Vegetable Trays For Wedding Receptions
At your wedding, you want to ensure all your guests have something delicious to eat, regardless of their food preferences or restrictions. What they had to eat, whether there was enough and how tasty it was, is often what guests will recount about your wedding!
It can be common to see party platters or trays at weddings filled with meats and cheeses or gorgeous fruit platters on a dessert table, but what about vegetables? They can make a great healthy snack to serve on tables for your wedding guests to snack on while waiting for their meals or in between. You can even include a fruit tray next to veggies trays for a sweet and healthy option. Fruit and veggies don’t have to be boring, you just need to know how to serve them!
And besides, more and more people are becoming plant-based, vegetarian, or vegan, so having a vegetable platter will ensure even your wedding guests that aren’t eating meat have something delicious to snack on.
Vegetable Trays For Wedding Receptions
Cherry Tomatoes
32 calories
1 cup
Carrots
110 calories
1 oz
Carrot sticks are always a favorite. Bright and colorful, they are the perfect vessel for things like ranch dip. They are starchy but are also packed full of healthy vitamins and minerals that your guests will love. Cut up so they are bite-sized or a little bigger or buy baby carrots that can be served straight out of the packet.
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Artichokes
30 calories
3 slice
Impress your guests with these mouthfuls of exotic vegetables. Buy them tinned or from the deli section for easy preparation and serving. You can even turn them into a dip, and serve it as an artichoke dip that the other veggies from the vegetable platter can be dipped in.
Broccoli
31 calories
1 cup
The bright green of this vegetable gives away the fact that it’s packed with vitamins and minerals, without being loaded full of carbohydrates or calories. Slice into mini florets or cut large florets in half. Serve with hummus as a dip to add some protein and texture to the veggies tray.
Buffalo Cauliflower Bites
105 calories
Vegetables don’t have to be boring. Roasting and adding a little sauce takes cauliflower from bland to center stage. While raw veggies can definitely be delicious, roasting the veggies takes them to the next level. By doing that, you will make sure your wedding guests will not only be impressed by the veggies trays you prepared for them, but they will start reaching for more.
Ingredients:
2 cups Cauliflower florets - 50 calories
2 Tbsp Barbeque sauce - 30 calories
1 Tbsp Cheese, Parmesan, grated (Tbsp) - 25 calories
1 Garlic salt, dash - 0 calories
Instructions
Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
Spray baking sheet with an oil spray.
Cut cauliflower into small pieces.
Bake cauliflower for 30 minutes.
Take cauliflower out, mix with other ingredients, bake for an additional 5 minutes.
How To Serve
Grazing platters of vegetables don’t take too much effort to look appealing. A vegetable platter looks good on its own because of all the gorgeous colors that are on it, so just arranging them in a nice way will make them look stunning. Pile up each item you’re placing on the tray in reasonable quantities. A lone carrot stick doesn’t look appealing, but when part of a bright orange pile, your guests will dive in! You don’t need to leave space between the various fruits and vegetables. You want to create a feeling of abundance by leaving no space on your platter. Also, fill up the space between the veggies with different types of dips - it will make the veggies taste so much better, it will be a more interesting snack, and by breaking up the tray with some beautiful wooden or glass mini bowls with dips, you’re making a more visually-interesting vegetable platter than if you just served some cut up veggies on it.
What to Serve On
Depending on the theme of your wedding will help guide you on the best item to use to serve your vegetable trays on. Rustic wedding? Look for large wooden platters or pieces of wood. Classic wedding? Head to the secondhand stores for some silver trays. Modern edgy wedding? Look for trays with clean lines and bold colors to tie into your overall decor selection.