Antipasto Platter for a Crowd makes for the perfect entertaining board for any gathering. Red pepper and sun dried tomato pesto with toasted crostini and a mixture of cheeses and olives and cured meats.
Why you are going to love this Antipasto Platter for a Crowd
This platter is a low fuss easy charcuterie board. You can add any cheese, cured meats, olives, marinated vegetables, crackers, breads you desire. However, the star of this Antipasto platter is the red pepper and sun dried tomato pesto. You are going to love it on toasted crostini and if any left over it is fantastic in pasta.
Bottomless food platter for a crowd
I think my teenage boys must have hallow legs. Where else can they be putting all of that food?
I always think I am making enough for the family but then when we sit down to eat it just evaporates within nanoseconds. I have learned the hard way to never bring out food to the boys without first taking off my portion before I bring it out to the table.
Make sure you get extra olives and bread to replenish your Antipasto Platter for a Crowd as these treats go fast!
Did you know that my youngest teenage has grown over 12 inches in less than a year ? He needs to eat continuously to support that growth spurt.
I always know when my boys start to get hungry as they start to prowl in the kitchen, opening cupboards and refrigerator foraging for food. I feel like they are stalking me like a pack of wild hungry dogs in the kitchen.
With that in mind, I decided to build a large Antipasto Platter for a Crowd to hold off the hungry pack of wolves. Packed with yummy hearty foods to keep them out of my kitchen sanctuary. Garlic bread with roasted pepper basil with sun-dried tomato and garlic wine sauce, feta and basil stuffed Prosciutto wraps, olives, marinated artichokes, pepperoni, fresh vine ripened tomatoes and basil and a large spinach salad on the side.
Weekends are always busy as you know running from one activity to the other and when you finally land at home you want something easy and fun to eat with little prep, fuss and cooking time. I hope you enjoy this lovely Antipasto Platter for a Crowd.
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Antipasto Platter for a Crowd
Ingredients
- 1 loaf crusty bread cut on an angle
- 1 tbsp Olive oil
- 1 clove Garlic minced
- 1/4 cup Onion chopped
- 4 oz roasted red peppers in oil
- 2 oz tomato paste
- 3/4 cup red wine
- 4 sun dried tomatoes in oil
- 1/4 cup basil 1/4 cup fresh or 1 teaspoon dried
- 1/4 tsp dried chili flakes optional
Antipasto Platter
- marinated olives artichokes pepperoni/salami/parma cheeses fresh tomato, basil Feta and Basil Stuffed Prosciutto WrapsRoasted Pepper Basil with Sun Dried Tomato in a Garlic Wine Sauce with garlic bread. Whatever your little heart desires
Instructions
- In a pan put in olive oil, onions and garlic and saute until aromatic.
- Put in pan tomato paste and vino let cook over medium heat for about 5 minutes.
- Put the roasted peppers and the sun-dried tomatoes into a blender and mix until smooth
- Put the roasted pepper and sun-dried tomato puree into the wine sauce. Add salt, pepper, sugar, basil and chili flakes to taste. Cook over low heat for about 15 minutes until flavors have a chance to mingle.
- Preheat oven to 190 degrees Celsius
- Brush each bread slice with olive oil and then take a garlic that has been cut in half and rub into oil
- Bake the garlic bread for about 10 minutes or until nice and golden brown
- Serve garlic bread toasts with Roasted Pepper Basil with Sun Dried Tomato in a Garlic Wine Sauce on your anti pasto platter and enjoy.
Antipasto Assembly
- Place your red pepper sun dried tomato pesto on a board in a bowl. Set your toasted garlic crostini on the platter along with your marinated artichokes, olives, cheeses and whatever your little heart desires. Enjoy!
Those prosciutto wraps look superb!
So easy and yet so yummy. You can make them several hours in advance of your guest arrival and then at the last minute a little drizzle of olive oil and some cracked pepper on top and yum!
This looks like a great snack or appetizer tray!!! I have done pickle wraps with meats like this but never basil, I may have to try this!
Hello Jo-Lyn. My sister showed me I thought was a weird appetizer but it tastes awesome. She takes a slice of ham, proscuitto, turkey then slathers it with a layer of cream cheese, then puts a 1/4 spear of a dill pickle in side and wraps up and cuts into slices. Weird but so good. What is your recipe for the pickles wraps?
Hello Charles, All that eating during your growth spurt seems to have worked wonders. Look at the tall handsome chap you turned out to be. My youngest son loves to eat but he also loves to cook so maybe we are on to something here… Take care, BAM
Haha, hollow legs – my parents used to say the same thing 😀 I could always pack away vast quantities of food! 😀 I saw some more antipasti recently… this serves as a reminder that I should give it a try soon – I love things like this 🙂
I cannot imagine my son growing that much in one year! That is scary fast! These all look really yummy 🙂
I think I am going to have to put a brick on his head to stop him from growing. I sure wish there was a grocery store right in our apartment complex as making food hauls is starting to through out my good shoulder… Take care, BAM
Looks like a total party success!!
For about 5 whole good minutes… LOL Take care, BAM
I think with that crowd, that’s still an accomplishment:)
You did such a wonderful job wih that platter. I know I would love to have that all to myself lol.
Thanks Kay. A glass or 2 of nice red wine to go with this antipasto platter would be really nice.
Looks delicious! I can’t even imagine having teenagers around to eat everything in sight. Ha!
I have learned that if I do not label something as “DO NOT EAT” it will vanish. The saga continues….
I remember my mum saying that when I left home her cheese bill went down massively, you described th eteenage circling around the kitchen looking for titbits so perfectly. You took me right back!
And the platter, so so tempting and beautiful.
Cheese Bill! LOL Hungry teenagers are like ravished dogs! Our grocery bill is crazy. I hope his growth spurt slows down soon. Take care, BAM
I have 2 Hoover’s here at home. I swear they can get up and just walk around the table and then say. “Mom, I’m hungry again.” Take Care, BAM
Looks delicious:) I have 3 nephews who are all teenagers now and they are like vaccums just suck it down, inhale and start all over again – ha! I give them food gift certificates and they love it!
I am not looking forward to that with my boys – I’m not sure I’d be able to keep up (especially with 12 inches in a year!! Wow!) It looks like quite a spready, though. 🙂
Keep your kids of the cooking and baking with you and then you can enjoy them in their teenage years. Just one little change- make double of everything- or triple.
Love the top photo. And I remember those hungry years! I used to eat an amazing amount of food, and remain soooo skinny. Now? I walk through the bakery department of my supermarket, inhale twice, and gain a pound. Anyway, I love antipasto – and your platter looks terrific. The Roasted Pepper Sauce looks wonderful. Fun post – thanks.
Now you are making me laugh. I guess we should try not to breath too deeply down the bakery and cake isles. The roasted red pepper sauce is so easy and freezes easily so that you can just whip that out later when you have last minute guests or a pack of hungry wolves to feed. Take Care, BAM
Having raised a hollow-legged teen (now 39), I remember those days. Pizza Hut hated to see him and his 6-foot-plus friends coming. BAM, wish you’d give us a photo of the boys… if you don’t want their faces seen on the internet, you could come up with some inventive way to cover/disguise their faces. Aren’t you the clever one, figuring out that you need to stash some portion of the food for yourself before the teen-attack! Love this recipe and the photos.
Hello Kathleen. I swear I am going to have to go out and get a 2nd or maybe 3rd job just to feed these hungry boys. What is even scarier is when they come home after school with a group of their 6 foot plus hungry friends. Now I love the kids and I am not complaining one bit, just give mom a little heads up before you show up with the football team. Take Care, BAM
This looks great! I cannot believe your boy grew 12 inches in a year, that’s incredible!
Jen, Isn’t that crazy? 12 inches in a year and he is still growing. His poor knees are really bothering him as his bones have grown but his tendons have not caught up. Needless to say he towers way over mom.
At 28, my stepson STILL does the Staring Into Cabinets thing when he visits…
I don’t think it ever stops – I sometimes catch his father doing it!
Those two would plow through a lovely platter like that, and be out grilling steaks an hour later!
Marie, that is exactly what I was doing grilling steaks just an hour later. You have read the mind of a teenage boy. I have so many picture of my teenager just hanging his arms above the refrigerator looking inside hoping that something will magically appear.
boys can devour HUGE amounts of food – I once went through 48 bread rolls in once day for 4 teenagers 🙂
LOL only 12 rolls a piece? They were just taking it easy on you. They probably went home and ate another snack… BOYS! Take care, BAM
I think half of your boys’ eating is due to growing and the other half is because of your delicious food.
🙂 Mandy
How sweet, thank you Mandy! Take Care, BAM
What a great, smile-inducing post, BAM! I think you speak for Moms everywhere. I sometimes prepare a large baking dish — lasagna, ravioli, pasta — for the Boys Upstairs. Their Mom will later tell me that she was lucky to get a taste! This appetizer tray you’ve prepared looks delicious and I bet it didn’t last more than 5 minutes. 🙂
Thanks John, I am glad it brought a little humor to your day. Just so that you know the platter lasted for about 3 minutes tops! Take care, BAM
What a wonderful post my friend! My brother is so tall I swear he hits the ceiling sometimes – believe me when I say I understand how much teen boys can eat 😛
This platter is too classy! I think many people really would be able to polish it off 😉
Cheers
Choc Chip Uru
Dear CCU, I am sure your brother loves you and your baking. My goodness what is not to love about a sis that cooks with chocolate. I am sure he brings over all his hungry teenage friends to be QA analysts of your baking…. Take Care, BAM
Oh, Bam… I had to smile the minute I saw your title today! As you know, with teenagers that’s so true.. I hadn’t thought to serve myself first, but I will be starting that habit right away. If your teenagers are like mine, they are surprisingly appreciative of gourmet food! They must have just devoured this platter! What a treat that would be!
Smidge, that is why you are so skinny. You forget to serve yourself first. Take care, BAM