7 Easy Carrot Garnishing Ideas Flowers And More

       These flowers are made out of carrot slices. So cute garnish for salads, vegetable platters, and many other dishes. Most important the carrot flowers stay in shape well as decor because have a base. We can use this technique to make flowers from radish too. In the photo, I garnished a Korean salad, called “Morcovcha” in Russia. To make these flowers we need a soak in salted water carrots to make carrot flexible or like I marinaded very thin slices of carrot with salad ingredients. Of course, if your carrot slices are flexible enough to make a flower, skip this step.

Tip. Room temperature carrot less fragile to make garnish than carrot directly from the refrigerator.

On the photo above carrot salad. Read the recipe ⇒ Russian Korean Carrot Salad Morkovcha

1. Slice carrot into 4 slices. 3 super thin and one little thicker.

2. Make crosscut in the center on the thicker carrot slice. The thicker slice is the base for our flower.

3. Roll together thin slices as tight as possible.

4. Place roll of carrot slices into crosscut of the base. Our flower is ready!

 Our flower is so cute little touch on the salad!

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This garnish so cute on marinaded salads, vegetable salads, appetizers and much more. To make this garnish we need a wavy knife or mandoline with the option to make waffles.

Carrot waffles so cute in a jar! Great carrot garnish idea for preserved food.

1. Make first cut, it will be not waffle. Turn 90° and make the cut as close to edge as possible. Our first waffle is ready.

Safety tips.

To prevent sliding carrot on cutting board you can make 2 slices. The first on the bottom of carrot and another slice on the side of the potato for stability on the cutting board. So when you turn carrot it will be laying on the flat side of the carrot.

Another method to prevent carrot sliding on the cutting board. Place a slice of bread under carrot.

           So simple technique how to cut carrot in different shapes. We can make flowers, fish, hearts and much more! My tiny carrot designs I use to decorate soups, salads, and other dishes on my website. We can make these cute carrot designs with cookie cutters or with a paring knife. Just little extra touch with carrot heart with almost no effort and dish ready to serve for Valentines Day or just impress loved ones!

Garnish flower made with cookie cutters

The flowers on the photo above I made with Lindzer cookie cutters ⇒ Cookie cutters I use to make garnishes

1. Cut 1 1/5 or 2 inches from carrot, this size easy to handle. Cut shape with a knife or with garnishing tool. Slice carrot into flowers. Great garnish on salads, soups or vegetable platter. Cuts we can make also with a channel knife if you don’t have one just make it! So simple from a can lid. Read more ⇒ How to make handmade garnish tool 

2. Fish same as flowers. Just make tales with attention, so fish not going to lose tails when going to swim in a soup. So much fun for kids!

I garnished with fish  Ukha Russian Salmon Sour Recipe

*I garnished also Russian dish fish Zalivnoe when I lived in Russia. It is like fish jello with pieces of fish. I decorated also with green dill and lemon, so cute! Unfortunately, I don’t have photos. This dish I don’t make in the USA because it takes a special Russian local type of fish to make it.

      I saw this clever idea to make Halloween garnish out of carrot online. Oh, so cute! Of course, too much work for a large platter but we can use this garnished as elements for decoration. I saw in the video, a person uses a metal straw to make eyes and mouth. I don’t have a metal straw, so I come out with the idea to make it myself. Check it out and you might use this DIY garnish tool idea to make other garnishes as well.

           To make eyes and mouth I made handmade custom straw. I made straw from coda can. It works well because sharp enough for a carrot. Of course, we can find and buy something easier, like metal straw. I just share this technique as an option.

   1. Cut square from coda can.

2. I roll over candy apple stick because too hard make a nice circle without.

3. Secure with tape. Try to keep the tape from a cutting-edge, so tape not in contact with a carrot when you cut carrot.

*On the photo, I place tape to close to cutting-edge but it is 9 May and I make the Halloween veggie tray for website photos.

         Peel the carrot and cut a 3-inch piece from the carrot. The larger piece will be too hard to carve. Cut off the bottom of the carrot, so when you cut carrot pumpkins carrot will not roll over.

          I don’t try much to make resembles with real pumpkin, just made 2 triangle cuts and it looks like pumpkin for our veggie tray already.

         Next step is optional, make eyes and mouth. It is up to your creativity and talent. Pumpkins from a carrot garnish is really cute Halloween veggie tray decor!

         To make carrot ghosts is an easy technique and so cute! I make slices, little rounded it on the top and on the bottom make a few cutouts. Eyes I cut out with my handmade straw.

       Carrot garnish idea for Thanksgiving cheese ball. I made the feathers carrot to imitate the turkey tale. So cute and easy garnish for cheese platter or other thanksgiving appetizers. I am going show how I made with handmade garnish tools. Of course, we can use cookie cutters and channel garnish tool but it not always on a hand. Another option use just paring knife.

         The head for my bird I made out of bell pepper. To make the fancy front of the tail, I used pecan and almond slices. So easy and cute garnish for Thanksgiving.

1. Make a few slices and on the top.

2. I make a stripes with my handmade channel knife, so my feather looks more realistic.

Raed more how to make handmade garnish tool → Food Garnishing Tools Instructions With Photos

       The best carrot garnish tool is a carrot curler. A great tool to make an easy carrot ribbon flower. Carrot flowers can be decor for so many dishes! Just add to a vegetable platter and it will be so beautiful presentation without much effort! Check out my tips on how to choose the right tool because so many are on the market and not every tool is right for carrots. Making the carrot flowers is a great way to add carrots to your kid’s menus. Read more about this tool and see many photos  how to use carrot curler ⇒ How to Use Carrot Curler To Make Flowers

Ribbon garnish is so easy to make with a vegetable peeler and it is so cute on salad plates!

On the photos, I garnished ⇒ Russian Cabbage salad

 1. Use a sharp knife when cutting garnish from carrot because a dull knife can slip off and we can easy cut fingers.

 2. Room temperature carrot less fragile to make garnish than carrot directly from the refrigerator.