas trees from cucumbers shortly before serving. Vegetables quickly fade, so the original appearance of the product may soon be spoiled.
With pepper
Herbs from cucumbers are served on the holiday table not very often. Therefore, this presentation will interest not only children, but also adults.
For this dish you will need:
- one apple;
- two small cucumbers;
- one bell pepper;
- any salad (300 grams), can be made from crab sticks;
- wooden skewer;
- one lemon.
Cooking process
1. Apple should be washed and cut into two equal parts. Halve the fruit with slices of plate and sprinkle them with a small amount of juice of one lemon (so as not to darken).
2. Prepare your favorite salad prepared in advance with a slide on the bottom of a flat plate. This will serve as a stand for the Christmas tree of cucumbers. It is necessary to stick a wooden skewer in the salad. We string cucumbers previously cut into thin oval slices on it, alternating them with apple slices.
3. It remains to prepare decorations from bell pepper. We cut out strips from it (they will symbolize a garland) and a star, which is fixed to the top with a toothpick.
Mashed potato herringbone
How to make a Christmas tree of cucumber? Simply if you have all the necessary products at hand.
To do this, you will need:
- one cucumber;
- three tomatoes;
- ready-made mashed potatoes;
- one chicken egg;
- a small wooden stick;
- one boiled carrot.
Cooking this dish will take a little time. The finished product externally will be very interesting and attractive.
Cooking
1. Cucumber must be washed thoroughly. After the vegetable is cut into oval plastics (diagonally) with a length of not more than five centimeters.
2. You need to take a small tray on which the cooked mashed potatoes are laid out. We form a small hill.
3. Then insert a wooden stick into it and string cucumber plastics on it.
4. After that, a star is cut out of boiled carrots and fixed on the crown of the Christmas tree.
5. Fresh tomatoes are washed and fixed in several places with a toothpick.
6. A hard-boiled chicken egg is ground on a fine grater. Sprinkle a Christmas tree on top of them. It looks like snow attacking from above.
One cucumber herringbone
How to make a Christmas tree of cucumber for the New Year, when there is not too much time for decorating treats? One vegetable is worth taking one vegetable. It is necessary to cut the cucumber across so that a round base is obtained. Then we make a longitudinal section from the top at a slight angle, while making sure that you do not pick up too much pulp.
Now put the cucumber with the slice down and mentally divide it into three parts. Then back 1/3 from the base, cut off the side parts, making a triangle. Now we have a blank. Now you need to cut the branches - and the Christmas tree will be ready.
On a skewer
A Christmas tree of cucumbers on a skewer is another option for decorating a New Year's snack. It will take no more than fifteen minutes to cook it. To do this, you will need:
- one apple;
- one carrot;
- three chicken eggs.
Cooking
A green apple is washed and cut into 2 halves. Put them on a plate with a flat bottom and stick the skewers into them.
Cucumber (can be salted) is washed and cut into circles. Then it is strung on a skewer in the form of a spiral. From a half of a vegetable make a sharp crown. Herringbone on a skewer is decorated with a boiled egg from below.
Then a star is cut out of peeled carrots and fastened with a toothpick on top of the product.
Christmas tree of pickled cucumbers
For cooking you need:
- two pickled cucumbers;
- one fresh;
- one red bell pepper;
- dill greens;
- skewer for the barrel.
Cooking appetizer
A star is cut out of pepper. The top is cut from fresh cucumber. An incision is made from above. A star is inserted there. Then begins the formation of the Christmas tree of pickled cucumbers around a fresh vegetable. From the first circle, they smoothly move to the second and so on, so that in the end the lower part is wide and the upper part is narrow. The product is decorated with sprigs of dill.
Little "green beauty"
A decorative and tasty Christmas tree on a table of cucumbers is an interesting solution. This will require two vegetables. One cut into thin rounds. The other is in half rings.
Put a whole circle on a serving plate. After it, three halves are laid out on it at an angle of 180 degrees.
Then, on top again, you need to put the halves, but move them so that the branches of the Christmas tree of cucumbers do not lie on each other, but, on the contrary, create lush branches. And so all the components are laid out - in a spiral - to a certain height. Vegetable construction should not be very high, otherwise it may collapse. Best of all, if the "tree" will have no more than six tiers.
After the construction of vegetables is completed, the top is created in the form of a cone of cucumber.
From sausage
Now consider how Christmas trees are made from cucumbers and sausages. This appetizer is an excellent alternative to conventional slicing.
To prepare you will need:
- not less than three hundred grams of sausage (smoked or half-smoked);
- one apple;
- wooden skewer;
- one cucumber.
Cooking a delicious cucumber appetizer
The washed half of the apple (preferably green) is placed in the pre-cooked dishes. Stuck with a skewer.
Cucumber is cut obliquely into small pieces (oval or round). Sausage is sliced in the same way.
The first layer of sausage is laid out on a wooden skewer, after - a layer of cucumbers, and so on to the top of the Christmas tree. The top of the head is cut out of cucumber and decorated with boiled protein. This will create an imitation of snow flakes. The apple can be covered with olives or the remaining slices of the cucumber.
Such a Christmas tree will be the decoration of the festive table. The sausage variety must be exactly smoked or semi-smoked, otherwise the appearance of the product will not be so beautiful.
Little conclusion
Now you know how to make a Christmas tree of cucumber step by step. We considered different options for making a "tree". Make these snacks and delight your loved ones.