Ultimate Vegan Cheeseboard
A fun and tasty plant-based cheeseboard features vegan cheeses with a wide range of ingredients chosen for their colour, texture, shape and flavour.
Cheeseboards are great – they can be as fancy or as basic as you like and they can definitely be plant-based. Anything goes, but we’ve got a few suggestions to help make your dairy-free cheeseboard a success!
Use an interesting mix of ingredients: this makes sure there’s something to suit everybody’s taste, and a mixture of colours, sizes, shapes and textures makes it gorgeous to look at and delightful to eat.
Two or three vegan cheese options will be the starting point. Angel Food cheddar or feta blocks are perfect for this. A dish of Angel Food sour cream topped with sweet chilli sauce is a great addition - and you could also cube your feta and serve in olive oil and herbs. We also love using the fermented nut cheeses made by Savour and One Love Planet on our vegan snack platters.
Going crackers
A selection of crackers is the next step – these can be gourmet or everyday (do you know that Snax crackers are vegan?) – and some small slices or cubes of bread if you like. If you really want to impress, make a batch of our delicious savoury shortbread for your cheeseboard.
Sweet on you
Your cheeseboard doesn’t have to be all savoury: some sweet items will definitely be appreciated. That might be dried apricots, red and green grapes, squares of dark chocolate or slices of persimmon.
Keep it crunchy
Snacky favourites like nuts, potato chips, pretzels and breadsticks pair well with all the other cheeseboard ingredients.
Salty goodness
Olives, pickled chillies, sliced gherkins and pink pickled onions all work beautifully. These all tend to be quite wet and they’ll make your other ingredients soggy if you put them straight on the board. I like to put them in small dishes and put a small fork with each.
Colour and freshness
Add some freshness and joy with brightly coloured radishes, cherry tomatoes (fresh or roasted), capsicum and edible flowers. Tuck some sprigs of fresh herbs in too for extra appeal: parsley, thyme and rosemary all work well.
Build the board
Start by placing your large items – the blocks of cheese and the small dishes of ‘wet’ items like pickles – evenly around the board. (You might like to slice the cheeses on a separate board first, then move them across so they’re easier for guests to grab.) Then gradually fill in the gaps between them with your other ingredients.