A beautifully and originally decorated table will immediately attract the attention of guests. One of the ways that will help achieve this goal is carving from vegetables. You can easily turn eggplant into a penguin, cauliflower into a sheep, onions and carrots into flowers, and make a frog princess out of cucumber.
Eggplant Penguin
Carving from vegetables is the transformation of these into funny animals, birds, flowers. Make a fun penguin. To do this, you will need:
- medium-sized eggplant;
- carrot;
- a small sharp knife.
Wash the vegetables. Do not remove the greens from the eggplant, let it become the hairstyle of a cute penguin. Step back 5 cm from it, make two diagonal cuts from the right and left sides of the eggplant, going towards each other and intersecting at one point. Here the head of the animal will end. Cut out the whites of the eyes, leaving dark purple pupils inside.
Continue carving vegetables. Designate the semicircular wings, cut under them with a knife, separating the skin from the pulp in this place. Cut off the rest of the peel. In order for the penguin to be stable, from the side opposite to its head, evenly cut the pulp.
It's time to start making smaller parts. Cut two circles from the thick tip of the carrot, cut out the middle. Do not throw away these parts, from them you will make 2 buttons. Cut a thin strip from carrots. Attach it and the 2 parts of the glasses with the halves of the toothpicks to the eyes of the northern bird. Attach button circles and fins legs carved from carrots in the same way. From the same vegetable, make a penguin's beak, put it in the corresponding slot made in eggplant.
Carrot lily
Decorate the table, salads with flowers. Carving vegetables for beginners is an affordable occupation. You can put an edible bouquet in a vase and thus decorate your home.
Make an orange carrot lily. To do this, take the fruit of a conical shape. Clean it, give it a pentagon shape. Put the carrots on the thin end, cut a thin strip from the first face, but not to the end. With these images cut off all 5 stripes. Using scissors, give them the shape of oval petals.
Now completely cut off part of the pulp from the carrot in such a way that as a result, from above it looks like a pentagon, but the faces are staggered in relation to the previous ones. Remove chopped flesh. Cut 5 more petals in the same way as above.
Just decorate all the carrots. The lower petals should be longer than the upper ones. Cut the rest of the core with a knife, giving it a semicircular shape.
Carving from vegetables will help to make beetroot flowers in much the same way, only their petals are wider.
Charming onion chrysanthemum
Peel the husks from the onion, cut off the top and bottom of the sharp vegetable by 5 mm. Place the onion on the part from which it used to grow roots. On the top, make several cuts that pass through almost the entire onion, not reaching its bottom 5-7 mm.
First, as it were, cut it in half (not completely). Then make a similar incision, perpendicular to the first. In total, make about 10 such incisions to make the petals of chrysanthemum appear. Put the onion in a bowl with water at room temperature, leave it for 40 minutes to open the "petals".
If you took a white onion, add food coloring or beetroot juice to the water. It is possible at the end of production to lower only the tips of the flower petals into the coloring solution. That's the way carving is made from vegetables.
Photo and the process of creating frogs from cucumber
You can make funny quacks for children or decorate with them a festive table, salad. Take a cucumber 12 cm long. Cut 5 cm on one side. Using a sharp knife, divide this piece in half across. Leave the tip, cut it in a zigzag pattern - this will be the crown of the frog princess. Now cut each half of the piece into thin slices, they will imitate the paws of a pond resident.
Place most of the cucumber on the flat side, cut a piece of skin in front to make the frog's abdomen appear. Using a knife, make a mouth hole in which to put a slice of carrot, let it be the tongue. Turn two small circles of carrots into eyes, and 2 dark slices of olives into pupils. Attach the eyes to the cucumber with half toothpicks. Fit the crown on your head in the same way.
Lay out the slices of the cucumber in the form of frog legs. Here is another way to make carving from vegetables. The workshop continues the story of how to quickly turn cauliflower into lamb.
Funny sheep
You can decorate the New Year's table with them, because the coming year will be held under the sign of this cute animal.
Disassemble the cauliflower for inflorescences. If you then plan to eat jewelry, then boil cabbage for 5-7 minutes in salted water. But from the uncooked sheep will turn out to be stronger.
Cut a stump from each inflorescence. Attach 4 legs to the abdomen, they can be from a dry spice - cloves. If you want to use strips of fresh cucumber, then attach them with the halves of toothpicks. In the same way, attach to the head of olive the triangular ears cut from it. Stick a couple of figs or grains of buckwheat in the animal’s head - these are the eyes. The lamb is ready.
Island with palm trees
An easy cutting of vegetables will help to make other interesting decorations . Carving will help out when you need to quickly turn sweet pepper into a tropical palm tree. To do this, figured cut its bottom. Take red, yellow and green peppers. Then get 3 palm trees.
Put potatoes or a piece of pumpkin carved in the shape of an island on a plate. Using toothpicks, attach 3 peeled carrots to this base, and pepper bottoms to their thin tops. Cover the island with parsley leaves. A picturesque picture of vegetables is ready.