Turkey Veggie Tray – Super Healthy Kids

This Turkey Veggie Tray is very easy to place collectively and makes one of the best wholesome appetizer in your Thanksgiving celebration!

Why We Love This Thanksgiving Appetizer

Thanksgiving is one among my very favourite days of the yr! I like having a complete day to share my love of scrumptious meals with these closest to me.

Between all the turkey, bread, potatoes, and butter that make up a lot of our favourite Thanksgiving recipes, it’s good to supply one thing contemporary and wholesome to snack on all through the day. Taking the additional time to rearrange your veggies right into a cute turkey not solely makes for a enjoyable and festive centerpiece, but it surely encourages little eaters to dig in!

How to Make a Turkey Veggie Tray

Our Turkey Veggie Tray is very easy to place collectively, even the children can get in on this one! Start by making the ranch dip.

HOMEMADE RANCH DIP

1. In a meals processor, add garlic and herbs and pulse till finely minced.
2. Add the Greek yogurt, buttermilk, salt and pepper. Process till clean. Transfer to small serving bowl and refrigerate till able to serve.

TURKEY VEGGIE TRAY

1. Slice cucumbers into rounds. Cut carrots, celery, crimson bell pepper, and yellow bell pepper into sticks. Cut the orange bell pepper in half – the underside half will likely be your turkey face. Slice the highest half into sticks.
2. On a big serving tray, comply with the picture to start assembling your veggie turkey. Start with the snow peas and prepare on the highest of the tray in a semicircle. Next layer cucumber rounds on the highest peas in the identical formation. Then layer carrot and bell pepper sticks within the heart of the tray to resemble turkey feathers.
3. Add the bowl of ranch dip beneath the bell pepper sticks. Add broccoli florets simply above the bowl. Lay the celery sticks vertically beneath the ranch bowl.
4. To create the turkey face, place the orange bell pepper half minimize facet down calmly on prime of the ranch dip. Cut a beak and gobbler out extra bell pepper items. For the eyes, you should use sliced olives, googly eyes, or sweet eyes. Attached with a small dot of ranch dip.

Ingredients:

Turkey Veggie Tray

• snow peas– snap peas work nice right here too!
• cucumbers– we love utilizing English cucumbers as a result of they’ve skinny pores and skin and small seeds.
• bell peppers– we used crimson, yellow, and orange bell peppers for this recipe. You might additionally use one massive bell pepper for the turkey head and mini bell peppers (sliced) for the feathers!
• carrots– we sliced common carrots, however child carrots would work nice too.
• broccoli– attempt subbing cauliflower, or combine it up and add each!
• celery

Homemade Ranch Dip

• garlic
• contemporary parsley– you should use dried herbs right here if mandatory. Cut the quantity you utilize to a 3rd (1 tablespoon contemporary = 1 teaspoon dried)
• contemporary dill
• contemporary chives
• onion salt
• greek yogurt– bitter cream works right here additionally
• buttermilk– when you don’t have buttermilk, common milk is ok
• salt and pepper

You may also use a retailer purchased ranch dip or dressing, or hummus works nice right here too. Our Pumpkin Hummus can be scrumptious!

That’s all there may be to it! Quick, simple, and enjoyable. This is such an effective way to get the children within the kitchen on Thanksgiving!

More Thanksgiving Recipes:

• 8 ounces snow peas or sugar snap peas
• 2 medium cucumbers
• 2 medium carrots
• 1 medium crimson bell pepper
• 1 medium orange bell pepper
• 1 medium yellow bell pepper
• 1 cup broccoli
• 4 medium celery stalks

Ranch Dip

• 1 clove garlic
• 1 tablespoon parsley contemporary
• 1 tablespoon dill contemporary
• 1 tablespoon chives contemporary
• 1/2 teaspoon onion salt
• 1 cup Greek yogurt
• 1/2 cup buttermilk
• salt and pepper to style

• Rinse your veggie totally. Slice cucumbers into spherical. Slice carrots and celery into sticks. Cut the orange bell in half – the underside half will likely be your turkey face. Slice the remaining pepper and the crimson and yellow bell peppers into sticks.

• On a big oval or circle serving tray, start to rearrange the veggies. Following the picture, begin with the snow peas and prepare on the highest of the tray in a semicircle. Next layer cucumber rounds on the highest peas in the identical formation. Then layer carrot and bell pepper sticks within the heart of the tray to resemble turkey feathers.

• Add the bowl of ranch dip beneath the bell pepper sticks. Add broccoli florets simply above the bowl. Lay the celery sticks vertically beneath the ranch bowl.

• To create the turkey face, place the orange bell pepper half minimize facet down calmly on prime of the ranch dip. Cut a beak and gobbler out of the remaining bell pepper items. For the eyes, you should use sliced olives, googly eyes, or sweet eyes. Attached with a small dot of ranch dip.

Ranch Dip

• In a meals processor, add clove of garlic and pulse till minced. Add the herbs to the processor and pulse till they’re finely minced as properly.

• Add the Greek yogurt, buttermilk and salt and pepper. Process till all the pieces is mixed. Transfer to small bowl and refrigerate till able to serve.

Calories: 49kcal | Carbohydrates: 7g | Protein: 4g | Fat: 1g | Saturated Fat: 0.3g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 0.1g | Trans Fat: 0.001g | Cholesterol: 2mg | Sodium: 152mg | Potassium: 271mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 4g | Vitamin A: 2844IU | Vitamin C: 62mg | Calcium: 64mg | Iron: 1mg