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Turn your meal into an experience with these 14 creative garnish ideas!

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Turn your meal into an experience with these 14 creative garnish ideas!

Bring Michelin-star dishes to your home kitchen with our selection of savory garnishes and plating techniques! Add style and sophistication to your dinner, and look forward to digging into an edible masterpiece. Take inspiration from colorful sweet potato tuiles, soar to new heights with vertical poke plating, and make magic with clear potato chips! These are just a taste of the methods we outline for professional chef presentation and Instagram-ready plating!

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Recipe 1/4

Birthday Enchiladas

60 Min

Easy

6-8 Servings

Ingredients:

  • 1.5 pounds (680g) pork ribs, divided into individual ribs
  • 1 small carrot (2 ounces; 60g)
  • 1 small yellow onion, halved (4 ounces; 120g)
  • 5 black peppercorns
  • 2 bay leaves

Directions:

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Recipe 1/14

Chocolate Swirl

< 5 minutes

EASY

1

Ingredients:

  • 2 sauces of choice (we used white and milk chocolate!)

Directions:

  1. Pour your first sauce of choice into a bowl making sure the bottom of the bowl is covered.
  2. Next, using a spoon, pour the second sauce of choice into the bowl and create a “X” over the top of the first sauce.
  3. Lastly, grab the bowl and make circle motions without letting the bowl come off the table. This plating hack will create a fun spiral effect.
  4. Place desired food over the top of this unique design and enjoy!

Recipe 2/14

Curly Scallions

5 MINUTES

EASY

1

Ingredients:

  • Scallions
  • Negi Cutter

Directions:

  1. Using a negi cutter cut your scallions from the top of the root to the tip. (Cut from the beginning of the green to the end.)
  2. Next, add scallions to a bowl of ice water for 3-4 minutes.
  3. Scallions will create a unique blossom effect! Enjoy this easy garnish!

Recipe 3/14

Dalgona Honeycomb Toffee

10 MINUTES

MEDIUM

1 SERVING

Ingredients:

  • 2 Tablespoons Granulated Sugar
  • 1 Tablespoon Brown Sugar
  • 2 Teaspoons of water
  • 1 Teaspoon of baking soda

Directions:

  1. Using a latel over the stove top on medium heat add sugars and water.
  2. Carefully stir sugar and water as latel heats up.
  3. Once the mixture begins to turn an amber color add a teaspoon of baking soda. Mixture should bubble up rapidly so continue to stir until the bubbling subsides.
  4. Let the candy cool in the latel. Once it has cooled, tap it out of the latel and crush it with a meat mallet.
  5. This will create a delicious dessert garnish!

Recipe 4/14

Parmesan Cheese Roll

10 MINUTES

EASY

1 SERVING

Ingredients:

  • 1 cup Parmesan cheese
  • Parchment paper
  • Jar (any glass cylinder will work)

Directions:

  1. Preheat your oven to 400 degrees fahrenheit.
  2. Next, on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper make a line of cheese long enough to wrap around your jar. Bake cheese for 3-4 minutes or until melted and slightly golden.
  3. Let cheese cool slightly before carefully wrapping the cheese around the jar. Make sure to leave the parchment paper on the cheese and once wrapped leave to cool completely.
  4. Once cooled, pull out the jar and remove the parchment to reveal a parmesan roll!
  5. You can fill this parmesan cheese roll with a caesar salad to impress your guests!

Recipe 5/14

Sweet Potato Tuiles

1 HOUR 10 MINUTES

EASY

8 SERVINGS

Ingredients:

  • 8 Tablespoons of Sweet Potato Puree
  • 8 Tablespoons of Purple Sweet Potato Puree

Directions:

  1. On a baking sheet lined with a silicone mat add a tablespoon of both the regular sweet potato and purple sweet potato puree.
  2. Using a spatula to smooth out the purees creating a teardrop effect. (note: Try not to mix the colors together while smoothing. You want a nice contrast between purple and orange.)
  3. Repeat the process to create 8 potato teardrops.
  4. Bake at 180 degrees fahrenheit for about 1 hour or until they are completely dry.
  5. Once cooled, carefully remove the tuiles from the silicone mat.
  6. You can use these sweet potato tuiles to garnish a plate of scallops or anything you would like for an added pop of color to a simple dish.

Recipe 6/14

Vertical Poke

15 MINUTES

EASY

1 SERVING

Ingredients:

  • Cooked white rice
  • Seaweed salad
  • Radish
  • Cucumber
  • Carrot
  • Edamame
  • Tuna

Directions:

  1. In an english muffin ring, layer poke toppings. Make sure each layer is evenly dispersed and lightly packed.
  2. Next, carefully remove the muffin ring to reveal your colorful poke tower!

Recipe 7/14

Pommes Maxim

EASY

25 MINUTES

1 POTATO

Ingredients:

  • Petite Yukon gold potatoes
  • 1-2 Tablespoons of melted butter
  • Salt to taste

Directions:

  1. Using a mandolin, slice the potatoes.
  2. On a baking sheet lined with parchment create a 4-5 inch circle using the potato slices. Make sure the potatoes are overlapping.
  3. ;Brush the top of the potatoes with melted butter, sprinkle with salt and pepper to taste.
  4. Bake at 375 degrees fahrenheit for about 20 minutes or until crispy.
  5. Enjoy your pommes maxim over the top of some tomato bisque or any soup you like.

Recipe 8/14

Cucumber Rolls

20 MINUTES

EASY

1

Ingredients:

  • Cucumber
  • Tomates
  • Feta cheese
  • Hummus

Directions:

  1. Using a peeler, thinly slice the cucumber.
  2. Next, spread a thin layer of hummus on each cucumber slice.
  3. Add feta cheese and tomato to the cucumber.
  4. Lastly, roll the cucumber slices up to create a fun take on a sushi veggie wrap!

Recipe 9/14

15 MINUTES

EASY

1 Salmon filet

Ingredients: