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This colorful Christmas Wreath Salad, featuring mozzarella, cherry tomatoes, and fresh basil, is perfect for your next festive gathering.
Topped with black olive and peppercorn expressions, this salad is adorable and sure to turn heads with kids and adults alike. Serve it as a delicious starter with crostini or fresh baguette, or make it a fun side salad!
Recipe Tip
I used 5 mozzarella halves for this wreath, but do use all 6 so there is no wastage.
Christmas Wreath Salad
Cherry tomato and fresh mozzarella wreath topped with fun expressions and fresh basil.
Ingredients
- 3 fresh mozzarella, balls
- 500 grams cherry tomatoes
- 1 olive, black
- 6 peppercorn
- fresh basil leaves
- 5 tablespoons olive oil
- 4 tablespoons balsamic glaze
- sea salt, to taste
- pepper, to taste
Instructions
- Halve the fresh mozzarella. You may need to trim the halves so they are round.
- Arrange the cheese the round side up on a platter.
- Scatter the cherry tomatoes around the cheese. You can halve some of the tomatoes to make it easier to fill the space.
- Quarter an olive and trim the inside of the flesh off.
- Use a sharp knife to cut the olive skin into v-shapes for the snowball eyes and the curved smiles.
- Top the olive eyes and mouth onto the mozzarella. I also used peppercorns for eyes on two of the snowballs (to save time, just use peppercorn for the eyes and mouth).
- Fill basil leaves in all the gaps.
- Drizzle with balsamic glaze, olive oil, sea salt and pepper.
- Serve.
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Nutrition
Calories: 194kcal, Carbohydrates: 6g, Protein: 9g, Fat: 15g, Saturated Fat: 6g, Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g, Monounsaturated Fat: 8g, Cholesterol: 30mg, Sodium: 247mg, Potassium: 139mg, Fiber: 0.4g, Sugar: 3g, Vitamin A: 500IU, Vitamin C: 11mg, Calcium: 195mg, Iron: 1mg
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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