Thanksgiving Turkey Veggie Tray

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Thanksgiving Turkey Veggie Tray - awesome turkey veggie tray Veggies and dip are a common food item for annual Thanksgiving spreads. Why not spruce it up by making it look like a turkey? This veggie tray is super cute and very easy to put together. I used hummus as the dip here, but you can use any kind you like!

Total Time: 45 minutes

Yield: 1 veggie tray

Supplies:

1 large plate
4 ounces raw sugar snap peas
1 red bell pepper
1 yellow bell pepper
small dipping bowl
14 baby carrots
10 cucumber slices
10 ounces hummus or dip
sharp knife

Steps:

Clean and dry all the veggies. Place the snap peas around the edge of the plate, fanning them out. Leave the very bottom clear.

Thanksgiving Turkey Veggie Tray - lay out the sugar snap peas around the edge of the plate

Cut off the bottom of the red bell paper and set aside. This will be used at the end for the turkey's face.

Thanksgiving Turkey Veggie Tray - bottom of red bell pepper

Slice the peppers into thin strips. Remove all the little seeds, but set a couple aside to use as the turkey's eyes.

Thanksgiving Turkey Veggie Tray - cut the rest of the red and the yellow pepper into strips, save two seeds for eyes

Make a ring of the pepper strips on top of the snap peas, alternating the red and the yellow.

Thanksgiving Turkey Veggie Tray - lay the pepper slices out in alternating colors on top of the peas, in a smaller circle

Place the small dipping bowl in the lower middle area of the plate. Now fan carrots above it. The bowl will stop the carrots from sliding away.

Thanksgiving Turkey Veggie Tray - set the bowl in the lower middle of the plate and fan the carrots out above it

Lay the cucumber slices out between the bowl and the carrots.

Thanksgiving Turkey Veggie Tray - arrange the cucumber slices between the bowl and on the carrots

Scoop your dip into the little bowl.

Thanksgiving Turkey Veggie Tray - add dip to the bowl

Cut off a little disc out from the center of one of the baby carrots. Cut a little divot out so it looks like a beak. Now carve 2 carrots into little turkey feet.

Thanksgiving Turkey Veggie Tray - cut carrots to make the beak and feet

Place the reserved bottom end of the red pepper on the top section of the hummus, then plop on the beak, using a bit of hummus as the glue. Place the turkey feet at the bottom of the bowl of hummus, coming out the side.

Thanksgiving Turkey Veggie Tray - place red pepper bottom on the bowl of hummus leaving space to add the feet, glue beak in place using a dab of hummus, place the feet at the bottom, partially in the hummus bowl

To make eyes, add 2 bell pepper seeds onto the face above the beak, using the tiniest bit of hummus as glue.

Thanksgiving Turkey Veggie Tray - use a tiny dab of hummus to attach the seed eyes

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November 21, 20220 found this helpful

Count on you, Toosa, to come up with something fun, interesting, easy to make, and a great solution for vegan and vegetarian dinner guests (others too, of course, but one always worries just a wee bit more about those who don't eat meat).

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