Flower Vegetable Tray
Apr 24, 2022, Updated Apr 26, 2023
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Create a flower vegetable tray for your next get together. This beautiful veggie tray is a great way to include veggies at your gathering, and it will serve as table decoration!
When you are hosting a gathering, the pressure is on to step up your food display. This flower vegetable does just that, and it only takes about 15 minutes to create. You can also get your kids involved. While you are getting everything else ready, they can put together this adorable tray.
Fruit & Vegetable Food Art
Food art is a nice way to say, “go ahead and play with your food.” We love ideas that encourage people to eat more fruits and veggie and that is exactly what food art is about.
Other Food Art Ideas
- Tulip Vegetable Garden
- Blooming Fruit Basket
- Focaccia Bread Art: Flower Garden
- Mango Food Art
- Apple Animals
What You Need to Make Your Own Flower Vegetable Tray
Honestly, you won’t need much to make an eye-catching flower vegetable tray. Don’t be afraid to get creative and try new veggies. There are so many great combinations you could use to make it your own.
Equipment
- Platter, Plate or Wooden Board for Display
- Cutting Board
- Knife
Vegetables
- Mini Sweet Peppers
- Mini Seedless Cucumbers
- Green Beans
- Green Onions
Other Vegetables You Could Use
- Celery
- Radishes
- French Beans
- Zucchini
- Grape Tomatoes
- Asparagus
Building a Flower Vegetable Tray
Wash and clean your veggies.
Related: How to Properly Wash Fruits and Vegetables
Cut off the ends of the green beans. You will use them as the stems to the flowers. Also, you will use the end of the green onions as your other stems.
Slice your sweet mini peppers. Leave about 2 inches at the end of the pepper, so you can make “tulip” flowers. You will continue to slice the mini peppers completely creating “rings.”
First, take one of your mini cucumbers and slice off the skin to create a “leaf” of a flower.
Then, with a second mini cucumber, slice it in 1″ rounds.
Now, you still start to build your flower vegetable tray. Use both the green beans and the green onions as the stems of the flowers. You will use the mini sweet pepper ends and rings and cucumber rounds as the flower bloom on top. You can add in the cucumber skins as leaves to some of your veggie flowers. We recommend starting from the bottom of the tray and build up.
Display and enjoy!
Flower Vegetable Tray
Equipment
- Cutting Board
- Tray you could also use a large plate or wood board
Ingredients
- 2-4 Mini Cucumbers
- 1 bunch Green Beans
- 1 bunch Green Onions
- 16 oz Mini Sweet Peppers
Instructions
- Wash and clean your veggies.
- Cut off the ends of the green beans. You will use them as the stems to the flowers. Also, you will use the end of the green onions as your other stems.
- Slice your sweet mini peppers. Leave about 2 inches at the end of the pepper, so you can make "tulip" flowers. You will continue to slice the mini peppers completely creating "rings."
- Take one of your mini cucumbers and slice off the skin to create a "leaf" of a flower.
- With a second mini cucumber, slice it in 1" rounds.
- Now, you still start to build your flower vegetable tray. Use both the green beans and the green onions as the stems of the flowers. You will use the mini sweet pepper ends and rings and cucumber rounds as the flower bloom on top. You can add in the cucumber skins as leaves to some of your veggie flowers. We recommend starting from the bottom of the tray and build up.
- Display and enjoy!
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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