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Thought I’d share with you how I made a three-ingredient arranged salad. 🥬 🍅 🥒
Just recently, I got some lettuce from my neighbor. I decided to use them up.
I used part of a cucumber, some lettuce leaves and a tomato. In the above photo I have two tomatoes but I ended up using only one.
For this arrangement I used a cutting board, a knife, a dish with just a little depth and a vegetable sharpener (I hope that’s the name for it). It reminds me of a pencil sharpener. It’s great for making curls or shavings of carrot and cucumbers.
Before we make our salad, is tomato a fruit? How about cucumber, is it a fruit?
If they are, let’s start making our fruit and vegetable salad.
Step 1- Wash the tomato and cucumber.
Remove several leaves of lettuce and wash them.
Step 2- Arrange the lettuce leaves around the edges of the dish. Try match the shape of the dish. Continue until the edges are covered.
Step 3: Cut the tomato in thin slices
and then cut each slice in half. Arrange the halves to form a circular pattern around the centre of the dish. Leave a space in the middle.
Step 4- Insert the cucumber in the sharpener and turn the cucumber until you get a very long shaving. Use your hand to curl and shape the shaving in a circular pattern. You’ll form a rose. Place the “rose” to the centre of the arrangement.
Step 5- For presentation purposes, place salad on an underlay with a contrasting color. I chose purple.
Enjoy your salad as is or with your favorite salad dressing. 😋
Final outcome looks like a flower. Nicely done. 😋
Thank you. 😆I went back to look at it. It does look like a flower. Thanks for stopping by.
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The forms of ingredients like yours are useful for dressings or plating to increase the artistic value of food.
I still don't have a vegetable knife and will buy it for sure :)
😃Thanks. I’m learning so much from your posts. You do very well even without that knife. You’ve made me more aware of plating and presentation. I’m now trying to make my backgrounds and final products more attractive. Working on it.
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Thank you. 🌸🌸
Great idea!! Looks so beautiful.
😃Thank you. Wish I had a little coconut to sprinkle on top. Haha!
Cheers 🥂. 😂
😂Haha! Thank you! I appreciate it. With the way technology is moving, maybe in a few years we’ll be able to grab food from our screens. I would grab this and several coconut trees. I would need a big screen!😆😂 Lol!!
Well, I think I could wear this to a party, then eat it after on the long walk home.
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Friend, what a beautiful color those vegetables have, they look very fresh and I love the shape of the lettuce, it looks very different from the ones I buy here in Venezuela.
Very creative the way you made your salad I really like this salad, I love the way you cut the cucumber with the help of the cutter.
😃Thank you and thanks for stopping by. I sometimes get a different type of lettuce as well. I got those particular ones from a friend. That cutter is useful. Appreciate your comment. Have a great week. 🎶