How-To Create a Festive Crudité Board

The season of holiday dinners and cocktail hour is here. This crudité board is festive, bright and perfectly on-theme for the season. Join us in the kitchen with Marcy Braselton, founder of Community Kitchen ATL, who will walk you through creating a seasonal arrangement using fresh vegetables and homemade hummus on the Solid Mod Tree Charcuterie Boards. 

Crudité Ingredients

Ingredients:

• Baby Persian cucumbers, quartered lengthwise
• Steamed green beans
• Sugar snap peas
• Heirloom petite carrots (purple and white), peeled and sliced
• Celery stalks
• Mini sweet peppers, sliced in half
• Baby cauliflower
• Belgian endives (red, white, purple), slice off bottom
• Optional: fresh olive branches OR rosemary

Tips:

1. Arrange vegetables on a Solid Blonde Mod Tree Charcuterie Board.
2. Choose a color palette. For a holiday spread, incorporate green, red and white.
3. Add layers, textures, flavors and colors.
4. There's no science to creating a colorful spread and it doesn't need to be perfect. Grab fresh vegetables, pick a color scheme, and keep it simple.
5. Garnish with fresh olive branches or rosemary for a festive touch.

Artichoke Hummus

Ingredients:

• 1 can garbanzo beans
• 1 jar of marinated artichoke hearts in oil 
• Olive oil
• Lemon juice
• Minced garlic
• Salt and pepper
• Tahini
• 1 whole pomegranate 

Steps: 

1. In your food processor, blend garbanzo beans with artichoke hearts, oil, lemon juice, garlic and spices.
2. Slice off the top of a pomegranate and hollow out the inside. Place the pomegranate on a Solid White Mod Tree Charcuterie Board.
3. Spoon hummus inside the hollowed pomegranate. Sprinkle fresh pomegranate seeds on top.
4. Garnish the charcuterie board with remaining olive branches. 

Impress guests with just 4 easy steps to recreate this stunning arrangement on a Mod Tree Charcuterie Board. Just like this special time of year, we hope this festive crudité board brings joy to your holiday soiree!