Scary and interesting dishes for Halloween. What to cook for Halloween? Recipes, dishes

What date is Halloween celebrated?

On the night of October 31 to November 1, All Saints Day is celebrated in the United States. On this day, people dress up in scary costumes and have fun. Halloween food should match the celebration. At the present time, this holiday has become popular in Russia, mainly adults celebrate it at theme parties. Abroad, both children and adults celebrate it, children dress up as monsters, go to their neighbors and demand candy.

Halloween is a holiday when the dead come to the world of the living and in order to scare them away from themselves, people dress up in scary costumes. The main symbol is considered to be a pumpkin, it is from it that lanterns are made and placed near the house.

As for the food: it must be scary too. You can make different cocktails, and add candy worms in the middle, cut monsters out of vegetables or bake scary cupcakes.

Today I will show you 3 Halloween food ideas that you can easily make yourself. We will prepare a broomstick cheese appetizer, a pumpkin egg appetizer and a scary drink. All these dishes are prepared very quickly and simply, but in some recipes you need to know the secrets in order to cook them correctly, which I will definitely share with you.

Halloween food - recipes with photos

A broom is one of the attributes of Halloween, so you should definitely prepare something interesting in the form of a broom. This is a very simple and effective snack that adults and children will definitely like. What could be tastier than cream cheese with crispy straws. It is prepared very quickly and simply, the main thing is to have all the necessary ingredients on hand and know some secrets, because without them the appetizer may not work.

Ingredients

• Processed cheese with plates - 1 pack
• Salted straws - 1 pack
• Green onions or green stalks

Cooking

I bought salted straws, you can buy it in any store in a package or by weight. Let's break it into two equal parts.

I used processed and sliced ​​cheese, there is also hard cheese, but it seems to me that it will not work, as it will break. Carefully remove the packaging and cut it into two even parts.

So that the cheese does not stick to our hands, we moisten our hands with water, take half of the cheese and make cuts with scissors. Cut carefully and leave a distance of 0.5 cm at the top so that the broom does not tear. Put straw on top.

Gently twist the cheese around the straw. If the brooms are different in size, you can trim the fringe with scissors.

Now we take a stalk of greens from parsley or a leaf of green onion. It is more convenient to tie with onions, as the parsley stem is coarser and breaks. Slightly withered onions, tied more easily than fresh ones. But I only had parsley on hand. We tie, but not much, so as not to break the cheese.

Here we have such cheese brooms! Put them in the refrigerator before the guests arrive, I do not recommend keeping them in the refrigerator for a long time, the straws can become soft. Bon appetit!

Terrible drink for Halloween

You want your party to be memorable and interesting, you definitely need to get ready and put together a menu of scary dishes. Not one holiday can do without drinks or cocktails. Of course, you can go to the store and buy different spiders or cockroaches, but you can do everything yourself and without much waste. Today I'll show you how to drop wine, sangria, juice, compote, or mulled wine. We will make scary faces that will float in the drink and scare the guests. The main alcohol or juice should be red so that it resembles blood. The dishes must necessarily be transparent or white, then the drink looks more spectacular.

Scary Halloween Drink Recipe

Ingredients

• Wine - 1 l.
• Apples - 2 pcs.

Cooking

We take a transparent container, it can be a glass, large salad bowl. If there is no transparent dish, take white, but by no means colored, it will ruin the whole look. Pour wine or other drink.

Take an apple, peel it. We take an apple peel, which removes the core and cut out the eyes. It is with her that they turn out to be even, but you can also cut it with a knife. I cut out the mouth with a knife, the main thing is to make it scary, not smiling.

Then, I put these apples in wine and they floated away from me on the wrong side, where the face is. I found a solution, cut off the back of the apple, almost half. On the other half, you can make another face.

Now, you can safely put the apples in the drink, the faces will float on top. Add ice if desired. Have a nice evening!

Pumpkin Egg Appetizer

The pumpkin is the symbol of the holiday. Therefore, it must be present on the table. I suggest you cook a very tasty appetizer of eggs stuffed with carrots and cheese. Tender eggs with a spicy filling, perfect for a celebration. Serving in the form of a bright pumpkin will give the right atmosphere and mood. It will not be difficult for you to prepare such a dish, the main thing is to have desire and imagination. You can add smoked chicken, pumpkin or melted cheese to the filling.

What to cook for Halloween

Ingredients

• Egg - 3 pcs.
• Carrot - 1 pc.
• Hard cheese - 30 g.
• Mayonnaise - 1 tsp
• Salt, black pepper - a pinch

Cooking

Place the eggs in boiling water and cook for 15 minutes until tender. We take them out, and put them in cold water, wait until they cool down. Peel them from the shell, cut in half, take out the yolk.

Carrots must be juicy and sweet, otherwise the filling will turn out not tasty. Grate carrots and cheese on a fine grater. Carrots can be ground in a blender.

Add squeezed garlic, crushed yolks, mayonnaise, salt and black pepper, mix everything with a spoon into a homogeneous mass.

This is the mass we have.

We put the carrot spread in the egg, make a flat and round surface with your finger.

We take a sprig of parsley, cut off pieces of the stem from it. We will use them as tails for pumpkins.

With a knife, we make cuts along the pumpkin to make the vegetable more beautiful. Our snack is ready. Bon appetit!

So, we can summarize: Halloween food can be varied, the main thing is to show imagination and serve it beautifully, then the holiday atmosphere will intensify and bring vivid impressions.

When the arrows of the year creep up to October 31, the wholesale buying of pumpkins begins, because Halloween is coming soon - the finest hour of the pumpkin. Cover the table with a dark purple tablecloth (it symbolizes the darkness in which Jack's soul wanders), arrange orange candles and celebrate Halloween ... And we will help you with recipes!

When preparing a festive table for Halloween, try to put as much of your imagination into the design of festive dishes as possible. The theme of the design can be any chilling horrors. Although try not to overdo it, don't make your guests squeal in fear, it's enough if they smile with pleasure. The simplest sandwiches, carved in the shape of skulls with a sharp knife and decorated with blood from ketchup, will bring a lot of pleasure to you and your children. Do not forget to bake cookies in the form of cobwebs and spiders, decorate the cake with "mould" from the icing. Just use your imagination, and then your holiday will definitely succeed, and gelatinous monsters and ghosts from bananas will definitely help you with this!

Hot Halloween Meals: Recipes

stuffed pumpkin

You will need for one serving:

• pumpkin,
• carrots - 1 pc.,
• pork - 300 gr,
• red bell pepper - 1 pc.,
• 1 pineapple
• salt.

Take a pumpkin, preferably a large one. Remove the cover. Take out the seeds. Pork cut into pieces, fry. Cut carrots. Next, put everything in a bowl. Add red bell pepper, chopped in advance. You can add pineapple (fresh or from a can, but in its own juice). Everything should be mixed, salt, add a little water and simmer until tender. Transfer the finished mass to the pumpkin, cover with food foil, add pepper to taste. Put in the oven at a low temperature and keep for about two hours. Serve right in the pumpkin.
Bon appetit!

Roast with pumpkin in a pot with an edible lid "Witch's Pot"

What is Halloween without the main attribute of this holiday - pumpkins? From a pumpkin, you can make a wonderful lantern for decorating a festive table with your own hands. And pumpkin pulp can be used to prepare very tasty and healthy dishes.
Today we're going to cook a pumpkin pot roast with an edible Witch's Pot lid.
To prepare our dish you need:

• - meat on the bone (ribs) (according to the number of pots),
• - potatoes (medium size 8 pieces),
• - pumpkin,
• - onion (1 head),
• - carrots (1 piece),
• - sweet pepper (2 pieces),
• - tomatoes (4 small ones),
• - salt,
• - ground pepper,
• - seasonings to taste (for example, parsley, dried basil),
• - sunflower oil (for frying meat and vegetables),
• - pots.

We will make an edible lid from unleavened dough. For this we need:

• - flour,
• - egg,
• - a pinch of salt.

We take out the whole core from the pumpkin.
We prepare the necessary products. First, we will wash and clean all the vegetables. Cut potatoes into small pieces.
Onions - cubed. Grate carrots on a coarse grater. Cut the pumpkin into slices, if you want it to retain its shape during cooking - cut it larger, if not - smaller, the smaller you cut it - the more it will boil.
We cut the ribs into separate portions, 1-2 ribs in each pot, then fry in a pan until half cooked.
Pepper cut into strips, tomatoes - slices or circles.
Fry the onions and carrots (in sunflower oil), then add the pumpkin, simmer slightly.
Then we knead the unleavened dough and cover it with a napkin (so as not to weather), we will lay all the prepared ingredients in pots.
We put chopped potatoes in pots (you can add a little salt by mixing it).
Put the ribs on the next layer. Then pepper. The next layer is roasted carrots, onions and pumpkins.
Lay the tomatoes on top.
The lids of our holiday pot will be in the form of a spider.
We make a cake from the dough and cover the neck of our pot with it, roll out the “legs” of the spider (8 pieces) from small pieces of dough and attach them to the cake-calf.
That's almost all - now we put our "witch's pots" in an oven preheated to 200 * C for about 30 minutes.
We take the dish out of the oven.
Carefully (so as not to burn yourself) remove the lids - enjoy your meal and have a fun Halloween!

Pumpkin baked with rosemary and garlic

Pumpkin baked with rosemary and garlic will also be a great addition to the Halloween holiday.
I needed:

• - a quarter of a medium-sized pumpkin,
• - a few sprigs of fresh rosemary
• - 2-3 cloves of garlic,
• - 1-2 tablespoons olive oil,
• - 2 tsp Sahara,
• - salt.

A piece of pumpkin needs to be peeled and cut into slices about 1 cm wide. Put the pieces on a baking sheet.
I salt the pumpkin. Make sure that all pieces are well salted.
Add 1-2 teaspoons of sugar. This is necessary in order to emphasize the sweetness of the pumpkin, because it is one of the few sweet vegetables. If not sweetened, the pumpkin will taste like unleavened potatoes.
Finely chop or squeeze the garlic cloves through a press. Garlic will give an incredible flavor during roasting.
Pour in a tablespoon or two of olive oil. It is necessary for a beautiful roasted pumpkin crust. Stir until the oil and garlic evenly coat the pieces.
Lay sprigs of fresh rosemary on top of the pieces. This is enough to add flavor while roasting, and then the dried rosemary will be easy to remove.
We send the baking sheet to the oven at 190-200 degrees for 40 minutes. Sometimes more is required. Focus on the color of the pumpkin - the pieces should become golden, toasted.
This pumpkin can be served as a main course or as a side dish. Pumpkin is very fragrant, soft inside, but crispy on the outside.
Bon appetit!

Halloween Snacks

Chinese eggs with tea net

Such eggs look intimidating, in the spirit of the holiday, but at the same time very tasty and fragrant.

Place eight chicken eggs in a saucepan, cover with water, add 1 tbsp. a spoonful of salt and cook over medium heat for 20 minutes, then drain the water and cool the eggs. Using a spoon, gently break the egg shells until they crack, but don't peel them. In a separate saucepan, pour 3 cups of water, add 1 tbsp. a spoonful of soy sauce, 2 tbsp. tablespoons of dried black tea leaves, 2 star anise, 1 cinnamon stick, zest of one tangerine and 1 teaspoon of salt. Bring to a boil, cover the pot with a lid and simmer the syrup over the lowest heat for 2 hours. Remove the finished syrup from the heat, dip the eggs with cracked shells into it and let them brew at room temperature for 10 hours. Cool the finished eggs, peel and serve.

Halloween Mummy Sausages

24 sausages
1 pack of frozen puff pastry
mayonnaise or/and mustard

1. Defrost the puff pastry to room temperature, and at this time, unpack the sausages and rinse with cold water - blot with a napkin.
2. Cut the puff pastry into thin strips like mummy bandages: the thinner the “bandages” are, the more believable your dish will look. Wrap each sausage in a strip of dough so that there is an open piece of sausage on one end. Put your mummies on a greased baking sheet and bake in the oven at 180 degrees for about 15 minutes - the dough should be deliciously golden.
3. When the sausages in the dough are cooked, then take mayonnaise or mustard and carefully draw eyes and mouths with them on the open ends of the sausages. Carefully place your mummies on the dish so they don't turn face down and get smeared.

Salads for Halloween

Portioned orange salad

Portioned Orange Salad is an easy recipe to create the right atmosphere in your home.
For cooking you need:

• - canned corn - 150 grams,
• - 1 medium sized cucumber
• - eggs - 2 pieces,
• - crab sticks - 150 grams,
• - mayonnaise,
• - salt,
• - greenery,
• - 4 large oranges.

We put the eggs to boil, and while they are cooking, chop the crab sticks and send them to the salad bowl. We cut the cucumber into small cubes and send it to the crab sticks. Peel hard-boiled eggs, finely chop and add to the rest of the ingredients. We do the same with chopped herbs and canned corn. Dressed with mayonnaise
mix, salt. Here is our salad and ready. Now let's start decorating.
We take a large orange, cut off its upper part and carefully take out all the pulp with a teaspoon. Do the same with the rest of the oranges. Oranges will play the role of a miniature pumpkin with us.
We cut out an “evil face” in our “pumpkin”. You can, of course, make it fun, it's not for everyone. And fill with salad.
I chose one of the variations of crab salad for filling, because my family loves it. But you can cook any other salad. This dish will look original on your holiday table.

Salad "Red Spider"

• smoked chicken 300 grams.
• egg 3 pcs.;
• pickled cucumbers 5 pcs.;
• boiled potatoes 3 pcs.;
• half a pickled onion;
• cheese 100 grams;
• mayonnaise;
• beets for decoration.

Lay out all the ingredients in layers.
- grated potatoes;
- mayonnaise;
- pickled onion;
- half the meat cut into squares;
- mayonnaise;
- cucumbers cut into squares;
- mayonnaise;
- the rest of the meat;
- mayonnaise;
- grated cheese;
- mayonnaise;
- grated egg;
- mayonnaise.
We cut out a spider from boiled beets (oval butt and torso are long thin legs for better spreading) decorate the salad. It is advisable to cut the beetroot into the necessary handicap and put it to dry on a towel so it will not quickly color the salad.

Sweet treats for Halloween

Funny finger shaped cookies

Mix three cups of flour with 1 teaspoon of baking powder and 1 teaspoon of salt. Beat one glass of powdered sugar with a mixer with 200 gr. softened butter. Continuing to beat, add one egg, 1 teaspoon each of almond and vanilla extract. When the ingredients are well mixed, while continuing to beat, gradually add the mixture of flour, salt and baking powder. Wrap the finished dough in cling film and leave in the refrigerator for 30 minutes. Remove the dough from the refrigerator in small portions, form long, thin finger-shaped cookies from it, press one almond on one end of which, which will represent the nails. Squeeze your cookies lightly in two places to form knuckles. Bake for 20 minutes on a baking sheet covered with a sheet of baking paper, oiled, in an oven preheated to 180 ° C. Cool the finished cookies slightly, remove the almonds, grease the recess with any red jam and put the “nail” in its rightful place.

Halloween cake "Gossamer" with fruits and chocolate icing

You can make a simple pumpkin pie for Halloween, like most American housewives do. And you can come up with something more sophisticated - like a Halloween cake with fruit and chocolate icing. Let's call it "Spider Web", because we will decorate it in this spirit.

For fruit biscuit we need:

• - 4 eggs,
• - 1.5 cups of sugar
• - 2 cups of flour,
• - 0.5 teaspoon of soda,
• - 1 tbsp. a spoonful of 9% table vinegar,
• - 1 medium sized apple
• - 1 small peach or nectarine

For chocolate icing we need:

• - 150 g cocoa,
• - 100 g butter,
• - 100 g of sour cream,
• - 0.5 cups of sugar.

1. Prepare the ingredients for our delicious Halloween baked goods.
2. Beat the eggs with sugar into a strong foam. It should turn dazzlingly white, and this will be a sure sign that the sugar has dissolved well in the egg mass.
3. Soda must be extinguished with vinegar: mix and wait until the "hiss" stops.
4. In the eggs, beaten with sugar, we introduce the sifted flour.
5. Gently stir the mass until a homogeneous consistency. If bubbles begin to inflate and burst on the surface of the dough, do not be alarmed: these are not the machinations of evil spirits, but slaked soda simply makes itself felt. It performs its tasks of enriching the dough with oxygen.
6. Wash the apple, peel it, remove the seeds and cut into thin slices.
7. The washed peach also needs to be cut thinner - into small slices.
8. Lubricate the bottom of the detachable form with butter or margarine. Attention: the sides of the form do not need to be oiled, otherwise your biscuit will rise poorly or not rise at all. Lay out the cut fruit.
9. Pour the dough on top and send the biscuit to the oven. He is supposed to bake for about 20 minutes at a temperature of 180-200 degrees. Check readiness with a toothpick or wooden stick. The dough during baking behaves quite insidiously: it can be covered with a golden crust on top, while inside the cake will remain raw.
10. While the biscuit is baking, let's collect the ingredients and prepare the chocolate icing.
11. In an enamel saucepan, dissolve the butter to a liquid state.
12. Pour sugar and cocoa powder there. Mix everything thoroughly: lumps in the glaze should not form.
13. When the butter-chocolate mixture boils, add sour cream to it.
14. The icing should be boiled for 1.5-2 minutes, then removed from the stove and cooled.
15. The biscuit also needs to cool - do not remove it from the mold until it reaches room temperature.
16. Apply glaze to the surface of the biscuit. It is better to do this in two layers. We applied the first layer - and put the future cake in the refrigerator for 15 minutes: let the chocolate coating thicken, “grab”. A second layer was applied - again let the cake spend 15 minutes in the refrigerator.
17. And now we will prepare the materials for decorating the Halloween cake. You can take ready-made whipped cream - it is convenient to draw a “cobweb” with them and sweets - marshmallows and chewing marmalade. From the latter, you can “sculpt” a spider figurine, but the cake as a whole will be good without it.
18. We release the whipped cream into a pastry bag or into a plastic bag with a neatly cut tip.
19. Using a bag, squeeze the cream onto the glazed surface of the cake in the form of concentric circles.
21. From the center of the cake we lay several “rays” with cream - now our cobweb has a completely plausible look.
22. From the edge we sit down on the cake of a spider: its torso and legs are cut out of blueberry gummies, its mouth is made of red marmalade, and its eyes are made of white marshmallows. Halloween cake is ready. Happy and delicious Halloween!

Halloween Cake "Vampire Hand"

Before All Saints Day, Halloween night comes, a time when the line between the world of the living and the world of the dead becomes extremely thin. And therefore, the penetration of uninvited guests into the house in the form of evil spirits becomes almost inevitable. Agree, not a very pleasant visit!
In this regard, in order to somehow protect themselves from them, people try to “disguise themselves” and confuse evil spirits. They put on scary costumes and terrifying masks, and they also prepare dishes that have the same “attractive” look on the table.

Let's not think for a long time and join the general "fun". Let's organize a themed dish on the theme of Halloween "Hand of the Vampire". This will be a delicious Halloween cake (despite the intimidating look). For this we need the following products:

For test:

• - wheat flour of the highest grade - 2 cups,

60 ml gin or vodka
15 ml dry vermouth
1 olive stuffed with a piece of pepper
1 large radish (the olive should fit into the radish)



"Bloody eyes" must be prepared in advance, at least a day before the holiday. Remove the skin from the radish so that only red stripes remain, imitating blood vessels. Using a small knife, cut an indentation in the radish the size of the olive to be inserted. Place each prepared radish in an ice cube tray, cover with water and place in the freezer. When preparing a cocktail, simply combine vodka or gin with vermouth and dip an ice cube with a bloody eye into the glass.

Halloween is the most "terrible" among the holidays: for one night a year, people all over the world allow dark forces to take over their minds. This terrible celebration is celebrated with terrible metamorphoses, ancient traditions and a "bloody" feast. On an unusual night from October 31 to November 1, the coming of spirits into the human world takes place. And the only way not to fall victim to them is to pretend to be "one's own". On Halloween, literally everything around should create and fuel a mystical atmosphere: outfits, entertainment and, of course, food. Even simple Halloween recipes, and more often scary and disgusting ones, must fully comply with the theme of the holiday, not only in ingredients, but also in appearance. A very scary menu is a prerequisite, and without it, alas, nothing! The only exceptions are funny and comic dishes for children, cooked by hand according to our recipes, photos and videos.

What to cook for Halloween - simple recipes for children and adults

What should be the perfect Halloween dinner? Of course, such that at the first glance at the festive table goosebumps ran down the skin. First, you need a lot of blood. Beef steak (medium rare), raspberry jelly, cranberry and tomato juice are ideal. It is important to play with colors: the massive combination of red and black in the festive menu and decor will create a nightmarish atmosphere at the Halloween table. The well-known Bloody Mary according to the classic recipe will also be appropriate. Don't forget the dark liver, bean and olive patties that cause the most unpleasant associations.

You can't go on a Halloween menu without skulls and bones. A well-cut goose at first glance will look like a small skeleton. The remains of a pumpkin, "slaughtered" for the Jack O'Lantern, can be used as table decor elements or an ingredient in a recipe for a hot dish, appetizer, dessert. And, of course, it's worth saving a few guardians of the underworld - worms. You can decorate spaghetti with red or brown sauce in an unusual way. Or buy gelatin worms to create a children's dessert. Especially impressionable guests will be delighted. Gummy worms peeping out of a chocolate biscuit complement the Halloween table well. The sight is not for the faint of heart.

Well, is it already scary? So it's time to get down to business! Knowing what and how to cook for Halloween, you organize the most memorable feast.

DIY Scary Halloween Food: 5 Unusual Ideas for Kids and Adults

Scary Halloween food prepared with your own hands should also be beautiful, no matter how paradoxical it may sound. A dish, and especially its presentation, should have some idea, meaning, plot. We offer you 5 unusual ideas for making scary food for Halloween with your own hands:

Easy and simple Halloween recipes in 5 minutes on video

Simple recipes for Halloween dishes benefit from quick and primitive preparation, but at the same time their appearance on the festive table is no less impressive. It is very important to arrange even simple dishes correctly. The presentation topic can be: spiders, bats, blood, skulls, ghosts, etc. With the help of a simple food entourage, even ordinary sandwiches, muffins, meatballs and pies can be turned into real gastronomic nightmares.

Often, icing of different colors, sugar figurines and marmalade insects, melted chocolate, confectionery powders, scarlet sauces, ice figures, bar umbrellas, tubules, etc. are used as decorations. Since the pumpkin is considered a traditional attribute of Halloween, there is nothing strange in its presence on the table either. A vegetable can be an element of decoration, an unusual dish for an ordinary soup puree, an important ingredient in a recipe, and just an idea for a cookie or gingerbread shape.

We offer you some simple recipes for Halloween dishes with a very unexpected design:

• Halloween Ghost Stuffed Pepper Recipe
• Halloween pumpkin pie recipe
• Just scary cupcakes recipe
• Alcoholic dead man's hand punch recipe

Scary Halloween recipes with photos for kids and adults

A successful Halloween feast begins with a themed table setting. Black dishes, bloody napkins and tablecloths, brutal candlesticks and figurines of creepy animals set the tone for the holiday. But competent organization is pumped, of course, with terrible recipes. If your guests love a hearty meal, check out the appalling main courses. If the holiday is planned exclusively for young people and teenagers, you can get by with light snacks and wild desserts. For scary Halloween recipes, look further at the photo and video.

Hearts of the pharaohs

You can prepare such a disgusting composition with the help of red pancakes stuffed with a vegetable mixture. If you carefully tie them, creating the desired shape, and pour beetroot sauce - you will not distinguish them from real hearts.

spider eggs

To prepare such a delicacy, it is enough to boil chicken eggs and stuff them with your favorite filling (vegetable, fish, meat). Olive slices are used as decoration and laid out in the form of spiders.

Runaway ghosts

Terrifying white ghosts - shaped protein meringue according to a traditional recipe with chocolate drops eyes. For their preparation, it is enough to allocate 2-3 eggs and 1 hour of time.

eyeball

Equally complex and creepy dessert "Eyeball" will conquer all the guests at the table. Multi-level jelly (creamy and menthol) with the addition of "bleeding" berries will turn your feast into a real room of horrors.

Fancy Halloween Recipes

Not many people celebrate Halloween, but for almost everyone there is something funny, mysterious, mysterious and frightening in this celebration. The holiday on the eve of All Saints' Day is unusual in itself, and the menu at the feast should be the same. Unusual Halloween recipes should definitely be made scary and terribly tasty. Only in this way the feast will be remembered by the guests for a long time. We offer you the idea of ​​cooking strange dishes for Halloween in the form of human body parts. A table with such dishes will be truly magnificent ...

Funny Halloween Recipes for Kids

Funny Halloween recipes for kids are more restrained and aesthetic. Meals for kids exclude any "thrash" and allow only bright colors, funny stories, positive figures, etc. But do not forget that Halloween recipes for kids should not only be fun and funny, but also healthy and tasty. If the guys come to the holiday in the costumes of various characters, the celebration will be a success. After all, gnomes and fairies eating bugs and bats are an unforgettable sight!

Stuffed peppers are a satisfying and at the same time healthy food for children. If the shell is cut out in the form of a funny face, the food will become more attractive for little capricious guests.

Oatmeal cookies are not a very popular dish among children, but the trend can be drastically reversed. It is enough to place longitudinal strips of colored mastic on oatmeal gingerbread - and ordinary cookies will turn into funny mummies.

Carrot cake, so hated by every child, will become the most desired moment of the moment if you decorate it in Halloween style. For decoration, use natural carrot dyes, as well as cobwebs, spiders and bats from mastic.

Even an ordinary coffee biscuit according to a simple recipe will impress young gourmets if it is prepared and served in such a strange way. Children love to laugh at such things. Now they will have the opportunity to try them "on the tooth."

Cranberry juice is a healthy vitamin drink for Halloween. It is enough to decorate a jar of "bloody" slurry with figures of ghosts so that the children forget about the recipe and enjoy only the taste and the look.

Recipes for a Very Scary Halloween Menu

Recipes for a very scary Halloween menu can be very different: unusual, original, scary, nasty. But even those dishes that perfectly complement a themed feast do not always go well with each other. For example, fish and liver on the same menu is not the best option for dear guests. We offer you an approximate "plan" of the feast, a kind of cheat sheet.

List of Suitable Recipes for a Very Scary Halloween Menu

• Snack "Witch's broom" of salted straw, hard cheese and greens;
• Soup puree from pumpkin "Web";
• Meat sausages in a Mummy spaghetti shroud;
• Layered salad "Gorgon's Head" of chicken, pineapple, nuts, bell peppers and eggs;
• Orange and black "Bat" roll with butter cream;
• Blood red non-alcoholic/alcoholic punch;

All recipes on the sample Halloween menu are easily replaceable. A lot of options for successful recipes are already located in our public and in thousands of articles on the Internet. And having a sufficient supply of imagination, you can cope without cheat sheets at all.

See how many delicious and unusual things you can cook for Halloween? Simple, scary, funny and even funny dishes for kids and adults! Try and use the best Halloween recipes from a very scary menu. All guests will surely appreciate such food.

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Hello again, my most creative and inquisitive! Do you know what it's like to feel pleasure and fear at the same time? If not, then you definitely need to read today's publication, because today we will talk about the scariest feast of the year. More specifically, I will tell you what creepy and delicious Halloween dishes you can cook for the arrival of guests!

Impressive Halloween Meals: Recipes and Ideas

Let's start with the most important thing - the main dishes that will become the main ones on the table, which means they must impress both with their appearance and excellent taste.

Simple meals for a big company

Eyeballs in bloody goo

You probably know this recipe, but in its traditional everyday version. But we need to give it a terrifying look. Therefore, we will cook in a special way, and say a spell:

Extinguish your eyes, but do not fade,

Boil the fragrant red mess,

To keep the guests full

Yes, satisfied.

From jokes to action. To prepare meatballs in tomato sauce, we need.

For minced meat:

• 0.5 kg minced chicken, turkey or beef.
• ¼ cup pesto.
• ¼ tsp ground pepper.
• ¼ cup grated cheese.
• Breadcrumbs.
• 1 tsp salt.

For sauce:

• 1 kg tomatoes
• 2 onions
• 2 cloves of garlic
• 2 carrots.
• Bay leaf.
• Celery (a couple of stalks).
• Black pepper, salt.

First, we will prepare the bloody "slurry":

1. Grind tomatoes, previously peeled from the skin, with a blender or three on a grater.
2. In a pan greased with vegetable oil, fry the grated garlic and finely chopped onion. There we will add celery, carrots and spices (previously also grate).
3. Simmer this mixture for about 10-15 minutes, then put the tomato puree and bay leaf (a couple of pieces) into the pan.
4. Stirring, simmer the sauce over low heat until thickened, about an hour.

Further, everything is simple: mix all the components for minced meat thoroughly, form small balls with hands moistened with water. Cut the olives into rings. Pour the sauce into a special form and lay out the minced meat preparations, decorate each pair of olives on top. Got big-eyed meatballs. We put the form, covered with foil or a lid, in a preheated oven and wait about half an hour. We take it out, remove the foil and keep it open for another 10 minutes. Guests will be delighted!

Sliced ​​and delicious hand baked

Another hot hearty dish will decorate your table. When finished, it looks very realistic, like a real human brush. How to achieve such similarity? Pretty easy. So, hand with your own hands. Pardon the tautology.

Ingredients:

• Minced meat 600-700 grams (any).
• 2 eggs.
• Greenery.
• Tomato sauce.
• Onion (2 pcs.)
• Carrot.
• Cheese (100-150 grams).
• Salt and spices to taste.

How to cook the dish:

1. We cut the onion finely, three carrots on a grater.
2. Mix vegetables with minced meat, add egg, spices and herbs, knead well.
3. Now the most interesting. Turn on your imagination and carefully place the minced meat on a parchment-lined baking sheet in the shape of a human hand.
4. Cut out plates of “nails” from the second onion, press blanks into each finger.
5. Lubricate the entire surface, except for nails, with ketchup.
6. We cut the cheese into thin plates, lay it out to cover the entire “brush”, excluding the nails.
7. We preheat the oven to 200 degrees and put our dish there. Waiting a little over half an hour. We spread it on a beautiful plate very carefully so as not to damage the shape. Pleasant, brutal, terrible appetite!

Salads

At least one salad must be on the table. So let it also correspond to our theme. I propose to decorate it with terrible layers of pink ham, in the form of a human face, from which the skin was removed. I will attach a photo for clarity, and share the recipe. However, the composition may be different, at your discretion.

Ingredients:

• Ham (about half a kilo).
• Cheese (300 grams).
• 4-5 eggs.
• Olives or olives.
• Mayonnaise for dressing.
• Food film.
• Mask made of thin plastic (any, in the shape of a face).

Cooking:

1. Grate the cheese on a coarse or fine grater.
2. We cut the ham into cubes, about 1 cm or smaller. We leave some for decoration. In the final, we have to make the thinnest slices and cover the entire surface of the salad with them.
3. Mix ham, cheese, boiled and chopped eggs. You can add fresh cucumber for more juiciness. We season with mayonnaise.
4. Now cover the surface of the salad laid out on a flat plate with cling film and gently press the mask in, shaping the face. We remove the mask and film. You should get a nose, chin, line of eyebrows and depressed eye sockets. We lay out thin slices of ham according to the papier-mâché principle. In the eye area, put half an olive.

What do you think, which of the guests will be the first to dare to stick a spoon in the face or poke a fork in the eye?

When the main dishes are ready, the question will invariably arise what to prepare starters. After all, it is they who give the table a special elegant (in our case, terrifying) look.

spider eggs

How? Have you eaten eggs with spiders yet?! Yes, this is the most squeak now, a real delicacy, but what does it look like? Mmm, a brutal appetite immediately wakes up and I want to eat them all in one fell swoop. I don't think it's worth teaching you how to stuff. Everyone can mix a neatly removed yolk with mayonnaise, a piece of soft butter and spices. But I'll tell you more about spiders.

We take 5-6 small olives and cut them into halves, gently press the first one into the half of the egg already filled with minced meat, and cut the second lengthwise into 6-8 parts to make spider legs. We place them along the "torso". All is ready!

ghost pizza

As you have already noticed, I tried to pick up simple recipes so that you spend less time cooking. The main and main part is the design of dishes. They must really impress the guests. I offer as a snack the simplest pizza on ready-made puff pastry, which can be bought at any store. Don't forget to defrost the sheets beforehand, and then fantasize!

You can roll out one layer in the form of a skull. Then be sure to make holes in the form of eye sockets and nose. Make the second one like a little evil ghost. Here, too, be sure to make eyes from olives. The rest of the ingredients are up to you. Bulgarian pepper, ham, salami, boiled chicken, pickled cucumbers, tomatoes, squid, onions, but most importantly - cheese, there should be a lot of it.

Do not forget that the dough is cooked for no more than 20 minutes.

Well, where without a sweet dessert on such a terrible holiday? And here I have a couple of recipes for you. Halloween style and more.

"Not ladies" fingers: scary and terribly tasty

Cookies, traditional in England (I have a recipe) will come right to the table. They will be made in the form of human fingers, which smell like that and instantly melt in your mouth.

We have to:

• A pack (200-250 grams) of butter.
• 100 grams of powdered sugar.
• 300 grams of flour.
• 1 egg.
• One third teaspoon of salt.
• A pinch of vanilla.
• Jam red.
• baking powder (1 tsp)
• Whole peeled almonds.

Cooking:

• Beat the softened butter with a mixer or an ordinary hand whisk. In the process, add the egg and powdered sugar.
• Mix flour with baking powder, vanilla and salt, then add to the butter-egg mass.
• We knead the dough, roll it into a ball, wrap it in cling film and put it in the refrigerator for half an hour.
• From cold dough we fashion the likeness of human fingers. Keep in mind that they will expand in the oven, so go thinner if you don't want thick "sausages".
• Almonds pour boiling water, remove the skin. Although you can leave it as is. Gently press a nut in the form of predatory nails into each “finger”. At the junctions (“cuticles”), squeeze a little red jam out of the syringe to make bloody smudges.
• Preheat the oven to 165 degrees, put your fingers on a baking sheet covered with parchment, and send to bake. Take out after 20 minutes.

Our cookies are ready. If you did a good job, they turned out to look like witches, clumsy, bent with terrible sharp nails. You can put them on a plate or use them as a decoration for dishes, cakes, pastries, desserts. It is enough to stick such fingers into an ordinary cake and a rather terrifying sight.

gouge out your eye

This dessert will look at the guests throughout the party, and when it comes down to it, they will be horrified by surprise. Inside they are waiting for a bloody stuffing! It will take about two hours to prepare, plus overnight in the refrigerator. But what a beauty!

You will need a perfectly round bowl and a few inexpensive ingredients:

• Sour cream - 500 grams.
• Milk - 200 grams.
• Sugar - 5 tablespoons.
• A pinch of vanilla.
• Gelatin (1 pack).
• Flavoring apple or mint food.
• Apple juice (half a glass).
• Blue food coloring.
• Red jam or fresh cherry or strawberry.

Let's get started.

1. Leave the gelatin to swell in half a glass of water.
2. Mix sour cream and milk well, you can beat with a whisk or a blender.
3. Add vanilla and sugar, mix again.
4. Dilute a little blue food coloring in a small amount of water or apple juice. You should get a rich blue tint. Separately, in a small glass, make a more saturated solution, we will prepare the pupil from it.
5. We put the swollen gelatin on the fire and stir constantly until it completely disperses.
6. Now let's start the creative process of "collecting" the eyeball together. Add to the sour cream mass and stir for 5 minutes most of the gelatin mixture. Don't forget to leave for the iris and pupil.
7. In the colored juice, add flavoring to taste (to get a mint flavor). You can do without it. Then add the remaining gelatin. A quarter of a teaspoon should be left for the pupil.
8. In a round shape, on the very bottom, gently drip a few dark drops of juice into the center. We put in the refrigerator for about half an hour. During this time, our pupil should freeze.
9. Carefully pour the blue juice over the top. We send it to freeze again, now for an hour.
10. Pour half of the sour cream mixture over the blue layer. When about half hardens, put crushed berries or jam in the center. Add the rest of the mixture and refrigerate overnight.
11. Before turning the form onto a flat plate, you need to keep the finished dessert warm for 5-10 minutes so that it will surely come off the walls. Or wipe the surface of the dishes outside with a warm cloth.
12. Ready! The eye with bloody contents came out very realistic and delicious. Be sure to try!

Recipes for the little ones

If there are kids at the party, then children's dishes must be present. Organize a separate buffet table for the little guests. Sometimes you can’t force them to eat hot dishes, but snacks and sweets for children are sacred. And on the eve of All Saints' Day, you need to come up with something special, memorable and terribly tasty.

hell peppers

As a main dish, I suggest choosing these cute stuffed peppers. Spaghetti navy style with meat and tomatoes or rice with vegetables and cheese can serve as a filling. The main thing is to carefully cut out a nose, a terrible smile and eyes in a multi-colored pepper. Then we stuff them with the finished filling, add grated cheese on top and put in the oven for 20 minutes. Don't worry if the filling starts to come out of the holes. So it will be even more effective, and the kids will eat them with pleasure.

Mummy sausages

Not a single child will refuse such a snack. It's the same hot dog, only cooler. You will need a package of puff pastry, some mayonnaise, sausages, an egg.

Cooking:

1. Defrost the dough, roll out and cut into even strips.
2. Carefully and tightly wrap each sausage.
3. Put in the oven for about 15-20 minutes. Then take it out, grease with a beaten egg with a culinary brush and leave again for 5 minutes.
4. Our mummies are ready. It remains only to make them eyes from mayonnaise and a piece of olive. Ketchup is not allowed.

witch's panicles

You can easily make such a simple snack in half an hour. You will need straws (sweet or salty), cheese (regular or “pigtail”), green onions or fresh dill. We cut the cheese into slices and make an even thin fringe. If you have pigtail cheese, then you don’t have to cut anything. Now gently wrap it around the edge of the straw and tie it tightly with onions or dill. We put it on a plate in a mess, as if the witches really flew to the Sabbath and threw their brooms at random.

Cursed orange salad

To get kids to eat salad, you need to properly and effectively serve it. For children, we cut out the pulp from oranges with our own hands and cut through the eyes, nose and a terrible crooked smile. Looks like mini pumpkins for Halloween, right? Now fill them with any salad. It can be a banal olivier or a cocktail salad of ham and cheese, or maybe a finely chopped fruit mixture. We distribute small dessert spoons and invite you to try.

blood apples

There are many beautiful apple desserts. Recipes from apples in caramel or hot chocolate are popular. They are certainly beautiful, but we need just hellishly beautiful. Therefore, we make bloody apples using wooden sticks, on which we plant fruits and dip them in white chocolate. On the frozen glaze, pour red jam or topping in the form of bloody smudges.

edible caterpillars

Such a healthy vitamin dessert is made in minutes and eaten in seconds. Take note! To prepare it, we need wooden skewers for barbecue and seedless quiche-mish grapes. We put the berries on skewers, decorate the last one with drops of melted chocolate to make eyes, serve.

Traditional drinks for Halloween

Such goodies cannot be eaten dry, you must definitely drink them down. I advise you to give preference to red drinks. For kids, tomato, cherry, pomegranate juice is suitable. And adults can also drink wine in honor of the holiday, well, or something stronger. For example, here is such an originally designed Bloody Mary. How do you like the idea?

If you decide to serve light drinks on the table, then do not forget to decorate the glasses, for example, like this.

Or like this.

Or maybe you'll like this one. Simple and tasteful.

Don't forget to create a general atmosphere. Buy white and red candles. Melt the latter and drip a little on the whites to make it look like blood. Cut out the silhouettes of bats from black paper and hang them around the apartment in the most unexpected places, and make ghosts out of balls and ordinary gauze.

The tablecloth on the table should not be snow-white and immaculate. It’s better if you find an old one, which you won’t be sorry to throw away later, and disfigure it properly, tear it apart, scorch the edges, and stain it with red paint. You can write the names of dishes on pieces of paper, attach them to toothpicks and insert them into each masterpiece. In a word, fantasize, dear readers - I'm sure you will get a terribly delicious dinner with all the necessary paraphernalia.

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Have you decided to celebrate Halloween? And you probably have already thought about what to cook. Indeed, what a holiday without traditional treats! And how to cook delicious and original dishes for Halloween - today the online magazine "Korolevnam.ru" will tell you.

After consulting with knowledgeable people who have been celebrating this Catholic holiday for more than a year, we came to the conclusion that original and delicious dishes on the table are the most desired moment of the holiday itself. This holiday especially pleases American farmers: this is where you can put a pumpkin and other gifts of the autumn garden. However, not only garden fruits and vegetables can be used in cooking. The most important thing is to serve treats outside the box and creatively. Ready? Then let's get started!

We plan the menu

First you need to decide what exactly will be on your table: appetizers, hot dishes or desserts? Or maybe all together? Well, let's surprise your guests. Well, how to do this - we will now tell you everything in detail.

What's a table without snacks? Indeed, Halloween snacks can be the most diverse: fruity, sweet, salty, and spicy. This category also includes various salads. Moreover, snacks and salads can be the most common (those that you are used to preparing on holidays, weekends or in general). The main thing is to correctly submit and arrange them.

Get ready: we have found for you the most original options from the most common products. And no unicorn tails or crow eggs in recipes. You can find all the ingredients in any supermarket, market or bring from your own garden. So let's start.

Snacks

fruit plate

Fruit can and should even be served in an original way. Cut the bananas in half - they will make excellent "ghosts". Eyes and mouths can be decorated with spicy cloves or chocolate icing (crumbs). Peeled tangerines make excellent holiday pumpkins. An impromptu tail can be cut from apple marmalade. In extreme cases, string beans will do *pardon*.

Fruits can also be arranged in the form of smiles. Cut the apple into slices, place marshmallow "teeth" between the two slices. So that the “teeth” do not fall out, connect them together with thick boiled condensed milk.

Frightened sprats

Well fit on the festive table and sprats. Choose canned food that contains large and uncrushed fish - it will be easier for guests to get them. Prepare a salad: mix a couple of boiled grated eggs, a couple of cloves of garlic grated on a fine grater, mayonnaise. Optionally, you can add cheese (in this case, you get the famous "Jewish" snack).

Try to keep your mixture fairly thick. Put it in a small salad bowl. In the same salad bowl, place the sprats upside down (accordingly, the fish heads should be "hidden" in the salad). Separately, in a vase, you can serve croutons from a long loaf or brown bread to them.

Original croutons

Wondering what dish to cook for Halloween? A good option for a festive table will be any salads served on toast or in tartlets.

Both potato chips and crackers are suitable (salted, with sesame seeds, with pepper - for unsweetened sandwiches; with chocolate icing, with nuts, sugar - for sweet and fruity ones). You can contrive and serve non-standard salad sandwiches.

Snack ladybug sandwiches

Both adults and children will be delighted with tomato ladybugs. Take a salted cracker, cover it with a layer of curd cheese with herbs (with pickled cucumber, mushrooms or any other favorite of you and your guests).

Cut the cherry tomato in half, put on top of the cheese in the form of insect wings. Decorate with mayonnaise or cloves - dots on the wings. Use olives for the head, greens for the antennae.

Snack "mouse"

Put cheese cut in the form of a triangle on a salted cracker (Adyghe cheese, tofu is best, but any other is also possible). You can even use an egg: in this case, just cut the egg in half - this will be the impromptu torso of the mouse.

For ears, use chopped sausage or any other sausage product. For the nose, cloves, black pepper, a piece of olive are suitable; for the eyes you can use the same or sesame, and for the tail - greens.

Bread coffins

Delight your guests with mouth-watering "coffins" made from pieces of black or "Borodino" bread. To do this, cut with a knife 2 pieces of bread for 1 sandwich. They can be fried in a dry frying pan or lightly dried in the oven / toaster. Between the "lid of the coffin" and the "bottom" make a layer of curd cheese with any filling.

You can use just mayonnaise with grated garlic or any salad prepared in advance. By the way, nobody canceled sausage, cheese and fresh cucumber either. Decorate the lid with a “cross” of Korean carrots or strips of bell pepper (tomato, fresh / pickled cucumber are also suitable).

Olive spiders

Egg snacks. Yes, where without the most common and available in almost everyone in the refrigerator product. Addition to eggs can be any vegetables, cheese, mayonnaise.

To make savory "spiders", boil hard-boiled eggs. Cool, cut in half. Remove the yolks to a separate bowl. We’ll make a reservation right away that it’s better to cook not in portions, but for everyone at once: so as not to cut the egg and prepare the filling separately for each guest. So, put the yolks in a bowl and mash them with a fork, add mayonnaise and garlic (you can use finely chopped fried onions instead of garlic), mix everything well. Now, in each egg half, spread the resulting filling with a teaspoon.

To make a spider is quite simple: use canned olives. Cut the olive in half, one half is the body of the spider, and the second will need to be cut across into an equal amount - these are the legs. Put the appetizer on a dish and decorate with herbs.

Halloween appetizer "Amanita"

This is quite a tasty and interesting snack. You can also use ordinary chicken eggs with ordinary tomatoes (then it is better to put them immediately on a plate and cut the egg “base” a little so that the “mushroom” firmly “sits” in the plate), and quail eggs with cherry tomatoes.

For the last option, hard-boil quail eggs and stick them on skewers. Cut the cherry tomatoes in half and place on top of the eggs. Between the "hat" and "leg" add a little mayonnaise. Decorate the hat with mayonnaise dots, and the leg with greens. How many mushrooms will be on a skewer - you decide. You can use not long skewers, but short toothpicks.

Egg molds

It is also possible to take advantage of the progressive novelties of the XXI century. Now there is a huge selection of special forms that give the products an interesting look. For example, an egg mold. Just in time for Halloween, you will definitely be able to pick up something suitable.

Such things are sold both on the Internet and in stalls selling kitchen utensils and household goods. In this case, it is enough for you to boil the egg, peel it and “clamp” it in the form for a few minutes. The festive skull is ready!

orange vases

Dishes served in orange molds look very colorful, fun and appetizing. Cut off the top of the orange, carefully remove the pulp, cut funny faces on the peel - the salad mold is ready! In such "vases" you can put any salad: both vegetable and fruit.

In a fruit salad, you can just add the remaining pulp of oranges. Successfully look in such "vases" and various sweets. Experiment - perhaps your imagination will tell you many new interesting options!

Halloween decoration of salads

Use your imagination when decorating familiar dishes: an ordinary herring under a fur coat can turn into a masterpiece under your hands.

As well as any other salad *good*.

Fancy Hot Halloween

We got to you and hot. You will be surprised, but even here it was not without the most ordinary products. If there is no time to invent something, then you can always create familiar dishes. Again, the highlight is in the presentation.

Hot dogs with fingers and other experiments with sausages

Take ordinary hot dog buns, cut them, put a pre-prepared hot dog inside and decorate everything with ketchup. Finger sausages are prepared as follows: peel the sausages, cut off the tip on one side, preferably with uneven, torn edges. On the sausage itself, make several cuts that imitate knuckles. Place the sausages in the microwave for 1-2 minutes. While the sausages are still hot, make small cuts in the shape of fingernails with a knife. Fingers are ready!

You can also play with the theme of the mummy and severed fingers as part of other dishes. Great idea - stylized sausages in dough *wink*

"Opened Corpse"

This is an even more unusual serving of sausages! To do this, cover the table with a white tablecloth with pre-applied "bloody" handprints and streaks. Place an old shirt and jeans on the tablecloth in the form of a lying person. old clothes can also be stained with red paint in advance or already on the table with ketchup. Instead of a head, use a round plate with cutlets, you can lay out a pile of mashed potatoes in the form of a face, pouring plenty of goulash with tomato paste on it. The insides of the "corpse" can be imitated by any sausages, meatballs, kupat and other meat delicacies.

Actually, here is a photo of such a serving for you: we are sure that your guests will be impressed *crazy*.

Spaghetti

Yes, everyone's favorite spaghetti can also take part in the festive feast. And even become the "nails" of the program. Well, why not with the current variety of pasta? Different not only in form, but also in content: spinach, tomato, wheat, rice, buckwheat, carrot, with squid ink (black), with chili peppers and ... you can enumerate indefinitely.

It is enough to use them as a side dish, and for the main dish come up with some delicious meat sauce, for example, bolognese or goulash with meatballs. Prepare pasta "eyes" from minced meat or chicken eggs - both children and adults will be satisfied.

stuffed peppers

A classic dish can be turned into a festive one. For example, if the peppers are not just peeled before stuffing, but also cut out faces, like a Jack-o-lantern. Such peppers can be stuffed with anything: and the classic combination of rice and minced meat (by the way, these peppers will not fall apart even if they are cooked in sauce).

Pre-cooked navy pasta can also be placed in raw decorated peppers. By the way, any vegetable salads will also look advantageous in such edible "salad bowls".

Recipes with pumpkin

Porridge in a pumpkin

Well, tell me, what is a festive Halloween table without pumpkin dishes? You can cook an interesting and tasty dish - porridge in a pumpkin. You will surprise all your guests with such a delicious and very beautiful dish. To make pumpkin porridge, you will need the following ingredients:

• Pumpkin directly - 3 kilograms, no less (if you cook for a family)
• Sugar - 1 tablespoon
• Salt - 1 teaspoon
• Black pepper (ground) - to taste
• Garlic - to taste (at least 2-3 cloves)
• Bulb - 1 piece
• Buckwheat - half a kilogram
• Meat - half a kilo
• Vegetable oil (or olive) - 2 tablespoons

Wash the pumpkin thoroughly, cut off the top, carefully clean the pumpkin from the pulp and seeds. The thickness of the walls of the pumpkin should be at least 1.5 cm. Lubricate the walls of the resulting “saucepan” from the inside with pepper, salt, and sugar. Then we put the pumpkin with a lid in the oven (put the lid next to it, do not cover the “saucepan” with it). Bake for an hour at 180 degrees. Meanwhile, roast the buckwheat in a dry frying pan. Then, in another pan, fry the onion, part of the pumpkin pulp and the meat cut into pieces in vegetable oil. After frying the products, combine them together in a saucepan (ordinary, our pumpkin is still baked in the oven!) And cook buckwheat porridge (the most common in the simplest way). By the way, you can first boil the porridge, and only then add the fried meat - as you like. Our pumpkin casserole meanwhile "approached".

Take it out of the oven, fill it with the resulting porridge. Add a little water (half a glass), unpeeled (but washed!) garlic cloves there and cover with a lid. Before you put the pumpkin in the oven, you can grease its walls with oil - for a beautiful shine. Now put the pumpkin in the oven for about an hour and at 180 degrees. After the specified time, the porridge is ready - enjoy! *good*

In the same way, you can cook vegetable stew in pumpkin. Moreover, everything is much easier to prepare. The pumpkin does not need to be baked in the oven beforehand, and chopped vegetables (onions, garlic, potatoes, pumpkin pulp, bell peppers, carrots, tomatoes, mushrooms, cabbage (you can choose vegetables to taste)) fry in a pan. Just put everything in a pumpkin, add pepper, sugar, salt, oil to taste and bake for two hours at a temperature of 180 degrees. But if you want to add meat to the stew, it is better to fry it in a pan first. The lid can be omitted: a piece of dough or foil will come off instead.

Soup in pumpkin with shrimps

Why don't you make a delicious fragrant pumpkin soup? It will definitely warm you on a cold autumn evening and perfectly satisfy your hunger. Here are the ingredients you will need for our wonderful soup:

• Pumpkin - according to the desired weight and size
• Peeled shrimps - 300 gr
• Cream - to taste (but not less than about 5 cups)
• Water - liter
• Several cloves of garlic
• Onion - 1 pc.
• Carrot - 1 piece
• Salt and spices - to taste (nutmeg, curry, pepper, coriander, cumin)

In the same way as for porridge, prepare the pumpkin. Cut off the “lid”, clean the pumpkin from seeds and pulp. You can make the walls a little thicker - 2 cm. Bake the pumpkin and the lid in the oven for 1 hour at 180 degrees. While the mold is being prepared, we will deal directly with the soup. Cut the remaining pulp from the pumpkin into pieces, put in a saucepan, cover with water and leave to boil. In the meantime, fry the onion and carrot in a pan. After frying, spread the sautéed vegetables to the boiled pulp of the pumpkin. Add salt and spices there.

Bring the soup to a boil, then leave to cook for another 5-7 minutes until the pumpkin is ready. Once the pumpkin is cooked, grind all the vegetables in a saucepan with a blender until smooth. Then pour the cream into the soup, stir and cover with a lid. While the soup is infused, fry coarsely chopped garlic in a pan until golden brown, add peeled shrimps to it and fry until tender. We send the finished mixture to the soup. By then, the pumpkin casserole should be ready. Pour the soup into it, cover with a lid and send it to the oven for literally 15-20 minutes.

You can not send it - but immediately put it on the table in a pumpkin. Of course, not everyone likes to mess around with pumpkin casserole. Some pour the soup directly into the raw pumpkin. However, not everyone knows that cream soup can turn sour very quickly in raw pumpkin. If you don’t want to mess around, eat the soup right away. That is why the pumpkin soup pot is pre-cooked in the oven.

Or you can even pour the soup into bowls or large mugs - this way you will save yourself a lot of time, but you will lose in the surroundings. Although this will not affect the taste of the soup in any way. The soup can be garnished with roasted pumpkin seeds. By the way, fragrant croutons prepared by oneself are perfect for such a soup: cut the loaf into portioned pieces and fry in olive oil with your favorite spices (basil, oregano or Provence herbs). Serve immediately. *wink*

Scary Halloween Desserts

And finally we go to desserts..

Sweet pumpkin with honey in a slow cooker

And welcome back to the pumpkin table! We offer you a recipe for a very tasty, healthy, simple and quick recipe for making pumpkin treats in a slow cooker. To cook pumpkin in a slow cooker you will need:

• Pumpkin - 500 gr
• Butter - 25-50 gr
• Honey - 3 tablespoons

The pumpkin must be washed, peeled and seeds removed, cut into pieces and put in a multicooker bowl. Add a piece of butter to the pumpkin (half of the total). Select the "Extinguishing" mode for 45 minutes. 15 minutes before the end of the stewing cycle, add the remaining oil and honey to the bowl, mix. After cooking, arrange the pumpkin on plates and - bon appetit!

Pumpkin pie with condensed milk

Prepare such a cake for your guests - they will never forget its taste! Pumpkin makes not only delicious cereals, soups, but also sweet pies. Don't believe? Then you can check. Just stock up in advance on the ingredients needed to prepare such a yummy:

• Pumpkin puree - 500 gr (you can buy in the store or cook it yourself by boiling the pumpkin and grinding it with a blender until smooth)
• Flour - 200 -250 gr (for dough)
• Eggs - 3 pcs
• Butter - 150 gr (for dough)
• Condensed milk - 2 cans (400 gr)
• Water - 3 tablespoons (for the dough)
• Salt - a pinch (for dough)
• Sugar - 150 gr
• Salt - 0.5 teaspoons
• Ground cloves - on the tip of a knife
• Ground cinnamon - 1 teaspoon
• Ground nutmeg - on the tip of a knife
• Whipped cream - optional

Combine sugar, salt, butter and flour. Add cold water and stir. You should get a soft dough. Roll out the dough in a form, making high sides and remove the form with the dough in the refrigerator for half an hour. Mix pumpkin puree, condensed milk, eggs and spices thoroughly until smooth and homogeneous. Now place the filling in the chilled shaped dough and send it to the oven preheated to 180 degrees for 1 hour.

The filling should turn brown, while the middle should be a little liquid. The cake must be completely cool before serving. You can garnish with whipped cream if you like. That's it - quick and easy!

halloween cookies

Cookies are a classic of the genre. You can bake it, buy it and decorate it the way your imagination tells you. Halloween cookies can be baked in the shape of fingers, and marigolds can be laid out with almonds. Brush the cookies with a beaten egg before baking to make them shine.

As "blood" you can use raspberry, strawberry, cranberry jam or jams. It is very easy to make "ghosts": cover the finished cookies with icing or buttercream. Chocolate chips are suitable for the eye. As you can see, fantasy is everything! *yes*

Cakes and pies: design ideas

Today there is a wide variety of cakes: you can come to the store and choose the one you like. Especially on the eve of the holidays, many pastry shops bake themed cakes. You can also order a delicious cake and confectioners. Or you can bake your own signature cake, decorating it according to the theme of Halloween: draw “bloody” traces on snow-white buttercream using raspberry jam or strawberry jam.

If your daughter has an old Barbie doll, do not throw it away: you will have a wonderful reason to surprise the child for the holiday. Put the body of the doll on the cake, and the cake itself will play the role of a festive Halloween dress. Terribly beautiful! For more daring and extravagant people, options for a cake in the form of a snake and even ... a cat tray may be suitable ... However, whether anyone dares to try such a “muck” is a big question *shock*. In the presence of imagination, as practice shows, everything is possible! *buba*

Decorating Drinks for Halloween

Oh yes, almost forgot! What's a feast without decorated Halloween drinks?! Drinks can be very different: alcoholic and non-alcoholic, hot and cold. The choice is yours. The main thing is to present them correctly to guests.

The edges of glasses for juice or spirits can be lightly dipped first in water and then in sugar. Sugar can be colored with food coloring. You can dip the edges in jam - here's a “blood” on a glass. If you want to surprise your guests, then serve them a glass of vodka (or any other strong, but clear and light alcoholic drink) with a “bloody” syringe, of course, without a needle. The "bloody" contents can be anything - pomegranate juice, tomato, and cherry compote - the main thing is non-alcoholic and red. The guest will decide for himself: mix everything in a glass or drink a glass and "eat" the contents of the *mosking* syringe.

By the way, you can use special dry ice for drinks in glasses with alcohol content: it will make your drink “smoky” and add a special chic to the atmosphere

Halloween souvenirs for guests

Be sure to think about what a memorable gift you can please your guests. Perhaps you can buy them pumpkin candles, hand out plastic spiders, or make a commemorative postcard for each. And you can please them with sweet gifts.

rubber hand

Take an ordinary rubber glove (pharmacy, not household) and put various sweets inside: sweets, dragees, chewing gums, etc. tie everything with a pretty ribbon.

ghost lollipops

Lollipops can be cooked independently from sugar syrup or bought ready-made. Or even use ready-made wrapped sweets and skewers. Wrap them in snow-white paper napkins, tie them with a ribbon, draw eyes and give them to guests: both adults and children will be happy to receive such a present.

Well, once again we wish you a great Halloween and a delicious feast - enjoy the prepared dishes and great company!