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Veggies never looked so cute with this festive Christmas Veggie Tray – prepped in 10 minutes and perfect for holiday parties!
Pretty Enough to Eat!
The holidays are such a fun time to create fun and festive recipes and dishes!
With all of these festivities, we ALWAYS include a vegetable tray (or Charcuterie Board). This Christmas Veggie Tray is always a welcome hit – especially with the kids!
It whips up in 10 minutes and you can easily add or adjust with your favorite veggies. We love to include our homemade ranch or go-to veggie dip.
This veggie tray is a delicious and beautiful addition to holiday parties, along with our Christmas Tree Charcuterie Board and Christmas Charcuterie Board.
WHY WE LOVE IT:
- Only 10 minutes! This veggie tree has a quick prep time and can easily be made ahead of time.
- Party perfect. It’s quite the show-stopper and a festive addition to any holiday or Christmas spread.
- Eat your greens. Get plenty of fresh vegetables with this adorably delicious Christmas tree vegetable platter – pretty enough to eat!
Ingredients
TOTAL TIME: 10 minutes
- 1 crown broccoli, large – or use cauliflower crowns for an all-white Christmas tree.
- 1 cup sugar snap peas – or celery to give the tree shape
- 1 cup cherry tomatoes – or grape tomatoes, cut radishes, or stamp circles from sliced red bell peppers to resemble red ornaments
- 1 yellow bell pepper – or use cheddar cheese strips or sliced baby carrots to resemble golden garland
- optional dips – Dill Veggie Dip, Hummus Recipe, Homemade Ranch Dressing
Assembling Our Christmas Veggie Tray
- PREP. Rinse veggies. Chop 1 head of broccoli into crowns and cut 1 bell pepper into strips.
- LAYER. Arrange the snap peas on a platter to look like a Christmas tree outline then fill the center in with the broccoli crowns.
- GARNISH. Add the yellow strips from 1 bell pepper to look like a garland. Use 4 smaller bell pepper strips to stack in a star shape and add it to the top. Arrange 1 cup of cherry tomatoes to look like ornaments. Serve with your favorite veggie dip.
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Dips To Serve With
Dill Veggie Dip Recipe
7 mins
Avocado Lime Ranch Dip
5 mins
Homemade Ranch Dressing
35 mins
Hummus Recipe
5 mins
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Christmas Veggie Tray
Ingredients
- 1 crown broccoli, large
- 1 cup sugar snap peas
- 1 cup cherry tomatoes
- 1 yellow bell pepper
Instructions
- Rinse veggies. Chop broccoli and bell pepper into strips.
- Arrange the snap peas on a platter to resemble the outline of a Christmas Tree with the angle of the peas downward. Fill the center in with the broccoli florets.
- Add bell peppers to look like garland, and then use 4 smaller strips to create a star at the top.
- Sprinkle with cherry tomatoes to resemble ornaments and serve with your favorite veggie dip.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Recipe FAQ
Prep veggies up to 48 hours in advance. Keep the different elements in separate Ziplocs in the fridge. Assemble the Christmas veggie tray a few hours before serving. Wrap the tree with plastic wrap and store it in the fridge.
Either disassemble the tree and store the different elements in separate storage containers, or keep it as is and wrap it in plastic and refrigerate.
I love your creativity and recipes.😋
Thank you so much!!
Thanks for the recipe and the idea to make that little spinach puffs.
This is so cute that the kids want to eat it.
I would like to try all your recipes
I sure hope you do 🙂 Let me know what you think of the ones you try!