This salad is basically art that you eat! You paint a sea scene with crunchy vegetables.
You'll need:
A cucumber - cut in thin slices
12 edible pea pods
A jicama
A yellow pepper - cut in half and seeded, top trimmed
1 small tomato
A carrot - cut in matchsticks
Your favorite creamy salad dressing
Adult help
Equipment:
A plate
A sharp knife
Kitchen shears
A tablespoon
A butter knife
Have dad or whoever is
helping you slice the jicama into large 1/2 inch thick slices. From the
slices, trim one large (3 inch high) and one small (2 inch high)
triangle to make the sails.
Next, ask for help slicing the cucumber into 1/4 inch rounds. Cut these in half for the white caps of your waves.
Trim the yellow pepper to look like a boat hull.
Lay
out the edible pea pods on the lower half of the plate. These are the
waves. Slide cucumber slices in between to make the waves foamy white
caps.
Next, add your boat hull and your jicama sails.
The last part is to add the bright sun above. Have dad cut the top off
the tomato. Use the tablespoon to hollow out the seeds. Don't dig too
deep because you're creating a bowl for your salad dressing.
Fill the tomato with dressing and put it up in sky above your boat.
Arrange the carrot matchsticks like rays streaming out from the sun.
