Halloween Antipasto Eyeballs Appetizer
Create spooky fun with this Halloween Antipasto Eyeballs Appetizer featuring mozzarella and olives. Perfect for your next party—try it today!
- Prep Time: 30 minutes
- Cook Time: 0 minutes
- Total Time: 30 minutes
- Yield: Serves approximately 10 appetizers 1x
- Category: Appetizer
- Method: Assembly
- Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients
Scale
- ¼ Cup olive oil
- 8 basil leaves (fresh)
- Kosher or table salt (as needed)
- 10 Balls fresh mozzarella (bocconcini, ciliegine, “cherry sized”)
- 5 black olives (whole pitted, medium or large)
- ½ Pound chicken (sliced thinly)
- 1 ½ Ounces balsamic glaze
- 8 ½ Ounces sun dried tomatoes (packed in oil, julienne cut)
- Flake salt (as needed)
Instructions
- Start by slicing the chicken. Set aside.
- Rinse and dry the basil leaves. Tear them into smaller pieces if desired.
- Take one ball of mozzarella, place it on your serving platter.
- Using toothpicks or small skewers, pierce through the mozzarella ball.
- Place one slice of chicken around each mozzarella ball as if wrapping it like an eye.
- Top it off by placing one whole black olive on top of each mozzarella ball as the 'pupil'.
- Drizzle olive oil over all assembled eyeballs for extra flavor.
- Sprinkle with kosher salt to taste.
- Add torn basil leaves, distributing them around the platter.
- Drizzle balsamic glaze over the entire arrangement to give it a glossy finish.
- Garnish with julienne-cut sun dried tomatoes.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 appetizer (35g)
- Calories: 90
- Sugar: 1g
- Sodium: 200mg
- Fat: 6g
- Saturated Fat: 2g
- Unsaturated Fat: 4g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 2g
- Fiber: 0g
- Protein: 7g
- Cholesterol: 20mg