How do I get the content excerpt of the recent post?

Hi I am needing some help trying to add the recent post excerpt to the bottom left div of my webpage.

below is the piece of code that I'm having problems with in-between the p tags. I can display the post title and the ID, But cant get the recent post content or the recent post excerpt.

     !-- //start --
               h2Recent Post/h2
            div class=recent-post-holder

           
             div class=recent-image-holderimg  class=recent-image src=images/feeding.jpg alt=/div

            
             ?php 
              $args = array( 'numberposts' = '1' );
               $recent_posts = wp_get_recent_posts( $args );
                 
               foreach( $recent_posts as $recent ) {

                echo ' div class=recent-text-holdera href=' . get_permalink($recent[ID]) . '' . $recent[post_title]. '/a
                p' . get_the_excerpt(). '/p /div '; 

     } ?

I just want to add the post content in-between the p tags not sure were I'm going wrong iv tried the following in-between the p tags:

    $recent[post_excerpt]
    the_content()

I have been trying to find a solution to this I've looked through other similar post, But I cant get it to display the content. I was not sure if I need to create a while loop within the code to then return the post content, I'm not sure.

I am new to php and any help on this I would be grateful

Many thanks