Recipe: Delicious Thanksgiving meat and cheese tray

Thanksgiving meat and cheese tray. Cut out the shapes for the turkey head, body and legs out of cheddar cheese and arrange on the bottom of a large platter as shown on the picture. Use the chocolate chips, raisins or peppercorns for the eyes, and a piece of Swiss cheese for the turkey. When there's a holiday involved, obviously your meat & cheese platter has to be themed.

Thanksgiving meat and cheese tray Add some light crackers and a little bit of summer sausage for contrast if you wish, but keep it light. All this Thanksgiving appetizer is is a meat, cheese, and cracker tray. You simply arrange the ingredients to resemble an adorable (but not too adorable to eat) turkey platter. You can cook Thanksgiving meat and cheese tray using 6 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Thanksgiving meat and cheese tray

  1. You need of Meat.
  2. Prepare of Cheese.
  3. Prepare of Crackers.
  4. It's of Pretzels.
  5. It's of Olives for eyes.
  6. Prepare of Pepper for nose.

You'll save money on your Thanksgiving appetizer by purchasing the ingredients separately (versus buying a pre-made meat and cheese tray) and your guests will be. To make the "turkey" sit up level with the rest, I did a few layers of cheese on top of each other and placed the body of the turkey on top. I used cheese for the body, wings and head of the turkey, walnut slivers for the feet, a cut up bacon bit for the eyes, a cashew for the beak, and a slice of pepperoni for the gobbler! For meat and cheese trays you will want ten slices of each kind of meat.

Thanksgiving meat and cheese tray instructions

  1. Fan out your crackers.
  2. Fanout cheese.
  3. Fan out meat.
  4. Then cheese.
  5. Crackers.
  6. Then pretzels.
  7. And then add the head..
  8. When finished add dip on table to wich you choose..

It is a good idea to separate the turkey and the roast beef on a deli tray. The roast beef is really dark and can discolor the turkey if it is sitting next to it. Turkey Cold Cut and Cheese Platter This platter can be made with any array of sliced meat and cheeses. For the tail: Start with a flat layer of cold cuts arranged in a broad fan shape on a platter. Our most popular tray; the meats include hard salami, turkey breast and ham accompanied by Swiss, creamy havarti and Tillamook cheese, attractively garnished with green and black olives and tomatoes.