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Festive Christmas Tree Crudité Platter - Healthy Appetizer

ByWendy Mallins
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Our Christmas tree crudité platter is a festive appetizer that's super easy to prepare, packed with fresh veggies, and inexpensive. A great holiday party food!

Why You'll Love This Healthy Festive Appetizer

Fresh and healthy in amongst the sugar fest! - we like to add in this healthy, vegetable crudite platter in amongst the rich, sugar and carb heavy Christmas food. Just to lighten things up a little.

Super easy to make - this is a really impressive yet simple festive appetizer to throw together, you can use any veggies you like, and make the Christmas tree shape as big or small as you like to suit the number of guests you have.

What is a crudité?

Crudités are simply raw vegetables, sliced or simply prepared and arrange on a platter.

What vegetables are good to use on a crudité platter

You can use any vegetables you like to eat raw, try to include a good mix of colours, textures and flavors on your veggie tray. Good ones to include are;

  • Cucumber
  • Carrots
  • Bell Peppers
  • Zucchini
  • Broccoli - it's fun to include purple broccoli too
  • Radishes
  • Cauliflower
  • Tomatoes
  • Celery
  • Sugar Snap Peas

What dips are good served with a crudité platter?

We've popped some great dip and dipping sauce ideas below, you can either make them at home fresh, or use store-bought. Just do what suits your timings.

Festive Christmas Tree Crudité Platter Recipe

Serves – 8

Prep Time – 30 minutes 

Total Time – 30 minutes

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crudite Christmas tree platter - raw veg made into the shape of a christmas tree - includes broccoli, cucumber, carrots, celery, bell peppers, radish and tomatoes

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Ingredients For A Christmas Tree Crudité Platter

Everything you'll need to make our super easy, healthy Christmas appetizer

Image shows the ingredients needed to make a christmas tree crudite platter including; a plate of carrots, peppers and celery, a plate of cucumber, a plate of tomatoes and radish, a plate of broccoli
  • head of broccoli - broken into bitesized florets
  • ½ English cucumber
  • 1 red bell pepper
  • 1 yellow bell pepper
  • 1 cup cherry tomatoes - halved
  • ½ cup radishes - sliced
  • 2 handfuls of arugula (rocket) to fill in and add shape
  • 1 cup baby carrots - or try a mix of rainbow carrots
  • Dips to serve

How To Assemble A Christmas Tree Crudité Platter

This is the easiest appetizer to put together, you just need to be a little creative!

Step One - prep the veggies

  • Wash, dry and prepare all the vegetables ready to shape into a Christmas tree.

Step Two - create the Christmas tree shape with green vegetables

  • Grab a Christmas tree shaped platter or just put parchment paper down on a large tray or table. Build you Christmas tree shape using green vegetables.
  • Then add a carrot tree trunk.
Image shows a christmas tree shaped plate with rocket scattered on it, next to a plate of broccoli, a plate of tomato and radish, a plate of peppers and a plate of cucumbers
Image shows a christmas tree shaped plate with rocket scattered on it and carrots, next to a plate of broccoli, a plate of tomato and radish, a plate of peppers and a plate of cucumbers
Image shows a christmas tree shaped plate with broccoli, cucumber, rocket and carrots on, there are also two other plates one with tomato and radish on and one with peppers on making up a crudité platter

Step Three - decorate the Christmas Tree Crudité Platter

  • Then decorate using strips of red and yellow peppers as tinsel and halved cherry tomatoes and radish slices as baubles.
  • Use a piece of yellow pepper cut into a star shape with a cookie cutter as the tree topper.
Image shows a christmas tree shaped plate with cucumber, peppers, broccoli, carrots and rocket, to the is a plate of tomatoes and radish making a crudité platter
crudite Christmas tree crudité platter - raw veg made into the shape of a christmas tree - includes broccoli, cucumber, carrots, celery, bell peppers, radish and tomatoes

Step Four - serve the crudité platter

  • Serve with your favourite crudites dips.

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Tips For Making Your Crudite Platter Extra Tasty

If you want to make an extra special Christmas Crudité Platter then add in some tasty extras, use ingredients like marinated olives, or antipasti style vegetables, bowls of delicious dips, like homemade beetroot hummus or baba ganoush.

You can garnish the veggie tray with fresh herbs - try dill, fresh basil, flat leaf parsley or fresh oregano - just sprinkle over.

Arrange pretty piles of crackers, breadsticks, or cheeses alongside the platter. Or even make a cheese boards style Christmas tree or charcuterie board to go alongside the veggie one.

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Recipe Swaps and Tips

This is a super simple recipe to make swaps in, just swap out any vegetables on the crudité platter for different ones. As long as they're safe to eat raw, you're good to pile them hight!

Can you make crudités ahead of time?

You can make all the crudités on our Christmas crudité platter ahead of time. Just be sure to dry them well and store them in an airtight container in the fridge so they don't soften.

You should really aim to use the crudités within a day of making, before they start to spoil and then not look as good on the platter.

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crudite Christmas tree platter - raw veg made into the shape of a christmas tree - includes broccoli, cucumber, carrots, celery, bell peppers, radish and tomatoes

Festive Christmas Tree Crudite Platter

Yield: Serve 8
Prep Time: 30 minutes
Total Time: 30 minutes

A healthy festive appetizer to throw in amongst the sugar fest!

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Ingredients

  • head of broccoli - broken into bitesized florets
  • ½ English cucumber
  • 1 red bell pepper
  • 1 yellow bell pepper
  • 1 cup cherry tomatoes - halved
  • ½ cup radishes - sliced
  • 2 handfuls of arugula (rocket) to fill in and add shape
  • 1 cup baby carrots
  • Dips to serve

Instructions

  1. Wash, dry and prepare all the vegetables
  2. Grab a Christmas tree shaped platter or just put parchment paper down on a large tray or table.
  3. Build you Christmas tree shape using green vegetables.
  4. Add a carrot tree trunk.
  5. Then decorate using strips of red and yellow peppers as tinsel and halved cherry tomatoes and radish slices as baubles.
  6. use a piece of yellow pepper cut into a star shape with a cookie cutter as the tree topper.
  7. Serve with your favourite crudites dips.
Nutrition Information:
Yield: 8 Serving Size: 1
Amount Per Serving: Calories: 49Total Fat: 2gSaturated Fat: 0gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 1gCholesterol: 2mgSodium: 78mgCarbohydrates: 8gFiber: 3gSugar: 3gProtein: 2g

Nutritional content will vary depending on the exact ingredients you use and how careful you are with measuring - this nutritional information is given as a general guide only and may not be accurate - you should always calculate your own nutritional information especially if you have specific dietary requirements.

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