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Enhance your dishes with edible decorations! Explore tips, tools, and inspiring ideas for creating visually appealing and nutritionally valuable garnishes.
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Garnishes Foods II Spring 2008
GarnishThe Crowning Touch • To use food as an attractive decoration • From the French word “garnir” to decorate or furnish
Garde Manger • Person responsible for planning, preparation, and artistic presentation of cold foods
General Rules for Garnishing • Edible
General Rules for Garnishing • Add nutritional value
General Rules for Garnishing • Be visually appealing
General Rules for Garnishing • Appropriate for the dish
General Rules for Garnishing • May reflect ingredient in the dish
General Rules for Garnishing • Adds color to dish
Tools for Garnishing • Vegetable Peeler • Zester • Butter Curler • Melon Baller • Channel Knife • Decorating Spatula • Paring Knife • Fluting Knife • Tournée Knife
Tools: Vegetable Peeler • Makes decorative carrot curls and chocolate curls
Tools: Vegetable Peeler • Carrot Curls and Chocolate Curls
Tools: Butter Cutter • Makes marble sized balls of butter • Use ice cold butter and warm cutter
Tools: Zester • Removes small strips of citrus peels or colorful vegetables
Tools: Melon Baller or Parisienne • Scoop put balls of cheese, potatoes, butter and melons
Tools: Tournée Knife • Form oblong vegetables with 7 sides and blunt ends, football shaped
Tools: Channel Knife • Pare strips of peel from citrus fruits and thin groves from carrots and cukes
Tools: Channel Knife Strips and grooves
Tools: Decorating Spatula • Create designs on soft food like cheese, butter, and icing
Tools: Paring Knife • Carve fruits and vegetables
Tools: Fluting Knife • Triangular blade making v-shaped cuts
Garnish Portfolio • Prepare a portfolio of garnishes used in presenting the following dishes: • Cold Platters • Fish and Shellfish • Fruits • Poultry • Salads • Sandwiches • Soups • Vegetables
Garnish Portfolio • Find a picture of each dish • Mount on construction paper • Describe the garnish • Is it appropriate for the dish • Is it visually appealing • Does it add color • Is it edible • Do you have a better idea
Garnish Portfolio Example • Fruit Dish: Lemon Chiffon Cake
Garnish Portfolio Example • The Lemon Chiffon Cake is garnished with a lemon slice and curls of pared lemon peeling removed with a channel knife. The draping of the curl adds to the appearance • It reflects an ingredient in the dish and is appropriate • I find it visually appealing • It does not add color • The garnish is edible • I would add a small mint leaf