Charcuterie Cups
Servings: 1 jar
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Forget those large charcuterie platters, serve these fun Charcuterie Cups (aka JARcuterie)! They're made to be served individually rather than a free-for-all board! Your guests will feel so special when you hand them a jar filled with cheeses, meats, nuts and crackers! They're perfect around the holidays and can be customized any way you want!
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Equipment
- Jars/Cups/Cones (See links above!)
- Mini Skewers
Ingredients
- 4-6 choice of nuts I used candied walnuts
- 1-2 dried apricots
- 1-2 dried figs/prunes
- 4-5 dried cherries
- 2-4 cheese crisps or crackers
- 2-3 long crackers cheese twists or breadsticks
- 2-4 wedges of cheese of choice
- 3-5 red/green grapes
- 2 marinated gigante beans
- 1 red pepperazzi pepper
- 1 marinated mozzarella ball
- 1 rolled prosciutto mozzarella pinwheel
- 2-3 slices of pepperoni and salami
- 2-3 green/black olives
- 1 long rosemary stem
Instructions
- Add your nuts and small dried fruit to the bottom of your jars.
- Then add in your larger dried fruit and small crackers or cheese crisps.
- Next, add your longer items like your breadsticks, cheese twists, crackers.
- Skewer your wet/cold ingredients. I prefer THREE skewers. Two with cheeses, olives and grapes. The third with your salami/pepperoni folded.*To skewer your pepperoni/salami in a fancy way, simply stack them and fold like a fan. Finally fold in half and skewer fanning the meat out.
- Lastly, fill in any gaps with colorful larger items like grapes, dried apricots or more crackers and add fresh herbs for a garnish and pop of color. (I used a long rosemary sprig.) Repeat with other jars.
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Notes
Yield: This recipe is for ONE jar. The amounts will vary depending upon the size and width of your jar/cup.
Tips
- Mix together different colors: Using red peppers/tomatoes, green herbs/olives, white cheese, dark plums/figs/grapes, and orange dried apricots add pops of color and make them beautiful.
- Use different textures: Swirly breadsticks and pinwheel cheese/proscuitto draws the eye in and makes for a more interesting jar! Soft cheeses, olives and crunchy crackers or breadsticks give guests lots of fun textures to enjoy.
- Add height! Adding breadsticks, herbs like rosemary and long crackers can add plenty of height to your jars making them much more impressive looking.
- Mix up flavors- Make sure to add sweet and salty snacks in the jars! Candied walnuts, Parmesan crackers and fruits are a great mixture of sweet and salty that people crave.
- Consider sizes- Add the smaller items like almonds or nuts at the bottom of the jar first. Large items can sit on top or be skewered.
- Prevent soggy snacks- Keep wet snacks like olives and peppers away from the crunchy items to prevent soggy food. Add them to skewers so they don't touch anything else.
- Fold your meats- Folding your salami or pepperoni into a fan makes it more pleasing to the eye and easier to skewer.