Recipe

My Quick Italian Party Tray Recipe

	Rosemaryblue / All my dishes 1 year, 5 months ago The scene: Hot day, short on time The need: main dish The solution: beautiful lettuce lined tray filled with cold meats, cheeses, olives, sliced red, green, yellow peppers, stuffed endive, grape tomatoes, all sprinkled with fresh basil Result: ... More Prep:20m Servings:8	Rosemaryblu
	easy impressive delicious

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Ingredients

1 *LARGE* TRAY

Blank Angus Deli Roast Beef, thinly sliced, not shaved

Pastrami, thinly sliced, not shaved

Genoa Salami

Assortment of sliced cheeses (I used Provolone, Swiss, Muenster)

Grape tomatoes, washed (I wash them in a little soda water, rub them dry.- gives them a nice sheen)

Red, yellow, green peppers, several cut in half, used as little "bowls"

Some of the peppers, I sliced vertically

Endive

1 small container cream cheese and chives

Assortment of olives - Kalamata, black olives, fancy stuffed olives

Curly leaf lettuce

Paprika, cayenne

Cold dip or dressing for meats

OPTIONAL: marinated artichokes

Directions

Hope you're getting excited about the possibilites with this tray! :)

1 LARGE TRAY

Line and cover the tray with lettuce (I used a large *metal* tray, keeps it cold)

Loosely roll the beef and pastrami

Arrange on tray, along with the salami

Stuff the endive* with cream cheese/chives, sprinkling with paprika or cayenne

Fill pepper "bowls" with some of the olives (also may use bowls for a cold dip or marinated artichokes)

Place the cheeses on tray

Arrange ALL on tray in a creative way -

Place remaining olives and the red, yellow, green pepper strips in a "scattered fashion" between meats and cheeses

Sprinkle randomly with fresh basil

This tray is really quite lovely and quite impressive

*ENDIVE is delicious, and wonderful. (I always think of endive as "little boats", holding treasures! ) Wash, cut the end off, separate leaves carefully, then spoon the "stuffing" inside the "little boat".

Added to the table were: a pasta salad, ciabatta bread, rosemary-potato bread, Italian herb-Parmesan crackers

Your family or guests will love this, and you will have time to spare and graciously entertain.

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