Pepper Octopus Vegetable Platter

Ingredients:

1 yellow pepper

2 medium carrots

1 cucumber

1 punnet baby plum tomatoes

1 tub hummus

1 orange pepper

Method:

1. Deseed and slice the yellow pepper into strips. Peel and cut the carrot into sticks. Wash and cut the cucumber into sticks. Wash and halve the tomatoes lengthways.
2. Place the hummus into a small shallow bowl.
3. Cut the top off the orange pepper. Carefully pull out the seeds, keeping the outside of the pepper intact.
4. Cut three thin rings from the top of the pepper, then cut each ring into three for the legs. Turn the remaining piece of pepper upside-down and add two googly eye picks.
5. Place the pepper cut-side down in the bowl of hummus to form the octopus’ body.
6. Add eight pepper legs, pushing them into the hummus around the pepper body.
7. Arrange the prepared vegetable sticks on a platter with the bowl of hummus in the middle.