Tortured Tomatoes with Bird Dropping Dressing
Submitted by Pulkit
Smashed “tortured” tomatoes topped with crumbled blue cheese drizzled to look like bird droppings. A gross-out Halloween hit kids absolutely love. No cooking required.
YIELD
4 servingsPREP
20 minCOOK
0 minREADY
20 minListen, it’s not fine dining. It’s not supposed to be. It’s Halloween food for kids, and it is absolutely, gloriously disgusting in the best way.
Ripe tomatoes get sliced, sealed in a bag, and pounded with your fist until they look properly “tortured." Bruised, battered, and oozing.
Then crumbled blue cheese gets dribbled from a spoon held high above the bowl so it splatters down in messy white globs that look exactly like... well, bird droppings.
The kids will scream. They will also eat every bite.
It takes 20 minutes, zero cooking, and just two ingredients. That’s the kind of Halloween recipe every parent needs in their back pocket.
Pro Tips
- Use the ripest tomatoes you can find. They smash more dramatically and taste sweeter.
- Pound gently through the bag. You want them crushed and ugly, not liquefied.
- Hold the spoon at least 12 inches above the bowl when drizzling the cheese. The height is what creates the splatter effect.
- Let older kids do the pounding and drizzling themselves. Half the fun of this recipe is making it.
Ingredients
Directions
Wash the tomatoes in cold water, cut into half inch slices.
Place slices in plastic bag.
Squeeze out any extra air and close the bag tightly.
Lay the bag on a clean plate placed in the sink. Now make a fist and gently pound the tomato slices until they look tortured.
Divide the tortured tomatoes among the four bowls and sprinkle with a half tablespoon of crumbled cheese.
Then, holding a spoon at least 12 inch from the salad bowl, dribble a glob of dressing onto each one.
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