Cindy
Let’s face it, there are very few more mouth-watering “ice-breakers” for a party than the visual art of a luscious charcuterie board! Even better if it is completely vegan!
So, what is Charcuterie, anyway?
Traditional charcuterie is a French term for a style of cooking including cured meats. So … a vegan (plant-based) “meat” tray would be made up of plants! How do you do that, you ask?
Here are a few of my favorite vegan charcuterie boards. They are visually enticing, wonderful spreads of colorful vegetables, fruits, dips, alternative cheese balls and textured crackers (gluten-free crackers and breads are optional).
Shopping and prepping takes some time, but all-in-all it is a fresh, simple and easy way to “get the party started” or present a wondrous meal with a wide variety of healthy food choices!
Photo courtesy of Margaret Chapman and The Plant Philosophy.com
The art of a DIY vegan charcuterie board
In addition to the colors, textures and tastes brought to us by the talented Margaret Chapman and “The Plant Philosophy.com,” this board is visually incredible! The lemon cranberry cashew-cheese ball on this one is mouth-watering. It also features some simple finger foods like celery sticks, nuts, red grapes, hummus, crackers and more. Brown rice seaweed crackers and black mission figs are also possibilities. Visit Margaret’s fantastic site to discover the recipe and learn more!
Photo courtesy of Julianne Lynch and No Sweat Vegan.com
How to build a mouth-watering vegan charcuterie board
Julianne Lynch creates incredible vegan delights AND captures her work with stupendous photography! Julianne makes it easy to replace traditional meats with your most favored vegan brands of meats!
By offering a board with many different colors, textures and flavors you can make your tray much more popular and appealing with your family and friends!
Photo courtesy of Katlyn Moncada and BHG.com
A DIY vegan charcuterie board that’s as delicious as it looks
Katlyn Moncada and Better Homes & Gardens have made creating a vegan charcuterie board into an artform! By using vegan style meats and cheeses, tasty fruits, veggies, nuts and dips, these beautiful creations are delicious, fun to make and easily doable!
Here is Katyln’s recipe that gives you step-by-step instructions for building your best board!
Photo courtesy of Cindy Gordon and Vegetarian Mamma.com
How to make a DIY vegetarian charcuterie board
As you can see from this mouth-watering photo, Cindy Gordon and her blog “Vegetarian Mamma.com” know how to capture both the eye and palate!
Whatever your diet food desires and needs are, it is possible to create a fabulous one-of-a-kind vegetarian or vegan charcuterie tray. Cindy’s is extra colorful and chock full of crunches and textures!
Photo courtesy of Donna Castellano
A sumptuous vegan charcuterie board
Just like it stepped off a sumptuous art fresco, Donna Castellano’s Vegan Charcuterie Boards (and photography) are in a league of their own!
Winner of two, coveted “Foodelia Awards” for food presentation photography, Donna’s work tastes as good as it looks. Visit her site for this fantastic recipe (and other vegan delights) that are great for any entertaining plans!
Charcuterie boards (sometimes called cheese boards or snack boards) can be your answer to Wowing your guests due to the boards’ great versatility! A pretty display of fresh seasonal fruits and veggies is always a welcomed sight!
Photo and pointers identifying each ingredient courtesy of Sam Turnbull and “It Doesn’t Taste Like Chicken.com”
How to create a work-of-art vegan snack board
Vegan recipe blogger Sam Turnbull has the gift of making something that looks and tastes fantastic…while having FUN doing it (even down to her vegan blog name: “It Doesn’t Taste Like Chicken”).
Referring to her vegan snack board as a “modern grazing board” (Ha! even another name for charcuterie boards) her creations include vegetarian, vegan, traditional meat versions and many others.
Using plant-based meats and cheeses, snack-sized treats such as fruits like melon balls and grapes, various gluten-free crackers and breads along with wonderfully flavorful homemade dips Sam demonstrates how they can all be beautifully designed and presented to entice.
Photo courtesy of Planted in the Kitchen.com
A summer-fresh vegan charcuterie board
Honestly, what could look or taste more refreshing than Kelsey Riley’s healthy and beautiful vegan charcuterie board!
With a passion for plant-based foods, Kelsey is the founder of Planted in the Kitchen.com and if you love to snack, then these boards will make you very happy indeed!
The brightly colored fruits add so much along with their sweet tastes. Dried fruits like apricots and mango can be arranged among the veggies, nuts, crackers and dips to have pops of color all around. Check out her carefully described recipes and ingredients!
Would you like to learn about easy ways to explore the “vegan life?” Check out my post on “5 Taste Samples of the Vegan life!”
In the meantime, enjoy creating one of these or your very own unique charcuterie board and digging into the scrumptious flavors and textures!
With kindness,
Cindy
