Make a soft gluten-free non-sticky Sabudana Khichdi, a pilaf with my mother-in-laws secret tips to make this popular snack and breakfast item.
Carnations
We had been for a wedding in fact it was Candida Andrade’s wedding and there the decorations at the buffet table were amazing there were carnations of a very different colour and some other colourful lilies. Closer inspection showed them to be onion carnations and cucumber lilies.
I went and asked the waiter about the creator of the flowers. Since Michel the caterer and the man behind the flowers was around he gave me a demo. The cucumber lilies I am yet to try but the carnations are here.
Here I have tried making a carnation out of the onion. Take a look.
You need to cut the onions from the top and stop before you reach the root.
Then make another section similarly perpendicular to your cut. Next one is between these cuts and so on. Just take care they are attached to the root.
Once done put the onion in ice cold water for 8-10 hours Michel said he kept them overnight and the onion opens out. You can colour them too just add food colour to the water in which you are soaking them.
While demonstrating putting them on the what we call in Goa ”viri” Michel pressed it squashed the onion on the top . So his Michel’s flowers had bloomed out very beautifully.
Mine was in the fridge for approximately 4 hours and I tried making it open up gently. Mine is on a skewer.
Viri is what is used to make your stick broom, the coconut leaf vein midribs.
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Priya says
Omg, damn attractive onion flower, pretty and super cute.
Rajani says
It didnt look like an onion at all. I thought it was made with some stiff kind of cloth..
They look superb and would beautifully adorn any table!
Runnergirlinthekitchen says
These is really amazing and done so well! Waiting for cucumber lilies!
Chef Mireille says
wow - so creative!
Vaishali Sabnani says
onion carnations look very pretty..I wonder if you noticed them on my blog, when I did garnishing...good job Archana..see you can do it:))))
Kitchen Queen says
wow what a innovative way to do decoration.
foodiliciousnan says
I saw a similar one that a bhel puri guy at the beach had done. but he had kept the pointed tip of the onion intact so out kind of looked like a lotus
Srivalli says
That's really such a pretty one!..very neatly done..
harini says
Cool. Very cute.
pumpkinfarmfood says
this one has turned out very well
Janani says
wow so cute they look nice idea.
Pavani says
Beautiful onion flower. Very neat idea.
preeti2kitchen says
Beautiful flower
veena says
Beautiful flower...i can only sculpt a clay carnation
Suma Gandlur says
They look really beautiful. I guess I will cry a river if I decide to make a bouqet of onion carnations. 🙂