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Filled with your favorite fresh ingredients and dips, a veggie tray is a quick and healthy way to feed family and friends!
Party Perfect!
When special occasions (holidays like Easter, Thanksgiving, Christmas, or game day) come along, we always have so much fun creating a menu packed with appetizers, but one of the things we always like to serve is veggies!
If it’s not a Charcuterie Board, we LOVE to make a fresh veggie tray as an appetizer spread since it’s the perfect way to include a healthy option at any event.
We also love to add some favorite homemade dips like Dill Veggie Dip, Homemade Ranch or Velveeta Spinach Dip. We think it’s safe to say that veggie trays are always party perfect!
WHY WE LOVE IT:
- 10 minutes or less! It only takes a few minutes to assemble with a super quick prep time.
- Change it up. Add just about anything you want!
- Make it pretty. Once veggies are prepped, arrange them in a variety of fun designs.
Ingredients
TOTAL TIME: 10 minutes
- 1 celery stalk – or add radishes, snap peas, green beans, cucumbers
- 1 pound baby carrots – or carrot sticks
- 1 pound broccoli florets – or cauliflower florets or broccolini
- 10 ounces cherry tomatoes – or grape tomatoes
- 3 bell peppers – Use yellow, red, green, orange, or mini peppers. Prepare one bell pepper for each flavor of dip you wish to serve. Alternatively, use small bowls for the dip instead of hollowed peppers.
- vegetable dip – Homemade Ranch Dressing, Dill Veggie Dip, Hummus Recipe, Chipotle Ranch, French Onion Dip, or How to Make Guacamole.
- optional garnish – Decorate trays with fresh herbs.
Seasonal Produce
Check out your local farmers market for good deals on fresh produce. The grocery store will typically mark down produce that is in season. Other vegetables include snap peas, sliced cucumbers, sliced bell peppers, watermelon radishes, cauliflower florets, olives, pickles, and more.
How to Make A Veggie Tray
- PREP. Rinse and prep the celery stalk, 1 pound broccoli, 1 pound carrots, and 10 ounces cherry tomatoes.
- Cut the top off each of the 3 peppers (you can save the tops to use as a lid). Use a spoon to scrape the inside of the peppers to remove all the “white” lining along with the seeds.
- Dip. Fill the hollowed-out peppers with your choice of dips.
- Assemble. Place the filled peppers on a tray or board and arrange the cut vegetables around them.
Change it Up!
Add crackers, pita chips, cheese, or ham to the large platter to make it more of a Charcuterie Board or crudité platter. Assemble the platter the day before with meats and cheeses, but add the crackers right before serving.
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Ingredients
- 3 peppers, red, green or yellow
- 1 stalk celery
- 1 pound baby carrots
- 1 pound broccoli florets
- 10 ounces cherry tomatoes
Instructions
- Rinse and prep all veggies.
- Hollow out the bell peppers by cutting the top off of each pepper. Use a spoon to scrape the inside of the peppers to remove the “white” lining as well as the seeds.
- Fill the bell peppers with vegetable dips or sauces of your choice.
- Place the dips on a serving tray or board and arrange the vegetables around them.
- Garnish with fresh herbs and spices.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Recipe FAQ
For the Holidays try a Turkey Veggie Tray or a Christmas Veggie Tray.
During football season we love to put together a game day tray by lining the short edges of a cookie sheet with celery. Arrange baby carrots in a football shape in the center of the sheet. Fill the remaining space in the sheet with broccoli. Add bell pepper strips on top of the carrots to look like the stitching on a football. Line the perimeter of the football with cherry tomatoes.
For this bell pepper vegetable board, we used a cookie sheet, but you can use any type of board or tray that you have at home.
Assemble the platter and veggie tray dips the day before and keep it loosely covered in the refrigerator.
Disassemble and store the veggies in an airtight container in the fridge, or cover the pan of leftovers and refrigerate it as a whole.
I enjoy veggies sauteed in any way, stir frys are great too.
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Sauteed are yum!! Thank you for sharing!
I like to eat veggies with Ranch dip
Me too!! Makes them so much better 🙂 Thank you!!
Can’t beat veggies and dip!
And what a cute idea to make a football out of veggies–looks really simple too!
How cute and creative are these veggie trays! I love the peppers filled with dip. That’s happening at my next get together. Pinning so I don’t forget!
Thanks!! Their perfect for parties!! Have fun!
I enjoy fresh veges on my vege platter that I make for me and the kids all the time. I have tomatoes, cucumbers, carrot sticks, sliced peppers, and I have a healthy dip to dip our veges in.
YUM! 🙂 Thanks so much for stopping by!!
We love to eat our veggies with ranch dip and a little bit of Siracha stirred into the dip!!!
Oh, I’ll have to try! A little kick 🙂 Thanks so much!
My household loves to eat our raw veggies with a good ranch dip! We also love our veggies steamed and maybe add either a lil’ butter, pepper vinegar or for an even bigger indulgence browned butter and breadcrumbs!
Oh, the browned butter and breadcrumbs sound so good with veggies!!! Thanks so much for sharing!
I like veggies with French onion dip.
I love French Onion dip!! Thank you for stopping by!!
I have to have some kind of dip when I eat veggies. I usually go with Dill veggie dip or hummus.
Right there with ya!! Thank you!!
Totally with you on the dip thing. Everyone in my house will eat tons more fresh veggies if we have yummy dip to go with it. I want to try that Spicy Avocado Ranch – sounds fantastic!
Dip makes everything so much better!! My kids are dippers, too!! Thanks Kara!! 🙂