Salad house

I’m always looking for simple but creative ways to present salad veg…

Making it that little bit more exciting makes a salad a ‘must eat’ and it’s an excellent way to prepare a plate for a play date or to present food at a school/kindergarten event. You can always add a healthy dip at the side, too, to jazz it up.

I’ve used the veg I had on hand but you can substitute anything you have in the fridge.

Recipe

Ingredients

• carrot
• cucumber
• celery
• red capsicum
• baby spinach
• red cabbage
• avocado

Method

Step 1 Cut the carrot into batons and form into a rough square.

Step 2 Then use more carrot for the triangular roof.

Step 3 Fill the roof with celery tiles.

Step 4 Cut cucumber into squares for the windows.

Step 5 Then use the discarded cucumber skin for the detail on the windows.

Step 6 Use a red capsicum to make a shiny, red door.

Step 7 Give the door a celery handle and the roof a carrot chimney.

Step 8 Use more cucumber for grass and add a celery trunk for the tree.

Step 9 Give the tree some foliage by trimming a baby spinach leaf and grow some avocado bushes.

Step 10 Finally, add some red cabbage smoke and steps.

Then watch it get demolished…!