Prep Time: 30 min.
Your friends and family will be thrilled with this colorful and delicious Spooky Salad featuring tomato slices, cucumber skulls, and mozzarella cheese ghosts!
Shape the mozzarella slices with a ghost cookie cutter and a mini melon baller. Trim the cucumber skulls by hand and assemble them on top of the tomato slices.
Season the salad with olive oil, salt, and pepper, and use balsamic glaze to decorate the ghosts.
This Halloween salad is sure to be a showstopper whether you are planning a family dinner or throwing a party.
TIP: Feel free to add other ingredients to the bottom of the salad.
Ingredients
- 4 vine tomatoes
- 1 cucumber
- 2 fresh mozzarella balls
- 3 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 tablespoon balsamic glaze
- sea salt
- pepper
- toothpick
- metal straw
- mini melon baller
- Pac-Man ghost cookie cutter
Instructions
Serves 3-4.
1. Cut the tomato and arrange on a platter. Top with a sprinkle of salt.
2. Slice the mozzarella and use the mini melon baller to cut out eyes and a mouth.
3. Trim the wavy bottom of the ghosts. I used a Pac-Man cookie cutter, but you can also zig-zag this part with a knife.
4. Slice the cucumber.
5. Make a symmetrical indent for the jaw.
6. Use the metal straw to shape the holes for the eyes.
7. To make the teeth, cut two small v-shapes in the jaw.
8. Make a few turns with a toothpick or lolly stick to make the nose.
9. Top the tomatoes with the mozzarella ghosts and cucumber skulls.
10. Fill the ghosts’ scooped eyes and mouths with balsamic glaze.
11. Drizzle the salad with olive oil and sprinkle with sea salt and pepper.
12. Serve.
