Not a single table, even everyday or festive, is complete without cold appetizers and dishes. They are not only its decoration, but also necessary for better digestion of food, stimulating appetite, as they include fresh and pickled vegetables, sauces and seasonings. So, what to cook cold appetizers for the festive table with photos and recipes - next.
This is interesting! Snacks can be pre-prepared and canned - sauerkraut, pickled vegetables, as well as smoked meat and fish. But also prepared from different ingredients, for example, sandwiches.
- meat;
- vegetable;
- from seafood;
- fish;
- mushroom.
- When mixing different ingredients, it is desirable to know which products work best with each other.
Meat snacks are:
- boiled meat;
- sausage;
- ham;
- brisket;
- loin;
- pate;
- jelly;
- aspic.
For fish snacks, fish and seafood of various processing are taken:
- smoked,
- salty,
- dried,
- aspic,
- boiled,
- fried,
- canned.
You can add to vegetable snacks: rice, beans, boiled eggs.
Seafood are purchased ready-made or boiled and crushed. Mushrooms are used pickled, salted or fried with onions.
Usually, cold snacks on the festive table (you will find photos and recipes below) are decorated, as a rule, the same products that are part of the snack are used, and greens are added to them. Vegetables should be beautifully chopped, you can use a curly knife. Flowers, leaves, stars, roses are formed from them.
Interesting! It can be cut in the form of geometric figures: in the form of circles, sticks and straws. Green peas, olives, eggs, both chicken and quail, cut into slices, flowers are considered a wonderful decoration.
Snacks on the festive table for a birthday
On your birthday, you really want to cook new dishes and surprise your guests with a variety of snacks on the table, but at the same time do not spend a lot of time so that they are not too expensive, they look spectacular. There are many requests, but are there dishes that meet all of them? Of course have!
Stuffed eggs with cod liver
This appetizer is always in great demand, easy to prepare, especially if you prepare all the products in advance. The basis of the dish is eggs and canned cod liver, it can be replaced with sprat pate, which is much cheaper. How ?
Ingredients:
- chicken eggs - 8 pcs.;
- canned cod liver - 1 can;
- onions - 1 pc.;
- olives - 1 can;
- butter - 1 tbsp. l;
- mayonnaise - 2 tbsp. l;
- dill or parsley - 1 bunch.
Cooking:
- Boiled chicken eggs must be cut across. Then you need to remove the yolks from them;
- Fry onions in sunflower oil;
- Open canned cod liver. Grind with a fork, add the yolks and butter to them;
- Grind until smooth. Add fried onions, finely chopped greens to the resulting mass;
- With this mass, it is necessary to fill the halves of the eggs;
- Top with mayonnaise, garnish with olives, cut into rings, and garnish with parsley sprigs.
Meatloaf with mushrooms
The original version of the snack on the festive table for a birthday (the recipe with the photo is presented below) will be a cold dish - meatloaf with mushrooms. Great ways.
Ingredients:
- pork tenderloin - 500g;
- beef - 500g;
- chicken egg - 1 pc.;
- hard cheese - 100g;
- champignons - 200g;
- butter - 1 tbsp. l;
- onions - 1 pc.;
- ground pepper - 1 pinch;
- vegetable oil - 2 tbsp. l;
- greens - 1 bunch.
Cooking:
- It is necessary to make minced meat from meat by mixing pork with beef. Drive a raw egg into it, salt and add a pinch of pepper;
- Then start preparing the filling. Boil the champignons for about 5 minutes, and fry in a pan in butter and sunflower oil, adding onion and garlic. Pass the cheese through a grater, mix the filling;
- Spread foil on a baking sheet, brushing it with vegetable oil. Spread the minced meat on it, but so that you get a pancake 1 cm thick;
- Spread the filling on it and wrap it with a roll, helping with foil. Then it must be wrapped in it and put in the oven for 60 minutes;
- After an hour, open the foil so that the roll is browned, send it back to the oven for another 15 minutes;
- Chilled roll cut into slices about 1 cm thick.
Original appetizers for the festive table
Many housewives want to surprise their guests with unusual and original dishes. We bring to your attention recipes with photos of original snacks on the festive table that will definitely surprise your guests.
Crab meat fir-trees
This appetizer, easy to prepare, looks original. Although it is more suitable for the New Year's table, it can please guests on any other holiday.
Ingredients:
- crab meat - 1 pack;
- chicken eggs - 2 pcs.;
- processed cheese - 1 pc.;
- garlic - 1 clove;
- mayonnaise - 3 - 4 tbsp. l;
- cracker cookies - 100 gr.;
- dill - 1 bunch;
- lettuce leaves;
- pomegranate - 1 pc.
Cooking:
Crab meat, cheese, eggs are passed through a fine grater. To them is added 1 clove of garlic, passed through a garlic press. Everything is well mixed;
A flat plate is taken, lettuce leaves are laid out on it. From the resulting mass, it is necessary to roll small balls. For each Christmas tree you will need 3 balls. First, a cracker is placed on lettuce leaves. Then flatten one ball, put it on top, make the second one a little smaller in diameter, and form a cone from the third, put everything on top of each other in the form of a pyramid, you get the shape of a Christmas tree;
Such Christmas trees should be according to the number of guests. From above, each Christmas tree is densely sprinkled with dill so that it becomes green, as if with needles and is decorated with pomegranate seeds.
Snack in tartlets
Ingredients:
- ready-made tartlets - 10 pcs.;
- chicken eggs - 5 pcs.;
- canned shrimp - 1 can;
- avocado - 1 pc.;
- butter - 20 g;
- lemon - 1 pc.;
- parsley - 1 bunch;
- mayonnaise 3 tbsp. l;
- chili pepper - 1 pc.
Cooking:
- Hard-boiled chicken eggs are cut across in the form of flowers, using a notched knife;
- The yolks are transferred to a separate plate, finely chop the shrimp, add mayonnaise, mix well and fill the proteins with this mass. Top can be sprinkled with herbs;
- Then an avocado is taken, cut into cubes, the remaining yolks, parsley are added to it, juice, butter, chili are squeezed out of the lemon. The whole mass is placed in a blender and beat;
- Tartlets are filled with the resulting mass, and a stuffed egg is placed on top.
Light snacks on the holiday table
Sometimes even light snacks that do not require much time to prepare are a wonderful table decoration.
Canape with curd cheese
This canape is prepared very quickly, you do not need a lot of products.
Ingredients:
- slices of rye bread - according to the number of guests;
- cottage cheese;
- dill greens;
- salt - 1 pinch;
- medium-sized fresh cucumber - 1 pc.
Cooking:
First you need to chop the dill and mix it with curd cheese, add a little salt, you should get a homogeneous mass;
It is better to pass cucumbers through a special slicer, as they should be in the form of thin ovals;
Start making sandwiches. We put curd cheese with greens on the bread. Then the cucumber is pierced with a skewer in the form of a sail and strung on the middle of the canape. Makes cute little boats. Sandwiches must be laid out on a flat plate and garnished with herbs.
Champignons stuffed with chicken breast
Another option for a light snack on the festive table (the recipe and photos are offered below) is champignons with chicken breast, which mushroom lovers will especially like.
Ingredients:
- chicken breast - 500 g;
- champignons - 300 g;
- onions - 1 pc.;
- vegetable oil - 2 tbsp. l.;
- mayonnaise - 1 tbsp. l;
- greens - 1 bunch;
- hard cheese - 50 g.
Cooking:
- Chicken and onions are cut into small cubes, mushroom legs are added to them, a little salt to taste. All ingredients are stewed in vegetable oil until cooked, cooled;
- Sour cream is added to them, everything is mixed. Then, a chilled mass is laid out on each cap of the mushroom, and baked in the oven for 15 minutes, then removed and sprinkled with hard cheese rubbed through a grater;
- Then put everything back in the oven until the cheese is melted for another 3-5 minutes. Mushrooms are cooled and served on the table, decorated with greens.
Sandwich with canned fish
It is easy to prepare, it is tasty, stimulates the appetite.
Ingredients:
- pieces of white or rye bread, loaf;
- canned fish in oil (saury, sardine);
- pickles;
- garlic;
- mayonnaise;
- vegetable oil.
Cooking:
- First, slices of bread or loaf are fried in vegetable oil;
- Then 1 clove of garlic is taken, which is passed through a garlic press and mixed with mayonnaise;
- Then the pickled cucumber is cut with a sharp or corrugated oval-shaped knife. Now everything is ready, you can form a sandwich;
- A fried piece of bread is smeared with cooked garlic-mayonnaise sauce. A cucumber is placed on one side of the bread, and pieces of canned fish are placed next to it;
- On top of the fish, you can pour greens or carefully put a small sprig of dill or parsley.
- The holiday sandwich is ready.
Snacks on the festive table in a hurry
Very often there is such a situation that the guests have already arrived and it is necessary to quickly set the table. In this case, it is important to know several options for snacks on the festive table in a hurry (you will find recipes with photos below).
Delicious lavash roll
Ingredients:
- pita bread - 1 pc.;
- salmon - 200 g;
- fresh cucumbers - 1 pc.;
- processed cheese "Hochland" - 1 tray.
Cooking:
- Ready pita bread is smeared with melted cheese, laying salmon in one row, thin slices of cucumber on top;
- Everything is rolled up in the form of a roll and cut across, into small portions. Lay out on a flat plate.
Lavash roll with ham
Ingredients:
- pita bread - 1 pc.;
- Korean carrots - 1 pack;
- ham - 100 gr.
Cooking:
- Lubricate pita bread with mayonnaise, put Korean carrots on top with a thin layer, and spread thinly sliced ham on it;
- Roll everything up and cut across.
Cheese and nut balls
These balls cook quickly, are very tasty and nutritious. Original hot appetizer -.
Ingredients:
- hard cheese - 200 g;
- walnuts - 50 g;
- butter - 100g;
- olives - 50 g;
- lettuce leaves;
- dill.
Cooking:
- First you need to grate the cheese on the smallest grater;
- Chop the nuts or pass them through a grater, add slightly warmed butter, finely chopped olives, mix everything with a spoon;
- Roll small balls from the resulting mass;
- Arrange lettuce leaves on a plate, each ball must be rolled in chopped dill, and put on lettuce leaves.
Buns with caviar
Ingredients:
- sliced loaf;
- butter - 100 g;
- salmon caviar - 1 can.
Cooking:
- Each slice of a loaf must be cut in half and greased with butter;
- Gently place salmon caviar on top;
- All sandwiches are laid out on a flat plate.
Beetroot balls with nuts and sesame seeds
Ingredients:
- boiled beets - 2 pcs.;
- walnuts - 4 tbsp. l;
- sesame - 4 tbsp. l;
- prunes - 5 - 6 pcs.;
- mayonnaise - 2 tbsp. l;
- greens - 1 bunch.
Cooking:
- Beets must be chopped on a fine grater, add finely chopped walnuts, mayonnaise, a little salt and pepper;
- Soak prunes in boiling water, then cut them finely with a knife and add to the rest of the products;
- Mix everything and make small balls;
- Sesame must be fried in a pan. You need to roll these balls in it. Arrange on a dish and sprinkle with herbs.
Prunes with cheese
Ingredients:
- prunes - 20 pcs.;
- hard cheese - 200 g;
- bacon - 50 g;
- lettuce leaves;
- garlic - 1 clove;
- mayonnaise - 3 tbsp. l.
Cooking:
- Large pitted prunes need to be steamed to make it softer;
- Arrange lettuce leaves on a dish. Grate hard cheese and garlic and season with mayonnaise;
- This filling must be filled with each plum. Cut the bacon into thin strips, about 1 cm wide; Share your opinion
Every year people celebrate a wide variety of holidays. New Year, Easter and Christmas are just the biggest ones. If you dig deeper, you might be surprised that the holiday is literally every day.
That is why we decided that it is time to help you prepare the festive table. At least with snacks. We have prepared ham rolls, ham and cheese appetizers, tartlet appetizers, cod liver balls and even chips appetizers for you. All this is quite diverse and we really hope that you will like it.
We believe that an appetizer should be not only beautiful, but also tasty, bright, colorful, sometimes even spicy and unusual. What do you think about it?
All prepared recipes have already been tested by us and it has been proven that each of you will be able to cook them for your holiday, because all products are quite affordable, both in terms of availability and cost.
Everything will be incredibly tasty, trust us and run for groceries as soon as possible. All recipes are easy to prepare, they are clear and fast. And this is exactly what the modern hostess needs. Little time + affordable products + easy preparation = delicious snack. Incredible, right?
In the preparation of snacks, as in other types of dishes, there are some nuances. But here, the nuances, of course, are easier. For example, we do not have advice that it is impossible to ventilate the room, because we will not raise any dough. There are no rules about what yeast should be and how to breed it. It doesn't matter to us what kind of pressing the oil is or how best to brew lemon syrup. There will be different rules here.
- First of all, think about the satiety of your meal. An appetizer should not greatly saturate your guest, because after the appetizer there is another first course, then the main course and dessert. So think about everything in advance and do not saturate the guests on the spot;
- The appearance of the appetizer does not play a secondary role. This rule comes first along with the calorie content. Snacks should be pleasing to the eye, very appetizing and attractive. So much so that you want to eat them all at once, without even feeling their aroma;
- And, of course, the size. This is a secondary issue, but no less important. The snack should be as compact as possible. Ideally, it should fit in the mouth entirely. That's why it is an appetizer, just to "snack".
If you are ready to write down recipes and remember the three basic rules of cooking, then we begin.
Spicy ham rolls for a snack
Cooking time
calories per 100 grams
Cheese with garlic are often great friends in different dishes. Let our snack be no exception. We have prepared a ham filling based on these ingredients, as well as some greens, hearty eggs and a masterpiece is already on your table.
How to cook:
Tip: as an option, rolls can be served on lettuce leaves or put them in a pyramid on a flat dish.
It will be truly unusual and perhaps, for someone else, strange. But trust us, it's worth it. Decide on such an experiment, and you will never regret it.
It will take 15 minutes to cook + time to cool.
How many calories - 293 calories.
How to cook:
- Pour gelatin into an empty and small saucepan;
- Pour gelatin with cream and set aside for ten minutes until swelling;
- Move the swollen gelatin to the stove, and turning on the gas, completely dissolve the mass;
- Rinse the dill and chop it;
- Peel and chop the garlic in any way;
- Combine cheese with dill, gelatin, garlic and mayonnaise;
- Mix the mass;
- Expand a small piece of cling film and put the resulting cheese mass on it and spread it into a thin layer;
- Put slices of ham on half of the layer;
- Cover the ham with the second half of the cheese mass and wrap everything with a film;
- Put the almost ready snack in the refrigerator for several hours;
- Cut the finished snack into cubes or rings and serve.
Tip: You can garnish the appetizer cubes with cherry tomatoes and baby mozzarella.
Several types of cheese in the company of crab meat (not crab sticks, mind you) will drive you crazy. You have never eaten such deliciousness. Be sure to cook at your leisure.
It will take 35 minutes to cook + time to cool and bake.
How many calories - 348 calories.
How to cook:
- Turn on the oven immediately to two hundred degrees;
- Butter cut into cubes and combine it with flour and salt;
- Mix well into crumbs;
- Add about 60 ml of cold water and knead the dough into a ball;
- Roll out the finished dough into a ball and cut out circles using your own tartlet molds;
- Place the circles of dough in molds, press them down and pierce them with a fork;
- Put the molds in the refrigerator for thirty minutes;
- After half an hour, remove the molds in the oven for twenty minutes;
- During this time, prepare the filling. To begin with, peel the onion from its thin peel, cut off the roots and wash the head. Next, cut into small cubes;
- Combine onion with ricotta, mustard powder, parmesan;
- Mix everything well and add eggs and yolk;
- Mix the mass again;
- Rinse and chop the parsley;
- Grind crab meat a little;
- Add crab meat, parsley, a little salt, pepper and lemon juice to the cheese mass, mix;
- Get ready-made tartlets and reduce the temperature of the oven by twenty degrees;
- Fill the ruddy tartlets with the filling and put it back in the oven for twenty minutes.
Tip: if you will cut whole crabs, then you can use a whole boiled carcass or just crab claws as decor.
Cod liver is very rich in fish oil, which is useful for every person and in general, for any living creature. If you love fish, then this appetizer will be delicious for you.
Takes 30 minutes to cook.
How many calories - 276 calories.
How to cook:
- Wash the potatoes, put them in a saucepan with water, salt and send to boil;
- Drain the water from the finished potato and let it cool, and then peel it;
- Grate root vegetables;
- Wash the eggs, put them in a saucepan with water and boil until tender;
- Grind the finished eggs with a grater;
- Grind the cheese with a grater too;
- Peel the onion, wash and cut into small cubes;
- Rinse the parsley and finely chop;
- Open a jar of cod, drain the liquid and disassemble the liver into pieces;
- Combine potatoes, liver, soy sauce, eggs, parsley, onion and cheese;
- Roll up small balls from the resulting mass and roll them in sesame seeds;
- Remove the balls for one hour in the refrigerator.
Tip: to make the appetizer taste better, sesame seeds can be fried until golden brown in a dry frying pan.
A tasty, bright, moist snack on crispy chips that all your guests will love so much that you don’t even have time to try it.
Takes 20 minutes to cook.
How many calories - 190 calories.
How to cook:
- Rinse the dill and chop finely;
- Grind cheese with a grater;
- Remove the liquid from the olives and chop very finely;
- Wash the tomatoes and cut into small cubes;
- Peel the garlic, cut off the root, chop the slices in any way;
- Combine dill, garlic, olives, cheese and tomatoes, season with mayonnaise;
- Put the appetizer on the chips and serve.
Tip: Lay the chips on a flat dish, otherwise the filling will drain.
Cooking features and tricks
As we said, even snacks carry a small list of important requirements behind them, although they are easy to prepare. They should be beautiful, appetizing, compact and not particularly satisfying. Served to stimulate appetite and in such a way that they want to eat with their eyes.
Use vegetables in your snacks. They will give freshness, sometimes even a crunch (if it is, for example, cabbage or cucumbers). If you use meat or eggs, nuts, then the snack will immediately become more satisfying. Refresh a snack of various types of greens: dill, basil, parsley, cilantro and so on.
Also, try to present a nice appetizer. These can be special snack dishes, you can spread the appetizer on fresh lettuce leaves or simply spread sliced fresh vegetables around. If the appetizer allows, you can present it with sauce or several at once.
You can play with snacks as you like, change the serving, list of ingredients, sauce, shape and even size. They seem to be created in order to change them, supplement or transform them. Try new ones, play and get new tastes, new types and as a result - completely new snacks. Bon appetit!
What's a holiday table without appetizers? It doesn’t matter if it’s a salad or just vegetable cuts, meat sandwiches, appetizers and on the festive table, recipes with photos are a necessary hint for any hostess who wants to please guests, herself with yummy, at the same time expand her knowledge in cooking.
Holidays are never complete without a full delicious and varied menu. No wonder they have been saying for thousands of years: "Bread and circuses." Here, in order to provide people with “bread”, snacks are also needed for the festive table, recipes with photos, using which even an inexperienced hostess can surprise guests with original dishes.
Haute cuisine - is it easy?
Who remembers what the holiday table of Soviet times looked like? Yes, you don’t need much imagination here: delicious snacks - vegetable or meat cuts, “Olivier” is a must, “Under a fur coat” if it happens in winter, although many have been making it all year round, “Vinaigret” for connoisseurs. Tangerines with apples, a couple of bananas, if you can get it.
Homemade sourdough, these are pickled cucumbers, tomatoes. However, this is precisely the New Year's table. Add to them a hot dish and champagne "Soviet", you're done! And the birthday? A birthday cake was added to the New Year's menu. And sometimes “Under a fur coat” was not made, because this is a traditional “winter” salad.
It would seem that the menu is simple, understandable and even traditional, many will easily remember all the dishes. But how much work the adults invested in order to "assemble" the menu! There is a small selection on the shelves, many products were “thrown out” unexpectedly for sale and you had to stand in line for the same chicken or a jar of cucumbers. What about tangerines? Many families ate such fruits only on New Year's Eve.
Now the store shelves are just bursting with choice. Dozens of fruits, a variety of vegetables, meat, chicken, even a turkey can be easily obtained. And cookbooks no longer look like descriptions of fantasy novels. After all, the ingredients listed in them are quite accessible and understandable. There are entire culinary channels where performances by famous chefs are broadcast for days.
Yes, haute cuisine has ceased to be distant and incomprehensible, however, most venerable chefs show affordable, fast, original dishes that can please not only on holidays, but also on ordinary everyday life. Cooking ceases to seem like a boring obligation of a housewife who, in addition to borscht and cutlets, cooks only porridge or roast.
This is a whole art that is worth studying better, falling in love, introducing yourself and your family to new dishes. Then your birthday guests will certainly appreciate the new delicious salads.
Snacks - important and necessary
Many people wonder why there are snacks on the table at all? After all, there is a hot, main course, you can make broth for the first one, work up an appetite, put a dish with small sandwiches or slices. All. Less hassle. And here are special snacks for the festive table, to please the guests! Is it necessary to buy red or black caviar? Not at all. Usually, guests are set a table and put snacks there.
While hot is being prepared, even before the soup is poured, if it is on the festive menu. Snacks are extremely diverse in appearance, method of preparation, composition of ingredients. When planning the menu for a future holiday, it is not necessary to think only about red or black caviar. Original and delicious snacks are not always expensive.
Julienne and in a bun
Its preparation time is approximately 45 minutes.
Ingredients for 6 full servings.
What will be required:
- Sandwich bun - 6 pcs;
- Onion -1 pc;
- Wheat flour - 1 b.spoon;
- Cream (need 10%) - 100 ml;
- Cheese, hard grade - 100 gr;
- Chicken fillet - 300 gr;
- Refined oil, sunflower - 3 b. spoons;
- Salt - about 0.75 tsp;
- Pepper - 2 ordinary pinches;
- Mushrooms (preferably fresh) - 250 gr.
Cooking:
Such delicious snacks cannot be classified as fast-cooking, but they taste delicious, original and will definitely delight guests. Here, the dish will be baked not inside portioned forms, but in buns, which serve as both a form of baking and a direct edible part of the dish.
First, peel the onion, cut into small cubes. Fry by pouring 1b. spoon of the oil prepared in the ingredients into the pan. Fry until transparent. Gently clean the mushrooms, then chop finely. Add to the onion and saute for about 7-8 minutes, stirring regularly. Make the fire medium, make sure not to overcook.
Add sifted flour (1b.spoon) there, mix. Pour in the cream, simmer for 1 minute, seasoning to taste (salt, pepper).
In the meantime, separately, in a second frying pan, pour in the rest of the oil (2b. spoons) and fry the chicken fillet there, cutting it into medium cubes. Once fried, combine it with mushrooms, simmer together for about a minute.
Place a sheet of paper on a flat, large baking sheet, arrange six cooked buns on top. Cut off the tops of each neatly and evenly. Fill them with fried julienne, then sprinkle with gently shredded cheese.
Bake no more than 4-5 minutes until the cheese crust is melted. The oven temperature will be 180.
Sandwiches with canned tuna
A very easy, quick and tasty dish, especially fish lovers will like it.
What will be required:
- Canned tuna - 1 whole can;
- Cream cheese (you can use any) - 100 gr
- Boiled eggs - 2 pcs;
- Green onions - half a bunch;
- White bread - 8-10 ready-made slices;
- Salt and pepper - only to taste;
- Garlic (optional).
Cooking:
Thinking about what salads and appetizers can be done really quickly, consider this option. First you need to fry a little bread for sandwiches. You can use a regular frying pan or a special grill. If you still use garlic, then fry the bread, then rub the ruddy crust with garlic.
Arrange all the fried bread on a flat plate, which you can then take away immediately to the festive table. Finely chop half a bunch of green onions.
Dump the whole tuna into a small bowl, mash it with a fork, then finely chop the eggs and add there. You can grate them through a grater, it's faster. Add to them green onions with cream cheese.
Spices to taste, try to track the amount and not overdo it. Then mix thoroughly until a homogeneous mixture is obtained, convenient for subsequent spreading. Brush the toasted side of all the loaves with the mixture.
Already before serving, you can supplement the dish with olives or herbs on top. Suitable for decoration finely chopped tomato or cucumber. Such cold appetizers on the festive table are sure to please guests.
Hot sandwiches with sprats
An unexpected combination of sprats with melted cheese. Sandwiches with this filling are baked in the oven.
What will be required:
- Sprats - a whole can;
- Baton - 8 slices;
- Cheese (hard) - 100 gr.;
- Mayonnaise (you can sour cream) - 60 gr.;
- Garlic - a couple of cloves.
Cooking:
There is nothing tricky and complicated in the preparation of such a dish, but the result will clearly please. First, put the mayonnaise (sour cream) in a separate, convenient bowl. Add crushed garlic or grater there. Mix.
Brush all the slices with the mixture, then collect them on a flat dish for later baking. Place 1-2 sprats on each of the sandwiches (as many as you like).
Sprinkle grated cheese on top of each slice. You can, of course, rub immediately on sandwiches, but this way the pieces of cheese will be everywhere: on the table, scattered in the form. It is better to grate first and take a little from the pile.
In an oven already preheated to 200 degrees, sandwiches need to be baked until the cheese is completely melted. It will take approximately 10-11 minutes.
It is better to serve immediately. So that guests find them hot, bake sandwiches at the same time as the guests arrive. Just 10-11 minutes for undressing, placing at the table. Here's a hot and fresh appetizer for your birthday.
Hawaiian toast
Why not try a little exotic? I immediately recall the dishes shown by venerable chefs, some haute cuisine from an expensive restaurant. Hawaiian toast looks beautiful, it is an easy, fairly quick and tasty snack.
What you need (here is the calculation for 1 toast):
- White bread (see special, for toast) -1 pc;
- Pineapple, canned - 1 puck per sandwich;
- Processed cheese (special square for toast) - 1 slice;
- Ham - 25 gr.;
- Butter - about 3 gr.
Cooking:
This toast is considered one of the easiest Hawaiian recipes, where there is pineapple, meat. Of course, you can make Hawaiian pizza, but it will take 20 minutes, and toast takes literally 5-6, especially with ready-made ingredients. There is also a closed variety of a sandwich - a Hawaiian sandwich, maybe for someone it is more beautiful and even more satisfying, but toast is more beautiful.
First, lightly toast all the bread. Even when ready-made breads intended for toast or an ordinary neatly sliced \u200b\u200bbrick are at hand, it is still worth frying. Then you get a delicious crispy crust.
Then cover the bread with a thin layer of butter. We lay slices of ham on top - you can just use rounds, or you can have three rounds folded into triangles.
There will be one pineapple puck on top of the ham, just shake off all the syrup first. There is already a slice of soft, square cheese on the puck. Instead of an oven, you can hold sandwiches for a minute in a conventional microwave, turning the power to the maximum.
All is ready. Why are pucks better than fresh pineapples? They look prettier, especially when the melted cheese falls into the hole of such a puck.
A little about snacks
Sandwiches are also different, small - canapes, literally bite-sized or medium-sized, standard. It is easier to make them in a hurry, without particularly bothering with the ingredients. Sometimes sandwiches are collected in a variety of ways, from the remnants of food that can be found in the refrigerator.
Any festive table suggests variety, so when planning a menu, you can make cold appetizers in addition to sandwiches or canapes. As a rule, these are meat dishes. For example, meat slices.
This is a beautiful, even chic dish, more like an exhibition of a variety of sausages or ham. What is used for any cutting:
- Large flat dish;
- All ingredients are cut thinly, evenly and beautifully;
- You can decorate with herbs, fruits or vegetables;
- It is not necessary to use only meat or ham for cutting. You can have several varieties of sausages, add vegetables or fruits;
- Most of the cuts are extremely simple, requiring a picture of the finished dish to complete, with no instructions;
- When serving sliced bread, it is better to put a bread box next to it with a couple of types of already sliced \u200b\u200bbread, if one of the guests wants to make sandwiches for themselves;
- To make the cut look beautiful, use multi-colored products, playing in contrast;
- The simplest design, in a hurry, is to lay out the chopped ingredients in a circle so that each variety forms a full circle. In large circles - what is the most, etc. Set something in the center for decoration;
- You can mentally divide the dish into equal segments and put the ingredients in each. Divide the segments then with pieces of vegetables, herbs. Some original ideas sometimes get in the way, even eating a dish - you don’t want to spoil it.
The same meat (or sausage) looks more appetizing when rolled up. Lay them out empty, or stuff them from the inside with sprats, lettuce or olives - extremely satisfying.
Fold the pieces first in half, then insert cucumber slices, sprigs of greens or cheese slices between them.
Usually they try to decorate cold cuts with either vegetables, or herbs, cheese, olives. The main thing is to imagine how the ingredients are then combined together.
You can add pomegranate seeds, olives or black olives, of course greens, figuratively cut lemon or apples, kiwi. Chefs from elite restaurants additionally sprinkle ground paprika, adding spices and pepper.
How to decorate the center of the cut? There remains space. You can put a gravy boat or salt, as well as a beautiful bowl of mustard, some homemade seasoning or mayonnaise, toothpicks. By the way, instead of a regular bowl, you can adapt the bell pepper by cutting it beautifully on top.
meat rose
First, cut your sausage or meat into thin, even slices. Twist one of the slices gently - the middle of the future rose.
Wrap the core with other meat slices in a circle, imagining rose petals. Gradually outline the shape of the flower.
The bottom of the rose needs to be fixed with toothpicks, piercing it crosswise or with skewers, they are longer. Next, cut the lower petals so that it turns out to be flat and more stable then on the dish.
Everything, the flower can be placed in the center of the dish with the finished cut. Open the petals. Beautifully complement the flower with sprigs of parsley (dill).
original snacks
In addition to sandwiches, canapes or cold cuts, there are plenty of options on how to please yourself and your guests.
Appetizer "Tangerines"
What will be required:
- Mayonnaise - 1 b.spoon;
- Processed cheese - about 100 gr;
- Eggs -3 pcs;
- Carrot -150 gr;
- Garlic - 2 tooth.
Cooking
More suitable for the New Year, but it is possible for any holiday table. This appetizer in the form of tangerines, the ingredients are simple, affordable, and cooks quickly.
First, hard boil the eggs, cool and peel. Then grate through the grater, just use the large mesh section. Pass the melted cheese through a grater, just use the middle holes.
Form six identical balls. Boil the carrots, then rub gently with a fine grater. Next, cover each of the balls with a thin, uniform carrot layer, without gaps. Decorate the appetizer with tangerine leaf sprigs. Arrange on a nice flat plate. Ready.
lazy fur coat
We are used to seeing herring under a fur coat, and the dish itself is traditional. But if the “fur coat” is how to cook laziness? It takes a long time, it takes time, effort. You can turn the salad into an original appetizer. Of course, the cooking time is also decent, about 30 minutes, and with the preparation of the ingredients all 2 hours, but the result is still worth the effort.
The ingredients are for 6 individual servings.
Main course:
- Onion - 1 pc;
- Butter - 10 g;
- Herring (salted) -1 piece, whole;
- Apple - 10 g;
- Mayonnaise - 100 g;
- Beets -1 pc;
- Garlic -1 tooth;
- Chicken eggs - 3 pcs.
For marinade:
- Boiled water - 100 ml;
- Salt - a pinch;
- Sugar - a pinch;
- Vinegar (table) - 1 b.spoon
Cooking:
It is suitable for a buffet table, and for a full-fledged festive table. You can add a slice of sweet and sour apple or a little butter. Serve either in whites or on pre-toasted toast.
Beets, pre-boil eggs, peel. Next, chop the beets, passing through a fine grater. Peel the onion, then chop finely into cubes. After scalding with boiling water, hold for just a minute in water, then drain all the liquid. Add vinegar to the onion, then spices. Let it stand for 15 minutes, marinate.
Boil the eggs for a long time, hard-boiled for about 12 minutes. Then, after cleaning, carefully divide in half. Pull out the yolks, chop with a fork. In proteins, carefully cut out larger hollows with a sharp knife.
Add to the yolks half of the already chopped and diced herring. There is also a little grated butter (10g), a couple of slices of sweet and sour apple, also chopped into a cube. Mix.
Squeeze the pickled onion and add to the rest of the ingredients. Mix. Add half of the grated beets there, mix again. To the rest of the beets add mayonnaise, chopped garlic. Mix everything.
Combine the contents of both bowls, mix again until a homogeneous mass is obtained, with which the halves of the proteins (or toasts, as you like) are carefully filled. By the way, the salad will turn out decently, so you can make part of the protein snack, part with toasts. Guests will already figure out what they like best. Top all appetizers with the remaining herring slices.
Snack original
What will be required:
- 3 small processed cheese;
- 3-5 eggs (depending on the size);
- 7-8 tooth from garlic (who likes it spicier, let him take more);
- 200 gr. from mayonnaise.
Cooking:
First, boil all the eggs hard-boiled, then peel and mash thoroughly with a fork. Grind processed cheese with a fine grater. We clean the garlic and also grind it with a grater, the main thing is that its holes are small.
In a deep plate we combine cheese, garlic, and already chopped eggs. We mix everything thoroughly. Add mayonnaise, spices (optional), knead everything, stir with a spoon.
You can replace processed cheese with ordinary hard cheese, taking 250-350 gr. Curds will be easier to rub if you freeze them first.
That's all, you can form small balls or just put the snack in a bowl, you're done. It is eaten either like this, or spread on bread, so put a bread box next to it. By the way, you can submit it, inside, ready-made molds.
Spicy sauce with garlic and tomatoes
Of course, in a good way, sauce is not considered an appetizer, because it cannot be eaten separately, as an independent dish. But he is so beautiful, gentle, with a small point, guests and family members will surely like it. The sauce can also be spread simply on bread, added instead of regular mayonnaise to the main course.
What will be required:
- Ripe tomatoes - about 1 kg;
- Hot pepper (you can chili, a light to taste).
- Allspice - 5 peas;
- 1 garlic;
- Salt -2 m.spoons;
- Sugar - 1b.spoon.
Cooking:
Step 1 - Wash all the tomatoes, cut each into 4 equal parts. Then put them all in a saucepan, put it on fire, cover with a lid. Pour water into it, let it boil, let it boil for 8 minutes. This makes it easier to remove the skin.
Stage 2 - pass the tomatoes already rid of the skin through a sieve. Next, put the resulting puree on a small, weak fire, cook slowly until it thickens. All contents will be cooked for about an hour.
Step 3 - Chop all the garlic.
Festive snacks are an integral part of any feast. The hostesses begin to think of what they will be at least a week before the celebration. And here, everything plays a role - the availability of products, the company that gathers at the table, the availability of time for cooking.
As a rule, snacks are characterized by simple and affordable products that are always in stores. And if a specific ingredient is indicated in the recipe, with a high degree of probability, it can be easily replaced.
Often, snacks are made savory and garlic is added to them. This allows you to reveal the taste as brightly as possible and prepare the body for the main dishes. However, if you are afraid that garlic will leave your snacks on the table, serve some of them not in portions, but in a common dish. Grease the sides of the salad bowl with a clove of garlic. It will give the necessary aroma, but will not transfer the smell to the products themselves.
The purpose of the snack is not to fill up, but to make the appetite break out. Therefore, prepare several varieties of them. It is desirable that they be with meat, seafood, and just vegetables - it's hard to predict, perhaps one of your guests is currently on a diet. And by offering a choice of several snacks, you will not only fill the table, but also give the impression of a caring hostess.
How to cook holiday snacks - 15 varieties
Festive Snack - "Exquisite"
This festive appetizer is distinguished by its freshness and lightness. Despite all this, she is incredibly satisfying. Mini-canapes "Refined" do not take much time, which is extremely important in the process of preparing for the celebration. Moreover, it is highly desirable to make them the day before the feast so that they are soaked. And this is a great opportunity to leave yourself less things to do on a holiday.
Ingredients:
- Ready cakes "Napoleon" - 3 pcs
- Canned saury - 1 can (240 gr)
- Cheese - 300 gr
- Eggs - 3 pcs
- Mayonnaise - 200 gr
- Olives - for decoration
Cooking:
At the preparation stage, it is necessary to boil the eggs hard boiled and cool them.
In a large container or on a baking sheet, place the first cake. Top it well with mayonnaise and put saury mashed with a fork on it, along with the liquid.
Spread the second cake with mayonnaise on both sides, cover the first one with it and put cheese grated on a coarse grater on it.
The third cake, also coat with mayonnaise on both sides. Put grated eggs on it.
Send the appetizer to the refrigerator to infuse for at least 5 hours. The longer it sits, the better the cakes will soak and the taste will be more tender.
Before serving, cut the appetizer into small pieces. Insert a toothpick with an olive on top of each and put everything on a large dish.
The festive snack "Gourmet" does not require much trouble and does not linger on the table for a long time
Another snack option that can be prepared for the future. Almost everyone eats chicken liver pate. It is quite dietary and has a pleasant texture. In the era of youth of our mothers and grandmothers, pates were placed on the table in bowls. This variant of the chicken pate is served in portions and elegantly decorated.
Ingredients:
- Chicken liver - 0.5 kg
- Onion - 2 pcs (large)
- Carrot - 1 piece
- Garlic - 3 cloves
- Vegetable oil - 30 ml
- Butter - 100 gr
- Thyme - 0.5 tsp
- Sage - 0.5 tsp
- Ground black pepper - 0.5 tsp
- Ground allspice - ¼ tsp
- Salt - 0.5 tsp
- Cognac - 2 tbsp
- lettuce leaves
- Greenery
Cooking:
This recipe does not require long-term preparation of ingredients. Chicken liver must be washed, cleaned of excess veins and films (if any), let the water drain. Cut carrots and onions randomly into small pieces. (Carrots can be rubbed on a coarse grater). Finely chop the garlic
Pour sunflower oil into a hot frying pan and wait a few seconds until it warms up. Throw in onions and carrots. Saute vegetables over medium heat for about 4 minutes. When onions and carrots are soft, add finely chopped garlic, thyme and sage. Mix vegetables with spices, let stew for about a minute so that the tastes make friends and add chicken liver.
Mix all ingredients. Cover and simmer for 8-10 minutes on low heat, stirring occasionally. Watch for readiness, if blood comes out of the liver after this time, hold for a couple more minutes.
Add 2 tablespoons of cognac to the liver. Mix well and let simmer over low heat for about 1 minute. The lid should not be covered so that the alcohol vapors evaporate. Add pepper, salt and butter. Stir and let cool slightly, about 10 minutes.
With an immersion blender, turn the finished liver mass into a homogeneous puree.
Line a deep rectangular loaf or cake tin with cling film. Put the prepared mass on it and compact it tightly. Seal tightly with a film on top and leave at room temperature until completely cooled. Then, refrigerate for 4-6 hours, preferably overnight.
After this time, carefully remove the pate from the mold, release from the film and put on a dish with lettuce leaves. Before serving, carefully cut the pate into portions, and then decorate with herbs.
Festive appetizer is ready.
Not a single feast is complete without traditional pancakes. However, times are changing and pancakes require variety. Japanese cuisine has become a part of our lives, and now you will not surprise anyone with a variety of sushi. This recipe is a mix of tradition and innovation. Original appetizer of pancakes with spicy red fish.
Ingredients:
- Red fish - 250 gr
- Red caviar - 50 gr
- Potato - 300 gr
- Sour cream - 2 tbsp
- Butter - 50 gr
- Egg - 2 pcs
- Milk - 0.5 l
- Flour - 2 cups
- Vegetable oil - 1 tbsp. l
- Salt, sugar - to taste
Cooking:
Prepare pancakes. To do this, mix two eggs thoroughly with a pinch of salt and mountain sugar. Add 0.5 l of milk to this mixture and gradually add 2 cups of flour. To speed up the process, it is better to beat with a mixer. But, if you feel more comfortable doing it with a whisk, use it. After stirring thoroughly, leave the pancake dough for 10-15 minutes so that it rests and the flour disperses. After that, it will be clear whether it is optimal density. If the dough is thick, add water or milk.
Pour sunflower oil into the dough, mix well and fry the pancakes in a dry frying pan.
If you don’t have a mixer or a good whisk on hand, but you want pancakes, replace half of the milk with non-salted water with gas. The bubbles in the water will work great with the flour. And even if you only have a fork in your arsenal, your pancakes will turn out without lumps. The main thing is that after thoroughly mixing all the ingredients, let the dough stand for 7-10 minutes.
Peel potatoes, wash, cut randomly and boil. Add butter, sour cream to the finished potatoes and mash in any way you are used to.
Cut red fish into long, thin sticks
Spread the pancake with mashed potatoes. Stepping back a few centimeters from the edge, lay out a strip of red fish and caviar. Roll up the pancake tightly.
Cut the wrapped pancakes-rolls into small portioned pieces, 4-6 cm thick.
Quick, beautiful and tasty snack - ready. Rolls can be served either on a cutting board or on a platter.
When preparing a festive table, you always want to please your guests with something unusual. You won’t surprise anyone with all kinds of rolls now, but for the most part, they use a flour base. Appetizer "Tenderness" is unusual in that for this roll, flour is not needed at all. Therefore, it is suitable even for those who are on a diet.
Ingredients:
- Carrot - 400 gr
- Eggs - 4 pcs
- Ricotta cheese (can be replaced with any cream cheese) - 250 gr
- Garlic - 2 cloves
- Dill - 1 bunch
- Butter - 50 gr
- Sunflower oil - 1 tbsp
- Salt, pepper - to taste
Cooking:
Grate carrots on a coarse grater. Heat up the pan on the stove. Put the butter and add a spoonful of sunflower oil so that it does not burn. Pour the carrots into the pan. Salt, add black pepper and simmer covered for 15-20 minutes.
Take 4 eggs and carefully separate the yolk from the protein. Beat the whites with a mixer, adding a pinch of salt, until a strong foam with stable peaks.
Pour the cooked carrots into a suitable container and cool. After that, add 4 yolks to it and mix well. Gradually, in small portions, introduce the proteins and gently stir with a whisk to keep air bubbles in the mass.
Lay a silicone mat or parchment paper on a baking sheet. Spread the mixture evenly and bake in the oven for 10-15 minutes at 180°C.
While the mass is baking, put the cream cheese in a bowl and, using a garlic press, squeeze 2 cloves of garlic into it. Add finely chopped dill, salt, pepper to taste and mix well with a fork.
Remove the prepared egg-carrot mixture from the oven, grease with cheese and herbs on top and carefully roll into a roll. Roll it up tightly in cling film and put it in the fridge overnight. If you do not have that much time to wait, then 3-4 hours will be enough.
Cut the cooled and soaked roll with a sharp knife into portioned pieces and place on a dish. You can decorate the appetizer with herbs or fresh vegetables. Connect your imagination and your snack will be perfect.
These savory balls always stand out on the holiday table. They look very neat. And their small size allows each guest to taste the appetizer, leaving room in the stomach for other dishes. And the combination of products here is harmonious and thought out.
Ingredients:
- Canned cod liver - 1 can
- Potatoes (boiled in their skins) - 2 pcs
- Hard cheese - 50 gr
- Medium-sized onion - 2-3 pcs
- Eggs - 2 pcs
- Parsley greens - 1 bunch
- Soy sauce - 2 tbsp. l
- Sesame - 3 tbsp. l
- Salt, pepper - to taste
Cooking:
Boil eggs, cool and peel. Boil the potatoes in their "uniform" and peel them in the same way. On this, all serious preparatory work can be considered completed.
Grate eggs, potatoes and hard cheese on a coarse grater. Mash the cod liver with a fork. Finely chop the onion, and chop the greens.
Place all ingredients in a bowl, add soy sauce and mix thoroughly. Add salt and pepper to taste.
Form into small balls, about the size of a medium chestnut. It is good to roll them in sesame seeds, which can be fried beforehand.
Our simple yet delicious appetizer is ready. It remains to put spicy balls with cod liver on dishes and serve.
A variation on the theme of salad "Herring under a fur coat", made in the form of an original appetizer, turned into potato strawberries with mackerel. The ingredients for both dishes are similar, but the serving of the appetizer has its own zest. Firstly, nothing needs to be taken from a common salad bowl - each strawberry is a separate portion. And secondly, a bright appetizer can decorate any table.
Ingredients:
- Mackerel spicy salted - ½ piece
- Potato - 600 gr.
- Sunflower oil - 1 tbsp
- Ground nutmeg - ½ tsp
- Boiled beets - 1 pc.
- Salt - ½ tbsp
- Red onion - ½ piece
- Walnuts - 20 gr
- Processed cheese (soft) - 50 gr
- parsley
- Sesame seeds
Cooking:
Peel potatoes, wash, cut randomly and cook until tender. Then, add 1 tbsp vegetable oil and 1/3 tsp nutmeg. Make puree in the way you are used to.
1 medium-sized mackerel fillet, completely de-pitted and cut into small cubes. Finely chop half the onion and add to the fish. Send chopped walnuts and melted cheese there. Mix the resulting mass well.
Spread about 1 cl of slightly cooled puree in your hand, put the fish mass in the middle and form a potato strawberry with a spicy filling. Lay the strawberries on a cutting board.
Grate the boiled red beets on a fine grater and, using gauze, squeeze the juice out of it. Now, with a spoon, dip the strawberries into the juice and return them to dry on the board.
With the help of parsley leaves, make strawberries ponytails, and sesame seeds will play the role of seeds.
It remains to put the appetizer on a plate, and the strawberry mood will reign on the table even in winter.
Despite the original and exquisite serving, "Log" is prepared quickly, and the ingredients for it are available. The traditional products used in the appetizer will be enjoyed by almost all guests at the table.
Ingredients:
- Chicken liver - 600 gr
- Onion - 1 pc.
- Refined sunflower oil - 3 tbsp. l
- Milk - 50 ml
- Wheat flour - 2 tbsp. l
- Cream 33% - 150 ml
- Salt - 0.75 tsp
- Processed cheese - 200 gr
- Chicken eggs - 3 pcs
Cooking:
The log consists of two parts - cheese and egg cake and chicken liver pate. Let's start by making the pate. To do this, remove the veins from the liver and cut into pieces. Onion cut into small cubes.
Pour sunflower oil into a hot frying pan and, stirring occasionally, fry the liver with onions until tender.
At the end of cooking, pour the cream into the pan, add salt and pepper to taste, mix and heat everything over medium heat for 1-2 minutes.
Place the finished liver with cream in a blender and puree until smooth, homogeneous.
To prepare cheese and egg cake, you need to combine eggs, milk, flour and beat well with a whisk. Add melted cheese grated on a medium grater to the finished mass. Mix everything thoroughly.
Line a deep form 20x30 cm with baking paper, put cheese and egg mass into it and bake in an oven preheated to 190 ° C for 10-12 minutes.
Turn the finished omelette over and remove the parchment while still hot.
Put 2/3 of the filling on top, spread evenly and roll tightly into a roll. Wrap the log tightly in foil, let cool slightly and refrigerate for 1 hour.
Cut off a few pieces from the log, which in the process of decoration will play the role of knots.
Take a dish, put a log on it and grease with the remaining liver mass. Put the cut off parts-knots on the log. And also decorate them with pate. Create a bark relief with a fork.
The original appetizer, which will look appropriate on the festive table, is ready. Looks great and took a little time to make.
This appetizer is a real lifesaver. If the guests warned of their arrival literally half an hour in advance, and there was only time left to run to the store. It is also appropriate to serve it to the festive table if you plan to put wine on it. And don't worry if you couldn't find Philadelphia in the nearest store near your home. It is quite possible to replace it with any cream cheese and even whipped cottage cheese.
Ingredients:
- Philadelphia cheese or similar cream cheese - 200 gr
- Seedless grapes 0.5 kg
- Unsalted pistachios ½ cup
- lettuce leaves - bunch
Cooking:
If the pistachios are in shell, they must first be peeled. Further, they should be crushed, but not into flour, therefore, a coffee grinder is not suitable for these purposes. You can take a rolling pin or crush the pistachios a little with a blender (make sure it does not overheat).
Preparing appetizers couldn't be easier. To make it more convenient to work, you can wear gloves or constantly moisten your hands with cold water.
Break off a piece of cream cheese with a teaspoon. We flatten it a little in our hands and place a grape inside.
We roll the ball. We place it in a container with pistachios and sprinkle on all sides.
We spread the balls on a dish decorated with lettuce leaves.
The original appetizer is ready. For all its simplicity, it goes great with wine and harmoniously complements your table.
Air profiteroles are always appropriate to the table. If in childhood we perceived them exclusively as a dessert, then with age, the fillings for them became not only sweet. By combining crab meat, cheese, fresh cucumber and placing it all in profiteroles, you can get a great snack. In addition, its preparation does not take much time.
Ingredients:
- Choux pastry profiteroles - 10 pcs
- Crab meat - 240 gr
- Eggs - 3 pcs
- Processed cheese - 100 gr
- Fresh cucumber - 1 pc.
- Canned corn - 1 can
- green onion - small bunch
- Mayonnaise - 3-4 tbsp. l
- Salt, pepper - to taste
Cooking:
Buy profiteroles in the store, or make your own in advance.
Grate eggs and crab meat on a fine grater.
Crab meat and crab sticks are difficult to grate. To make this much easier, put them in the freezer for about 30 minutes. However, remember that if you overfreeze crab meat, it will become impossible to work with it and you risk wasting time.
Cut the green onion and cucumber into small cubes.
Grate the processed cheese on a fine grater and mix with mayonnaise in a separate bowl.
Transfer the mixture to a bowl with eggs and crab meat. Also add canned corn. Mix the mixture thoroughly. Add salt and pepper to taste. Optional. You can squeeze a clove of garlic.
Make an incision in the profiteroles and fill them with the finished stuffing. Put on a dish and you can serve. Such an appetizer will be delicious both immediately and after a little infusion.
The original recipe for "Amanitas" will diversify the festive table. It consists of simple components, and it is easy to reproduce it.
Ingredients:
- Cherry tomatoes - 300 gr
- Eggs - 2 pcs
- Ham - 200 gr
- Hard cheese - 200 gr
- Dill greens - 50 gr
- Mayonnaise - packaging
- Salad mix - packaging
- Salt, pepper - to taste
Cooking:
Hard boil eggs. Cool, clean. Grate on a large grater. Also, grate the cheese on a coarse grater. Cut the ham into small cubes. In a convenient container, combine all the prepared ingredients. Season with mayonnaise, add salt and pepper to taste, mix until smooth.
Cut the cucumber into slices, approximately 0.5 cm thick. Cut the cherry tomatoes in half.
Arrange lettuce leaves and chopped dill on a platter. Arrange cucumber slices on top.
Let's start forming mushrooms. To do this, take the finished mass with a teaspoon and make balls out of it. We put them on cucumber pedestals. This will be the base of the mushroom. Next, we put half a tomato on the leg - the hat is ready. It remains to turn the mushroom into a fly agaric. To do this, we put mayonnaise dots on the cap.
Just half an hour and the original holiday fly agarics are ready.
Now, when eggplants can be bought in the store all year round, you can pamper your guests with the Teschin Tongue appetizer not only in summer. It will be a spicy addition to various dishes and is perfect for strong drinks.
Ingredients:
- Eggplant - 1 kg
- Tomatoes - 2-3 pieces
- Garlic - 2 cloves
- Mayonnaise - 20 gr
- Sunflower oil - 100 ml
- Salt to taste
Cooking:
Cut eggplant into thin slices and sprinkle with salt. This is necessary not only so that they give up bitterness (now eggplants are no longer bitter), but also to “pull” water out of them.
Let the eggplant stand for an hour and a half, rinse well, wring out and dry with a paper towel.
Roast eggplant. Prepared in this way, they will take in much less oil.
Cut tomatoes into small slices.
Squeeze the garlic through a garlic press and mix with mayonnaise. If you are afraid that the appetizer will turn out to be too hot, take 1 clove of garlic.
Spread the fried eggplants with the prepared mixture. Put a slice of tomato on top and roll into a roll.
Put the finished rolls on a dish decorated with lettuce leaves.
Delicious and very popular appetizer "Teschin tongue" is ready. In season, it can be prepared not only for the festive table.
The festive table always asks for variety. Surprise your guests with a fresh appetizer with avocado, cucumber and crab meat. The harmonious combination of products gives this appetizer lightness, despite the presence of mayonnaise in it.
Ingredients:
- Crab meat - 150 gr
- Avocado - 1 pc.
- Cucumber - 1 pc.
- Curd cheese - 60 gr
- Mayonnaise - 1 tbsp
- Greens - to taste
- Tartlets ready - 1 pack
- Lemon juice - to taste
- Salt, pepper - to taste
Cooking:
Cut a ripe, soft avocado in half and remove the pit. Scoop out the pulp from the fruit with a spoon. If you want to use the peel instead of snack molds, remove the pulp carefully so as not to damage the walls of the fruit.
Mash the flesh with a fork, add salt, pepper and lemon juice to taste.
Avocado is a fruit rich in iron. For 100 grams of product, it contains 0.6 mg of iron. Therefore, in the air, avocados quickly darken and lose their attractive appearance, which is highly undesirable when preparing holiday snacks. To avoid browning, drizzle the avocado flesh with lemon or lime juice. This will not only add flavor to the dish, but also prevent color loss. The same rule applies to apples.
Cut the crab meat into small cubes and add to the avocado pulp. There also send a cucumber, grated on a medium-sized grater, as well as curd cheese. Season everything with mayonnaise and mix thoroughly. If desired, finely chopped dill can be added.
The bulk of the work has been done. It remains to arrange a beautiful snack.
There may be several delivery options. First, use avocado boats. Second - put a savory snack in prepared tartlets.
Festive appetizer with crab meat - ready. This is a great alternative to the salad with crab meat and canned corn, familiar to every housewife.
This hearty snack option for the festive table is equally good both cold and hot. At the table, "Peacock tail" of eggplant diverges with a bang. And you should keep in mind - the appetizer is portioned, and therefore, prepare as many fragrant ponytails as the guests were invited.
Ingredients for 2 servings:
- Eggplant - 2 pcs
- Hard cheese (which melts well) - 200 gr
- Tomatoes - 500 grams
- Garlic - 2 cloves
- Sunflower oil - 50 gr
- Salt, pepper - to taste
Cooking:
Cut the eggplant into thin plates in the direction from the nose to the tail, but do not cut completely. The eggplant tail is the basis of the tail, on which everything rests.
Cut the tomatoes into circles, and 150 grams of cheese into thin plates.
Squeezed through a garlic press or finely chopped garlic, mix with salt. Rub this mixture over each slice of eggplant fan. Next, put slices of tomatoes and slices of cheese on them.
Line a deep baking sheet with foil and brush with sunflower oil. Gently place the resulting "sandwiches" on it, spreading them out like a fan.
Preheat the oven to 180°C and place the dish in there for 30 minutes. After this time, remove the “tails” from the oven and sprinkle the remaining cheese grated on a coarse grater on top. As soon as the cheese is browned, the appetizer is ready.
There are two ways to serve "Peacock Tail" - or bringing it to the table on a baking sheet, laying it out directly in front of the guests. Or, immediately, in portions on a plate for everyone.
Seafood for snacks is much better than meat. And this is not surprising, because they are light, allow you to whet the appetite and prepare the stomach for the main dishes. An original squid appetizer filled with cottage cheese and shrimp will be the recipe that guests will ask you for.
Ingredients:
- Squids - 3 pcs
- Cottage cheese - 400 gr
- Shrimps - 200 gr
- Garlic - 3 cloves
- Salt - to taste
- Green onion - 3 feathers
- Red paprika - 1 pc.
- Mayonnaise - 2 tbsp. l
- A mixture of ground peppers - 1 tsp
Cooking:
Clean the squids thoroughly. Remove skin and all membranes. Remove fins.
Finely chop the garlic and herbs. Paprika cut into cubes.
Combine cottage cheese with mayonnaise, add garlic, herbs, paprika, a mixture of peppers and mix thoroughly.
If the shrimps are raw, boil them in salted water for 5 minutes and remove the shells. But, you can buy a package of ready-made shrimp.
Combine all ingredients together, salt and pepper to taste. Stuffing for squid is ready.
Boil squid carcasses in lightly salted water for 2-4 minutes. It is important not to overcook them, otherwise they will become rubbery.
Get the squids in a colander and pour over them with cold water.
Stuff the prepared carcasses tightly with the curd mixture and refrigerate for several hours. Before serving, cut the squid into portions.
Light snack - ready.
Lavash is a universal basis for all kinds of snacks. Each time you wrap a different filling in it, you get a completely different dish. This version of the appetizer includes crab sticks in its recipe, which allows you to create a tasty, satisfying and at the same time, budgetary dish. You can also use ham, chicken or fish.
Ingredients:
- Lavash thin - 2 pieces
- Eggs - 3 pcs
- Crab sticks - 200 gr
- Russian cheese - 100 gr
- Processed cheese - 200 gr
- Garlic - 3-4 cloves
- Greens (parsley, dill, green onion) - to taste
- Ground black pepper - to taste
- Mayonnaise - 200 gr
Cooking:
Prepare all the ingredients for the pita roll. To do this, boil the eggs hard-boiled, cool and grate on a coarse grater. Finely chop the crab sticks. Pass the garlic through a garlic press. Add finely chopped greens, season everything with mayonnaise and mix well.
Spread 1 pita bread on the table and carefully coat it with half of the filling. Try to distribute it evenly. Next, lay the second pita bread and spread it with the second half of the filling.
Now carefully and carefully roll the pita bread into a tight roll. It is advisable to wrap it with cling film or foil.
Put the roll in the refrigerator for 3-4 hours, and preferably at night.
Before serving, remove the film and cut into pieces 3-4 cm thick.
Such an appetizer is convenient because it can be prepared the day before the celebration and it will not only not lose its taste, but will become even spicier and richer.
What are snacks for? - So that guests can be surprised right from the doorstep with the beauty of the festive table, the hospitality of the hosts and to satisfy the hunger of the arriving guests a little. Snacks on the festive table should be easy to prepare, beautiful, and, of course, delicious. Often the effect of the first course leaves an indelible impression on the entire gala dinner.
Previously, snacks were rather monotonous - sandwiches, herring, sprats. Now there are a huge number of different recipes, one better than the other.
In my selection of snacks for the New Year's holiday table, I selected simple and delicious recipes. They will decorate any holiday table. The proposed snacks differ in the form of serving. Choose to your taste.
Canape is perhaps the easiest snack to prepare. Translated from French, "canape" means "tiny". And in fact, this is a snack "for one tooth." Canape is a small piece of white or black bread with a side dish. There are many canape recipes, but for the festive New Year's table, I offer beautiful options for this appetizer.
Ingredients:
- white bread - 10 slices
- ham - 20 pieces
- butter - 100 gr.
- olives - 20 pcs.
- cucumber, dill for decoration
Thinly sliced white bread is cut in half obliquely, spread with butter, beautifully laid boiled pork. We prick an olive, a cucumber on a skewer and stick it into a slice of bread with boiled pork.
Canape with salmon and egg
Very nice appetizer. You can cook with both red and black caviar.
Ingredients:
- rye bread - 10 pcs.
- salmon - 10 pcs.
- eggs - 5 pcs.
- butter - 100 gr.
- ½ lemon
Dill, green onion, black or red caviar for decoration
Black bread is cut into squares, greased with butter and sprinkled with green onions. We lay the salmon, sprinkle a little lemon juice. Place half a boiled egg on top. Decorate with dill and caviar.
Canape with salmon and avocado
Ingredients:
- rye bread - 10 pcs.
- salmon 10 pcs.
- avocado - 1 pc.
- olives - 10 pcs.
- ½ lemon
Dill, black olives, cucumber for garnish
Black bread cut into squares. We take out the pulp from the avocado, knead with a fork, add the juice of ½ lemon. Put the salmon on top, decorate with dill, cucumber and olive, fix with a skewer.
And one of the most popular snacks is tartlets - these are small baskets of dough with various fillings. This basket is the perfect base for appetizers and salads. It looks very nice, and what a variety of fillings! On the festive table, baskets can be prepared by yourself from shortcrust or puff pastry. But if you want to quickly prepare snacks for the festive table, then just buy ready-made baskets and fill them according to the recipes below.
Tartlets with caviar and avocado
Ingredients:
- red caviar - 75 gr.
- avocado - 1 pc.
- lemon - ½ pc.
- shortcrust pastry tartlets - 15 pcs.
- cucumber, parsley for garnish
We take out the pulp of the avocado with a spoon, mash it to a puree state and add the juice of half a lemon, you can add a little salt. We put the pulp of the avocado in the baskets. Spread 1 tsp on top. red caviar. Garnish with a slice of thinly sliced cucumber and a parsley leaf.
Tartlets with liver pate
Great solution for a buffet. The lunch is hearty and very tasty.
Ingredients:
- chicken liver - 500 gr.
- onion - 1 pc.
- butter - 1 tbsp. l.
- vermouth or brandy - 30 ml
- salt to taste
- Cranberry Sauce
- shortcrust pastry tartlets - 20 pcs.
- parsley for decoration
Boil chicken liver (15-20 minutes), fry in sunflower oil. Onion cut into cubes and fry in butter. In a blender, grind the liver and onion until smooth. Add salt, vermouth or brandy. For beauty, the pate can be put into tartlets using a pastry bag. Top with cranberry sauce and parsley.
Cheese baskets with pineapple and crab sticks
Do you want to surprise your guests? Then do not be too lazy to prepare such baskets. True, they need to be prepared in advance, the work is quite laborious. And before the guests arrive, just fill the cheese baskets with salad.
Ingredients:
- hard cheese - 150 gr.
- starch - 1 tbsp. l.
- canned pineapple - 100 gr.
- crab sticks - 5 pcs.
- garlic - 3 cloves
- mayonnaise - 2 tbsp. l.
- greens and sesame seeds for decoration
For baskets 100 gr. grate cheese, mix with starch. 2-3 tbsp. l. put the cheese on a preheated Teflon pan and fry for 3-5 minutes on each side. Place the soft cheese on an upside-down glass and leave to set.
Canned pineapples, crab sticks and 50 gr. cheese cut into cubes very finely. Add garlic and mayonnaise passed through the press, mix everything. Arrange the stuffing in baskets. Garnish with a green salad and lightly toasted black sesame seeds.
Appetizer of pita bread on the festive table with cheese and cranberries
Lavash is also a popular and convenient form of serving snacks on the festive table. It is also convenient because pita rolls can be prepared in advance and then there will be more time for other things before the arrival of guests. There are a great many different recipes with pita bread. On the New Year's table, I offer only a few options.
Ingredients:
- pita bread with spinach (can be regular) - 2 pcs.
- cream cheese (Philadelphia type) - 300 gr.
- Feta cheese - 300 gr.
- green onions - 100 gr.
- dried cranberries - 300 gr.
- lemon - ½ pc. for juice
Mix cheeses with chopped green onions, add cranberries, you can add a little salt. Sprinkle pita bread with lemon juice, put the filling on it and roll it tightly. Wrap the roll with cling film and send for a couple of hours in the refrigerator. When serving, cut into rings 2 cm thick.
Lavash roll with eggs and cheese
The simplest appetizer for which you will always find the right ingredients at home. Preparing quickly, but again, you will have to work hard in advance.
Ingredients:
- - Armenian lavash - 1 pc.
- - chicken eggs - 6 pcs.
- - hard cheese - 200 gr.
- - dill - 70 gr.
- - garlic - 5 cloves
- - mustard - 2 tbsp.
- - mayonnaise - 100 gr.
Boil the eggs, let cool and three on a coarse grater. Grind cheese on a grater. Finely chop the dill. Press garlic into mayonnaise, mix with mustard. We mix all the ingredients, season with mayonnaise and mustard and spread this mass on a sheet of pita bread. We wrap the pita bread as tightly as possible, wrap it with cling film and put it in the refrigerator for a couple of hours. Cut into portions, decorate with cucumbers or herbs.
Snack for the New Year - tangerines with garlic
Snack balls are mostly made with cheese. But there are a lot of different additives. On the festive table, you can decorate such balls very beautifully.
Ingredients:
- cheese - 200 gr.
- carrots - 1 pc.
- pitted olives - how many balls
- 3-4 garlic cloves
- mayonnaise - 1 tbsp. l.
- salty biscuits - straws for twigs
- parsley for decoration
Three raw carrots on a fine grater, squeeze the juice. Cheese is also three on a fine grater, add chopped garlic and mayonnaise. We form tangerines, stick a piece of biscuit into the top - straws and make a leaf for a tangerine from a cockerel. Store the balls in the refrigerator until serving.
Cheese balls with grapes
Incredibly beautiful appetizer "for one tooth." Delight your guests with these Rafaelki with cheese.
Ingredients:
- curd cheese - 150 gr.
- melted cheese - 100 gr.
- pistachios - 150 gr.
- large seedless grapes - how many balls
- greenery
Mash curd cheese, mix it with melted cheese. Chop pistachios. We make a cake from cheese, put a grape in the middle and form a ball. Roll the balls in crushed pistachios. Store the balls in the refrigerator until serving.
Cheese balls with tomatoes
Another idea for a beautiful appetizer in the form of balls, only inside there are not grapes, but a cherry tomato,
Ingredients:
- feta cheese (you can curd cheese) - 200 gr.
- butter - 2 tbsp. l.
- cherry tomatoes (small) - how many balls
- 2 garlic cloves
- sesame
- parsley and dill
Lightly toast the sesame seeds in a dry frying pan until golden brown. Mash the cheese with a fork, mix with softened butter, add chopped garlic, pepper. We make a cake from cheese, put a tomato in the middle and form a ball. Roll the balls in sesame seeds or finely chopped greens. Store the balls in the refrigerator until serving.
Fish appetizer for the festive table - Salmon and cheese turrets
Fish snacks are not only a decoration of the festive table, but also a certain element of well-being. After all, snacks with red, and even more so with black caviar, salmon or salmon, have long given the owners of the feast solidity. We will not abandon such a beautiful tradition, and we, especially dishes with fish and caviar, are unusually beautiful, and easy to prepare.
Ingredients:
- Smoked salmon - 400 gr.
- Cream cheese - 400 gr.
- Green onions - for garnish
- Eggs - 3 pcs.
- Garlic - 2 cloves
- Salt, pepper to taste
Boil eggs first and set aside. Salmon cut into thin strips. Put the cupcake molds on a flat surface, such as a tray, cover with cling film, put the chopped salmon on the bottom of the mold so that its edges protrude slightly. Now, using a blender, chop the eggs, garlic and green onions, add cream cheese, salt and pepper. Put the creamy filling in each salmon mold so that the filling protrudes slightly from the mold. Close the protruding ends of the salmon on top. Wrap the ends of the cling film as well. Put a kitchen cutting board with some weight on top of the molds. This is necessary in order to compact the filling. Leave in the refrigerator for 2-3 hours. Garnish with green onion strips when serving.
Puff pastry canape with salmon
Ingredients:
- puff pastry - 450 gr.
- egg - 1 pc.
- Camembert or Brie cheese - 100 gr.
- salted salmon - 200 gr.
- butter - 50 gr.
- cream - 150 ml
- parsley and basil - 1 tbsp. l.
- dill for decoration
Defrost frozen puff pastry, cut into diamonds and place on a baking sheet greased with butter. Lubricate the diamonds on top with beaten egg yolk and place in an oven preheated at 170 ° C for 20-30 minutes. Whip cream. Using a blender, mix Camembert (or Brie) cheese with butter, add cream and finely chopped parsley and basil. Put cream on each diamond, and a slice of salmon on top. Garnish with a sprig of dill or a slice of lemon. For a change, you can put shrimp on half of the canapes.
Jellied salted trout with cucumber
A chic appetizer in portioned wine glasses or cups looks very festive and will surely decorate the festive table.
Ingredients:
- cucumber - 3 pcs.
- lemon for juice - 1 pc.
- trout (salmon) lightly salted - 200 gr.
- cream cheese - 200 gr.
- cream - 100 ml.
- sun-dried tomatoes - 20 gr.
- gelatin - 20 gr.
- vegetable broth - 200 ml.
- salt, pepper to taste
- dill
Soak gelatin in cold water until it swells. In the vegetable broth, while heating, dissolve the gelatin. Allow to cool slightly, pour into serving glasses, put sliced cucumbers into the broth and refrigerate until set. In a blender, beat cream cheese and cream, add finely chopped sun-dried tomatoes and dill. Spread the cream over the frozen jelly. Put another 30 minutes in the refrigerator. Before serving, put a slice of trout in each glass and garnish with a sprig of dill.
Cheese sticks with salmon cream
I suggest serving snacks again in a cheese basket. The most delicate salty cream will be enjoyed by guests.
Ingredients:
- smoked salmon - 100 gr.
- processed cheese - 200 gr.
- grated ginger root - 1 tsp
- hard cheese for baskets - 100 gr.
- parsley, dill
- pomegranate seeds for decoration
- salt, pepper to taste
Prepare a cheese basket. To do this, grate the cheese, 2-3 tbsp. l. put cheese in a thin layer in the form of a circle on a baking sheet lined with baking paper. Put the baking sheet in the oven and bake until the cheese is melted. Quickly place the soft cheese on an upside-down glass and leave to set.
Now grind the salmon fillet, melted cheese, grated ginger and chopped greens in a blender. Using a pastry bag, beautifully put the cream into cheese baskets. Top with greenery and pomegranate seeds.
Pork roll with cranberries on the festive table
Making rolls requires certain skills and time, but the appetizer will turn out to be branded, you will receive many compliments and words of gratitude from the guests. Rolls and rolls can be prepared from meat, cheese, vegetables. And there are a lot of toppings for this dish!
Ingredients:
- pork (preferably neck or chop) - 1.5 kg
- cranberries - 150 gr.
- cognac - 50 gr.
- thyme to taste
- sunflower oil
- salt, pepper to taste
Pour cranberries with cognac and leave for 30 minutes. In a piece of pork in the center we make an incision, not reaching the end of 1-2 cm. Open the meat like a book, beat it well with a hammer so that the thickness of the meat is about 2 cm. Salt, pepper and sprinkle with thyme leaves.
Drain the cognac from the cranberries, put the cranberries on the meat and roll tightly into a roll. We tie the meat with a thread and grease with oil. We bake in the oven at a temperature of 180 ° C, periodically pouring juice from the meat. This roll is good both hot and cold.
Cheese rolls with Korean carrots
Bright and spicy appetizer. This will be appreciated by men under a glass.
Ingredients:
- processed sheet cheese - 16 pcs.
- Korean carrots - 300 gr.
- egg - 3 pcs.
- garlic - 2 cloves
- cream 30% fat - 3 tbsp. l.
- mustard, salt, pepper - to taste
- dill for decoration
Boil eggs. Grind eggs, Korean carrots, garlic in a blender. Pour in the cream and beat until creamy. Spicy lovers can add mustard, salt and pepper to taste. Lay out the cheese sheets, put the filling on them and roll them into rolls. Finely chop the dill and roll the rolls in it.
Eggplant appetizer with walnuts
I often cook such eggplant rolls for guests, and the appetizer disappears from the table in no time.
Ingredients:
- eggplant - 2 pcs.
- walnuts - 1 cup
- Greek yogurt (can be replaced with sour cream) - 70 gr.
- garlic - 2 cloves
- cilantro - 1 bunch
- lemon juice - 2 tsp
- pomegranate - 1 pc.
- olive oil
- salt to taste
Cut eggplant into thin strips lengthwise. Rub each strip with salt and leave for 15 minutes. Remove excess salt with a paper towel. Fry eggplant strips in olive oil on both sides until golden brown. Mix chopped walnuts, finely chopped garlic, pomegranate seeds, cilantro and yogurt. Add lemon juice and salt a little. On the edge of the strip of eggplant put 1 tbsp. l. nut filling and roll up. Cool and garnish with pomegranate seeds and chopped cilantro before serving.
In this collection, I tried to offer you interesting recipes for delicious and original snacks not only for the New Year, but also for any holiday table. Snacks all do not require special skills, anyone can cook.
