Crudites with Vomit Vinaigrette
Submitted by sweetangel
Halloween veggie platter with a deliberately lumpy, yellowish cottage cheese dip that looks horrifying but tastes like a savory onion dip. Gross-out party food that’s secretly healthy.
YIELD
4 servingsPREP
20 minCOOK
0 minREADY
1 hrsLooking for the grossest thing on the Halloween party table? You found it. And it’s actually good for you.
This “vinaigrette” is really a cottage cheese dip mixed with onion soup mix and tinted with yellow food coloring to look as revolting as possible. The key? Keep it lumpy. Smooth is for fancy parties. This is for scaring children.
Surround it with fresh carrot sticks, zucchini, celery, cherry tomatoes, radishes, and mushroom caps. Crisp, colorful vegetables that look almost too wholesome next to that horrifying bowl of dip.
Kids will dare each other to try it. Adults will eat most of it when nobody’s looking.
Pro Tips
- Go easy on the food coloring. A sickly yellowish-green is what you’re after. Too much and it looks artificial instead of horrifying
- Cottage cheese with small curds works best for that realistic lumpy texture
- Prep the veggie sticks ahead and store in a bag in the fridge so they stay crisp
- Serve in a hollowed-out pumpkin or a cauldron for maximum Halloween effect
Ingredients
Directions
Rinse the vegetables in warm water, except the mushroom caps.
Wipe those gently with a damp paper towel.
Then slice the carrots, zucchini and celery into thin sticks.
The cherry tomatoes can be served whole, but you may want to remove any green stems.
The radishes and mushrooms can be halved or served whole.
If you are not serving right away, put the vegetables in a plastic bag and store them in the refrigerator to keep them fresh and crispy.
In a small bowl, mix the cottage cheese, onion soup mix and milk.
Stir in some food coloring until you get the desired yellowish color.
Do not overmix! Lumpy is more realistic! Arrange your vegetables on a platter surrounding the Vomit Vinaigrette.
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