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This colorful Christmas Wreath Salad, featuring mozzarella, cherry tomatoes, and fresh basil, is perfect for your next festive gathering.

A festive plate arranged like a holiday wreath with mozzarella balls decorated as smiling faces, surrounded by cherry tomatoes and fresh basil leaves.
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Topped with black olives and peppercorns, this salad is adorable and sure to turn heads.

Serve it as a delicious starter with crostini or a fresh baguette, or enjoy it as a fun side salad.

Recipe Tip

I used 5 mozzarella halves for this wreath, but do use all 6 so there is no wastage.

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A festive plate arranged like a holiday wreath with mozzarella balls decorated as smiling faces, surrounded by cherry tomatoes and fresh basil leaves.
Servings: 10 people

Christmas Wreath Salad

Cherry tomato and fresh mozzarella wreath topped with fun expressions and fresh basil.
Prep: 35 minutes
Cook: 0 minutes
Total: 35 minutes
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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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