Delicious simple appetizers for the festive table. Spicy eggplant baked in the oven with minced meat and vegetables

Snacks are probably the most interesting type of food, and since childhood. True, when we ran home in childhood, grabbed a piece of bread with sausage or lard, we did not even suspect that we were already using snacks, but these were real snacks.

I have already given you several recipes, but there are so many of them that we will not try them in our entire lives. They are always needed. If it’s easier to approach, salads are also snacks, but about, we also already talked about.

In the old days, all cold dishes served before the main hot meal were considered snacks. And the appetizers could be very complex. Some contained up to 50 ingredients.

But we will look at simple, easy to prepare and delicious snacks.

Step-by-step recipes for making simple, light and tasty snacks

Let's start with the most favorite snack for most people - with herring.

1. Herring appetizer for the festive table

Cooking:

1. We cut the herring into fillets (we have already done this:). Rinse each fillet with your hands (as if you are doing a massage) not hard or beat off, but very easy.

2. Spread melted cheese on the fillet, spreading it evenly over the entire fillet.

3. Put a tablespoon of canned sweet pepper on the cheese and also level it all over the fillet.

4. Sprinkle preferably with freshly ground pepper. Sprinkle with chopped dill.

5. With the help of a cellophane film, we roll it into a longitudinal roll and send it to the refrigerator for 2-2.5 hours.

During this time, prepare the basis of this snack.

6. We take black bread and cut out mugs with a glass. You can simply cut the bread into squares, rectangles, into any shapes, as long as the pieces of herring that we will lay out with you fit in.

7. When our roll has cooled, cut into small pieces and arrange into cut circles.

Garnish with herbs and serve.

Bon appetit!

1. Herring appetizer

Cooking:

1. Take the herring fillet and cut it into small pieces. Let's start making the marinade.

2. Put the pieces in a deep bowl and add mayonnaise to the pieces of herring.

3. Add mustard.

4. Pour wine vinegar.

5. Cut and add parsley and dill to the cup, pepper to taste.

6. Mix everything and put in the refrigerator for one hour.

7. While the herring is marinating, cut the bread into triangles or whatever you like. Of course we take black bread. It goes best with herring.

We take out the finished herring from the refrigerator, lay it on slices of bread, decorate with herbs, fix it with skewers and serve it on the table.

Take all the ingredients to your taste. Someone likes more mayonnaise, someone vinegar.

Bon appetit!

1. Rolls with ham and cheese

Cooking:

1. We spread the ham plastics with tender curd cheese. Using a knife, spread the cheese evenly over the ham.

2. Lay the basil leaves on the cheese. Pepper with freshly ground pepper from the mill.

3. Cut the olives into circles and lay them on the basil.

4. Wrap the ham in rolls.

5. Cut the rolls obliquely into several pieces. as you wish.

Serve with roasted pine nuts, olives and herbs.

Bon appetit!

1. Ham on toast with stuffing

Cooking:

1. First, prepare the filling. Finely chop the pickled cucumber.

2. Add it to the curd cheese.

3. There we will add chopped basil or parsley leaves, or other greens that you like. Mix everything thoroughly.

4. Slices of white bread or loaf lightly fry on both sides.

5. Spread the resulting filling on a piece of fried white bread or a long loaf.

6. Lay the folded ham plastics on top.

7. Cut cherry tomatoes and green olives in half.

With wooden skewers, pierce olives from the convex side first, and then, on the same skewer, tomatoes.

Then stick it all into our toasts.

The snack is ready.

Bon appetit!

1. Mozzarella appetizer with tomatoes on skewers

Cooking:

We take a beautiful deep cup (we will serve it on the table)

1. Pour olive oil into it, add balsamic vinegar, salt and sprinkle with freshly ground pepper.

2. Prick cherry tomato, mozzarella round on a skewer,

3. we prick a leaf of basil and another mozzarella round.

Dip the skewers into the sauce and serve as such.

Bon appetit!

In all the recipes written above, I did not indicate the number of ingredients. Everything is simple there. Add as you wish, depending on the number of people.

1. Champignons in batter and breadcrumbs

As a rule, fish or meat is cooked in batter. We will cook mushrooms. Mushrooms are the best for this.

Ingredients:

• Small champignons - 200 g.
• Eggs - 2 pcs.
• Milk - 100 ml.
• Flour - 50 g.
• Vegetable oil - 1-2 cups
• Breadcrumbs - 50 g.
• Pepper, salt - to taste

Cooking:

1. Wash mushrooms, peel and cook in salted water for 10 minutes.

2. Break the eggs into a deep bowl and beat them with milk.

3. Dip the boiled mushrooms into the egg mixture, then roll in flour and dip again into the egg mixture.

4. Roll in breadcrumbs. Dip the mushrooms in boiling oil and fry until golden brown.

Serve hot with fresh herbs and vegetables.

Bon appetit!

1. Tomatoes with shrimps and cheese

Ingredients:

• Cherry tomatoes - 10-15 pcs. Choose the size of the shrimp.
• Boiled-frozen shrimp - 10-15 pcs.
• Cream cheese - 150-200 g.

Cooking:

Wash the tomatoes, dry them with a towel and cut off the top of each tomato. Carefully remove the middle of the tomatoes. Inside, lightly add some salt to the tomatoes and turn them over on a towel to glass the liquid.

Shrimps are thrown into boiling salted water and boiled for no longer than 1-1.5 minutes (if the shrimps are not boiled, but fresh-frozen, you need to cook longer, 2-3 minutes after boiling). Cool the shrimp and clean. We remove the heads.

We fill the tomatoes with cream cheese, stick the shrimp into the cheese with the tail up. If you have two shrimp, stick in two.

Bon appetit!

1. Ham and cheese rolls

Ingredients:

• Ham - 200 g.
• Hard cheese - 100 g.
• Garlic - 1-2 cloves
• Mayonnaise, herbs - to taste

Cooking:

Grate the cheese on a coarse grater, transfer to a deep cup, add mayonnaise, squeeze the garlic there. Finely chop the herbs and add to the cheese. Mix everything thoroughly.

Spread ham slices with cheese mixture and roll up. Secure the rolls with colored skewers.

Transfer the finished rolls to a dish and you can decorate, if desired, with sprigs of greens.

Bon appetit!

1. Potato pancakes with salmon

Ingredients:

• Potato - 500 g.
• Onion - 1 head
• Red onion - 1 head
• Egg - 1 pc.
• Flour - 3 tbsp.
• Sour cream - 200 g.
• Smoked salmon - 200 g.
• Vegetable oil
• Salt, pepper - to taste

Cooking:

Wash potatoes, peel, wash again and grate. Squeeze thoroughly, mix and squeeze again. Peel the onion, finely chop and add to the potatoes. Lightly beat the egg and add it to the potatoes along with the flour. Salt, pepper and mix thoroughly.

Heat up vegetable oil in a frying pan. We spread the potato dough with a spoon in boiling oil as for pancakes. It is better to lay out little by little so that the pancakes are free in the pan. Fry for a few minutes on each side, until golden brown.

Place cooked pancakes on paper towels to remove excess oil. Transfer to a plate, top with sour cream. Then we put a little red onion, cut into half rings and plastic fish.

Bon appetit!

1. Stuffed eggs on the festive table

Option 1.

Ingredients:

• Eggs - 5 pcs.
• Cream or curd cheese - 2 tbsp.
• Salted salmon or salmon - 50 g.
• Dill - 1-2 sprigs
• Salt, pepper - to taste

Cooking:

Boil the eggs in boiling water until tender. We lower them into cold water, let them cool, peel them from the shell. Cut each egg in half and take out the yolks. We cut salted fish into very small pieces, the smaller, the better. If you like dill, you can also finely chop it and add it.

Put the yolks in a small bowl, knead with a fork. Add salmon, dill and cream cheese to them. We mix everything well. Salt, pepper to taste, you can not salt. Mix again.

Gently stuff the egg halves. Lay on lettuce leaves and serve. You can decorate with greenery.

Bon appetit!

1. Stuffed eggs with cheese

Option 2.

Ingredients:

• Eggs - 6 pcs.
• Butter - 100 g.
• Sour cream - 4 tablespoons
• Hard cheese - 200 g.
• Salt, pepper - to taste

Cooking:

For this egg stuffing option, you will also need to boil the eggs, cool, peel, cut in half, remove the yolk.

Then grind the yolk with softened butter, add grated cheese on a medium grater, mix well. Gradually add sour cream to the resulting mass and grind until a fluffy mass is obtained. Salt, pepper.

Put the halves of the proteins on a plate and fill them with cheese cream. You can add parsley, put on lettuce leaves. For lovers, sprinkle with a little red pepper.

The eggs are ready. They can be put on a plate with the first option of stuffed eggs equally.

Bon appetit!

1. Cold appetizer with red fish

Ingredients:

• Plastics of lightly smoked-salted salmon
• Philadelphia cream cheese or other
• Basil, parsley
• Italian spices
• White baguette

Cooking:

We cut the baguette into equal pieces about 1 cm wide (it is desirable that the baguette be “plump”). It is better to cut with a special bread knife so that our pieces do not wrinkle. Lay them out on a plate.

We take cheese. We have Philadelphia. You can use any other cream cheese, preferably without any additives. Put it in a deep plate and knead it to a homogeneous paste.

We take fresh parsley leaves and fresh basil leaves, wash and dry. We cut them into medium pieces, of course you can tear them as you like. Mix the leaves and put them in a mortar. Grind the leaves into a bowl. If you don't have a mortar, you can use any crusher. Pour a pinch of Italian herbs into the gruel of herbs and mix everything thoroughly again.

Pour everything that we got into the mashed cream cheese, mix everything very well.

We take the sliced ​​​​pieces of baguette and spread the resulting mass with a knife. Spread with an even middle layer. And so are all the pieces. We roll the red fish with a roll (roses) and put it on our baguette pieces, spread with cheese cream. I prefer lightly salted and smoked fish, you can take just salted or pickle yourself.

A beautiful delicious appetizer is ready.

Bon appetit!

1. fly agaric

Ingredients:

• Ham or sausage any - 70 g.
• Cheese - 70 g.
• Boiled eggs - 2-3 pcs.
• Large cucumber - 1 pc.
• Cherry tomatoes - 10 pcs.
• Mayonnaise - 3-4 tablespoons
• Greens, salad
• Salt pepper
• Garlic - 1 clove (optional)

Cooking:

In a deep dish, rub the ham on a fine grater. It can also be finely chopped. We also rub eggs and cheese here. Season with mayonnaise, mix everything well. You can add a clove of garlic, I do not really like garlic, so we do not add.

At this point, I add a little salt and pepper. Try it, many do not salt or pepper at all. Who likes what. Set aside the resulting mixture.

Take a cucumber and cut into thin circles. If you have a special knife, use it to cut the cucumber circles into waves.

Put the lettuce leaves on a plate, lay out the pieces of cucumber on them. On the cucumbers, lay out, either with a spoon or a suitable mold, the legs from the mushrooms. We leave our clearing aside.

Cut the cherry tomatoes into halves and lay on the legs. With any suitable stick, draw dots on the fly agaric using mayonnaise.

The appetizer is prepared just before serving. Since pre-cooked tomatoes and cucumbers will start to flow.

Elegant beautiful appetizer is ready. Such an appetizer is suitable for any holiday table.

Bon appetit!

1. Cheese snack

Appetizer with three different toppings.

Ingredients:

• Hard cheese 50% fat or more - 500 g.
• Creamy processed cheese - 250-300 g.
• Raw smoked sausage - 250 g.
• Walnut - 100 g.
• Dill - 50-70 g.

Cooking:

We cut hard cheese into three equal parts, for three different fillings. We put all three pieces of cheese in boiling water, turn off the heat and leave the cheese for 20 minutes.

While the cheese is softening in boiling water, prepare the filling.

We clean the sausage and cut into small pieces. Finely chop the dill. Cut the walnuts.

The cheese has already softened, we take one part out of the water and on a cutting board, previously wrapped in cling film so that the cheese does not stick, we begin to roll the cheese like dough into a cake.

Grease a cake of rolled cheese with creamy processed cheese, over the entire surface.

We spread the chopped sausage on the cheeses and wrap the cheese with a long roll. We pack the roll with cling film and put it on a plate.

Roll out the second piece. We also spread the melted cheese and evenly spread the dill on the cheese. We roll up. Roll in cling film and also put on a plate.

With the third piece, we repeat the same procedure, only instead of greens, we spread a walnut over the entire surface. Do not forget to spread melted cheese on the cake before this. We also roll it into a roll and wrap it in cling film.

We put all three rolls in the refrigerator until completely cooled.

We take out the chilled rolls from the refrigerator, they have become hard and now we can cut them.

Arrange beautifully on a platter and serve.

Bon appetit!

1. Quick appetizer with crab sticks

Ingredients:

• Cheese - 200 g.
• Eggs - 4 pcs.
• Garlic - 5 cloves
• Crab sticks - 200 g.
• Mayonnaise - 100 g.
• lettuce leaves

Cooking:

Grate the eggs on a fine grater. Grate the cheese on the same grater. Mix eggs with cheese. We skip the garlic through a press or you can also grate it. Crab sticks are also rubbed on a fine grater.

Add the garlic to the egg and cheese mixture. Mix everything well and add mayonnaise. Once again, mix everything thoroughly.

From the mixture we sculpt small balls and roll them in grated crab sticks.

What beautiful sweets we got. Quickly put them in your mouth.

Bon appetit!

Video: Red fish sandwiches

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Cherry tomatoes with cucumber and cheese filling

Ingredients:

Cherry tomatoes - 24 pcs.
Cream cheese - 100 g
Mayonnaise - 2 tbsp. l.
Medium cucumber - ½ pc.
Finely chopped green onion - 1 tbsp. l.
Finely chopped fresh dill - 2 tsp

Cooking original snacks on the table recipes with photos are simple and delicious:

1. Peel the cucumber and cut into very small cubes.
2. Cut off the top of the tomatoes and carefully remove the pulp. Place upside down on a paper towel to drain excess juice.
3. In a bowl, mix mayonnaise and cream cheese until smooth, mix in cucumber, dill and green onion.
4. We stuff the tomatoes with the filling and put the dish in the refrigerator for a few minutes: this appetizer is tastier to eat chilled.

Appetizer with cucumber and smoked turkey

Ingredients:

Medium cucumber - 3 pcs.
Pesto sauce - ¼ cup
Processed cheese slices - 6 pcs.
Smoked turkey or chicken - 170 g
Sweet pepper - 1 pc.
Spinach leaves - ½ cup
Salt, pepper - to taste

Preparing holiday appetizers:

1. Cut the cucumbers into slices (thin flat slices) 2 mm thick. Pat the slices dry with paper towels to remove excess juice.
2. Cut the cheese slices into strips about 2 cm wide.
3. Cut the turkey into small cubes, pepper into strips, finely chop the spinach.
4. Evenly grease the cucumber slice with pesto sauce (1 teaspoon is enough for a piece), put the turkey, sweet pepper and spinach on top. Season with salt and pepper to taste.
5. We twist the roll and fix it with a toothpick in the middle. We serve snack recipes for the festive table right away.

Salmon rolls with cottage cheese filling

Ingredients:

Lightly salted salmon or any salmon fish - 120 g
Low-fat cottage cheese - 50 g
Cucumbers (optional) - 100 g
Garlic - 1 clove
French mustard - 10 g
Salt, pepper - to taste

Preparing appetizers for the table:

1. Put the cottage cheese in a bowl, knead it with a spoon and mix it with mustard.
2. Finely chop the cucumber, crush the garlic with the flat side of the knife and add to the curd mass. Salt, pepper and mix thoroughly.
3. Put a little stuffing on the edge of a slice of salmon, roll it up and stab it with a toothpick. You can eat it right away, or you can put it in the refrigerator for a short time. It turns out very tasty snacks for the festive table recipes with photos.

Bruschetta with sardines and cream cheese

Ingredients:

Fresh baguette - 1 pc.
A can of canned sardines (it is best to take a boneless fillet) - 1 pc.
Mozzarella - 300 g
Olive oil - 3 tbsp. l.
Fresh herbs - 1 tbsp. l.

Cooking:

1. Cut the baguette into thin slices, sprinkle with olive oil and lightly fry in a pan - for half a minute on each side.
2. Preheat the oven (preferably in the "grill" mode) to 180 ° C.
3. Drain the liquid from the sardines and knead the fish a little with a fork. Cut the mozzarella into thin slices.
4. For each slice of fried baguette, put a piece of mozzarella and 1-2 tbsp. l. sardines.
5. Put the sandwiches on a baking sheet and put in the oven under the grill for 2-3 minutes to melt the cheese.
6. Sprinkle with Provence herbs or herbs and serve. The appetizer for the holiday table is ready.

Omelette rolls with mushrooms and spinach

Perhaps the most sophisticated simple and delicious snacks on the festive table recipes with photos will be on your table. Bon appetit.

Ingredients:

Eggs - 2 pcs.
Champignons (canned or pickled) - 100 g
Spinach - 1 handful
Olive oil - 1 tbsp. l.
Balsamic vinegar - 1 tbsp. l.
Salt, pepper - to taste

Cooking:

1. Beat the eggs in a bowl.
2. Cut the mushrooms into small cubes, finely chop the spinach and add to the mushrooms. Drizzle with balsamic vinegar, salt and pepper and mix well.
3. On high heat, heat the pan with olive oil. Pour into the pan about 2 tbsp. l. beaten eggs and spread evenly like pancake batter.
4. Fry until cooked, but only on one side. We fry omelette pancakes until the eggs run out.
5. Put mushroom and spinach filling on pancakes. Roll up, secure with toothpicks if needed, and serve.

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INGREDIENTS:
For test:
`79; 4 eggs;
● salt;
● 7 Art. l. flour;
● 1/3 tsp. soda;
● 200 g of sour cream;
● 1 tbsp. l. mayonnaise.
For filling:
● 6 boiled eggs;
● a large bunch of onions;
● salt.
COOKING:
Beat eggs with salt. Add sour cream...

Thin Armenian lavash is a surprisingly convenient product for many original recipes. We finally tried another one, which we had long hoped for and not in vain. In just 10 minutes, the simplest products turned out to be an excellent, hearty breakfast!
Ingredients:
-Armenian lavash
-Cheese
-Egg
Cooking:
Lavash cut into transverse strips. Cheese cut into slices ...

Red caviar 70 gr
Processed cheese 70 gr
Dill 20 gr
Crispbread 100 gr
STEP COOKING
Step 1. Main ingredients.
Step 2. Let's open a pack of bread. Let's put them on the board.
Step 3. Coat each piece with toaster cheese.
Step 4. Take cling film. Let's put it on the table. To the center…

1. Salmon rolls with cream cheese
Ingredients:
Lightly salted salmon slices - 250 g
Cream cheese - 250 g
Pickled or fresh cucumbers - 1-2 pcs.
Dill sprigs - 3-4 pcs.
Lettuce leaves - for serving
Lemon juice - for serving
Red caviar - for decoration
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Lavash roll with stuffing is a tasty and quick appetizer that can be prepared for a festive table or for a picnic. You can experiment with toppings, choosing according to your taste. This time I made a pita roll with crab sticks and cucumber. It turned out to be very appetizing and satisfying, and fresh …

This incredibly simple recipe is associated with feasts from my distant childhood. The smell of toast rubbed with garlic, along with sprats, is incomparable with anything. This appetizer, despite its simplicity, will always be in place on your table!
Ingredients:
Bread 4 slices.
Chicken egg 2 pcs (hard boiled)
Sprats…

For you dear hostesses! Recipes of original snacks for the festive table of your choice. Try to cook and surprise your family and guests with delicious snacks!
1. NEW YEAR'S SNOWMAN EGG SNACK
You will need:
6 large eggs (for the body), hard boiled
6 small eggs (for head), hard boiled
peppercorns
1 carrot
1 …

Insanely delicious!
Ingredients:
-1 egg
-1 glass of milk
-1 glass of flour
-300 g suluguni (cottage cheese)
-30 g butter
Cooking:
1. Whisk an egg in a bowl.
2. Pour in milk and beat everything again.
3. Add flour and beat everything.
4. Rub 300 grams of suluguni.
5. Put grated ...

Expand the pita bread (thin), put the filling on it and roll it into rolls or envelopes. Let soak for 30 minutes.
Put on a plate and decorate with herbs. Can be cut into slices.
Stuffings for pita bread:
1. Grind 1 package of crab sticks. Add parsley and dill, garlic and mayonnaise to taste. The filling should not ... Let's continue the recipes for snacks on the festive table in a separate article.

Filling:
- cottage cheese + greens + garlic on a fine grater + you can add spices to taste.
Cooking:
1. Wash the Chinese cabbage leaves, dry well, cut off the white hard part.
2. In the middle of a sheet of Chinese cabbage, put 1.5-2 tbsp. l. stuffing and roll up gently.
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1) CRAB STICKS "CHARIOVASHKI"
Ingredients:
● crab sticks - 1 pack (200 g),
● eggs - 3-4 pieces,
● cheese - 70-100 g,
● garlic - 1-3 cloves,
● mayonnaise,
● dill
Preparing snacks for the holiday:
Boil eggs. Carefully separate the whites from the yolks and grate into different bowls ...

Excellent original snacks on the festive table from fresh homemade tomatoes!
You will need:
Tomatoes 1 kg
Bell pepper (red) 1 pc
Bulb onion 180 g
Dill fresh 1 bunch
Garlic 0.5 pcs
Water 1 l
Salt 50 g
Sugar 120 g
Vinegar 9% 100 g
How to cook:
Stage 1.
Tomatoes …

Ingredients:
- 250 g pork
- 50 g mushrooms (champignons)
- 3 eggs
- 1/2 onion
- 30 g flour
- breadcrumbs
- vegetable oil
- greenery
- salt
- black pepper (ground)
Cooking:
1. We start the work of snacks for the festive table with the preparation of an omelet. Fry onions and mushrooms. Whisk the eggs and add...

Cut the bacon slices in half, wrap the shrimp in them and secure with skewers. Then sprinkle the shrimp with cayenne pepper.

Put them on a baking sheet covered with foil and bake in an oven preheated to 230 ° C for 10-15 minutes.

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Ingredients

• 8 slices of raw smoked bacon;
• 8 teaspoons of soft goat cheese;
• salt - to taste;
• 1 bunch of arugula;
• 8 small gherkins.

Cooking

Place a teaspoon of goat cheese on the edge of each slice of bacon. Salt and pepper to taste. Lay the arugula over the cheese so that the leaves extend beyond the edges of the bacon on both sides. Cut the cucumbers lengthwise into four pieces and place them on the arugula.

Wrap the rolls tightly, cut each one down the middle and place cut side down on a serving platter.

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Ingredients

• 180 g flour;
• 2 teaspoons of baking powder;
• ½ teaspoon salt;
• 2 tablespoons of melted butter;
• 900 g of pork sausages;
• 450 g grated cheddar cheese;
• 1 head of onion;
• 1 clove of garlic;
• 2 celery stalks.

Cooking

Mix flour, baking powder, salt and butter. Add chopped sausages, grated cheese, chopped onion, garlic and celery to the resulting mixture. Mix well and form this stuffing into balls with a diameter of 2.5 cm.

Place them on a foil-lined baking sheet at a small distance from each other. Bake in a preheated oven at 190°C for 15 minutes until the balls are browned. Pierce them with skewers before serving.

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Ingredients

• 2 teaspoons of olive oil;
• 18 shrimp;
• ½ teaspoon ground chili;
• ¾ cup guacamole sauce;
• 18 crispy chips with natural flavor or with salt;
• a few sprigs of cilantro.

Cooking

Place a frying pan over high heat and heat the oil in it. Put there, add ground chili and fry for 2-3 minutes, stirring occasionally. The shrimp should turn pink and become opaque.

Top the chips with 1-2 teaspoons of guacamole and top with 1 shrimp. Sprinkle with chopped cilantro leaves before serving.

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Ingredients

• 220 g cream cheese;
• 170 g of crab meat or crab sticks;
• 2 tablespoons of mayonnaise;
• 2 tablespoons of grated Parmesan;
• 60 g grated cheddar;
• a few green onion feathers;
• 1 teaspoon soy sauce;
• 20 tartlets;
• 1 pinch of paprika.

Cooking

Combine cream cheese, minced crab meat, mayonnaise, grated cheese, chopped onion and soy sauce. Spread the mixture among the tartlets, sprinkle with paprika and place in the oven preheated to 190 ° C for 5-7 minutes. Serve warm.

6. Cucumber baskets with smoked salmon

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Ingredients

• 2 cucumbers;
• 120 g smoked salmon;
• 2 tablespoons of lemon juice;
• 1 tablespoon chopped onion;
• 1 tablespoon capers;
• several sprigs of parsley;
• ½ teaspoon Dijon mustard;
• ⅛ teaspoon ground black pepper.

Cooking

Peel cucumbers, cut in half lengthwise and remove seeds. Chop the fish and mix with the rest of the ingredients.

Stuff the cucumber halves with the fish mixture. Wrap them in cling film and refrigerate for 3-4 hours. Before serving, cut the cucumbers into baskets about 1.5 cm wide.

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Ingredients

• 900 g cream cheese;
• 450 g grated cheddar;
• 200 g chopped pecans or walnuts;
• 60 ml of concentrated or baked milk;
• 120 g olives;
• 2 cloves of garlic;
• ½ teaspoon salt;
• ½ bunch of parsley;
• a few tablespoons of paprika.

Cooking

Mix cream cheese and cheddar. Add 150 g nuts, milk, chopped olives, minced garlic and salt. Mix well, divide into three parts and form each part into a ball.

Gently roll one ball in chopped parsley, the other in the remaining nuts, pressing lightly so that they are fixed in the cheese, and the third in paprika. Put the balls in the refrigerator.

You need to get them 15 minutes before serving. This appetizer pairs perfectly with crackers.

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Ingredients

• 8 slices of bacon;
• 1 ½ teaspoons brown sugar;
• ¼ teaspoon ground cinnamon;
• ¾ cup chopped finished;
• ¼ cup chopped dried pear;
• 2 teaspoons of butter;
• ¼ teaspoon salt;
• ¼ teaspoon ground black pepper;
• 80 ml pear juice;
• 30 tartlets;
• 60 g of blue cheese (better - gorgonzola).

Cooking

Fry the bacon slices until they are crispy on both sides. Mix sugar and cinnamon, sprinkle with bacon and cook for another minute. Then transfer it to a paper towel.

While the bacon is cooling, put the chicken, dried pear slices, jam, butter, salt and pepper in a clean skillet, pour over the pear juice. Bring to a boil and cook for another 3-4 minutes, stirring occasionally, until the sauce thickens.

Scoop about one teaspoon of filling into tartlets, sprinkle with chopped bacon and small pieces of cheese. Put in an oven preheated to 180 ° C for 5-7 minutes. Serve warm.

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Ingredients

• 12 quail eggs;
• 300 g minced pork;
• salt - to taste;
• ground black pepper - to taste;
• 2 sprigs of thyme;
• 1 large chicken egg;
• 100 g breadcrumbs;
• vegetable oil for frying.

Cooking

Dip the quail eggs in boiling water for 2 minutes. Then put them in cold water and gently peel them when they are cool.

Mix minced meat with salt, pepper and thyme leaves. Divide the mixture into 12 equal parts and coat the eggs with it, forming even balls. Dip balls in beaten egg and roll in breadcrumbs.

Pour 5 cm of vegetable oil into a deep saucepan and heat it. Drop the balls into the oil in batches and cook for 1-2 minutes until they are browned.

Then, using a slotted spoon, transfer them to a paper towel to drain excess oil. Put the eggs in a Scotch style in a baking dish and place in an oven preheated to 180 ° C for 5 minutes.

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Ingredients

• 18 large olives;
• 250 g cream cheese;
• 18 small olives;
• 1 carrot.

Cooking

On each large olive, make a longitudinal incision and fill it. Cut the carrots into 0.5 cm wide circles and cut off a small triangle from each circle, forming the legs of the penguins. Insert the cut parts of the carrot into small olives.

Put the olives stuffed with cheese on the carrot circles. Place the "heads" - small olives - on top and secure with skewers. Ingredients

• 120 g flour;
• 1 pinch of salt;
• 1 large egg;
• 1 tablespoon of olive oil;
• 250 ml of milk;
• 1 small piece of butter;
• 50 ml sour cream;
• 150 g smoked salmon;
• a few sprigs of dill.

Cooking

Mix flour and salt. Make a small well in the middle, pour in the egg and olive oil and stir. Whisking constantly, slowly pour in the milk. Give the dough a uniform consistency.

Melt the butter in a frying pan and fry the pancakes on it for a minute on each side. They should take on a golden hue.

Spread some sour cream on each pancake, a few small slices of salmon and garnish with dill.

12. Christmas tree from Chelsea buns

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Ingredients

For buns:

• 800 g flour;
• 1 tablespoon of salt;
• 15 g fast-acting yeast;
• 400 ml of milk;
• 60 g butter;
• 2 eggs.

For filling:

• 400 g of a mixture of chopped dried fruits, nuts and sugar;
• 1 apple;
• 1 pear;
• 75 g chopped pistachios;
• 100 g candied fruits;
• 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon;
• 25 g butter.

For glaze:

• 3 tablespoons of apricot jam;
• 200 g of powdered sugar;
• grated zest of one orange;
• 40 g candied fruits;
• 25 g chopped pistachios.

Cooking

Sprinkle salt and yeast into flour. Pour the butter into the milk and heat the mixture. When the butter is melted, pour the mixture into the flour. Add eggs and stir.

Turn the mixture out onto a floured surface and knead for about five minutes until the dough is elastic. Transfer it to a bowl greased with vegetable oil, cover with a towel and leave for an hour to rise.

Meanwhile, combine dried fruit, nuts and sugar mixture, peeled and crushed apple and pear, orange zest, pistachios, candied fruits and cinnamon.

Then, on a floured surface, roll out the dough into a 50 x 45 cm sheet. Brush it with melted butter. Then spread the sweet filling over the dough, leaving 2 cm around the edges.

Carefully roll up the roll and cut off the edges. Cut the roll into 15 pieces with a sharp knife. Lay the buns on a parchment-lined baking sheet so that you get a Christmas tree. There should be space between the buns, but not much, so that when they rise, they come into contact with each other. Form a tree trunk from the rest of the dough.

Cover the Christmas tree with a clean towel and leave for another 30-45 minutes. Then remove the towel and put the baking sheet in the oven preheated to 190 ° C for 20-25 minutes, until the buns are browned. If you notice that they are turning brown too quickly during baking, cover them with foil.

Melt the apricot jam in a saucepan with a little water. Spread it on slightly cooled buns and leave to cool completely.

Mix powdered sugar, orange zest and 2 tablespoons water until smooth. Transfer to a plastic bag, cut off the tip and draw garlands on the Christmas tree with icing. Sprinkle with candied fruits and pistachios.

The approaching holiday excites and makes you wait impatiently. Here it is already close, we figure out what will be hot, buy a bottle of wine ... But neither one nor the other will decorate the table and will not give it such refinement as cold appetizers. There is truly scope for creativity for any hostess.

A cold appetizer and a salad decorate the table, they are usually decorated with figures of vegetables or just greens, it is on them that the gaze of a guest approaching the table falls, they are designed to impress all gourmets.

What cold appetizers should be prepared for the festive table?

Let's start with the classics - aspic .

In Ancient Rus', this dish was always prepared on and. It was believed that pork was supposed to be cooked on this holiday, because the pig, the only farm animal, did not come to congratulate the newborn Jesus.

• Pork knuckle;
• pork legs - a couple;
• beef broth - per kilogram;
• salt, peppercorns, bay leaf;
• garlic - 3-4 medium heads;
• carrot.

Rinse the meat thoroughly, cut out everything that you do not like. Cut or chop the bones and rinse again. Peel carrots. Put in cold water and cook on the smallest fire for a long time. If you cook in a pressure cooker, it will be much faster, but the broth will not be as clear!

Carrots are designed to give a beautiful color to the broth, so that when everything is cooked, you can take it out. She is no longer needed here.

Strain the broth very carefully, not even through a strainer, but through a strainer with gauze: otherwise a small bone may get into the finished dish. From the bottom, do not drain into jelly at all, give it to the dog. The animal will be delighted, but he will not care about the bones! We pour two spoons of broth into a saucer and put it in the refrigerator: this is a test - whether it will harden. And we go to disassemble the meat.

The main thing here is not to skip the bones, on the one hand, and not to overfeed the dog, on the other. And then here she is sitting, with all her doomed appearance showing that it will be hard for her to help deal with the contents of the pan, but the dog is a friend of man because he is ready to take a risk ...

The meat is disassembled and chopped (can be passed through a meat grinder), finely chopped garlic, can be passed through a press; put in hot broth. Boil garlic is not worth it, he does not like too high a temperature.

We check if our broth has frozen in the refrigerator. If yes - fine, if not - add a little gelatin, it will help the jelly to harden. Gelatin is now what you will not meet! We read the instructions and act according to it.

If you want, you can somehow decorate the jelly. If you are against such excesses, lay out the meat in forms and fill it with broth. Set to freeze in the refrigerator.

Before serving, depending on your idea and the appearance of the tins, you can take out the jelly by carefully turning the tins on the dish. Or you can submit it directly in the form, especially if the form is beautiful, and the holiday is “for your own”. The most delicious jelly is always obtained from. Don't forget to serve a good horseradish!

Another traditional cold appetizer - diner "Napoleon" .

• Ready puff cakes;
• mayonnaise in a solid amount;
• hard-boiled eggs - 5 pcs;
• ham - about 300 g;
• cheese - 500 grams;
• pickled mushrooms - half a can.

This dish is prepared very quickly, and looks very impressive.

We literally grease the cakes a little with mayonnaise, cover with a film and set aside. They need to soften up a little.

Three eggs on a coarse grater, add grated cheese and mayonnaise to them - so much so that it is not too cool. The mass should be smeared, not molded. Stir and set the bowl aside for now.

You can choose another filling. For example, champignons with onions (lightly fried) and cheese; boiled chicken with cheese and champignons, salted or canned fish, vegetables (eggplant, sweet pepper, herbs) finely chopped and stewed with vegetable oil.

We cut the ham into neat strips, set aside in another bowl. We look through the pickled mushrooms and leave the most beautiful ones to decorate the "Napoleon".

Let's start assembling. Lubricate the first cake generously with egg-cheese mass. On top we put a little mushrooms.

We put the second and press. We grease this one only slightly, then put the ham and level it.

We put the third cake, again we press. Not him - the remains of cheese with an egg. Decorate with mushrooms. Our cake is ready, but it is advisable to keep it in the refrigerator for a couple of hours. Prepare such a cake in.

Let's cook some more rollmops And that's it for the classics.

Rollmops were invented by the Germans, adored by Poles, Swedes, Estonians. And we will try to serve them for the holiday as an appetizer for vodka - especially for patriotic people who do not drink wine.

There are over a dozen rollmops recipes. Let's try an assortment of two types.

In essence, a rollmops is a herring roll with a small amount of filling. Rollmops are supposed to be lightly marinated.

• So, herring - 10 fillets;
• carrots - 2 pcs;
• onions - 3 heads;
• garlic - 2-3 cloves;
• capers - to taste;
• pickled cucumbers - 2 pcs (large);
• wine vinegar - 500 ml;
• sunflower oil - 100 ml;
• honey - a tablespoon;
• mustard - a tablespoon;

Carrots should be grated on a coarse grater, chop the garlic, mix them and salt. Heat the oil to a boil, pour a tablespoon of vinegar into it. Pour over the carrots and let it stand until it cools down by itself (or longer).

We will analyze the herring into fillets. We pull out all the bones (you can use a magnifying glass and tweezers). Cucumbers cut into cubes, capers, if they are large - into quarters or less. Chop the onion and lightly sauté. Spread fillets with mustard, and half of them with honey.

Serve, of course, with potatoes and as an appetizer for vodka.

In one filet (without honey), we wrap pieces of cucumber and caper. In others (with honey) - spicy carrots and passivated onions.

Fasten all rollmops with toothpicks or skewers, put in a bowl and pour marinade: wine vinegar, peppercorns, brought to a boil and cooled to room temperature. Sprinkle with onion rings and leave to marinate for about a day in the refrigerator.

If you decide to have a buffet, ordinary snacks will not work. Let's try to cook baskets or vol-au-vents with salad .

Baskets can be bought at the store: messing around with them before the holiday, when there are so many things to do, is irrational.

Flounces do not take long to make yourself. To do this, we slightly roll out a layer of puff pastry, cut out several larger circles from it, and then cut out small circles from half of it with a glass to make “bagels”. Lightly grease large circles with an egg, put a “bagel” on top and bake for 7-10 minutes.

During baking, the dough will rise and you will get dough cups that can be filled with salad.

You can take any salad for filling (look), but it’s better not to be “raw”: from crab sticks, from avocados, from boiled beets. And you can also fill them with caviar, herring, chopped and mixed with butter, and so on. Surprise your parents by cooking rolled on.

To decorate the buffet table, snack cakes are perfect.

crackers

• Butter;
• soft processed cheese like "Viola": creamy and with herbs;
• you can have several slices of cold-smoked salmon;
• tomato paste;
• parsley for decoration.

In the melted cheese with herbs, add a spoonful of tomato, mix thoroughly. If you don't like the color, add a little more tomato.

We fasten the crackers in pairs, layering with butter.

Put a small piece of fish on some cakes, and squeeze beautifully creamy cheese on top with a confectionery syringe. For others - tomato cheese, decorate with parsley.

And as a light snack - stuffed chinese cabbage .

There are a lot of recipes for stuffed Chinese cabbage. We will do the simplest.

• Chinese cabbage (we need inner, softer leaves);
• cottage cheese;
• red sweet pepper;
• greenery.

Finely chop the pepper, mix with curd cheese and chopped herbs.

We will wrap it in Chinese cabbage leaves, as you like: even in envelopes, even in rolls.

And now a few more simple recipes that will delight both children and adults.

Vegetable "sticks" with sauce

• Young celery stalks;
• young carrot;
• cucumbers;
• soft processed cheese;
• Greek natural yogurt;
• garlic;
• mayonnaise;
• dill;
• radish.

Wash the petioles thoroughly and clean from coarse elements. Cut the cucumber lengthwise into 4-8 "sticks", depending on the thickness of the cucumber. We wash and peel the carrots, if it is thick, we will also cut it lengthwise, and if it is thin, we will leave it like that.

Let's make sauces:

1. Mix the melted cheese with mayonnaise, chop the dill and add it there. Pass the garlic through a press and add it to the sauce as well. Let's mix.
2. Add finely grated radishes to Greek yogurt. If it is very liquid, you can put a spoon or two of hard cheese grated on the smallest grater.

We dip the "sticks" in the sauce and eat with pleasure. Delicious sauce, instead of celery, can be spread on bread or potatoes.

Tiny sandwiches - canapes - can be prepared with anything. It is better to make 5-10 different pieces.

1. Crackers spread with curd cheese and a pitted olive.
2. The same, but sprinkled with a mixture of herbs.
3. Pieces of white bread smeared with mustard, cucumber and smoked meat.
4. The same, but grease with melted cheese and top with a slice of tomato.
5. A piece of black bread smeared with horseradish, and boiled pork on it.
6. A piece of black bread, dried in a toaster, lightly rubbed with garlic, and a sprat.
7. A slice of toaster-dried whole grain bread and finely chopped, stewed eggplant, bell pepper and tomato (cool beforehand!).

Recipes for holiday sandwiches can be found.

boats

This dish is very popular with children.

• cucumbers;
• crab sticks;
• canned corn;
• some mayonnaise;
• red bell pepper.

Wash the cucumbers, cut in half lengthwise, take out the inside with a spoon.

It is not required, it can be cut somewhere in.

Finely chop the crab sticks, mix with corn and lightly season with mayonnaise and salt.

Wash the pepper, remove the seeds.

We cut out sharp triangles from it - these are the sails of our "boats".

We insert a wooden skewer into each boat, pricking a “sail” on it.

The boats are ready to sail for the children's party.

And finally cheese balls .

• Cheese hard or semi-hard - 500 g;
• mayonnaise;
• quiche-mish;
• almond;
• hard-boiled eggs - 3 pcs;
• sesame;
• frozen crab sticks;
• cherry.

Grate the cheese on the smallest grater, mix thoroughly with mayonnaise. Peel the eggs, grate on a fine grater. Crab sticks are also grated, without defrosting.

We divide the cheese mass into three parts. We take a little mass in the palm of our hand, make a “cake”, put the almond kernel on it, form it into a ball and wrap it in sesame seeds.

The last four dishes are perfect for a children's party.

From the second part of the mass we will make balls stuffed with quiche-mish, wrapped in crab sticks, and from the third - stuffed with cherry tomatoes, wrapped in egg and salt.

Put the balls mixed on a dish, decorate with lettuce leaves.

Bon appetit!