Afternoon Tea Time Platter (60+ Recipe Ideas)

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Host your afternoon tea with this, delicious, Afternoon Tea Time Platter featuring different types of Sandwiches, cookies and chips, and dips. This platter features some Vegan sandwiches, Gluten-free, eggless and nut-free cookies, and dips. A perfect tea time, which has food that can cater to people with different food groups.

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Afternoon Tea Tradition

Afternoon Tea is famous as a British food tradition where people sit down for afternoon tea around 4:00 PM, with sandwiches, scones, and cake. Generally, it started to fill the long gap between lunch and dinner. Started around the early 19th century now it is considered a treat.

Chai and Friends

Though it is famous as a British tradition, in India we had this concept of afternoon tea for ages. We generally ask family or friends to come over tea. We will have a nice time with some food and Gupshup (talks). But as people are getting busier day by day this is now confined to weekends or special days. 

Tea Party Menu Ideas

We would love to have some cookies, pakora, chillas, dhoklas with our chai (tea). I have already shared Tea time Pakora Platter featuring 6 different types of pakoras and this Protein-Packed Chilla Platter.

So I thought to make another tea time platter but a bit English or British Style. I actually was only going to showcase a cookie platter but thought of clubbing it with sandwiches and cake and making it as an Afternoon Tea Time Platter.

And yes my bad, I actually baked a Banana bread for this platter but forgot to click it. I was so angry with myself. But It’s fine. As this does not feature any cake, I am not saying that this would be a typical British Afternoon Tea Time Platter. But yes you can get ideas from this and include it into your tea time party or for your kids party.  

So what’s in my Afternoon Tea Time Menu?

I have included 3 different types of sandwiches. All three are easy to make. You can even make the fillings of these sandwiches before time, and just assemble the sandwiches 30 minutes before your party. Except for the Avocado and chickpea sandwich filling, which would be best to do when you assemble it.

The next three I have included are cookies. All these cookies are eggless and gluten-free. Two are will millet flours, so you can also call this as a healthy tea time platter :-). I have also added some store-bought pretzel and chips which is served with the Avocado and Chickpea dip.

Yes, you can definitely add one of two cakes and cupcakes here. You can add Eggless Lemon Cake, Tutti Frutti Cake, Chocolate Cake, Eggless Gulkand Muffins, Coconut Flour Orange Poppy seeds Muffins, etc. Needless to say, they are served with tea and a lot of love. 

So my Afternoon Tea Time Platter consists of

• Aloo Toast Sandwich – A delicious and addictive Mumbai toast sandwich which has a slight spicy filling of potatoes. A must for tea time, as a meal or to pack for your kids lunchbox or travel food.

• Avocado and Chickpea Sandwich – So after the potato filling, I decided to make something healthier for people watching their calories. So this sandwich has a simple and lip-smacking filling with Avocado, chickpea, salt, and lemon juice. A layer of fresh spinach on the sandwich helps it to not get soggy.

• Tomato and Cucumber Salad Sandwich – Another healthy sandwich with simple salads. This has a spread of spicy Green Coriander Chutney and filled with cut tomato and cucumber. I have avoided potatoes here, as we already have an Aloo Toast Sandwich.

• Eggless Jowar Chocolate Cookies (Gluten-Free) – These healthy cookies are made with gluten-free millet Jowar. They are sweetened with dark brown sugar. I have used the nuts here only for garnish and it can be avoided to make it nut-free.

• Buckwheat Oats Cookies (Eggless, GF, Nut-Free) – This was my healthy experiment for this Tea time menu party. I decided to use the Buckwheat flour and Oats here, to get the crunchy and buttery cookies.

• Ragi Choco Chip Cookies (Vegan, GF, Nut-Free) – Another successful experiment with Gluten-free Ragi flour. Love Ragi flour as when it is baked, it naturally gives that chocolate flavor. Kids love it and so do adults. You would need to wait for a little for the recipe. The pic might not that be great, but the cookies turned out delicious.

• Indian Ginger Tea – I cannot have the English tea. We love our chai with ginger or masala. So I have included here my Indian Ginger Tea.

If you are looking for more ideas on what you can include for your tea time check out the links below:

Savoury Ideas

• Baked Raw Banana Chips
• Crispy Baked French Fries
• Herb Roasted Chickpeas
• Greek Style Lemon Roasted Potatoes
• Baked Falafel
• Crispy Garlic Baked Potato Wedges
• Flourless Quinoa Vegetable Muffins
• Spicy and Sweet Baked Cauliflower Wings (Gluten-Free)
• Baked Vegetable Spring Rolls

Bread & Sandwich Ideas

• Wholemeal Cheese Bombs
• Beetroot and Carrot Yogurt Sandwich
• Four Leaf Clover Good Luck Rolls
• Bread Pizza
• Focaccia Bread
• Spinach Spiced Sourdough Bread
• Eggless Challah Bread
• Vegan Sourdough Burger Buns
• Whole Wheat Vegetarian Calzones
• Crunchy Herbed Whole Wheat Breadsticks
• Paska Easter Bread and Muffins

Steamed Recipes

• Easy Maharashtrian Kothimbir Vadi (Steamed Coriander Leaves cakes)
• Instant Rava Dhokla (Steamed Savoury Semolina Cake)
• Instant Khaman Dhokla
• Foxtail Millet Dhokla (Steamed Millet Cake)
• Bajra Idli (Steamed Pearl Millet Savoury Cakes)

Cookie Ideas

• Chocolate coconut Flour Cookies (Gluten Free)
• Beetroot and Oats Cookies
• Chocolate Chip Cookies
• Chocolate Hazelnut Biscotti
• No Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
• Nankhatai (Indian Eggless Cookies)
• Gingerbread Men
• Spritz Cookies (Swedish Butter Cookies)
• Buckwheat Oats Cookies (Eggless, GF, Nut-Free)

Dips & Spread Ideas

• Easy Golden Turmeric Hummus
• Sweet Mango Chilli Sauce
• Beetroot hummus
• Baba Ghanoush (Creamy Eggplant/Aubergine Dip)
• 2 ingredients Sugar-Free Hazelnut Chocolate Butter
• Raw Avocado Basil Dip
• Mint Yogurt Chutney
• Fresh Dill and Cucumber Dip (Fresh Greek Tzatziki)
• Pectic free Homemade Mix Fruit Jam
• Honey Roasted Peanut Butter
• Green Coriander Chutney
• Greek Yogurt Dill Dip (5 min recipe)
• Easy Chunky Avocado Guacamole
• Easy Green Tomato Chutney
• Sugar-Free Berry Chia Jam (Instant Pot & Open Pot Method)
• Farali Peanut, Sesame and Curd Chutney
• Indo Chinese Style Schezwan Chutney
• Easy Celery Chutney

Cupcake/Muffin/Brownie Ideas

• Whole wheat Butternut Squash and Apple Muffins
• Whole Wheat Chocolate Avocado Banana Muffins
• Eggless, Sugarless, Chocolate Ragi Brownie (V,GF)
• Eggless Gulkand Muffins
• Coconut Flour Orange Poppy Seed Muffins
• Eggless Whole Wheat Chocolate Cupcakes
• Fudgy Apple Brownies
• Whole Wheat Kale Brownies

Cakes/Sweet Breads

• Double Chocolate Whole Wheat Banana Bread
• Pumpkin Bundt Cake
• Zucchini Chocolate Whole Wheat Bread
• Eggless Chocolate Cooker Cake
• Whole Wheat Classic Christmas Cake
• Low Carb Chocolate Coconut Flour Cake (Gluten Free)
• Orange Yeast Bundt Cake
• Whole Wheat Carrot Cake|Bread
• Egg-less, Sugar-less, Butter-Less Dates & Walnut Cake
• Lemon Cake (No Baking Powder, No Baking Soda)
• Eggless Whole Wheat Lemon Tutti Frutti Cake
• Eggless Lemon Drizzle Cake
• Sugarless & Vegan Apple and Carrot Loaf
• Whole Wheat Banana Bread
• Gluten Free Double Chocolate Banana Bread
• Swirl Sourdough Whole Wheat Bread

Sweet Treats

• Vegan Chocolate Peanut Butter Candy Bites
• Dates and Nuts Energy Bites
• Beetroot and Dates Energy Bites
• Danish Pastry
• Doughnuts
• Spiced Candied Mixed Nuts
• Chocolate Puffed Amaranth Bars

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