How to make carving from vegetables. Simple methods of making flowers, animals, palms from them

A beautifully and originally designed table will immediately attract the attention of guests. One of the ways that will help achieve this goal is carving from vegetables. You easily turn the eggplant into a penguin, cauliflower into a lamb, onions and carrots into flowers, and make a frog princess from a cucumber.

Penguin from eggplant

Carving from vegetables is the transformation of these into funny animals, birds, flowers. Make a merry penguin. To do this you will need:

• Eggplant medium size;
• carrot;
• Small sharp knife.

Wash the vegetables. Do not remove the greens from the eggplant, let it become the hair of a pretty penguin. Step back from it down to 5 cm, make two diagonal incisions from the right and left sides of the eggplant, going towards each other and intersecting at the same point. Here the head of the animal will end. Cut out the whites of the eyes, leaving inside the dark violet pupils.

Continue to do carving from vegetables. Label the semicircular wings, trim under them with a knife, separating the skin from the pulp. Cut off the remaining peel. To the penguin was stable, from the side, back to his head, smoothly cut the flesh.

It's time to start making smaller details. Cut two thick circles from the thick tip of the carrot, cut out the centers. Do not throw away these details, of which you will make 2 buttons. Cut off the carrot thin strip. Attach it and 2 glasses pieces by half toothpicks to the eyes of the northern bird. In the same way, attach the circles-buttons and feet-fins, carved from carrots. From the same vegetable, make the beak of the penguin, put it in the appropriate slot made in the eggplant.

Lily of carrots

Decorate the table, salads with flowers. Carving from vegetables for beginners is quite an affordable occupation. You can put an edible bouquet in a vase and thus decorate your house.

Make an orange lily from carrots. To do this, take the fruit of a conical shape. Clear it, shape the pentagon. Put carrots on a thin end, cut a thin strip from the first face, but not to the end. Thus, cut all 5 bands. Using scissors, give them the shape of oval petals.

Now from the carrots completely cut the part of the pulp in such a way that the result from above it looks like a pentagon, but the faces are arranged in a staggered order with respect to the previous ones. Remove the cut 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 semi-circular shape.

Carving from vegetables will help to make almost the same way flowers from beets, only the petals are wider.

Charming chrysanthemum from onion

Peel off the husks from the bulb, cut the top and bottom of the sharp vegetable by 5 mm. Put the bulb on the part from which her roots used to grow earlier. On the top, make a few incisions, which pass almost through the entire bulb, not reaching its bottom 5-7 mm.

First, as it were, cut it in half (not to the end). Then make a similar incision, perpendicular to the first. In total, make about 10 such cuts to indicate the petals of the chrysanthemum. Put the bulb in a bowl with water at room temperature, leave it for 40 minutes to open the "petals".

If you took a white bulb, add food coloring or beet juice to the water. It is possible to lower in the end of the dyeing solution only the tips of the flower petals. That's how carving from vegetables is done.

Photo and the process of creating frogs from cucumber

You can make cheerful croakers for children or decorate them with a festive table, a salad. Take a cucumber 12 cm long. Cut from one side 5 cm. Using a sharp knife, divide this piece in half across. Leave the tip, cut it in a zigzag fashion - this will be the crown of the princess-frog. Now cut each half of the slice into thin slices, they will mimic the feet of the pond resident.

Put most of the cucumber on a flat side, cut a piece of leather from the front so that the frog's belly appears. Using a knife, make a mouth opening into which you put a slice of carrots, let it be the tongue. Two small circles of carrots turn into the eyes, and 2 dark pieces of olives - in the pupils. Attach the eyes to the cucumber with the help of the toothpick halves. In the same way, put a crown on your head.

Lay the cucumber slices in the form of a frog's feet. Here's another way to make carving from vegetables. The master class continues the story of how to quickly turn cauliflower into lamb.

Funny Lambs

They you can decorate the New Year's table, because the coming year will pass under the sign of this cute animal.

Disassemble cauliflower on inflorescences. If you then plan to use ornaments for food, then boil the cabbage for 5-7 minutes in salted water. But the unpicked lamb will be stronger.

Cut off each inflorescence of a stump. Attach to the abdomen 4 legs, they can be from dry spice - cloves. If you want to use strips of fresh cucumber, then attach them using the halves of the toothpicks. In the same way, fit the head of the olive triangular ears cut from it. Insert a pair of rice into the animal's head or grains of buckwheat - these are the eyes. The sheep is ready.

Island with palm trees

Will help make other interesting ornaments simple cutting of vegetables. Carving will help out when you need to quickly turn sweet peppers into a tropical palm tree. To do this, figuratively, cut out its bottom. Take the red, yellow and green peppers. Then you get 3 palms.

Put on a plate of potatoes or a piece of pumpkin, carved in the shape of an island. Using toothpicks, attach to this basis 3 peeled carrots, and to their thin tops - the pepper's bottom. Lay the island around the leaves of parsley. A picturesque picture of vegetables is ready.