3 Fun Broccoli Christmas Tree Recipes You Must Try

Christmas is around the corner and it’s again the time to bring out some of the best broccoli Christmas recipes! Don’t just make a normal dish. Make one that pops! Today, we have several styles of broccoli Christmas tree that is made to impress your guests over at Christmas dinner.

The recipes here are easy and fun to make. The kids will be excited to be building these and pickup some easy cooking skills at the same time! So, don’t be shy to get them involved!

Don’t be afraid to experiment with other creative recipes! You can make broccoli Christmas wreath, fruit tree, and more! Please share your new creation with us in the comments. We love to know! Now, let’s get started!

Style 1: Fruit and Broccoli Christmas Tree

This is probably one of the best Christmas broccoli side dish recipes that you can have on your dining table. It is a 3D Christmas tree made out of fruits, vegetables and broccoli. And boy, it sure looks stunning!

In case you don’t know what to put as décor on the dining table, this style is definitely something worth giving a try. It is both beautiful and edible. In fact, you can have few of these on the table and you’re good for a fun filled Christmas dinner!

Ingredients

Here’s what you need for this recipe

• apple
• broccoli
• dragon fruit
• pomegranate
• carrot
• toothpicks
• strawberries
• kumquat
• star fruit

Instructions:

1. Blanch the broccoli for about 8 minutes. Make sure they are cooked as you will be eating them as well. This is an important step as some people would choose to use raw broccoli. But, not everyone like to eat it raw and the color won’t be that attractive too. Cook it carefully as well as you won’t want it to be too soft for the toothpick to support it later.

2. Cut a thick slice of apple for the base. Apple is the best for the foundation of your broccoli Christmas tree. In fact, we haven’t found other types of fruits that would serve the purpose well. You can coat it with some citrus juice to prevent it from turning brownish.

3. Cut off the base of a carrot and fix it to the apple base with toothpicks. Get a thin and long carrot for this. You might have to stab a few toothpicks at its end to fix it firmly onto the apple. Essentially, this carrot will be like a pin cushion for your toothpicks later.

4. Arrange broccolis at the base. The base needs to be big to form the Christmas tree appearance. So, put chunks of broccolis and slowly work the way up. You can use 2/3 of your entire broccolis for this.

5. Put up fruit cuttings on toothpick up to the rest of the tree. Here’s the fun part! It’s time to decorate with the fruits! Get those strawberries, kumquat and dragon fruit up. Don’t forget to mix it with some broccolis too!

6. Star fruit goes on top! Every Christmas tree needs to have a shiny star on top! This is the perfect job for a slice of star fruit.

7. Sprinkle with pomegranate. The tree needs some garnish. You can also use corn bits or a bit of icing sugar to give the snow effect. Use fruits other colors that you don’t have on the tree. Your first style of Christmas broccoli tree is now complete!

Make your own dipping sauce to go with the broccoli xmas tree. 1/2 teaspoon of soy sauce and 1/4 cup of mayonnaise will make a delicious salty and savory dip that goes well with it!

Style 2: Mini Potato and Broccoli Christmas Tree

This is in my top list of broccoli recipes for Christmas dinner. It’s small and fully edible. The construct of this tree does not involve toothpicks at all.

It’s very cute and totally Instagrammable. Whether it’s for posing or for a fun treat, it’s a dish that you must learn for this coming Christmas!

Ingredients:

• broccoli
• potatoes
• carrots
• cherry tomatoes
• gooseberries or apples or kiwis (choose fruits with the colors that you want)

Instructions

1. Boil the potatoes. Sprinkle a bit of salt into the water as you boil them. You need to soften these into a paste later.

2. Steam the broccolis. Steaming is the best way to preserve the nutrient content of the broccoli.

3. Cut the cherry tomatoes, carrots and gooseberries. These are the garnish that will go onto the tree later. Dice the carrots into small pieces. As for the carrots and gooseberries, you can cut them into half.

4. Mash the potatoes and shape it into a Christmas tree. You can add carrots into the mix as well for that extra crunchy texture.

5. Arrange the base with broccolis. You can lay down the broccoli pieces at the base. Then, as you go up, you can slowly stab the broccoli into the mountain mashed potato. This will help create the iconic Christmas tree shape.

6. Put on the garnish. Color your broccoli Christmas tree up with those cherry tomatoes, gooseberries and carrots. With this, you’re done! Oh, don’t forget to put your star-shaped carrot on top!

Bonus tips: You can create star-shaped capsicums with cookie cutter for decoration too! Cookie cutter makes it easy but if you don’t have it, cutting it with knife will work too. But, be careful!

Broccoli is great on its own but a home made sauce would make it even better! Mix hoisin sauce, soy sauce, rice vinegar, sesame oil and chili paste together for a mind-blowing dipping sauce!

Style 3: Broccoli Christmas Tree On A Platter

This is possibly the easiest broccoli Christmas recipe because you don’t have to make it stand. There’s tons of ways to go around it and it mostly involves laying your ingredients on a plate.

You can go salad style and sprinkle your platter with dressing of choice. Cooking it with Asian style or baking it is nice too before arranging it in the shape of a friendly Christmas tree.

Ingredients

• broccoli
• red and yellow bell pepper
• cherry tomato
• carrots
• soy sauce
• raw honey
• garlic
• sesame oil

Instructions

1. Blanch the broccoli pieces. Cook it thoroughly.

2. Cut the bell peppers into pieces. You can shape it into a star if you want to. This will be the ornaments to your broccoli xmas tree.

3. Cut the carrots into a star shape. Carrots add the orange color which is what we want. We need our tree to be colorful!

4. Make the sauce. Cook the soy sauce with some honey. Add garlic and stir it along with some sesame oil. You can try other sauce recipe if you have.

5. Arrange the broccoli into the shape of a Christmas tree. Arrange them in a huge plate. Match the serving size with the size of the plate. Chances are people is going to take pic of this dish for their Instagram. So, make it great!

6. Add the decorative ingredients. You can cook your bell peppers and carrots too if you want to. But, they’re good in their raw form as well. Put them around onto the broccoli.

7. Brush the sauce onto the tree. Mix the garlic, raw honey and sesame oil together. As finishing touch, use a brush and apply the sauce onto it. The slight sweetness from the honey would do wonders to the taste!

There you have it! 3 styles on how you can make your very own healthy and tasty broccoli Christmas tree. It’s definitely a recipe that you can try to make your dinner extraordinary.

Have your own version of edible broccoli xmas tree? What ingredient did you use? Share with us below!