Snacks on the festive table is an inexhaustible topic. Each housewife has at least a dozen recipes in stock. Today we will talk about the most convenient, labor-intensive methods suitable for quick preparation of piece snacks in a fairly large volume.

Lavash snacks

Nowadays, thin pita bread is gaining more and more popularity among snack lovers. Therefore, first of all, let's look at snacks on the holiday table from pita bread with photos and detailed recipes.

The simplest of pita snacks is rolls, that is, rolls of pita rolls with filling tightly rolled and cut into portions. This is the most convenient of the cold appetizers, because any filling can be wrapped in pita bread, and on the cut it will look appetizing and attractive. We offer you several recipes for cold fillings for quick pita rolls.

With red fish

• 150 gr lightly salted red fish in thin slices;
• 3 boiled eggs;
• 2 small fresh cucumbers;
• 150 gr of Dutch cheese;
• mayonnaise;
• salt pepper.

Spread pita bread on cutting board brush with mayonnaise. Grate the boiled egg, spread over the pita bread. Grate the cucumber with the next layer. Spread fish slices on it, and cover everything with grated cheese. Roll up and cut into slices.

With cod liver

• 200 gr cod liver (one jar);
• 150 gr of hard cheese;
• 2 boiled eggs;
• 2 tbsp mayonnaise;
• salt pepper.

Mash the liver with a fork, mix with grated cheese and mayonnaise and spread on pita bread. Grate the egg directly on the fish layer, put the chopped onion in a layer on it. Salt, pepper. Roll up a tight roll and cut into portions.

With crab sticks

Mash the cheese with a spoonful of mayonnaise and chopped garlic, add chopped crab sticks, mix.

With smoked chicken

• 200 gr smoked chicken fillet;
• 100 gr cottage cheese or cream cheese;
• several lettuce leaves;
• mayonnaise.

Grease a sheet of pita bread with mayonnaise and put on it in strips across the sheet: chicken, cut into strips, curd cheese, lettuce. Roll the roll tightly, cut into pieces 3-4 cm long.

With greens and eggs

• several lettuce leaves;
• a few feathers of green onions;
• boiled egg;
• soft cream cheese.

Lubricate pita bread with a thin layer of cheese. Chop lettuce and onion very finely and put on cheese. Grate the egg on the greens. Roll up and cut into rolls.

You can also cook hot appetizers from pita bread.

"Cigars" from lavash

• 100 gr cheese;
• 100 gr of cottage cheese;
• some fresh parsley.

Mash cottage cheese and cheese with a fork and mix, add finely chopped greens. Divide the pita leaf into pieces the size of a palm, put a spoonful of filling on each, wrap the edges and twist rather thin “cigars”. Moisten the edges of the pita bread with water - they will stick. Deep-fried cigars should be served hot and crispy. For "cigars" any pie or pancake filling is also suitable.

Lavash envelopes

• 200 gr mushrooms;
• one bulb;
• 200 gr potatoes;
• salt pepper.

Separately, fry the mushrooms with onions, separately - potatoes in small cubes. Mix mushrooms and potatoes, salt and pepper. Put one full tablespoon of the filling on small thin round leaves of pita bread, roll up small envelopes. Fry the envelopes in a frying pan in oil - first the side where the pita bread is folded, and then the top one, where the pita bread is in one layer.

Lavash cornets

• 200 gr gouda cheese in thin slices;
• 200 gr of ready-made sliced ​​ham.

Divide the slices of ham and cheese into triangles. Put a triangle of ham on a round sheet of pita bread, and a triangle of cheese on it. Fold pita bread in half and wrap with a triangular cornet so that the filling remains completely inside. Fry the cornets in oil.

Lavash bags

Cut one of the pita leaves into ribbons. Put the filling on a small sheet of pita bread in the center, collect it with a bag and wrap the “neck” of the bag with a ribbon of pita bread. Fasten the ribbon with a toothpick and bake the "bags" for 10 minutes at 200 degrees. As a filling, use fried meat with onions, or chopped boiled tongue with mayonnaise.

The bags can also be made vegetarian - with boiled vegetables and Dutch cheese.

Snacks on skewers

The simplest type of piece snack - the components are combined to taste and placed in a row on a toothpick or a special skewer. At the base of the snack there may be a piece of bread or a cracker - this will be a mini sandwich or canapé. Canapes can also be simply made from pieces of foods that blend well in taste, without bread - then a piece of cheese, a slice of a vegetable or a slice of fruit is used as a base, which can be cut into figured hearts, circles, rhombuses. Miniature shortcrust pastry tartlets filled with salads are also served on skewers.

Snack "Mushrooms"

• 5 pieces of boiled quail eggs;
• 5 pieces of cherry tomatoes;
• a tablespoon of mayonnaise.

Eggs and tomatoes are cut into halves. The halves are gathered together with cuts to each other and fastened with a toothpick. It turns out a fungus - a white leg and a red hat. Drops of mayonnaise are applied to the hat.

Ideas for mini sandwiches and canapes

• a slice of white bread, butter, an egg circle, a green olive, a parsley leaf;
• a circle of black bread, butter, red or black caviar, whipped cream with green onions;
• a circle of black bread, butter, a thin slice of basturma or raw smoked sausage, grated radish, parsley;
• diamond white bread, curry mayonnaise, red fish, dill;
• black bread, butter, yellow cheese roll, green olive;
• a triangle of gray bread, mayonnaise, boiled shrimp, dill;
• white bread triangle, mustard mayonnaise mixture, avocado slice, tomato sauce;
• a piece of orange cheese, a piece of boiled chicken fillet, half a walnut;
• yellow cheese roll, large black or green grape;
• a piece of boiled cauliflower or broccoli, white cheese, a slice of cherry tomato;
• a slice of Dutch cheese, a circle of banana, half a grape.
• snacks on different kind chips.

Another type of snack that came to us relatively recently, but is rapidly gaining popularity, is snacks on the festive table with chips.

Chips - potato, corn, or even homemade from deep-fried pita bread can be served with any filling suitable for tartlets. All types of salads can serve as such a filler, the consistency of which is properly connected with a suitable thick sauce - mayonnaise, sour cream, as well as any types of pastes and spreads - fish, cottage cheese, pate, vegetable.

History and general characteristics

Snacks- This is a light meal that precedes the main meal. They are very diverse - based on meat, fish, seafood, sausage, cheese, mushrooms, vegetables and fruits. Thus, the assortment of snacks is very wide and it is simply impossible to list all the dishes related to snacks.

As a rule, they serve to stimulate appetite or are an appetizer for alcoholic beverages. In addition, the snack can become a snack between meals.

The history of the appearance of appetizers is directly connected with the Russian table, where pickled and pickled vegetables, cranberries, rutabaga and mountain ash were served as the main dish. But this was the menu of commoners, while the boyars had much more immodest snacks - delicious suckling pigs with horseradish, black and red caviar, homemade smoked sausages, simple jelly, jelly and a variety of aspic - all this was also served just before the main course and was a snack, that is, a light snack.

The history of snacks in the form we see them now began in Rus' in the 18th century. Until that time, an appetizer was called a cold breakfast served at home from food left over from dinner. It is thanks to this that many cold dishes of Russian cuisine, in particular, all kinds of pickles and smoked products, began to be called appetizers. In addition, a snack meant some product that should be consumed as a bite to something.

Appetizers in a more familiar - less satisfying - form for us appeared at the beginning of the 18th century in Europe, where it was very fashionable to replace main dishes with original snacks prepared "on hastily". It is believed that this is how the buffet and buffet appetizers were born for the first time, where the same ingredients are decorated as in the main dishes - meat, fish, root vegetables, cheeses and fruits - but in a more compact version or, as it is also called, in buffet style.

The greatest variety of such dishes is observed in Russian cuisine, although they are present in the cuisine of many other countries. So, for example, in the UK, an appetizer is called appetizer, in France - hors d "oeuvres, in Greece - meze, in Spain - tapas, in Italy - antipasto, in the countries of the Arab world - mazza. The list of countries, of course, is not limited to this, it is much wider.

An interesting fact from the history of snacks concerns this type of dish in Sweden, or rather its serving. So bread and everything that goes with it was used as a snack. At the same time, such a dish was called smörgåsbord, which literally means a sandwich table. So, this appetizer was served in the room preceding the dining room. Everyone, on the way to the dining room, had to treat themselves to a delicious sandwich and only then proceed to the main meal.

Snacks were served, as a rule, 2-3 hours before the main meal. The description of the dishes that were served in their quality deserves a separate independent article. In the future, the time for serving snacks more and more approached the main meal, and, subsequently, became an integral part of it. As for the variety of dishes, it only became richer. Therefore, these days it is not at all surprising that several different snacks on the table become a full-fledged lunch or dinner.

We will consider the characteristics of snacks in more detail in the subsequent sections of this article.

Types of snacks and their classification

There are dozens of types of snacks and we will try to introduce you to the main ones. The main classification feature for this dish is its base product. Thus, snacks can be mushroom, vegetable, fruit, meat, sausage, cheese, fish, as well as seafood, as well as some other foods. Such diversity predetermines the method of culinary processing of raw materials. So, during the cooking process, snacks can either not be subjected to, or be subjected to heat treatment (snack dishes can be boiled, fried, baked in the oven or in other newfangled kitchen devices). That is why when serving snacks can be cold, warm or hot.

Snacks are divided according to the type of serving. So, it can be canapes (small sandwiches put on skewers or toothpicks), original salads in small tartlets (baskets), rolls, slices of unsweetened cakes, crackers or slices of spreaded bread, snacks served on spoons, snacks in the form of balls, all kinds of cuts (sausage, fish, cheese, fruit, vegetable) and many others.

The classification of snacks also depends on the occasion according to which they are prepared. So they may be everyday, cooked at home as a snack for work or on the road. As a rule, these are all kinds of sandwiches. Besides allocate holiday snacks . They are prepared for various holidays, such as birthday (including anniversary), New Year, March 8 and many others. For Valentine's Day, special romantic snacks are prepared in the form of hearts. They can be both sweet and savory. However, almost all holiday snacks are decorated in a special way. Interesting in this regard are snacks for children's day birthday or any other children's holidays. For children, they are decorated in the form of fairy-tale and cartoon characters, they turn the festive table into something truly fantastic. A special subspecies of festive snacks are snacks for a company of guests at a party. They can be very diverse, but, as a rule, they are quite simple in design. By the way, most often these are dishes intended as an addition to any alcoholic drink. Consider the melon type of snacks in more detail.

Snacks for strong alcoholic drinks:

• to vodka- all kinds of pickles (pickled or pickled cucumbers and tomatoes, sauerkraut, canned watermelons, etc.), cold cuts, incl. lard, fish in any form, but mostly salted;
• to whiskey- the appetizer differs depending on the variety of this noble drink, for example, soft cheeses, smoked salmon, baked duck or neutral sushi and rolls are suitable for light fruit whiskey, all kinds of desserts can be served with sweet fruit whiskey, spicy whiskey should be served seafood, salty whiskey are eaten with sausages, ham, rolls and sushi, but the best snack for the strongest whiskeys will be smoked meat and fish, blue cheese;
• to cognac- fruit and cheese cuts, pates, veal, seafood, as well as some chocolate desserts and chocolate itself are suitable as snacks.

Snacks for weak alcoholic drinks:

• to wine- red wine is combined with bright-tasting snacks, especially with red meat and fine hard cheeses, but the delicate taste of white wine is best set off by fish and seafood, but if red or white wine is semi-sweet, then it can be served dessert with a delicate sweet fruity taste;
• to cocktails- wonderful, and one might even say ideal, snacks are canapes, unless of course we are talking about sweet long drinks, which you don’t have to eat at all;
• to martini- traditionally, fruits or berries are served as snacks, as well as olives and black olives strung on skewers, a rather tasty combination is obtained with salted crackers and cheese, in addition, martinis can be served with seafood (fish and seafood);
• for beer- as a rule, hearty and original snacks are served, for example, spicy chicken wings, in addition, crispy crackers (with and without additives), as well as dried or dried meat, fish, seafood go well with this drink besides, an excellent beer snack - assorted nuts;
• to champagne- the traditional snack option is fruits, cheeses, canapes, they should be light, with delicate taste, but pronounced sweet snacks for sparkling wine are not categorically suitable.

Everyone can afford to cook a snack, because this dish can be expensive and quite budgetary and modest. This is exactly the food that will radically transform any table - everyday or festive. It is snacks that allow you to open new horizons for the use of seemingly familiar products. Therefore, a dozen other recipes must be in the stash of any hostess.

Cooking technology and secrets of various recipes

The technology for preparing snacks at home, and in other conditions, cannot be reduced to any compact list of recommendations, because, as we found out earlier, there are dozens of types of snacks. At the same time, you can make a snack from almost any product. Meat, fish, mushrooms, vegetables, fruits - have their own processing characteristics. That is why we suggest that you get acquainted with the peculiarities of preparing a particular snack directly in the selected recipe. In addition to the specific guide to action described by the text, each recipe contains step by step photos. Thanks to detailed photos of the cooking process, you will not have a single question left unanswered. Not a single secret is hidden on how to make this or that snack truly delicious!

How to decorate (decoration)?

Decorating an appetizer is perhaps the most interesting part of the cooking process. The most interesting, but, nevertheless, not the easiest. However, we will help you with the issue of registration. The pictures below show the most interesting options for decorating common snacks. Get inspired and bring cooking recipes cooking and decorating appetizers to perfection!

Ingredients: pikeperch fillet, onion, celery, egg, milk, dill, bran, pepper, salt, sesame, tomato

Pike perch is a very tasty, fatty and satisfying fish. Cooking it is not difficult at all, but today I will tell you how to cook delicious pikeperch fish cakes. The dish, I tell you, just tastes great.

Ingredients:

- 500 grams of pike perch fillet;
- 70 grams of onion;
- 80 grams of celery stalk;
- 1 egg;
- 65 ml. milk;
- 30 grams of dill;
- 30 grams of oat bran;
- pepper;
- salt;
- black sesame;
- Cherry tomatoes.

06.03.2019

Pike perch fish cakes

Ingredients: pike perch, cream, butter, onion, cracker, paprika, salt, pepper, rice, cucumber

I suggest you cook very tasty and satisfying meatballs from pike perch. The recipe is quite simple. The taste of cutlets will amaze you.

Ingredients:

- 450 grams of pike perch;
- 50 ml cream;
- 30 grams of ghee;
- 90 grams of onions;
- 80 grams of breadcrumbs;
- 5 grams of ground sweet paprika;
- 3 grams of seasoning for fish;
- salt;
- chilli;
- vegetable oil;
- boiled rice;
- salted cucumbers.

02.01.2019

Pate from mushrooms for the winter

Ingredients: mushrooms, carrots, onions, oil, salt, sugar, vinegar, pepper

Excellent preparation for the winter - pate from mushrooms. This is a hearty and interesting, tasty and mouth-watering preservation that absolutely everyone likes!

Ingredients:
- 1 kg honey mushrooms;
- 350 gr carrots;
- 350 gr onions;
- 100 ml of vegetable oil;
- 25 grams of salt;
- sugar;
- Apple vinegar;
- black pepper.

30.11.2018

Salted silver carp pieces

Ingredients: silver carp, water, vinegar, onion, laurel, pepper, sugar, salt, oil

I really like salted fish. My husband is a fisherman, so I often salt the fish myself. Most of all I like the salted silver carp pieces. Today I will teach you how to cook this delicious snack.

Ingredients:

- 1 silver carp,
- 1 glass of water,
- 2 tablespoons vinegar,
- 1 onion,
- 5 bay leaves,
- 7 pcs. black peppercorns,
- 1 tbsp Sahara,
- 1 tsp salt,
- 1 tbsp vegetable oil.

10.11.2018

Mushroom caviar from mushrooms with carrots

Ingredients: mushrooms, carrots, onions, garlic, oil, laurel, pepper, salt

From mushrooms, I prepare mushroom caviar every year. The preparation is not only delicious, but it is magnificent. The most important thing is that preparing it for the winter is as easy as shelling pears.

Ingredients:

- 350 grams of mushrooms,
- 50 grams of carrots,
- 50 grams of onion,
- 2 cloves of garlic,
- 3 tablespoons vegetable oil,
- 2 bay leaves,
- 3 peas of allspice,
- salt
- black pepper.

05.08.2018

Cod marinated with carrots and onions

Ingredients: cod, oil, onion, carrot, seasoning, vinegar, parsley, laurel, salt, sugar

FROM cod I suggest you cook a very tasty and satisfying dish - cod marinated with carrots and onions. The recipe is very simple and fast.

Ingredients:

- 600 grams of cod fillet;
- 40 grams of butter;
- 15 ml. vegetable oils;
- 120 grams of onion;
- 150 grams of carrots;
- 5 grams of ground paprika;
- 5 grams of seasoning for fish;
- 20 ml. apple cider vinegar;
- parsley;
- Bay leaf;
- salt;
- sugar.

05.08.2018

Marinated porcini mushrooms

Ingredients: mushroom, juniper, cloves, tarragon, thyme, garlic, herbs, salt, sugar, vinegar, water

Today I will tell you how to cook delicious pickled porcini mushrooms. The recipe is very simple and fast.

Ingredients:

- 600 grams of white mushrooms,
- half tsp juniper,
- 4 cloves,
- a sprig of dry tarragon,
- 2 sprigs of thyme,
- 3-4 cloves of garlic,
- 3 sprigs of parsley,
- 2 sprigs of dill,
- 2 tablespoons salt,
- 1 tbsp Sahara,
- 80 ml. vinegar,
- 800 ml. water.

23.07.2018

Homemade goat milk cheese

Ingredients: goat milk, sour cream, lemon, salt

From goat's milk you can make a very tasty homemade cheese. I have detailed the recipe for you.

Ingredients:

- 2 liters of goat milk,
- 5 tablespoons sour cream
- 1 lemon,
- salt.

20.06.2018

Carrot cutlets like in kindergarten

Ingredients: carrot, egg, sugar, flour, butter, sour cream, salt

Many of us remember the taste of carrot cutlets from kindergarten. How to cook them, I described in detail for you in this recipe.

Ingredients:

- 2 carrots;
- 1 egg;
- 1 tbsp Sahara;
- 2-3 tablespoons flour;
- vegetable oil;
- 1 tbsp sour cream;
- a pinch of salt.

17.06.2018

Turkey in sour cream sauce in a pan

Ingredients: turkey fillet, onion, carrot, garlic, sour cream, water, laurel, salt, pepper, herbs, oil

Turkey in sour cream sauce in a pan will be a great decoration for any holiday table. It is quite easy to prepare it.

Ingredients:

- 300 grams of turkey fillet;
- 1 onion;
- 1 carrot;
- 2 cloves of garlic;
- 3 tablespoons sour cream;
- 70-100 ml. water;
- spices;
- 2 tablespoons vegetable oil.

17.06.2018

Dry Adjika Georgian

Ingredients: paprika, coriander, suneli hops, dill, salt, pepper

Dry adjika is a very interesting spice that you can cook at home. The recipe is very simple and fast.

Ingredients:

- 70 grams of ground paprika,
- 4 tablespoons ground coriander,
- 2 tablespoons hops-suneli,
- 2 pinches of dill seeds,
- 2 tsp salt,
- 5 grams of red hot pepper.

17.06.2018

Mackerel in onion peel

Ingredients: mackerel, onion, water, salt

I suggest you cook a delicious fish dish - mackerel in onion peel. The recipe is very simple and fast.

Ingredients:

- 1 mackerel,
- from 5 bulbs of onion peel,
- 1 liter of water,
- 5 tablespoons salt.

16.06.2018

Korean style herring with tomato paste

Ingredients: herring, carrot, onion, lemon, oil, tomato paste, vinegar, salt, pepper, seasoning

Korean herring with tomato paste very tasty unusual dish that you can easily cook.

Ingredients:

- 1 herring,
- 1 carrot,
- 2 onions,
- half a lemon
- 100 ml. vegetable oils,
- 1 tbsp tomato paste,
- 25-30 grams of vinegar,
- half tsp salt,
- a pinch of cayenne pepper
- 1 tsp hops-suneli,
- half tsp black pepper.

31.05.2018

Cauliflower in batter

Ingredients: cauliflower, egg, flour, breading, salt, pepper

Cauliflower can be deliciously fried in batter. Now I will tell you how to do this. Serve at the table cauliflower with sauce and fresh vegetables.

Ingredients:

- 1 cauliflower,
- 1 egg,
- 1 tbsp flour,
- 3 tablespoons spicy breading,
- salt,
- black pepper.

31.05.2018

Liver in sour cream with onions

Ingredients: liver, onion, butter, flour, salt, pepper, paprika

Ingredients:

- 300 grams of liver;
- 1 onion;
- 10 grams of green onions;
- 2 tablespoons vegetable oils;
- 2 tablespoons flour;
- salt;
- pepper;
- paprika.

30.05.2018

Draniki with ham and cheese

Ingredients: potatoes, egg, ham, cheese, dill, salt, pepper, butter, flour

Prepare potato pancakes with ham and cheese and I assure you they will be spread out within 5 minutes maximum. The dish is tasty and satisfying.

Ingredients:

- 2 potatoes,
- 1 egg,
- 70 grams of ham,
- 60 grams of hard cheese,
- 5 grams of dill,
- salt,
- black pepper,
- vegetable oil,
- 1 tbsp flour.

When we talk about snacks, the imagination immediately draws a festive table. And no wonder: well, who will be engaged in figured cutting of breakfast sandwiches or constructing multi-story compositions of vegetables for an ordinary dinner? I do not argue, there are, of course, lovers. And to be honest, sometimes I myself like to tinker with stuffing vegetables without any solemn occasions. But still, for the most part, people prepare original snacks for the festive table, recipes with photos are specially collected in this section for those who want to please guests on their birthday, for example, or prepare for a corporate buffet reception.

Lightly salted cucumbers with garlic and instant herbs

In the middle of summer, it’s a sin not to salt a saucepan of lightly salted cucumbers. The most interesting thing is that it seems to be nowhere easier, and the proportions of the brine play a significant role in this matter. We present the perfect solution.

Zucchini rolls with different fillings

3 options for zucchini rolls - for every taste: festive with red fish, dietary with goat cheese and vegan with nut butter. The first recipe shows the process of wrapping rolls with all the details and step by step photos.

Sandwiches with sprats

Bright, extremely tasty and mega-budget sandwiches with sprats on the festive table. Try it - you will be pleasantly surprised by the ease of preparation.

Festive chicken liver cake

false caviar

An original and extremely budgetary appetizer for the festive table - from herring, processed cheese and carrots, we will prepare caviar, which tastes strikingly like red caviar.

Snack cake from waffle cakes

Snack cakes are now at the peak of popularity. They are easy to prepare, and they look much more effective than traditional salads. This cake is perfect for a buffet.

Cabbage in hot brine

A great snack for the festive table and for every day. Cabbage looks very impressive, crispy, juicy, very, very tasty.

Salted tomatoes in Armenian style with garlic

Search perfect combinations vegetables is my hobby. Sometimes it is enough to add just one ingredient to make the dish sparkle with all the colors of flavors. Everyone knows that garlic and tomatoes are good. And if you add a generous portion of chopped greens, you get a real deliciousness! In addition to everything, the appetizer looks very aesthetically pleasing - take it and immediately put it on the festive table.

Quick Pickled Eggplants

Quick and very tasty vegetable appetizer of eggplant marinated in a spicy marinade with garlic and dill.

Marinated squid

Squids are seafood with a neutral taste that you need to know how to cook properly so that dishes from them turn out to be tasty and not hard. We present a very simple and at the same time unusual easy recipe snacks.

Shrimps fried with garlic in soy sauce

A delicious snack for beer - shrimp are quickly fried in garlic oil and caramelized with a mixture of soy sauce and sugar (ideally with cane).

Armenian bean pate

Red beans, boiled until soft, are mashed in a blender and mixed with fried onions, walnuts, herbs, spices and a small amount of vegetable oil.

Shrimp in a creamy garlic sauce

Shrimps are cooked according to Italian technology, a simple set of products, a sequence of actions that is understandable and accessible to anyone. It will take you about 15 minutes on the strength. Try it, you will not regret it!

Shrimps in batter

A very interesting and easy-to-cook dish is juicy shrimp in a crispy batter crust. Prepared instantly, eaten even faster.

Profiteroles with savory cheese filling

If you enjoy surprising guests as much as spending time in the kitchen, then try baking these little profiteroles that you can fill with any salad or side dish. The dough is easy to prepare. There are a lot of profiteroles.

Classic mincemeat

No matter how much I tried forshmak, every time I was surprised - well, what do people find in it? It turned out that before the classic mincemeat, these dishes were like the moon. Try how this national dish is actually prepared.

Rice balls with shrimps and pineapple

If you want to learn how to make Japanese food, try these rice balls first. Cooking them is much easier than rolls. No special products (nori, wasabi, etc.) are needed. Breaded in double breading and deep fried, rice balls with juicy filling will please both relatives and guests.

Stuffed pike in the oven

Stuffed pike on the festive table is something that can really surprise guests. Think it's too hard to make? Welcome to the kitchen, where stuffing is going on right now. The process is detailed in step-by-step photos.

Most delicious sandwiches with crab sticks

These sandwiches are the easiest way to quickly prepare a festive snack for an unassuming group of guests.

Tomatoes in Korean - you will not find tastier!

A delicious appetizer of tomatoes in a spicy vegetable filling will be ready the very next day after you put it in the marinade. Korean-style tomatoes are perfect for a festive table, because better appetizers can not found.

Eggplant rolls with cheese and garlic

The traditions of our latitudes suggest celebrating family celebrations with rich feasts. Perhaps it would be much easier to book a table in a restaurant. But our man is not looking for easy ways. After all, a family celebration is both traditions and a special atmosphere that is created by the efforts of the hostess. Of course, preparing a festive table always requires a lot of effort and time. But the most difficult thing is to create a menu that would reflect the preferences of all the guests. Luckily, there are holiday snacks that everyone loves. For example, these eggplant rolls with cheese and garlic.

Lavash roll with crab sticks

The most popular lavash roll recipe.

Crab salad in puff tubes "Cornucopia"

Prepare a sleigh in the summer, and the New Year's table in early December is such a common Russian tradition can hardly wait for the first day of winter to furnish the city with Christmas trees, decorate shops with garlands and let the population get used to the festive surroundings so much that in New Year a decorated Christmas tree is already perceived as an everyday piece of furniture. But they don’t choose the times, so let’s not be original and start laying the New Year’s table, though with some delay: not on December 1, but on December 5. But there is still time :)

Rolling crab "Raffaello"

As a child, I dreamed: if multi-colored snow fell from the sky! I would pick up a handful of white and a handful of red snowflakes, make snowballs out of them and they would turn out to be as elegant as the snowmen that they made in kindergarten our tortured educators, painting their cheeks and noses red and putting on some braids with kokoshniks, and some beards with felt boots. Maybe it is these memories that make my heart flutter every time I see pictures with a pile of crab balls. How cute and fluffy they are... :) Let's cook them together!

Spectacular appetizer of eggplant and sweet peppers on the festive table

A delicious appetizer that is relevant not only in autumn, but also in winter, because eggplants can now be bought at any time of the year. To make it even more interesting, take not only red, but also yellow peppers.

Having once again ordered Japanese food with delivery and paid a round sum for it, I thought it was time to learn how to make rolls myself. Of course, it’s impossible to make “California” right away. But the classic rolls with stuffing and rice inside the nori shell can be tried to cook at home. No sooner said than done. The rolls were not very smooth, but very tasty. And all thanks to this recipe, where the cooking process is described in detail.

Tomatoes with cheese and garlic

These cute stuffed tomatoes are made in just five minutes. The filling is elementary, but very tasty. A versatile snack for a large feast.

If you want to impress your guests, then it is not at all necessary to conjure over a 12-layer cake for three days in a row. It is enough just to cook some kind of roll. It is still a mystery to me why any food twisted into a spiral causes such surprise and delight in people. And yet, any salad packed in thin Armenian lavash instantly disappears from the table. And if you choose a combination of fresh fragrant cucumber, sweetish shrimp and cream cheese for the filling, then you can, without a doubt, prepare a double portion.

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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. Using cellophane film We turn 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 drop them into cold water Let cool, peel off 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, spread over the entire surface Walnut. 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

Video: Canape on the festive table