Vegan Charcuterie
Build a show-stopping vegan charcuterie board for your next gathering! My easy guide shows you how to create a gorgeous spread of plant-based cheeses, meats, fruits, and nibbles that’s perfect for parties, holidays, and special dinners.
Equipment
- Charcuterie board
- Various small plates and bowls
- Serving forks
- Dip spreaders
Ingredients
Vegan Cheeses (Choose 2 to 4)
- Spreadable cheeses, like vegan cream cheese, vegan ricotta cheese, or vegan cheese ball
- Hard cheeses, like tofu feta, vegan mozzarella, store-bought vegan cheddar, or vegan provolone
Proteins (Choose 2 to 4)
- Seasoned tofu, such as lemon and herb baked tofu, smoked tofu, sesame ginger marinated tofu, or Italian baked tofu
- Seasoned tempeh, such as smoky marinated tempeh or tempeh bacon
- Vegan meats, such as seitan, vegan pepperoni, vegan sausage (sliced) or store-bought vegan cold cuts
Vegetables (Choose 2 to 5)
- Fresh veggies, like carrot sticks, celery sticks, cucumber slices, cherry tomatoes, or broccoli florets
- Roasted or grilled vegetables, such as zucchini, carrots, eggplant, mushrooms, broccoli, or cauliflower
- Brined veggies, like artichoke hearts, roasted red peppers, pepperoncini, olives, or heart of palm
Dips and Spreads (Choose 1 to 3)
- Hummus, like roasted garlic hummus, roasted red pepper hummus, dill pickle hummus, or pesto hummus
- Creamy dips, such as vegan tzatziki or vegan French onion dip
- Chunky dips, like pico de gallo, olive tapenade, or strawberry bruschetta
- Vegan pâté, such as mushroom pâté
- Jams and fruit preserves
Crackers and Bread (Choose 2 to 4)
- Bite-sized bread pieces, cut for dipping and spreading, such as baguette slices, vegetable focaccia, olive rosemary focaccia, or pita wedges
- Vegan crackers, such as whole grain crackers, rice crackers, or rosemary crackers
Fruit (Choose 2 to 5)
- Fresh berries, such as strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, or blackberries
- Chopped or sliced fresh fruit, such as oranges, mandarins, figs, kiwis, mango, or pineapple
- Fresh grapes
- Dried fruits, such as dates, figs, apricots, or mangoes
Nuts (Choose 1 or 2)
- Roasted and optionally spiced or candied nuts, such as almonds, walnuts, pecans, cashews, peanuts, hazelnuts, or macadamia nuts
Sweets (Optional)
- Homemade or store-bought vegan cookies, such as vegan shortbread, vegan coconut macaroons, vegan thumbprint cookies, sandwich cookies, Biscoff cookies, or digestive biscuits
- Candy, such as vegan truffles, dark chocolate squares, or vegan fudge
Garnishes (Optional)
- Fresh herbs, such as rosemary, sage, and thyme
- Edible flowers, such as pansies or orchids
- Microgreens, such as broccoli or kale microgreens
Instructions
- Choose your board and decide which ingredients you'll include. Make sure you have plenty of everything — you want your board to be nice and packed.
- Place dips and brined items (like olives or artichoke hearts) in small bowls, and use small plates for anything you don’t want in direct contact with the board, like sliced fruit. Arrange these on the board. Balance the board with a mix of colors, shapes, and textures, for example, by arranging contrasting colors next to each other and alternating round items such as olives with flatter items such as crackers.
- Arrange everything else on the board in clusters. I like to work from the middle then outward.
- Fill in any gaps with extra pieces of fresh fruit. Garnish with fresh herbs, flowers, or microgreens, if desired.
- Serve with plenty of serving forks and spreaders, along with some small plates on the side.