COOL Veggie Platter Ideas + Homemade Ranch Dip Recipe

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Make this year’s Thanksgiving appetizer a work of art with this Turkey Veggie Tray! It’s a creative way to include colorful veggies on the table. I’ve also included more holiday vegetable platter ideas for Halloween and Christmas too!

You can easily put together the veggies and serve with the best homemade ranch dip recipe (I have shared mine below!). It is the perfect way to eat your veggies!

RELATED: Don’t forget the fruit! We make delicious fruit platters and serve them with this fruit dip. Kids love to dip apples in this brown sugar apple dip.

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I am always on the lookout for things that encourage eating fruits and veggies.  That’s one reason why I love creative veggie platter ideas. I have also found dip can easily entice even the pickiest of eaters. You will find these ideas are a great way to eat more fruits and vegetables.

Everyone will Eat Their Vegetables with These Veggie Platter Ideas

One way to get kids to eat more healthy food is to make them fun! These clever veggie platters are a great way to serve up vegetables and homemade ranch dip! No need to load up on holiday sweets! Vegetable platters and relish trays are fun for sure!

Turkey Veggie Tray

Need a thanksgiving veggie tray? This is the cutest turkey veggie platter! It is almost too cute to eat. But don’t worry, it will get gobbled up! Just follow these simple instructions and you’ll have one in no time perfect for Thanksgiving!

To make the turkey head slice off the bottom of a bell pepper.  Cut a hole in the pepper and slip two strips of yellow bell pepper through the hole. Cut a triangle piece of red pepper for the waddle. Two royal icing eyes finish off the turkey face. Make legs out of long carrot sticks, cutting tiny triangles out at the bottom of the carrot. Place the “turkey legs” into the dip.

Arrange a variety of vegetables like carrot and celery around the small bowl of dip to make the body and feathers of the turkey vegetable tray.

We like red yellow, green and orange bell peppers, cucumbers, cherry tomatoes, green and black olives, baby carrots, sugar snap peas, and celery. You know the normal items you find on vegetable trays. You only have to include your favorite veggies.

Holiday Veggie Tray Ideas

I love this scarecrow–perfect for a fall party. It even has oreo crows. There are so many veggie platter ideas to try.

Christmas Veggie Tray

Party platters are an easy dish to bring for all of your special occasions. Broccoli and grape tomatoes make the perfect Christmas tree to serve along with homemade ranch dip.  Stacked slices of the yellow bell pepper cut from the bottom of the yellow bell pepper make a star for the tree while carrot slices make the perfect tree trunk.

HALLOWEEN

This skeleton veggie tray complete with a small bowl of ranch dip for the head will make a spooktacular display of raw veggies at your Halloween party! If you aren’t a fan of mushrooms try cauliflower.

So many fun ways to have a delicious holiday and share healthy finger food or you might say crudité. Charcuterie boards and veggie trays are easy party food that can be made ahead of and kept in the refrigerator.

I hope you loved all these relish tray ideas! Be sure to serve with a variety of flavorful dips in small bowls for your next party! Don’t miss our must-have dip recipe below.

The BEST Homemade Ranch Dip For Veggie Trays!

Now you need an amazing creamy dip! In minutes you can whip this up and the best part you know what is it.

Grab some sour cream and add a few spices and you have ranch veggie dip… that you know the ingredients! The recipe is so easy you can get your kids to make it.

I have found that the more I involve my kids in helping to make their food, the more enthusiastic they are about eating new foods and being adventurous eaters. If getting your child to eat more veggies is one of your goals, these holiday vegetable tray ideas are a fun way to present veggies and make them irresistible.

Just a few ingredients to make a super yummy homemade veggie tray dip! And don’t forget to print this recipe card for the party, I guarantee guests will ask!

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Ranch Dip

Serve with veggies or on baked potatoes!

Course Appetizer

Cuisine American

Keyword dip, dips, vegetables

Prep Time 10 minutes

Cook Time 0 minutes

Servings 16

Calories 76 kcal

Author Cindy Hopper

Ingredients

• 1  cup Sour Cream
• 1/2 cup mayonnaise
• 1/2 tsp dried parsley
• 1/2 tsp dried dill
• 1/2 tsp onion powder
• 1/2 tsp garlic powder
• 1/4 tsp salt

Instructions

1. Measure out all the ingredients.  Mix all together and enjoy. This dip is best when made the day before.  If serving immediately I sometimes pump up the flavor by adding an extra 1/4 teaspoon of all the ingredients except the salt. An extra pinch of salt is enough.

Nutrition Facts

Ranch Dip

Amount Per Serving

Calories 76 Calories from Fat 72

% Daily Value*

Fat 8g12%

Saturated Fat 2g13%

Cholesterol 10mg3%

Sodium 93mg4%

Potassium 20mg1%

Carbohydrates 1g0%

Sugar 1g1%

Protein 1g2%

Vitamin A 94IU2%

Vitamin C 1mg1%

Calcium 16mg2%

Iron 1mg6%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

Now you are ready to dig in!

What’s your favorite holiday recipe? Share it with me in the comments! Here is my homemade ranch dressing recipe it is another way to enjoy vegetables.

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