Economical snacks for the holiday table. Snacks on the festive table

Festive snacks are an integral part of any feast. The hostesses begin to think about 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 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
Greens

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, everyone is 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 well. 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, you do not need to take anything 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 shredded there walnuts and melted cheese. 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 wet your hands. 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:

Profiteroles from choux pastry- 10 pieces
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, the avocado quickly darkens and loses its attractive color. 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 slices, and 150 grams of cheese into thin slices.

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 in that 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 shortbread or puff pastry. But if you want to prepare snacks for the festive table quickly, 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. Put 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
greens

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 the kitchenware on top of the molds. cutting board with some load. 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 rhombuses on top with whipped egg yolk and place in a preheated oven 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. We 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 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.

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.

It 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. Beautiful decorations are: green pea, olives, eggs, both chicken and quail, cut into slices, flowers.

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 to him a raw egg, 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 herbs 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 light snack on the festive table (recipe and photo are offered below) - champignons with chicken breast, mushroom lovers will especially like it.

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 for vegetable oil until ready, cool;
Sour cream is added to them, everything is mixed. Then, a chilled mass is laid out on each mushroom cap, 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 on hastily(recipes with photos can be found 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;

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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 this?

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

Time for preparing

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 cold water and knead the dough into a ball;
Roll ready 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 the 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 your snack different kind 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 \u200b\u200bfresh 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. Enjoy your meal!

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Buffet: when is it appropriate and irreplaceable?

It was the practical and sophisticated French who coined the term "buffet", which means "fork". That is, all food served at the buffet table should fit on one fork. hallmark buffet is that people are not placed at the tables, but move freely around the hall with a glass and a small plate in their hands, which does not prevent them from feeling comfortable and communicating with each other. Before arranging a buffet table, you need to familiarize yourself with its first rules, one might say, commandments:

the number of dishes that will be on the tables (plates, glasses, spoons, forks and napkins) should be two or even three times more than the invited guests;

sometimes it makes sense to buy disposable tableware, but only of the same sample and decent quality, stylized and aesthetic;
at the entrance it would be nice to have a “hospitality table” with an aperitif: champagne, cognac, liqueurs or liqueurs;

tables with treats should be located so that it is easy and simple to get to them;
buffet tables should be slightly higher than ordinary kitchen tables: usually their height is slightly more than a meter.

Traditional buffet dishes: what snacks are suitable?

All kinds of cold appetizers are very popular on the buffet table: small sandwiches, multi-layer canapes, stuffed vegetables, and especially rolls and mini-rolls with various fillings.

Not a single buffet is complete without exquisitely decorated meat and sausage cuts, cheese plates, as well as fruit platters.

Beautifully decorated tartlets with different fillings, various sandwiches, snacks on skewers, in slices or chips - all this will not only be part of an excellent menu for any holiday, but will also be great for any corporate holiday, business reception or friendly party.

If you want to have a fun holiday, be sure to take care of alcoholic beverages in advance. Basically, guests at the buffet table are offered champagne, table wines, a variety of alcoholic and non-alcoholic cocktails.

What should not be served at a buffet table?

According to the rules of the buffet table, all dishes and snacks served on it must be "one bite", that is, decorated very concisely, but capaciously and compactly. At the buffet table are not welcome at all:

a variety of first courses, in particular soups, in any case, in their usual serving;
traditional hot dishes - potatoes, meat, roasts, all kinds of stews and casseroles - are categorically not welcome. It should be convenient for the guest to place snacks on a plate and eat them with just a fork;

the fish must be carefully deboned and thinly sliced: guests should not experience discomfort, picking their hands in a plate in order to separate the bones from the pulp;
layered salads in traditional salad bowls are not allowed on the buffet table: there are many other ways to serve your favorite, sauced dishes at such an event.

Cold snacks for the holiday: a tribute to the classics

Basically, the buffet table consists of cold appetizers, which should be light, unobtrusive, for every taste. At the same time, they should be portioned so that guests do not have to cut or separate the dish, trying to take a piece for themselves.

Before a buffet table, you should carefully consider the menu and serve universal snacks that will be good both cold and hot, since it is not customary to warm up food at such an event. Food should be in harmony with the drinks offered to guests. So, we offer you several popular and proven options for buffet dishes.

Hslices and rolls for the festive table

Traditionally, at the buffet table, it is customary to serve a variety of cuts: meat, vegetable, cheese and fruit platter. Dishes with cuts look very nice, especially if you do not just put meat and sausages on a dish, but combine them with other products, such as olives, wrap them in rolls, string them on skewers.

The cheese plateau looks very advantageous: several types of cheese are cut in various ways: hard cheese is cut into plates or triangles, and soft cheeses are cut into cubes.

Together with cheese, it is customary to put grapes, honey and nuts on a dish: these products are in perfect harmony with each other.

Cold snacks for the festive table in the form of rolls are not only nutritious, but also very beautiful dishes that diversify and make the menu of any feast original. You can make such rolls from almost any product: pita bread, cheese, fish, zucchini, pieces of meat or ham, as well as wrap all kinds of stuffing in pancakes, scrambled eggs and crab sticks.

The most popular buffet rolls are:

cheese rolls with meat or mushroom filling;
ham rolls with "Jewish" salad and herbs;
twists from pita bread or puff pastry (meat, red fish, caviar, melted cheese with salmon or mushrooms are suitable as a filling);

zucchini or cucumber rolls stuffed with spreadable cream cheese;

herring rolls with chopped gherkins or Korean carrots as a filling. This version of serving herring looks much more original and festive than a banal fillet cut into pieces, and is eaten by guests in a matter of minutes.

Very unusual is a cheese roll with chicken and mushrooms. To make it you need:

boil chicken fillet and one chicken egg;
cut and fry mushrooms;
chop all the ingredients, mix them and season with mayonnaise, adding a little greens;
grate 500-700 grams of hard cheese, send it to the microwave or oven for a couple of minutes: the cheese should melt and acquire a viscous, pasty consistency;
lay a cling film or parchment for baking on the table and “pour” cheese on it, smoothing the edges with a spoon;
after waiting for the cheese to dry a little, evenly distribute the filling on it;
roll a tight roll of cheese;
wrap it in cling film and place in the refrigerator for 2-3 hours;
nicely cut into slices and serve.

Lavash or omelet rolls are made in the same way. They can wrap any products that are in harmony with each other to taste.

Do not forget about fruit slicing: fruits and berries must decorate the buffet table, and they can be served in an original and elegant way:

Sandwiches and canapes

Sandwiches are the simplest buffet snack. They can be prepared innumerable, and all of them will be finally and irrevocably eaten, the main thing is to serve them beautifully and effectively, using a variety of products for cooking. It is convenient to use different breads as a basis for them:

white toast - for club sandwiches, sandwiches with caviar, red and white fish;

black - for sandwiches with herring, bacon and pickles;

crackers - used to serve canapes: cheese with olives and herbs is served on unsweetened ones, sweet cream with berries is served on sweet ones.

Pancakes are suitable as a basis for sandwiches: any salted fish is good with them. Even from simple products such as black bread, lettuce, cream cheese, small tomatoes and olives can make very spectacular and mouth-watering sandwiches.

Take note of a few more outstanding ways to prepare canapés.

Snacks on skewers and in tartlets

The simplest, however, no less tasty, are cold appetizers served in tartlets. You can bake them yourself, or you can buy them ready-made at any store. These little baskets can be filled with any salad, garnished with a sprig of parsley or a few eggs, and the original, delicious appetizer is ready.

Combinations are great as fillings for tartlets:

processed cheese and seafood;
liver, carrots and pickled cucumbers;
chicken, prunes and fresh cucumber;
cheese with garlic and olives;
smoked meat or chicken and pickled mushrooms.

These same snacks can also be served in a different way, by placing them on large potato chips of the same size, or alternatively on savory crackers.

The most popular food for the buffet table is snacks on skewers, as they are very convenient to eat and very easy to prepare.

On skewers, you can put any products that go well with each other. On them you can string meat cubes, thin slices of ham and cheese, miniature pickled mushrooms and gherkins, cheese with grapes, as well as various seafood - mussels, shrimp and others.

The appetizer is very original and tasty. "Taste of Italy" and it is very easy to prepare. For this you will need:

200 g mozzarella in small balls;
2 sprigs of cherry tomatoes;
a bunch of green basil;
a handful of dried basil

We take out the mozzarella from the brine, dry it and roll it in dried herbs. A tomato, a leaf of green basil and a ball of mozzarella are strung on a skewer.

Stuffed dishes at the buffet

Stuffed dishes are an excellent option for a cold appetizer, because a lot of products can be stuffed, the contents of which can be taken out and filled with something tasty, resulting in an appetizer with a harmonious, refined taste. Great option for cold festive snack will become:

eggs stuffed with canned salmon and garnished with red caviar;

tomatoes stuffed with crab salad;
halves of sweet bell pepper with the core taken out, filled with any salad.

An original and elegant appetizer that will decorate any table is Fly Agaric. For its preparation you will need:

several cherry tomatoes, cut in half;
200 g of ham;
2 boiled eggs;
100 g of cheese;
1 large cucumber;
3 tablespoons of mayonnaise or sour cream.

Steps for making appetizers:

in a separate dish, mix diced ham, grated cheese and eggs;
dressing the salad with sauce;
cut the cucumber into medium-sized rings;
we collect fly agaric mushrooms: first we put the cucumber rings on a flat dish, put the balls on them, which we “roll” from the ham and cheese salad, and put the halves of the tomatoes on the balls - the caps of our mushrooms.

In order for the appetizer to acquire a finished, believable look, you need to put dots of mayonnaise on the fly agaric hats.

Mini pastries: what to serve at the buffet table?

Baking is very welcome at the buffet table, but all of it should be in a mini format: if pies, then miniature, if pies, then cut into tiny portions. Eclairs with cheese and liver filling and small puff buns, which can be stuffed with any salads, are very relevant.

At the buffet table, it is customary to serve pancakes stuffed with everything you like, in several serving options:

we roll the pancake greased with the filling into a roll, cut into small pieces, decorate with herbs, caviar;
fold the pancake with filling in a neat envelope;
put the minced meat in the middle of the pancake, collect the edges to form a bag, and connect the ends with a green onion feather.

Today, muffins are very popular at buffet tables - miniature cupcakes with or without filling. Such an appetizer successfully replaces even a cake, because you can serve several options for muffins and guests will try them all.

Hot buffet dishes

Although the format of such a holiday as a buffet table does not imply warming up food, hot food is a must at such an event. As hot dishes will be ideal:

chicken or pork skewers on bamboo sticks;

mini skewers of mussels, shrimp or chicken hearts;
chicken or seafood julienne in portioned bowls or tartlets;

meat rolls with various fillings (mushrooms, ham, cheese, bacon);
as a side dish at a buffet table, you can serve boiled young potatoes sprinkled with herbs and strung on skewers.

Fondue is perfect for a buffet table: hard or processed cheese is heated and brought to a liquid consistency in a container for sauce, to which greens and spices can be added. Anything is dipped in such a sauce: small sausages, cubes of sausage and cheese, croutons, miniature potatoes, pastries.

Recipes for "fashionable" buffet snacks: modern ways of serving dishes

Over time, not only new recipes for buffet dishes become popular, but also ways to serve them are improved.

Snacks in transparent glasses : a very fashionable kind of treat even for the most sophisticated buffet receptions. You can put everything in a glass: from thick sauces (guacamole, sour cream, to which garlic and dill are added, eggplant pulp, mashed with herbs, garlic and cheese in a puree, to creamy soups).

In such glasses, you can dip skewers with lightly salted herring strung on them, boiled or baked meat, ham, croutons with vegetables.

Surprise guests with an original serving of simple products, prepare a snack "chopsticks". To prepare it, you will need a package of ordinary straws and 300 g of lightly salted red salmon. The fish is cut into very thin slices and overlapped on each straw. If necessary, the base of the straw can be tied with a green onion feather.

Thinly sliced ham and salami can be served in the same way, and cheese sticks can be used instead of straws. These sticks are served by placing them in glasses.

club sandwiches - unusual sandwiches from familiar products. They are prepared from toast bread and any ingredients (ham, meat, fresh cucumbers, melted cheese and others). It is noteworthy that such a sandwich is a "multi-story", bread closed on top, and cut into several small triangles. Sometimes tiny buns are used for their preparation.

And, of course, rolls are an insanely popular appetizer that has become just a trend at modern buffet tables.

buffet table design options

To make your buffet table unforgettable, you need to approach with imagination not only the preparation of dishes, but also the design of the festive table. So, we offer you some tips that will help you create an unusual, original holiday:

to save space on the festive table and in order to create the effect of abundance, use special multi-storey dishes, that is, put snacks in tiers so that they are easy to take;

for a buffet table, white or light linen tablecloths decorated with lace or classic cotton tablecloths with or without delicate embroidery are relevant: it is easiest to pick up dishes for such a tablecloth, moreover, it will suit any celebration format;
for table setting, actively use glasses and glasses: not only for drinks, but also for snacks, in particular salads and desserts. Glasses can successfully replace plates and salad bowls, and it looks very impressive;

serve dishes in special ceramic spoons. This technique is used at the most sophisticated receptions; “snacks” are usually served in such spoons - beautifully decorated balls rolled from a variety of salads.

We encourage you to consider other options. original design dishes on the buffet table:

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In certain situations, there is nothing better than a buffet for celebrating significant events. Your guests will deal with food and drinks themselves, serve themselves, and the host of the holiday will be free to accept congratulations and communicate with his friends in a relaxed and easy atmosphere.