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Your friends and family will be thrilled with this colorful and delicious Spooky Salad featuring tomato slices, cucumber skulls, and mozzarella cheese ghosts!

A creative salad with tomato slices, mozzarella ghosts, and cucumber bites shaped like skulls, garnished with balsamic glaze, surrounded by plastic spiders on a gray surface.

The platter is a real showstopper and makes the perfect side dish for family dinners and spooky parties. And the best part is you can make it in advance.

Recipe Tip

Use a ghost cookie cutter to shape the ghosts or trim the bottom of the mozzarella slice in a zig-zag with a sharp knife.

Season the salad with olive oil, sea salt, and pepper, and use balsamic glaze to fill the ghosts. And if you’re looking for another way to serve the same ingredients, check out this fun alternative:

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A plate of sliced tomatoes, cucumbers shaped like skulls, and mozzarella ghosts with black olive eyes makes a spooky, healthy Halloween dish. Plastic spiders are scattered around for extra fun—a perfect addition to festive food recipes!.

Servings: people

Spooky Salad

By Sine Siemkowicz

Showstopping Halloween Salad with cucumber, mozzarella, and tomato.

Prep: 30

Cook: 0

Total: 30

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Equipment

Ingredients

Instructions

Cut the tomato and arrange on a platter. Top with a sprinkle of salt and pepper.
Slice the mozzarella and use the mini melon baller to cut out eyes and a mouth.
Trim the wavy bottom of the ghosts. I used a cookie cutter, but you can also zig-zag this part with a knife.
Slice the cucumber.
Make a symmetrical indent for the jaw.
Use the metal straw to shape the holes for the eyes.
To shape the teeth, cut two small v-shapes in the jaw.
Make a few turns with a toothpick or lolly stick to make the nose.
Top the tomatoes with the mozzarella ghosts and cucumber skulls.
Fill the ghosts’ scooped eyes and mouths with balsamic glaze.
Drizzle the salad with olive oil and sprinkle with sea salt and pepper.
Serve.

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Nutrition

Calories: 105kcal, Carbohydrates: 7g, Protein: 1g, Fat: 9g, Saturated Fat: 1g, Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g, Monounsaturated Fat: 6g, Cholesterol: 0.3mg, Sodium: 9mg, Potassium: 315mg, Fiber: 2g, Sugar: 4g, Vitamin A: 866IU, Vitamin C: 15mg, Calcium: 20mg, Iron: 0.4mg

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

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