How to Cut Carrot Flowers
Now and then, I have readers asking me how I did the garnishes for my dishes – for example, cutting carrots to flower shapes, or slicing spring onions to wispy strips.
See Also: How to Cut Vegetables Using Scissors
I’m going to tackle the carrots one in this post, since Chinese New Year is around the corner, and a lot of people like to cut carrots in this manner as flowers are an auspicious symbol, representing richness (花开富贵). This is not just useful for CNY, but all year round too, as I’m sure any dish can be jazzed up with the pretty flowers. This tutorial will work for daikon (radish/white carrot) too.
very interesting methods, thanks for sharing :)
thanks for this tutorial….waiting for the wipsy strips spring onion one…hehe…
/jonie
oh sorry you’re still waiting hehe… will try to do it soon after CNY :)
This remind me of making them in the jai (齋) dish for the Chinese New Year. Thanks!
cool..thanks for sharing :) Very timely for CNY.. btw, any tips to quickly shed the 3 color carrots for lo-hei?? those ready-shed and spin-dry often sold out in supermarket…
you have to use a vegetable peeler with “teeth”- you can check out my yee sang recipe, I showed a photo of shedding the vegetables.
https://noobcook.com/yu-sheng-chinese-new-year-raw-fish-salad/
wonderful technique to cut carrots… !
Cute way to cut the carrots…
Second method for me, easier and less wastage.
u r sooo patient! I’m the chop and eat kinda girl! hahaha. but i would like to learn the 2nd method, just seems more interesting and the cuts look more deep.
Love reading these tutorials. Really informative. Thanks!
Definitely will grab some carrots for this coming Rabbit year. Will you be sharing the techniques for ‘grooming’ the mushrooms as well? Thanks a bunch!
Is it something like this? http://www.flickr.com/photos/wiffygal/5384334284/
This is it. Hope you will include this tutorial in your next dish. Thanks again Chef Wiffy.