Prep time: 35 minutes. Serves 1. This recipe was inspired by the children’s book “The Very Hungry Caterpillar,” by Eric Carle.
Ingredients
Each chef will need:
1/2 avocado, skin removed and thinly sliced
1 1/2 teaspoons packed light brown sugar
1 tablespoons light coconut milk
2 tablespoons diced mango
1/4 cup rotisserie chicken, shredded
1/2 teaspoon lime juice
3 teaspoons light soy sauce
1 ( 6-inch) piece of rice paper (available at Asian food stores)
Pretzel sticks
1 plum tomato
2 dried currants
2 thin carrot matchsticks
Directions
Kids: Wiggle while you combine the avocado, sugar, coconut milk, mango, chicken, lime juice and soy sauce in a mixing bowl. Let this sit for 5 minutes. (You can stop wiggling now!) This step is like magic. Fill another bowl with warm water and place rice paper in the bowl. Let it sit until the rice paper is soft and almost invisible! Remove the rice paper from the water. Let it sit on a clean plate for 1 minute. Don’t worry — it should be kind of sticky.
Place the avocado mixture on the lower center of the rice paper.
Fold the outsides in so they touch and roll the bottom of the paper up to form a log shape. Carefully slice the log into four equal pieces.
This is the caterpillar’s body. Place pretzel sticks around the body for legs.
Adult: To make the caterpillar’s head, carefully slice off 1/3 of the tomato. This piece will be the bottom part of his head.
Kids: Balance the other side of the tomato on top to make a goofy grin. Use a toothpick to poke eye holes in the tomato head and press in the currant eyes. Poke two more holes on top of the head and push in the carrot sticks for the antennae.
Enjoy your hungry caterpillar before he turns into a butterfly!
Per serving: 320 cal.; 14 g pro.; 25 g carb.; 20 g fat (6 sat., 11 monounsat., 3 polyunsat.); 30 mg chol.; 1,044 mg sod.; 6 g fiber; 14 g sugar; 52 percent calories from fat.
