Gourmet Charcuterie Cups

 

Gourmet Charcuterie Cups are filled with savory meat, cheese, and olive skewers, sweet fresh fruit skewers, manchego, nuts and rosemary.

Our family made these stylish, flavorful, “filling” snacks for my niece’s recent wedding in Dallas, Texas. This recipe makes 24 charcuterie cups. We made 187 of them, LOL.

Recipe Prep Tips & Tricks:

• For the fruit skewer, blackberries are a “firmer” fruit versus raspberries. Blueberries, if you can find larger-sized blueberries, are also a great option for skewers

• When making the savory skewer, select a slightly longer skewer and stack in this order… pitted green or kalamata olives, bocconcini cheese, quarter-folded salami slice, cherry tomato (use the whole tomato because if you slice them in half, the water and seeds from the tomato half will make the cups soggy), cube cheese, and cornichon.

•  Tips… cornichons are an English-style pickle that are perfect in size for a savory skewer. Sliced pickles are too wet and flimsy. Small dill pickles are still a bit large and usually need to be sliced in half. Cornichons are available at most grocery stores on the aisle with the pickles and olives.

• Prior to filling the cups, line them with parchment paper. Don’t overthink it. Cut 24 rectangular pieces of parchment paper about 5×8 inches. Tuck it in the “cup” being sure to cover the bottom of the cup to prevent natural water and wetness from the fruits, olives, pickles saturating the bottom of the cup.

• Grissini is the Italian name for breadstick. I made them from scratch when I worked as a stage in Florence, Italy. Most grocery stores sell grissini. They can be tricky to find as commonly they are found in the bakery section. Sold in boxes, ask the baker where they are located.

Assembling the Cups:

• Charcuterie cups can be assembled the day before EXCEPT for the grissini (breadsticks) as they will get soggy.

 

• Line the paper cups with parchment paper – see note above

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• Add 2-3 cubes cheese in the bottom with 2-3 red grapes (purchase pre-cubed cheese at your local grocer. Options usually include cheddar, white cheddar, pepper jack, and colby jack)

• Add Savory skewer first

• Add fruit skewer

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• Add nut cups

  

• Add sliced manchego cheese wedge

• JUST BEFORE SERVING, add 2 to 3 grissini (breadsticks) and a sprig of fresh rosemary

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