Turkey Appetizer
photo by DeliciousAsItLooks
- Ready In:
- 30mins
- Ingredients:
- 19
- Serves:
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10
ingredients
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Cream cheese spread
- 8 ounces cream cheese, softened
- 4 ounces cheddar cheese, cubed
- 4 ounces sour cream
- 1 teaspoon season salt
- 1 teaspoon smoked paprika
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Veggie Arrangement
- 1 bunch red leaf lettuce, washed and dried
- 1⁄2 zucchini, thinly sliced
- 1⁄2 yellow squash, thinly sliced
- 2 celery ribs, thinly sliced
- 4 radishes, thinly sliced
- 1⁄2 red onion, thinly sliced
- 4 mushrooms, thinly sliced
- 1⁄2 yellow pepper, thinly sliced
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Optional
- cracker, to be used as an optional feather row (optional)
- pretzel, to be used as an optional feather row (optional)
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Chest
- 3 sun-dried tomatoes
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Head
- 1⁄2 radish
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Eye
- 1 peppercorn
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Waddle
- yellow pepper
directions
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Cream cheese mixture:
- Mix all ingredients in a food processor till smooth add more paprika if you want.
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Veggie arrangement:
- On a large platter arrange red lettuce leaves so red is on the outer edge. Then place the veggies like they are the feathers of the turkey. The large plume of feathers behind the turkey as I layered in rows are carrots, zucchini, yellow squash, carrots, red onions, and radishes.
- The bottom feathers are yellow squash, zucchini, yellow peppers, and celery.
- For the body I inverted a soup bowl and spread the cream cheese mixture over it. Use the mixture as a glue add radishes along the bottom in 2 rows follow with mushrooms adding till completely covering the bowl.
- For the chest I placed 3 sun-dried tomato half's adhered with some of the cheese mixture on the body of mushrooms.
- For the head place 1/2 of a radish (try to find one that is a long red radish) Spread some cheese mixture on the cut side and place just above the tomatoes.
- For the wattle adhere a yellow pepper slice to the radish(head) with the cheese mixture. Place the remaining cheese mixture in a bowl for dipping. Enjoy!
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Reviews
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I was surprised how quick fun and easy this was to put together. I did have to prepare it Thanksgiving morning and keep it in the fridge until lunchtime as we had church at 10. I took pictures to show everyone in case it didn't survive it's time in the fridge. Good thing I did because while in was in the fridge the dip kind of "melted" off the bowl and so it wasn't looking to great by lunchtime. We all enjoyed it though and I would like to try it again as it really is a gorgeous idea. Maybe the bowl I used was too slippery and a different bowl would work. Or maybe if I kept the dip on the thicker side? I would also like to try the cheese, cracker and deli meat idea.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Rita1652
Jamesburg, New Jersey