You can easily and quickly create a beautifully delicious appetizer platter that can satisfy a variety of food styles and dietary preferences. Charcuterie, antipasto, and mazza include a range of different vegetables, spreads, pickles, fruit, nuts, cheeses, and cured meats.
Adjust the ingredients for different occasions, themes, and food preferences. Scale the portions up or down based on the number of guests who will be enjoying the spread. Connect your tasty creation to a holiday, color theme, country, or season.
Adjust the ingredients for different occasions, themes, and food preferences. Scale the portions up or down based on the number of guests who will be enjoying the spread. Connect your tasty creation to a holiday, color theme, country, or season.
Inspiration
Meze-Middle Eastern, Greek
Creamed goat cheese, hummus, hardboiled eggs, tomatoes, red peppers, feta, olives, almonds, pita
Meze-Middle Eastern, Greek
Creamed goat cheese, hummus, hardboiled eggs, tomatoes, red peppers, feta, olives, almonds, pita
The Food
When choosing ingredients, vary the shape, color, size, and flavors to add interest, both to the eyes, and to the palette. If you are including cured meats and salamis, pre-slice them thinly for easy tasting. For cheeses, select a very soft spreadable cheese, a few hard cheeses in different colors, and something unusual and unexpected. When choosing the "extras" beyond the cheese and meats, think crunchy, salty, sweet, and briney.
When choosing ingredients, vary the shape, color, size, and flavors to add interest, both to the eyes, and to the palette. If you are including cured meats and salamis, pre-slice them thinly for easy tasting. For cheeses, select a very soft spreadable cheese, a few hard cheeses in different colors, and something unusual and unexpected. When choosing the "extras" beyond the cheese and meats, think crunchy, salty, sweet, and briney.
- Deli meats, salami, imported cured meats, pate'
- Cheese-soft, semi soft, hard, blue, goat, cow, sheep, cheese spreads
- Pickles, olives, pickled veggies
- Nuts
- Sliced vegetables
- Berries, grapes, dried fruit
- Crackers, crusty bread slices, toasted crostini
- Spreads (sweet and savory), jams, vegetable spreads, cheese spreads, hummus, guacamole, herb pesto, mustards, etc
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Look through your cupboards, cabinets, and even on your walls. For your base you need something that is food safe or that can be lined with parchment paper. Add character to your creation by using a base that is unusual. It can be made of wood, slate, china, or metal- the more interesting the better. Include a variety of small containers to serve dips, olives, jams, and spreads.
| Base Wooden cutting board Piece of slate Pretty plate Serving tray Cast iron pan Lid of a cheese cask Lid of a wooden box (removable) | Containers and spreaders Cheese knives Small jars or china cups for jams, mustards, spreads Low stemmed glasses, or open cups for olives, pickles, veggie sticks |
Inspiration
Spring (white and green)
Green grapes, green apples, green olives, Marcona almonds, celery, cucumbers,
fennel, brie, herbed cheese spread, crusty bread, crackers, honey
Spring (white and green)
Green grapes, green apples, green olives, Marcona almonds, celery, cucumbers,
fennel, brie, herbed cheese spread, crusty bread, crackers, honey
Inspiration
Antipasto Board
Cured meats, sliced cheeses, cheese, dried fruit, olives, honey, bread sticks, and crackers
Antipasto Board
Cured meats, sliced cheeses, cheese, dried fruit, olives, honey, bread sticks, and crackers
Inspiration
Vegetarian Sheet Pan Appetizer
A block of Feta, chic peas, cherry tomatoes, sliced fennel, oil cured olives, carrot sticks, crusty bread
Vegetarian Sheet Pan Appetizer
A block of Feta, chic peas, cherry tomatoes, sliced fennel, oil cured olives, carrot sticks, crusty bread
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