This super easy and festive Pumpkin Veggie Tray is a healthy Halloween party platter that's fun to make with the kids! It uses carrots for the bright orange color, cucumber slices for the mouth, celery sticks for the stem, a pepper for the nose, and small bowls filled with hummus dip for the eyes! Jump to: Healthy Halloween Party Platter Pumpkin Veggie Tray is the perfect snack for Fall. Kids will love to eat their veggies when they look like a jack o lantern. Whip this together in minutes for a fun and nutritious snack. Want to save this? Just enter your email and I'll send it right to you, plus great new recipes weekly!
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Arrange your pumpkin veggie tray on a large circular tray or plate. If you are hosting a party or feeding a large family, use the biggest one you can find and get enough veggies to fill it. For the dip, use 2 small bowls. I used 4-ounce ramekins, and they worked perfectly! Keeping with the spirit of Halloween, this vegetable platter turns broccoli, beets, and other assorted roughage into a spooky forest of ghosts and goblins. Add in hard-boiled eggs for a ghastly punch of protein and healthy fat. Your party guests won't be saying "boo" to this pile of delicious hors d'oeuvres. Haunted Forest Platter Instructions On a circular platter, arrange baby carrots in a circle shape. Leave empty spots for cucumber mouth and two small containers of the dip. Chop one end of one cucumber for the stem. Slice remaining cucumbers and arrange as the pumpkin "mouth." Place one mini pepper for the pumpkin "nose." Fun Halloween Food Idea: Pumpkin Veggie Tray Seriously everyone is going to love this veggie tray! I have never seen my 5 year old eat veggies so fast! Nothing is more festive for halloween than a jack'o lantern veggie platter. The best part is that it is simple to make in just a few minutes and with only a short list of ingredients. sign up for
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Pumpkin Veggie Tray Directions: Fill the two small bowls with your favorite dip. I used ranch dressing. Place the bowls on the round plate where the eyes would be located. Slice the celery and create a pumpkin stem. Create a triangle nose using the black olives. Instructions On a circular tray or plate, arrange Baby Carrots to create the base layer. Arrange sliced Mini Sweet Cucumbers to create the jack-o-lantern's eyes, nose & mouth. Place a whole Mini Sweet Cucumber at the top of the pumpkin to create the stem. Notes Delicious as-is, or serve with a healthy dip such as yogurt ranch, hummus or guacamole. It's so simple! To make the Jack-o'-Lantern: Start by plating the baby carrots on a round platter. Next, cut off the end of the cucumber and cut it in half lengthwise to use as the pumpkin stem. Slice the remaining cucumber into rounds. Take three of the rounds and cut them into triangles to use for the eyes and nose. Print Recipe Halloween Pumpkin Veggie Snack Tray Ingredients 3 cups baby carrots 1/2 cup whole black olives pitted 1 mini red peppers seeded and sliced in strips 1 stalk celery sliced into sticks Ranch or cheese sauce for dipping Instructions Arrange baby carrots on a plate or round platter.
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1 English cucumber orange pepper - optional 12-inch glass plate/tray The first step in pulling together this pumpkin vegetable tray is picking a round tray to build the pumpkin on. Any tray will do. We used a 12-inch round tray. This tray was a wedding gift, but I found a great option on Amazon. 1 olive - cut in half Instructions Pour the carrots into the dish. Pour the dressing/dip into the small bowls and nestle them into the carrots where the jack-o-lantern's "eyes" should go. Arrange the cucumbers on top of the carrots as "teeth" and place two pepper strips above the "eyes." Use a wedge of cucumber, cut side down for the pumpkin stem.
For this pumpkin shaped veggie tray, you will need: Baby carrots: You can also use carrot sticks. Large black olives: I used a 6 ounce can and I had plenty of leftovers. Make sure you get whole olives and not sliced olives. Cucumber: For the teeth. Broccoli: To make the stem. Equipment needed You will need a large round dinner plate or dish. Pumpkin Veggie Tray Halloween Fruit + Veggie Ghosts, Goblins, Mummies, and More Orange, Green, and Purple Fruit + Berry Tray More Halloween Fun Ideas Why Have a Healthy Meal or Snack Before Trick or Treating? One logical reason to have dinner before you trick or treat is that you'll be more satisfied and less likely to overindulge on candy.
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pumpkin cookie cutters 6 whole wheat soft tortillas 2 tablespoons olive oil 1 teaspoon salt (for dusting on chips) Halloween 7 Layer Dip 14 oz can of refried beans 16 oz container of guacamole 500 ml of sour cream 2 cups grated old cheddar cheese 1/2 cup canned corn 200 ml salsa 6 pitted kalamata olives 8-10 mini sweet peppers 2 carrots The depth of your cut will determine the height of your stem. Carrot pumpkin are so much fun! STEP 2: Carefully, make a perpendicular cut from the edge of the carrot until it just intersects the first cut you made. You should be able to remove a pie-shaped section of the carrot. Repeat on the other side.
