2 Simple Broccoli Christmas Wreath Recipes To Welcome Your Guests

Holidays are coming! It’s that time of the year to flex your creativity muscles in the form of food! Get creative with this simple broccoli ingredient! This broccoli Christmas wreath makes a great appetizer to welcome your guests and warm their belly up before the main dishes!

Did you know, you can also make a Christmas tree with broccoli? It’s a jaw-dropping dish that would flood any Instagram account with likes!

Broccoli tastes great and comes with tons of ways to cook it. According to studies, serving of 3 times a week can help to prevent cancer. That’s more reason to add to your Christmas dinner!

Today, we will be showing two versions of the recipe. One does not involve oil and the other has a potato base. Now, let’s dive into the broccoli Christmas wreath recipe!

Recipe 1: Potato and Broccoli Christmas Wreath

This eye-catching broccoli garland is necessary for Christmas. It only takes about 20 minutes to make!

Ingredients

• broccoli
• potato
• carrots
• corn
• strawberries
• soy sauce

Instructions

1. Peel the potatoes and steam it. You can boil it too!

2. Add soy sauce into the potato and mash it. A little bit of savories from the soy will give a little kick to these balls.

3. Knead the potato paste into ball shape while wearing gloves. This will avoid the potato from sticking to your hand.

4. Fry the potato balls on medium heat. Make sure you get that beautiful brown sear around it.

5. Boil the broccoli, corn and carrots. Put some salt into it while you boil.

6. Arrange the potato balls in a circle shape. A round plate is perfect for this!

7. Stab the potato balls with the broccoli. This will help the broccoli flower face upwards. Arrange the rest of the broccoli pieces around.

8. Put the little corn and carrot as decoration. Sprinkle them around like salt bae with his salt.

9. Top it up with two big and juicy strawberries. The red color contrast will make the dish pop even more!

You can also get your favorite dipping sauce to go with the broccoli. We got chili sauce because we love spicy food and this just gives the kick that we want!

Now, let’s go onto the next recipe! This is a more simpler version but it tastes good too!

Recipe 2: Oil-free Broccoli Christmas Wreath

Broccoli is delicious and contains high nutritional value. It’s one of the greatest super food that you should encourage your kids to eat.

One tricky part is that we have to cook it precisely. Cooking for too long will not only reduces its nutritional value the color also becomes dark yellow which is less appetizing.

This recipe will teach you the simplest method to cook broccoli without a drop of oil. It is also shaped in a garland, making it the starting highlight of your Christmas feast!

Ingredients

• broccoli
• carrots
• corn
• peas
• oyster sauce
• salt
• light soy sauce

Instructions

1. Tear the broccoli into small pieces.

2. Soak it in the salt water for about 5 minutes and swirl it around. This will remove the debris that’s sticking on the broccoli. It will help to get rid of the worms or insects that could be hiding in it as well.

3. Boil the water with salt water. This will help to preserve the color of the broccoli.

4. Pour the broccoli into the boiling water. Once you see the broccoli turns emerald green, remove it immediately.

5. Cook the corn kernals, carrot sand peas.

6. Arrange the broccoli into the shape of a wreath on a circle plate.

7. Decorate the broccoli wreath with the cooked corn, carrots and peas.

8. Mix a spoonful of light soy sauce and oyster sauce with some water. You can also add garlic which is another super food as well into the mix.

9. Pour the oyster sauce onto the broccoli. The low-fat broccoli Christmas wreath is ready!

Enjoy the meal! Even children who dislikes vegetables will be tempted to have a bite!

This recipe leans a bit towards Asian style because of the sauce used. However, you can use other dipping sauce and make one that would suit your taste!

Bonus

Make a simple strawberry gnome snack by stacking it up with a banana slice in the middle like a burger. You can put black sesame seeds for the eyes and mouth! This cute side dish is perfect to go along with your broccoli meal.

This is just one of the way to make your very own broccoli Christmas wreath. You can also use other mix of colorful ingredients such as cherry tomatoes, star fruits, strawberries and even edamame to create your Christmas salad garden.

Make it fully vegan for that healthy meal or add in rolls of Prosciutto and ham to give it a bit of protein boost. You can also try and make Christmas wreath pasta!

Share with us what mix of ingredients did you use to make your Christmas wreath dish. We would love to know how creative you are!