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Cheese & charcuterie board

Name: Cheese & charcuterie board
Prep time: 10 min
Total time: 10 min
Yield: 6 servings
Ingredients: 4 oz cheddar cheese, cut into batons; 4 oz brie; 3 oz genoa salami, sliced thin; 2 cups seedless red grapes; about 25 crackers; 1/2 cup almonds; 1/3 cup black olives

Not cooking so much as arranging, which is exactly why it gets made so often. Worth scoring honestly: cheese, salami and crackers are some of the densest food in the house, and the fruit and almonds beside them are doing more work than they look like they are.

Time: 10 min (10 prep + 0 cook)
Servings: 6
Per serving: 374 kcal
Protein: 16 g

Ingredients

4 oz cheddar cheese, cut into batons120 g
4 oz brie120 g
3 oz genoa salami, sliced thin80 g
2 cups seedless red grapes200 g
about 25 crackers100 g
1/2 cup almonds60 g
1/3 cup black olives60 g

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Steps

Take the cheeses out of the fridge 30 minutes ahead. Cold brie tastes of nothing.
Cut the cheddar into batons and leave the brie whole with a knife beside it — a board people can serve themselves from lasts longer than one that is pre-portioned.
Fold the salami slices into quarters rather than laying them flat; it makes them easier to pick up and it slows everyone down.
Fill the gaps with grapes, almonds and olives, and put the crackers on the edge or alongside so they stay crisp.

How do I make a board more filling for the calories?

Change the ratio, not the ingredients. Doubling the grapes and adding a bowl of cut cucumber or cherry tomatoes lifts the volume a lot for very few calories, while the cheese stays exactly as good.

Why this score

easy to overeat

Dense calories with little protein, volume or fiber to fill you up.

Three routes to fullness — one is enough

17% of kcal

48% water

6 g/Mcal

What pulls it down

How scores work

Computed on the finished dish, not an average of the parts: 2244 kcal goes into the pot, 740 g of ingredients comes out as ~740 g of food → 303 kcal per 100 g. Cooking moves water, and energy density is the score's biggest lever — so we show the math. Full formula here.

Per

Calories: 303
Protein: (17%); 13 g
Fat: (59%); 20 g
Carbohydrates: (24%); 18 g
of which sugar: 5 g
Fiber: 2 g
Sodium: 601 mg

Percentages are the share of calories from each macronutrient.

Computed from the ingredients' USDA data — nothing typed by hand. Every number is traceable, every score recomputable.

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Photo: AI-generated. Nutrition and score are computed from the ingredients with the published formula — this recipe hasn't been kitchen-tested by us yet.