Tomato Santa and Cucumber Christmas Tree Recipe - Japanese Cooking 101

cream cheese

🥗Healthier: Greek yogurt

💰Cheaper: ricotta

Greek yogurt reduces calories while maintaining creaminess

Slice off one side of the tomato so that Santa will stand and cut in half.

Place them cut side down on a paper towel to remove moisture.

Slice the cheese to about quarter inch thick and cut out round with half inch diameter round cookie cutter.

Put soft cream cheese in a piping bag with a star tip and pipe cream cheese on the bottom half of a tomato.

Place the cheese round on the piped cream cheese and pipe some more cream cheese on top of the cheese round.

Place the top half of the tomato on the piped cream cheese.

Pipe a dot on the top of the tomato and stick sesame seeds on semi-hard cheese as eyes or use nori seaweed cut into small round pieces.

Cut the cucumber into 8 and 4 inch sections and cut half inch thick rounds from the short cucumber section.

Using a peeler, slice the long cucumber section to make thin ribbons.

Take a slice of thin cucumber ribbon and fold to make an S shape three or four times and insert a pick and pin onto a round cucumber.

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