Spooky Skeleton Platter with a vegetable body and a bowl of hummus topped with olives to make a face

Spooky Skeleton Platter

Age Suitability

12 months +

Serves

2

Prep

20mins

Cooking Time

0mins

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Carrot

What you need

Ingredients

For the hummous:
400g canned chickpeas
Juice of 1 lemon
1 or 2 garlic cloves, crushed
1 tsp ground cumin
100ml tahini (sesame seed paste) (optional)
4 tbsp water
2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
For the skeleton:
2 black olives
5 slices of cucumber
3 slices of pepper (red, yellow or orange)
1 cherry tomato
1 stick celery
1 carrot

Allergens warning

This product contains:
Celery
This product is suitable for:
Vegetarian, Vegan, Gluten free, No dairy
Halloween can be fun and healthy with our Spooky Skeleton Platter Recipe. Get your toddler to help, it's simple to make and tasty to snack on!
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Courgette slices

Method

First make your hummous. Combine all the ingredients in a food processor and blitz until very smooth. If you don't have a food processor you can mash together in a bowl, but you will need to work a lot harder to get a smooth finish - it's a good workout! Children can help power the blender or mash. Go easy on the garlic, maybe start by adding half a clove then add more to taste if needed.

A food processor with hummus ingredients: chickpeas, lemon, garlic, cumin, tahini, water and extra virgin olive oil

Place hummous into a small round ramekin or bowl. This is the head of your skeleton. Cut a black olive in half to make eyes and another one into small pieces to make a nose and teeth. Place onto the hummous in the shape of a face.

Hummus in a bowl

Build the skeleton. Lay out the cucumber slices into a spine. Cut a pepper in half from top to bottom, and then take long slices from top to bottom, cut these in half to create ribs for your skeleton, and lay them over the spine. Cut the cherry tomato in half and add at the bottom of the spine to make hip joints. Cut 4 thin batons from the celery stick, each one about 4cm long (suitable for little ones to gnaw on).

Celery, cucumber, carrot, olives and pepper on a table

Use two sticks for each leg with a bend at the knee join. Cut the carrot into 4 thin batons and use in the same way for arms. Then cut four more cubes for hands and feet, and add to your skeleton! Now you have a spooky skeleton that will impress little ones and get them happily munching on a #No Junk treat!

Spooky Skeleton Platter with vegetable body and a bowl of hummus with olives as a face

Serve straight away. Great as a Halloween centrepiece at a party and can be easily scaled up for more people. You can gently steam, blanch or boil some of the vegetables for younger babies if a softer texture is needed.

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