Halloween is the perfect opportunity to get a little creative in the kitchen. With fish, vegetables and imaginative decorations, you can prepare fun and spooky dishes that children can help make.
Here are some ideas for different recipes from Godfisk.
Make spooky monster burgers
An ordinary fish burger can easily be transformed into a monster.
Use fish patties, burger buns, cheese and a variety of vegetables, and let the children create their own spooky faces.
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Give your monster cheese teeth
Cut the edge of a slice of cheese into a zigzag pattern before placing it on the hot fish patty.
When the cheese hangs over the edge, it will resemble sharp monster teeth.
Use vegetables to create a monster face
Slice tomatoes and cucumber and use them as eyes on the burger.
Cut bell peppers into strips to create a long tongue. The eyes can be secured with wooden toothpicks.
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Turn sushi into spooky faces
Salmon nigiri can take on a completely different appearance for Halloween.
Shape cooked sushi rice into small oval pieces and place a thin slice of salmon on top. You can then decorate them with different facial expressions.
Make eyes and mouths from seaweed
Use nori, a type of dried seaweed, to create faces on your sushi pieces.
Cut out small eyes, mouths and other details, and arrange them on the salmon. Serve the sushi with soy sauce, wasabi and pickled ginger.
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Serve fish soup in a pumpkin
A large pumpkin can be used as an unusual soup bowl.
Cut off the top, remove the seeds and carefully hollow out the pumpkin. Pour in the prepared fish soup just before serving.
Add autumn vegetables to your soup
Make a fish soup with haddock, pumpkin, carrots, celeriac and parsley root.
Cook the vegetables in fish stock, and mash some of the pumpkin flesh into the soup to give it a smoother consistency and a more pronounced pumpkin flavour.
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Make the fish soup extra creamy
Combine lemon juice, curry powder, pepper, egg yolks and cream, then stir the mixture into the soup.
Next, add the fish pieces and carrot strips, and leave them to cook gently for about five minutes until the fish is cooked through.
Decorate the pumpkin without cutting holes
To make the presentation even spookier, carve patterns into the outer skin of the pumpkin.
However, it is important not to cut all the way through if you plan to serve the soup directly in the pumpkin.
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Make witch fingers from cod
Cut cod fillets into long strips approximately two centimetres wide so they resemble fingers.
Coat them first in flour seasoned with salt and pepper, then in a mixture of beaten egg and milk, and finally in breadcrumbs or panko.
Fry the witch fingers until crispy
Fry the breaded fish strips in a little liquid margarine in a hot frying pan.
Cook for approximately four minutes on each side until golden brown and the fish is cooked through.
Use almonds as witch fingernails
Once the fish fingers are ready, place a blanched almond at the tip of each finger.
The almond will resemble a fingernail, while a little ketchup on the side will give the dish an even spookier appearance.
Make edible eyeballs from minced fish
A minced fish mixture can be used to make small eyeballs that are perfect for a Halloween table.
Use a small melon baller to shape the fish mixture into round balls.
Use tomatoes to create red rims around the eyes
Cut small tomatoes in half and carefully scoop out the flesh with a spoon. Then place a ball of minced fish mixture inside each tomato half. The red tomato forms the rim around the eye.
Give the edible eyeballs pupils
Use a little food colouring to draw pupils and other details on the fish mixture. If necessary, pat the surface dry with kitchen paper before decorating to help the colouring stay in place.
Arrange the eyeballs on a platter and serve them as a small Halloween snack.
This article is made and published by Ida-Marie Palm Varbæk, who may have used AI in the preparation.