All-Green Vegetable Crudités Basket
Updated Dec 23, 2025
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A healthy addition to an appetizer spread. Pair this beautiful assortment of raw veggies with the dip of your choice. This is a nice fresh way to start a meal, without ruining everyone's appetites!
A crudité platter is always welcome as part of an appetizer spread, paired with a dip. The word crudité sounds fancy…but it’s just an assortment of raw vegetables served with a dip of some sort…said in, you know, French. It’s a good thing to remember that appetizers shouldn’t wipe out people’s appetites, but rather pave the way for more eating.
Any assortment of vegetables works, and it’s fun to change them up with the seasons. What’s also fun, as you can see here, is to pick a color, or maybe a couple of colors, and stick with that hue for the whole basket. Visually arresting and, in the case of this green veggie collection, very fresh looking as well.
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So sounds highbrow, but again: raw vegetables. That dip above is Blue Cheese Dip.
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Crudité is Just French for Raw Vegetables!
It’s funny how some words are just part of your growing-up vocabulary, and you imagine they are part of everyone else’s, too. My Mom was — and is — a bit of a Francophile. Which is a slightly fancy way of saying the woman likes French things and France. So when she puts out raw vegetables for guests, it was called a crudités platter or basket. And that was just the name for it.
You can see the vegetable crudités served up with a Hot Spinach and Goat Cheese Dip:
And you can see it served up with Arugula Basil Dipping Sauce here:
I was sticking hard to the green theme, as you can see.
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All-Green Crudités Platter
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Ingredients
- String beans or haricot verts (ends trimmed and blanched; see Note)
- Cucumber cut into sticks
- Fennel (sliced into thin vertical slices)
- Broccoli florets (blanched; see Note)
- Celery sticks
- Green pepper (cored, seeded, and sliced)
- Endive (large leaves cut in half vertically)
Instructions
- You can use a basket, a bowl, or a box to arrange and present the vegetables. You can also lay them out on a platter.
- Group the vegetables in large or small clusters, and nestle them closely to one another so that they remain upright.
