How to Make Vegetable Roses

Make radishes even more appetizing with creative carving.

Transform vegetables, such as tomatoes and radishes, into eye-catching "roses" that can be used as decorative garnishes on appetizer trays. They're easier to make than they look, so you don't have to be a professional chef to create them, and will enhance vegetable and cheese trays at your next party or family get-together. Does this Spark an idea?

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Cherry tomatoes
Paper towel
Paring knife
Radishes

Instructions

Cherry Tomato Rose
- 1
  
  Rinse cherry tomatoes with cool water and pat them dry with a paper towel.
- 2
  
  Hold a cherry tomato with one hand and peel it with the other using a sharp paring knife. Make a cut two-thirds of the way into the bottom of the tomato. Rotate the tomato and continue slicing the peel to create one continuous strip.
- 3
  
  Roll the tomato peel up, beginning with the thinnest end, to create a rosebud shape. Place the tomato rose onto a serving tray; add a green bean "stem," if you desire.
Radish Rose
- 4
  
  Rinse radishes with cool water and pat them dry with a paper towel. Cut the radishes' stems off using a sharp paring knife and discard them.
- 5
  
  Make four cuts around the base of the radish, being careful not to slice all the way through, to form the rose's outer petals.
- 6
  
  Create four more cuts around the rose, slightly higher than the original ones, as the rose's inner petals. Soak the radish rose in a bowl of ice water for an hour, which will allow the petals to open.