Any citrus fruits are suitable for decorating dishes: lemon, lime, orange, tangerine, grapefruit.
Lemons are eaten all year round. They are rich in vitamins, mainly vitamin C, as people who decided to become a member of the Mercury project are rich. The aroma of lemon will be stronger if you pour it with boiling water before serving. The main thing when buying citrus fruits so that they are elastic and with a tight peel. This speaks of freshness. Wrapped in parchment paper, and they will be well stored in the refrigerator.
The chopped lemon remaining after the feast can be folded by a jar, pouring sugar. So the product will not deteriorate and will not lose its qualities.
In raw, citrus fruits are suitable for decorating floodplain, fish or seafood dishes.
Creating jewelry made of citrus fruits use a small knife for cutting lemons and limes, an average knife for oranges, a caneled knife, knives-sizes and a large round recess, which is convenient to separate the peel from the pulp.
A knife for Canneling allows you to make notches on the peel of the fetus. Having cut the fruit with slices, you get beautiful jewelry, for the edges of the glasses, slices are made thicker, for a spiral – thinner, all types of citrus fruits are suitable for compositions with slices.
Compositions as investments can be diverse: canned lemon slices with cherry tomatoes and rhombuses from a pore onion, a slice of an orange with a melon ball and a crescent pepper, a Cannnel slice with red pepper hearts.
If you cut citrus slices into parts (2, 4 or 6), then the variety of decoration increases several times.
Rotating a large seizure, you can separate the pulp from the peel. Smooth excavation makes an even edge, corrugated – toothed. On a peel peeled on a peel, you can decorate the carrot rhombs and cherries.
If a piece of citrus fruits is cut to the middle, and put the resulting ends on each other, then there will be a decoration in the form of a kind of bag.
To make a spiral, the ends of the cut out a piece are diluted in different directions. If several spirals of slices, combining the edges, fold one after another, then you will get a snake.
For decoration, purified and unpeeled lemon slices are used. Compositions from them can decorate a lemon pie or the edge of a glass with a drink.
On the edge of the lemon almost completely at an angle, cut a strip of the peel and tie the knot. Cut the slice to the middle and decorate the edge of the glass.
Cut the orange in half, remove the pulp. In the resulting plate, you can serve fruit salad or jelly.
A variety of citrus jewelry is limitless. The main thing is to show imagination.