Description
I share step by step how to make a charcuterie board, with my best tips for selecting meats, cheeses, and more, then arranging it all to look beautiful!
Ingredients
Scale
Pick One or as Many as you Like or Have Room for on Your Board:
- 1 soft cheese (mozzarella, burrata, goat cheese, Brie, Boursin)
- 1 or 2 semi-soft cheese (Smoked Gouda, jarlsberg, blue cheese, Gorgonzola)
- 1 semi-hard cheese (manchego, provolone, comte)
- 1 hard cheese (Asiago, Aged Cheddar, Irish Cheddar, Parmesan)
- 2–3 cured meats (salami, prosciutto, peppered salami, sopressa, chorizo)
- assorted crackers
- nuts (cashews, candied pecans, pistachios)
- fruit (grapes, mejdool dates, apple slices, berries)
- extras (marinated olives, cornichons, stone ground mustard, honey, fig jam)
- sweet (dark chocolate almonds)
Instructions
- Grab your Cheese Board. (slate, wooden cheese board, cutting board, plate, etc)
- Place your “extras” in various parts of the board in ramekins.
- Assemble your cheese (cut and uncut) all over the board. I like to vary the shapes and sizes all over the board.
- Unwrap the cured meat and place them in various spots on the board. I like to wrap them abour the cheeses so that look surrounded. I also like to make a “train” of meat and carry it from one end of the board to the other. Sometimes I’ll look at my board and see where it needs a pop of color!
- Now, add your crackers or toasted bread to the board. Remember it doesn’t have to be perfect or organized.
- Take the fruits and nuts you have and fill in any open spots on the board. Place them anywhere. There is no order to this. Just make the board look super full!
