How beautifully cut an orange or grapefruit: methods and tips. Fruit carving orange

The citrus fruits on our festive table can hardly be surprised now. But their beautiful cut will certainly force your guests or children involuntarily reached for the sliced \u200b\u200bof these aromatic and very useful fruits.

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In our material, we will teach you how to make such a cut from oranges or grapefruits that your dish will turn into a masterpiece of vitamin work of art.

How to cut an orange or grapefruit beautifully: the best ways

Of course, before the preparation of oranges or grapefruit, like all other fruits or vegetables, should be followed rinse under running water. And it will be even better if you literally arrange a hot “bath” for them for a few seconds, because often for the beauty, shine of the zest and increase the shelf life, suppliers of this citrus abundance use paraffin.
Having wiped fruits with a napkin leisure, Strengthen the knife very sharply and start actually cutting fruits.
The simplest ways of cutting citrus fruits are in the form circles or lobules. How to do this - read below in our material.
In these two ways - circles or slices, you can cut an orange, and any other citrus fruits.

How to beautifully cut the orange in circles?

Putting an orange bar on a cutting board, it is necessary to cut off on both sides - from the side of the tail and the nose - the zest so that the pulp of the flesh becomes.

Since we do not need a peel with such a cut at all, it must be cut completely. Putting the fruit with a cut down, carefully cut the first strip of peel along the contour of the fetus with a sharp knife. You need to capture so much skin with a knife so that a white pulp is also removed with it. Repeat such a maneuver until the fruit completely gets rid of the peel.

And now - everything is very simple: we put our orange on the barrel, and cut it in the form of circles for the thickness that you need. At the same time, we do not forget that the blade of the knife is very sharp, otherwise the pulp will not cut, but will be crushed.

How to beautifully cut the grapefruit with slices?

Cut the grapefruit with slices as follows. First you need to cut the peel from the fetus with a sharp knife so that a light pulp is removed along with it.

Cut the segments (from the outer edge of the sliced \u200b\u200bto the core) with incisions inside the membranes, which share them. The most difficult thing is to cut the first slide, and then it will go faster and easier - and it will be possible, pulling the subsequent membranes with your fingers, clean all other slices from them.

The membranes give bitterness, therefore, having got rid of them, it will be possible to safely use the resulting beautiful slices in salads and desserts.

Fruit carving of oranges

The oranges are very juicy, so decorating from them is not so easy. But - armed with patience, desire and a sharp knife, you can cut the orange in the form of a lotus, asters, roses, butterflies or spirals.

Orange lotus

In order for the citrus lotus to bloom on your dish, it is necessary, without cleaning it from the peel, cut citrus into two equal halves.
Take one of the halves, and with a thin sharp blade, apply cuts along the lines separating slices from each other. Each slide should be cut in the form of a flower pointed petal. And only then you need to carefully separate the peel from the pulp, bend it and straighten it in the form of a flower.

Orange Astra

To obtain a luxurious astra, you need to take a whole orange uncleaned from the peel.
In this case, the zest is cut in the form of petals, straightens, and then figuredly cut.
Make sure that the orange pulp does not fall away from the zest.

Orange rose

To make a beautiful rose, you need to cut the orange into thin half rings, and, starting from the middle, turn them on a dish one after another in the form of rose petals.

You can make beautiful figures and flowers

Orange spiral

To obtain a spiral, citrus must be cut into thin rings, and, folding them with one neat pile, make an incision on them. He must go further than the center, but not to the Zedra itself.
And then everything is simple: put this “pile” on the barrel, and stretch it in the form of a spiral.

Orange butterfly

Cut the orange along 8 equal parts - at the same time, the zest is not cleaned, because the wings of our butterfly will be made of it. Take one of them, and walk in the center with a knife so that the pulp does not completely separate from the peel.
Determine this segment and make an incision on one side so that the peel is somewhat separated from the pulp, and in the middle to make triangular cutouts on both sides (not to the end!) - the wings will turn out. On the other hand, it is necessary to completely cut off the pointed edge so that our “butterfly” can stand on the dish. That's all: an elegant butterfly is ready!

How to choose and store oranges or grapefruits?

Cut an orange or grapefruit, and serve citrus fruits to the table, can be both a separate dish and in the form of one of the ingredients of a fruit and even meat salad. Here, the fantasy of the hostesses may not know the boundaries, because these fruits are truly crowded with vitamins are perfectly combined with many other products.
The main thing is to choose for this in a store or on the market, ripe fruits, but at the same time - not lying. We give you useful advice on this: from all the abundance, select those citrus fruits for yourself, the weight of which will be greater than it would seem at first glance.
Press them slightly with your fingers to make sure that they are elastic to the touch, because excessive hardness is a sign of immature fruits. But these are not lemons in which the acid is expected, but we want to enjoy juicy and delicate, sweet and sour in taste in oranges, right?

Ripe oranges have a shelf life from 2 to 3 weeks - if the refrigerator’s vegetable box is used, or a cool balcony. If you have a part of the cut fruit, then some kind of storage is suitable a sealed container - In it, he will not deteriorate in the refrigerator for about five days.

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