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Ingredients
Cheese Hedgehog with Carrot Sticks
- Ingredients
- 2 Pumpernickel rounds (each about 10 grams)
- ½ tsp Tomato paste
- 1 pc Cucumber (about 80 grams)
- 1 mini round Cheese (about 20 grams)
- ½ small carrot (about 50 grams)
- 4 Pumpkin seed
Spread pumpernickel rounds with the tomato paste.
Peel the cucumber, cut into 2 thick slices and place one on top of each pumpernickel round.
Halve the mini cheese disk horizontally and put the "hedgehog body" on the bread rounds.
Peel carrot. Cut off the rounded sides and cut the rest into thin slices, then into thin sticks, about 2 cm (approximately 3/4 inch) long.
Arrange carrot "spikes" in the cheese, leaving a small corner free.
Press 2 pumpkin seeds as "eyes" deep into corner of each hedgehog and serve.
(Percentage of daily recommendation)
| Calorie | 115 cal. | (5 %) | ||
| Protein | 9 g | (9 %) | ||
| Fat | 4 g | (3 %) | ||
| Carbohydrates | 10 g | (7 %) | ||
| Sugar added | 0 g | (0 %) | ||
| Roughage | 2.5 g | (8 %) |
Healthy, because
One of the three portions of vegetables that children need every day is already done with the low-calorie snack. The protein-rich cheese keeps them full until the next meal and strengthens bones and teeth with its calcium content.
Even smarter
Give the cheese urchin an Italian touch: instead of the cucumber slices, the pumpernickel is topped with tomato slices and the small cheese loaf is simply replaced with mozzarella.