In case you are internet hosting a celebration, you have to to create a presentably interesting vegetable tray. Making a veggie tray is very easy in case you plan forward and collect all the things that you’ll want earlier than you start to assemble your tray.

You have to a spherical serving tray or a specifically designed veggie tray that has divided cavities for putting your greens in. In case your tray would not include a vegetable dip container, you have to to provide one.

It’s endorsed that you just select 5-7 greens to current in your get together tray.

Preparation:

Wash and pat dry your whole greens. Minimize off any roots, stems or undesirable leafy parts.

Vegetable Choice:

Leafy Lettuce: Separate the lettuce leaves and use them to line your vegetable tray.

Broccoli: Minimize florets off the stalk into particular person serving-sized items.

Cauliflower: Minimize items from head of cauliflower into particular person serving-sized items.

Cherry Tomatoes: Take away stems. Wash and pat dry.

Cucumbers: You possibly can take away the pores and skin or depart it, that’s solely as much as you. Slice cucumber into 1/4″ thick spherical slices.

Carrots: If utilizing child carrots, you’ll won’t must slice them down. If utilizing full-sized carrots, you have to to slice them down into sticks measuring roughly 1/4″ by 4″ in measurement.

Celery: Minimize off leafy parts. Minimize celery stalks into 4″ lengthy items.

Radishes: Minimize off high portion of radishes and any roots that may stay. It’s best to make use of radishes which are lower than 1 1/2″ in diameter.

Mushrooms: In case you are utilizing child mushrooms, depart only a 1/4″ of the stem remaining. If utilizing bigger sized mushrooms, slice them down into particular person items.

Inexperienced Pepper: Take away the stem and seeds. Minimize down into sticks measuring 1/4″ by 4″ in size.

Meeting:

Prepare the lettuce leaves in your tray, masking your entire backside of the tray. Take your ready greens and organize them across the tray in sections. Attempt to hold your colours separated and unfold out the inexperienced coloured greens. I like to make use of a inexperienced vegetable, then a coloured vegetable after which one other inexperienced vegetable and so forth as I’m going round my tray. Go away a gap within the middle of your tray in your vegetable dip.

After you have all of your greens onto the tray, its time to garnish the tray.

Garnish Concepts:

In case you are utilizing a flat serving tray, you possibly can separate your vegetable sections by laying a celery stick or carrot stick between every part. I like so as to add some extra shade by garnishing with inexperienced and black olives, purple cabbage curls, radish formed flowers or perhaps a few inexperienced and crimson grapes.

Right here is a good dip recipe.

Dill Weed Vegetable Dip

1 c. bitter cream
1 c. mayonnaise
1 tbsp. dill weed
1 tbsp. parsley
1 1/2 tbsp. lemon juice
1 tbsp. minced onion

Combine all substances collectively till properly blended. Chill for a number of hours earlier than serving. Serve with uncooked greens. Makes 2 cups.