After seeing the low-calorie sweets for Halloween , here are some ideas of savory snacks for a table that can entertain both adults and children. These are small appetizers that we can combine with some light and non-alcoholic cocktails (a couple of recipes below) and that we can use as an alternative “aperitif”.

We can then complete the aperitif and turn it into a dinner with this salted and light pumpkin cream with only 150 calories.

LIGHT APERITIF WITH LIGHT AND SAVORY SNACKS FOR HALLOWEEN

Cheese bats .

In a bowl, mix 100 grams of light goat or philadelphia cheese with 100 grams of light ricotta and a pinch of salt. Add about twenty chopped black olives. Shape into balls with a diameter of 4-5 cm and keep them in the fridge covered with plastic wrap for a couple of hours.

Before bringing them to the table, decorate each with two nachos as if they were wings (and the ball was the body of bats), or two toasted trangolini of rye bread.
Make some eyes with olives with peppers cut into rings and here are some cheese bats.

Carrot Witch Fingers.
Wash the carrots, put them in cold water with half a lemon squeezed and cut them as if to form large gnarled fingers. Let them dry and cut one end with a small knife, making space for a nail.

Then, smear each nail with hummus or a veil of light philadelphia and a triangle of raw ham or red or green pepper to form the red or green nail. Put them on a tray and serve.

Halloween yellow pepper heads.
Boil two large peeled potatoes, mash them and season with a spoonful of parmesan and a large egg plus a pinch of salt. Take 4 small / medium sized orange, red or yellow peppers. Cut the top cap, clean the seeds and with a knife cut them externally to form serrated mouths and two triangular eyes (as is done for pumpkins).

Salt them internally. Fill them with the potato mixture, cover with the caps and place in the oven in an oiled bowl for about 25 minutes at 180 °. Let it cool, lift the cap and pour a teaspoon of tomato sauce or ketchup over the filling. Close the lid, let it cool and serve lukewarm.

The witch’s broom.
You can use Asiago or Emmenthal cheese or mozzarella sticks for this recipe. With a knife, make cheese cylinders 5 cm long and 2-3 cm in diameter. Now always with a knife make one of the two ends more rounded, while underneath engrave the other end in 5-6 vertical cuts of 2-3 cm in length, as if to make the bristles of a broom.

Take a salty stick, like the ones in the cameo bag, or make carrot sticks, and stick the round end, to create mini brooms. Use half a string of chives per broom to tie around the round end, about an inch from the stick, and you have your own mini brooms. Instead of cheese, you can use a thin slice, folding it in two, putting it around the stick and fraying it underneath, and then always tying it with the chives.

Evil eggs.
Boil six eggs, put them in cold water until they cool and shell them. Cut them in two halves for the shorter side and gently empty the egg yolks, which you will put in a bowl.

Mix the egg yolks with a heaping tablespoon of whole Greek yogurt and a teaspoon of pesto. Stuff the eggs, close them, decorate them with two pieces of pickled pepper
to make the devil’s cornets, and two rounds of green olives for the eyes. 

Mummy pizzas.
For this recipe you can use rice or corn cakes or slices of grilled aubergine not too thin, cut into slices. Take your biscuit or slice of aubergine, decorate it with a teaspoon of tomato sauce and some slices of galbani cheese cut into strips and placed crossed in the upper and lower part of the biscuit or slice of aubergine, as if to make the face of a mummy. Make the eyes of the mummy with slices of black olives (in the photo article).

What to drink to accompany our light aperitif?
The non-alcoholic red wine Wine Zero is perfect , but maybe you don’t have time to order it.
Even a non-alcoholic lemon beer mixed with a little red orange juice can be an idea, or alternatively for adults some prosecco mixed with blood orange juice or cranberry juice.
Finally, karkadé or cold hibiscus tea with blood orange juice is a great idea.