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

An orange pumpkin shape made from curled and rolled strips of orange and green paper in a quilling art style, with green swirls at the top representing leaves and vines—perfect inspiration for health-themed food recipes or festive dishes.

Serve it for Halloween or Thanksgiving as part of a veggie tray. You can even top it with large candy eyes to impress the kids!

Servings: people

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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