Plant-Based Holiday Board

What's on the board

Amounts and prices for each item are in the book, or open the board in the Board Builder for amounts sized to your guest count.

Why it works

Holiday boards are about abundance and colour, and both are easy without dairy or meat. Pomegranate, cranberries and red pears against green rosemary give the red-and-green look, and roasted chestnuts are the one ingredient everyone connects with December.

Three nut cheeses cover the textures a dairy board would: a spreadable herbed one, a sweet cranberry-walnut one, and a vegan brie. Whole-grain mustard and a thread of pomegranate molasses bring the acid that keeps the rich spreads from getting heavy.

Timeline

1. T–30 minTake out the nut cheeses and let them rest.
2. T–20 minSlice the pears, halve the figs, fill the bowls.
3. T–15 minBuild the cracker structure; cluster the nuts.
4. T–10 minAdd the dried fruit and chestnuts.
5. T–0Rosemary, pomegranate and a drizzle of molasses.

The seven-step placement plan (what goes where, and why) is in the book.

Questions

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