How to Cut Vegetables to Make Salad Roses
To make salad roses, first cut your vegetables into thin slices about 1/16" thick. You can do this easily with a mandolin. Then you can cut your onion in half, peel it and cut a slice around 1/3" thick. Pop out the innermost, smallest rings, these will be used to hold your "rose" petals. The size of the onion ring determines the size of the rose.
To make salad roses, first cut your vegetables into thin slices about 1/16" thick. You can do this easily with a mandolin. Then you can cut your onion in half, peel it and cut a slice around 1/3" thick. Pop out the outermost, largest rings, these will be used to hold your "rose" petals. The size of the onion ring determines the size of the rose.