Name: Carrot Swirled Pumpkin
Prep time: 50 min
Total time: 50 min
Ingredients: 5 carrots; 1 large cucumber

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This Carrot Swirled Pumpkin, made with carrots and cucumbers, will make a beautiful centerpiece for your festive table.

A swirled pumpkin is made of carrot slices and cucumber strips rolled into spirals and artfully arranged on a light surface.

Serve the pumpkin as a beautiful centerpiece for Halloween or Thanksgiving, or enjoy it as part of a veggie charcuterie board. You can even top it with large candy eyes to impress the kids!

Recipe Tip

Use your largest carrot peels to shape the outside of the pumpkin first. Then, fill the inside of the pumpkin.

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Servings: people

Carrot Swirled Pumpkin

Beautiful pumpkin centrepiece made with thin slices of carrot and cucumber.

Prep: 50

Cook: 0

Total: 50

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Equipment

vegetable peeler

Ingredients

▢ 5 carrots
▢ 1 large cucumber

Instructions

Start by peeling the carrots.
Keep creating peels and trim them so they are approximately the same width.
Shape the peels into the form of a pumpkin.
Peel the cucumber.
Swirl the cucumber into curls to make the top of the pumpkin.
Serve.

Nutrition

Calories: 40kcal, Carbohydrates: 9g, Protein: 1g, Fat: 0.3g, Saturated Fat: 0.04g, Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.1g, Monounsaturated Fat: 0.01g, Sodium: 54mg, Potassium: 339mg, Fiber: 3g, Sugar: 5g, Vitamin A: 12789IU, Vitamin C: 7mg, Calcium: 35mg, Iron: 0.4mg

Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.

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