The Celtic Halloween is mainly popular in the Anglo-Saxon countries, but it is also becoming more and more popular in our country, so it's no wonder that restaurants are exploring its potential. It's an easy day to serve adults a stylish meal, but remember that abroad it's largely a holiday for children. Trick-or-treating hasn't yet caught on here, but a spooky and tasty Halloween kids„ menu can make up for it. Let's see what you can prepare for them!
Pumpkins are also associated with Halloween through pumpkin lanterns, so it's an obvious choice to include them in your festive menu - plus, a healthy vegetable can be the backbone of your menu. A pumpkin you can use it in all forms. Cream soup, oven-baked pumpkin or pumpkin pie can be made from it. For the perfect taste experience, pumpkin risotto is served with pumpkin seed oil, toasted pumpkin seeds and diced pumpkin cubes fried in butter. If you're creative, you can use it to create a myriad of „scary” shapes with a little effort - and you don't have to give up carving pumpkin in the kitchen! And with a few well-chosen decorations (a few drops of blood-red sauce, a witch's-silver serving, olive puffs forming eyeballs), the dish becomes even more memorable.
Creativity is the key concept
The festive concept is to recall the typical Halloween motifs: ghosts, skeletons, bats, black cats, witches, cobwebs, red and black. For example, you can make a „vegetable skeleton” with celery stalks for the arms and legs, mushroom slices for the joints and hips, cucumber slices for the spine, California pepper slices for the ribs, and a bowl of dipping sauce for the head. Now, it's worth keeping the avocado skin on when making guacamole, as a little tail wiggling can make a terrifying skull to add to the cream. You can also turn savoury snacks into scary snacks with just a grain of pumpkin seeds or almonds: for example, a simple cheese stick can be turned into a clawed finger.
But the greatest potential lies in desserts
These motifs can be used on any kind of cake, muffin or cake topper. Mummy cakes are a special genre: wrapped in strips of pastry and decorated with two tiny eyes, most cakes or even cheese can be made into a gauze-striped monster. And for the perfect take on the Anglo-Saxon Halloween atmosphere, make one of the signature festive treats, the candy apple. With a little skill, you can go beyond the plain, colourful sugar coating to draw patterns on it, such as Jack Skellington's distinctive ball face from The Christmas Wraith - the effect is sure to be unmissable!
Aviko also offers a solution for Halloween
You can literally make your menu more colourful with two special cheese platters, especially for older children and teenagers. A black cheddar cheese crumbles chili peppers are made with a combination of characterful cheddar cheese and hot jalapeno peppers, with a black tempura coating to make them even more spectacular. At 19 grams each, the bites can be cooked in a deep fryer at 175 degrees in 3.5 minutes. Pair, the bright red habanero chilli pepper cheese crumbles, also 19 g is a piquant speciality that is guaranteed to attract attention. It can also be prepared in a deep fryer at 175 °C in 3.5 minutes. Both pre-fried and quick-frozen specialities can be used on their own, as a topping for pumpkin or other salads, or as part of a spicy cheese dish. Hamburg or with dipping sauces, they make an irresistible snack, and for older people they are ideal beer skates. Standardised unit weights and a fixed number of pieces per pack allow for transparent cost planning, so you can add not only delicious, but also quick and profitable dishes to your range!
Halloween is classically a holiday that should be supported with on-site decorations and a costume party. You can also organise promotions around it: for example, everyone who turns up in costume gets 10% off their total consumption. And don't forget the waiters, with some distinctive accessories and impressive make-up, they can be part of the event too. Such an occasion can also be a great socialising and fun activity for them. Don't delay, put together your menu and advertise the event as soon as possible!
Source: www.avikofoodservice.hu
