The leaves are turning orange and are falling from the trees, the air is turning crisp and the nights are getting darker - it can only mean one thing, spooky season has arrived! So gather your cauldron (aka your Citron grand lunch box) and fill it with our Halloween inspired recipes.
Eyeball pasta
Ingredients
- 1 portion of pasta
- 25g pine nuts
- 40g basil
- 25g parmesan cheese
- 75ml olive oil
- 1 garlic clove
- 2 mini mozzarella balls
- 1 olive
Method
- Cook your spaghetti per instructions on the packet.
- For the sauce, add the pine nuts to a frying pan, make sure you stir them constantly to avoid burning.
- Next add your basil, parmesan, olive oil, garlic clove and pine nuts to a blender and blitz until smooth.
- Once your pasta is cooked, add your pasta to the sauce, and into your small food jar.
- To make the eyes, add mozzarella balls to the pasta and cut your olive into small slices and add to the mozzarella.
Ghost bananas
Ingredients
- 1 banana
- Chocolate chips
Method
- Cut your banana in half from one tip of the banana to the other.
- Then cut your banana in half and make a zig-zag cut on the bottom of the banana.
- Add chocolate chips onto the banana for the eyes.
Hot dog fingers
Ingredients
- 3 cooked sausages
- 1 slice of ham
- Ketchup
Method
- Get 3 cooked sausages and cut out a fingernail shape to the tip of the sausage.
- Next grab a slice of ham and cut out nail-shaped slices out of the ham and add to the sausages so they look like nails on fingers.
- You can add ketchup to your sauce pot.
Grape eyeballs
Ingredients
- A handful of grapes
- Chocolate chips
Method
- Simply cut your grapes in half.
- Add chocolate chips to the centre of the cut grape so they look like eyeballs.
Make sure you keep your eyes peeled for even more spooky recipes!