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A simple but impressive way of serving a Caprese Salad. A great way to get kids excited about tomatoes!

A simple but impressive way of serving a Caprese Salad. A great way to get kids excited about tomatoes! | My Fussy Eater BlogLets face it, salad just isn’t exciting to kids. As much as we try to convince our children that lettuce, tomatoes and cucumber are all delicious, most are not convinced! So how can we encourage them to eat more salad? For me the key is to make food interesting and exciting. A bowl of fresh raw salad ingredients may look vibrant and tasty to us, but to children it looks bland and boring.

So I decided to give the simple Caprese Salad a makeover… hasselback style! These hedgehog style tomatoes now look a lot for appetizing to kids and are sure to spark their imagination when it comes to foods that they would ordinarily turn down.

They are so easy to make with just a few simple ingredients. Check out the short video below.

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A simple yet impressive way of serving caprese salad. And a great way to make tomatoes exciting for kids! | My Fussy Eater Blog

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A simple but impressive way of serving a Caprese Salad. A great way to get kids excited about tomatoes! | My Fussy Eater Blog

Hasselback Caprese Salad

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  • Author: Bianca Carey Spencer
  • Prep Time: 10 mins
  • Total Time: 10 minutes
  • Yield: 2-3 1x
  • Category: Appetizer
  • Cuisine: Italian
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Description

A simple but impressive way of serving a Caprese Salad. A great way to get kids excited about tomatoes!

Ingredients

  • 3 medium or  2 large tomatoes
  • 1 mozzarella ball
  • basil leaves
  • olive oil
  • balsamic drizzle

Instructions

  1. Slice the mozzarella ball into roughly 1cm slices.
  2. Makes slices in the tomatoes ensuring that you do not cut all the way through.
  3. Place half a slice of mozzarella into each of the slits in the tomatoes.
  4. Add a basil leaf to each of the slits.
  5. Drizzle each of the tomatoes with olive oil and balsamic drizzle.
  6. Serve immediately.

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Comments

  2. Hannah says

    These look delicious! I’ll definitely have to try making them for my mum (a caprese superfan) at some point! They look so pretty too – they’d make a great appetiser or starter!

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  4. Wheelie Good Meals says

    Great idea, I love hasselback potatoes so this idea is fab. I’ev scheduled to share on facebook #TastyTuesday

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  5. Honest mum says

    Absolutely stunning dish and have pinned to my low carb board, love the video too, I’e subscribed x

    Reply

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