Food Decoration: We have come up with ideas today that do not require special equipment or expertise. With a little imagination, everyday objects and ingredients, you can serve the delicacy you create on the model of star chefs.
Tuile is a thin, crisp, usually curved, sweet or salty wafer of French origin, most often made from pasta (but possibly also cheese), which is mostly served with other dishes. Tuile got its name from the French word for tile, the shape of a roof tile.
Beautiful and very aesthetic food decoration. It can be used as a decoration for both desserts and savory food. In this video, we make a neutral, slightly salty-tasting tuile, but this can easily be varied to taste.
We can make tuile corals in the color and taste you want. We can simply use food coloring as in the video, or a coloring obtained from vegetables, fruits, e.g. orange juice, beetroot juice, squid ink. In this case, less water should be added. The taste of tuile can also be intensified, eg with vanilla aroma and cinnamon.
Video guide:
0:00 Intro
0:06 Making Tuile Coral
2:11 Colorful marble sugar decoration
3:31 Making Colored Icing Sugar / Plate Decoration
Tuile Coral - Coral tulle recipe:
Toss up your dinner with this elegant, salty and crunchy accessory. You wouldn’t even think of how spectacular food decoration can be made with this simple technique. Easy, in a short time and also delicious.
Preparation time: 20 minutes
Ingredients: 6 pieces (made in a 16 cm pan)
60 g of oil
55 g of water
10 g of flour
1 pinch of salt
food coloring (if you want color)
This is a basic recipe, but you can of course substitute water, e.g. fish stock and food coloring with squid ink. This gives the recipe an extra flavor and will no longer be just a simple decoration, but also a gastronomic experience.
1. Fill a high bowl with oil, lukewarm water and flour. Add a pinch of salt and work with a stick mixer until lump-free.
2. If you want to make a colored Coral Tuile, divide the mass into as many small bowls as you want to work with. Then mix in the shade of color you like.
3. Preheat a Teflon pan or pancake oven. Then bake the dough on the pattern of making pancakes. Be very careful of splashing hot oil drops. Water and oil do not mix. The dough loses its water content during baking and the oil also separates, which you can set aside for later use.
4. Gently lift the finished “net” and soak the excess oil off it on a paper towel.
2 in 1: Marble sugar decoration and colored icing sugar:
Icing sugar is the basis of these colorful and sweet miracles that can be the perfect complement to any dessert serving. You can use a fork, dumplings or even funny figures to pattern the icing sugar scatter.
Extra tip: Of course, you can also use this technique (fork, perforated pan, figurines, etc.) to decorate the plate of the main dishes, but in this case sprinkle the bowl with dried parsley or red pepper.
2 tablespoons icing sugar, per color
1.5 tablespoons lukewarm water, per color
food coloring, syrup
1. Mix icing sugar, water and food coloring in a small bowl.
2. Spread on a baking sheet and bake in a preheated oven at 130 Cº for 8-10 minutes.
The baking time may vary slightly depending on the thickness of the sugar. The sugar first melts and becomes translucent. We need to look for this point if we want to achieve a transparent and bubbly surface. If we go beyond this point then sugar will crystallize, losing its translucent surface. Its rustic effect can even be exciting. And to make colored powdered sugar, just grind the colored crystallized sugar in a coffee grinder. Sealed airtight in small bottles for extremely long storage.