Beautiful sliced ​​sausage and cheese

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Prepared by: Alexey Marchuk

02/25/2015 Cooking time: 25 min

Beautiful sliced ​​sausage and cheese on the holiday table looks just super! Agree, the exquisite presentation of even the simplest dish always attracts the attention of guests! I recommend!

What's included in cold cuts

The very name of the snack already determines its composition. Several varieties of sausage are served together (boiled, dry-cured, half-smoked), as well as ham, carbonated meat, brisket, meat balyk, boiled pork. You can also add rarer meat delicacies to your plate, such as beef carpaccio, meat or poultry rolls. Shartan looks great when sliced.

This is a national Chuvash dish made from a stomach stuffed with meat, cereals and spices. Baked shartan today is made from liver, beef, poultry, and lamb. At home, this dish is given ritual significance. It is usually served at the festive table on birthdays or at weddings.

Our housewives often place cheeses and meat products on one dish. Of course, this is not accepted by the rules, but I think that guests will be happy with such a variety of tastes. In addition, the slices, diluted with pieces of cheese, look very elegant. Semi-solid varieties of fermented milk products are best suited for such a snack: “Russian”, “Edam”, “Gouda”, “Tilsiter”, “Suluguni”.

Processed sandwich cheese, intended for making sandwiches, holds its shape well. Therefore, it is convenient to use for beautiful cutting design. A simple sausage cheese will also fit well into the overall “landscape”, and besides, it has the same shape as boiled sausage.

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Not a single holiday in Russia is complete without a large plate with circles of meat, which will whet the appetite of the guests of the celebration. Slicing meat for a festive table can be done using completely different techniques. And the choice of products to create a dish is wide. How to prepare sliced ​​meat ingredients? Let's figure it out.

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How to decorate cold cuts

You can complement the taste of sausages with a variety of leafy greens (lettuce, arugula), parsley, dill, onions or vegetables. Cucumbers, tomatoes, radishes, sweet bell peppers, and cranberries are excellent for this purpose.

It is not necessary to use fresh vegetables. Pickled olives, olives, cherry tomatoes, gherkins, garlic, wild garlic, green peas are also suitable. The main thing is not to mix fresh and salty foods on the same plate.

How to arrange slices on a plate

According to serving etiquette, the placed slices should not extend beyond the edges of the dish, so select dishes of the appropriate size in advance. Before serving, we must prepare the deli meats by dividing them into slices. The appearance depends on the initial form of the product. Pre-cleaned sausage is cut straight or diagonally.

In the first case, you get even rings, in the second they are slightly elongated, oval. Meat rolls, chartan or “nuts” can be cut into a semicircle so that their texture is visible. The brisket is served in small slices or in the form of wide strips, without cutting off the skin.

It is not always possible at home to cut sausage or cheese into thin, even slices. You can use the help of supermarket salespeople. The only negative is that no one will remove the casing from sausages. Your guests will have to do this themselves. If you decide to cut sausage at home, remove the casing from the entire “stick” at once.

In order for our finished cuts to look beautiful, we need to correctly arrange the prepared pieces on a dish. This can be done in two ways: in a circle, or from the center to the edges. In the first case, the slices are arranged in several layers, each of which consists of one type of meat product. In the second, the pieces are laid out on top of each other in sectors, moving from the center of the dish to its edges. By the way, you can leave gaps between them, which are then filled with vegetables and herbs.

A simple idea on how to lay out the cuttings

I offer you an easy option for a beautiful cutting design that is quite suitable for a festive table. Prepare:

• ham from meat and poultry;
• “Suluguni”, which can be cut into circles;
• processed cheese "Hochland" in plates;
• smoked sausage;
• Cherry tomatoes;
• leaf salad;
• skewers for canapés.

First, place slices of ham folded in half along the edge of the plate, arranging them so that each subsequent piece covers the previous one by a third. Place slices of sausage on the Suluguni pieces and place the “sandwich” on top of the ham rings.

Trim the top of the salad by about a third, lay out the greens in the third and fourth layers. We roll the sausage and sandwich cheese into cones, securing them with toothpicks. Place on top of the leaves. Between them we place rolled layers of ham. Our dish will be decorated with cherry tomatoes, strung in pairs on skewers.

Beautiful fruit slices for the holiday table

Fruit slices are a favorite delicacy of everyone, without exception, both adults and children. And if you want to surprise your guests with delicious delicacies, then be sure to make holiday cuts.

You can use a variety of fruits, creating beautiful fruit cuts in the form of slices, in rows, as well as various shapes in the form of laid out sliced ​​fruits.

You should first wash and cool the fruits, remove seeds if possible. If you want to use apples for slicing, then to prevent them from darkening, sprinkle the sliced ​​apple pieces with lemon juice and then place them on a fruit plate.

To be more practical, you can use skewers or toothpicks to hold the fruit together. The cutting itself can be very different - from slices, cubes, straws, to balls (watermelon), triangles. It largely depends on the fruits you choose to create a beautiful holiday fruit display.

What kind of utensils should I use to serve the slices?

The question of how to serve sausage slices usually does not arise. The choice of dishes is determined by the overall style of table decoration. If traditional ceramic dishes are used, the plate for sausage and cheese can be made of transparent glass in a suitable color. Do you prefer the rustic style, with its simple shapes? Then place your selection on a round wooden board designed for serving cheeses.

Festive vegetable cutting

At first, it may seem that slicing vegetables does not require a special approach and is easy to do. But when starting to implement it, quite often problems arise with arranging vegetables for the holiday table.

In order for everything to be in the best possible way, and the vegetable cutting to be done at its best, you should adhere to a few simple, and at the same time important rules.

All vegetables must be thoroughly washed and cooled before slicing. It is also worth choosing vegetables that are as similar in size as possible in order to get a particularly beautiful vegetable cut.

The knife you use to cut vegetables is also important - it should be sharp and have a thin blade so that the vegetables are not squeezed and can be cut easily. Be sure to use greens when cutting vegetables, as well as decorating them.

Stunning vegetable dishes for the holiday table can be made in slices and slices, julienne and curly slicing of vegetables, using special tools, which will make beautiful vegetable cuts especially attractive.

Useful tips

If you think that regular cutting is boring, here is a life hack on how to make the dish even more appetizing. Make ham rolls by filling the meat tubes with a paste of mayonnaise, eggs, cheese and garlic. To make the structure hold better, secure the seams with toothpicks, skewers or green onions.

Cheese balls sprinkled with herbs, chopped nuts or seasonings look great when paired with cold cuts. Placed in the center of the plate, they will liven up the appearance of your appetizer. Plus, it's also very tasty.

You can also make small canapes, but without bread, from only ham, boiled sausage, cheese, olives, cherry tomatoes.

To set a chic table at home, you don’t have to spend 24 hours at the stove. As you can see, the decoration of the table could well be sliced ​​sausage. The serving photo, I hope, convinced you of this.

On this positive note, I bid you farewell. Happy upcoming holidays to you. Subscribe to the blog, leave comments, share links.

How to decorate sliced ​​cheese

Cheese is cut mainly depending on its original shape. Both hard and soft varieties can be cut into squares, rectangles, triangles and crescents. The pieces should be small, approximately 25–40 grams.

Large slices of soft and processed cheese are folded in half or rolled into tubes.

Pickled cheeses, such as feta cheese, are most often cut into cubes. For convenience, you can stick wooden skewers into each piece and make canapés. It is customary to serve cheeses on a flat dish, a multi-piece tray or on a wooden board, placing them clockwise, from mild to savory, so that the smells of aromatic and neutral cheeses do not mix.

It should be remembered that cheese is a very delicate product, so to prevent it from weathering and to reveal its taste, it should be served to the table no earlier than half an hour before the start of the meal.

Cheese kala is considered one of the most effective ways to decorate. Thin equal slices of cheese are rolled into a cone, in the shape of an opening kala bud, and thin slices of bell pepper or olives are inserted as the core.

The cheese plate can be decorated with nuts, mint leaves, coffee beans, grapes, figs, pears or dried fruits. Also, any cheese slices go well with crackers, olives, nuts, honey and berry jams.