How to Build the Ultimate Fall Mezze Platter
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Roasted acorn squash, beets with mint yogurt sauce, spiced pumpkin seeds, goat cheese and thyme crostini with honey drizzle, and more and more and more! This ultimate fall mezze platter literally has it all, including dips inside baby pumpkins. Yes, this must be on your holiday party table!
With Thanksgiving tomorrow, OMG, it’s tomorrow! I think it’s time to kiss that old-school, boring, “basic” veggie platter goodbye and herald in this holiday season with a more festive, colorful, and crazy delicious fall mezze platter.
Why You’ll Love This Recipe
This baby has the best cozy fall ingredients, including roasted veggies. I know, I know, it isn’t traditional to add roasted veggies to a mezze platter but I just love the idea of roasted squash and Brussels sprouts with dips and goodies.
Let’s get right down to the business of how to build this ultimate fall mezze platter.
How to Make
1. Start with your favorite roasted veggies. I included the following:
- Roasted Brussels Sprouts
- Roasted Cauliflower
- Five Spice Roasted Acorn Squash with Sesame Seeds
- Roasted Beets with Mint Yogurt Sauce
2. Add a few raw veggies for texture and color
- Rainbow carrots
- Heirloom baby tomatoes
3. Dips! Dips! Dips!
A mezze platter is nothing without dips! You can absolutely use store-bought to save on time. On this platter, I included tzatziki dip and roasted garlic hummus. If you use store-bought hummus add a little bit of love with a hefty drizzle of really good olive oil and a sprinkle of zatar spice. An optional idea that makes the platter really pop is to carve out baby pumpkins and fill with dips of your choice.
4. Thyme Goat Cheese Crostini
I love the idea of having a few slices of prepared crostini, ready to grab and nosh!
5. Necessary additions:
- Olives
- Nuts and seeds of your choice (I used pistachios and roasted pumpkin seeds)
- Fruit, I love concord grapes on a fall platter, and pomegranates
- Cheese – I kept it simple here and just included one block of really good feta cheese, I drizzled a bit of olive oil on top, scattered some sliced cherry tomatoes and fresh thyme for color and flavor.
Meats – You can add as many as you like, but I find just having one meat encourages more veggie eating, and I am ALL about the veggie eating 😉
That’s pretty much it! Basically, all things beautiful and healthy and fall get lovingly scattered about on the same platter.
Now the only problem we have is how will we have room for turkey and mashed potatoes when we start the meal with this goodness? My plan is to eat this platter, skip the meal, and save room for pie. Lot’s of pie 🙂
Happy Thanksgiving loves!!
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Ultimate Fall Mezze Platter
Ingredients
Roasted Beets with Yogurt Sauce
- 2 large beets
- 1/4 cup greek yogurt
- 1 tsp honey
- 1 tbsp chopped fresh mint
- salt and pepper
Thyme Goat Cheese Crostini
- 1/4 cup goat cheese
- 4 sprigs fresh thyme
- 3 tbsp honey
- slices of baguette
Additional Goodness
- Roasted Cauliflower
- Roasted Brussels Sprouts
- Roasted Acorn Squash
- Raw Carrots
- Raw Cherry Tomatoes
- Hummus with olive oil and Z’atar Spice
- Tzatziki dip
- One large block of feta cheese
- 1 cup kalamata olives
- 1 large bunch concord grapes
- half pomegranate
- Pistachios
- Roasted pumpkin seeds
- Prosciutto about 1/4 pound
Instructions
Beets
- Scrub beets well, drizzle with a bit of olive oil and roast in 350° oven for one hour or until tender. When cool enough to handle slice and place in a bowl. In a small bowl combine greek yogurt, honey, salt and pepper, and fresh mint. Toss yogurt mixture with beets and sprinkle extra fresh mint on top.
Thyme goat cheese crostini
- Spread goat cheese on baguette slices, sprinkle with fresh thyme and drizzle with honey
Assemble
- Assemble all other ingredients on large cutting board or platter.
Nutrition
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One word….Gorgeous
Wow, wow, wow! I love a good “snack plate” and you’ve really taken that to the next level here. Such a great idea for Fall entertaining!
I love a snack plate too!
I absolutely love this post! I mean LOVE! It’s so creative and unique and something I NEED to do! I love the variety! You nailed this recipe! Printing this off because this has so many wonderful choices!! And your pictures…absolutely gorgeous!
Oh my gosh, thank you so much Amanda! This made my day 🙂
Wow – This is stunning! All these flavors sound amazing. Especially the roasted beets – Yum!
Thanks Christine! The roasted beets are so yummy piled on top of the goat cheese crostini too.
Oh yum everything on this platter looks delicious! I especially love the prepared crostini, and that you drizzle them with honey. So good!
Yeah the goat cheese crostini is my favorite part too 🙂
Indeed the ultimate mezze platter recipe. This is so good to serve for casual parties.Thanks for sharing
It’s a great party recipe, I love a huge platter of healthy yummy food! Thanks for the message 🙂
I love appetizer dinner night! This looks fabulous too! I have a recipe to make your own zatar blend on my site. I am a bit of a spice nerd. Thanks for sharing great recipes!
Oh I’ll have to check out your zatar recipe! I literally just ran out of my beloved mix from Ottolenghi and unless I fly to London I’m out of luck 😉
I’m drooling over this platter and it looks beautiful too!
Thanks Cheryl!
The platter looks delicious and ready to dive into! and I have to say, I love those tiny spoons 🙂
Thanks for sharing!
Aren’t those tiny spoons so cute?? I bought them for 3 people last Christmas I loved them so much. They are from Canvas Home Store.
Wow, I’m drooling over these photos! I mean, food. 🙂 Thanks for the detailed instructions!
Thanks, Amy!! All my favorite foods on one platter 😉
This looks great!! Love the step by step instructions. Perfect for holiday parties!
Thanks Kristine!
What a great way to feed a crowd! It looks amazing, too.
Thanks Kimberly, I could also make a good dent in this all on my own 🙂
It all looks delicious and beautiful! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks Elaine!