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Cucumber Snake
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Recipe and Image Garner’s (www.baxters.com)The cheese and pickle hedgehog is a retro party classic – for a fresh take why not try this tasty culinary creature? You can add more features to your snake if you wish –
what about two pickled onion eyes or use some star anise, let your imagination
run wild!Cucumber SnakeIngredients
- 1 cucumber (even better if it has a bend in it!)
- 4 wafer thin slices of Parma/Argyll ham or Bresaola beef
- 150g Lanark Blue/Roquefort cheese
- 1 jar Garner’s Sweet Pickled Baby Onions, drained
- Cocktail sticks
- Red pepper
Method
- Rinse and dry cucumber. Cut a thin slice off one side to create a flat base. Mark skin with a canelling knife if desired.
- Thread the cocktail sticks with a Garner’s Sweet Pickled Baby Onion and a nugget of cheese, weave on a sliver of ham and finish with another onion.
- Jab completed sticks into the cucumber in two wavy ‘tramlines’ up the centre from end to end.
- Use a small vegetable knife to shape a mouth at one end and push in a piece of red bell pepper shaped as a forked tongue to complete the snake.
