Garnish is an edible embellishment or decoration of the food that is often used to make the food look beautiful and elegant and also to add an extra taste to the food. Both sweet and savoury dishes have different types of garnishes. Generally, starters and main course dishes are savoury dishes and are decorated with many types of garnishes. The following is a garnishing guide for starters and main courses:
Garnishing Guide For Starters & Main Course
- Different types of fruits, fresh greens and leaves, and even edible flowers are all great garnishes for these meals and are also very easy to use for such meals.
- Parsley, coriander, arugula, and different types of microgreens are great garnishes that add a lot of freshness to a recipe or meal. Fruits are a great way to add a little sweetness to a savoury dish and which makes it a great garnish.
- Nuts add crunch and texture to many meals. Flaked almonds, cashew nuts, candied walnuts, and pistachios are some of the nuts that are used as a garnish.
- Herbs add to the flavour in many starters and main course dishes and are the perfect type of garnish. Basil, thyme, cilantro, chervil, rosemary, chives, and mint are different types of herbs that are used as garnishes.
- Fried onions are the most common form of a fried garnish but fried crouton, fried tortillas, fried carrot ribbons, and fried potatoes are different garnish options.
- Caviar, duxelles, gremolata, brunoise, julienne sliced vegetables, coulis, croquettes, chiffonade, mirepoix, and fritters are classic and fancy forms of garnish that are used for starters and main courses.
- There are some types of cooked garnishes that add to the flavour of the food and also to the look of the food. Boiled eggs, sautéed mushrooms, different types of sauces and chutneys, a wedge of lime, wafers, melted cheese, and even spice powders are great garnishes for starters and main courses.
It is said, that a meal should look tempting and beautiful and not just taste nice for the people to enjoy a meal. Garnishing adds to the look and to the flavour of starters and main courses and the above mentioned is a guide to different types of garnishes that are commonly used at home and in restaurants.
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