Use your imagination to add a creative twist to your vegetable tray.
Vegetable trays can be an edible festive display for any occasion. The traditional tray includes an assortment of fresh raw vegetables cut into bite-size pieces with some kind of dipping sauce. Create new and interesting ways to present your vegetable tray. Vegetables can be cut and hollowed then stuffed with your favorite seafood or chicken salad. You can create shapes by cutting the vegetables into flowers. Sweeten your vegetable tray by adding fruits or chocolate and caramel dips. Be sure to make extra so you can refill your creative vegetable tray. Add this to my Recipe Box.
Holiday Vegetable Centerpiece
Use vegetable trays as a centerpiece for your holiday table. Arrange assorted vegetables around the edges of the tray. Place a dipping sauce of ranch or blue cheese dressing in the center of the tray. Surround the tray with holiday flowers or greenery such as holly for Christmas or Easter lilies. Keep fresh cut vegetables ready to refill your tray as it is eaten.
Stuffed Vegetable Tray
Stuff your vegetables with peanut butter, cream cheese or tuna salad to make a stuffed vegetable tray. Use celery, cucumbers and lettuce for your vegetables. Slice the celery in 1-inch pieces. Take a knife and spread peanut butter into the ridge of the celery. Place along the outer section of the tray. Cut cucumbers into slices. Spread cream cheese on top and place them next on the tray. Open the leaves of the lettuce. Place a generous amount of tuna salad in the middle, roll like a wrap and secure with a toothpick. Place wraps in the center of your tray.
Summer Vegetable Tray
Hollow out a pineapple by cutting it in half and removing all of the pineapple with a carving knife. Cut pineapple into squares and set aside. Leave some of the juice in the pineapple. Cut 2 lbs. of larger vegetables into 1-inch pieces. Use carrots, cherry tomatoes, celery, broccoli or your favorite vegetable mix. Take a skewer and place the fresh vegetables on the skewer, alternating types of vegetable. Stand the skewers up by sticking them down into the half pineapple cores. Take the remaining pineapple squares and place them between the skewers.
Vegetable-Fruit Flower Tray
Take a cookie cutter and create shapes for your vegetables. Purchase flower-shaped cookie cutters to create a floral display. Use fruits and vegetables you can slice and create shapes with. Stiff vegetables and fruits like cucumbers, eggplant and apples hold their shapes when cut. Slice the vegetables and fruits into pieces, lay them flat on a cutting board and press down with the cookie cutter to create shapes. Display your vegetable and fruit flowers on individual saucers around your table with an assortment of dipping sauces.
Tags: create shapes, vegetable tray, your vegetable, fresh vegetables, vegetables into, your vegetable tray, your vegetables