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Cocktail Garnish Board

Description

Make this cocktail/martini garnish board for a build your own drink experience.

Ingredients
  

  • Grapefruit halved and thinly sliced
  • Blood oranges thinly sliced
  • Navel oranges halved and thinly sliced
  • Lemons thinly sliced
  • Lime wedges
  • Cucumbers sliced and shaved into ribbons
  • Pearl onions
  • Green olives with pimentos
  • JalapeƱos sliced
  • Maraschino cherries
  • Grapefruit peel
  • Orange peel
  • Lemon peel
  • Dried blood orange slices
  • Fresh mint
  • Fresh basil
  • Fresh rosemary
  • Rimming salt (I like to mix it with citrus zest!)

Instructions

  • Add the rimming salt to a shallow bowl and place on one side of the board. Add the olives, onions, cherries, jalapeƱos, and citrus peels to separate small bowls. Add the bowls with citrus rinds around the bowl of rimming salt in rainbow color order. Space the remaining bowls out on the board (also in rainbow color order).
  • Add the grapefruit slices, blood orange slices, dried blood oranges in a single row around the edge of the board. Add a layer of orange slices in a single row inside the grapefruit and blood orange. Then add the lemon slices inside the orange slices in a single row. The lemon slices should nestle up against the bowls with the rinds.
  • Add the sliced cucumbers to the remaining empty edge of the board. Fill in the holes with the cucumber ribbons, lime wedges, and mint. Nestle the basil and rosemary between the bowls.
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