Rainbow Veggie Tray
Do you want to make a rainbow veggie tray to bring to a potluck? Do you need a rainbow crudité platter for a Pride party?
Read on for all the details how to take your hummus and veggies from blah to brilliant. And let’s make a rainbow veggie tray!
Ingredients by color
When I’m making a rainbow crudité platter or rainbow fruit tray, I usually just see what’s seasonally available when I’m in the grocery store or, even better, wandering around the farmer’s market. But here are some ideas for rainbow vegetables to look for:
Red
- Cherry or grape tomatoes
- Red bell peppers
- Radishes
Orange
- Carrot sticks
- Orange bell peppers
Yellow
- Yellow bell peppers
- Yellow carrots
- Yellow cherry or grape tomatoes
Green
- Cucumber slices
- Celery sticks
- Sugar snap peas
- Broccoli florets
Blue
You could use butterfly pea flower powder in a dip, although the blue can be off-putting because there are few blue foods. Check out the blue bread I made, and see what you think.
Purple
- Purple cauliflower
- Purple carrots
- Purple radishes
Rainbow crudité tips and tricks
Crudité, pronounced “crew-dee-tay”, is a French plate of raw vegetables served with a dipping sauce. America’s Test Kitchen suggests 4 to 6 ounces of veggies per person and a quarter cup of dip.
Peel or wash your veggies well, then decide whether and how you’ll cut them. Leave tomatoes whole so they don’t make a mess. Cut other vegetables into sticks, slices, or florets to make them easier to grab and dip.
This is not the time for small bites like you’d chop to eat this rainbow salad with a fork. The goal is for fingers big and small able to grab things cleanly. And no double dipping!
Put at least one dip like this red kidney bean hummus, canned tuna dip, purple cauliflower dip, or a collection of rainbow dips in the center or side of your rainbow veggie tray. Then arrange your veggies in rainbow order, starting with red, orange, green, and then purple.
Related rainbow recipes
Do you want more rainbow food? Check out other savory rainbow recipes from the Ugly Duckling Bakery rainbow food archives like:
Recipe
Rainbow Veggie Tray
Ingredients
- 10 to 15 cherry tomatoes mix of colors, if desired
- 2 to 3 bell peppers mix of colors, if desired
- 2 radishes sliced thinly
- 1 cucumber washed and sliced
- 1 handful sugar snap peas
- 1 stalk celery washed and cut
- 1 carrot purple, if possible
- ¼ purple cauliflower cut into small florets
Instructions
- Wash all of the vegetables well and slice as desired.10 to 15 cherry tomatoes, 2 to 3 bell peppers, 2 radishes, 1 cucumber, 1 handful sugar snap peas, 1 stalk celery, 1 carrot, ¼ purple cauliflower
- To arrange the rainbow veggies on your tray, start with putting the reddest on your platter. Then continue in rainbow order with red-orange, orange, yellow, and so on. Serve with your favorite hummus or other dip.
Notes
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