🏷️ Category: side dish
⭐ Difficulty: Medium
⏱️ Time: 45 min
📝 Introduction
Celebrate the holidays with this stunning vegetarian Christmas wreath that's as beautiful as it is delicious! This gluten-free appetizer features vibrant broccoli florets, juicy cherry tomatoes, and star-shaped cheese cutouts arranged in a festive wreath shape. Served with a creamy dill and garlic dip, this colorful dish is perfect for holiday gatherings. Ready in just 45 minutes, it serves 8 people and provides 5g of protein per serving. At only $1.92 per portion, it's an affordable way to impress your guests with a healthy, festive side dish that covers 11% of your daily vitamin and mineral needs.
🥘 Ingredients
• broccoli florets8 servings
• cherry tomatoes8 servings
• cheese2 slices
• bell pepper1
• cream cheese250 g
• mayonnaise0.25 cup
• dill0.5 Tsp
• garlic0.25 Tsp
• olives0.25 cup
• scallion0.25 cup
👨🍳 Cooking Steps
1
Wash the broccoli and cut the florets.
2
Fill a large pan with water and turn on the gas. When the water boils, add the broccoli florets.
3
In the meanwhile prepare a bowl with cold water and ice cubes.
4
As soon as it boils again, count 2 minutes and then take the broccoli from the boiling water merging them immediately in the ice cold water.
5
It is necessary to mantain the light green color.
6
Wash the tomatoes.
7
Prepare the dip combining the other ingredients and keep it in the fridge for at least 3 hours.
8
Take a big white plate and place a ramekin in the middle of it (you'll put the dip inside it).
9
Arrange the broccoli florets around forming the wreath.
10
Add the tomatoes.
11
Cut the cheese with star shaped cookie cutters and add to the wreath.
12
Cut the red pepper creating pieces to form a ribbon.
13
Buon appetito!
