Description
Assembling a cheese plate is easier than it sounds — you just have to know what to put on it! Here are some guidelines on how to assemble a party-perfect cheese plate.
Ingredients
Scale
- 3-6 types of cheese, varying in texture/flavor
- chevre (goat cheese)
- sharp cheddar
- stinky blue cheese
- triple cream brie
- medium-textured fontina
- smoked gouda
- 3-5 kinds of cured meat (optional)
- chorizo
- prosciutto
- pancetta
- mortadella
- speck
- saucisson
- 2-4 kinds of fresh or dried fruit
- fresh apple, berries, figs
- dried apricots, mango, pineapple
- 2-3 types of nuts
- spicy candied pecans
- roasted almonds
- cashews
- curry peanuts
- 2-3 pickled/brined things
- olives
- pickled asparagus, radish
- cornichons
- sauerkraut
- 1-2 delicious dips
- 1-2 delicious spreads
- fig, onion, or raspberry jam
- spicy course mustard
- Pâté
- 4-6 kinds of vehicles
- slices of french bread
- rice crackers
- wheat crackers
- breadsticks
- pretzels
- fancy crackers!
Instructions
- On a large tray or baking sheet, place the cheeses and dips with space between each other.
- Next, place the meats. Put one type of meat near each kind of cheese, so that each type of meat is grouped together separately from another kind of meat.
- Repeat the placement with each subsequent category of food, so that there are little pockets of variety throughout the entire board. Fill all of the space!