Vegetable Christmas Tree Appetizer Tray

VEGAN • EASY PREP

VEGGIE FUN KITCHEN

This festive Christmas Tree Appetizer is fun and easy to make with fresh vegetables like pea pods, green beans, celery, carrots, and bell peppers. Decorate the veggie Christmas tree with cherry tomatoes and cucumber, all “standing” on a bed of cauliflower.

Choose your favorite dips and sauces  to complete this yummy Christmas tree vegetable tray.

1. Wash and dry all vegetables. Peel the carrots and cut into thin sticks. Snip the ends off the green beans. Cut the celery into narrow sticks. Cut the peppers into thin slices. Slice the cucumber or zucchini into thin rounds but leave on two inch section unsliced and cut in half for the trunk. Cut the cauliflower into small bite-sized pieces.

PREP THE VEGGIES

2. Starting with the bottom layer and working up, layer the celery, green beans, pea pods, and green pepper slices in the shape of a pine tree.

CREATE THE BASE

3. While you are preparing the other ingredients, cook the mushroom caps in the preheated oven for 12 minutes to begin softening. Remove from the oven and set aside.

ADD THE GARLAND

4. Decorate with tomato and cucumber/zucchini ornaments.

DECORATE