Rag Doll Salad Recipe

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Both kids and adults will enjoy lunching with these imaginative dolls. They make having a healthy salad delicious and fun…so, go ahead and play with your food.

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Rag Doll Salad Recipe

Prep/Total Time: 15 min.

Yield: 2 Servings

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Ingredients

1 hard-cooked egg, cut lengthwise in half
2 tablespoons carrot curls
4 whole cloves
2 pimiento strips
1 medium tomato, halved
2 pitted ripe olives, halved
2/3 cup chicken or tuna salad
2 lettuce leaves
8 baby carrots
1 teaspoon mayonnaise

Directions

For each salad, place an egg half at the top of a plate for doll's head. Arrange carrot curls around egg for hair. Insert cloves for eyes; position a pimiento strip for mouth.
Place a tomato half below the egg; add olive halves for buttons. Spoon chicken salad below tomato; place a lettuce leaf over salad for skirt. For arms and legs, place baby carrots on either side of tomato and below the lettuce.
Place mayonnaise in a small pastry or plastic bag; cut a small hole in a corner of bag. Pipe stripes on carrot legs for stockings. Discard cloves before eating. Yield: 2 servings.

Nutritional Facts 1 serving (1 each) equals 258 calories, 19 g fat (4 g saturated fat), 144 mg cholesterol, 514 mg sodium, 13 g carbohydrate, 3 g fiber, 11 g protein.

Originally published as Rag Doll Salad in Country Woman May/June 2006, p38