Edible Vegetable Arrangement: Preparing Carrots

Series Summary

Vegetables are a welcome addition to any persons diet, particularly in Western cultures where healthy food is often replaced by fat, greasy, drive-thru window cuisine. In a world where it's cheaper to buy fast food hamburgers than asparagus, or broccoli, bring back thoughtful food choices can be difficult, but completely necessary to live a happy and healthy lifestyle. Aside from being versatile and delicious, vegetables provide much needed vitamins and nutrients, as well as a health dose of fiber.

For those that choose to see bland and uninteresting stereotype of vegetables, show those nay sayers this free video series. Whether you are throwing a party or looking for an interesting way to serve raw vegetables, a vegetable flower arrangement is the perfect culinary masterpiece! Our expert, Karen Weisman, shows you how to make this truly stunning vegetable tray. Learn how to prepare and slice the vegetables: carrots, radishes, kohlrabi, sweet potatoes, cauliflower, and more! Also, learn how to shape the vegetables into gorgeous flowers. Karen also shows you how to store this vegetable arrangement. So, for your next party, take the healthy route, and learn how to make a vegetable party tray today!

Video Transcript

"Today we're going to make this beautiful vegetable flower centerpiece in crudites. Not only is it a fabulous centerpiece for your table, it is a unique way to serve your vegetable crudites. The basket is stuffed full of fresh vegetable sticks ready for dipping. And the flowers are made of an assortment of root vegetables. All edible. Including sweet potatoes, turnip, radish and kohlrabi. We'll start by preparing some carrot rounds. You want to peel some carrots up. You want to use some skinny ones and some fat ones. So we'll peel those and then we're going to cut a whole bunch of little rounds that we'll use for making our flowers. So you'll want to cut off the ends. And then you want to cut a slice. About a quarter inch slice like that. Into little rounds. You want quite a few of these because you need two for each flower. And it depends on how many flowers you want to make. If you want a nice full basket of flowers, you're going to make a lot of flowers. And then you just set those aside. And then I'll show you how to slice the root vegetables for the flower petals."