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Welcome back to another sushi video recipe, I'm Chef Devaux and today I'm going to show
you guys how to make a carrot butterfly and a cucumber fan. I hope you guys enjoy this
video -- let's get straight into it. How to Carve a Carrot Butterfly
Alright so in the beginning you want to cut your carrot into a block like this and then
you want to cut the base of the carrot, so just below the center -- alright perfect.
And now you want to cut the front end of the butterfly. You want to make sure it's not
going through this here, the barrier between the core and the outside, because this will
actually dislocate if you cut it very thinly and so the antenna would break off if you
actually cut through it like this, so make sure you have the blade just past it.
Okay, so at a slight angle, and there see, I have actually cut through this here and
this is now useless, this part, because when you cut an antenna through here it will actually
break off, so it's no use. No worries, I'll try to do it the other way around and then...there
are always two chances at this -- perfect. Now moving on you cut the top off the carrot
which would be the top of the butterfly. Alright so this is how you want your carrot block
to look like, you want a small base, a large top and a large flat surface on one side and
smaller flat surface on the other side angled. This one needs to be a slightly lower angle
and this one a slightly higher angle. Alright so here I am going to make three cuts,
one going in half a centimeter and two joining to that first cut at 45° angles on either
side and this will create the top of the butterfly wing, and it's going to be beautiful curves
ending in a point there. So now after cutting the 45° angle cuts I am now going to go back
in with a small knife and smooth out by shaving it off. You want to really watch out that
you don't cut into your finger, so you really want to control the blade and take care where
you point it. It's very advisable to always point the blade away from yourself and not
towards any fingers. Alright so now that I have curved this and
this here what I am going to do is I am just going to smooth this off here -- okay. And
then I want to make small little -- this is the back end of the butterfly, you want to
make an incision about half a centimeter, small triangle at the bottom to give it that
distinct little end pieces of the butterfly. So this is where the front is...and just curving
that slightly. Alright so now to cut the antenna. You want
to place your knife just at the edge and then softly, smoothly, cut into it until you reach about a quarter centimeter
off the bottom and then you pull out. Then you flip it over and you cut just the opposite side about a
centimeter and then you pull out and right there is your butterfly. Now to cut your butterfly,
you want to take your knife and cut it in this direction so it pushes the antenna towards
the carrot. If you cut it the other way what happen is you will pull away and you might
not cut it and it might actually break off. Now you place your knife extremely close to
the edge, you want to make a paper-thin cut and you slide it through until you reach about
quarter of a centimeter off the bottom then you stop and you pull back out. Now you make
another thin cut to make the second wing and this one goes all the way down.
Alright once you've finished cutting you put down your knife and you pick up your little
butterfly package, then you just pull open the wings and hold it from the bottom and
press them down. You hold the bottom so it doesn't split in half when you do this and
now you just simply push up your little antenna slit and you bend it over so it folds in on
the inside. Now just simply spread open your antenna softly and bend it again and violà
a little butterfly ready to go. Now you can put this on top of a little sushi
roll or just put it around the plate as decoration, whatever you want, but it will look stunning
and it will make your sushi look much better. How to Cut a Cucumber Fan
Alright so now for the cucumber fan, you just need a chunk of cucumber, about 15cm long,
cut it in half. Alright now you cut it in half and now you simply want to start cutting
very thin slices, 1mm thick, 70% through the cucumber. Then once you're done with that
slice you take your knife at a 45° angle and cut the ends off to get nice sharp ends.
Now you fan out your cucumber on the board just like so, don't want them to stick together
too much, and then you cut off the ends just before the end. Okay, and now you make another
cut to make it slightly leaning forward so that it stands up perfectly.
Now you just fan it out and that there is a cucumber fan. It's a beautiful thing to
add to a sushi plate, it gives it a little bit of height, another dimension to it, instead
of having just flat food on the plate. This really elevates it to another level, so hope
you guys like this decoration, it's pretty simple and beautiful.
Alright, so this is the end of the video, I hope you guys enjoyed it and if you did
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