Dinner Board Recipe

This easy Dinner Board recipe is a quick, no-cook family dinner made with a variety of meats, cheeses, fresh fruit, crackers, and simple pantry favorites. Perfect for busy weeknights, this customizable charcuterie-style dinner board is budget-friendly, kid-approved, and an easy way to serve a meal everyone will love.

Dinner Board

This easy dinner board is a quick, no-cook family dinner made with a variety of meats, cheeses, fresh fruit, crackers, and simple pantry favorites. Perfect for busy weeknights, this customizable charcuterie-style dinner board is budget-friendly, kid-approved, and an easy way to serve a meal everyone will love.

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Total Time 10 minutes mins

Servings: 6

Course: Main Course

Cuisine: American

Ingredients Method

Ingredients

  

• 2-3 cured meats, like salami, pepperoni, prosciutto, or even your favorite lunchmeat
• 2-3 cheese, cut or cubed
• 1 pint cherry tomatoes, optional
• 1 jar olives or pickles
• 1-2 kinds of fruit, like sliced apples or bowl of berries
• 1 loaf bread of choice, sliced or crackers
• jam or honey
• bowl of peanuts or almonds, optional

Method

 

1. This is really less of a recipe and more of an idea. My youngest child calls this "grab dinner", because you grab what you want from the board. You can call it a board dinner, snack dinner, or whatever works for you.

   The point is to make an easy and fun spread of things so that everyone can find something they like. Use this ingredients list as a guide and build your board.
2. I try to do a soft cheese, like brie or goat, a salty cheese, like asiago or parmesan, and a fun one, like smoked cheddar. I use whatever fruit I have on hand- apples, easy peel oranges, grapes, truly whatever. Add a little of whatever you like to snack on too- pretzels, raisins, fruit snacks, or carrot sticks with Ranch!

   It's fun, customizable, and easy. And it doesn't have to be expensive- Aldi has great, affordable options, you can use what's in your fridge, and lots of grocery stores sell small, sample size wedges of different types of cheese so you get a smaller price tag. Use this as a guide and have a fun night in!