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Old-Fashioned Relish Tray

A platter of crisp celery, carrots and radishes with pickles, olives and celery stuffed with herb cream cheese. Something cool and crunchy to nibble while the turkey rests.

⏱ 20 min (20 min prep) 🍽 Serves 10 · a small handful of each make aheadkid friendlyquickleftovers vegetariangluten free

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Ingredients

Make 10 servings
  • 6 stalk Celery, in 3-inch sticks
  • 4 Carrots, peeled, in sticks
  • 8 oz Radishes, trimmed (about 1 bunch)
  • 6 Dill pickles, spears or small whole
  • 1 can Sliced black olives, drained

  • Stuffed celery

  • 4 oz Cream cheese, softened
  • 1 tbsp Fresh chives, snipped
  • 1 pinch Paprika

Make it yourself

Make the refrigerator dill pickles yourself β†’

In the planner, Make it on the shopping list swaps the store item for these ingredients and puts the work on your prep day.

Nutrition

Nutrition coming: the USDA numbers for these ingredients are being added.

Steps

You’ll need: large platter or a divided tray, small bowls, paring knife.

  1. Cut the celery and carrots into sticks of about the same length. Trim the radishes, leaving a little green on top. Crisp them in a bowl of ice water in the refrigerator for 30 minutes if you have time, then pat dry.
  2. Mix the cream cheese and chives and spread or pipe it into the hollow of 8 or so celery sticks. Dust with paprika.
  3. Arrange the vegetables, pickles and olives in groups on the platter, with the olives and pickles in small bowls so their juice doesn’t run.
  4. Keep it cold until serving, and refrigerate leftovers within 2 hours.
Make aheadCut the vegetables up to 2 days ahead and keep them in water in covered containers in the refrigerator. Stuff the celery the morning of.
β†Ί LeftoversRefrigerate within 2 hours; the vegetables keep 3 to 4 days for lunchboxes and soup.
πŸ§’ With kidsA great first job: kids can wash the vegetables, fill the celery and arrange the tray.
Dairy-free swapFill the celery with peanut or sunflower seed butter instead of cream cheese.
More swapAdd pickled beets, sweet gherkins, cherry tomatoes or deviled eggs.

Goes well with

πŸ₯š Classic Deviled Eggs

Good to know

Fresh vs. dried herbs

An original Teddy Rook Book recipe, written for our Thanksgiving dinner; safety steps follow USDA. Nutrition is estimated from USDA FoodData Central and changes with brands and portions.