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Breakfast Charcuterie Board is a grazing board full of a variety of food items perfect for a delicious meal in the morning. What a fun way to eat breakfast!
Make breakfast something special with a breakfast board. You don’t have to cook that much, just grab some easy breakfast items, cook up some simple eggs and make this amazing breakfast grazing board.
Grazing platters are so versatile. I love making them for holidays, like Christmas, Valentine’s Day, and 4th of July. But this breakfast platter is perfect for every day!
What is a Grazing Board?
Similar to a charcuterie board, but a grazing board isn’t limited to meats and cheeses. You can choose a theme and build a board around it. It often has small items that people can just stand around and graze from, but can also include full sized items.
Make sure to include some items that people don’t have to cut or use silverware to eat. But also include small plates for those that prefer to graze from their own plate.
Breakfast Charcuterie Board Recipe Ingredients
What’s great about charcuterie boards is that you can use whatever you like! Here are some ideas to get you started:
- Meat – sausage links or patties, Ham, bacon, smoked sausage
- Cheese – cubed or sliced smoked gouda, cheddar, pepper jack, or cheese spreads
- Eggs – you can make scrambled eggs, fried eggs, hard boiled eggs, or make egg muffins
- Bread – biscuits (canned or frozen or even homemade), bagels, croissants, waffles, pancakes, scones
- Sweet Bread – donuts, mini cinnamon rolls, donut holes, mini muffins, pop tarts, french toast roll ups
- Potatoes – cubed with onions and peppers, hash browns, tater tots
- Gravy – white gravy or with sausage
- Cream cheese – regular or flavored cream cheese
- Condiments – jellies, butter, syrup
- Drinks – coffee, milk, creamer, orange juice, champagne
- Fruit – fresh fruit such as strawberries, orange slices, raspberries, blueberries, apple slices, melons, bananas
- Vegetables – tomato, onion, cucumber, etc.
- Other – yogurt, granola, cereals
- Platters – wooden cutting boards, metal trays, small serving bowls, spoons and plates
How to Assemble a Brunch Charcuterie Board
This is the fun part! Try to visualize what you want on your brunch board before you start. Don’t be afraid to move things around as you go.
- Choose your food and supplies. Choose your favorite breakfast foods that you want on your grazing board. Cook or heat everything so it is ready to go. Choose your large cutting board or serving platter, as well as your bowls and spoons.
- Fill and place bowls and large items. Fill your bowls with jams, gravy, berries and other things you don’t want falling or running off the board. You can plate some main items or just layer them around. Begin by placing a few main bowls or plates on the board. Use small lids or mini bowls to raise other items.
- Fill in empty spaces. Place smaller bowls or glasses around the board. Fill in areas with fruit, breads, and cheeses.
- Add serving utensils and finishing touches. Add the spoons to the bowls that need them and lay out plates. You can set up drinks near your board as well. Don’t forget the mimosas!
Tips for Making a Breakfast Grazing Platter
- Don’t hesitate to buy frozen or refrigerated items that you can just heat and serve. Key to a grazing board is fast and easy.
- These are great to make and take to a sick friend, new mother, or aging loved one.
- A great grazing board will be crowded with items. The more, the better! You want everyone to feel there is plenty for all to graze.
- Layering items is great. You can layer by adding mini bowls on the board and placing another bowl on top. This will raise the bowl and it can be crowded in, overlapping a plate or bowl.
- Make everything mini, such as mini waffles or mini pancakes, so they become finger food and you can dip in maple syrup.
More Charcuterie Board Ideas
Breakfast Charcuterie Board
Ingredients
- Meat – sausage links or patties Ham, bacon, smoked sausage
- Cheese – cubed or sliced smoked gouda cheddar, pepper jack, or cheese spreads
- Eggs – you can make scrambled fried, boiled
- Bread – biscuits canned or frozen or even homemade, bagels, croissants, waffles, pancakes, scones
- Sweet Bread – donuts cinnamon rolls, donut holes, mini muffins
- Potatoes – cubed with onions and peppers hashbrowns, tator tots
- Gravy – white gravy or with sausage
- Cream cheese – regular or flavored
- Condiments – jellies butter, syrup
- Drinks – coffee milk, creamer, orange juice, champagne
- Fruit – strawberries orange slices, raspberries, blueberries, apple slices, melons, bananas
- Vegetables – tomato onion, cucumber, etc.
- Other – yogurt granola, cereals, maple syrup
- Platters – wooden cutting boards metal trays, small serving bowls, spoons and plates
Instructions
- Choose the items you want on your grazing board. Cook or heat everything so it is ready to go.
- Choose your serving board or platter, as well as your bowls and spoons.
- Fill your bowls with jams, gravy, berries and other things you don’t want falling or running off the board.
- You can plate some main items or just layer them around.
- Begin by placing a few main bowls or plates on the board.
- Use small lids or mini bowls to raise other items.
- Next place smaller bowls or glasses around the board.
- Fill in areas with fruit, breads, and cheeses.
- Add the spoons to the bowls that need them and lay out plates.
- You can set up drinks near your board as well.
Nutrition
The nutrition information is calculated using online nutrition calculators and may not be accurate. It is provided as a general guide only.
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Emily Enchanted
Friday 5th of August 2022
I love this recipe because it is the best way to eat breakfast, brunch, or breakfast for dinner!