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This Boo-rata Halloween Salad is the perfect fun salad for this spooky season and a great dish to enjoy all of October.
You only need creamy burrata, colorful heirloom tomatoes, and fresh basil to make this delicious recipe. It’s a classic combination with a sweet presentation that everyone will love.
If you can’t find heirloom tomatoes, swap for cherry tomatoes, or make my Fig Bresaola Salad in a spooky Halloween edition.
Feel free to make this dish in advance (and store it in the fridge), but wait to pipe the balsamic glaze details until right before serving.
Recipe Tip
For that ombré effect get your hands on one red, one orange, and one yellow heirloom tomato. Place the red at the top of your plate, the orange one around the middle, and then the yellow tomato towards the bottom.
Boo-rata Halloween Salad
Equipment
- piping utensil or bag
Ingredients
- 4 heirloom tomatoes, various colours
- 600 grams burrata, 3 balls
- 2 tablespoons balsamic glaze
- fresh basil, leaves
- 2 kalamata olives
- 2 bocconcini
- 6 tablespoons olive oil
- sea salt, to taste
- black pepper, to taste
Instructions
- Slice the tomatoes and arrange them on a platter.
- Place the cheese in the center of the platter.
- Dry the burrata carefully with a paper towel.
- Slice the bocconcini balls and use the cutter to shape the slices into the white part of the eyes.
- Slice the kalamata olives and cut out pupils with the metal straw.
- Top the olive pupils onto the mozzarella eyes.
- Place the eyes on top of the burrata.
- Squeeze balsamic glaze into a piping utensil (or pipe it straight from the bottle).
- Shape the mouth and the curved bottom of the ghosts with balsamic glaze.
- Drizzle the tomatoes with olive oil, sea salt, and pepper (try to avoid getting olive oil on the ghosts, as the balsamic glaze will run).
- Sprinkle sea salt and pepper to taste.
- Serve.
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Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
