Ingredients for fruit platter: Main ingredients: 600g of strawberries, 250g of oranges, 200g of apples, abalone recipe, 3000g of watermelon. Supporting ingredient: 5g of cherries. Flavor: Sweet. Process: Others.
Characteristics of fruit platter: Lively shapes and forms, tempting appetite.
Let me teach you how to make a fruit platter, and how to make it delicious:
1. Take one white waist plate, wash 500g of strawberries, 250g of sweet oranges, 100g of apples, and 5g of cherries with sand-filtered water;
2. Cut the sweet orange in half, place them upright on the plate to form a peach shape;
3. First cut off 1/4 of the apple, set aside for later use. Use two intersecting diagonal knives on the remaining three sides (top, left, right) to create the body and two wings of a swan. Carve the removed 1/4 into the head of the swan;
4. Use red cherries to carve and assemble as the eyes of the swan;
5. Place the decorated swan at the tail of the peach;
6. Fill the middle of the sweet orange with strawberries, forming "Swan Looking Back";
7. Wash 100g of strawberries and 100g of apples;
8. Remove the stems from the strawberries;
9. Peel the apples, then use a melon baller to scoop them into ball shapes, place them in sand-filtered water along with the strawberries;
10. Carve a hollow base from half a watermelon weighing about 1000g, and place it on the plate;
11. Use a carving knife to carve out the upper part of a flower basket from another watermelon weighing about 2000g at 1/3 above. Use the hollow carving method on the remaining 2/3 parts around it to carve patterns, then soak it in sand-filtered water to make the carved patterns more vivid;
12. Use a melon baller to scoop out watermelon balls, mix them with strawberry and apple balls, put them in ice-made sugar water, then fill them into the carved watermelon flower basket, thus forming the traditional fruit platter "Fruit Basket".
Key points for making fruit platters: Making various platters with fruits is an aesthetic enjoyment. First, have a good theme, then select various fruits, using their natural colors to create lively and varied fruit platters that tempt the appetite.
Food combinations to avoid:
Oranges: Avoid eating with betel nuts.
Apples: Avoid eating with seafood, which can cause constipation.
Watermelons: Avoid eating with lamb.
This article is reprinted from China Recipe Network: http://www.86recipe.com