5 Tips To Create Organic Snack Platters For A Festive Season Cocktail Party
With the festive season fast approaching, it is time to put on your party hats and get organising for the social events you would host during this time.
Whether it is a party for family and friends or a small gathering for an intimate group, planning such an event involves coming up with different food and drink variations.
One of the ways to go about preparing your food in environmentally conscious ways is to serve organic snack platters that act as bar bites for cocktail parties.
Organic ingredients necessarily needn’t spell salads and cut up chunks of organic fruit. There are a couple of handy tricks you can employ to craft interesting and tasty bar bites for cocktail hour that are crafted using ingredients produced in responsible ways.
Read on below to know more about how you can create an organic snack platter for a cocktail party this festive season:
Choose Your Platters
This is the most basic hack to follow when you are preparing an organic snack platter.
Choose the platter, its cuisine, ingredients and small bites depending on the overall theme of the party. Opt for a vegan grazing platter or a mezze platter if your guests are fond of vegetables, dips and salads or go for dessert platters complete with sweet treats made using organic gud, desiccated coconut or honey that act as natural sweeteners.
Opt for a sushi platter made using organic rice and fresh catch if you want to serve a savoury bite with cocktails like sangrias, whisky sours and martini cocktails.
Procure Organic Ingredients
This task requires a little bit of close reading of the labels on the ingredients you would need to prep your snacks platters.
Buy organic cheeses like bries, goudas and ricotta only after carefully reading the label to ascertain that they have been prepared by adopting responsible sourcing and manufacturing processes.
Next, while buying vegetables, go for local farmers and green grocers who sell produce grown in your region in small batches. You can also pluck and harvest herbs and fruits from your home garden for your snacking requirements.
Use Natural Sweeteners
While curating a dessert platter, avoid using refined sugars and sweeteners that might be a step away from the organic brief.
Instead, use natural sweeteners like coconut, honey, jaggery and dates which add both taste and a sweet flavour into desserts.
Make chocolate and coconut tarts, honeycombs, date cupcakes and more which can be paired with cocktails. Such sweets also have a festive feel making them suitable for a gathering planned for such occasions.
Pair With Cocktails And Mocktails
Ensure that all the snacks that will go on the platter are paired well with the cocktails offered at the party. One way to plan cocktails and mocktails is to curate them according to the food for a solid gastronomical pairing.
When you craft a festive mezze platter, serve drinks prepared using organically produced alcohols like gin as well as tonic, elderflower liqueur and other floral and botanical spirits.
On the other hand, an organic tropical food platter will go well with drinks like tequila sunrise, blue lagoon and daiquiris.
Keep It Festive
Another handy hack that will enable you to curate a snack platter for special occasions is to keep to the festive theme. This means the platter must brim with different culinary tidbits that are prepared using organic ingredients complementing the celebratory note of the evening.
Decorate the snack platter using peels and fruit skins or serve your snacks in coconut shells or carved pineapples to enhance the festive and organic feel.
Do remember: like everything, alcohol is best had in moderation. Drink responsibly!
