Just a Simple Twist on Your Everyday Meals: No Complicated Techniques Needed - Halloween Menu Special

I want to make my usual meals in a Halloween style♡

We're in the middle of the Halloween season ♩

While it's nice to go out dressed up, many people probably plan to spend Halloween night at home, happily making "Halloween food" with family and friends ♡

That said, creating intricate dishes like those posted on cooking or homemaker accounts (even if I want to try!) seems daunting....

So, in this article, I will introduce easy Halloween-style recipes that only require a little twist on the usual meals we make ♩

Halloween Food Menu ① Curry

First, let's look at the Halloween curry recipe ♩

For Halloween curry, it’s a classic twist to use pumpkin rice instead of white rice and to serve it in a Jack-o'-lantern style.

The hat is made with pumpkin skin and a cone-shaped corn snack＊

You can also make it Halloween-style simply by shaping the white rice into a ghost ♩

A common twist is to cut the carrot into star shapes and sprinkle them around.

Another great idea is to shape the pumpkin rice like a pumpkin and fill its mouth with curry sauce＊

This Halloween meal is sure to delight kids especially.

Halloween Food Menu ② Oden

As it gets colder, it's the season to crave oden ♩

Halloween oden is also a recommended recipe.

Simply cut the carrot into pumpkin shapes, the konjac into bat shapes, and the hanpen into ghost shapes, then arrange them nicely for a festive Halloween oden pot＊

It's also fun to make the hanpen look like Jack from "The Nightmare Before Christmas" ♩

Wrapping a sausage with chikuwa and adding eyes turns it into a mummy ghost＊

Halloween Food Menu ③ Pasta

Next up is Halloween pasta ♩

This is a meat sauce spaghetti topped with sliced cheese cut into ghost shapes. It looks simple and easy to make♡

Topping a natto pasta with a yolk and using seaweed to create a Jack-o'-lantern face is another easy idea to try＊

Halloween Food Menu ④ Salad

For a side dish, you can easily make a salad Halloween-themed by thinly slicing daikon and shaping it into ghosts to scatter over the vegetables!

Its translucent color is eerily realistic, almost like a real ghost ♩

An also cool idea is to make a boiled egg look like it has a tongue sticking out made from ham.

Wrapping a sausage in cheese can turn it into a mummy ghost.

Halloween Food Menu ⑤ Soup

Now let's move on to the Halloween soup recipe ♩

This is minestrone, but if you look closely, you can see bat-shaped macaroni in it.....??

Around Halloween, you can often find bat, spider, or pumpkin-shaped macaroni sold in sets at supermarkets, so just adding them to your soup brings in that Halloween vibe ♡

This is pumpkin soup＊

Simply cutting carrots and cheese into ghost and pumpkin shapes and adding them is an easy twist.

Halloween Food Menu ⑥ Sushi

Halloween sushi is also a recommended menu item.

This sushi features rice wrapped in salmon, with the eyes and mouth made from seaweed and the pumpkin stem made from cucumber for a Jack-o'-lantern twist.

Salmon is a popular ingredient with both kids and adults, so it would be a hit at a party＊

The big-sized Halloween salmon sushi is definitely impressive.....!

Surrounding it with salmon roe can elevate the satisfaction level by having a luxurious combination of salmon and roe ♩

This is decorative sushi＊

You make it by mixing salmon flakes into the sushi rice, placing cucumber and kamaboko on top, and rolling it all up.

Halloween Food Menu ⑦ Omurice

Next is a Halloween-style omurice recipe♡

Serve the ketchup rice shaped into a triangular mound, cover it with a thin omelet, and use seaweed to create a face ♩

The trick to putting on the thin omelet is to spread it out gently rather than wrapping it tightly around the rice, which gives it a ghost-like form.

Another recommended twist is to make polka dot omurice into ghosts＊

The method is easy: first, make a thin omelet using just the yolk, cut it out with a ghost-shaped cutter, place it back in the pan, and pour in the egg white.

Adding seaweed and sesame for the face and hat boosts the Halloween vibe.

Halloween Food Menu ⑧ Bread & Burgers

Finally, let’s introduce Halloween-style bread and burger recipes♡

This is a piece of bread topped with mentaiko, with a mayonnaise spiderweb design on top ♩

Pumpkin sandwiches also look delicious＊

Adding eyes made of cheese and seaweed on the sides of the sandwich gives it a monster-like feel!

Lastly, we have Halloween burgers＊

Just adding a triangle of seaweed on top of the bun makes it look like a Jack-o'-lantern.

If you stuff cheese and lettuce so they spill out of the bun, it gives the impression of a Jack-o'-lantern munching away, making it unique ♩

Looks easy! Let's try making Halloween food＊

I have introduced some easy Halloween food recipes that you can create with just a little twist on your usual staple dishes.

Are there any dishes that you're excited to try and make??

Since October 31 is a Wednesday, the main Halloween dates are the 26th (Saturday) and the 27th (Sunday).

Enjoy making Halloween food and have a wonderful weekend! ♩