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How to carve lotus flowers from onions, tomatoes, and kiwis to decorate dishes for Vu Lan Day

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The delicious dishes during Tet holiday at your home will certainly not lack decoration. To help you, the Kitchen Tips section of TasteVN will show you how to carve lotus flowers from onions, tomatoes, and kiwis to decorate the upcoming Vu Lan dishes. Are you ready to cook?

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1 1 Carving white lotus flowers from onions
2 2 Carve a pink lotus flower from a tomato
3 3 Carve green lotus from kiwi fruit

1 Carving white lotus flowers from onions

Carving white lotus flowers from onions

Ingredients and tools needed

  • 1 onion
  • 1 small slice of carrot
  • Carving knife

Steps to follow

First, peel the onion clean, peel the carrot, wash them and let them drain.

Peel the onion, wash, and let it drain

Divide the onion into 8 equal parts, using a knife to cut vertical lines along the onion so that each cut separates a layer of onion skin, leaving a small section about 1cm from the root of the onion.

Divide the onion into 8 equal parts

Gently separate each thin layer of onion skin to create tiers of flowers, with the upper tier’s petals alternating with the lower tier. Repeat the process until you reach the core of the onion.

Note: You should separate each layer and shape the lotus petals tier by tier, being gentle with the upper layers to avoid breaking the petals underneath.

Peel each thin layer of the onion into individual layers

For the onion core, cut off half of the core horizontally. Use a knife to create small round holes in the onion core, and carve a little carrot to place in as the flower’s stamen.

Thus, you have created a beautiful white lotus flower from the onion to decorate your dish.

Cut off the onion core and shape the flower's stamen

2 Carve a pink lotus flower from a tomato

Carve a rose from a tomato

Ingredients and tools needed

  • 1 tomato
  • Carving knife
See more: Common types of tomatoes, how to choose and preserve tomatoes

Steps to perform

Tomato you bought should be washed clean, then let it drain.

Starting from the top of the fruit, use a knife to make a light cut just enough to pierce through the thin outer skin of the tomato vertically to split the fruit in half, stop cutting about 2cm from the stem.

Using a knife to make a light cut to split the tomato in half

On each side of the tomato, use the knife to make 2 additional diagonal cuts, intersecting at the midpoint of the initial cut, to divide the tomato into 6 equal parts.

Making 2 additional diagonal cuts to divide the tomato into 6 equal parts

Then gently peel each tomato petal out. After peeling each petal, slowly curve the tip of the petal outward.

Peeling and curving the petals

Repeat the process with the remaining 5 petals.

Note: Do not cut too close to the stem, as doing so will cause the flower to bloom too widely, which is not aesthetically pleasing.

Complete the remaining 5 petals

Next, you cut the inner flesh to create another layer of flowers, the upper layer also alternates with the lower layer.

The deep cut touches the tomato seeds inside, gently separating each petal will give you a beautiful pink lotus from the tomato.

Cut the inner flesh of the tomato to create the next layer of flowers

3 Carve green lotus from kiwi fruit

Green lotus from kiwi fruit

Ingredients and tools needed

  • 1 kiwi fruit
  • Carving knife
See more: How to choose, store, ripen kiwi and how to eat kiwi correctly

Steps to implement

Kiwi after purchasing, you cut off both ends of the fruit, then use a knife to make sawtooth cuts dividing the fruit into two equal parts, each cut should go about 2cm deep to separate the kiwi.

Note: Depending on the size of the fruit, each sawtooth cut should be evenly divided, thus the finished lotus will look more beautiful.

Cutting the serrated edge to split the kiwi in half

At each edge of the cut from top to bottom, gently make another cut with a knife just enough to pierce through the thin skin of the kiwi, with a cut length of about 2mm.

Gently cut a line at the edge of the cut

Gently slice thin lines from top to bottom to separate the thin skin from the flesh (without cutting it off completely). Adjusting the spread of the petals, you will instantly have a simple green lotus flower made from kiwi.

Cut and adjust the petals

See more:

  • 4 beautiful and quick ways to carve chili flowers to decorate dishes
  • 3 simple and easy ways to carve beautiful tomato flowers
  • 7 beautiful and simple ways to carve rose flowers from vegetables to decorate dishes on 20/10

TasteVN hopes that with detailed suggestions on how to carve lotus flowers from onions, tomatoes, and kiwi will give you many ideas for decorating dishes this Vu Lan festival. Wishing you success!

Cooking time: 15 minutes
Level: Easy
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