Root Vegetable Decorations

Root Vegetables
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1. 2. 3. 4.		What decoration can be made from root vegetable?
		Such root vegetables as potato, carrot, celery, and radish can be used to make the most beautiful compositions for main course and even to create attractive dishes. For the work with root vegetables, you will need a special bag to paste potato mass, and knives for decorative cuts. Potato paste Peel potatoes and boil until done, mash them. Then add yolks (1 kg potatoes – 3 yolks), salt and a bit of nutmeg to mashed potatoes and knead dough. Roll into the sausages and slice for rolls, croquets, flatcakes and other. Croquets Cut sausages into small cylinders 1 inch long and sprinkle with flour, sink in beaten egg and roll in breadcrumbs. Fry in preheated oil until golden. Balls Cut sausages into small pieces 1 inch long, shape small balls and sprinkle with flour, sink in beaten egg and roll in breadcrumbs. Fry in preheated oil until golden. Radish flower Slice a small red radish finely and lay out a flower from rounds. The core can be made from a carrot slice. Make a stalk and leaves from cucumber peel or scallions. Stars and flowers Slice boiled carrot or celery finely and cut out stars, flowers, and hearts with special molds. Decorate to your imagination. Triangles Boil peeled carrot and cut longwise into halves. Then, inclining a knife to the left and to the right at a time, slice small triangles. You can make different garnish decoration to the dish with them. Sliced Onion You can make different decorations from fresh onion: slice it finely and separate rings carefully. In order to paint the rings, roll them in ground red pepper or chopped greens.